Future of the Law
I write on the future of innovation + all things law, startups and artificial intelligence.
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Law as a matter of taste (opens the original)
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Every disruptive law firm or legal industry shift has one thing in common. Great taste. Lawyering isn't a science as much as an art, and like AI - it thrives on the spectrum of probabilities. Yet, the law like the best of art operates in a bounded space - it has its rules, ragas and harmonies. While it produces rare geniuses the breakout artist who breaks from structure, having earned the right to do so, it also requires every practitioner to find their style, space and audience, creativity bein
We Are Not Building Legal AI (opens the original)
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There is that someone who keeps sending me a funding announcement.Another legal AI company. Another round. Another press release promising to "transform the practice of law," usually illustrated with a stock photo of a gavel standing next to a glowing blue brain. I have come to regard the gavel-and-brain image the way one regards a cousin at a wedding: familiar, harmless, and appearing far more often than necessary.Legal AI has attracted billions in investment. I do not grudge any of it. Some of
Law firms are thinking too small (opens the original)
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For decades, law firms let accounting giants encroach on their turf, ceding massive territory in tax, regulatory compliance, and risk consulting. The traditional consensus was that Big 4 expansion was inevitable. It isn't. The total addressable market now available to legal firms, spanning operational risk, automated governance, strategy, and strategic enterprise execution - dwarfs the grounds the Big 4 are currently stomping on.To claim this market, law firms need a level of ambition they haven
Outside Counsel in an AI Native World (opens the original)
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When you hired outside counsel, you were hiring two things. The senior partner and firm creds, whose judgment and reputation you trusted enough to take responsibility for the outcome. And the associates behind them, whose bandwidth got the work done. So the best firms competed on both. The best partners, and the best associates from the best colleges, because bad associates meant bad output no matter how good the partner was.AI changes what the associate is, not what the client needs. Your AI sy
How will legal services look like in 10 years? (opens the original)
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I have been busy with two things recently - (a) building our tech stack for high volume and complex problems; and (b) raising money to go fast. One of the things that is important to navigate in an AI-first world is - figuring out how the world will look like when AI has stabilised as another tech innovation that is intrinsic to our daily experience. Knowing how that looks allows you to build things that matter. And not waste time on the things that won’t. This brings us to the question of how d
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