Managing by walking around used to be standard practice. But with remote work, Zoom, and billable hour pressure, the concept lost some of its luster .But with AI we may need it more than ever. When we rely only on LLMs to make decisions and summarize work, we lose something critical: the senior lawyer who stops by, asks questions, catches…
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Deep fakes are coming to our courtrooms. They are going to change how we try cases.Here’s what the rise of deep fakes may mean for judges, juries, and trial lawyers. Along with the impact of the so-called “liar’s dividend”: the risk that repeated exposure to AI-generated fakes causes people to disbelieve all digital evidence, real or not.Here are three ways…
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asked a room full of lawyers at ABA TechShow how many had encountered deep fake evidence in litigation. Not one hand went up.Is the deep fake threat a problem in search of a problem? Or are we in the same place we were with AI hallucinations before the first fake citation showed up in a courtroom and we just don’t…
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Two TechShow keynotes. Two very different speakers. But the same conclusion.Jordan Furlong opened TechShow by talking about the human lawyer: the one who walks through the valley with clients, who has their back, who builds the kind of trust AI can replace.Nilay Patel by arrived at the same place from a different direction. His argument: law is built on ambiguity…
Continue Reading The Furlong And Patel TECHSHOW Keynote Bookends: Saying The Same Thing, Differently

Jordan Furlong’s ABA TechShow keynote was one of the best I’ve heard. His thesis: AI will commoditize legal knowledge, mechanize legal work, and reconfigure law firms. The lawyers who suceed won’t necessarily be the ones who know the most, if that was even ever the case. Instead, they will be the ones clients want in the foxhole with them when…
Continue Reading Jordan Furlong’s TECHSHOW Keynote: The Lawyers Who Will Thrive In The New World Order Will Be Entrepreneurs — And Humans

ABA TechShow 2026 kicks off this Wednesday in Chicago and it’s a little different from every other legal tech conference on the calendar.Two strong keynotes (Jordan Furlong and Nilay Patel), a genuinely important Saturday session on the rule of law with three ABA presidents, 47 educational sessions, 120+ exhibitors, and the traditional startup pitch competition moderated by Bob Ambrogi. Oh,…
Continue Reading TECHSHOW 2026: Where The Legal Tech Family Gathers

When it comes to AI, all to often law firm management freeze up from too many choices and do nothing, or overcorrect and buy everything in sight. 8am’s Legal Industry Report, for example, shows nearly 75% of legal professionals are already using general-purpose AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude for work, while 71% say their firms offer zero training on…
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Here’s my 2026 Legalweek recap for Above the Law: good show and good new venue (Javits instead of the Hilton). And the complaints were predictable, especially from the crowd that usually champions change. The exhibit space was a genuine improvement. The judges keynote was outstanding. The commercialization of sessions a little less so.And btw, after summer like weather all week,…
Continue Reading It’s Not Legalweek Unless It Snows. Here’s My 2026 Recap

At Legalweek, while everyone else was talking about AI features, I sat down with Michel Sahyoun of NopalCyber to talk about something the legal profession isn’t paying nearly enough attention to: cybersecurity in the age of GenAI.Some facts: the average time to exploit a breach is 29 minutes. AI tools can automatically and repeatedly probe for vulnerabilities. Cyber insurance that…
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The final Legalweek keynote made the argument that law firms need to do what Apple and Netflix did in the early 2000s: blow up a their existing business model for a better one. Hard to argue with that. But it’s hard to see that it’s happening in legal.Here’s the data: only 19% of firms have modified fee arrangements aligned with…
Continue Reading Legalweek Final Keynote: An Industry Still Whistling Past the Graveyard?

I attended Legalweek’s annual judicial panel expecting the usual e-discovery update. What I heard instead was a sobering account of murder, death threats, swatting, and doxing directed at sitting federal judges and a stark warning about what it means for the rule of law and our profession. Four sitting federal judges spoke with remarkable candor and courage. We have a…
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Some hard questions coming out of this year’s Legalweek: are we focusing on training better lawyers or just better prompters? And how do we create good lawyers for the future? Here’s my post for Above the Law
Continue Reading GenAI: A Slippery Slope Of Too Much Kool-Aid?

8am’s Smart Spend enhancement: solving real practice management problems with real solutions. Here is my post for Above the Law.
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