Welcome back to Day 2 of our 5 Days of CLE series! Yesterday, we explored 2025’s highest-rated courses. Today, we’re shifting focus to something equally powerful: structured learning paths that help you build comprehensive expertise in critical areas of legal practice.
Think of paths as your guided roadmap to mastery. Instead of individual courses, these
Why Practitioner Generated Secondary Law Matters With AI
For years, legal research has been built around primary law—cases, statutes, code, regulations—and traditional secondary sources such as law reviews and journals.
All still important, but missing in the day of AI is the secondary law written by legal practioners, academics, law students and other legal professionals in blog posts, insights, whitepapers, and even, newsletters.
AI-Generated Content Checklist for Lawyers: How to Use AI Confidently
Why reviewing AI-generated content matters
Generative AI can accelerate legal work, but it cannot replace the lawyer’s judgment. These systems predict what legal text should look like, they do not reason about doctrine, jurisdiction, or consequences. That’s why even fluent, well-structured answers can be subtly wrong or confidently hallucinated.
Legal-specific tools like Clio Work and
The Best of the Best: 2025's Highest-Rated CLE Courses (5 Days of CLE)
There’s no better way to wrap up the year than by revisiting the CLE courses that shaped 2025. Throughout the week, we’ll be highlighting the programs attorneys couldn’t stop recommending: courses packed with expert guidance and real-world insight you can put to work right away. Think of it as your year-end refresh for staying ahead
Advice for Legal Teams Pursuing Digital Transformation
I spoke with Jenn McCarron, the Co-Founder & CEO of Contracts.ai, a platform that bridges the data gap between legal and finance by transforming contracts into structured, actionable intelligence powering enterprise decision-making. We discussed the technology development process, how Contracts.ai differs from a CLM and a legal AI tool, and advice for legal teams
How to Spot Bottlenecks at Your Law Firm (and Unlock Capacity Without Hiring)
What “lockup” tells you about your bottlenecks
Before you dig into specific bottlenecks, it helps to understand the big-picture metric that shows how much your processes are costing you: lockup.
Lockup measures how many days’ worth of your annual revenue are tied up as unbilled work or unpaid invoices. In other words, how long it
How to Fix Your Law Firm’s Billing
Why billing is the backbone of a growing firm
Billing is more than administrative overhead. It’s a critical touchpoint in your client relationship and one of the primary drivers of your firm’s growth.
When billing is broken, the consequences ripple across the firm:
- Time worked never becomes time billed. Inefficient processes result in billable work
Where the Use of Agentic Tools in Legal is Headed
I spoke with Ravi Tandon, the CEO and Co-Founder of DecoverAI, a legal intelligence platform that helps attorneys uncover insights during investigations and e-discovery. We discussed the biggest gaps in law firm knowledge management today, how AI is transforming investigations and e-discovery, ways that legal professionals can build trust, reliability, and responsible AI
How to Strengthen Your Presence in AI Search Results and Stand Out in a Crowded Market
When someone is thinking about who to hire, the process usually starts before any outreach happens. Referrals still matter, but they’re often just one part of how people make decisions now. Before reaching out, many people want a clearer sense of who actually works in a specific area and who’s recognized as a leader in
How One Lawyer Used Early Blogging to Build a Career in Appellate Law
When Todd Smith launched his first appellate blog in the mid-2000s he wasn’t chasing trends. He was a young lawyer leaving big law with no book of business and needed a way to show trial lawyers who he was and what he knew. Blogging gave him a place to explain appellate issues in plain language