By Steve Fretzin, Jordan Ostroff, and Jeremy Baker
Going Solo: The Real Math Behind a Thriving Law Practice
Two lawyers who left prosecution and Big Law share the mindset, financial reality, and first 90-day moves that determine whether a solo practice sinks or scales
Going solo is one of the most searched and least honestly
I spoke with Nik Reed, the chief executive officer of Knowable and VP of AI Product at LexisNexis, and Roland Vogl, the executive director and co-founder of CodeX at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, about their participation in the 2026 LexisNexis AI Symposium at the Harvard Club. The event was titled The
From Legal Data Hunter, “Every country has its own laws. Every court publishes its own decisions. Every government buries its statutes in its own portal, its own format, its own language. The result? A legal world fractured into thousands of silos — and AI that can only think inside one of them at a time.”
Many legal professionals are already using AI tools to streamline routine drafting, preliminary research, and document review. According to the 2026 Legal Industry Report from 8am™, 69% of surveyed legal professionals say they personally use general-purpose AI platforms such as ChatGPT and Claude for work, up from 31% in 2025. At the firm level,
I spoke with Torben Rankine, the Director of Corporate Sales at SS&C Intralinks, following the company’s 2nd Annual AI Bootcamp on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. We discussed how corporate development teams in Silicon Valley are identifying opportunities in the current market, applying generative and agentic AI to drive growth within their organizations, and
A lot of professionals still think AI search is something that mostly impacts tech companies, influencers or younger generations building online brands. Meanwhile, people are already using ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and other AI platforms every day to ask questions about who they should hire, follow, learn from, interview, work with and pay attention to professionally.
Billing clients is foundational to success at any law firm, yet too many lawyers struggle with getting paid on time, if at all. If you’ve ever chased down a payment, you’re not alone. To put some numbers to this sweeping issue, research conducted by Xero & PayPal uncovered that over 48% of invoices sent by
It was a privilege to interview these leaders for this Reinventing Professionals mixtape at the 2026 Corporate Legal Operations Consortium Global Institute:
Saad Ahmed, Strategic Account Executive, Everlaw
Ed Chang, Senior Account Executive, LexisNexis CounselLink
Jeff Cox, Director of Brand, Steno
Dan Di Maria, Co-Founder and CRO of Spellbook
Larry Gill
An attorney bio is not a formality — it’s the most important E-E-A-T signal on a law firm website. Google evaluates legal content (YMYL — Your Money or Your Life) against the demonstrated expertise of the author. A practice area page attributed to a named, credentialed attorney with a detailed bio page carries fundamentally different