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
The Real Legal AI Risk is in the Handoffs
Most legal AI talk is still focused on whether the engine starts, while the real danger is that no one knows who’s actually steering the car once it hits the highway. It turns out the human in the loop isn’t a safety feature if the human doesn’t know which loop they’re currently standing in.We are
Wearables as Clinical Tools: How Consumer Devices Are Entering Healthcare
Smartwatches, fitness trackers, and other wearable gadgets have gone from consumer curiosities to powerful health companions. What started as simple step counters now capture heart rhythms, sleep patterns, blood oxygen levels, stress indicators, and more. Increasingly, clinicians are asking: Can these devices be used as true clinical tools?
As health systems, clinicians, and advanced practice
At A Crossroads Issue #3
Connected Vehicles: emerging business models and their key legal aspects
In the mid‑90s, Elastica captured a restless cultural moment with Connection—a song pulsing with the irresistible pull toward something new. Thirty years later, automotive and transportation companies are chasing the same energy through the rise of connected vehicles and new AI enabled features. Connected vehicles
How to Summarize Legal Documents With AI: Tools, Risks, and Workflow Best Practices
Can AI summarize legal documents?
The short answer is yes: Among AI’s best use cases in law is summarizing legal documents. It isn’t, however, foolproof, and its performance depends largely on the chosen tool. Any tool’s capabilities and limitations are best understood by viewing legal AI summarization as a spectrum:
Lawyers and Cybersecurity: Talk to An Experts. Before It’s Too Late
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
PEER Seeks Information on EPA’s Use of AI, Including Records Related to Chemical Assessments and the Use of AI
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) announced on March 5, 2026, that through counsel at the Free Information Group (FIG), it filed a series of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) “seeking records related to how the agency is deploying artificial intelligence [(AI)] tools within its workforce and
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 261: Ian Goldberg on the Privacy Risks of Age Assurance Technologies
Age verification, estimation or inference is seemingly all the rage right now. Vendors are promoting it as the solution to thorny challenges to limit access to certain sites and services and politicians are eager to legislate in that direction, including in Canada with Bill S-209.
Hundreds of scientists and technology experts from around the
Anthropic’s Matt Samuels and Den Delimarsky – Claude & MCP: Building the USB-C for the Legal Tech Stack
This week, we sit down with two guests from Anthropic, Matt Samuels, Senior Product Counsel, and Den Delimarsky, a core maintainer of the Model Context Protocol, or MCP. Together, they unpack why MCP is drawing so much attention across the legal industry and why some are calling it the USB-C for AI.
Legalweek Final Keynote: An Industry Still Whistling Past the Graveyard?
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