Research into how AI can help lawyers
One of the more exciting aspects of witnessing a breakthrough technology like AI emerge seemingly overnight is to observe how it manifests in our daily life. In addition to us finding new ways to apply AI every day, the technology itself is also fast evolving.
To keep up
Mind The Gap Between What Lawyers Need And Many Vendors’ Focus
Here’s my post for Above the law on the troubling disconnect in legal tech identified by Hwang Jae Hyuk: 70% of investment flows to vendors targeting the 40% of time lawyers spend on research and analysis, while only 30% goes toward solving the administrative burdens that actually eat up most of our days.
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What Are Intellectual Property Rights? A Strategic Breakdown for Founders and Operators
Intellectual property rights are legal claims to non-physical assets. These rights give businesses the power to protect, license, and commercialize the products of human effort, whether that effort produces code, content, designs, formulas, or data sets.
IP rights are enforced under different legal systems: patents and copyrights are primarily federal, trademarks can be protected under
Why Investors should lean into privacy-centric AI: key takeaways from the ICO’s Agentic AI Guidance
The ICO has, this week, published extensive guidance on its expectations on Agentic AI, ICO tech futures: Agentic AI | ICO. The UK data protection regulator’s core message is clear: the future of the success of this technology is rooted in accountability.
Investor expectations on the realisation of commercial benefits from AI deployment are
NIST and Mitre are establishing AI Economic Security Centers!
SCWorld.com reported that “The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in collaboration with the MITRE Corporation announced late last month that it’s investing $20 million to establish two AI Economic Security Centers.” The January 13, 2026 article entitled “What AI forces us to confront in OT and critical infrastructure” (https://tinyurl.com/bp99apwa) included
Anyone surprised that Apple is teaming up with Google for AI products?
The NewYorkTimes.com reported that “After a nearly yearlong delay to its efforts to compete in artificial intelligence, Apple said on Monday that it planned to base its A.I. products on technology developed by Google.” The January 12, 2026 article entitled “Apple Teams Up With Google for A.I. in Its Products” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/technology/apple-google-ai-partnership.html) included these
Dyspute.ai Launches Adri v2, A 24/7 Asynchronous AI Mediation Platform
I have had a strong interest in online dispute resolution ever since at least 1996, when I wrote what I was later told was the first published article about ODR, Cyberspace Becomes Forum for Resolving Disputes. I was so curious about the concept that, in 1999, I put that interest to work, becoming a mediator
AI Startup AlphaLit Raises $3.2M Seed Round To Screen and Score Smaller Cases and Route them to Lawyers
Over $55 million worth of meritorious civil claims go unfiled annually, particularly in working-class communities, because over 64% of prospective plaintiffs’ calls to law firms are ignored, says legal AI startup AlphaLit. The reason firms ignore those calls is that they cannot financially justify vetting all those small cases. “You might need to have 100
A New State and Federal Compact for Artificial Intelligence
Jan 12, 2026 A New State and Federal Compact for Artificial Intelligence David Beier Effective AI governance demands strong federal standards that preserve state authority. TweetSharePostEmailPrintLink Artificial intelligence (AI) has burst upon us at a pace, scale, and magnitude never seen before in modern history. It dominates news media, business, finance, entertainment, and political attention.
HIPAA Compliance in Remote NP-Physician Collaboration: A 2026 Guide
Remote collaboration between nurse practitioners (NPs) and physicians is now a core part of modern care delivery—especially in telehealth-forward practices, rural coverage models, and multi-site organizations. But with that flexibility comes heightened risk: more devices, more endpoints, more messages, and more chances to mishandle protected health information (PHI).
This 2026 guide breaks down practical steps