The operational bottleneck limiting law firm growth
Running a law firm today means managing far more than legal work. Beyond substantive matter work, your team juggles new client intake, appointment scheduling, payment follow-ups, status updates, and the steady stream of questions that clients expect answered.
Each of these tasks is manageable on its
The Hopeful Reinventor: Robert Dilworth
Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋 I’m excited to share with you the 59th episode of the LawDroid Manifesto podcast, where I will be continuing to interview key legal innovators to learn how they do what they do. I think you’re going to enjoy this one!If you want to understand how to reinvent your legal career
My Kingdom For An Index
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I am coming towards the end of my book project. I am proofing the pages — which is kind of fun, a bit like seeing a movie trailer before it comes out, the words finally constrained by proper page layout — and thinking about the index. It seems common for the
Sirion Completes Majority Investment from Haveli, Aiming to Accelerate AI Push in CLM Market
Sirion, an AI-native contract lifecycle management platform, has completed a majority investment from Austin-based private equity firm Haveli Investments, the companies announced today. With Haveli’s partnership, Sirion said, it will aim to accelerate product innovation, expand its global go-to-market presence, and enable organizations to move from static contract repositories to intelligent, workflow-driven contracting. “Sirion is
Prompting or Negotiating? A Systems Design Lesson for Legal AI
I had a long session recently with a public genAI tool that taught me something more important than the topic I started with.The lesson was not about whether the model was “smart enough.” It was about control. At a certain point, I realized I was no longer simply prompting an LLM. I was negotiating with
Governance Can’t Keep Up With AI
So I ask again: why are we listening to the people who have the most to gain by getting everyone to buy AI tools, instead of making our own decisions about how quickly we should move forward with AI? Governance exists to slow things down – forcing people to think before they run off and
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 258: Jaxson Khan With an Insider Perspective on AI Policy Development in Canada
Earlier this month, the government quietly released a “what we heard” report this discussing the response to its 30-day sprint AI consultation from last October. The consultation was promoted as giving Canadians – including a 28 person expert advisory board – the chance to provide their views on AI as the AI Minister Evan Solomon works
Women + AI Summit, Real Talk: Leadership, Learning, and Not Letting “The Trap” Write Your Story
This week we go “talk show mode” for a special episode where Marlene recaps her trip to the Women + AI 2.0 Summit at Vanderbilt Law, hosted by Cat Moon, and shares why the event felt different from the standard conference grind, more energy, more structure, and yes, a DJ.
The summit’s core focus
Will AI Mean the Death of the Billable Hour in Legal?
With artificial intelligence, legal professionals are getting much more done in a day. But for law firms that bill primarily by the hour, this may not bode well. As lawyers complete their work faster for clients, they log fewer billable hours, which means less revenue for the firm.
Due to this conflict between efficiency and
Judge rules that AI created documents were not protected under Attorney-Client Privilege!
The ABAJournal.com reported that “A federal judge in New York ruled Tuesday that documents that a Texas financial services executive created using artificial intelligence sent to his attorney did not qualify for privilege.” The February 17, 2026 article entitled “AI-created documents sent to attorney aren’t privileged, judge says” (https://tinyurl.com/3eyk6c9y) included this ruling from