What is support staff in a law firm?
Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋 I’m excited to share with you the 37th episode of the 2025 season 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!I’ve known Dan for years, first in
This week, we talk with Gabe Pereyra, President and co-founder at Harvey, about his path from DeepMind and Google Brain to launching Harvey with Winston Weinberg; how a roommate’s real-world legal workflows met early GPT-4 access and OpenAI backing; why legal emerged as the right domain for large models; and how personal ties to the
DarkReading.com reported “The road to AI failures is paved with good intentions and dodgy deployments. Many people are working overtime to lay down those bricks as organizations hurry to maintain relevance in an era of AI transformation.” The September 18, 2025 article entitled “7 Lessons for Securing AI Transformation From Digital Guru Jennifer Ewbank” (
SCWorld.com reported that “Security Affairs reports that OpenAI’s artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has been impacted by a zero-click flaw, which could be exploited to facilitate a server-side data theft intrusion via malicious emails.” The September 19, 2025 report entitled “Novel ShadowLeak attack against ChatGPT discovered, addressed” (https://www.scworld.com/brief/novel-shadowleak-attack-against-chatgpt-discovered-addressed) included these comments:
Attackers could
We’ve seen a lot of discussion about AI projects not showing significant ROI, and this may be because the results are not trustworthy, which raises the question of whether the data being modeled is reliable. If AI is surfacing incorrect information because the model was built on outdated and inaccurate data, the problem lies with
AI hallucinated case law
In the recent case of Ayinde v Haringey [2025] EWHC 1383 (Admin), Dame Victoria Sharp, President of the King’s Bench Division of the High Court, issued a stark warning to lawyers that they have a “professional duty” to ensure that fictitious case citations “hallucinated” by generative AI (GenAI) tools do
As anyone who has taught legal research knows, Boolean searching is a superpower. The ability to craft a precise query with terms and connectors is the difference between finding a needle in a haystack and finding nothing at all. But for newcomers, the syntax of ( ), !, /p, and /s can feel like learning
Anna Guo reports on a study comparing the performance of lawyers and AI apps. Key takeaways:
1. Several AI tools matched, and in some cases outperformed, lawyers in producing reliable first drafts.
2. The top AI (Gemini 2.5 Pro) marginally outperformed the top individual human lawyer: 73.3% vs. 70% reliability rate.
3. Specialized legal
Artificial intelligence tools matched or exceeded human lawyers in producing reliable contract drafts in the first comprehensive benchmarking study comparing AI against legal professionals, according to research published this week. The study, Benchmarking Humans & AI in Contract Drafting, conducted by LegalBenchmarks.ai, found that human lawyers produced reliable first drafts 56.7% of the time, while