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An Affordable AI Tool for Solo and Small Firms
Small firm lawyers keep telling me they can’t afford the AI tools big firms use. They’re not wrong, I’ve heard vendors literally laugh at affordability concerns. So when I came across Descrybe, a legal research platform with free core features (and paid plans at only $10-20/month), it got my attendtion and I dug deeper. Here’s
Are AI Apps Dangerous? Compared to What?
The headlines are alarming. Reports detail patients being harmed, misled, or outright failed by popular AI apps. Stories like these are emotionally charged, and my preliminary assessment of the seven high-profile cases recently documented by Information Age is that at least some may have genuine merit.
It’s easy to read about a chatbot giving harmful advice and immediately conclude
The Truth About ERP Upgrades And Migrating To The Cloud
ERP vendors are notorious for creating a false sense of urgency with arbitrary support deadlines, promises of expanded functionality, and artificial intelligence to force customers to the Cloud.
- Vendors are not pushing you to the Cloud for your benefit.
- Just because a vendor is sunsetting support doesn’t mean you don’t have options.
- One of the
Callidus Legal AI Rebrands as StrongSuit, Adds Automated Case Validation
Callidus Legal AI has rebranded to StrongSuit and launched a significantly upgraded legal research platform that includes automated case validation — what lawyers traditionally call “shepardizing” — marking the company’s evolution from a legal AI tool into what it describes as an end-to-end litigation platform. The San Francisco-based company’s new platform automatically verifies that cases
Guest Post: Ken Crutchfield on What Business Robin AI — and Other Legal Tech Companies — Are Really In
What does McDonald’s real estate strategy have to do with legal tech? More than you might think, says Ken Crutchfield. In the wake of Robin AI’s recent struggles to secure funding and reports of potential emergency acquisition talks, Crutchfield draws a compelling parallel to Ray Kroc’s revelation in The Founder that McDonald’s wasn’t really in
Dr. Thaler is Right, in Part
When Dr. Stephen Thaler asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider the human authorship requirement for copyright protection last month, many observers dismissed the effort. Thaler’s claim—that his generative AI system should be recognized as the author of its own outputs—has been consistently rejected by courts and the Copyright Office. On its face, Dr. Thaler’s petition
The Thoughtful Builder: Ted Theodoropoulos
Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋 I’m excited to share with you the 44th 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!If you want to understand how intentional
Worth Reading – AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
I think we might need a variation of the Dunning-Kruger effect to describe the people who weren’t smart enough to realize the AI was wrong when it told them their ideas were brilliant.
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Protecting the Open Web Economy
EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: When Matthew Prince, Co-Founder and CEO of Cloudflare, took the EmTechMIT stage in Cambridge, he delivered what felt less like a keynote and more like a wake-up call for the digital economy. His talk, titled Protecting the Open Web Economy, was a sharp analysis of how artificial intelligence is quietly rewriting the