Tech companies lose value when internal know-how leaks. A rival does not need your whole product roadmap. A rival only needs one process, one list, one model, one playbook. Trade secret law gives you a tool to protect that value when you treat the information like an asset.
This article walks through examples of trade
Building the Stochastic Sandpit for AI
We’ve spent the last couple of years treating generative AI like a vending machine. Select a task. Insert a prompt. Retrieve a product. And to be fair, in many legal and professional contexts that’s exactly the right frame: accuracy and precision matter and “creative” output in payroll or billing codes is usually just a polished
Everybody’s Talking About AI: Takeaways from the February 20, 2026 Fordham Law Symposium
On February 20, 2026, Gadgets, Gigabytes and Goodwill Blog co-editor Owen Wolfe spoke at the Fordham School of Law as part of the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal Symposium, The Meaning of Ownership: Rethinking Intellectual Property, Creativity, and Control in the Age of Innovation. Owen discussed how courts have so far applied
Why You Should Have a Legal AI Assistant in Your Firm
What a legal AI assistant actually is (and what it isn’t)
Think of an AI assistant for lawyers as a teammate built into your workflow. It supports the tasks that quietly consume large parts of your day, such as summarizing documents, drafting routine communications, organizing matter information, and highlighting what needs attention next. Because legal
Open to Debate: Will AI Make Work Obsolete?
Preface: This is my report out about what these debaters said at John Hopkins tonight. I will author a recap of what is most likely going to happen in this space soon, based on my over ten years hands-on with the tech and my weekly meetings with CEOs and technologists from around the world.
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The Intractability of Law: Why Lawyers Will Matter Even When AGI Arrives
If we achieve artificial general intelligence, will we still need lawyers?The typical answers fall into two camps. The doomers say no: lawyers are just information processors, and AGI will process information better. The deniers say of course: because law is special and machines could never understand it. Both camps are wrong. And the reason they’re
Women leaders navigating the everyday reality of AI in legal
Women legal leaders share how AI is really used in everyday legal work — from answering contract questions to shaping strategy.
The End of the Magic Wand: Why 2026 Demands Resilience Prompting
For more than two years, lawyers have been told that success with generative AI depended on writing better prompts and a search for the perfect “magic wand” prompting formula. That was the wrong lesson. The real change in 2026 is not found in the model itself, but in the professional posture required to use it.
CIPA Pen Register Claims After Camplisson v Adidas
CIPA pen register claims now drive a new wave of website tracking lawsuits. A recent federal ruling in Camplisson v Adidas gave plaintiffs more room to pursue claims tied to pixels and similar tracking tools. Site owners who rely on analytics or ad pixels should treat this shift as a compliance trigger, not background noise.
Section 230: will it last?
A brief history
Section 230 of the US Communications Act of 1934, enacted as part of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, is fundamental to the commercial development of the internet over the past 30 years. It has been called “the 26 words that made the Internet” – referring specifically to