Regular listeners know that my Law Bytes podcast addresses a wide range of digital policy issues. Some of the episodes venture into issues related to technology and the practice of law, notably including the impact of artificial intelligence, new technologies, and open access to law. I recently sought accreditation for Professionalism Hours credit from the
Legal AI shines when it verifies faster than lawyers can, not when it simply drafts. By turning playbooks into code, adding lint checks, dual “critic” agents, and CI‑style evals like VLAIR, ContractKen not only adds efficiency but amplifies your contract drafting capabilities.
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Have you ever wondered whether your firm is truly profitable, or why some months are great while others fall flat? You’re not alone. Most law firms operate with surprisingly little insight into their own performance, despite creating mountains of valuable data. The ones that thrive know how
Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋 I’m excited to share with you the 29th 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 to
Martin Edwards, vice president of Taft’s Public Affairs Strategies Group in Taft’s Washington, D.C. office, contributed to this post.
On July 23, 2025, the White House published “America’s AI Action Plan,” which sets a public policy framework targeting the United States’ technological leadership in artificial intelligence. The AI Action Plan, coupled with three
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When you self-host your own website or have it hosted on someone else’s hardware, it takes up a small part of your brain. I chose to put my websites on other people’s equipment because that mental occupation was a bit more than I wanted to handle: was it running, how was
The pressure to adopt new legal technologies, notably including AI, continues to increase as lawyers, law firms and their clients look for new efficiencies and tools to improve the practice of law. But these tools aren’t always easy to adopt – pilot programs, costs, fear of new technology, and security concerns are part of the package.
This week, we welcome Christian Geyer, founder and CEO of ACTFORE, for a deep dive into the world of automated breach response. From his early days in military intelligence to founding a disruptive forensics firm, Christian shares how his diverse experiences shaped a data‑driven approach to tackling one of corporate America’s thorniest problems: managing
The European Commission (Commission) adopted its long-anticipated guidelines on the scope of obligations for general-purpose artificial intelligence (GPAI) models under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act) (Guidelines) on July 18, 2025. The Guidelines closely follow the publication of the Commission’s and AI Office’s GPAI Code of Practice (Code), which outlines several measures that providers of GPAI
ComputerWorld.com reported that “Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant has a fraction of the downloads OpenAI’s ChatGPT does on mobile devices, a pretty clear indication it’s losing to ChatGPT on Windows, too. In fact, Copilot is often ignored entirely in comparisons of the most widely used AI chatbots, where Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini get much more