Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋 I’m excited to share with you the 66th 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 a bias toward action —
CounselLink’s Kris Satkunas on Rising Legal Spend, Law Firm Rates, and the Future of Value-Based Pricing
This week on The Geek in Review, we talk with Kristina Satkunas of CounselLink about what the numbers are saying in a legal market that still talks about change while clinging hard to old billing habits. Kris discusses the hard data behind outside counsel spend, drawing on CounselLink invoice data and Harbor survey results to
Agentic AI: It’s A Whole New Bag of Risks
She begged “Do not do that,” then “STOP OPENCLAW.” Neither worked.
That’s what happened to Summer Yue, Meta’s Director of Alignment at their superintelligence safety lab. By the time she reached her desktop to kill the process manually, the AI agent she’d created had already deleted hundreds of emails. You would expect someone with
Court of Appeals denies Anthropic’s Motion about the Defense Department’s claim of “Supply Chain Risk”!
The NewYorkTimes.com reported that “A panel of federal judges on Wednesday denied a motion from Anthropic to stop the Department of Defense from labeling it a security risk, a setback for the artificial intelligence company in its battle with the Trump administration over how A.I. should be used in warfare.” The April 8, 2026 article
Understanding AI Hallucinations: Making Sure You Don’t End Up At The Wrong Stop
Despite what seems to be an accepted truism, AI hallucinations aren’t necessarily completely random. That’s the key insight from a new physics-based analysis by a group of scientists and engineers and it may change how we should be using GenAI tools.
The key finding: GenAI systems have a deterministic mechanism that causes output to flip
What ABA TECHSHOW 2026’s Startup Alley Tells Us About Where Legal Tech Is Going
From chatbots to agentic AI in legal technology
Chatbots are easy to adopt. Lawyers have told us that. But there’s a long way between typing a question into a chat window and getting something you can actually file, send, or hand to a client. You still have to know what to ask, how to sequence
The Automotive Agentic AI Revolution
As with all industries, agentic AI is already starting to have a dramatic impact on the automotive industry, particularly with regard to:
- improving the speed at which vehicles are designed and tested in ways which also better reflect:
- customer needs;
- the need to design safer and more efficient vehicles;
- the complex interactions between components in
Heads They Win, Tails We Lose: What Lies Behind the U.S. Trade Battle For Control over Data
My Globe and Mail op-ed begins by noting that the Trump administration’s emphasis on tariffs continues to garner headlines, but a more consequential trade battle over data control is playing out with far less public attention. Last week, the U.S. released its annual report on trade barriers and for the first time, Canada was listed
Managing In The Age Of AI: Bring Back Walking Around
Managing by walking around used to be standard practice. But with remote work, Zoom, and billable hour pressure, the concept lost some of its luster .
But with AI we may need it more than ever. When we rely only on LLMs to make decisions and summarize work, we lose something critical: the senior lawyer
The Threshold Moment
At a certain point in a long AI session, I can feel the texture change.The words are still smooth. The tone is still confident. But something underneath has started to slide and give way. The session is still moving forward, yet the logic is no longer holding together in the same way.That happened to me