In January 2026, employer layoff plans hit their highest January total since the tail end of the 2008 global financial crisis, according to the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas. United States employers announced 108,435 layoffs for January 2026, up 118% from January 2025. Whatever unpredictable factors—including continued economic uncertainties, the rise of
The Long Session Trap
There is a design contradiction at the center of how high-reasoning AI tools work, and it is worth naming precisely.The promise is leverage: brief, high-intent sessions. You bring the question, the tool brings the synthesis, and you leave with more than you arrived with. That is the value proposition.Here is what often happens instead. You
Cybersecurity Implications of the 2026 Middle East Escalation: When Cloud Infrastructure Becomes a Target
Editor’s Note: What follows connects the dots across three domains that are now inseparable: cybersecurity operations facing a fast-moving surge of hacktivist and state-linked activity; information governance teams navigating data residency rules that presume stable geography; and eDiscovery leaders confronting preservation and production obligations when access can vanish overnight through outages, internet shutdowns, or physical
The EEOC can’t repeal Bostock, but it’s sure trying
The EEOC just voted 2–1 to hold that federal agencies may restrict bathrooms and other “intimate spaces” based on biological sex — and may exclude transgender employees from facilities consistent with their gender identity.
“Biology is not bigotry,” says EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas.
Except according to the Supreme Court, it very much is.
Litigation is a strategy, not a reflex
When an employee walks out the door holding your company’s stuff hostage, you have two problems: (1) your property, and (2) the story you’re creating for the inevitable lawsuit.
Rezene v. Haribo is a case study in how fast this can go sideways. The employee allegedly kept a company Mercedes, phone, laptop, and other items
From access to understanding: making legal information usable in the age of AI
For more than two decades, the legal world has celebrated a major achievement: open access to law. Judgments are available online. Legislation is searchable. The idea that primary legal materials should be publicly available on the internet is no longer controversial in most jurisdictions. But availability is not the same as usability.
A database full
Reframing How To Grow A Professional Service Practice
If the defining factor in your idea of growth is headcount, you may be fooling yourself.
For starters, as AI runs roughshod through the marketplace, the size of your organization is becoming irrelevant..
Then there are the numbers.
I was visiting with a law firm that over the past five years had grown in
AI Can Draft the Brief, but it Can't Bear the Consequences
If you’d like to receive more content like this, join 5,000+ other lawyers and legal marketers who subscribe to my Legal Growth email newsletter here. A viral essay made the rounds recently make the case that AI is about to do to every profession what it’s already doing to software engineering. The author, a
Two New Features Make LexBlog Content More Findable, Shareable and Citable
We just shipped two features that work at different layers but serve the same goal: making every piece of content in the LexBlog Library easier to find, easier to reference and correctly attributed—whether the reader is a person, a search engine or an AI system.
Here’s what changed and why it matters.
Addressable Headings and
Where Should Your Legal Publishing Live?
If you’re a lawyer publishing insight and commentary on your niche area of law, where do you want your publishing to live?
Of course, you’ll still want publishing on your website. People who find you by word of mouth, through search, or even through an LLM will look you up there. But that audience is