Editor’s Note: Services remains the larger of the two top-level segments of the worldwide eDiscovery market, growing from approximately $12.94 billion in 2025 to a projected $17.13 billion in 2030. The reconciled 5.75 percent compound annual growth rate is the slower of the two segment CAGRs, trailing software by 4.66 percentage points. The headline understates
Illinois Department of Human Rights Imposes Regulations Regarding the Use of AI in Employment Decisions
While artificial intelligence can help streamline employment decisions, employers should be aware of emerging regulations that provide protections to employees from biases that may arise through the use of AI in employment decisions.Continue Reading ›
Why Social Media and AI Chatbot Bans for Kids Are Bad Policy: Making the Case at the Senate Social Affairs, Science and Tech Committee
The Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology is one of several committees in the House and Senate conducting hearings on artificial intelligence. I appeared before the committee yesterday (my fourth appearance on the issue in recent months), but rather than reiterate previous testimony on privacy, copyright, and transparency, I focused on
Jason Stiehl: Relationships Over Sales – How Real Connections Build a Legal Practice
What does it really take to move from overworked service partner to trusted rainmaker—without feeling salesy or inauthentic? In this episode, you’ll hear a candid breakdown of career missteps, relationship-first business development, and how patience and consistency can transform a legal practice.
In this episode, Steve Fretzin and Jason Stiehl discuss:
- Transitioning from service partner
How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Healthcare Operations and Administration
Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept in healthcare. In 2026, it is becoming an increasingly practical tool for improving the way healthcare organizations operate behind the scenes. While much of the public conversation around AI focuses on diagnostics and clinical decision support, some of the most immediate and measurable changes are happening in
Not Every AI Wins on Fair Use — Lawyers Would be Worthy Plaintiffs
Imagine someone copying all of your publishing and the publishing of other authors and publishers like you, and saying they had the right to do so because they were training their AI solution — one that helps people receive the guidance they would have received from your publishing and the publishing of others like you.
Will AI pricing become a charge-back cost to clients?
Maybe we can solve both of those issues this way? We’ll bill you fewer attorney hours by leveraging AI, but you need to foot the bill for its use? Right now, with a set price per seat, the cost of using AI on a given matter is nothing, but it won’t remain that way. It
CISA’s CI Fortify rewrites the disconnection playbook for critical infrastructure
Editor’s Note: CISA’s May 5 release of CI Fortify reframes critical infrastructure resilience around an assumption many operators are not ready to plan against: that during a geopolitical conflict, third-party vendors, telecom links, business networks, and cloud platforms will be unreliable, and adversaries will already be inside. The agency now wants water utilities, power operators,
Government Has a Choice: Why an AI Chatbot Ban for Kids is an Even Worse Idea Than a Social Media Ban
The frenzy to ban kids from social media continues to grow with Culture Minister Marc Miller telling a House of Commons committee that the government has no choice but to act. Miller’s comments are consistent with the federal Liberal policy convention vote backing a minimum age of 16 and Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew announcing that
Business & Legal Developments May 2026
Friends,In last month’s newsletter, we highlighted how venture capital (VC) has stabilized heading into 2026 but is increasingly concentrated, with artificial intelligence (AI) and software as a service (SaaS) capturing outsized funding as investors prioritize scale, traction, and predictable revenue, while capital pulls back from longer‑duration sectors facing exit and macro uncertainty. We also