For the final installment of our LawNext on Location series, all recorded during my trip to San Francisco, I head across the bay to Oakland, to the headquarters of e-discovery company Everlaw, where I sit down with founder and CEO AJ Shankar for a conversation about technology, AI and being in it for the long
Lawline's Top Women Faculty of 2025
Every March, Lawline pauses to do something we believe matters: look back at the year and recognize the women whose expertise, preparation, and generosity of spirit made this platform better. The educators who spent hours in front of a camera so attorneys across the country could learn something useful. The ones who took hard subjects
How AI Search Is Changing the Way Clients Find Lawyers
For years, the playbook was simple: rank on Google, get clicks, answer the phone. Law firm marketing revolved around showing up in search results when someone typed “divorce lawyer near me” or “estate planning attorney in [city].”
That system still exists, but something new is happening on top of it.
People are starting to ask
How to Use AI to Defend Yourself Against a Debt Lawsuit in Nebraska
If you have been served with a debt collection lawsuit in Nebraska, you may feel overwhelmed and unsure of what to do next. Many people make the costly mistake of doing nothing — which results in a default judgment that can lead to wage garnishment, bank levies, and ruined credit.
Receiving a lawsuit is intimidating.
Uh Oh! Amazon has learned that AI programming may not be reliable!
ComputerWorld.com reported that “AI failures have spread beyond AWS infrastructure to Amazon’s retail storefront. In early March, multiple AI-assisted blunders resulted in four — count ’em four! — major incidents. One led to a six-hour outage.” The March 16, 2026 article entitled “Amazon finds out AI programming isn’t all it’s cracked up to be” (
7 Business Legal Issues that are Dominating 2026
Business owners in 2026 face growing legal complexity. Contract disputes, ownership conflicts, economic/tariff pressures, and the rising use of AI-generated contracts are creating new risks. The businesses that avoid costly disputes tend to address these issues before they become problems.
Running a business has always involved risk. What is different in 2026 is how quickly
Is AI Is Outpacing Rules Prohibiting the Unauthorized Practice of Law? (Ken Crutchfield, Bill Henderson, Jim Doppke)
In a recent trilogy of articles about the pressure artificial intelligence is placing on the legal industry, author and legal business strategist Ken Crutchfield concludes that:
—The legal industry is not confronting a single disruption but a redistribution of work, capital, and regulation across a system under stress.
—The boundaries of Unauthorized Practice of
Lawsuits aren’t lottery tickets. Or at least they shouldn’t be.
Too often, plaintiffs’ lawyers file thin, borderline frivolous employment claims hoping for a quick nuisance-value settlement. The math is simple: it’s cheaper for an employer to pay a few thousand dollars to make a case disappear than to spend tens (or hundreds) of thousands defending it.
And yes, sometimes that works. The business case often
EDPB/EDPS Joint Opinion on the European Biotech Act Proposal: Key Data Protection Implications for Pharma and Life Sciences
On 16 December 2025, the European Commission published its Proposal for a Regulation establishing a framework of measures for strengthening the EU’s biotechnology and biomanufacturing sectors, particularly in the area of health (the “European Biotech Act” or the “Proposal”). The Proposal is ambitious in scope: it amends several major pieces of EU health legislation, including the Clinical Trials Regulation (“CTR”), the Veterinary Medicines Regulation, the Food Law Regulation and the Substances of Human Origin Regulation (“SoHO”), while also introducing a new framework for EU strategic projects, AI-enabled biotechnology, and biodefence.
On 10 March 2026, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (“EDPS”) adopted Joint Opinion 3/2026 on the Proposal (the “Joint Opinion”). While broadly supportive of the Proposal’s objectives, the EDPB and EDPS identified a number of significant data protection concerns, and issued recommendations. Although not legally binding, the Joint Opinion carries significant weight as it reflects the views of the EU’s primary data protection authorities and will directly shape the legislative debate ahead.
In this blog we examine the key data protection implications of the Proposal and the Joint Opinion for pharma and life sciences companies.
Owili Eison: Owning Your Career in the Modern Legal Market
In this episode, Steve Fretzin and Owili Eison discuss:
- Thinking like an intrapreneur, not just an employee
- Balancing legal skill with business development
- Networking intentionally to build referral pipelines
- Using technology and AI to stay competitive
Key Takeaways:
- Lawyers who rely entirely on their firm for work risk having little control over their future. Building