In the Kennedy-Mighell Report Episode 300, What’s Happening in LegalTech Other than AI? Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell had some good ideas in response to my recent question about where to find prompt libraries. It’s good to have starting points, but I strongly agree with Dennis that “roll your own” is the way to go.
My review of Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor’s new book, AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference is available at LLRX.com. The bottom line:
AI Snake Oil is a crucial guide for navigating the complex and often misleading landscape of artificial intelligence. It is essential reading
Reading law review articles is usually pretty low on my priority list, but I’m making an exception for Carolyn Elefant’s Energy Law Journal law article “Generative AI for the Energy Law Practitioner.” There’s more info on LinkedIn. The pioneering Elefant included a bonus: Creating a new Bluebook format for citing to phony cases
My review of Richard Susskind’s excellent new book, How to Think About AI: A Guide for the Perplexed is now available at AttorneyAtWork.com. Here is the conclusion:
With over 500 generative AI apps for lawyers cataloged by LegalTech Hub in March 2025, the proliferation of such tools shows no signs of slowing. In this
Carolyn Elefant has the receipts:
“It does not bode well for #legaltech that my $20/month ChatGPT subscription can give me a correct Bluebook citation for a public utilities commission order when my $270/month LexisNexis subscription cannot.”
As someone once said, “The times, they are a-changing.”
With the help of Sabrina Pacifici, my article AI In High-Stakes Litigation: The Critical Role of Experienced Attorneys will be published this month at LLRX.com. Here is an excerpt:
The “Centaur” Approach Is the Optimal Model (For Now)
Today’s chess-playing computers can crush the best human players without breaking a sweat. This wasn’t always true.
The best way to learn to use AI effectively is to let AI help you.
Cat Moon 😺 likes to say she “lives in the I live in the open mindedness of not knowing enough about anything.”
I dunno. She knows just about everything we need to know about one topic:
“Every single instance of an attorney filing something in court that cites a fake case generated by AI is
Nicole Black’s Sui Generis blog is one of my favorites, a good guide to what’s hot and what’s not, what deserves our attention and what doesn’t. Her recent post The Year Ahead in Legal Tech: AI, Innovation, and Opportunity Tech Trends to Expect in 2025 is overwhelmingly about AI. That should tell you something if
Detecting scams used to be relatively easy. Social engineers nearly always left clues that made spotting and avoiding them easy.
Things have changed. Scammers are enormously more sophisticated. The Washington Post’s personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary‘s top three rules will go a long way toward keeping you safer: