Have you ever felt out of sync with the AI you work with? That it does not quite get you the way another model used to? Maybe you think fondly of the easy back-and-forth you used to have with GPT-4o, before it was quietly put out to pasture, and the model that replaced it, for
The Empathic Upsolver: Jonathan Petts
Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋 I’m excited to share with you the 68th 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 empathy, storytelling, and technology can…
Last Chance: LawDroid AI Conference 2026
Next week, on April 28 and 29, I’m hosting the LawDroid AI Conference 2026, and I want you there!This is the third year we’ve done this, and every year I’m amazed by the community that shows up. Lawyers, legal aid advocates, court innovators, technologists, professors, and people who simply refuse to be left behind by…
The Experiential Teacher: David Colarusso
Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋 I’m excited to share with you the 67th 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 experiential learning can transform the…
The Selection Problem: Why AI Can Solve, But Can’t Choose, Problems Worth Solving
Who chooses the problem we’re solving today?You can build the most powerful search engine ever created, but someone still has to type in the query. You can build an AI that drafts a brilliant legal memo in seconds, but someone still has to decide that this memo, on this issue, for this client, is the…
The Practical Visionary: Sam Harden
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 —…
The Conscious Designer: Mia Ihamuotila
Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋 I’m excited to share with you the 65th 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 human-centered design and conscious self-awareness…
The First Draft Trap: How AI Blinds Us to the World of Possibilities
We’ve all heard the pitch. Staring at a blank page? Just prompt AI! In seconds you’ve got a working draft: structured, coherent, surprisingly competent. The blank page problem, that ancient enemy of productivity, has been vanquished.Except the blank page was never just an obstacle. It was a space of possibility, of roads untraveled. And for…
The Structure Sleuth: Edward Bukstel
Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋 I’m excited to share with you the 64th 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 AI is fundamentally disrupting legal…
The Event Horizon of Change: Why the Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think
I’m a fan of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. In it, there’s a scene where Cooper and his crew land on Miller’s planet, where the gravitational pull of a nearby black hole distorts time so severely that one hour on the surface equals seven years back on Earth. They spend what feels like minutes collecting data. When…