Vendors are going to use AI. In software work, it now sits inside everyday delivery: summarizing requirements, turning meeting notes into action items, accelerating early code scaffolding, generating test cases, even helping troubleshoot bugs. A services agreement works best when it assumes that reality and then asks a more practical question: where does the client’s
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Protecting AI-Influenced Work: Why Copyright and Patents Can Fall Short, and Why Trade Secrets Often Matter More
More and more, I hear some version of the same question from business owners: “We made something valuable with the help of AI. Can we protect it?”
Sometimes the “something” is obvious, like marketing copy, a logo, a photo, a product description, a training guide, or software code. Sometimes it is less obvious but more…
Memory and Compute in Everyday Practice
For years, I kept too much in my head: deadlines, facts, half-finished ideas. It slowed my thinking. Recently I started treating project management as a drive and AI as a processor. The split is simple and it is starting to work.
The drive is where the work lives when I am not doing it. For…
Small Firms, Big Ideas; Reflections from the 2025 Wisconsin Solo & Small Firm Conference
By Sam Kavalier
Earlier this month, I had the privilege of making my annual trip to Wisconsin Dells to attend the 2025 Wisconsin Solo & Small Firm Conference. As with each year of the conference, it was a reminder that, even as attorneys characterize themselves with independence (solo and small firm attorneys especially so), community is essential.…
A Plain-English Guide to Protecting Your Educational Content
Courses rarely live in one place. A video on your platform, slides in a folder, worksheets in a download, templates you keep improving. If you create a course, you own the rights to the words, images, and structure you made. Registering those rights creates a public record and unlocks stronger remedies if someone reuses your…
Adopt the Model, Train the Human: AI Literacy as the Parallel Track to Integration
The rush to integrate AI is understandable. New tools promise faster drafting, richer research, and smoother operations. Adoption alone, however, is not enough. When powerful systems land in people’s hands without a shared understanding of how to use them well, the risks expand as quickly as the possibilities. A parallel track in AI literacy changes…
Embracing Innovation at OGS: Exploring Smarter Tools for Legal Work
By Erin Ogden
At OG+S, we’re committed to staying ahead of the curve as technologies evolve — not for the sake of change itself, but because smarter tools help us serve clients better and create a more effective work environment for our team.
In today’s rapidly shifting legal landscape – efficiency, security, and flexibility are critical. That’s why…
The Sovereign and the Circuit
Systems of Governance in the Age of AI
Governance, at its core, is about how we relate to one another. It is not just about laws or procedures. It is about who is heard, how power moves, who decides what matters, and how decisions are made real through collective agreement. Governance lives not only in…
Say Hello to Our New Law Clerk!
By Erin Ogden
Sean McArthur has joined the OG+S team as a law clerk. He brings a background in regulatory compliance, pharmaceutical operations, and surgical hospital administration—plus a flair for storytelling that somehow makes even clinical protocols read like character arcs. He’s proving to be that kind of person that has the kind of unshakeable curiosity that makes…
How Can We Trust What We Don’t Understand?
I’ve been thinking about a question raised by Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, in his recent piece, “The Urgency of Interpretability.” He writes about the increasing power of artificial intelligence systems and our unsettling lack of insight into how they actually work. The models are getting stronger. Our ability to understand them is not.
This…