The Smokeball/Thomson Reuters partnership is the latest effort to better tie the legal research and substantive side of the business to the administrative side. What’s unique about it is that TR and Smokeball both say their partnership is purposefully directed toward the smaller law firms. It’s particularly timely as smaller law firms are struggling to…

Another week. Another law firm caught citing cases that don’t exist. But this time it was Sullivan and Cromwell, one of the most influential firms in the world. 36 errors. Three pages to describe them. Fabricated passages from real cases. S&C said its AI policies weren’t followed. That it had training designed to prevent exactly…

Just returned from ILTA’s Evolve 2026 conferance in Denver and here’s my Above the Law post. Three days of content at a breathless pace. A record 500+ attendees that tested but didn’t break the small-conference vibe that makes Evolve worth it. An opening keynote from Zach Abramowitz that framed the AI moment as well…

Law firms are panic buying AI to satisfy client demands and it’s backfiring. Clients are making demands that their firms get AI but often don’t know what they really want. Firms don’t know what they need. It ends up being a hot mess of wasted money, unused tools, and unhappy clients. It’s a classic perish…

Here’s my Above the Law post on Zach Abramowitz’s keynote at ILTA’s Evolve conferance. The keynote lived up to its title: Most Law Firms Are Doing AI Wrong. Here’s How to Do It Right.

His argument is that the failures in GenAI adoption from ineffective training to analysis paralysis to hallucination panic, all trace back…

Here’s my preview of ILTA’s Evolve conference that starts today in Denver for Above the Law. This is the thrid year in a row I have attended. I keep coming back for the same reasons: it’s small, focused, and cuts through the noise that dominates many large legal tech conferences.

This year ILTA has added…

Billing. The bane of a lawyer’s existence. The process is clunky, error-prone, and ripe for effective AI disruption. Elite’s new Validate tool could mean more effective billing guideline compliance, better client communications, and, most interestingly, flip the switch on the leverage third party bill reviewers have, reducing write-offs.

My new post for Above the Law.

You’re up against a deadline. You run to ChatGPT. You tell yourself the privacy toggle will protect you and your clients confidential information. Guess what: it may not, at least in ways consistent with the ethical rules.

Lawyers and legal professionals may have gotten a little too lax about putting confidential client information into public-facing…