Category: Legal Technology
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The Future of Big Law: Dueling LLMs, the “Associate Squeeze,” and the Rise of the Legal Hustler
Categories: Legal TechnologyIn my last two posts, I pulled back the curtain on the “Big Law Shield” and the $10 billion “Plausible Deniability” machine. But, to round out this trilogy, let’s look forward ten years. Now that we’ve lived through the initial AI gold rush of the mid-2020s, what happens when we hit 2036? The landscape won’t just be…
Confessions of a Former GC: Why Approving a $1M Monthly Invoice is the Easiest Thing a CEO Will Do All Day
I’ve sat in the General Counsel’s chair during “bet-the-company” litigation. I’ve seen the emails hit my inbox at 6:00 PM on a Friday with a PDF attachment that costs more than a fleet of luxury cars. $1,200,000. For one month. Of preliminary discovery. To a normal human being, or even a mid-sized business owner, that number is staggering. It’s a heart-attack-inducing sum…
Automated Inefficiency: Kirkland, AI, and its $10B Plausible Deniability Machine
Categories: Legal TechnologyThe legal corners of social media are currently mid-meltdown because Kirkland & Ellis – the $10 billion-a-year legal behemoth – announced they are sinking $500 million into their own proprietary AI platform. The pearl-clutching is largely centered on the word “proprietary.” Apparently, a vocal segment of the internet believes that artificial intelligence is some sort of socialist…
NY Times v. Microsoft and Open AI – Who Owns the Facts that Create the News?
The Magistrate Judge’s Ruling In the recent decision in the case of The New York Times Company v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. (23-cv-11195), U.S. Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang denied OpenAI’s motion to compel discovery regarding The New York Times’ use and views on generative AI tools. This ruling provides important insights into the scope of…