Security Is Not a Feature of Legal AI. It Is the Product.
In March 2003, Cisco wrote a check for roughly $500 million that made America’s home networks easier to break into, and I watched it happen from the losing side of…
JD Morris
The Hacker Didn’t Steal the Deed. He Deleted It.
THE TECHNOLOGY BLIND SPOT Ana Stan could not do her job. The Romanian notary said it plainly in a post that circulated the week her country’s property market stopped: since…
Your Client’s Brain Is Regulated in Five States and Discoverable in All Fifty
THE TECHNOLOGY BLIND SPOT – THE PORTRAIT YOU NEVER SAT FOR | PART 2 OF 5 In March 2022, Guido Girardi bought a headband from a company’s website. Girardi had…
Taylor Swift Trademarked Her Voice. Your Client’s Rival Files Next.
THE TECHNOLOGY BLIND SPOT In December 2025, the federal government granted Matthew McConaughey ownership of three words. Not a film, not a script. The sound. A trademark registration now covers…
The Payment the Court Policed Now Flows the Other Way
THE TECHNOLOGY BLIND SPOT On the morning of November 5, 2025, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman published a number that should have made every antitrust lawyer in Washington set down their coffee.…
The Hacker Found the Manifest. Your AI Vendor Keeps One Too.
The file was named youtube_music. When last updated, it recorded 2,013,545 ingested music clips. A companion file kept the ledger in hours: 113,879 hours of YouTube Music, 62,117 hours of Pond5 stock tracks, 19,514 hours from a classical sheet music…
The Air Force Ordered a Thousand AI Wingmen. Not One of Them Flies Lead
The greatest hitter who ever lived was on fire over Korea. On February 16, 1953, Marine Captain Ted Williams brought his F9F Panther back from his first combat mission, a strike south of Pyongyang, with the jet trailing smoke and a 30-foot ribbon of…
AI Kills Tasks, Not Jobs. The Tasks Were the Apprenticeship.
On the morning of October 7, 1913, 140 workers stood along a 150-foot track at Ford’s Highland Park plant and waited for the work to come to them. A Model T chassis slid past on rails embedded in the floor. Each man performed one operation and let…
The Arsonist Is Right About the Fire
Mark Zuckerberg owns the most centralized attention machine ever assembled. On July 28 he took to the Wall Street Journal op-ed page to warn America about the danger of concentrated technological power. “If only a handful of institutions have…
“Roll Your Own” Is a Warning, Not an Invitation
Five years ago, a trainee in Clifford Chance’s investment funds seat spent his days mapping retail fund prospectuses against the content requirements of Appendix C of Hong Kong’s Unit Trusts Code. The work repeated until the repetition became the…