AI Won’t Take Your Job. The Attorney Who Uses It Better Will. Part 2 of 2: The Ten Traps
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Legal Ethics
When Attorneys Stop Checking AI’s Work: The Anthropomorphism Liability
On July 17, 2025, Judge David Leibowitz of the Southern District of Florida opened his sanctions order with a quotation from the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the importance of candor in judicial proceedings. The quotation was an AI hallucination.
The Private Equity Playbook: What Happened to Physicians Is Coming for Lawyers (AI is accelerating it)
5.4 faces the same fate. The MBA playbook that gutted physician autonomy
AI Won’t Take Your Job. The Attorney Who Uses It Better Will. Part 1 of 2: The Competence Obligation
The room got quiet. Angeline Chen, General Counsel at Progress Federal Solutions, had just finished walking a conference audience through the regulatory implications of AI adoption in federal contracting.
Escaping the Leverage Trap: Part 1 of 6 — The Forcing Function
On October 8, 2024, Micheal Dineen, vice president of data science at Brightflag, published the number that should have ended every managing partner’s lunch early. Am Law 100 firms had raised their blended billing rates by 10% in a single year, pushing the typical blended rate to $1,057 per hour.
The Email Disclaimer Delusion: Why Your Signature Block Won’t Save Your Privilege
In June 2014, a senior litigation counsel at Unilever sent an educational email to 46 managers in her organization. Buried inside the email’s confidentiality disclaimer, she hid a message: respond with a specific phrase in the subject line, and you win a prize.
The Email Privacy Illusion: Part 3 of 3 — What Healthcare Figured Out That Law Hasn’t
In March 2018, a family law attorney in Columbus, Ohio, discovered that her client’s estranged husband had been reading every email she sent for eleven months.
The Email Privacy Illusion: Part 2 of 3 — You Encrypted Everything. It Doesn’t Matter.
In 2014, three weeks into a wrongful termination production at EMC/Kazeon, a paralegal flagged an anomaly in the plaintiff’s email collection. The plaintiff’s attorney had used a properly configured Microsoft Exchange server with Transport Layer Security encryption.
The Email Privacy Illusion: Part 1 of 3 — Your Free Email Account Is Reading Everything You Send
In September 2016, a paralegal on our Kazeon eDiscovery team at EMC finished imaging the email account of a solo practitioner in Northern California. The collection order covered four years of client communications.
The Spy in Your Pocket: Why Attorneys Need an Air-Gapped Phone
masquerading as e-commerce.\” Here’s why attorneys need separate work