2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII). An article by its co-founders/directors Mowbray, Chung & Greenleaf in the Australian Law Journals discusses its history: papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=...

Great suggestions about the cleansing power of screenlessness

My feeble effort to awaken friends on X: "Nominal 'Republicans' are paving the road to serfdom while actual conservatives busily gawk at anti-woke sideshows"

Every time I see another RFP for a "statewide civil legal needs assessment" I wonder if the money might better be spent actually addressing needs that have already endlessly been assessed

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Black

An homage to a revolutionary outsider

Great to talk shop with Dennis and Tom legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/ken...

All of the below. (Aptronym + etymological confusion)

From Hisham Matar's chilling The Return: "History remembers Mussolini as the buffoonish Fascist, the ineffective silly man of Italy who led a lame military campaign in the Second World War, but in Libya he oversaw a campaign of genocide."

The miniature horse in the foreground is Munchie

No shame No care No sense

Had a wonderful lunch on this gorgeous fall New England day with friends, who recollected the 1938 hurricane on this day that they personally experienced en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Ne...

How about a state law prohibiting masked and unidentified people from engaging in such "enforcement"? Anyone tried that yet?

He thought he was a king but he was only Prince Charming

Reviewing papers for JURIX (A great conference I've yet to attend, although I co-authored a paper there with Carole Hafner)

Just caught a great talk by David Mindell about this new book, which brought back memories of visiting the Matthew Boulton house in Birmingham and reading about the Lunar Society some years back. Is genAI the steam engine of the legal "industry"? mitpress.mit.edu/978026204952...

My latest: how to write an academic paper, especially as a non-CS researcher in AI and Law. suffolklitlab.org/how-to-write...

@davidcolarusso.com - can you make a nice painting of this scene?

So, what have 'we' learned? Some of us learned that initial speculations can be way off. That conclusions jumped to are often unsafe places to land. Some learned that others refuse to learn.

That sudden quiet is chilling

Another thoughtful proposal from Chris Rufo

I was just thinking that his ability to bullshit himself may be his greatest talent

Few of us appreciate being helped to realize we're wrong about something

I enjoy the elegant nesting of meanings -- and semantic compactness -- of words like 'nonconfrontationalism' Not sure it's a wise political strategy though

One sure sign of aging is forgetting how forgetful you were half a life earlier

The warning in the MIT report was blunt: ChatGPT was outperforming a specialized AI legal technology tool that cost thousands of dollars more.

Waiting for 'defenestration' to be trending

No one can say the President is anti-education His cabinet members are all earning certificates in Advanced Sycophancy

Proud papa

"The arrival of generative AI hasn't just disrupted tech companies; it's fundamentally rewiring the entire nervous system of professional services." Love the jazz analogy (as an enthusiastic improvisor)

Penguin carrier? (Just watched The Penguin Lessons - highly recommended!)

"If Gen AI never gets any better than it is today, LLMs will still become integrated into legal task performance. But if Gen AI does get better, then inexorably, LLMs will become the primary means by which legal work gets done." (Sounds right to me. But I'm only a 99.8th percentile guy.)

"Lawyers and law firms need to begin thinking and planning for how the coming skill equalization will impact competition and potentially profitability."

I assume no toothpicks were harmed in the making of this painting

I've always been a road-less-traveled guy (even after realizing that Frost was being sarcastic)

What if your biggest productivity win this week isn't starting something new, but finally finishing something old? My latest Personal Strategy Compass newsletter explores the massive mental clarity you reclaim by strategically closing open loops. www.denniskennedy.com/blog/2025/08...

Looking for something new under the sun(flower)

It seems inevitable that lawyers will gravitate toward having a personal thought partner who's not only superintelligent, but seemingly conscious After which clients will seek to eliminate the middleman mustafa-suleyman.ai/seemingly-co...

No one does Midwest nice as nice as Sarah. And thanks, now I don't regret missing ILTA yet again.

"Law schools should start by requiring AI literacy courses for all first-year students and mandating that every course syllabus include assignments that explicitly incorporate AI tools." As a one-time practitioner and many-times adjunct, I thought this a decade or two ago. But now it may be true!

You mean that's not your painting?

"Defending the traditional authorship of Shakespeare’s works is entirely understandable, but this particular strand of defence – that Shakespeare used Warwickshire and Cotswold dialect – does not stand up to scrutiny."

Good thing LawHelp Interactive didn't retain its original name -- National Public ADO (Automated Documents Online)

"Humanity has spent billions teaching AI systems. We’re getting payback across many contexts and disciplines. Let’s be open to what they can teach us. Throughout our work lives, there are endless opportunities for just-in-time education." www.attorneyatwork.com/ai-based-leg...

If everything is an emergency nothing is an emergency

It's important to remember that most of the folks behind the wholesale reversal of American progress believe what they are doing is right, and that any questionable tactics are rationalized as necessary or excusable Don't expect them to be deterred by our arguments, or our outrage

I've done a lot of law school course guest-speaking and guest-hosting. For some reason I often think of Tom Sawyer and fence whitewashing.

If you're seeking to go deep on DeepSeek,this is a good entry point cacm.acm.org/opinion/deep...

I've been close with Richard for decades, but each conversation yields thought-provoking surprises. This one was no different.