Law firms are panic buying AI to placate clients. But it’s often money wasted, tools unused, and clients still unhappy. The fix isn't another product. It starts with real education. Not AI slop abovethelaw.com/2026/05/deal...

Zach Abramowitz at ILTA Evolve: law firms are doing AI wrong because they deploy without understanding. Here’s my summary. abovethelaw.com/2026/05/the-...

ILTA’s Evolve conference keeps it small, focused, and this year adds sessions on something often ignord: how to lead in legal tech. Here’s my preview. abovethelaw.com/2026/04/ilta...

New law firm models are disrupting traditional ones. They are built on experienced lawyers trained at the firms they’re disrupting. If that pipeline runs dry, so does their advantage. abovethelaw.com/2026/04/new-...

Bills are client communications. Lawyers forget that. AI may help fix legal billing's messiest problems and give firms a way to fight back against third-party write-offs. abovethelaw.com/2026/04/ai-a...

Don’t count on the privacy toggle on ChatGPT to protect your clients’ confidential info. Not ethically. Not under privilege doctrine. Complacency around GenAI confidentiality may back and here’s what to do about it. abovethelaw.com/2026/04/lawy...

AI hallucinations aren’t random glitches. A new study shows they’re a foreseeable engineering risk and they hit hardest exactly when you need the tool most. abovethelaw.com/2026/04/unde...

Deep fakes are coming to our courtrooms and they may change how cases are tried. abovethelaw.com/2026/04/deep...

I asked 50 lawyers at #ABAtech how many had seen deep fake evidence in court. Zero hands. Is it a problem in search of a problem — or are we just not catching it yet? abovethelaw.com/2026/04/deep...

Two TechShow keynotes, two very different speakers, one conclusion: the lawyers who thrive won’t be the ones who know the most. They’ll be the ones clients want in the foxhole. Furlong and Patel said the same thing. Differently. abovethelaw.com/2026/03/the-...

Jordan Furlong’s ABAtech keynote: AI will commoditize legal knowledge and mechanize legal work. The lawyers who thrive won’t be the ones who know the most. They’ll be the ones clients want in the foxhole. I agree. But I’d add one word: entrepreneurship. abovethelaw.com/2026/03/jord...

ABA TechShow kicks off Wednesday in Chicago. Two keynotes, 47 sessions, 120+ vendors, a rule-of-law panel with three ABA presidents, and Bob Ambrogi running the startup pitch. It’s the legal tech show that feels more like a reunion. abovethelaw.com/2026/03/tech...

75% of lawyers are using AI. 71% have had zero training on it from their firms. The answer isn’t paralysis or a hodge-podge of tools, it’s providing realistic guidelines and training. abovethelaw.com/2026/03/law-...

My Legalweek 2026 recap: New venue, familiar complaints, a great judges keynote, and, of course, snow on the last day. Some things never change. abovethelaw.com/2026/03/its-...

Final Legalweek keynote: law firms need to do what Apple and Netflix did and blow up their business model. But only 19% of firms have modified fee arrangements. 72% have no plans to change compensation structures. The industry is still whistling past the graveyard. abovethelaw.com/2026/03/lega...

Four sitting federal judges at Legalweek described the living hell they and their families face daily: threats, swatting, doxing, and worse. But they’re still showing up and doing their jobs. They need our support. abovethelaw.com/2026/03/lega...

Some hard questions emerging from this year’s Legalweek in New York: are we focusing on training better lawyers or just better prompters? And how do we create good lawyers for the future? abovethelaw.com/2026/03/gena...

8am’s Smart Spend enhancement: solving real practice management problems with real solutions! abovethelaw.com/2026/03/8ams...

Two seemingly inconsistent rulings on GenAI and work product privilege waiver. But fact differences matter and neither case necessarily gives you a safe harbor. abovethelaw.com/2026/03/the-...

A federal judge has now ruled chats with publicly facing GenAI tools may not be privileged. I told you so. abovethelaw.com/2026/03/hate...

Two and a half minutes. That's all a good trial lawyer needs for an opening statement. And you can do it with help from GenAI. Here’s why you should. www.techlawcrossroads.com/2026/02/the-...

You’re local counsel. 60-page brief just arrived. Due in 2 hours. 150 citations. No way to verify them. That’s not hypothetical. That’s Tuesday. New piece w/ Melissa Rogozinski in our series on why solving GenAI problems isn’t always more GenAI abovethelaw.com/2026/02/like...

GenAI slowing productivity increases? Creating more not less work? It’s all part of something called the Solow paradox and it may apply to legal more than other businesses. So stop worrying about the end of lawyers and get back to work. abovethelaw.com/2026/02/befo...

Non-equity partnerships: it’s not personal. It’s just business. abovethelaw.com/2026/02/none...

New research shows only 2% of lawyers believe AI strengthens learning. The legal profession keeps talking about training junior lawyers to use AI responsibly. But a new LexisNexis study suggests we need to focus on training the trainers first. abovethelaw.com/2026/02/crit...\

A potential growing problem: GenAI tools being used by opposing counsel on your clients documents you produced which makes them public. Some thoughts from Matt Mahon of @level_legal abovethelaw.com/2026/02/ive-...

Anthropic announced their legal AI plugin and legal tech stocks immediately tanked. Thomson Reuters, RELX, Wolters Kluwer all took hits. I called this move by the big GenAI players months ago. Commoditization of legal tech is coming. It's probably just the beginning. abovethelaw.com/2026/02/anth...

Watching people ask ChatGPT for life advice like they're asking for restaurant recs. But only 10% of users actually know how to prompt effectively. Why lawyers need to care about this www.techlawcrossroads.com/2026/01/usin...

We're asking 2026 jurors to navigate 1976 courtroom procedures. No wonder jury duty is universally dreaded. We need to try harder to meet people where they actually are and make it easy for them. www.techlawcrossroads.com/2026/01/meet...

Want to know what really keeps your clients up at night? Spoiler: It's cybersecurity (42%) and AI (32%) - not the legal issues we obsess over. Just analyzed Allianz's massive global risk survey. It makes for good reading. abovethelaw.com/2026/01/want...

Law firms: read your cyber policy like you would a client contract. Because you may not be covered for what you think. abovethelaw.com/2026/01/thin...

OpenAI can now decide if you're a minor based on how you use ChatGPT. Is that a slippery slope toward something more? www.techlawcrossroads.com/2026/01/trus...

Real AI experts understand conceptually what AI is, what it can do, and the differences and drawbacks of confusing GenAI with AI generally. Not all AI is GenAI. like-lawyers-in-pompeii-is-legal-ignoring-the-ai-definitional-crisis-part-v

The impact of new proposed Evidentiary Rule 707 would make AI evidence admissibility even more expensive and complex. Neither side is supportive. Meanwhile critical issues like deepfakes are not addressed. abovethelaw.com/2026/01/prop...

Law schools teaching GenAI is great idea. But should it be mandatory rather than an extracurricular “nice to have” while courts sanction lawyers for AI mistakes? abovethelaw.com/2026/01/gena...

New TR Report: law firm partners celebrating record profits while AI may significantly cut their work time. The billable hour model is facing an existential crisis and most firms are pretending it's not happening. abovethelaw.com/2026/01/less...

Why legal GenAI commoditization is coming faster than vendors and the rest of us want to admit. And how to prepare. abovethelaw.com/2026/01/the-...

As I was writing this piece on the dangers of enshittification of GenAI, particularly for legal, OpenAI announced it plans to start placing ads at the bottom of ChatGPT answers. Turns out the Sirens aren’t just mythological anymore. And so it begins. www.techlawcrossroads.com/2026/01/the-...

As I was writing this piece on the dangers of enshittification of GenAI, particularly for legal, OpenAI announced it plans to start placing ads at the bottom of ChatGPT answers. Turns out the Sirens aren’t just mythological anymore. And so it begins. www.techlawcrossroads.com/2026/01/the-...

Why legal GenAI commoditization is coming faster than vendors and the rest of us want to admit. And how to prepare. abovethelaw.com/2026/01/the-...

Maybe it’s time for mandatory GenAI CLE requirements. Why this isn’t as crazy as it sounds abovethelaw.com/2026/01/is-i...

Law firms are buying AI tools like it's 1999 and we're all going to get rich on dot-com stocks. Meanwhile, tinfrastructure investors are starting to get nervous . We've seen this movie before. It doesn't end well. abovethelaw.com/2026/01/like...

CES 2026: AI in everything, all the time.infrastructure for nothing. The legal profession needs to pay attention to where consumer tech is heading for better or worse. abovethelaw.com/2026/01/ces-...

CES was full of AI wearables that can whisper answers in your ear, record everything you see, and guide you through complex situations. Cool tech, but imagine the legal questions and implications. abovethelaw.com/2026/01/are-...

A CES panel says the future belongs to those who ask the right questions, show judgment in gray areas, and demonstrate passion. Sounds like what superstars like those on the panel and successful lawyers have always been doing. abovethelaw.com/2026/01/busi...

40% of remote interview candidates use AI to cheat say s startup founder at CES If true, remote depositions may have a problem. Should lawyers start using AI proctors for remote depositions and testimony? abovethelaw.com/2026/01/an-a...

Heading to CES 2026 to see if anyone's talking about AI's actual implementation challenges, or if it's just more hype about "transformative" tools. Legal tech follows consumer trends. Alwaya good to see what's coming down the pipeline. abovethelaw.com/2026/01/ces-...

The "AI will free lawyers for strategic work" narrative is industry gaslighting. A 12-minute podcast interview of Antti Innanen explains why. Someone needs to call out these feel-good fairy tales before law firms make terrible decisions based on them. abovethelaw.com/2025/12/chal...

Trial scenario: Opposing counsel shows a video that clearly hurts your client. But something feels off. What do you do? Deepfakes are about to upend courtrooms and no one is ready. abovethelaw.com/2025/12/the-...

The day ChatGPT went dark taught me something important about over-reliance on AI tools. When Cloudflare failed on Nov 18, it wasn't just an inconvenience, it exposed security gaps and reminded us why lawyers need backup plans. abovethelaw.com/2025/12/the-...