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The Heaviest AI Spenders Are Hiring More People, Not Fewer
More than a third of American workers now use AI. Job openings held steady, and the heaviest spenders hired more, not fewer. So what's actually going…
Jul 5
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Stephen Smith
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June 2026
The Difference Between AI Editing Tools Isn't What They Can Do. It's Whose Name Ends Up on the File
When a redline goes to opposing counsel, the names on the changes are part of the record. Most tools list the AI. One lists you.
Jun 30
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Stephen Smith
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The Smartest Model Is the Wrong Question
If it ends up in a folder, hand it to an agent. If it's just a thought, stay in chat. And when your name's on the result, run it through both.
Jun 29
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Stephen Smith
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The AI Hallucination Problem Isn't Coming for Lawyers. It's Coming for the Courts.
I split 99 cases by who filed them. Most weren't lawyers. They were parents handling custody alone, trusting a free chatbot that handed them cases that…
Jun 26
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Stephen Smith
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California’s New AI Rules Don’t Create New Duties. They Just Took Away Your Best Defense.
The State Bar’s proposed changes make clear that competence, confidentiality, candor, and supervision already apply to AI. The “the rules don’t mention…
Jun 24
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Stephen Smith
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Your AI Chats Probably Aren't Privileged. Good. They Don't Need to Be.
For everyday work the duty isn't privilege, it's protecting the client's information, and your commercial terms are built for it. Here's where the line…
Jun 21
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Stephen Smith
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Microsoft Copilot Isn't Safer Than ChatGPT. It's the Same Engine in a Different Contract.
I read the commercial terms for all three, side by side. The vendor you pick barely matters. The account your people use is the whole game.
Jun 17
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Stephen Smith
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The Best Legal AI Most Lawyers Will Never Get to Use Was Here for Three Days
The question is no longer whether models will get good enough for serious legal work. They already are. The only question is whether your firm can…
Jun 16
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Stephen Smith
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Google's Best AI Goes to Consumers. Your Firm Gets the Leftovers.
I root for Gemini. I use it every day. I still had to tell a managing partner not yet, and here's why.
Jun 14
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Stephen Smith
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The Best AI Model Ever Built Just Landed in Your Claude Account. Don't Let Your Firm Touch It Yet.
Harvey scored it at triple the nearest competitor on complex legal tasks. Google's model scored zero. And there's still a reason to pause before your…
Jun 9
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Stephen Smith
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Provenance Is the New Privilege
Sometimes the problem isn't the fake. It's the real recording the other side simply calls a fake.
Jun 8
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Stephen Smith
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The Grunt Work Was Never Just Grunt Work, and You're About to Lose It
Automate the work associates learned judgment from, and you trade a cost problem for a training problem that stays hidden for ten years.
Jun 6
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Stephen Smith
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