A four-part series on what the AI wave in legal looks like when you go one level below the obvious. Publishing June 2026.
What the series examines and why. The Art end of the legal spectrum — the creative, judgment-intensive work that has always commanded the highest rates and on which the most ambitious AI productivity claims are now being made.
Read the pieceEvery productivity claim in legal AI rests on a number nobody has publicly measured. The saving may be real. The baseline it's measured against looks a lot like 1990.
Read the articleWhy experienced lawyers reviewing AI-generated work miss errors that are there to be found. Not a policy failure. A cognitive architecture failure.
Read the articleThe data layer that everyone is now racing to build is the same layer the industry defunded twenty years ago. Better retrieval over incomplete data is not the same as complete data.
Read the articleWhen information becomes cheap, value migrates. The question is where it goes, who captures it, and whether the next generation of lawyers is being trained to hold it.
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