I innovate in law practice via AI, KM, legal tech, and process. Experience in Big Law, legal depts, ALSP, legal software. Ex Bain + Gartner. Consulting now.
Washington, DC
Joined October 2008
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Are clients and Big Law factoring token cost into future pricing decisions?
I don't have a POV yet, but all sides in the legal market need to think harder about this.
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Before GenAI, legal was barely on anyone’s radar. Now it often leads the news
AI power users are showing up outside tech. The fastest-growing Codex adopters since February:
Legal: 108x
Sales: 41x
Recruiting: 41x
Marketing: 26x
Healthcare: 24x
Charts of the Week: a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-we…
My Q: does quoted text suggest this would complement or replace @DeepJudgeAI?
"We think that a promising direction to improve agents in this capacity is to allow them to build richer representations of the corpus up front — indexes, summaries, memory"
Law firm Chief AI Officer or equiv hires:
76 of the top 100 UK
96 of the top 100 US practices
Only 25% female
It took 10 to 20 years for most firms to appoint CIO and CMO (counting from the 1990s).
We're only in year 4 of AI.
legalfutures.co.uk/latest-ne…
Big Law could emulate how the Big Four train juniors. Historically, however, they have not. And so far, I'm not aware of any large law firm equivalent to what KPMG is doing, per WSJ.
wsj.com/business/kpmg-summer…
Today at #SKillsLaw, I moderated a session on litigation AI tools. The new gen of tech will let litigators better tell their story and not just avoid discovery disaster. For that point and way more, see
linkedin.com/pulse/litigatio…
What’s In A Wrapper? Comparing A Hershey Bar To LegalTech AI
Ken Crutchfield via @bobambrogi
lawnext.com/2026/07/whats-in…
After a SKILLS Use Case session today on Claude in #BigLaw, I agree with Ken. Putting raw Claude into production has lots of security moving parts.
A provocative view of the new AI economy.
My Q: How is Big Law doing in deeply understanding - and more importantly, rethinking - practice processes.
Whether deterministic or agentic workflows, are we missing opportunities to transform practice, not just automate old ways?
AI-Native Firms Are Luring Frustrated Lawyers Away From Big Law @BLaw news.bloomberglaw.com/busine…
Many articles on AI native law firms. This was also true in the early days of #ALSP, then #LPO. Will the hype this time come true? It did not for LPO.
In-house legal teams struggle to demonstrate ROI on their AI investments - @Axiom_Law report
@GlobalLegalPost globallegalpost.com/news/in-…
Many recent surveys say in-house legal is ahead of Big Law. That was not my experience in 5 yrs advising them at Gartner. This one feels right.
Now partnering: @harvey + Lumio
It's interesting because it bring the economics of #BigLaw by leading expert @jaesunum directly into widely used AI.
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I hear fewer asking about AI ROI; it's become embedded. Not, it's figuring out impact on work + price
harvey.ai/blog/harvey-and-lu…
See Jae's comments on LinkedIn as well
linkedin.com/posts/jaesunum_…
AI use at Dutch law firms reduces demand for routine legal services
@NL_Times nltimes.nl/2026/07/09/ai-use…
I would have expected this and great to see confirmation.
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Q: Will this trend negatively affect #ALSP #LPO?
"Microsoft…said it had already found a promising model: cross-training its entry-level lawyers in different parts of the organization and equipping them with A.I. skills in order for them to be repositioned as technology evolves."
nytimes.com/2026/06/25/busin…
Scale matters now in Big Law. It didn't used to.
Join the conversation.
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IBM debuts world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology
@FastCompany fastcompany.com/91564027/ibm…
Atomic-level engineering.
I love a quote here:
“We have entered a domain in semiconductor manufacturing [that] works between magic and physics,”
Exclusive: HSF Kramer develops proprietary AI platform with Acora and Microsoft
@LITI_News legaltechnology.com/exclusiv…
Showing again that AI in Big Law is all about the data and governance
A Big Law CEO and Top GC Agree: AI Is Forcing a New Firm Model
news.bloomberglaw.com/busine…
by @RoyWStrom @BLaw
In the AI era, it's no surprise. Post the GFC in 2008, it became apparent that Big Law strategy matters, Same for AI - it will separate large law firm winners + losers
The impact of AI on the future of Big Law and corporate legal departments. @GulfLTC interviews me (via YouTube).
youtube.com/watch?v=hstqV1dn…
BARBRI acquires Lega: Interview with co-CEO Lucie Allen
Congrats @christianllang
legaltechnology.com/barbri-a…
