AI and the Law
7 articlesLaw Unhinged by Virtual Reality?
About a decade ago, I asked a neuroscientist whether he thought that immersive virtual reality games could lead to people losing touch with reality and ceasing to distinguish whether they...By Dr. David CowanNo, Claude Hasn’t Read Your Whole Firm. And That’s the Good News
The tool your demo promised, the one that read every matter at once, can't be built yet. The one you got is the one that's safe for privilege. Know the...By Stephen M. SmithThe $300B Legal Tech Crash Wasn’t About Technology
Image created by GPT Image 1.5 The Week Legal Tech Lost $300 Billion and What It Actually Means for Your Firm TL;DR: Anthropic released open-source legal plugins for its AI desktop...By Stephen M. SmithWhat 20,000 Legal Documents Taught Us About AI Synthesis
Image created by ChatGPT Image 1.5 The AI Pipeline That Actually Works for Massive Legal Document Analysis (Part 2) TL;DR: After hitting the limits of what even state-of-the-art AI can...By Stephen M. SmithWhat 20,000 Legal Documents Taught Us About AI Search
Image created by Gemini Nano Banana Pro When 20,000 Documents Meet AI: Building a Legal Knowledge System on Google Cloud (Part 1) TL;DR: I helped a law firm inherit a...By Stephen M. SmithPerplexity Has Citations. That’s Not the Same as Judgment.
Perplexity is a great research tool. It’s not the best AI tool for attorneys. I was at a seminar recently and heard a lawyer say Perplexity is “the best AI...By Stephen M. SmithThree Legal Workflow Fixes That Took 90 Minutes, Not 90 Days
Three Real Problems We Solved with AI in 90 Minutes TL;DR: During a live client session, we tackled three everyday legal workflow headaches using Gemini: building a custody calendar app, renaming...By Stephen M. SmithWrite for The Modern Lawyer
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