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October 2019
I’ve been noodling on something of late. Arising out of what AI is bringing to legal publishing and discussions on LinkedIIn.
For the last twenty years lawyers and law firms have looked to their own sites, blogs or websites, as
Lawyers and law firms publish constantly—blogs, alerts, insights, white papers, newsletters.
What’s changing with AI isn’t whether lawyers publish.
It’s how that publishing is found, trusted, and used.
Not just by open LLMs—but inside legal research platforms, where AI is
For nearly 20 years, Kevin LaCroix has published The D&O Diary, a blog focused on directors and officers insurance that has become required reading for lawyers, insurers and professionals around the world. What began as an experiment driven by
Writing the last few days about publishing by legal practitioners in the age of AI got me thinking about whether a lawyer’s LinkedIn publishing (articles and posts) are ever cited by LLM’s, the result being enhanced authority. Such content has
Yesterday I shared why legal practitioner-generated secondary law—blogs, alerts, newsletters and email newsletters—is essential to legal AI.
When AI looks at primary law, only, the result is generic or wrong because AI is guessing at how to interpret primary law.
For years, legal research has been built around primary law—cases, statutes, code, regulations—and traditional secondary sources such as law reviews and journals.
All still important, but missing in the day of AI is the secondary law written by legal practioners,
When Todd Smith launched his first appellate blog in the mid-2000s he wasn’t chasing trends. He was a young lawyer leaving big law with no book of business and needed a way to show trial lawyers who he was and
For nearly two decades, Cleveland employment lawyer Jon Hyman has published the Ohio Employer Law Blog with a consistency and clarity few lawyers sustain. His plain-spoken style, encyclopedic command of workplace issues and willingness to show personality have made him
Iterative Wonders, a tech and AI publicaton penned last week how simple, yet how impactful an idea can be.
In this case, the launch of WordPress, which today powers 43% of all websites worldwide amd among websites that use a
This week on the Real Lawyers podcast, Kevin O’Keefe talks with Nicole Black of 8am about a career that changed course because she decided to publish. What began as a way to signal she was current on the law led
