Legal Tech & Automation Building with LLMs in Legal Tech: Current Uses, Hard Limits, and What’s Coming Next You're the GC (or a practice group partner) and three vendors in one week pitch "AI-powered" contract review, "AI research," and "AI matter management"…
Startup Central Legal Data Science for Startups: Using AI, Analytics, and Lawyer-in-the-Loop Workflows to Scale Legal Operations Data science is changing how startups manage legal work. This guide covers AI-assisted contract review, analytics-driven risk assessment, and lawyer-in-the-loop workflows that improve speed without sacrificing judgment. Practical patterns for lean legal teams.
Legal Tech & Automation Start With Margin Pressure, Not Shiny AI Tools Law firms are being squeezed from both sides: clients pushing fixed fees and rising costs of experienced lawyers. The answer isn't more AI tools—it's identifying which margin pressures AI can actually relieve, then building workflows around those specific pain points.
Startup Central How Data Science Is Transforming Legal Strategy for Startups and Growing Businesses (Practical Guide) Data-driven legal strategy helps startups reduce cost and manage risk at scale. This guide covers how analytics inform contract negotiation, litigation risk, and compliance monitoring. Practical workflows for integrating data science into legal operations.
Legal Tech & Automation TL;DR: Measurable AI Efficiency Gains for Law Firms For managing partners, GCs, and legal-ops leaders who want the headline numbers: documented AI efficiency wins across document review, contract analysis, research, and intake—with benchmarks you can act on this quarter.
Startup Central Why Gmail OAuth 2.0 Security and User Control Matter OAuth 2.0 governs how third-party apps access Gmail data, and getting it wrong creates security and compliance risk. This guide covers token scoping, user consent flows, access controls, and the steps startups need when building integrations that touch email data.
Startup Central Data-Savvy Lawyers as Startup Guides to U.S. AI Policy, Export Controls, and Sanctions U.S. AI policy, export controls, and sanctions create legal exposure most startups underestimate. Data-savvy lawyers translate overlapping regulatory frameworks into actionable compliance programs for AI companies managing cross-border risk and technology transfer.
Intellectual Property & Branding How to Buy a Patent: Due Diligence, Valuation, and Assignment Guide for Startups Buying a patent requires more than agreeing on a price. This guide covers freedom-to-operate analysis, prior art review, valuation methods, assignment documentation, and post-acquisition integration for founders evaluating patent acquisitions.
Legal Tech & Automation Turning AI Hype into Profitable Legal Workflows AI is everywhere in legal tech, but most teams still run matters through the same manual chain. This piece maps out where AI actually generates ROI—and why most pilot programs fail to survive past the demo stage.
Concepts in Tech for Lawyers How OAuth 2.0 Actually Secures Gmail Integrations (and Where Things Still Go Wrong) Table of contents Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Connecting Gmail to CRMs, automation platforms, or AI assistants shouldn’t require users to hand over a password — or leave you storing one. OAuth 2.0 exists to let a third-party app request limited, revocable access to Gmail via
Legal Tech & Automation AI for Law Firms: Practical Workflows, Ethics, and Efficiency Gains Clients want faster turnaround and predictable bills, even as matter volume rises. This guide walks through concrete AI workflows for document review, research, and client intake—alongside the ethics guardrails that keep firms out of trouble.
Concepts in Tech for Lawyers How to Set Up Law Firm Subdomains with Cloudflare and DigitalOcean Running separate web properties for a law firm blog, client portal, or landing pages requires proper subdomain setup. This guide walks through DNS configuration with Cloudflare, DigitalOcean server setup, SSL certificates, and routing decisions for clean infrastructure.
Digital Presence & Online Policies How to Set Up a Subdomain for Your Law Firm Using Cloudflare and DigitalOcean If you're a solo or small-firm lawyer who ended up owning the company website, a subdomain can cleanly separate a client portal, intake workflow, or knowledge base from your main site. A step-by-step walkthrough using Cloudflare and DigitalOcean.
Digital Presence & Online Policies Why Subdomains Matter for Modern Law Firms A subdomain is a prefix added to your firm's domain—like portal.yourfirm.com—that points to a separate application. For law firms, subdomains enable client portals, knowledge bases, and internal tools without compromising your main site's security or branding.
Guides, Reviews & Commentary Decide If n8n Belongs in Your Automation Stack n8n is a node-based workflow automation tool that connects the apps you already use—email, CRMs, document storage, AI services—into repeatable pipelines. This evaluation covers whether it fits your firm's technical capacity and workflow needs.
Lawyer in the Loop Why AI Literacy Now Matters for Law Firms and Legal Teams In large enterprises, AI literacy is moving from specialist teams to the whole organization. Small and mid-size firms can't copy that playbook directly, but the underlying shift matters: your team needs to understand AI well enough to use it safely and effectively.
Legal Tech & Automation Why Legal Teams Are Looking at Open-Source Platforms Like Mattermost Legal teams are increasingly boxed in by cloud-only chat tools: rising per-user pricing, limited visibility into where data actually lives, and retention settings that don't map to professional obligations. Self-hosted platforms like Mattermost address those gaps.
AI Law Illinois’ 2026 AI Hiring Law and the New Federal Order: A Practical Dual-Track Compliance Playbook for Employers and Vendors If your recruiting stack uses resume scoring, chat-based screening, or video interview analysis, Illinois' next wave of AI hiring rules should be on your compliance calendar. This playbook covers dual-track obligations for employers and HR-tech vendors.
Legal Tech & Automation Law Firm Workflow Playbook: Automate Intake, Drafting, and Billing Small firms hit a ceiling when growth depends on manual work. This playbook covers how to map core workflows, automate intake and conflict checks, standardize drafting with templates and AI, and fix billing with automated reminders and lawyer approval gates.
Legal Tech & Automation Law Firm Workflow Automation: Intake, Drafting, and Billing Workflow automation helps small firms reduce manual intake, inconsistent drafting, and late billing without replacing legal judgment. This guide covers process mapping, lightweight tool selection, and implementing automations with built-in lawyer approval gates.
Technology, AI, & Digital Innovation Generative AI Training and Copyright Law: Fair Use, Technical Reality, and a Path to Balance Generative AI is colliding with copyright law in real time: lawsuits against model developers, growing creator backlash, and rising regulatory attention. This analysis maps how fair use doctrine applies to training data and where licensing intersects.
Development Journeys Integrating Code into Legal Practice: How a Lawyer–Developer Mindset Transforms Service for Tech Clients For most technology businesses, the product is software: APIs, data pipelines, and AI systems. That means core legal questions—IP ownership, data rights, compliance—require a lawyer who understands the code, not just the contract language around it.
Digital Presence & Online Policies Subdomains for Law Firms: Building Client Portals, AI Tools, and Internal Systems A subdomain is a section of your firm's domain—like portal.yourfirm.com—that points to a separate application. This guide covers architecture patterns for hosting client portals, AI-powered tools, and internal systems while maintaining security and control.
Legal Tech & Automation Why LLMs matter for legal work when designed around outcomes Many early AI pilots in legal stall for predictable reasons: models hallucinate, outputs sound confident but miss the point, or adoption collapses after the demo. The difference is outcome-driven design—building LLM integration around measurable legal results.
Legal Tech & Automation AI Workflows in Legal Practice: A Practical Transformation Guide Legal work is shifting from manual, email-driven practice to workflow-driven, AI-assisted operations. This transformation guide covers intake, extraction, triage, and review—with a framework for moving from scattered tools to connected workflows.
