AI won’t replace lawyers, but lawyers who use AI will replace lawyers who don’t

So True re what BlackBoiler’s Dan Broderick states:  It’s no secret that 2020 moved the legal industry forward, some say by decades, as far as embracing and adopting technology, but there are still many fears that automation equals replacement. That couldn’t be further from the truth. AI won’t replace lawyers, but lawyers who use AI …

Career Advice Going Into 2021? Never Let Them See You Sweat

When you lose your composure with one of your internal clients, with a colleague, the damage to your reputation is probably worse than you realize.  It will remain with you, never let them see you sweat. Really like what I read today regarding what you can do to minimize the chance of losing your cool – to …

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A firm based in Oregon, Idea Legal, offering sophisticated and practical legal advice from attorneys with both big-firm and in-house expertise. I love their blurb on their home page: “We speak your language, not legalese.  We draft contracts and handle disputes in a way that protects your business, not our egos.”

Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig who was a cofounder of Creative Commons (CC) which is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.  The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses free of charge to the public.   Lawrence recently was campaigning and attempting to join the Democratic Debate.  Huffington Post today …

Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day

Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day October 23 googol   \GOO-gawl\ noun Definition the figure 1 followed by 100 zeros equal to 10100 Examples In January 1997, astronomers Fred Adams and Gregory Laughlin predicted that the universe would end in a number of years equal to approximately one googol. “Google spits out massive amounts of information. Even …