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This is the best, most important thing I've read all week. er.educause.edu/articles/202...

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"Provocative gesture" 🤡

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Playing against the current mood, my newest Substack looks for and finds reasons to hope for better in legal sector innovation -- because we've already come so much farther from where we were. We've done it before, and we can do it again. jordanfurlong.substack.com/p/and-then-t...

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“Your guilty conscience may force you to vote Democratic, but deep down inside, you secretly long for a cold-hearted Republican to lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king!” Sideshow Bob saw it all coming.

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Lawyers, this is what it looks like to honor your oath as a lawyer and as a prosecutor. I want to lift up Denise Cheung, one of a growing group of senior DOJ lawyers who have put the rule of law ahead of politics & short-term career advancement. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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With all the talk of major VC $$ entering legal tech, this seems timely: "In 2021, 354 companies received billion-dollar valuations, thus achieving unicorn status. Only six of them have since held IPOs ... another 10 were acquired, several for less than $1 billion." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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I really wish Americans would stop treating the continued existence of Canada as the sort of thing they can do amusing thought experiments about.

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Dalai Lama Revises Claim Life Only Suffering When Not Listening To Golden-Era Supertramp theonion.com/dalai-l...

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"When courts confront a powerful, noncompliant executive, three paths enable the judiciary to stop an executive power grab: state governors / Congress, societal mobilization, or the armed forces. The first is most effective; the second is challenging to organize; the last is dangerous to democracy."

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"Panzootic" is a word we unfortunately had better start getting used to. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how lawyers need to stand up for the rule of law. Danielle Sassoon, Interim US Attorney for the SDNY (a Republican and former Scalia clerk), shows us how that's done. Her resignation letter should be studied in legal ethics / rule of law classes years from now.

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I am hosting a press conference this morning in Ottawa in preparation for National Flag Day. I will be discussing the grassroots steps being taken to fight back against the tyrant in Washington. Have you signed the Pledge for Canada? This is an important vision statement. engagement-canada-pledge.ca

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If you wanted to create mass panic and a series of bank runs, as people withdraw their money to keep the government from taking it, this is an excellent way of going about it.

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Excellent explanation of and guide to AI's Reasoning and Agentic capabilities and their application to legal work, from @lawdroid.bsky.social. www.lawdroidmanifesto.com/p/thinking-l... I agree there's still a high-value role for lawyers. What I find myself wondering is what it's going to consist of.

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Another article about how innovation is suddenly flourishing in law firms. For 20+ years, I've been part of a group banging our heads against the profession's brick walls to take innovation seriously. Thanks to COVID & AI, we're finally there. (Didn't take much, did it?) www.law.com/legaltechnew...

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The merger itself isn't especially big. But it's noteworthy that this is an actual MDP, where lawyers and accountants are partners and split fees, and nobody is batting an eyelash. And I can remember when MDPs were the thin wedge of ruin for legal ethics. www.law.com/americanlawy...

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Harvey is either a stunningly good legal AI or stunningly good at drawing VC dollars. I suppose we'll find out in due course. www.legaltechnologyhub.com/contents/vc-...

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“Farmers have lost about 46 million laying hens in the past 4 months, or 15% of a national flock of 304M … While bird flu has come and gone in waves over the past few years, this current outbreak is the most severe yet, with no signs of slowing.”

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"True candour would be to accept that other countries have agency, and that their choices in recent decades did more to erode America’s position than anything decided in Washington." Correct. And the US will soon relearn the lesson that "other countries have agency." www.ft.com/content/14ee...

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Almost every flaw in professional licensing noted in this piece applies to legal regulators. "States need to overhaul their licensing-board systems to eliminate the self-regulation that has made licensing a lose-lose for workers and consumers alike." (fixed link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Of all the Trump nominations, this is the one that will have the worst consequences.

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I've been thinking a lot lately about POSIWID -- "The purpose of a system is what it does," coined by Stafford Beer, who elaborated: "There is no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do." The civil justice system's purpose is to assist very few people.

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Vance belongs to a strain of US Catholicism that believes Francis is basically an illegitimate Pope (among many other things), so not only will this thinly veiled rebuke not deter him, he will more likely see it a badge of honour and a sign that he's in the right.

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One-fifth of all US office space is empty. Solutions now include converting space to residential or demolishing office buildings altogether. "A permanent reduction in office demand." www.axios.com/2025/01/10/o...

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