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Trump’s worldview is taken from Thucydides: “The strong do what they can; the weak suffer what they must.” Take a look at the size and energy of the “No Kings” crowds yesterday. Now look at the pathetic shambles of Trump’s parade. Now ask yourself who is strong here, and who is weak.

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The future of AI arbitration -- and it's a big future -- doesn't lie with lawyers or judges or arbitrators. It lies with the millions upon millions of people and businesses that can't afford lawyers or judges or arbitrators, but who still need a dispute settled. www.law.com/legaltechnew...

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LLMs' ability to pass the bar exam isn't that interesting anymore. What's worth noting here is the impact of ChatGPT-o3's "reasoning" process on its exam score, and the fatal consequences that flow from using an outdated dataset. www.law360.com/pulse/modern...

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Your law firm can pay people what you think they're worth, or you can have a firm where it's assumed everyone contributes value more or less equally and should be paid roughly the same. The second type of firm sounds lovely. I doubt we'll see it around much anymore. www.law360.com/pulse/modern...

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When they write the obituary for the rule of law in the United States, make sure to give the Supreme Court of Florida the credit they deserve.

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There's a Master's thesis to be written about the near-universal use of "freeing up lawyers' time" as the greatest benefit of AI. What exactly is it about lawyers and their time that requires liberation? To whom, or to what, is their time in bondage? Whence should this newfound freedom be pursued?

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A little nostalgia trip from me at @slawdotca.bsky.social, especially for Canadian law readers who remember 1995 for more than Jann Arden and Tom Cochrane: www.slaw.ca/2025/06/12/i...

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It's a pretty remarkable experience watching the slippery slope in real time.

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Experimenting with an idea: Whether or not Generative AI will take your job corresponds very closely with whether you make your living standing up (no) or sitting down (yes).

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A useful way for Americans to look at this might be: If this were happening in any other country, what would we call it, and what do we think would happen next?

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No idea where this goes next, but Elon has basically emptied his six-shooter, while Trump has barely drawn his gun and has a pile of bazookas behind him. I don’t think this ends well for Elon at all. Not that I mind.

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Elon Salvador

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we're all gonna die but this is tremendous content

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Today is a day for confirming one iron rule of politics. Horrible people are also horrible to each other.

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Maybe instead of yelling at everyday people who use ChatGPT for legal matters and mocking lawyers who do the same, we could think about why they keep doing it. ChatGPT is helpful, affordable, and user-friendly. Legal information and lawyer assistance are not. Why do we think this wouldn’t happen?

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Utah got cold feet in legal regulation reform and has seen a huge decline in innovative legal businesses operating in the state. Arizona, by contrast, opened the throttle and never looked back, and is now truly the United States' legal innovation laboratory. www.law360.com/pulse/modern...

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"Our biggest quality improvements [as a legal Gen AI company] have never come from fine-tuning or training. They come when OpenAI releases a new base model. Magically, everything gets better. Everything else is pretty incremental in comparison." danielvanbinsbergen.substack.com/p/the-mistak...

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Large US law firms do not sell shares on public stock exchanges. But if they did, I'd be sorely tempted to short them.

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BigLaw's annual-rate-hike bonanza is over. And since those rates were the only thing propping up growth, those firms now have a problem. As a bonus, relentless rate increases drove clients to increase their use of tech and buy cheaper alternatives. Trebles all round! www.law360.com/pulse/modern...

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"Achievement strongly predicted how much participants paid themselves. Hard work, by contrast, played little-to-no detectable role." Something for law firms to think about as the era of effort-based lawyer compensation draws to a close: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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“Transactional law has long relied on the billable hour to price workstreams like diligence, contract drafting and negotiation. But AI is automating these tasks... AI doesn’t just shave minutes off tasks; it shatters the assumption that time spent equals value delivered." www.law.com/legaltechnew...

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Full credit to A&O Shearman, they could've pulled the plug on Fuse years ago, declaring victory in the PR effort to position themselves as a friend to legal tech innovators. But they're still going strong. Among other things, Fuse must be net profitable for the firm. www.law.com/legaltechnew...

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I'm coming to understand that with this administration, the stupidity is the point. They consider ignorance a badge of honour, a proof of kinship, a state of grace to be preserved. "If something works, we'll break it, on principle. Competence and expertise belong to order; we belong to chaos."

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At this point, Western Europe should be helping Ukraine if only to keep Ukraine from getting mad at them.

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Feels like a good time to re-up my position that the legal profession has no business telling people not to use ChatGPT when the absolute unaffordability of most lawyers’ services is a major reason why people are reduced to asking AI for legal advice. jordanfurlong.substack.com/p/level-the-...

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The kids are all right. Even at Harvard. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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"Rejection isn’t a weird glitch in the economy, it’s the default. Convenience isn’t a consumer preference, it’s a coping mechanism. The absence of surprise isn’t just a creative choice, it’s a byproduct of optimization. And all of it chips away at our capacity for presence, for agency, for wonder."

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Another day, another lawyer filing AI-generated fake caselaw with a court. AI is inadvertently revealing a crisis of lawyer competence, and we're the ones who'll pay the price. My newest Substack explains why the legal profession is playing with fire here. jordanfurlong.substack.com/p/the-fallac...

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I do think a big part of the centre left's problem right now is treating "ordinary people" as somewhat scary subjects for anthropological study.

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