What Is the Best AI for Lawyers?

25 August, 2026

It’s a big question, and the answer depends on your firm. Attorneys, litigators, associates, and paralegals each use AI differently. A litigator preparing for trial has different needs than a transactional attorney closing deals, and both have different needs than the knowledge management director e...

Finding Ground Truth: How We Evaluate Legal AI at Filevine

10 August, 2026

At ML Prague, I gave a talk on a problem that doesn't get enough airtime: how do you actually know whether a legal AI system is any good? Much of the energy in our field right now goes into the generation side - bigger models, smarter agents, and more capable tool use. That's fair, and it matters. B...

Lead Docket: Stop Playing Detective With Your Own Leads

7 August, 2026

Let's be honest about what qualifying a lead has looked like. Somewhere on the intake form is half the story. The rest is buried in a call log, a message thread, and a pile of uploaded documents that nobody's read because reading them is somebody else's problem until, suddenly, it's yours. So your i...

Back to Brains: Why the Future of Legal Tech Isn’t on a Screen

27 July, 2026

For millennia, the core of intellectual transmission hasn’t changed. We gather, we debate, we shape ideas through live conversation, and we make decisions based on structured, spoken deliberation. Legal work is the absolute archetype of this ancient knowledge work. It doesn’t require us to invent ne...

Can AI Replace Lawyers?

23 July, 2026

Every few months, a new headline asks the same question: will AI replace lawyers?  It's a fair question to ask, especially as generative AI tools grow more capable of drafting contracts, summarizing case law, and answering legal questions in seconds. But the question itself often misses the poi...

The Other Kind of Legal Innovation

24 June, 2026

In 1972, Guido Calabresi and A. Douglas Melamed published a now-celebrated account of how the law protects entitlements. An entitlement, they observed, can be secured in either of two ways: (1) by a property rule, which lets its holder refuse to part with it at any price; or (2) by a liability rule,...