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The Three Tier Data Model
Are you prepared to document how your firm complies with ABA Formal Opinion 512 and Michigan’s professional conduct standards? Its not as complicated as you might think. Check out this video for some additional context. I recorded a brief 60-second overview below on the data privacy guardrails corporate legal teams like yours are deploying this quarter to manage AI Adoption risk. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, all of it. And a snippet on why Spellbook. https://www.loom.com/share/da
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Sep 91 min read
$1,500 Per Fake Citation: What the First District Just Told Every Chicago Law Firm
/blog/illinois-appellate-court-ai-sanctions-chicago-law-firms On July 28, the Illinois Appellate Court for the First District fined a Chicago attorney $15,000 and referred him to the ARDC. The math is what should get your attention: the court assessed $1,500 for each of ten false citations and statutory quotations, and said plainly that it was pricing above what other courts had imposed "because the sanctions being handed out so far weren't working. The attorney wasn't a solo
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Aug 314 min read
Transactional Attorneys Don’t Care About AI Features. They’re Just Terrified of Becoming a Bottleneck
If you read the legal tech headlines in 2026, you will see a relentless focus on features. Vendors brag about bigger context windows, custom-trained LLMs, and granular "clause-by-clause risk scoring." But if you step inside a mid-sized transactional practice group, nobody is celebrating the tech. Transactional attorneys are using AI tools because they are exhausted, overwhelmed, and fundamentally terrified of being the bottleneck that kills a deal. The real story of legal AI
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Aug 183 min read
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