Before drawing firm conclusions on the 2024 election and what to do next, take a clear-eyed view at what actually happened.
November 5 culminated several decades of economic, political, and social change. These changes gradually increased the electorate’s feelings of alienation and insecurity. When these feelings became sufficiently intense and widespread, more than 50% of
An example of how contract playbooks designed by lawyer experts can be applied to commercial contracts using GenAI.
As the revolution in large language models (LLMs) makes its way into new startups and applications, would-be customers ask: How is my private data protected? Can commercial AI providers use my input data to train their models?
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The value of embracing roles outside our comfort zone
I recently became the Educational Co-Chair of ILTA‘s (International Legal Technology Association) EVOLVE Conference. I ended up in this role because my ambition for myself and my organization required me to wander outside my comfort zone. Yet, along the way, I’ve
Source: “A Journey Toward Justice,” Stone Ridge Magazine (Winter 2021).
The unpaused version of Legal Evolution will be different. This post explains why.
Legal Evolution has been paused since January 2023. The most concise explanation for the pause is a rupture in my worldview, which I attempted to illustrate through my last post,
The hardest puzzle I’ve ever tried to solve.
This is the last post for several months, as Legal Evolution is pausing publication until the fall of 2023. The reasons why don’t neatly fit into a box. In fact, per the graphic above, I needed several boxes to understand the problem I am trying to solve.
The summer of our discontents
Two months ago, if you prompted Version 3 of the AI-art generator MidJourney to generate depictions of an “otter on a plane using wifi,” you were rewarded with the nonsense in the left panel of our lead graphic. A month later, Version 4 could take the same prompt and render,
Yale has a different decision set than other law schools.
Yale Law School’s $1.2 billion share of the Yale University endowment provides approximately $63 million in operating funds, which translates into $106,000 per student, though this amount appears to be headed up due to the 40.2% increase in Yale’s endowment in 2021. See “Yale
Apolitical technicians working in an ahistorical profession. What are the odds of a happy ending?
The graphic above summarizes the U.S. top marginal income tax rate from 1913 (the year the 16th Amendment was ratified by the states) to 2021. One clear takeaway is that for the
The legal profession appears to be on autopilot.
This post is for legal market analysts who are looking for updated and reliable data on the current legal services market. Collectively, its eight graphics reveal several themes that ought to give us pause, as we (the legal profession)
For today’s feature post (200), we’re pleased to welcome guest contributor Rafael Figueiredo, who currently serves as Director, Strategic Projects & Investments for ALL Energy US, Inc., a Houston-based integrated group of energy companies focused on the development and operation of energy infrastructure assets — pipelines, storage, terminals and production facilities. Rafael
