Cut. Paste. Adjust. Hope. There is an old rhythm in legal drafting: Cut. Paste. Adjust. Hope. Every lawyer has done it. Take a prior agreement. Change the names. Modify a paragraph. Update a date. Move on. It feels efficient. Until it isn’t. A True Story A good friend went through a difficult season in life.…
Intelligent Systems Don’t Outsource Judgment There is a growing temptation in modern practice to confuse assistance with substitution. Technology now drafts, predicts, suggests, reformulates, summarizes. It is fast. It is impressive. It is increasingly persuasive. But none of it exercises judgment. Judgment is slower. It is contextual. It is accountable. And it belongs to the…