Large forms suddenly slowed dramatically after recent Microsoft updates Here’s how to fix it. Several customers recently reported significantly slower form processing times following Microsoft updates to Word and Windows. The affected forms ranged from 12,000 words with 1,500 variables to 90,000 words with more than 2,400 variables. In some cases, processing times increased from…
DetailsThe AI Gold Rush — and What It Means for Legal Documents We are in the middle of what can fairly be described as an AI gold rush. Across the legal technology industry, hundreds of vendors are racing to add artificial intelligence to their products. New platforms promise AI-generated contracts, AI drafting assistants, AI document…
DetailsCut. 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.…
DetailsIntelligent 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…
DetailsThe Rediscovery of Rule-Based Automation in Legal Tech Why Rule-Based Logic Remains the Foundation of True Document Automation The legal-tech industry reaches inflection points in unexpected ways. One arrived recently when a well-known AI-forward document automation provider publicly acknowledged what many lawyers have practiced instinctively for years: rule-based automation is the foundation of accurate, reliable…
DetailsAdd Real Christmas Cheer: Precision, Productivity, and the Tools Lawyers Deserve December tends to make lawyers reflective. Court calendars quiet down, inboxes slow just enough to allow thinking, and the year’s accumulated frustrations come into view: the documents that took too long, the numbering that fell apart at the worst time, the tools that promised…
DetailsHow a Spreadsheet Changed the Law Long before cloud apps and AI, a humble program—Lotus 1-2-3—quietly changed legal work. A paralegal built a damages calculator that recomputed interest and totals whenever the facts moved. Partners called it “magic.” It wasn’t magic—it was structure: variables, rules, reusable logic. That spreadsheet was the prototype for document assembly.…
DetailsWhat if your legal assistant invented a case, a clause, or an argument—out of thin air? Imagine this: your legal assistant comes into your office with a draft pleading. It looks great—polished formatting, strong arguments, and even a few citations. But when you ask, “Where did this come from?” they shrug: “I made it up.…
DetailsThe Lawyer-In-The-Loop (LITL™): The New Professional Standard for AI in Legal Work Why responsible AI in law requires a lawyer at the center—not the perimeter. Introduction For more than a century, every advance in legal technology—from dictation machines to computer-assisted research—has shifted how lawyers work, but never broached the essential question of who is responsible.…
DetailsAI Is a Tool. Judgment Is a Duty. AI can draft a clause; it can’t explain why it matters—or what it costs when it’s wrong. Our position is simple: every client deserves a Lawyer in the Loop™. We’re inviting Bar associations to partner on a 60-minute CLE: Evaluating AI for Legal Work—Ethics, Confidentiality, and Informed…
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