Stop Blaming AI for Old Mistakes

Many judges and lawyers are likely to assume that a citation that is close but not quite right or a case cited for an incorrect proposition is due to AI. The reality is that the problem of misstated precedent is hardly new. When a colleague brought the case I am writing about to my attention […]

Morgan v. V2X: AI Privacy Protected, But at a Cost

A third federal court weighs in on AI confidentiality, with implications for pro se litigants and small firm attorneys Recently, two contrary orders from two federal judges caused a lot of consternation about whether AI use by clients is confidential for litigation purposes. Heppner found no confidentiality. Warner found that AI use was protected. Now […]

Even Meta’s AI Alignment Director Lost Control of Her Agent

By now, you may have seen the story about Summer Yue. She is Meta’s Director of Alignment at their superintelligence safety lab, which means her job is, quite literally, making sure AI systems do what humans tell them to do. In February, she gave an AI agent called OpenClaw access to her email and told […]

Using NotebookLM for a Closed AI Project

Most AI tools are open-ended by design. You ask a question, the AI draws on everything it has ever been trained on, and you get an answer that may or may not be grounded in anything relevant to your actual work. That’s useful for a lot of things. It’s not always what you need. NotebookLM, […]

When AI Ignores Your Instructions

When I teach or write about generative AI, I am very careful to explain that despite providing standing orders, you still have to check AI output because it will sometimes ignore those orders. Three examples illustrate the problem. ChatGPT Refuses to Stop Reassuring Me Generative AI gets stuck in reassurance loops, more concerned with telling […]

The Real Reason AI Works for Me

People ask me why I have embraced AI as enthusiastically as I have. It is not because I think it replaces legal judgment. It doesn’t. When I am teaching other attorneys, I say frequently that AI makes good lawyers better and reveals the bad ones. It is when attorneys allow AI to replace their judgment […]

Using AI More Efficiently: Standing Orders, Memory, and Projects

Anyone who has used AI tools such as Claude or ChatGPT has likely noticed a recurring frustration: each new conversation starts from zero. The user must re-explain who they are, what they do, who their audience is, and how they prefer information presented. For someone who regularly creates presentations, articles, or other recurring work product, […]