There is a class of legal software that survives not because anyone enjoys using it, but because removing it would cause immediate and measurable pain. Files stop lining up. Billing becomes unreliable. Compliance reporting breaks. People stop trusting the...
When I was a child, our local department store had a lady whose job was to operate the lift. She pressed the button for your floor. She announced the floor as the doors opened, even though the number was printed right there on the wall. As a child, I found this...
I like technology. I like good engineering. I even like some legal tech products. What I do not like is most legal tech marketing. Not because it fails to generate clicks or demos. It clearly does that. I dislike it because it is often fundamentally misaligned with...
Can Chat GPT Replace Adrian’s Poetry? One of the amusing uses of LLMs like Chat GPT is to write in another person’s style. This includes writing poetry. Adrian has put his effort into drafting a Christmas tax poem. In considerably less time, ChatGPT drafted its...
Disneyland Service For Lawyers Disneyland promotes itself as the happiest place on Earth. But it is not happy simply because it has a collection of entertaining rides and activities. Any showground might have that. Nor is it the particular intellectual property of...
In my view, humans have the potential to always be superior to robots in contextual reasoning, lateral thinking, judgment, advocacy, and morality. This does not mean that every human is better than every robot in relation to each of those. Instead, humans as a...
