The AI Costs That Won’t Show Up in Your 2027 Budget
The license line is easy to find in any budget. The costs that decide whether AI pays off are somewhere else. The […]
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Which legal AI platform should you bet on?
Before you change or invest in a new platform, find out what is actually slowing you down. The 2027 AI budget needs […]
How to Justify Your Law Firm’s AI Budget When ROI Is Hard to Prove
You know the firm needs more money for AI. But how to ask? Somewhere in this year’s budget conversation, someone will ask […]
The Proof Points That Don’t Look Like Legal Work
Second in a series on funding AI work inside law firms. Part one argued that the process has to come before the […]
Law Firm Innovation Funds: Build the Process Before the Budget
First in a three-part series on Making Innovation Funds Fundable — what must be in place for a law firm innovation fund […]
Too Fast. And Still Not Fast Enough: AI, Client Expectations and Client Value
Six months ago, the client was not interested. The firm had proposed using AI in part of an IP matter, and the […]
AI Agent Governance: Your AI Agent Is Not an ATM
Put a card into an ATM, ask for $200, and the machine follows a tightly defined series of steps. It checks your […]
Zero Hands Went Up for Embedded: Where Scaling Stalls
On the first day of ILTACON, someone asked a room of more than 200 legal technologists where their firms were with AI. […]
The Missing Baseline: How Big Is the Problem?
A partner brings forward a problem. It is easy to recognize: the work is cumbersome, something takes too long, or a process […]
From AI Opportunity to Funded Bet: What Law Firms Are Missing
A while back, I joined an ILTA panel about chasing AI ROI. During prep, as I explained how returns could be tracked, […]
Why Law Firms Can Approve AI Pilots but Struggle to Make AI Bets
Law Firms Are Built to Spread Bets. AI Rewards Firms That Concentrate Them. For the last few years, AI progress at law […]
Start with a Personal AI Agent. Just Don’t Mistake It for Software.
In Agents: Where GenAI Value Actually Lives, Ruark Chick and Floor Blindenbach-Driessen sort agent ideas into three categories — personal, workflow, and […]