At the recent Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) summit, the air in the room shifted from theoretical policy to operational urgency. The catalyst? Major General Robert Kinney, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
For a technologist, Kinney’s briefing was a masterclass in bureaucratic disruption. He didn’t just talk about “digital transformation”,
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Most people I know are paid for time. It’s an artificial contract. Notionally, I am paid for 40 hours of work a week. There is some expectation that those 40 hours will occur within a specific schedule, like 9am to 5pm. Employers pay me for my time because they have neither
This week on The Geek in Review, we talk with Alex Su and Andy Chagui of Latitude about the shifting economics of law firm talent, the rise of flexible legal staffing, and the pressure AI is placing on traditional leverage models. Su, known across legal circles for his sharp commentary and creative legal industry videos,
Editor’s Note: Federal antitrust enforcement may be shifting its operational center of gravity. The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division is using artificial intelligence to detect and investigate antitrust violations, according to a May 13 MLex report citing an Antitrust Division official — a development that lands alongside the proposed RealPage consent judgment now in Tunney Act
Editor’s Note: Ukrainian drone strikes near Moscow exposed more than gaps in Russia’s air defenses; they revealed how quickly kinetic disruption, supply-chain risk, cyber operations, and state narrative control can converge into a single operational picture. Grounded in the Institute for the Study of War’s May 17, 2026, Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, this analysis gives
You’ve invested in your website. The copy is sharp. The positioning is clear. The design looks modern and professional. But there’s one area where most law firms blow it without even realizing, and it’s the photography.
Not because lawyers are careless about their image. Most care a lot. The problem is that they treat photos
Editor’s Note: Day 2 of FutureLaw 2026 in Tallinn took the conference’s earlier framing and put a price tag on it. Uwais Iqbal’s keynote on hard truths from a production AI workbench used by tenancy-deposit-protection adjudicators reframed how legal AI should be measured — not by model benchmark scores but by whether users will choose to
Editor’s Note: FutureLaw 2026’s Day One morning argued for who should govern AI. The mid-day and early-afternoon program made the messier case for who should build with it. Six sessions covered here — a trust panel, a legal-ops panel, a satirical keynote on surveillance, a Harvey-led keynote on pilot economics, an infrastructure panel, and an
The May issue of Personal Strategy Compass newsletter is live, picking up in the silence left behind after April’s “acoustic stage” was cleared of its noise and inherited obligations.
If April was about the courage to strip the stage down to its essential signal, May is about the craft required to sustain it.
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The American Association of Law Libraries has named Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Legal the recipient of its 2026 New Product Award, the organization announced yesterday. AALL’s New Product Award recognizes commercial information products that enhance law library services or improve access to legal information and the research process. To be eligible, products must have been introduced
Editor’s Note: Legal innovation conferences traditionally reward novelty. FutureLaw 2026’s first day in Tallinn rewarded restraint. Across the opening remarks, a General Court keynote, a panel on regulating the regulators, and a closing argument from a former LegalZoom general counsel, the program pulled the AI conversation back from product demos and into the harder territory
A new legal technology product called eDig365 is making its public debut this week at the CLOC Global Institute in Chicago, offering a reporting and observability layer built on top of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery. The product is designed to address a gap that its founders say is common in corporate legal departments. Legal operations and
EvenUp, the personal injury AI company that reached a $2 billion valuation last fall, is making a significant shift in its business model – one that extends it beyond software vendor to something closer to an outsourced operations partner for PI firms. The San Francisco-based company announced yesterday the launch of what it calls Pre-Litigation
NetDocuments today announced what it calls the first legal context graph — a proprietary knowledge infrastructure that the company says continuously maps the relationships among every matter, document, communication and person across a firm’s entire document repository, while preserving existing permissions and ethical walls. Alongside it, the company is launching a substantial redesign of its
Editor’s Note: Anthropic just put Claude at the connecting node of the legal software stack, and any procurement officer, contract manager, eDiscovery director, privacy counsel, or IP partner running a vendor evaluation this quarter is doing so against a new market structure.
The May 12 release ships 20-plus Model Context Protocol connectors and 12 practice-area
Your team checks email in one tool, responds to texts from another, and monitors social DMs in a third. Each channel has its own queue, its own notification rules, and its own blind spots. When a customer reaches out in more than one place—which they often do—nobody has the complete picture, and the conversation starts