Back from CES 2026. Here’s my top ten impressions from this year’s show. Not surprisingly, the headline this was AI everywhere all the time. Lots of discussions about agentic AI, wearables and robotics all powered by AI. But precious little about the AI challenges like the infrastructure gap, the erosion of critical thinking skills and
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Are We Prepared To Deal With The Coming Wearable Revolution?
AI wearables were everywhere at CES 2026. Smart glasses that whisper answers in your ear, AI enabled contact lenses, AI necklaces. They see what you see and hear what you hear. Impressive tech, but what happens when a witness testifies while wearing smart glasses feeding them answers? How do we handle discovery demands for everything
Business Origination Skills In The Age Of Agentic AI: Is There Anything New Under The Sun?
At CES 2026, a McKinsey & Company panel outlined the “new” skills employers will value in the age of agentic AI. These include things like asking the right questions, showing judgment in gray areas, and demonstrating passion and resilience. All things GenAI can’t do or can’t do very well. But these are the skills that have
CES 2026 And Agentic AI In Legal: It’s Not Going To Happen — Until It Does
I’ve been an agentic AI skeptic. But after this week at CES, trying ChatGPT Atlas to book my flights and hearing Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang explain why 2026 might be the year of agents, I’m at least convinced legal can’t ignore this technology or the blessings and curse it could bring.In any event, the biggest
An AI Proctor For Remote Depositions: Has Its Time Come?
At CES, I discovered an AI tool from Qlay that detects when people use AI to cheat during remote interviews. The creator estimates 40% of candidates are doing this. If that’s even half true, what does it mean for remote depositions? Has some sort of AI proctoring become necessary for remote depositions and testimony or would it create
AI In The Courtroom: Will We Trade The Rule Of Law For Efficiency’s Sake?
How can the appropriate use of AI in courts and transparency? UNESCO‘s new guidelines for AI in courts highlight three critical risks : 1) Private companies controlling judicial tools focus on profit, not fairness, 2) There are subtle manipulation opportunities through biased AI outputs and 3) There may be public and legislative pressure on
CES 2026: The Whole Wide AI World Along With Lots More
Off to Las Vegas for my 7th year covering CES, where the AI hype machine often runs at full throttle. I’m going to try to separate substance from noise and get an idea of trends and issues that may impact legal.I’ll be especially interested in the gaps between vendor promises and implementation reality. Will also
Challenging Truisms And Embracing A Cockroach Mentality
I was impressed by a recent interview of Antti Innanen on the Artificial Lawyer Law Punx podcast that I not only commented on it on LinkedIn, I decided to devote a whole article to his comments. After 30+ years in legal practice and covering legal tech, I’ve learned to spot industry BS when I hear
The Deepfake Courtroom Problem: A Colorado Blue Ribbon Study Sheds Some Light And Offers A Start To Solutions
Here’s a scenario could become routine: You’re in trial, opposing counsel shows a video that’s damaging to your client, but your gut says something’s not quite right. What do you do? How should the Court approach it?There’s a good new University of Colorado study on deepfakes and video evidence. Even though we talk about it
The Day That ChatGPT Died: Lessons For The Rest Of Us
Imagine this: You’re on deadline, procrastinated on research (don’t judge), and ChatGPT that you counted on to help suddenly dies. That was my Nov 18. Turns out the Cloudflare outage revealed some uncomfortable truths about tech dependency and cybersecurity gaps. Maybe lawyers and legal professionals need to pump the brakes on wholesale AI adoption. And
homson Reuters White Paper: The Future Is Here — It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed
AI here, AI there. AI everywhere. But are we willing to cede good lawyer skills to a bot? A new Thomson Reuters white paper should scare the us all. Research shows AI is actively eroding critical thinking skills. The future belongs to those who figure out how to retain and enhance their analytical abilities while everyone
The Future Of Legal Services: It May Not Be What We Think
Traditional law firms vs. tech-affiliated AI-first firms: The future may not be what we think it is. Blackstone recently invested in the legal tech complinace vendor Norm AI, which then immediately launched its own law firm offering “AI-native legal services.” We’re starting to see tech companies create captive law firms to deliver legal services at scale.Will
AI Summit 2025: 10 Takeaways And Some Unanswered Questions
Back from Summit AI in NYC with some hard questions still unanswered. While 5,000+ attendees celebrated AI’s potential, critical discussions about infrastructure challenges, verification economics, and workforce displacement were largely missing. My ten takeaways from a conference that felt more like an AI love fest than a serious examination of where we’re headed. Legal professionals
Morning At AI Summit: Tech Debt, Cultural Debt, Whack-A-Mole, And The Benefits Of “I Don’t Know“
Business leaders from Unilever, EY, and NBC Universal shared a consistent message at the AI Summit: embrace the ‘I don’t know’ and think holistically about AI transformation.The contrast with how most law firms approach AI couldn’t be more striking. While other industries talk about reimagining entire workflows, legal still treats AI as something to bolt
Like Lawyers in Pompeii: Is Legal Ignoring the Coming AI Trust Crisis? Part Three
Part Three of the AI crisis series from myself and Melissa Rogozenski : The trust breakdown that’s making legal practice unsustainable. When senior partners spend evenings checking associates’ citations and local counsel can’t trust national counsel’s briefs, we’re not just dealing with verification costs, we’re watching decades-old professional relationships crumble. The AI bubble isn’t just
Like Lawyers in Pompeii: Is Legal Ignoring the Coming AI Crisis? Part Two
Every day we see another lawyer sanctioned for using AI hallucinated case citations. But the problem may not be just lazy checking. It may have something to do with economic reality. When AI verification costs exceed savings, what happens? If it takes 8 hours to verify what AI does in 2 hours, are we actually saving