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1. AI is not practicing law — and we should settle that question permanently.
2. Documents created with technology *intended for attorney review* should be treated differently than someone freelancing legal strategy with a chatbot.
At @DocDraft, every document we generate is designed to be reviewed by a licensed attorney. That's not a feature — it's the model. The gap this ruling exposes is exactly why the AI + attorney hybrid matters.
Moish Peltz@mpeltz
Your AI conversations aren't privileged. Yesterday, Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that 31 documents a defendant generated using an AI tool and later shared with his defense attorneys are not protected by attorney-client privilege or work product doctrine. The logic is simple: an AI tool is not an attorney. It has no law license, owes no duty of loyalty, and its terms of service explicitly disclaim any attorney-client relationship. Sharing case details with an AI platform is legally no different from talking through your legal situation with a friend (which is not privileged). You can't fix it after the fact, either. Sending unprivileged documents to your lawyer doesn't retroactively make them privileged. That's been settled law for years. It just hadn't been tested with AI until now. And here's what really hurt the defendant: the AI provider's privacy policy (Claude), in effect when he used the tool, expressly permits disclosure of user prompts and outputs to governmental authorities. There was no reasonable expectation of confidentiality. The core problem is the gap between how people experience AI and what's actually happening. The conversational interface feels private. It feels like talking to an advisor. But unless you negotiate for an enterprise agreement that says otherwise, you're inputting information into a third-party commercial platform that retains your data and reserves broad rights to disclose it. Judge Rakoff also flagged an interesting wrinkle: the defendant reportedly fed information from his attorneys into the AI tool. If prosecutors try to use these documents at trial, defense counsel could become a fact witness, potentially forcing a mistrial. Winning on privilege doesn't make the evidentiary picture simple. For anyone advising clients or managing legal risk, this is a wake-up call. AI tools are not a safe space for clients to process their counsel's advice and to regurgitate their legal strategy. Every prompt is a potential disclosure. Every output is a potentially discoverable document. So what do we do about it? First, attorneys need to be proactive. Advise clients explicitly that anything they put into an AI tool may be discoverable and is almost certainly not privileged. Put it in your engagement letters. Make it part of onboarding. Don't assume clients understand this, because most don't. Second, if clients want to use AI to help process legal issues (and they clearly will, increasingly), then let's give them a way to do it inside the privilege. Collaborative AI workspaces shared between attorney and client, where the AI interaction happens under counsel's direction and within the attorney-client relationship, can change the analysis entirely. I'm excited to be planning this kind of approach, and I think it's where the industry needs to head. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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Great read. Thanks for the shout out! We’re excited to continue building the future of attorney <> client connections here @DocDraftai
Yohei@yoheinakajima
i asked chatgpt to write me an article on the state of AI, and it did great …total coincidence that it includes a bunch of our portfolio companies 😜
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Just hired another vet onto the team at @DocDraftai. I bet we have a higher percentage of vets than any other startup 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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The “hoops” that @austinbishop mentions here is the core reason we started @DocDraftai . Getting access to legal services is a Herculean task for most small businesses. So much so, that 75% of the time, they self represent.
Austin Patrick Bishop@austinbishop
One of the downsides of being in tech too long, is you assume all businesses are able to get funded by people who do little to no real underwriting, and just decide on vibes. The reality is that 50% of American private sector jobs, are in "small businesses", and the vast majority of those companies have to go through rigorous process to get any loan. They need to actually have a real business model, not a speculative promise of future cash flow. Now if you are just now discovering that there are issues with the SBA program that need fixing, congratulations, welcome to the party. It's dumb idea to think Americans should either have to work at a venture backed tech company or be unemployed
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How AI startups succeed in a @deepseek_ai world:
1) Build a product that customers love
2) Figure out how to profitably and saleably acquire and retain these customers
3) Leverage in-product data to improve performance and increase LTV
4) Repeat (expand product footprint)
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Used @DocDraftai to create our first affiliate agreement. I know I'm biased but I'm still stunned by how easy it is and how good the quality of the document is.
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How good is our product at @DocDraftai ? A paralegal at an AM Law 100 firm has been using it to draft documents and reduce her workload.
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"Do you have an attorney on retainer?"
That's what the other party asked our customer in a partnership meeting, after reviewing the agreement our customer had prepared using @DocDraftai
An attorney on retainer for every small business and consumer... That's what we unlock...
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"You've exceeded my expectations, love @DocDraftai and I've already showed it to at least 10 people.."
Nice to know we're doing something right!
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This framework from @cdixon is exactly what we see from our customers at @DocDraftai
Consumers want AI to get them 90% of the way on their legal documents. And they're happy to pay more for attorneys to take it the last mile.
keshav@keshavchan
chris dixon on the idea maze for ai startups. (visual map in the thread)
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The most fun part of startups is getting to be in the trenches with the team. It feels more like play than work.
Grateful for all of you @DocDraftai team!
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We're looking for a couple of attorneys to help test out the latest and greatest from the @DocDraftai team. If you or anyone you know is curious about the future of legal workflows, please drop me a line!
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📜 Dive into the best practices for Regulatory Compliance Documentation in 2023! Stay ahead with insights from DocDraft. 🚀
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I’ve spent 1 year in politics and 9 years in tech. The most commonly applicable lesson: Build Faster
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