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Some people wait too long to get legal help. Payment pressure should not make that delay worse. CaseFunders helps law firms reduce intake friction so more qualified clients can move forward. casefunders.com #EmploymentLaw #LegalTech #CaseFunders

@LegalTechStrtUp AI adoption in public-sector legal teams will require strong governance, data protection, and clear human review. Efficiency matters, but trust and accountability matter even more when government legal work is involved.

Read the post from Artificial Lawyer (AL) about the business partnership between OpenAI and Eudia, a legal tech company with AI offerings, an ALSP in Ireland, and an Arizona-based law firm. From AL’s post: “Eudia has announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI, which involves ‘co-building’ for the legal and acquisition teams in the Department of War (DoW) and other US Government agencies. (See AL Interview below).” Get access to the complete AL post at this link: artificiallawyer.com/2026/05/19/eud… #legaltechnology #legaltech @ArtificialLawya

@LegalTechStrtUp Legal AI benchmarks are becoming more meaningful when they test practical workflows instead of narrow tasks alone. Real firm value comes from tools that can support delegated work while maintaining accuracy, security, and accountability.

Perhaps you've already heard of Harvey's "Legal Agent Benchmark" (or LAB), ". . . an open-source evaluation framework designed to measure how well AI agents can perform extended, real-world legal work rather than the discrete reasoning tasks that have dominated legal AI benchmarks to date (as Bob Ambrogi describes LAB in a post to his LawSites blog). Well, in that post, Bob provides his comprehensive thoughts about what LAB is all about. A read not to be missed! From Bob's post: "In creating LAB, Harvey says that existing legal AI benchmarks — including LegalBench, CUAD, LEXam, and Harvey’s own earlier BigLaw Bench — measure short-horizon reasoning, such as ability to read a contract, answer a question, compare cases, or analyze an argument. LAB is meant to measure something closer to the unit of work that actually gets delegated inside a law firm." Access all of Bob's post here: lawnext.com/2026/05/some-t… #legaltechnology #legaltech @harvey @RobertAmbrosi

@thatattorneylai Partnership paths in law firms often come with increasing responsibility, pressure, and business expectations over time. Sustainable growth in the profession increasingly depends on balancing performance, leadership, client development, and operational support.

Year 1: "Work hard, make partner." Year 5: "Work harder, maybe make partner." Year 8: "Here's more work. We moved the goalposts." Year 10: "Congrats, you made partner. Here's more work."

@rothken Law firms adopting AI need clear controls around access, data movement, vendor terms, logging, and human review. Productivity gains matter, but privileged information and client trust require disciplined governance from the start.

Some law firms are sleepwalking into AI agent MCP risk. The Anthropic Claude MCP uses are powerful perhaps too powerful. MCPs are lower resistance APIs. The challenge for any law firm is for IT and cybersecurity pros to control the data entry and exit points to their tech stack — MCPs without oversight can make a law firm vulnerable at scale. Each MCP call involving law firm data can transmit sensitive and privileged information to a third-party vendor where it can be logged, retained, or misused. Ask: “What can this MCP actually see?” Then compare that access against the vendor’s terms of use, privacy policy, logging practices, retention rules, subprocessors, and enterprise agreements before making an informed risk-benefit decision. Looking only at MCP (or API) calls, an adversary can often stitch together litigation strategy, negotiation posture, investigative priorities, or vulnerabilities. Good AI governance is not “trust the defaults.” It is: • least-privilege access • documented data flows • minimized logs • human approval layers • negotiated enterprise protections Here is an AI-generated infographic from my notes.

@ItsMattsLaw A growing number of attorneys are building independent firms earlier in their careers. Technology, niche positioning, and operational flexibility are making entrepreneurship more accessible across the legal industry.

How to become a law firm partner: 1) start your own law firm

@ryanmckeen AI becomes more useful when integrated into daily operational processes instead of treated as a standalone tool. Iterative collaboration between professionals and AI systems can improve speed, organization, and workflow execution across legal teams.

AI as colleague, not tool. Different mental model. You don't run a query and walk away. You hand it work. It comes back. You refine. You iterate. Like a junior associate.

@ryanmckeen Legal sales cycles often require longer follow-up windows and better prioritization. Structured CRM scoring and AI-assisted follow-up can help firms focus attention on the opportunities most likely to move forward instead of relying only on manual tracking.

Selling to lawyers is harder than selling to almost anyone. You go to trial. You disappear for 3 weeks. So we score every deal in HubSpot. AI tells us who to call back.

Law firms should focus on justice, not payment barriers. CaseFunders helps firms offer flexible payment solutions so more qualified clients can move forward with less friction. casefunders.com #LegalTech #CaseFunders #LawFirmGrowth

@ryanmckeen Legal technology works best when firms solve operational bottlenecks intentionally. Small workflow automations, clearer processes, and faster internal execution can often create more impact than adding another large platform alone.

Lawyers, your firm has last-mile problems. Filevine won't solve them. Your CRM won't solve them. You can. 10 minutes in Claude Code. That's the new advantage.

@_fefas Legal work often demands persistence as much as skill. Long timelines, client pressure, court delays, and financial strain can make stamina a critical part of serving clients well.

The legal profession rewards stamina more than brilliance sometimes.

@ryanmckeen AI adoption is becoming an operational advantage for law firms. Faster workflows, stronger follow-up, better intake, and improved client communication can create a meaningful gap between firms that adapt and firms that wait.

Lawyers, you're not going to be replaced by AI. You're going to be outworked by the lawyers using it. That's the actual threat. And it's already happening.

@thatattorneylai Research tools matter, but cost awareness matters too. Strong legal operations means knowing when premium resources are necessary and when simpler research paths can answer the question efficiently.

Westlaw bill: $47,000. Client: "What did you find?" Lawyer: "That I should've just Googled it."

@TobechiOgazi Legal guidance is often needed in everyday life more than people realize. Even casual questions show how much uncertainty people carry around rights, disputes, documents, and next steps.

A lawyer at a family gathering is not relaxing. They are fielding consultations disguised as small talk.

@Ike_Obiora Technology is becoming deeply connected to modern legal practice. Understanding AI, digital workflows, cybersecurity, and data handling can help future lawyers adapt to changing client needs and operational demands.

As a law student, don't wait until graduation before learning how technology affects law. AI, cybersecurity, digital evidence, and data privacy are already shaping legal practice.

@adam_shniderman Clear and consistent legal communication can often matter more than rigid formatting perfection alone. Strong legal writing is usually judged by clarity, structure, accuracy, and reliability under scrutiny.

So many so-called legal writing gurus talking about proper bluebooking being key to credibility. It isn't. Consistency is key. So many judges have their own preferences about when they ignore the bluebook that they won't care if you dropped the case # if you're consistent.

@rwalk_xyz AI and better legal systems can help firms improve responsiveness, communication, and operational efficiency. Faster workflows and clearer client experiences are becoming increasingly important in modern legal service delivery.

AI-first law firms are not trying to make lawyers obsolete. They are trying to make “we’ll get back to you next week” obsolete.

@_fefas Judicial delays can create major financial and emotional pressure for litigants. When cases restart after years of proceedings, the burden on individuals, families, and legal teams can become extremely difficult to manage.

If a judge dies or retires and had not written or given judgement, your matter will start afresh before a new judge. Imagine starting all over again after your case has been going on for years???

@FabianSani8 Professional growth often requires persistence through uncertainty and rejection,especially for people entering highly competitive systems without established networks or familiarity.Long-term opportunities sometimes come from continuing long after most people would have stopped.

There’s a US lawyer I know of who applied to over 800 law firms. Not 80. Not 180. Eight hundred. After earning his Master’s and passing the New York Bar, he still got treated like just another outsider trying to break into a system that wasn’t built for him. So he did the only thing he could do he kept applying. Rejection after rejection came in. Close to 1,000 applications in total. And about 998 of them said no. But one said yes. Just one firm was enough to change the entire story. Now, here’s the uncomfortable truth people don’t like to say out loud: If you’re a foreign-trained lawyer, you are not just competing on merit you’re competing against familiarity, networks, and “safe choices.” So the real question isn’t whether it’s hard. It is. The real question is whether you’re willing to stay in it long enough for your one yes. Because you might be one application away from the job you want. Or ten away. Or a hundred away. But if you actually want it, you don’t get to stop at rejection 12 and call it “bad luck.” You keep going. And let’s be honest you will pick your hard. The hard of consistency, rejection, and uncertainty… Or the hard of staying in the same place with the quiet regret of “what if.” Either way, it’s hard. The only difference is what it builds in you. And the people who “make it” aren’t the ones who never got rejected. They’re the ones who refused to stop.

@ryanmckeen Strong legal operations increasingly depend on organized, reliable data. Better visibility into intake, case movement, client communication, and financial performance can help firms improve efficiency, client experience, and long-term growth.

Lawyers, the firms that win the next decade aren't the smartest. They're the ones who set up their data right. Boring. True. Unfair to the lazy ones. Good.