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Legal AI
· 5 min read

Legal AI vendor lock-in: who chooses your firm's model?

Harvey put its own model into its product this summer. What happened, why it matters for control, and four things a firm can keep in its own hands.

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Opinion
· 5 min read

The end of prestige

A model now hands anyone a well-structured message in seconds. The price of sounding credible went to zero, and the proxy went with it.

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Future of Work
· 8 min read

Towards the age of AI disclosure

Most people hide their AI use. There is no policy, peers judge it, and it makes work look cheap. Rivals who disclose and charge less will end the secrecy.

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Legal
· 10 min read

Your small firm's AI policy leaves no record

Clio finds 75% of small practices use AI and 55% with no policy. The North Carolina Bar finds 9% enforce one. Rules are cheap; proof is not.

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Future of Work
· 8 min read

We built the perfect conditions for hiding AI use

Admit you use AI and your colleagues call it cheating; be overheard and your employer bans it. Hiding is rational, and it makes AI policy unenforceable.

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Legal AI
· 6 min read

Are AI chats privileged? The three rulings so far

Three US courts ruled on AI chats and privilege in early 2026 and did not agree. What decided each case, and what to tell clients who use chatbots on their own.

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Legal AI
· 6 min read

Why pay for Harvey if it runs on Claude and GPT?

Harvey uses models any firm can subscribe to. What the premium buys instead, and whether a firm can get it without a 100-seat, one-year contract.

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Responsible AI
· 7 min read

Human-in-the-loop anonymization: who signs off

Signing what you have not read puts your name at stake. What an anonymization tool must let you check before it produces the file.

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Privacy Engineering
· 8 min read

PII protection is different when AI is in the loop

For 30 years, protecting personal data meant controlling database access. AI created an easy path from controlled documents to the public cloud.

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Data Risk
· 7 min read

If you quietly share client documents with a chatbot

AI makes exposing confidential data effortless, and the consequences are real. What you risk when you paste client files into a chatbot.

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