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The Model Wasn't Better. It Was Approved.
Legal AI is sold as a revolution in intelligence. Too often, the product is permission and the concept is branding.
Jul 25
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June 2026
The future is here. It may not need you.
The legal industry is pretending AI will liberate junior lawyers. It is more likely to reveal how many of them were only ever there to be converted into…
Jun 27
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The Monitor
The lawyer who is.. just looking out for you.
Jun 20
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Affinity and Beyond
Law firms learned to recognise the old boys’ network. They are less eager to recognise the networks of advantage that may replace it.
Jun 20
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The drawbridge is up
The profession still sells the route to partnership as a ladder: one rung after another, each supposedly earned, each supposedly leading.. somewhere.
Jun 13
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Hospitality
A story about power, generosity, and the cost of being included.
Jun 7
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Technical excellence is a given..
.. which, conveniently, means nobody has to check.
Jun 6
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Scenes from the Machine No. 1: The week the figures started screaming
Year-end is when the machine briefly drops the wellbeing language and speaks in binary
Jun 1
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May 2026
Performative fawning
The LinkedIn edition
May 23
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Training partner betrayal
This way, there be monsters..
May 23
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Headhunted by a Database
It's so great to connect with you..
May 17
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Mid-law is broken: fixed fees and the junior lawyer
Juniors on the tightrope - high flying acrobats or the mid-tier's sacrificial clowns..
May 17
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