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Responsible AI in Legal Practice: Managing Accuracy, Confidentiality, and Ethical Risk
Legal teams already use AI across contracts, research, and workflows, but adoption has outpaced understanding. This article explains how generative AI works, why risks like hallucinations, data exposure, bias, and accountability are unavoidable, and what responsible use looks like in practice. It translates bar guidance and real-world experience into concrete steps legal teams can take to adopt AI deliberately while keeping judgment, confidentiality, and professional responsi
Colin Levy
Feb 138 min read
When Everyone Has Information, Judgment Becomes Everything
When AI handles routine legal work, judgment becomes the scarcest resource. It's not abstract wisdom. It's filtering signal from noise, asking right questions, and knowing when to override algorithms. Lawyers must develop judgment systematically to deliver value clients will pay for.
Colin Levy
Feb 1210 min read
The Al Didn't Replace Us - It Revealed Us
AI reveals what lawyering actually is: not document review and contract drafting, but human judgment, empathy, and creative problem-solving that no algorithm can replicate.
Colin Levy
Feb 117 min read
On Agentic AI for Legal Teams
Introduction AI agents represent a meaningful shift in how legal teams use technology. Traditional generative AI responds to prompts by producing content. Agents go further. They act. By combining language models with goals, tools, and memory, agents execute multi-step workflows across connected systems. For legal teams, this expands automation beyond isolated tasks into coordinated processes. Agents can review intake requests, extract key facts, validate deadlines against ma
Colin Levy
Feb 106 min read
Generative AI for Legal Teams
Generative AI is already embedded in legal workflows, from contract review to intake and research. This article explains how generative models, AI agents, and multimodal systems actually work, where they add real leverage for legal teams, and why human judgment, review, and accountability must remain firmly in control.
Colin Levy
Feb 95 min read
Three Questions Every Legal Team Should Ask Their AI Vendor
Legal teams evaluating AI vendors typically focus on features and pricing, but three fundamental questions often get overlooked: Where is client data stored? Is that data used to train AI models? What happens when the relationship ends?
Colin Levy
Feb 83 min read
AI in Legal Tech: A Conversation with NetDocuments' Dan Hauck
People now expect AI to be in all the applications they're using. They know how to go to generic places like ChatGPT to use it in their personal life or for work. Where we're excited is how we can make it easy for them to find AI opportunities when they're doing legal work in their documents.
Colin Levy
Oct 21, 20256 min read
How AI Is Changing Contract Management for In-House Legal Teams in APAC
Artificial intelligence is reshaping how businesses handle contracts. While most people think of AI as a tool for drafting documents, the real shift comes after contracts are signed. For in-house legal teams across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, the focus is now on governance.
Colin Levy
Oct 7, 20257 min read
Intelligence Is All You Need
By Chad Atlas The pace of progress in foundational AI is nothing short of explosive, and legal technology is feeling the impact in real...
Colin Levy
Jul 15, 20257 min read
How AI is Transforming Knowledge Creation and Access in the Legal Profession
AI is fundamentally reshaping how the legal profession creates, organizes, and accesses knowledge. Historically, legal knowledge has been...
Colin Levy
Jun 4, 20255 min read
How AI Is Reshaping Legal Knowledge Structures and Market Dynamics
As I re-examine the legal technology ecosystem, I'm struck not as a mere collection of digital tools, but as a complex adaptive system reshaping the practice of law. Integrating AI technologies across previously disconnected domains is creating something I call the "integrated intelligence economy" – a new paradigm where data and insights flow across formerly isolated systems, changing the economics of legal knowledge and the organizational structure of legal service delivery
Colin Levy
Apr 29, 20258 min read
Building Legal AI Benchmarks That Matter: From Theory to Implementation
AI tools in legal tech continue to advance, yet a gap between controlled demonstrations and real-world performance remains significant.
Colin Levy
Apr 8, 20257 min read
Evaluating GenAI Solutions: What You Need to Know
This article offers key insights and questions to consider when assessing GenAI solutions.
Colin Levy
Mar 25, 20257 min read
Overruled by Algorithms: Embracing AI in Legal Practice
We are now at the stage of the AI revolution where even those of us living under a proverbial rock have heard of generative AI. The idea...
Colin Levy
Mar 18, 202513 min read
Why Subject Matter Expertise Is the Missing Link in AI Development
To develop truly useful AI software, you must involve a subject matter expert (SME) in its development.
Colin Levy
Mar 11, 20257 min read
The Shape of Things to Come (Our Fearless Prediction)
If technology can handle adeptly the more mundane tasks in a lawyer’s day, why will clients be inclined to pay humans to take more time to
Colin Levy
Feb 25, 20256 min read
Meet Your New (Legal) Associate: Tireless, Proactive, and Terrible at Office Politics
Part 1: Understanding the Basics Imagine walking into your office on a Monday morning, coffee in hand, to find that while you were away,...
Colin Levy
Feb 11, 20259 min read
Legal AI Assistants vs. Human Assistants: Best Uses for AI Assistants
Historically, assistants were flesh and blood humans. As such, they did flesh and blood things. Classically, low-level intern assistants...
Colin Levy
Dec 10, 20245 min read
The Legal Profession's Awkward Tango with AI
The legal profession, renowned for its adherence to tradition, is undergoing a period of transformation.
Colin Levy
Nov 19, 20246 min read
Transforming Client Engagement: How AI is Revolutionizing Your Law Firm’s Efficiency
Leverage AI agents to automate client intake, document management, and communication, allowing legal teams to focus on what matters most....
Colin Levy
Oct 29, 20245 min read
Embracing the Future of Legal Tech: Insights from Clio, AI, and the Power of Legal Transformation
The legal profession is at a critical inflection point. Technology and other forces are reshaping how law is practiced.
Colin Levy
Oct 15, 20245 min read
ChatGPT-4o Is My Super-Thesaurus
I love to write. I identify as a writer over my “fancier” titles of law professor or lawyer. I journal every morning, engage in legal or...
Colin Levy
Sep 24, 20246 min read
Be Content to Appear Clueless: Finding comfort in ignorance to embrace innovation
Epictetus, an ancient Roman philosopher, said "If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid." Over the course of my...
Colin Levy
Jul 30, 20245 min read
Daniel Rodriguez
Daniel B. Rodriguez is the Harold Washington Professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and served as dean of the Law...
Colin Levy
Jul 23, 20248 min read
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