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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
Why Human Connection Beats Conference Badges in Legal Tech
12:08 PMTired of leaving legal tech conferences with business cards but no real connections? Discover why meaningful relationships matter more than constant travel in the legal technology ecosystem, and learn practical strategies for building genuine connections that drive innovation. From choosing quality events to creating intimate networking moments, explore a human-first approach to legal tech that puts people before platforms and empathy before efficiency.
Colin Levy
Jul 29, 20253 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
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
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
Data Literacy: A Critical Skill for Legal Professionals
The legal profession is undergoing a seismic shift, driven by the explosion of data and the adoption of sophisticated Generative AI...
Colin Levy
Nov 5, 20246 min read
Embracing Human-Tech Interoperability
As digital tools, including generative AI, become integral to our daily lives, legal professionals must adapt to leverage these...
Colin Levy
Jul 2, 20245 min read
Notes on The Legal Tech Ecosystem
I want to take this opportunity to connect with you and expand upon my motivations for writing The Legal Tech Ecosystem. This book was a...
Colin Levy
Dec 11, 20232 min read
Multilingual Law And Tech
Updated 3/11/2023 A while ago, I had a conversation with the head of a successful legal tech company. While we have crossed paths many...
Colin S. Levy
Mar 11, 20235 min read
Mistakes
Mistakes. We all make them. Some mistakes we make are bigger than others. Some people make them more often than others. The bottom line,...
Colin S. Levy
Mar 7, 20234 min read
Contract Lifecycle
When you think about the lifecycle of a contract, what do you consider as steps in that life cycle? The acronym CLM is frequently...
Colin S. Levy
Mar 7, 20233 min read
Legal Analytics
Technology can take on many forms. Technology can range from TI-83 calculator I used when I was a high school student to the phones many...
Colin S. Levy
Mar 7, 20234 min read
Legal Anxiety
For lawyers, the stress and anxiety of working long hours with tight, inflexible deadlines can be taxing, not just on the brain of the...
Colin S. Levy
Mar 7, 20235 min read
Law School Lessons
Law school did a great job teaching me legal doctrine. If you think about it, that is what law school has been designed to do and has...
Colin S. Levy
Mar 7, 20234 min read
Thinking Like A Lawyer
Thinking Like a Lawyer. What does that mean? When you first practice law, thinking like a lawyer often manifests itself in over analyzing...
Colin S. Levy
Mar 7, 20232 min read
CLM Rediness
Contract Lifecycle Management continues to be a fast-growing legal industry sector, but do you know what it is? This post is intended to...
Colin S. Levy
Mar 7, 20232 min read
Data And The Law
The practice of law has, for a long time and, perhaps for some, blissfully existed in a what would appear to the outsider like a static...
Colin S. Levy
Mar 7, 20233 min read
Change
Change is a constant. Change can take the form of seasonal change due to our environment, change can be moving to a new town, change can...
Colin S. Levy
Mar 7, 20233 min read
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