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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
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
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
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
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
Against (legal tech) Customization
Purchasers of legal tech, don’t get too creative: Buy “configurable” tech, not “customizable” “My cousin Cleatus says he’ll get it...
Colin Levy
Dec 3, 20245 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
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
Marketing Legal Services in a World of Empty Promises
I hate how most people explain this topic. So I swear to you, you will get an answer to this question but in a different way than normal.
Colin Levy
Oct 8, 20247 min read
The Strategic Evolution of Corporate Legal Operations
Corporate legal operations is no longer just about keeping the legal lights on. It's about driving the department like a well-oiled machine.
Colin Levy
Oct 1, 20244 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
PARAGRAPH GLUE: A MICROSOFT WORD FEATURE EVERY LEGAL USER SHOULD MASTER
PARAGRAPH GLUE: A MICROSOFT WORD FEATURE EVERY LEGAL USER SHOULD MASTER
Colin Levy
Sep 10, 20244 min read
What can LegalOps Learn from Implementation Science
Introduction In the rapidly evolving landscape of LegalOps, the relevance of integrating advanced methodologies to drive efficiency and...
Colin Levy
Sep 3, 202412 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
Building Legal Leaders
As Generative AI has marched through law practice since late 2022, law schools and legal educators around the world have scrambled to...
Colin Levy
Jul 16, 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
How is AI augmenting more traditional automation technologies?
Background Generative Artificial intelligence has had a transformational impact on how quickly and effectively intelligent automation...
Colin Levy
May 28, 20245 min read
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