And if we get to 50 to 60%, a majority, then the fee agreement is no longer "Alternative," right? It's mainstream.

Kind of like Green Day in the '90s. 😁

Thanks, @bschorr.bsky.social — the biggest question: time horizon. One week? No way. Twenty years? Of course! And then we just negotiate duration. 🤷

Likewise, @joshualenon.bsky.social — mutual admiration society!

Why clients will STILL hire Kirkland #AI #chatgpt #vibecoding #legaltech #harvey #lawfirm #lawyer YouTube video by Zach Abramowitz is Legally Disrupted

Lawyers Fee Structures — decoupling time from "lawyer brain" value:
youtube.com/shorts/uXJpD...

Ed Walters in a video podcast with Damien Riehl and Joshua Lenon

@ejwalters.bsky.social takes @damienriehl.bsky.social and I back to law school as he grills us on the recent ruling in United States v. Heppner. Can clients waive attorney-client privilege when using #GenAi? www.clio.com/blog/ai-atto...

I Got Rhythm | Gershwin Cover | Public Domain Day 2026 YouTube video by Damien Riehl

New song! The #copyright monopoly on "I Got Rhythm" expired today. Who could ask for anything more? 😏

For 95 years, law locked this #Gershwin classic away. Now it belongs to everyone.

Perform it. Remix it. Sync it.

Viva the #PublicDomain!
youtu.be/u3rrqN5J4AI

The First Noel | Schola Diffusa | Virtual Choir YouTube video by Damien Riehl

I direct a virtual choir (Schola Diffusa), with singers on six continents. Here's our newest song: Happy Christmas!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHCK...

Mary Did You Know? | The Good Cousins YouTube video by Damien Riehl

New song I made with my cousin — happy holidays!
youtu.be/v47GhUtqkwY

What's the value of privacy? It's $4!

Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE YouTube video by a16z

a16z: "The 'best' companies have hostages, not customers." Over the decades, how has this applied to #legaltech?

youtu.be/Kw2bK_jLz8M?...

With the Em Dash, A.I. Embraces a Fading Tradition

In defense of the em dash — punctuation making us more human!
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/m...

Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference Reproducibility is a bedrock of scientific progress. However, it’s remarkably difficult to get reproducible results out of large language models. For example, you might observe that asking ChatGPT the...

Maybe there's room in legal tech for both #determinism and #probabilism.

Link to Thinking Machines' paper:
thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeati...

The best lawyers I know are creative. They eschew the "most likely next token" — favoring out-of-distribution legal approaches and arguments. Some legal tasks have the "right answer"; many tasks, though, have "an answer so creative that it just might work."

Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's company Thinking Machines is making LLMs more #deterministic.

Open questions: Do we want *all* of our #legaltech to be deterministic? Or is "legal creativity" #probabilsm a feature, not a bug? 🤔

Perplexity Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.

Perplexity extrapolation of Claude data → percentages in Claude's Job Explorer:
www.perplexity.ai/search/how-m...

Claude's "Explore by Job" data:
www.anthropic.com/economic-ind...

Some notes and questions:
- That's just one model (Claude)
- How many "legal profession" queries in (1) Gemini/ Google, (2) ChatGPT, (3) Grok, (4) CoPilot?

#LegalConsumer queries? E.g., #Client queries? #WouldBeClients didn't hire lawyers because LLM output = "good enough"

#Lawyers, #judges, #arbitrators, and #mediators use #Claude. Queries:
- #Lawyers: 0.21% = 201,600 daily (6,048,000 monthly)
- #ALJs: 0.19% = 5.4M/mo
- #Arbitrators + #Mediators: 0.10% = 2.8M/mo
- #Paralegals + #LAAs: 0.05% = 1.4M/mo
- #Judges + #Magistrates: 0.03% = 28k/mo

Law firm leader on stage just now: "We've equipped each of our lawyers with the $20/month ChatGPT, telling them 'Use it for everything you can.'" How many firms are doing this? How many just don't speak about their "off the shelf #LLM use" publicly?

New Survey Identifies How Consumers Would Be Willing to Use Generative AI to Address Legal Needs By Steve Carroll If it feels to you like generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools have gone from a sci-fi idea to a transformational tech in a matter of months, it’s because they have....

LexisNexis study: "Among these consumers who are aware of [ #LLMs ], a stunning 48% have already used some form of generative AI tool to obtain #LegalAdvice or assistance with a legal question." Wow — 48%! Oh, by the way, this was from May 2023. 🤯
www.lexisnexis.com/community/in...

Calculating our AI energy consumption YouTube video by Google Sustainability

Google: AI's environmental impact appears overestimated

AI QUERIES: 0.24 Wh vs earlier estimates (3-7 Wh) — like watching TV for <9 seconds

TRUE ENERGY: far lower than claims (0.24 vs 3-7 Wh)

OLD STUDIES missed cooling/infrastructure

33x efficiency (44x carbon ↓ )

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The Bright Legal Future - Washington State Bar News Jordan Couch offers a positive vision for the future AI, of more people having access to help with their legal problems.

Visions of the future with AI for people, the courts, and lawyers. I'm very excited for this article from Washington State Bar Association. With thanks to @damienriehl.bsky.social, Jayne Reardon, and J. Scott Schlegel who I have been bouncing ideas off for a year or so wabarnews.org/2025/07/16/t...

Does an AI disclosure rule help any more than Rule 11 (or its state equivalents)? "Everything above my signature is true and correct" — whether created by AI, my first year associate, or my paralegal. AI "pinky swears" don't change behavior.

Microsoft says AI system better than doctors at diagnosing complex health conditions Firm says results of research create ‘path to medical superintelligence’ but plays down job implications

Microsoft: AI beats human physicians in diagnoses (Humans = 2/10, Machines = 8/10)
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

a cartoon clip with googly eyes is on a piece of paper . ALT: a cartoon clip with googly eyes is on a piece of paper .

"It looks like you're filing a motion to dismiss. Would you like some help?"

Exactly: 🎯 . Exciting times! 🚀

Lovely London event with Reena SenGupta of #RSGI at the @financialtimes.com FT Innovative Lawyers event!

Interesting — I had a nice lunch with someone from the Center for Humane Technology, which helped with this case. Thanks for passing this along!

Are We Doing Copyright Wrong in Music? On today's podcast we have a truly amazing talk with Damien Riehl, a musician and technology lawyer who is one of the masterminds behind All the Music Project; an algorithmically generated catalogue o...

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Are We Doing Copyright Wrong in Music? YouTube video by Music Tectonics

Great fun chatting #music + #Copyright

• Copyright protects expressions, not ideas

• AI extracting uncopyrightable #ideas (vectors), not #expressions (jettisoned)?

• #MLC style royalties statute for #AI ingested works?

youtu.be/1UjXTRw2Yck?...