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How will you spend your AI Dividend?

Nov 7, 2024 | jordanfurlong.substack.com | Jordan Furlong

As we all re-discovered this week, life is full of surprises, some of them exceedingly unpleasant. In this period of extreme volatility, it’s becoming much more difficult to forecast even the near future with any real confidence, let alone the medium term and beyond. That continues to apply with particular force to artificial intelligence, which we’ve recently learned you can use to create an AI avatar and invite it to take part in a Zoom call. Fun times.
The end of courts?

Oct 24, 2024 | jordanfurlong.substack.com | Jordan Furlong

I’ll explain the title at the end. I don’t know how crippled and compromised your country’s civil justice system has become, but in my neck of the woods at least, it’s ugly. A feature article last month in Canada’s Globe and Mail went into excruciating detail about the “unbearable” state of a civil justice system in which the trial process can easily stretch four to five years.
AI and the rise of the Niche Lawyer

Oct 10, 2024 | jordanfurlong.substack.com | Jordan Furlong

I fractured my toe the other day. Stupidly, as is usually the case with minor injuries — I accidentally kicked the leg of a bathroom cabinet and cracked the little toe on my right foot. I’d never broken a bone before, which is the sort of thing that can be true when you lead a highly sedentary and risk-averse lifestyle. Two days after the injury, I went to see a chiropractor I sometimes use, who diagnosed the break.
Building a generationally integrated law firm

Sep 18, 2024 | jordanfurlong.substack.com | Jordan Furlong

I have regrets. Not too many, thankfully, and none that would generate much outside interest — I’m not exactly leading the glamorous life over here. But one regret I do have involves this Substack — specifically, a post from last summer about the tensions and complications many law firms are experiencing from generational differences and divides. Apparently, it’s the most-read of my 50 posts here so far.
Forget law school recruitment. Build your own lawyers.

Sep 2, 2024 | jordanfurlong.substack.com | Jordan Furlong

This past spring, word emerged that some large US law firms were “jumping the gun” on traditional law school recruitment. Rather than waiting for on-campus interviews and other open-access opportunities to meet potential new recruits, these firms are directly hiring from the ranks of brand-new students. “Firms have now shifted recruiting to their own online platforms and encourage students to apply ahead of their schools’ OCI,” reported Bloomberg Law.
How Generative AI will change what lawyers do

Aug 12, 2024 | jordanfurlong.substack.com | Jordan Furlong

It seems the “trough of disillusionment” stage of Generative AI’s evolution is upon us. Goldman Sachs — which once predicted that 44% of work tasks in the US legal profession could be automated by AI — now says that AI is costing too much money with too little to show for it (kind of ironic coming from Goldman Sachs, IMO). Similar expressions of disappointment can be found elsewhere in the legal profession.
New lawyers: Start building your client relationships now

Aug 1, 2024 | jordanfurlong.substack.com | Jordan Furlong

If you are:(a) starting or continuing your law degree,(b) preparing for bar exams or articling, or(c) in your first few years as a lawyer,then today’s post is for you (and anyone who’d like to help you), because you’re entering the legal profession at an extraordinary time and much of the standard guidance for new lawyers won’t be useful for you. I hope this post will be. There used to be a fairly standard process to govern a new lawyer’s transition into the profession.
Forget everything you think you know about law firms

Jul 23, 2024 | jordanfurlong.substack.com | Jordan Furlong

The hardest part of planning for the future is recognizing that the future has already arrived without you noticing. Twenty years ago, climate scientists were warning us about floods, wildfires, monster hurricanes, once-a-century storms, and other effects of unchecked global warming. That “future” is now our everyday. The same applies to the rise of authoritarianism, the spread of infectious disease, the astonishing ascent of artificial intelligence.
The race against time to reinvent lawyers

Jul 10, 2024 | jordanfurlong.substack.com | Jordan Furlong

Filling out a survey doesn’t usually trigger existential dread for me, but these are not usual times. So when a legal think tank asked its advisory committee members (of whom I’m one) to reflect on how current and future trends will affect the knowledge and skills required of lawyers, I found myself staring out the window afterwards, thinking deep and uneasy thoughts. Here are the questions I was posed, along with my lightly edited responses:A.
There's no such thing as non-billable hours

Jul 2, 2024 | jordanfurlong.substack.com | Jordan Furlong

I’ll disclose up front: I have a problem with any phrase that starts with “non-”. If you’ve heard me complain in the past about “non-lawyer,” you’ll already know this. “Non-” divides the world into two groups: who or what matters, and who or what doesn’t. Whatever follows “non-” is elevated to the very pinnacle of importance — it’s the only thing worth naming. Everything and everyone else is homogenized, anonymized, and relegated to lowest-class status.

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