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Law Practice

  1. LLMs Make Legal Advice Lossy

    cheap chatbot summaries take important choices away

  2. European Office Hours

    more scheduled for next month

  3. Office Hours

    call in and ask me questions

  4. Time Off Summer ’22

    out of office August 7 through 20

  5. Copy-and-Paste Goes to Russia

    lawyering by rote in the crazy 1990s

  6. To-Do List Polling

    event-based meatspace task management

  7. Square One 2e1u

    addressing an interesting Utah peculiarity

  8. Not My Law

    explainer page for cross-border legal help

  9. Square One Second Edition

    improved US hiring forms and terms

  10. Time Off Summer ’21

    out of office August 29 through September 8

  11. In Praise of Cron

    seventies-era automation for the working lawyer

  12. Legal Explainer Sites

    one-page URLs for common concepts and conundrums

  13. Support Funding for Cali County Law Libraries

    they’re even more important during pandemic

  14. Templating for Lawyers

    learn computer templateering in five minutes flat

  15. Square One

    fair terms. free forms. back to work.

  16. Printing Booklets

    less paper, easier reading

  17. Lies My Law School Told Me

    in praise of bad propaganda

  18. Don’t Pitch Lawyers

    pitch clients

  19. Deprogramming the Programmer

    throw off your jargon and be free

  20. Doormat 1e

    free no-log, no-track privacy policy

  21. DMCASimple 1e

    another new first edition and website

  22. Turnstile 1e

    first edition and new website

  23. Types of Lawyers

    major food groups for clients

  24. DMSimple

    plain and simple DMCA safe harbor terms

  25. Turnstile

    springboard website terms of service

  26. Progressive Standardization

    standardized contracting can also be flexible

  27. Springboard Agreements

    putting a name to a tool

  28. Lawyerization

    vocabulary for lawyer involvement and influence

  29. Name this Contract Type

    agreements incorporating all their terms by reference

  30. Allowable Tolerances

    law can learn a lot from the trades

  31. Common Form, Simplified

    publish, share, save our souls

  32. The Tote Bag

    remembering the Great Recession

  33. Intelligent Perception

    low bow to the legal laity

  34. Against Legal Technology

    beyond the latest office software

  35. World Tour Canceled

    mouse best plans, but what ado now?

  36. Short Spiel on Legal Tech

    law’s retrograde rep is more about tech than law

  37. Portland Trip Confirmed

    February 23 to February 29

  38. Portland in February

    See you there?

  39. The Doorway NDA

    lawyers earning their stereotypes

  40. Paste Your Terms Into Your E-Mails

    why don’t we do the obvious thing?

  41. TNR12 and Be There

    learning from others

  42. Nomadic Lawyering

    office out, travel in?

  43. Dark Arts at Daybreak

    the end of club rule in open source law

  44. Deal Mechanic

    The writing on the door.

  45. Emancipation by Reference

    I am just a copy of a copy of a copy. Everything I say you have read before.

  46. Startup Unix

    An open legal operating system for start-up technology companies

  47. Value Statement

    as found at the feet of my bills