Every American deserves access to excellent lawyering.

Petition to the American Bar Association

A petition asking the ABA to issue a formal ethics opinion encouraging lawyers to use AI responsibly to reduce legal expense, improve quality, and expand access to justice.

Petition to the D.C. Bar

A parallel petition to the District of Columbia Bar, urging the same guidance for D.C. lawyers.

Comment to the Virginia State Bar

A comment endorsing Virginia's proposed Legal Ethics Opinion 1902 on a lawyer's duty to catch and rebut serious errors, including AI-hallucinated citations, in an opponent's filing.

AI is the most powerful cost-reducing technology the legal profession has ever seen. Responsible AI use can make excellent representation available to people and causes that could never afford traditional elite-firm rates.

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Last week, in a post viewed over 250k times, Professor Orin Kerr wrote about a "mostly AI-written law review article" an anonymous lawyer is publishing with a Top 50 law school. Law professors were not happy. I'm the lawyer.

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It may be time to retire the law firms that are still charging you for paralegal work that Claude does better in three minutes.

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A law professor's experiment suggests that Claude plus a connector (such as DingDuff or Midpage) now outperforms Westlaw's AI at legal research. A human using Westlaw without AI like it's 2022 doesn't stand a chance.

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Showalter PLLC, believe it or not, uses stunningly powerful technology that my friends at the world's richest law firms cannot access. It's a good time to be the little guy.

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SCANDAL: A Pangram scan finds that controversial law review article Mere Machines is only "99 percent" human-drafted and "AI-generated content appears in scattered patches." Can it really be said that this piece is human authored?

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D.C. Court of Appeals Judge Stephen Glickman with a point everyone has been thinking but no one has been willing to say out loud: "Fulfilling the duty to guard against AI-hallucinated (or otherwise invalid) citations can be a group effort…"

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Today I'm releasing an initial version of Showalter's Law Dictionary, a free law dictionary built systematically from primary-source definitions—the first of its kind, to my knowledge.

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The ad hominem fallacy is when a speaker avoids an argument's substance by attacking its human source; I use the term "ad machinam fallacy" for the same mistake when the source is a machine.

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