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Essays, articles, and research on legal AI implementation, legal education, benchmarking, and practical deployment.

The Structural Barriers to AI Lawyers

Diffuse AI // Forthcoming

The Structural Barriers to AI Lawyers

Forthcoming in Diffuse AI, led by Daniel Bashir of OpenAI and The Gradient Podcast, Clara Collier of Asterisk, and Charles Yang of the Center for Industrial Strategy, this piece examines why legal AI adoption still runs into structural limits inside real practice.

Reimagining Legal Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

National Law Journal // March 17, 2026

Reimagining Legal Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Explores how law schools can adapt curricula, pedagogy, and institutional strategy to prepare students for an AI-transformed legal profession.

The Wearable Revolution: How Glasses, Pendants, and Always-On AI Are Poised to Transform Legal Practice

ABA Law Practice Magazine // March/April 2026

The Wearable Revolution: How Glasses, Pendants, and Always-On AI Are Poised to Transform Legal Practice

ABA Law Practice Magazine article on how always-on AI and wearable interfaces can reshape legal workflows, client intake, and professional responsibility boundaries.

How to Crash the Legal Tech Market

3 Geeks and a Law Blog // February 18, 2026

How to Crash the Legal Tech Market

A practical guide to creating legal AI skills/plugins and why execution quality now matters more than feature checklists.

Michael Scott Is Not a Juror: The Limits of AI in Simulating Human Judgment

UNT Dallas Law Review On The Cusp / SSRN // August 22, 2025

Michael Scott Is Not a Juror: The Limits of AI in Simulating Human Judgment

Examines why current LLMs do not reliably replicate human juror reasoning and where controlled jury simulation may still be useful.

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ABA Journal // 2026

Law Librarians are at the Forefront of Using and Educating on Artificial Intelligence

ABA Journal piece on how law librarians are helping legal institutions evaluate, teach, and adopt AI responsibly.

ALM // 2025

Anatomy of a Prompt: Real Training for Using AI

Co-authored practical framework for prompt training that emphasizes repeatable quality control and lawyer-ready workflows.

Edward Elgar // 2025

Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence and the Law (Document Review Section)

Reference contribution focused on document review workflows, constraints, and implementation guidance in legal AI systems.

AALL Spectrum // 2025

Evaluating the Evaluators - The Role of Benchmarks in Legal AI

Explores benchmark design tradeoffs and why legal AI evaluation needs context-aware methods beyond headline scores.

SSRN // November 8, 2024

Introducing QuizBot an Innovative AI-Assisted Assessment in Legal Education

A framework for Socratic AI assessment that increases engagement while preserving transparent evaluation criteria.

SSRN // May 12, 2023

The Ultimate Study Partner: Using A Custom Chatbot to Optimize Student Studying During Law School

Explores custom chatbot workflows to improve legal learning and high-frequency feedback loops.

SSRN // 2023

The Case for Large Language Model Optimism in Legal Research from a Law & Technology Librarian

Argument for pragmatic optimism in legal research use cases when model outputs are paired with structured verification practices.

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