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The Structural Barriers to AI Lawyers
Live at Diffuse AIFeature Essay

Diffuse AI · May 12, 2026

The Structural Barriers to AI Lawyers

Published in Diffuse AI, this piece examines why legal AI adoption still runs into structural limits inside real practice despite the profession looking tailor-made for automation.

Predicting Supreme Court of the United States Outcomes with Frontier Models

SSRN · July 14, 2026

Predicting Supreme Court of the United States Outcomes with Frontier Models

An empirical study of how frontier AI models perform when predicting U.S. Supreme Court outcomes, with attention to accuracy, consistency, and the limits of model-generated legal reasoning.

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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9 additional pieces
  • SSRN · Forthcoming

    The Arguments We Stop Making

    Forthcoming 2026 essay on SSRN. A full summary and the publication link will be posted here when the piece goes live.

  • The Sedona Conference Journal · Forthcoming

    Predicting the Court: Evaluating Large Language Models as Forecasters of Supreme Court Decisions

    Co-authored with Hayley Stillwell, this article is forthcoming in volume 27 of The Sedona Conference Journal (2026).

  • 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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