A working library of practical ideas on AI workflows, presentation design, and recovery systems. Targeted at ambitious professionals and high-performing households. Newest first.
Three years after Mata v. Avianca, AI-citation sanctions are no longer a freak event. They are a regulatory regime. A working trial lawyer's read on where the doctrine has gone, what carriers are doing, and what disciplines a practitioner needs in 2026.
· AI for Lawyers
The em-dash is the most reliable AI tell in legal writing. A working trial lawyer's account of why models overuse it, why judges and opposing counsel notice, and how to strip the AI tells out of a brief without losing the AI's productivity gains.
· AI for Lawyers
Every AI output a lawyer files carries the lawyer's signature. A practical verification framework from a working trial lawyer: what to check, in what order, with what tools, and where the framework breaks down.
· AI for Lawyers
A lawyer-facing explanation of the closed universe protocol: what it is, why it solves the verification tax, and how it changes the structure of an AI legal workflow. From a working trial lawyer who runs the protocol daily.
· AI for Lawyers
Generic prompts into a generic chatbot produce generic output. Trial prep is not a generic task. A working trial lawyer's account of why the standard approach fails and what closed-universe trial workflows look like instead.
· Trial Practice
A working trial lawyer's account of building an AI cross-examination assistant without writing code. The mental model, the inputs, the limits, and what the bot does well versus what stays on the lawyer.
· Trial Practice
Most of the AI a solo lawyer should be using never touches a client file. A working trial lawyer's account of how to draw the line between client-confidential work and business-of-law work, and why getting the line right is the precondition for using AI at all.
· Business of Law
Brand work used to mean hiring a designer or a strategist and hoping the deliverable matched what was in your head. A working trial lawyer's account of moving brand decisions in-house with an AI team and never going back.
· Business of Law
Lawyers already know how to manage a careful junior associate. That same skill, applied directly, is most of what it takes to direct an AI agent. A non-technical trial lawyer's account of the mental model that made the work click.
· Business of Law
Running an AI team is not set-and-forget. A working trial lawyer's account of the quarterly review pass that keeps a multi-agent system honest, on-voice, and aligned with the practice.
· Business of Law
Most lawyers experimenting with AI think in tasks. The shift that unlocks real leverage is thinking in specialists with standing instructions on a schedule. A working trial lawyer on how an autonomous AI team operates week to week.
· AI Workflows
Solo lawyers have spent decades depending on outside vendors for everything outside the law itself. AI agents flip that dependency. A working trial lawyer's account of running marketing, SEO, content, and brand work in-house with an AI team.
· Business of Law
A working trial lawyer's verification-first take on hallucinated cases, the duty of competence, and the workflow that lets AI accelerate research without putting fake cites in front of a judge.
· AI Workflows
A working solo lawyer's approach to building the kind of brief and motion library that used to require a team of associates. What the AI actually does, what the lawyer keeps doing, and where the verification line sits.
· AI Workflows
A working trial lawyer on what changes when a solo practice runs structured agentic AI workflows instead of one-off chat prompts. Where the leverage is real and where it is not.
· AI Workflows
A federal court has held that client communications with AI tools are not protected by attorney-client privilege and that AI cannot form a privileged relationship. A practical analysis for lawyers using AI in their practice, including the pro se work-product rulings from Warner and Morgan, the open question of attorney-directed AI use under a Kovel-type arrangement, and how to structure AI use to preserve protection. Educational only, not legal advice.
· AI and the Law
A practical guide to using Claude as a working lawyer. Brief drafting, citation verification, deposition prep, and how to structure the workflow so the verification step does not eat the time savings. Written by a Florida trial lawyer for the practitioner audience. Educational only, not legal advice.
· AI and the Law
A Florida trial lawyer's plain answer to the question clients and reporters keep asking. Where AI helps, where it cannot, and how to decide for your matter.
· AI Workflows
A working trial lawyer's field report on building Claude Skills. Two ideas worth keeping, several worth dropping, tested against a real product build.
· AI Workflows
Verification systems for knowledge work where accuracy matters more than speed.
Slide design and delivery principles that audiences actually remember.
Practical recovery routines built for sustainability, not novelty.
Books that influenced how I think about work, judgment, and execution.