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“Law librarians are pushing back on the idea that generative artificial intelligence will eventually replace them. If anything, they have become more relevant as they test and promote new AI-based tools for government, law schools and law firms, says Jenny Silbiger, the president of the American Association of
I’ve been a newspaper junkie since I was a kid. I used to go to the local library in our town of 45,000 to connect with cities around the world through their newspapers.
I became fond of San Francisco—maybe that’s why I went to law school out there—in part by the sporting green section of the San Francisco Chronicle.
After
Long before blogs were common in the legal profession, Ernie Svenson, widely known as Ernie the Attorney, was already writing online and figuring things out as he went. Svenson was among the first lawyers to experiment with publishing on the internet, not as a marketing tactic but as a way to connect, think out loud and share what he
I’ve been noodling on something of late. Arising out of what AI is bringing to legal publishing and discussions on LinkedIIn.
For the last twenty years lawyers and law firms have looked to their own sites, blogs or websites, as the sites giving them visibility and name. I think that’s changing.
For AI systems like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude, authority
Lawyers and law firms publish constantly—blogs, alerts, insights, white papers, newsletters.
What’s changing with AI isn’t whether lawyers publish.
It’s how that publishing is found, trusted, and used.
Not just by open LLMs—but inside legal research platforms, where AI is increasingly helping interpret primary law.
Where legal writing lives now matters.
Publishing that exists only in a feed or on
For nearly 20 years, Kevin LaCroix has published The D&O Diary, a blog focused on directors and officers insurance that has become required reading for lawyers, insurers and professionals around the world. What began as an experiment driven by curiosity evolved into one of the most respected niche legal publications on the internet.
In this episode of the Real
Writing the last few days about publishing by legal practitioners in the age of AI got me thinking about whether a lawyer’s LinkedIn publishing (articles and posts) are ever cited by LLM’s, the result being enhanced authority. Such content has been found on Google.
The answer is generally no for AI.
LinkedIn posts live in a quick-moving feed, behind logins,
Yesterday I shared why legal practitioner-generated secondary law—blogs, alerts, newsletters and email newsletters—is essential to legal AI.
When AI looks at primary law, only, the result is generic or wrong because AI is guessing at how to interpret primary law. There’s no insight from legal practioners and other legal professionals to help guide AI.
The question is whether lawyers and
For years, legal research has been built around primary law—cases, statutes, code, regulations—and traditional secondary sources such as law reviews and journals.
All still important, but missing in the day of AI is the secondary law written by legal practioners, academics, law students and other legal professionals in blog posts, insights, whitepapers, and even, newsletters. It’s here that how the
When Todd Smith launched his first appellate blog in the mid-2000s he wasn’t chasing trends. He was a young lawyer leaving big law with no book of business and needed a way to show trial lawyers who he was and what he knew. Blogging gave him a place to explain appellate issues in plain language and a way for peers