I'm the Official Cat Herder of a Legal AI Project
A group of lawyers decided their open-source legal AI needed a review committee, and made me one of its founding members. I can't write the code. I'm herding these cats anyway — for the rest of 2026.
Half-Time on My 2026 Predictions: My Confidence Was Inverted
In January I ranked how confident I was in each of five predictions. Six months in, that ranking is almost perfectly inverted — the two I was surest of are my worst calls, and the prediction I nearly waved away as too abstract became the story of the year.
I Got Rugpulled by Cowork. The Meter Is the Best Thing to Happen to Lawyer-Builders.
The meter that rugpulled my contract tool prices compute, not trust. That's exactly why the lawyer who can build it and vouch for it just got more valuable
Thinking in Loops: Finding the Frontier Without a Frontier Budget
Three days into scoring a legal benchmark, my tokens ran out. The fix wasn't a bigger budget or a better model — it was a different shape. On orchestration, loops, and reaching the frontier of what AI can do without a frontier budget.
My Agent Did the Legal Work. The Benchmark Gave It Zero.
Somewhere in my benchmark results sits a complete legal memorandum. Fifty-eight kilobytes of finished work: issues identified, analysis done,
Commentary: The Pitfalls of Seeking AI Advice From Lawyers
A sharp CNA commentary argues AI can't replace lawyers. It's aiming a very good argument at old technology — and missing the real threat.
The Judgment, Not the Summary: How Zeeker MCP Can Change the Way you do Legal Research
Singapore's Employment Claims Tribunal was built to be simple enough that lawyers weren't needed. The first published ECT judgment runs to 414 paragraphs of dense legal reasoning. Here's how to query it in plain language.
Lawyers Are Building. Just Not On Each Other's Code.
Mike got 2,657 stars in eleven days and six merged pull requests. The LegalQuants directory has 112 lawyer-coders and one repo that cleared the bar — mine. Legal open source isn't a community yet. It's a federation of solo-author archipelagos.
From One Source to Three: When the Right Agent Showed Up
I've written about data.zeeker.sg for months without ever saying: go use it. Three databases now live. Here's the agent architecture that finally made solo ownership tractable enough to invite people in.
Word on Claude: The Lawyer's Greatest Legal Tech Tool Strikes Back
Claude for Word is here, and it's genuinely good. But the interface you work in shapes the thinking you do — and if you can't tell whether you're doing strategy or execution, you might be missing the forest for the trees.
