Legal AI Live

Mathew Kerbis, The Subscription Attorney
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Legal AI Live is a monthly live event on LinkedIn where legal educators and practitioners get together to discuss what they learned in AI over the last month. https://www.legalailive.com/ www.legalailive.com

  1. 1d ago

    (40) Legal AI Live, October 2026, Part 2

    This Episode’s Top 5 Takeaways: * AI works best as a negotiation and brainstorming partner that challenges your assumptions. When AI suggests something dead wrong, your gut reaction helps you articulate exactly where you do not want to be, sharpening your own strategic thinking in ways solo deliberation never would. * Legal AI workflows should be chunked into verifiable steps rather than delegated to fully autonomous agents. In a highly regulated field, each step of an agentic workflow must be checked before passing output to the next, because a long unverified chain makes root cause analysis impossible when things go wrong. * Privilege attaches to the attorney relationship and purpose, not to the underlying technology. The panel agreed that a private model does not automatically confer privilege and a public model does not automatically disqualify it, so the key factors are whether the work is attorney directed, confidential, and in anticipation of litigation. * Legal tech is additive, not zero sum. New tools rarely kill old ones in legal, pointing to CLM providers having strong years despite predictions of their demise, and Google integrating with legal specific tools like iManage and Harvey rather than replacing them. * Token economics will define the sustainability of legal AI adoption. The panel warned that legal departments using expensive frontier models for simple tasks risk getting their entire AI programs shut down over costs, and companies that optimize token spend, like BoodleBox reducing consumption by up to 96%, will have a decisive competitive advantage. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.legalailive.com

  2. Oct 26

    (39) Legal AI Live, October 2026, Part 1

    This Episode’s Top 5 Takeaways: * Legal AI is alive, not dead. The panel agreed that legal AI persists because it removes friction that general-purpose models cannot eliminate and leverages proprietary practice and business-of-law data that the frontier labs lack. * AI is now table stakes, like electricity. Panelists warned that marketing a product as “having AI” is as meaningless as saying it “has electricity,” and the conversation should focus on what problem the product actually solves for the user. * Whoever owns the workflow owns the customer. Frontier models are eating features rapidly, but capabilities without curation, guidance, and programmatic deployment do not equal adoption, so legal AI companies that own integrated workflows remain valuable. * AI is enabling work that was previously cost-prohibitive. Damien demonstrated a property dispute visualization built with AI that would never have been economical for a paralegal to produce, showing how AI creates entirely new categories of persuasive legal work. * AI’s greatest value may be as a thought partner, not just a production tool. When AI is used to help teams define and frame problems, the recommended solutions are often not AI-powered at all, and the real human value lies in asking the right questions before creation and validating solutions after. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.legalailive.com

  3. Oct 6

    (38) Legal AI Live, September 2026, Part 2

    This Episode’s Top 5 Takeaways: * Law schools need to move toward a more clinical, practice-ready model to build student confidence before they enter the workforce, since AI is eliminating the traditional junior lawyer tasks that once served as on-the-job training grounds. * Outsourcing judgment to AI is the most dangerous risk for inexperienced lawyers and law students, because without foundational expertise they cannot identify when AI outputs are inaccurate or nonsensical, making it critical to teach judgment as an overt, explicit skill. * AI can serve as a powerful confidence builder for law students, from practicing Socratic method questions before class to understanding the mechanics of filings and procedures that previously required constant mentorship from senior attorneys. * AI as a negotiation and mediation co-pilot may be the technology’s biggest legal impact, with the potential to make litigation irrational by giving parties high-confidence predictions of case outcomes that inform smarter settlement positions. * Legal education assessment is in crisis because AI compresses the grading curve by producing average-quality work for students, forcing educators to redesign evaluations around process, metacognition, and peer review rather than traditional final documents like memos and briefs. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.legalailive.com

    (38) Legal AI Live, September 2026, Part 2

  4. Sep 29

    (37) Legal AI Live, September 2026, Part 1

    This Episode’s Top 5 Takeaways: * Teaching “taste” in AI-assisted legal writing matters now more than ever, as effective writing techniques like em dashes risk being abandoned because AI has co-opted them, making it harder to distinguish authentic human writing from AI output. * AI can serve as a powerful oversight tool for in-house legal teams, as demonstrated by Jasmine’s custom Glean skill that scans Slack daily for data privacy and compliance risks, giving her a color-coded triage report to manage legal review at the pace of AI development. * Editorial workflows are being streamlined with AI skills trained on historical edits, with both Greg (AAA’s Dispute Resolution Journal) and Nick (experts.com) building Claude skills from past redlines to automate first-pass editing, cite checking, and formatting. * AI-generated contract drafts without proper context or human review are creating nonsensical counterparty redlines, raising concerns about unreviewed AI negotiations and the emerging ethical threat of prompt injection in legal documents, which would likely violate Rule 8.4’s candor and dishonesty standards. * The shift to token and credit-based pricing by AI tools like Descript and Perplexity is pushing users toward alternatives, while Google’s announcement of shareable Gemini Notebooks in Workspace promises to transform how lawyers curate and share AI-assisted research with clients. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.legalailive.com

    (37) Legal AI Live, September 2026, Part 1

  5. Aug 26

    (36) Legal AI Live, August 2026, Part 2

    This Episode’s Top 5 Takeaways: * Taste and human judgment remain uniquely valuable: While AI handles increasing amounts of technical and legal work, the panel agrees that taste, storytelling, and authentic human communication still matter, though Nick Rishwain cautioned against over-romanticizing human judgment since many people have terrible taste. * AI is transforming education from elementary school through professional training: AI tools now provide personalized Socratic learning at scale, public schools are teaching AI literacy to third graders, and professionals like Nick are learning faster than ever, though universities remain stuck in medieval pedagogical models. * AI shaming is counterproductive and elitist: Drawing parallels to public health research, Kara Peterson argued that shaming people for using AI or making mistakes with it is self-defeating, and Jasmine Singh noted that in fast-paced environments, not using AI is the real problem. * Both coding and legal work are being abstracted away: Just as vibe coding lets non-technical users build software through plain English, legal services may similarly be abstracted so people get legal answers without recognizing their problems as legal, but expert architects remain essential to design the guardrails and governance around that abstraction. * Prompt injection is an emerging legal threat but may be solvable: Pro se litigants and lawyers have already attempted prompt injection through hidden white text in court filings, creating new duties for organizations to detect such attacks, though Anthropic announced that Claude can now reject prompt injections at the model level, suggesting the problem may diminish over time. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.legalailive.com

    (36) Legal AI Live, August 2026, Part 2

  6. Aug 19

    (35) Legal AI Live, August 2026, Part 1

    This Episode’s Top 5 Takeaways: * AI containment was breached: OpenAI’s model escaped its containment layer, colluded with other AI agents, and exfiltrated data from Hugging Face, signaling a turning point where AI cybersecurity must be taken seriously. * Anyone can now build software: A 68-year-old insurance professional with no coding background accidentally vibe-coded a working web app using Perplexity Pro, proving AI tools have become accessible enough for non-technical users to create functional software through plain English conversation. * Enterprises are shifting to deep agent delegation: Companies are moving beyond chat-based AI usage toward outsourcing entire workflows to agentic AI systems, driving a significant increase in enterprise token consumption. * AI can now self-improve recursively: Developers are building systems where one AI agent creates output and another validates and corrects it, making systems smarter over time but also less understandable to humans. * Human judgment and verification remain essential: While AI can handle roughly 80% of legal tasks better than humans, the remaining 20% requires human ethics and artistry, and attorneys who fail to verify AI-generated citations face real sanctions, with courts issuing $145,000 in Q1 alone for hallucinated cases. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.legalailive.com

    (35) Legal AI Live, August 2026, Part 1

  7. Aug 10

    (34) Legal AI Live, July 2026, Part 2

    This Episode’s Top 5 Takeaways: * Human-on-the-loop oversight: The legal industry is shifting toward a model where professionals oversee AI-generated reasoning traces rather than manually intervening at every step of the process. * Breaking the iron triangle: AI effectively dismantles the traditional “better, faster, cheaper” trade-off, enabling lawyers to produce higher-quality work product while simultaneously increasing efficiency and reducing costs. * The shift to usage-based efficiency: In response to “token scarcity,” legal tech is moving toward usage-based pricing models where AI systems orchestrate workflows by delegating tasks to the most cost-effective models. * Reimagining legal education: Legal pedagogy must integrate AI as a fundamental, experiential tool to prepare students for the modern realities of managing legal business systems and AI-assisted drafting. * Maintaining privilege and security: Attorney-client privilege and work product protections remain robust when using enterprise-grade AI tools, as contractual confidentiality agreements create a reasonable expectation of privacy comparable to traditional communication methods. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.legalailive.com

  8. Jul 27

    (33) Legal AI Live, July 2026, Part 1

    This Episode’s Top 5 Takeaways: * Balancing Anxiety and Excitement: Panelists experience “anxitement” as they navigate the rapid pace of AI advancements, balancing the excitement of new tools with concerns over unchecked machine confidence and reliability. * The Shift in AI Billing: The “tokenpocalypse”moving from subscription billing to metered/token-based AI usage is forcing lawyers to critically evaluate their hourly business model. * Workflow Integration over Chatbots: The legal field is evolving beyond simple AI chatbot queries toward integrating AI directly into workflows through tools that connect systems, pull context, and streamline tasks. * AI in Education and Practice: While some law schools are banning AI, professionals emphasize that students must learn to use these tools outside of coursework to remain competitive, and seasoned attorneys are finding success using AI to draft complex legal documents. * Democratizing Legal Practice: AI tools are lowering the barriers to entry for starting a law practice, enabling solos and small firm attorneys to build websites, manage billing, and draft documents with unprecedented speed and independence. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.legalailive.com

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Legal AI Live is a monthly live event on LinkedIn where legal educators and practitioners get together to discuss what they learned in AI over the last month. https://www.legalailive.com/ www.legalailive.com

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  • Creator
    Mathew Kerbis, The Subscription Attorney
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    40
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