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Legal Tech

What ABA 512 and Heppner Together Require From Legal AI Systems

ABA Formal Opinion 512 sets the professional framework. United States v. Heppner shows what weak workflow boundaries look like in practice. Together they point toward reviewable, bounded, auditable legal AI systems.

April 2, 2026

Legal Tech

What ABA Formal Opinion 512 Actually Requires From Legal AI Systems

ABA Formal Opinion 512 is not just a warning about hallucinations. It is a practical blueprint for how legal AI systems should handle review, confidentiality, supervision, provenance, and billing.

April 2, 2026

Legal Tech

What United States v. Heppner Means for Legal AI Architecture

United States v. Heppner is not a general ban on AI in legal work. It is a warning about public consumer tools, confidentiality, and the system boundaries legal AI platforms need in practice.

April 2, 2026

AI & Technology

Why Legal AI Memory Is a Systems Problem, Not a Prompt Problem

Legal AI memory is not about how much text fits in a model window. The real work is persistent state, bounded retrieval, cache discipline, and consistency across a workflow.

April 2, 2026

AI & Technology

Why Legal AI Needs Bounded Memory, Not Bigger Prompts

The future of legal AI is not stuffing more client data into longer prompts. The better path is scoped memory, bounded retrieval, and systems that know what not to load.

April 2, 2026

AI & Technology

Why Review Boundaries Matter More Than Model Choice

The first question in legal AI is not which model a product uses. The first question is whether the system enforces a real boundary between draft output and legal effect.

April 2, 2026

Legal Marketing

How Law Firms Should Choose a Legal Directory

Not all directory listings are equal. Use a practical framework to evaluate which directories produce attributable inquiries and which are just another invoice.

March 25, 2026

Legal Marketing

Why Faster Follow-Up Beats More Leads

Most firms try to fix their pipeline by buying more leads. The higher-leverage fix is following up on the leads they already have.

March 24, 2026

Legal Marketing

The Attribution Problem Legal Marketing Still Has Not Solved

Connecting ad spend to case outcomes requires more than an integration. It requires the marketing and the pipeline to live in the same system.

March 23, 2026

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