Melissa Hall

The problem for legal tech is that relationships don't scale, but as much as lawyers want to think our value is in what we know, much of our value is in other people trusting us to tell them the things we know.

They sound like the same thing but really, really are not the same thing.

It can't tell you when you are researching the wrong thing.

I am glad you still want someone who understands what you want not just the legal research question.

Much of the value in a transactional lawyer is knowing when to tell you that you are wrong or you have to do it a different way.

It takes expertise, but also the ability to build a trusting relationship.

Even if they were capable of doing perfect research an AI lawyer would still be flawed.

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So much hard stuff is going on, please have a little joy too.

Important update.

That is literally their job

And make the argument that once they are invalidated they are administratively surrendered because they are no longer a driver's license.

I didn't expect a story about jury selection in Texas to leave me weirdly hopeful but it did.

The Lawyer, The Judge and The Wardrobe - This American Life Producer Zoe Chace brings us a dispatch from a courtroom in Texas this week, where on the very first day of a landmark federal trial about Antifa, the judge makes an unusual decision that no one sees ...

This is great reporting about the lawyer t-shirt in the "antifa" trial in Texas
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Austrian climber found guilty after girlfriend froze to death on mountain The woman died of hypothermia during a climbing trip on the Grossglockner mountain in January 2025.

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I think the name being attracted to the thing in the news might be the uncommon thing

Well this story blew up. Went to the front page of reddit, hacker news, Gizmodo. People donated thousands of dollars to the legal fund of Jeff Sovern, who dismantled 13 Flock surveillance cameras. The response was near-universal enthusiasm for the project of smashing invasive, exploitative tech.

I really wish I was immune to culture but I understand I am not even if I don't always feel or notice the effects.

I think that is what people underestimate about the risks. They think their media consumption choices do not change their thinking so the only consideration is their audience.

And if a system only has one outcome is it even useful or is it best understood as a kind of lobbying instead of analysis.

There are lots of systems that seem to be set up to advocate for more hiring but have they ever done anything other than that?

If we needed fewer police how would we know?

I think about that sometimes because there doesn't seem to be any mechanism in the system that might allow for that to be possible, at least internally.

I don't think that is appropriate for high school kiddos but if your kiddo is upset but the recruiting it might be interesting to her

In law school those of us who were ineligible made sure to sign up for the JAG interview slots and do the best job we could.

A kind of receptor blocking strategy but also is is demoralizing to interview very smart people you can't take over and over again.

I was in law school during DADT

But seriously the enzymes are so interesting now and surfactants have come a long way!

I have fallen down a laundry optimization rabbit hole lately and it is such an embarrassing enthusiasm.

I still miss my all in one GE.

I mean if I showed you the skaters and told you nothing but one was from San Francisco almost anyone from the US would still know which photo was the one to use!

His problem is speeches are not long enough?

I mean it is at least a take I genuinely have not heard before.

But I have never noticed a correlation between time speaking and time spent thinking deeply, except of course to the extent they are inherently incompatible in the same timeframe.

That is a shame because this Olympics show we absolutely love to see a good boy doing a run

So people who know a lot more than I, why isn't dog sledding in the winter Olympics?

This.

Like nothing wrong with babies and have the sex life you want but I mean none of this seems like it is gonna make any of that more fun or easier for you?

Given he threw his client so far under the bus he probably skipped along the asphalt I can see why that would be upsetting to forget.

I mean they could just change the password to something temporary and give Ms Tucson a little time with the data (crocodile grin)

Man Canadian coverage of the winter olympics is so much more excited and loving!

I was not prepared for the lack hyping up the pressure or the genuine joy.

I read this as being about library science programs and was disappointed because I was expecting some serious library smack talk.

Abduction of the hearts of all who saw.