The Time Blawg

LinkedIn Legal Marketing: Vanity v Sanity LinkedIn Legal Marketing circles in the UK have been awash this week with 'influencer' humble brags. See Sanity over Vanity.

LinkedIn Legal Marketing: Vanity v Sanity #lawyers #LawFirms #marketing #LinkedIn #vanity #sanity - including the comments on LinkedIn following the post being published there thetimeblawg.com/2026/01/18/l...

The GenAI Verification Burden in Legal Practice The GenAI verification burden is highlighted in a paper on 'The Verification-Value Paradox: A Normative Critique of Gen AI in Legal Practice'

Same thing, unfortunately, happening in legal practice: thetimeblawg.com/2025/11/15/t...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot Google's Gemini is on pace to push Copilot into third place.

Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot www.extremetech.com/computing/mi...

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

YouTube video by The Growth BluePrint Podcast How to Grow Your Business the Smart Way (with Brian Inkster)

How to Grow Your Business the Smart Way (an interview with yours truly) #ForwardThinkingLaw #PlugPlayLaw #GrowthBlueprint youtu.be/pWiIkWUyNVg?...

The GenAI Verification Burden in Legal Practice The GenAI verification burden is highlighted in a paper on 'The Verification-Value Paradox: A Normative Critique of Gen AI in Legal Practice'

The #GenAI Verification Burden in Legal Practice #Lawyers #LLM #LegalTech #Hallucinations thetimeblawg.com/2025/11/15/t...

Godot before ABS in Scotland? Will Godot turn up before Alternative Business Structures (ABS) in Scotland? Paul Rogerson of the Law Society Gazette thinks so.

Godot before ABS in Scotland? #ABS #LegalServices #Regulation #Reform #Scotland thetimeblawg.com/2025/09/20/g...

Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot appears to have published messages without users' knowledge.

"AI chatbots are a privacy disaster in progress". #AI #GenAI #LLM #privacy #Grok #Google www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

ABS in Scotland kicked into the long grass again? Has ABS in Scotland been kicked into the long grass again? A Law Society event on Regulation of legal services reform suggests it may be.

ABS in Scotland kicked into the long grass again? #ABS #LegalServices #Regulation #Scotland thetimeblawg.com/2025/08/21/a...

Trial Court Decides Case Based On AI-Hallucinated Caselaw - Above the Law Appellate court to trial judge: you know these cases are made up, right?

It was, I suppose, just a matter of time before a court failed to spot hallucinated case law! 😕 #GenAI #courts #Caseload #hallucinations abovethelaw.com/2025/07/tria...

Legal Geek Growth 2025: The one that grew too big? Legal Geek Growth is the summer alternative, for SME law firms, to the larger Legal Geek event (aimed at Big Law) in London in the Autumn.

Legal Geek Growth 2025: The one that grew too big? #LegalGeek #LegalGeekGrowth #LegalTech #GenAI #AI thetimeblawg.com/2025/06/08/l...

"Machinery kills labour. People need jobs." #RaceAcrossTheWorld #India

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For anyone who missed it. This is beyond parody!

Alabama paid a law firm millions to defend its prisons. It used AI and turned in fake citations Butler Snow faces sanctions after lawyer cites false case law defending against inmate who says he was stabbed 20 times

Alabama hires bespoke law firm to defend its prison system; firm uses ai and cites cases which don’t exist.

Significant Majority Ownership Reform ignored by the Law Society of Scotland Majority ownership reform ignored by the Law Society of Scotland in their press release on the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill

ABS to be permitted in Scotland without any requirement of lawyer ownership #law #legalservices #regulation #reform #Scotland #ABS #TescoLaw thetimeblawg.com/2025/05/22/s...

Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill Passed The Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill was passed by the Scottish Parliament on 20 May 2025 following a raft of stage 3 amendments

Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill Passed thetimeblawg.com/2025/05/21/r... #LegalServices #Regulation #Reform #Scotland

Jedi Lawyers Jedi Lawyers have traits that are the same as a good Plug and Play Lawyer. If you have Jedi Lawyer traits then Plug Play Law could be for you.

Jedi Lawyers plugplaylaw.com/2025/05/04/j... #maythe4thbewithyou #maythefourth #maythe4th #StarWarsDay

Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, whose company has invested billions of dollars in ChatGPT maker OpenAI, has had it with the AI hype.

Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value #AI #GenAI #LLM #LegalTech futurism.com/microsoft-ce...

The Great Big Legal Offsite (GBLO) 2024: The one with a Penguin and a Dragon The Great Big Legal Offsite (GBLO) was held at Ribby Hall Village, Kirkham (near Preston) on 3 July 2024. Unplug today to Plug-in tomorrow.

The Great British Legal Offsite (GBLO) 2024: The one with a Penguin and a Dragon #GBLO #LawFirms #LegalTech #AI #GenAI thetimeblawg.com/2025/02/09/t...

Mastering the #legaltech that they already purchased that is sitting gathering dust on a shelf #shelfware might be a good first step 😉

Team Says They've Recreated DeepSeek's OpenAI Killer for Literally $30 A new breakthrough by AI researchers has found a way to reproduce DeepSeek's SLM for less than the cost of two dozen eggs.

DeepSeek AI recreated for $30 futurism.com/researchers-...

A new campaign aims to safeguard social media from billionaires using Bluesky's underlying tech | TechCrunch The initiative, Free Our Feeds, aims to protect Bluesky’s underlying technology, the AT Protocol, and leverage it to create an open social media ecosystem that can’t be controlled by a single company ...

"As Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg continue to reshape the social media space, a group of international tech entrepreneurs and advocates has launched a campaign to protect social media from the control and influence of billionaires."

techcrunch.com/2025/01/13/a...

Inkster's Law Inkster's Law: The 2:1 ratio of time needed to check for accuracy of AI generated material. A law by Brian Inkster (term coined by Gav Ward)

... He clearly hasn't heard of Inkster's Law 😉 thetimeblawg.com/2023/12/16/i...

a close up of a robot 's face with a bald head and a smile . Alt: a close up of a robot 's face with a bald head and a smile .

Starmer is not following the futurists with his AI predictions. Not 5 or 10 years but apparently much quicker than that to double productivity 🤔

Saw this on LinkedIn and thought of you both. Copilot shooting itself in the foot!

‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point Last year, 10,000 sham papers had to be retracted by academic journals, but experts think this is just the tip of the iceberg

Oh, yes, you would! www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

a white truck with popsicles on the side of it Alt: a white ice cream van

Think I would prefer an ice cream van!

a woman wearing a virtual reality headset that says i 'm in the metaverse lmao on it Alt: a woman wearing a virtual reality headset that says i 'm in the metaverse lmao on it

Thought they wouldn't!