Why Legal AI Should Run on Your Machine, Not Someone Else's Cloud
Sensitive testimony shouldn't be uploaded to a vendor just to be useful. The case for on-device legal AI — privacy, continuity, and cost — and where the line actually is.
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The Log
Field notes on applied AI, legal tech, and independent software, with occasional cat-supervised detours. Written between deploys, coasters, and LEGO sorting sessions.
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The frontier comes back online
After the June suspension, Fable 5 is back. What the interruption looked like from the seat of someone who builds on these tools — and what it taught me about wiring a stack to a single model.
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The Paralegal's Guide to AI Deposition Summaries (What's Safe, What Isn't)
A practical workflow for drafting and reviewing AI deposition summaries with page-line citations, failure checks, and accountable human sign-off.
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Love loudly — then make it legal
A Pride shout-out to my friends at Life Plan Law here in St. Pete, and why the paperwork — wills, directives, powers of attorney — is one of the most underrated forms of love there is.
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What Happens to Legal AI Tools When the Government Pulls the Plug?
A continuity checklist for legal teams that depend on hosted AI models: portability, human review, data control, and a tested fallback.
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Coding for the cats
I built a free WordPress plugin that places CJ Paws' public Petfinder listings in a filterable, on-brand grid without a Petfinder API key.
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How to Handle SGMCA, FTR & BWF Court Recordings Safely
Identify SGMCA, FTR/TRM, and BWF court recordings, preserve the source files, convert a working copy locally, and verify the result.
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What Happens When the Person Who Runs the Court Reporting Tech Also Builds the Tools
I run technology at a court reporting firm founded in 1981 and build tools for the same field—what that changes about legal tech, AI, and the record.
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When the frontier gets recalled
Anthropic said a US directive suspended Fable 5 and Mythos 5. A June 2026 snapshot of what that meant for people building on hosted models.
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Stop prompting like you're Googling
CasePrompts has free, copy-ready AI prompts for litigation, built on the CITE method — with citation discipline baked in.
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Achievements
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Little wins, shelved by the things I do off the clock: built, ridden, visited, shipped, and otherwise unlocked.