Court Audio Chain of Custody: Preserve the Original, Work From a Copy
A practical court-audio preservation workflow: document intake, protect the source, hash carefully, convert from a working copy, and record every handoff.
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Legal Technology, Practice, and People
Notes from inside legal work: technology, court-reporting systems, reliable AI, privacy, risk, professional judgment, and the communities the work serves.
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An AI Reliability Checklist for Law Firms (One Page — Print It)
A printable checklist for legal AI reliability — model portability, data control, human-in-the-loop, and fallbacks. The one-pager an office manager can actually pin up.
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Building DepoStack in Public: What Court Reporting Software Should Be
A build-log on the principles behind DepoStack — vendor-neutral, on-device, professional-first. What's broken in legacy court reporting software, and what I'm doing differently.
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Digital Court Reporting: The Workflow Nobody Explains
A field-tested guide to digital court reporting, from live capture and preservation through transcript review, certification, secure delivery, and AI-assisted work.
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Page:Line or It Didn't Happen: Making AI Cite the Record
A dangerous legal-AI failure is confident, uncited fabrication. Here is how to require page:line support in a prompt and review the result.
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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 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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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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Stop prompting like you're Googling
CasePrompts is in preview: free, copy-ready AI prompts for litigation, built on the CITE method — with citation discipline baked in.
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DepoAudio: getting court audio out of jail
Why I built a free, open-source desktop app that converts supported court audio locally, with experimental FTR/TRM handling.