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Law Technology Daily Digest
Friday, August 29, 2025 - Volume 21 No. 1184
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I think I'm going to somewhat disagree with Stephen Embry in his latest post on AI and the billable hour. I am a firm believer that bad or lazy lawyering is the reason we see so many articles about hallucinations before the court and why
Damien Charlotin's database now contain over 300 instances of hallucination events worldwide. Stephen seems to think that a recent survey by DeepL backs up his opinion that "to merely sanctimoniously say those lawyers who don't check cites are just reprobates and that there is no excuse ignores some of the real life pressures on lawyers and legal professionals." Hopefully I'm not being sanctimonious when I say the hourly pressure has always been there. "It Better Be Billable. And Collectible" is a mantra I've heard ever since I entered the legal market, decades ago. You might be able to blame AI for exacerbating it, but it certainly didn't create it. Stephen writes, "Rather than just blaming the lawyers, we need to address the issues across the board and make sure there is a recognition and accountability both among senior lawyers and, as I pointed out in my previous article, clients who demand the use of AI but refuse to bill for things like robust cite checking." The senior lawyers are lawyers and the GC s of the clients are lawyers. Their failure to address the issue, recognize it or be accountable for it to me is also bad or lazy lawyering. You can't do AI and straight up billable hours. They are incompatible. Maybe Stephen and I are on the same page after all. It's a good post and one you should make time to read more at
TechLaw Crossroads :
Billable Hour Demands, Shadow Use of AI and Law Reality: It's a Hot Mess
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Father Microsoft knows best
What would we do without Father Microsoft making decisions for us that we clearly aren't expected to be able to make on our own? "Microsoft says that Word for Windows will soon enable autosave and automatically save all new documents to the cloud by default." and better still, "Microsoft will also roll out this functionality to Excel for Windows and PowerPoint for Windows users later this year." I am sure for some people, this is a great default setting. I am equally sure that for many others it is a disastrous default setting. Having the option is great. Choosing it for me by default is not. Read more at
BLEEPINGCOMPUTER :
Microsoft Word will save your files to the cloud by default
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I think I'm going to somewhat disagree with Stephen Embry in his latest post on AI and the billable hour. I am a firm believer that bad or lazy lawyering is the reason we see so many articles about hallucinations before the court and why 
What would we do without Father Microsoft making decisions for us that we clearly aren't expected to be able to make on our own? "Microsoft says that Word for Windows will soon enable autosave and automatically save all new documents to the cloud by default." and better still, "Microsoft will also roll out this functionality to Excel for Windows and PowerPoint for Windows users later this year." I am sure for some people, this is a great default setting. I am equally sure that for many others it is a disastrous default setting. Having the option is great. Choosing it for me by default is not. Read more at BLEEPINGCOMPUTER: 
