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The 80/20 Principle

Ernie the Attorney

Tech tips for solo and small-firm lawyers. The 20% that actually matters

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Your Firm's Knowledge Is Trapped. A Chatbot Can Let It Out.

Every firm has a knowledge problem, even if nobody calls it that.

Precedent briefs sit in a folder on somebody’s laptop. The client intake FAQ lives in an old Word doc. Half of what your firm knows — how you handle a discovery dispute, wha...

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Most of what lawyers do is folklore

Steve Jobs once said something that stuck with me. He’d been running Apple for a few years and noticed that nobody in business could explain why they did what they did. The answer was always the same: “That’s just the way it’s done.”

H...

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There's a window to get good at Al. It won't stay open.

In the early days of Westlaw and Lexis, computerized legal research was expensive. Only big firms could afford it.

But even those firms had to be careful. It was easy to run up a big bill and come back empty-handed. You couldn’t pass that...

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Agentic AI: The Associate That Actually Does the Work

Old-school automation waits for orders. Agentic AI figures out what needs doing — and gets it done.

I spent two decades in big-firm litigation before I figured out I was doing it all wrong. Back then, the answer to every problem was “more....

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What a Belize dive guide taught me about tech

Most lawyers approach AI tools the way over-equipped tourists approach scuba diving. There’s a better way.

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