Maine Law Practice Management

In April, Anthropic hosted a live webinar entitled ‘ Claude for Legal Teams ’ – over 20,000 attorneys attended .   ( Anthropic is the AI company whose chatbot/coding product is Claude .)  In May, Anthropic released a series of Claude plugins (skills) & connectors (integrations), to lawyers and legal products .     Now, OpenAI – the company that offers the chatbot/coding product, ChatGPT – is releasing a new version of its latest model (Astra) for the legal industry (Astra for Legal) .   A number of legal integrations are being made available .  Astra for Legal is a ccessible only by select firms right now – the biggest ones; but, it will trickle down, from there.   Of course, every frontier AI model is likely to try to breach the legal space, at some point – which delivers some interesting choice s for attorneys .  Do you opt in to one of these legal-specific models, and to what else do you give it access ?  What do you need, ...

One of the hardest things to do, as a solo attorney, is to make your first hire in any category .  Even if you’ve hired an administrative assistant or paralegal before – a difficult hurdle to jump, in its own right – it’s still not easy to bring i n an associate attorney , or a chief revenue officer .  Those are all different categories of role; so , it’s easy to get a little antsy making one of those hires, because the skill sets are different, and it’s tough to get a handle on what you should be expecting out of a job title you’ve never had any experience hiring for, or managing.     You can research all you want; but, when the rubber meets the road, you’re the one who needs to determine whether someone is effective in a role – and, part of understanding that is lived experience .   T here’s only one way to get that , of course .   So, it’s always a little bit of a leap of faith , when you hire a new employee type, for the first time .   ...