Jordan Furlong

A dangerous mind

Generative AI is a tireless genius with no boundaries. Use it carelessly, and it can usurp your voice, overwrite your ideas, and steal your originality…

May 12 • Jordan Furlong

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April 2026

Generation Z and the post-AI legal profession

In this excerpt from a new report, I describe five ways in which law firms and legal departments can benefit from Gen Z lawyers in a rapidly…

Apr 16 • Jordan Furlong

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After Hours 2: The legal profession's new business model

Abandoning the time-based measure of value will be the hardest thing lawyers have ever done. Figuring out what replaces it will usher in an entirely new…

Apr 9 • Jordan Furlong

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After Hours 1: The legal profession's new value proposition

The days of selling legal tasks by the hour are ending. Lawyers' future value lies in safeguarding clients' legal journeys by overcoming the most…

Apr 7 • Jordan Furlong

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March 2026

The accountability premium

A lawyer’s ability to stand behind their legal work is a real advantage over legal AI. But for many clients, paying more to transfer risk to a lawyer is…

Mar 18 • Jordan Furlong

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February 2026

The coming revival of the PeopleLaw sector

Generative AI will inadvertently reduce the legal profession's disproportionate focus on organizational clients — and could end up redirecting lawyers…

Feb 25 • Jordan Furlong

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Decoding and deploying legal judgment

Professional judgment is lawyers’ most valuable and nebulous asset. Articulating its elements could help us evaluate the quality of AI's legal work — or…

Feb 4 • Jordan Furlong

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January 2026

Advancing the cause of justice through Mandatory Public Legal Service

Violations of the rule of law are rampant. Mandatory CPD is costly and ineffective. Here's how to solve two problems at once: Require lawyers to build…

Jan 20 • Jordan Furlong

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November 2025

The migration of profitability

The combination of private equity and Generative AI could trip up unwary law firms seeking outside funding — but it could also signal an impending…

Nov 20, 2025 • Jordan Furlong

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Private equity at the gate

The surge of private equity interest in the legal sector foreshadows a fundamental change in how legal businesses are structured — one that the legal…

Nov 13, 2025 • Jordan Furlong

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October 2025

The new legal intelligence

We’ve built machines that can reason like lawyers. Artificial legal intelligence is becoming scalable, portable and accessible in ways lawyers are not…

Oct 28, 2025 • Jordan Furlong

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Three core attributes of tomorrow's lawyers

Legal intuition, professional integrity, and personal trustworthiness are the quintessentially human qualities that will enable lawyers to stay relevant…

Oct 9, 2025 • Jordan Furlong

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