Archive - Jordan Furlong

The billable time revolution

Gen AI will bring an end to the era when lawyers' value hinged on performing billable work. Grab the coming opportunity to re-prioritize your daily…

Jun 25 •

May 2025

The fallacy of the calculator

The more you study how Generative AI works, the more parallels emerge with how lawyers think — and that has implications. With Gen AI getting better…

May 28 •

Redefining productivity in legal services

Generative AI doesn't have to cause mass unemployment or mass overwork in the legal profession. We can use it to free lawyers from task performance and…

May 16 •

Stewardship and the post-AI legal profession

Gen AI is climbing the "legal skills ladder" with alarming speed. What if lawyers responded with comprehensive “legal-plus” oversight of their clients…

May 2 •

April 2025

How to be a still point in a turning world

When things stop making sense, people look to lawyers for explanations and guidance. But what happens when we have no good answers to give them? A short…

Apr 17 •

BigLaw gives up on its future

By putting business ahead of the rule of law when faced with assaults on their independence, many large US law firms have tarnished their reputations…

Apr 1 •

March 2025

Your law firm needs a Situation Room

In a chaotic world, you can't sit back waiting for the next bombshell to drop. You need to anticipate, analyze, and address critical new developments …

Mar 14 •

Preparing lawyers for the no-win scenario

Failure is an unavoidable reality for lawyers — but we run from it all the same, afraid to face our imperfections, unable to forgive our errors. We need…

Mar 3 •

February 2025

And then they build monuments to you

In all this chaos, stop and remember: The legal profession has made extraordinary gains in just a few short years. Change for the better in law is here…

Feb 21 •

Take all unreasonable measures

We can't dismiss extreme possibilities anymore, in either the geopolitical or the legal worlds. We need to recognize radical change and prepare new…

Feb 6 •

January 2025

Level the playing field: Give consumers access to legally reliable Generative AI

If we agree people shouldn't use ChatGPT for legal issues, what should they use instead? The public deserves a better answer than "Go without." Here's…

Jan 28 •

The Rule of Law needs champions. It's time for lawyers to stand up.

Speak out against injustice and corruption. Fight for universal legal access. Restore people's lost faith that law and government can serve them. The…

Jan 20 •

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