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A stack of data records secured by a padlock — who owns the data you want to sell?
Legal Tech 6 July 2026

Before You Sell Your Company's Data to an AI Firm, Answer These Three Questions

A founder was sure his old startup's data was a goldmine an AI company would pay for. It might have been — the problem was whether he could lawfully sell it at all.

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Forking MikeOSS — should your law firm or in-house legal team run its own AI platform?
Legal Tech 17 June 2026

Should Your Law Firm or In-House Legal Team Fork MikeOSS?

You can clone a working AI legal platform in an afternoon. Whether you should is a different question — and the one licensing fact most teams miss can turn a smart move into an expensive mistake.

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Legal Tech 16 June 2026

I Asked Claude for the Same Feature Twice and Got Two Completely Different Systems

Same goal, same person, two sittings — and Claude designed two genuinely different systems. The variable wasn't the model. It was the framing I didn't notice I was giving.

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1%
Legal Tech 15 June 2026

How to Use Claude Like the Top 1% of Lawyers

The setups, prompts, and workflows that turn Claude from a smart search box into a trained associate — without breaching a single duty you owe your clients.

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MCP
Legal Tech 14 June 2026

Should your law firm have an MCP?

The question sounds technical. It isn't. It's a decision about where your firm's most confidential work goes, who — or what — gets to touch it, and whether an AI agent can hire you at all.

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DPDP
Compliance 13 June 2026

What India's data rules actually mean for Harvey, Legora, and any foreign legal AI

Everyone assumes India forces you to keep data inside the country. For legal AI, that assumption is wrong. The truth is more useful — and, in one specific way, more dangerous.

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A·S
Legal Tech 12 June 2026

Skills vs agents for legal work: what's the difference, and which do you need?

"Agent" and "skill" are the two words you hear most in legal AI right now — used loosely, often interchangeably, usually wrongly. The difference is simple once you see it, and getting it right decides what you should actually build first.

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OSS
Legal Tech 11 June 2026

Mike OSS just made legal AI free. Should your firm actually use it?

A former Latham lawyer open-sourced a tool that does much of what an $11 billion company charges a fortune for — for free. It's the biggest story in legal tech this year. It's also a trap, if you read it wrong.

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FDE
Legal Tech 10 June 2026

Why do legal AI companies hire "forward deployed engineers"?

The most valuable legal AI company in the world just raised $200 million — and it's spending most of it on people who sit inside law firms, not on smarter software. That one choice tells you where legal AI is really won and lost.

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