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The past, present and future practice of law (reality not hype). Brought to you by @brianinkster.bsky.social of @inksters.bsky.social | #LegalTech #LawTech #LegalIT #LegalAI #FutureLaw | https://thetimeblawg.com
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How to Grow Your Business the Smart Way (an interview with yours truly) #ForwardThinkingLaw #PlugPlayLaw #GrowthBlueprint youtu.be/pWiIkWUyNVg?...
How to Grow Your Business the Smart Way (with Brian Inkster)
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November 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
How to Grow Your Business the Smart Way (an interview with yours truly) #ForwardThinkingLaw #PlugPlayLaw #GrowthBlueprint youtu.be/pWiIkWUyNVg?...
The #GenAI Verification Burden in Legal Practice #Lawyers #LLM #LegalTech #Hallucinations thetimeblawg.com/2025/11/15/t...
The GenAI Verification Burden in Legal Practice
The GenAI verification burden is highlighted in a paper on 'The Verification-Value Paradox: A Normative Critique of Gen AI in Legal Practice'
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November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The #GenAI Verification Burden in Legal Practice #Lawyers #LLM #LegalTech #Hallucinations thetimeblawg.com/2025/11/15/t...
Godot before ABS in Scotland? #ABS #LegalServices #Regulation #Reform #Scotland thetimeblawg.com/2025/09/20/g...
Godot before ABS in Scotland?
Will Godot turn up before Alternative Business Structures (ABS) in Scotland? Paul Rogerson of the Law Society Gazette thinks so.
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September 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Godot before ABS in Scotland? #ABS #LegalServices #Regulation #Reform #Scotland thetimeblawg.com/2025/09/20/g...
"AI chatbots are a privacy disaster in progress". #AI #GenAI #LLM #privacy #Grok #Google www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot appears to have published messages without users' knowledge.
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August 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
ABS in Scotland kicked into the long grass again? #ABS #LegalServices #Regulation #Scotland thetimeblawg.com/2025/08/21/a...
ABS in Scotland kicked into the long grass again?
Has ABS in Scotland been kicked into the long grass again? A Law Society event on Regulation of legal services reform suggests it may be.
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August 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
ABS in Scotland kicked into the long grass again? #ABS #LegalServices #Regulation #Scotland thetimeblawg.com/2025/08/21/a...
It was, I suppose, just a matter of time before a court failed to spot hallucinated case law! 😕 #GenAI #courts #Caseload #hallucinations abovethelaw.com/2025/07/tria...
Trial Court Decides Case Based On AI-Hallucinated Caselaw - Above the Law
Appellate court to trial judge: you know these cases are made up, right?
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July 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
It was, I suppose, just a matter of time before a court failed to spot hallucinated case law! 😕 #GenAI #courts #Caseload #hallucinations abovethelaw.com/2025/07/tria...
Legal Geek Growth 2025: The one that grew too big? #LegalGeek #LegalGeekGrowth #LegalTech #GenAI #AI thetimeblawg.com/2025/06/08/l...
Legal Geek Growth 2025: The one that grew too big?
Legal Geek Growth is the summer alternative, for SME law firms, to the larger Legal Geek event (aimed at Big Law) in London in the Autumn.
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June 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Legal Geek Growth 2025: The one that grew too big? #LegalGeek #LegalGeekGrowth #LegalTech #GenAI #AI thetimeblawg.com/2025/06/08/l...
"Machinery kills labour. People need jobs." #RaceAcrossTheWorld #India
May 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM
"Machinery kills labour. People need jobs." #RaceAcrossTheWorld #India
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For anyone who missed it. This is beyond parody!
May 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
For anyone who missed it. This is beyond parody!
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Alabama hires bespoke law firm to defend its prison system; firm uses ai and cites cases which don’t exist.
Alabama paid a law firm millions to defend its prisons. It used AI and turned in fake citations
Butler Snow faces sanctions after lawyer cites false case law defending against inmate who says he was stabbed 20 times
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May 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Alabama hires bespoke law firm to defend its prison system; firm uses ai and cites cases which don’t exist.
ABS to be permitted in Scotland without any requirement of lawyer ownership #law #legalservices #regulation #reform #Scotland #ABS #TescoLaw thetimeblawg.com/2025/05/22/s...
Significant Majority Ownership Reform ignored by the Law Society of Scotland
Majority ownership reform ignored by the Law Society of Scotland in their press release on the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill
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May 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
ABS to be permitted in Scotland without any requirement of lawyer ownership #law #legalservices #regulation #reform #Scotland #ABS #TescoLaw thetimeblawg.com/2025/05/22/s...
Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill Passed thetimeblawg.com/2025/05/21/r... #LegalServices #Regulation #Reform #Scotland
Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill Passed
The Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill was passed by the Scottish Parliament on 20 May 2025 following a raft of stage 3 amendments
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May 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill Passed thetimeblawg.com/2025/05/21/r... #LegalServices #Regulation #Reform #Scotland
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Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value #AI #GenAI #LLM #LegalTech futurism.com/microsoft-ce...
Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, whose company has invested billions of dollars in ChatGPT maker OpenAI, has had it with the AI hype.
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February 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value #AI #GenAI #LLM #LegalTech futurism.com/microsoft-ce...
The Great British Legal Offsite (GBLO) 2024: The one with a Penguin and a Dragon #GBLO #LawFirms #LegalTech #AI #GenAI thetimeblawg.com/2025/02/09/t...
The Great Big Legal Offsite (GBLO) 2024: The one with a Penguin and a Dragon
The Great Big Legal Offsite (GBLO) was held at Ribby Hall Village, Kirkham (near Preston) on 3 July 2024. Unplug today to Plug-in tomorrow.
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February 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The Great British Legal Offsite (GBLO) 2024: The one with a Penguin and a Dragon #GBLO #LawFirms #LegalTech #AI #GenAI thetimeblawg.com/2025/02/09/t...
DeepSeek AI recreated for $30 futurism.com/researchers-...
Team Says They've Recreated DeepSeek's OpenAI Killer for Literally $30
A new breakthrough by AI researchers has found a way to reproduce DeepSeek's SLM for less than the cost of two dozen eggs.
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January 30, 2025 at 11:17 PM
DeepSeek AI recreated for $30 futurism.com/researchers-...
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"As Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg continue to reshape the social media space, a group of international tech entrepreneurs and advocates has launched a campaign to protect social media from the control and influence of billionaires."
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A new campaign aims to safeguard social media from billionaires using Bluesky's underlying tech | TechCrunch
The initiative, Free Our Feeds, aims to protect Bluesky’s underlying technology, the AT Protocol, and leverage it to create an open social media ecosystem that can’t be controlled by a single company ...
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January 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"As Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg continue to reshape the social media space, a group of international tech entrepreneurs and advocates has launched a campaign to protect social media from the control and influence of billionaires."
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Starmer is not following the futurists with his AI predictions. Not 5 or 10 years but apparently much quicker than that to double productivity 🤔
a close up of a robot 's face with a bald head and a smile .
Alt: a close up of a robot 's face with a bald head and a smile .
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January 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Starmer is not following the futurists with his AI predictions. Not 5 or 10 years but apparently much quicker than that to double productivity 🤔
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Inksters Christmas Hats
We're missing seeing all your faces, and this year it's even easier to join in with inksters Christmas hats. Just enable your camera, take your snap and share to win a prize.
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December 25, 2024 at 10:42 AM
If you haven't already done so, do get you #inkstersdigitalxmas hats on! A prize for the best one 🤴🤶🎅👑 Merry Christmas! #inksterschristmashats www.inkstersdigitalxmas.com
"...not only are these AI models not magic, but they are also extra-fancy auto-complete, actively monitored, and interfered with by the companies that make them. Next time you think about getting facts from a chatbot, think about whether it might be better to go straight to the source instead."
Why does the name 'David Mayer' crash ChatGPT? OpenAI says privacy tool went rogue | TechCrunch
Users of the conversational AI platform ChatGPT discovered an interesting phenomenon over the weekend: the popular chatbot refuses to answer questions if
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December 7, 2024 at 10:39 AM
"...not only are these AI models not magic, but they are also extra-fancy auto-complete, actively monitored, and interfered with by the companies that make them. Next time you think about getting facts from a chatbot, think about whether it might be better to go straight to the source instead."
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“Lawyers used to start with an empty page” claims @sethgodin.bsky.social. Via his past present and future of law blog @thetimeblawg.bsky.social, @brianinkster.bsky.social says otherwise- was that a straw man argument? Well worth the read. thetimeblawg.com/2024/09/01/b... #law #legal #legalai #genai
Blank Page Law
Blank Page Law. I never started with a blank page 30 years ago. There were always templates/styles to kick off with.
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November 24, 2024 at 9:23 AM
“Lawyers used to start with an empty page” claims @sethgodin.bsky.social. Via his past present and future of law blog @thetimeblawg.bsky.social, @brianinkster.bsky.social says otherwise- was that a straw man argument? Well worth the read. thetimeblawg.com/2024/09/01/b... #law #legal #legalai #genai
How to turn a Bluesky Starter Pack into a List: techcrunch.com/2024/11/22/h...
How to turn a Bluesky Starter Pack into a List | TechCrunch
A new tool for the rapidly growing X competitor Bluesky helps you quickly create new feeds that you can pin to the app's home page to follow your various
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November 22, 2024 at 7:36 PM
How to turn a Bluesky Starter Pack into a List: techcrunch.com/2024/11/22/h...
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Earlier this year, prominent legal sector commentator @brianinkster.bsky.social spoke with our CEO Stephen Moore, predicting the rise of #Bluesky. Now growing at 1+ million new users every day:-
www.mltdigital.co.uk/brian-inkste... #law #legal #digital #legalmarketing #legalai #legaltech #genai
www.mltdigital.co.uk/brian-inkste... #law #legal #digital #legalmarketing #legalai #legaltech #genai
Brian Inkster - Scepticism towards AI | Podcast | MLT Digital
Stephen speaks with Brian Inkster, a prominent figure in the Scottish legal sector, to discuss his journey and technology in the legal sector.
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November 18, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Earlier this year, prominent legal sector commentator @brianinkster.bsky.social spoke with our CEO Stephen Moore, predicting the rise of #Bluesky. Now growing at 1+ million new users every day:-
www.mltdigital.co.uk/brian-inkste... #law #legal #digital #legalmarketing #legalai #legaltech #genai
www.mltdigital.co.uk/brian-inkste... #law #legal #digital #legalmarketing #legalai #legaltech #genai
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Episode 13 of the 'Your Law Firm Success' podcast is now available featuring yours truly interviewed by Stephen Moore of @mltdigital.bsky.social. Listen to me chat about what success in running a law firm means, #plugplaylaw #LegalTech and #GenAI www.mltdigital.co.uk/brian-inkste...
October 6, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Episode 13 of the 'Your Law Firm Success' podcast is now available featuring yours truly interviewed by Stephen Moore of @mltdigital.bsky.social. Listen to me chat about what success in running a law firm means, #plugplaylaw #LegalTech and #GenAI www.mltdigital.co.uk/brian-inkste...
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Me on #GenAI ⬇️ www.linkedin.com/posts/ylfs-p...
Your Law Firm Success ® on LinkedIn: Brian Inkster on lawyers and generative AI
Clip 1 from our upcoming episode of the Your Law Firm Success podcast with the irrepressible and never boring Brian Inkster.
We talk about legal tech…
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September 26, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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