Legal Market Insights
- “Thriving with AI: Why the Future of Law Is Still Deeply Human,” 07.29.26.
This post on the 2Civility website explores the ongoing importance of human skills in the legal profession and urges us to be sure the “quintessentially human dimensions of lawyering are not discarded or diminished.”
- “The Price of Perfectionism,” 07.28.26. This piece at New York Law Journal discusses the difference between excellence and perfectionism and urges us to have “a different relationship with standards altogether, one that allows for rigor without relentless self-criticism, values excellence without demanding flawlessness, and recognizes that being a good lawyer and being a human being are not competing obligations.”
- “AI Knows What You Did Online. Now Your Employer Does, Too,” 07.15.26. The Wall Street Journal reports that companies are now incorporating AI tools into background checks in order to do faster, more thorough checks.
- “US Legal Sector Jobs Continued to Climb in June,” 07.02.26. Reuters reports, “The U.S. legal sector added 5,100 jobs in June, pushing legal employment to an all-time high for the third straight month, according to figures released on Thursday by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.”