Future Counsel

Strategy

Autonomous AI agents are no longer a conference slide. They are drafting, filing and following up inside mid-sized firms right now.

Eleanor Whitcombe · November 4, 2026 · 9 min

Strategy

When a forty-hour research memo takes four, the economics of legal services must be rewritten. Some clients are already holding the pen.

Marcus Adeyemi · October 30, 2026 · 11 min

Marketing

Partners with newsletters, podcasts and short-form video are winning work. AI tools are lowering the barrier to entry for everyone else.

Sofia Laurent · October 26, 2026 · 7 min

Regulation

As obligations phase in, firms advising clients on compliance may be overlooking their own exposure.

Henrik Vos · October 21, 2026 · 10 min

Courts

Standing orders on generative AI have multiplied. We map the trends and what they signal for litigators.

Judith Okafor · October 16, 2026 · 8 min

Careers

Training, career paths and the first-year experience are being rebuilt from the ground up.

Priya Raman · October 11, 2026 · 9 min

Practice

Lean practices can adopt faster, price more creatively and market more personally than their larger rivals.

Daniel Ferreira · October 6, 2026 · 6 min

Practice

Retrieval, verification and citation checking turn unreliable outputs into dependable work product.

Eleanor Whitcombe · October 1, 2026 · 7 min

Marketing

AI-powered portals, instant status updates and plain-language summaries are becoming baseline client expectations.

Sofia Laurent · September 26, 2026 · 6 min

Strategy

After a funding boom, the market is narrowing. What it means for firms choosing platforms today.

Marcus Adeyemi · September 21, 2026 · 8 min

Regulation

Bar associations have converged on competence, confidentiality, supervision and fees. The details still matter.

Judith Okafor · September 16, 2026 · 10 min

Practice

Legal departments, pressed to do more with less, are outpacing their outside counsel.

Priya Raman · September 11, 2026 · 7 min

Marketing

As prospective clients ask AI assistants for lawyer recommendations, traditional SEO is giving way to something new.

Daniel Ferreira · September 6, 2026 · 6 min

Opinion

Legal aid organizations are deploying AI to serve the millions who cannot afford a lawyer. Results are promising and complicated.

Henrik Vos · September 1, 2026 · 9 min

Courts

Data on judges, opposing counsel and outcomes is reshaping case strategy and settlement talks.

Judith Okafor · August 27, 2026 · 8 min

Practice

Firms that organized their precedents are reaping rewards. Everyone else is scrambling.

Eleanor Whitcombe · August 22, 2026 · 7 min

Strategy

A practical framework for fees that reward efficiency without eroding margin.

Marcus Adeyemi · August 17, 2026 · 9 min

Courts

Synthetic media challenges authentication rules built for a pre-AI world.

Henrik Vos · August 12, 2026 · 8 min

Practice

Legal ops professionals are now orchestrating technology, vendors and data across the department.

Priya Raman · August 7, 2026 · 6 min

Careers

Curricula are changing, but the debate over what lawyers must learn is far from settled.

Sofia Laurent · August 2, 2026 · 7 min

Marketing

Five channels, one voice: how firms build authority in a crowded market.

Daniel Ferreira · July 28, 2026 · 8 min

Practice

Review, negotiation and lifecycle management tools have moved from novelty to infrastructure.

Eleanor Whitcombe · July 23, 2026 · 6 min

Regulation

A practical diligence checklist for firms sending sensitive information to AI platforms.

Judith Okafor · July 18, 2026 · 8 min

Opinion

Conversational research tools are changing how lawyers find, test and present the law.

Marcus Adeyemi · July 12, 2026 · 7 min

Opinion

An introduction to a publication devoted to the profession's most consequential transformation.

The Editors · July 1, 2026 · 4 min