Hosted by Ron Drescher · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 29 episodes
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AI Tools for Practicing Lawyers delivers practical, no-nonsense guidance on how attorneys can use artificial intelligence tools in their law practices — right now. This podcast is for practicing lawyers who want real-world answers, not hype. Each episode focuses on clear, understandable explanations of AI tools that can help attorneys work more efficiently, communicate more effectively, and make better business decisions — without requiring technical expertise or coding knowledge. We cover topics such as: • Using AI responsibly and ethically in legal practice • Drafting, research, summarization, and document review tools • Client communication and intake automation • Practice management efficiencies • Emerging AI platforms relevant to law firms • Real examples attorneys can apply immediately Whether you are a solo practitioner, small-firm attorney, or part of a larger practice, this podcast is designed to help you understand w
Ron Drescher hosts AI Tools for Practicing Lawyers, a business show with 29 episodes published.
Show Notes What are you actually doing with AI — and does it work? Ron and Heather put their tools down long enough to talk about what they've been building with them. This isn't a roundup of tools you might try. It's an
What if you could lose your case to an AI judge tonight, so you don't lose it to a real one tomorrow? For generations, lawyers learned advocacy the hard way: draft the brief, argue the motion, get knocked down by the jud
Are "build an AI agent in 20 minutes" ads lying to you? Ron spent way more than 12 hours trying to find out. Ron set out to build the simplest possible AI legal workflow — a motion to extend time to file bankruptcy sched
SHOW NOTES NOTE: The File Cabinet Test is used to determine whether AI can discern the contents of every file in a connected drive. The star of Apple's WWDC 2026? Apple Intelligence. Apple announced how Apple Intelligenc
Most conversations about AI and legal writing focus on the tools. This one focuses on the lawyers. What does a Flintstones lawyer actually do on Monday morning after they've finally decided to move? What does a Simpsons
The question everyone is asking is wrong. When lawyers debate which AI tier is "smarter," they're arguing about a label — and labels end analysis. The better question isn't which tier is best. It's what capabilities am I
SHOW NOTES Is the billable hour a liability you're voluntarily handing to your clients — and is AI finally giving lawyers a way out? Rich Rodgers has been building AI-native legal tools since before most lawyers knew wha
Workflow Options: From Prompts to Presets Every lawyer who has ever stared at a blank prompt box knows the feeling. AI promised to change how legal work gets done — but a single chatbox isn't a workflow. The legal AI wor
When AI becomes a privilege problem, most lawyers are still treating it like a productivity hack. Solo and small firm attorneys hear constantly that AI saves time. What they hear far less often is that the AI tool they c
The AI training market for lawyers is broken. Not because there isn't enough of it — there's more than ever. The problem is almost all of it is aimed at the wrong lawyer. LinkedIn is full of Jetsons lawyers talking to ot
I recently participated in a live AI panel at the Maryland Bankruptcy Bar Association Spring Break Weekend — one of the major annual CLE and networking events for Maryland bankruptcy lawyers. The panel featured retired f
In this Field Note, Ron Drescher breaks down one of the most important—and misunderstood—risks in legal AI: hallucinations. The episode begins with the recent Sullivan & Cromwell filing admitting AI-generated errors, wit
This Field Note is a direct companion to the episode “21 Ways AI Can Hallucinate in Your Legal Brief.” If that episode showed how AI fails, this one shows how lawyers are adapting anyway. Drawing from a real-world Reddit
There comes a moment for every lawyer using AI when experimentation turns into real-world application. That’s where the real opportunities begin. Ron and Heather talk to Colorado bankruptcy attorney Matt McCune , a 25-ye
Most legal AI conversations focus on drafting, research, discovery, and analysis. But what if some of the most valuable AI for law firms has nothing to do with writing? In this Workflow Options minisode, Ron Drescher exp
What’s the cheapest way for a lawyer to start using AI without creating expensive ethical, security, or sanctions problems ? In Episode 010, Ron Drescher and Heather Gardner tackle one of the most common questions lawyer
Even elite firms can get burned by AI hallucinations. In this field note, Ron Drescher breaks down the recent Sullivan & Cromwell filing controversy, where an emergency brief reportedly contained multiple citation and qu
In this episode, we’re joined by Carolyn Elefant , a longtime advocate for solo and small firm lawyers and the founder of MyShingle.com. We start with Carolyn’s upcoming AI for Lawyer Moms workshop —why she created it, w
In this kickoff “Workflow Options” episode, Ron Drescher takes a closer look at Ivory Mind, an AI document assistant designed to help professionals quickly understand and organize their materials. At first glance, Ivory
AI can dramatically improve discovery work — summarizing productions, organizing documents, spotting patterns, building timelines, and making massive email chains usable. But most lawyers still lack a clear, defensible f
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