You Are Already Using AI. The Question Is Whether You Are Using It Well.
Cat Casey’s opening keynote at MastersAI x TechnoCat Chicago delivered a fast, direct briefing on where AI stands today and what legal professionals need to do about it.
AI Did Not Break Data Privacy. It Exposed Every Gap We Were Already Ignoring.
Debbie Reynolds argued that AI didn’t create new privacy problems — it accelerated and amplified the ones that already existed, at a speed governance frameworks were never designed to handle.
You Cannot Wait This One Out
AI is here and it is permanent. The lawyers who win this era are the ones who get fluent now while everyone else is still hoping for normal to come back. Normal is not coming back. But winning is absolutely still on the table.
Knowledge Is Still Power: Using AI to Amplify Legal Expertise
Matthew Kerbis argues that AI is creating content uniformity — and that curation, taste, and subject matter expertise are the competitive differentiators that no model can replicate.
The Real Reason Lawyers Do Not Trust AI Has Nothing to Do with the Technology
Cristin Traylor argued that when lawyers say they don’t trust AI, they usually mean they don’t trust the other party to use it fairly — a relationship problem, not a technology problem.
When AI Becomes Evidence: What Legal Teams Need to Know Now
Chip Koons argued that AI has changed not just how lawyers work, but what counts as evidence — prompts, chatbot histories, and AI-generated drafts are the new footprints investigators follow.
When AI Stops Answering and Starts Acting: The Legal Governance Gap
Martin Tully argues that agentic AI — tools that pursue goals, take actions, and make decisions — demands governance frameworks most legal organizations have not yet built.
The Human Touch: Avoiding The First Industrialists’ Costliest Mistakes
History’s first industrial revolution left casualties. Cat Casey on what legal can learn from those mistakes as AI arrives.
California’s AI Executive Order: A Procurement Play and Regulation Shake-Up
Cat Casey on California’s newest executive order and what it signals for AI regulation across the country.
How a Judge in Texas Is Using AI to Deal With His Caseload
Cat Casey interviewed by NBC News on the Texas judge using AI in his courtroom — and what it means for the judiciary.