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Ryan McClead is Principal and CEO of Sente Advisors, a legal technology consultancy that helps law firms turn innovation from a buzzword into an operational practice. He has spent more than two decades in legal technology, starting on a law firm help desk and working his way through knowledge management, global technology innovation leadership at Norton Rose Fulbright, and a stint as Senior Vice President at Neota Logic before founding Sente in 2018.

He is a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, a Fastcase 50 honoree, and the author of Your New AI Colleague: A Field Guide to the AI That's Going to Do Your Job. Before any of that, he spent a decade as a musical theater composer, which explains the cadence of his prose if not his career choices.

The third law of prediction from the late great Arthur C. Clarke, is that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

If Sir Arthur were writing today I think he may have replaced ‘magic’ with ‘artificial intelligence’.

AI has become our modern sorcery.  It’s both our savior and our bogey-man. It will most likely

UPDATE: Woo Hoo!!  Thanks to the amazing readers of 3 Geeks, we are now leading the voting in this award category.  Voting’s not over and iPhone JD could still pull ahead and Catalyst E-Discovery Search Blog is less than a length behind and could overtake us both.  But I don’t care anymore.  It’s enough to

Two weeks ago I spoke on a panel at ILTA in a session entitled, Legal Technology Innovation – Bolstering AND Destroying the Legal Profession.  Interestingly, the original title was Bolstering and Destroying Legal Work, which didn’t seem nearly as wimpy when we submitted it, as it did after the revised title was published.

Good enough.

Two words that are anathema to law firms.  After all, we produce perfect legal product. (cough, cough) We strive to eliminate risk for our clients, and especially for our firm, and as such, ‘good enough’ Is. Never. Good. Enough.  
I can’t and would never comment on whether a contract or agreement should