Shafiq Makki Batte

Happy. Football. Laugh.
Never take life so serious. Learn to live with it, have faith, hope, you ain't assured of tomorrow more than your alarm.

[Shafiq Makki Batte @BatteMakki]

@YkeeBenda @propsMCFC Kubuzeko a special tumbavu yiveni 😅

[Shafiq Makki Batte @BatteMakki]

@Philopearl_Afc Imagine losing a game and they buy you eats from breakfast to supper all in the name of banter.... You run they undress you, just let Ugandans celebrate 😅

[Shafiq Makki Batte @BatteMakki]

@TumukundeTT Owaye towaayo egwanga olwa Arsenal 😂

[𝗗𝗘𝗖 𝗥!𝗖𝗘 @DR41fanpage]

I told you all. It's done 🏆❤️

[Shafiq Makki Batte @BatteMakki]

@AFTVMedia Favoritism you bought Norgard only for him to be benched the whole season Arteta is sooo fake

[Shafiq Makki Batte @BatteMakki]

@lovegodfortune @AFTVMedia Talk about y the f did he buy him that not even coming on as a substitute that's y his rotation mistakes have been costing us for the last four seasons

[Shafiq Makki Batte @BatteMakki]

@Felix1342118 @brfootball Was about to ask so

[The ULS Lawyers League @lawyersleagueug]

League Standings after Matchday II
~its a marathon not a sprint~
#TLLV

[Ann Srivastava @helloparalegal]

Most solo lawyers think AI will help them compete with BigLaw.

They are solving the wrong problem. BigLaw is not their competition. BigLaw is not taking their clients. BigLaw does not want their clients.

The person doing a $4,000 real estate closing is not losing that client to Kirkland & Ellis. The family lawyer charging $5,000 for an uncontested divorce is not competing with Skadden.

Your competition is not a better lawyer.

Your competition is the client who decides to do nothing.

The landlord who Googles "do I need a lawyer for an eviction" and finds an AI-generated article that walks them through the process step by step. They download a form. They file it themselves. They get it wrong. But they never call you because the internet told them they did not need to.

The small business owner who asks ChatGPT to draft an operating agreement instead of hiring you. It hallucinates a few clauses. It misses their state's specific requirements. But it looked professional enough and it was free. Two years later when the partnership blows up, they will need a lawyer. But right now, today, they chose "do nothing" over "hire a lawyer."

The couple who should have gotten a prenup but decided it was "too expensive" and "too awkward to bring up." The startup founder who used an online template for a convertible note because a lawyer wanted $2,500. The homeowner who did not fight their property tax assessment because they did not know a lawyer could do that for $750.

None of these people hired a different lawyer. They hired no lawyer. They either did it themselves badly or they did not do it at all.

This is the actual competitive landscape for most solo lawyers and small firm owners. And it has been getting worse every year for a decade. Long before AI.

LegalZoom does 20% of all LLC filings in California. Not because LegalZoom is better than a lawyer. Because LegalZoom is there at 11pm when the person decides to start a business, and you are not.

Rocket Lawyer, LegalShield, Nolo, incfile, all of them exist not because they stole clients from lawyers. They filled the gap that lawyers left open by being expensive, slow, intimidating, and hard to reach.

Now AI is making that gap wider. Fast.

A person with a legal question in 2019 had two choices. Google it and read confusing articles, or call a lawyer. Most of the time calling a lawyer felt like too much. Too expensive. Too formal. Too slow. They did not know if their problem was "lawyer worthy." They did not want to feel stupid asking. So they did nothing.

A person with a legal question in 2026 has a third option. Ask an AI. Get an answer in 30 seconds that sounds confident and authoritative. It might be wrong. It might miss critical jurisdiction-specific details. It might hallucinate a statute that does not exist. But it answered the question instantly, for free, without judgment.

Every day, people are making legal decisions based on AI-generated information that no lawyer has reviewed. They are signing contracts, filing forms, making agreements, and accepting terms that a 15-minute consultation would have flagged.

They are not choosing a competitor over you. They are choosing the absence of you. Because you were never in the consideration set.

This is the real opportunity for solos and it is the opposite of what the legal tech industry is selling.

The legal tech industry says: use AI to do your legal work faster so you can compete with bigger firms.

The actual opportunity is: use AI to be present at the moment the client is deciding whether to hire a lawyer at all.

What does that mean specifically.

42% of solo practitioners fail to respond to leads within 3 days. Three days. In a world where someone can get an AI-generated answer in 30 seconds, you are taking 72 hours to return a phone call.

The lawyer who responds first gets the client 70% of the time. Not the best lawyer. Not the cheapest. The first one who picks up.

So the single highest-ROI use of AI for a solo practitioner is not drafting briefs faster. It is making sure every single person who reaches out gets a response within minutes. A real response. Not an autoresponder. A response that acknowledges their specific situation and makes them feel like someone competent is paying attention.

The second highest-ROI use is being findable at the moment of need. The person Googling "do I need a lawyer for this" at 10pm needs to find you, understand in 30 seconds that you handle exactly their problem, and have a way to engage right then. Not "call during business hours." Not "fill out this form and we will get back to you." Right then.

The third highest-ROI use is making the first consultation so easy that the friction of hiring a lawyer disappears. Pre-filled intake. A clear explanation of what it will cost. A simple way to pay. No "come to my office" when a video call works fine. No "I will send you a retainer agreement" when they could e-sign one right now while they are still motivated.

Every step of friction between "I think I might need a lawyer" and "I just hired a lawyer" is a point where the client decides to do nothing instead. AI can eliminate almost all of that friction.

The solos who figure this out will not be competing with BigLaw. They will be capturing the 80% of legal need that currently goes unserved because the profession has made itself too hard to hire.

There are roughly 50 million civil legal problems in America every year. More than half get no legal help at all. Not because there are not enough lawyers. There are too many lawyers. Because the gap between "I have a legal problem" and "I hired a lawyer" is filled with cost uncertainty, intimidation, inconvenience, and delay.

AI does not close that gap by making lawyers faster at writing briefs.

It closes that gap by making lawyers reachable, responsive, and easy to hire.

That is the post nobody in legal tech is writing. Because it does not sell a $900/month SaaS product. But it is the thing that will actually determine which solo practices thrive and which ones slowly starve.

Your best client is not the one you took from another lawyer.

It is the one who almost did nothing.

[The ULS Lawyers League @lawyersleagueug]

WHAT A WAY TO START THE SEASON💯
Win or lose, everyone was a winner yesterday.
Special thanks to our sponsors
@ug_lawsociety
UBL for setting up and serving the BAR!
Kampala QualitySchool for hosting us,
And to all 18 teams👏👏👏
Happy holy week. 😇
📸. @VStudioug
#TLLV

[TumukundeTonny(TT) @TumukundeTT]

In a bid to reduce case backlog, the Chief Justice has introduced the mobile court system where a judicial office will travel and sit in any part of Uganda and hear and decide cases. It will take care of cases in refugee camps. Justice is coming closer to you.

[Makerere University @Makerere]

The Academic Registrar Makerere University announces that the Pre-Entry Examination for admission to the Bachelor of Laws for 2026/2027 will be held on Saturday 18th April, 2026 from 9:00 a. m. – 12:00 noon.
Follow the link for more details:
https://t.co/hKf74SEEMF

[Shafiq Makki Batte @BatteMakki]

@AFTVMedia The main issue with Arsenal fans is being impatient with the season let it end n start with your shitty analysis. How n where we failed but you seek opinions of pipo who contribute nothing but noise. Just support the players encourage the team n leave the rest to God

[Shafiq Makki Batte @BatteMakki]

@Alarsenalnews_ The propaganda against Arsenal just shows that the world doesn't want Arsenal to win... Even the league kinda favours Man city given the matches we both play

[عمـــــران پٹھــــــان✵ৡ• @Imran__pthan]

ALLAH is the KING of the kings!

[Shafiq Makki Batte @BatteMakki]

@Arsenal But why does Arteta think for us the fans 🤣🤣 why not take off all the forwards after the 85 minute. He had Dowman, Nwaneri n Norgard all available to chase down the opponents. Our forwarda were all tired

[Shafiq Makki Batte @BatteMakki]

@My_sports_talks @Arsenal You're absolutely right your forwards are all tired and worn out but that arrogance told him not to do substitutes. You had Nwaneri, Dowman, Noegard all in for Saka merino n Trossard but as a bottler he wants to be.

[ABBAkatiti👳‍♂️🇳🇬🇵🇸 @Jr_deedat]

Wallahi Nothing beats the Qur'an in Beauty. Subhanallah ❤

[Shafiq Makki Batte @BatteMakki]

@EriasLukwago_ Salongo emitego simyangu owekitibwa 🤣🤣