Bridget Smith 🚀

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[Bridget Smith 🚀 @MagnumIP]

“I am a successful lawyer,” I whisper to myself as I stand in the dead-last boarding group awaiting my middle seat in the ass-end of the plane.

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@Fenton_Mulley @japan_nobunaga I was ok right up until Banana-san 🪦

[Pizza Hut @pizzahut]

@people time to hit the books

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@kathleenelee @ggooooddddoogg

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Old and busted: "I represent clients on both sides of the v."
New hotness: "I’ve taken turns driving and getting rear-ended."

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@McCoySmith That's my thought too. There was a guy at my old firm who taught me to say this when onboarding a new client + I've had 2 people say it to me. I don't recall ever saying this myself, but I wonder how it became ubiquitous and what it means. I should ask the next time it happens.

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After onboarding a new outside counsel, the relationship partner often says to the lead in-house counsel, "We are going to make you look so good."

Private practitioners: Do you say this? Do you complete the sentence by providing the preposition "by" + an explanation?

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@ProtestedGame I like it. I like it.

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@McCoySmith By in-house counsel or the private practitioner?

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Nah. Not enough emojis or one-word sentences.

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Unpopular opinion:

Posting on LinkedIn…

isn’t about content.

It’s about storytelling.

It’s about authenticity.

It’s about…

spacing your sentences like this.

Agree or disagree?

👇

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@Bearded_Vet @mattvanswol Javelina smell horrible. Is that inside your house?

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@j0ewinn Yes. It was a joke to shitpost my pretty picture.

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Congrats to the @SpaceX and @xai Brands & Comm teams for the @grok logo over LA tonight. Next level Skywriting and commitment to the acquisition.

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@klastastic @ItsMattsLaw @mpeltz MTE

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Here, it seemed important to the USA that the AI tool was not integrated into the email agent. What if it were? What if he drafted an email in Outlook with Copilot involving communications between a client and a non-attorney computer before hitting send. Privilege or nah? /8

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I was reading the US Attorney's "Motion for a Ruling that Documents the Defendant Generated Through an Artificial Intelligence Tool Are Not Privileged" in United States v. Heppner, Doc. 22 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 6, 2026). /1

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The ruling from the bench sided with the USA but I'm curious whether they explored this distinction. Has anyone seen the transcript? /7