Dan Lear

VP @legalshield | Advisor @offtherecordapp. Formerly @confidolegal, @avvo. It’s still Twitter to me.

[Dan Lear @rightbrainlaw]

10 years since #reinventlaw!! I’m not exaggerating when I say that the #reinventlaw Silicon Valley event changed the trajectory of my career. Huge shout out to @computational, @reneeknake and the rest of the team. #legaltech wouldn’t be what it is today without #reinventlaw ✊

[Bob Ambrogi @bobambrogi]

On the 10th anniversary of ReInvent Law Silicon Valley, a seminal #legaltech event, @rightbrainlaw and I are presenting 3 days of essays by some who were there, recalling what it meant to their careers. Day 1 is up now, with Dan, @R_Amani and @A_Ninhja https://t.co/0HLMwb1t1r

[Dan Lear @rightbrainlaw]

*case hallucinator.

[Dan Lear @rightbrainlaw]

Or is it just my post-surgery drugs talking? Given that it’s 12:30 AM I’d probably take a bet on the latter with an over at 70%. But I still like @samuelharden’s care hallucinator and you’re not convincing me otherwise. 😤

[Dan Lear @rightbrainlaw]

Do I love Twitter again . . .?

[Dan Lear @rightbrainlaw]

Do I love Twitter again . . .?

[Dan Lear @rightbrainlaw]

*happily running . . .

[Matt Margolis @ItsMattsLaw]

lot of you guys don’t appreciate that there are law firms still running on word perfect

[Sam Harden @samuelharden]

Sometimes I should not be allowed around Claude. Did I create a case law research site that 100% hallucinates every case on demand? Yes. Is that a terrible idea? Also yes.

[Dan Lear @rightbrainlaw]

look like from entirely hallucinated cases? What’s that even based upon? Creativity? Believability? Overall fairness? I love it. Let’s not fear hallucinated cases. Let’s embrace them as an entirely new practice area. Talk about “law in the multiverse.” Freaking awesome. 😍✊2/2

[Dan Lear @rightbrainlaw]

I honestly couldn’t love this anymore. When I was in law school I toyed with an idea of a law review from all the craziest law review submissions . . . poetry, fiction, “Harry Potter and the Rule Against Perpetuities” . . . You get the idea. What does the best brief . . . 1/x

[Sam Harden @samuelharden]

Sometimes I should not be allowed around Claude. Did I create a case law research site that 100% hallucinates every case on demand? Yes. Is that a terrible idea? Also yes.

[Dan Lear @rightbrainlaw]

@samuelharden @jborstein I’ll check it out, Sam!

[Dan Lear @rightbrainlaw]

Preach, brother! 📢

[Joe Borstein @jborstein]

@rightbrainlaw My view is, it’s possible, but unlikely. I do, however, think it will dramatically change the industry, just not destroy it.

Change is good. The industry sucks as it is.

[Joe Borstein @jborstein]

I just point to historic parallels which have not destroyed industries and have, often, grown them.

Airlines (and pilots) with the development of autopilot. Bankers and tellers post the ATM (automatic teller machine).

Even the less perfect example of “computers” (people who compute) getting their jobs eliminated, while their skill set became even more valuable in other emerging jobs.

It’s possible that tech will be the “end of lawyers” as some say, but I’ll believe it when I see it.

In the meantime, it’s VERY easy to show lawyers how to grow/improve their practices … now.

That’s what i like to talk about. Growth.

[Dan Lear @rightbrainlaw]

@jborstein This is not a new pattern . . . But I’m still interested to see if this time might be different.

[Dan Lear @rightbrainlaw]

@jborstein Love that. I like to reference this article in which it cites experts 50 years ago that thought we’d all be working 30 hour weeks but the opposite has happened. https://t.co/Q35UkCcxBn

[Dan Lear @rightbrainlaw]

@VijitChahar Yeah, that seems like more of a PLG approach. My card analogy may be inapt, because adopting payments firmwide is probably a bigger lift. That said, I am skeptical of this individual’s bullishness on a $35K price tag for a technology whose exact benefit is still quite speculative

[Dan Lear @rightbrainlaw]

As someone who has cold emailed more than 10K law firms and can’t even get them to (for example) accept credit cards, I must respectfully disagree.

[Elvis @elvissun]

someone's going to cold email 10,000 law firms in USA and make a million in 2025.

[Dan Lear @rightbrainlaw]

This was compelling enough to get me to dust off this profile . . . And that means it’s pretty compelling.

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Why are personal injury attorneys the marginal bidder for roadside billboards in so many parts of the US? Is the sector really so large? A priori, I would never have predicted this.

Quick investigation: "Costs and compensation paid in the U.S. tort system reached over $529 billion in 2022, or over $4,200 per U.S. household." 2% of US GDP! Also appears to have compounded meaningfully faster than GDP over the past decade.

[Dan Lear @rightbrainlaw]

Achievement unlocked! @NateSilver538 answered my question in a recent SBSQ issue. I’ve been a huge fan of Nate’s since at least 2012, listened to MANY of the 538 politics podcast eps, saw Nate in Seattle a few months ago . . . This is probably getting awkward. Anyway, stoked!

[Dan Lear @rightbrainlaw]

Maybe this take makes me the crotchety old man but this feels like it was inevitable. VCs funded taxis out of existence with ride sharing and now ride sharing has, effectively, become like riding in a taxi.

[Alex Friedman 🤠 @heyalexfriedman]

For the first time in my ~10 years of using Uber, my friends and I have started avoiding rideshare services altogether.
Instead, we’ve been picking each other up or having one of us be the designated driver, rather than relying on Uber or Lyft.

Over the past year (at least in Austin), most of our rides have been disappointing: the driver isn’t the person in the photo, the car is filthy, the driving is erratic, or the driver hits on us — which, to be fair, isn’t always bad, but it can feel unsettling at 1am when you’re being dropped off alone. More often than not, it’s a mix of these issues.

I don’t know if this is a nationwide problem, but it’s wild to see a service my friends and I once depended on become practically unusable.

Honestly, I can’t think of a better time for Waymo to step in.

[Dan Lear @rightbrainlaw]

💯This was as absolutely fantastic.

[Bryce Roberts @bryce]

Just an incredible listen…

[Dan Lear @rightbrainlaw]

@adamdavidlong Eh, you might have been too bullish on smart contracts in the short run but I don’t think that the race is over by any means. Blockchain still has some very compelling use cases in legal, particiukarly in a world that appears to offer increasing expertise at a lower cost.