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Dispute work, in practice
Notes on confidentiality, AI risk, and the day-to-day mechanics of preparing dispute and case reports — written for the people who actually do the reading.
AI Hallucinations in Legal Work: What an ADGM Costs Order Should Teach Every Firm
In December 2025 an ADGM court ordered a law firm to pay AED 282,508 in costs after its pleadings cited authorities that did not exist, or did not say what the pleadings claimed. The mechanism behind that is worth understanding precisely.
Read the post5 Ways Paralegals Can Cut Case File Review Time Without Cutting Corners
Speed in file review comes from doing fewer passes over the same pages, not from reading faster. Five techniques that hold up when the file is 4,000 pages.
Read the postHow to Structure a Legal Case Report: A Step-by-Step Framework
Most case reports are rewritten not because the analysis was wrong, but because the structure was decided while writing. Here is a framework that settles it beforehand.
Read the postWhy Pasting Case Files Into ChatGPT Could Violate Client Confidentiality
A general-purpose chatbot is a third party. The moment a client document goes into one, you have made a disclosure decision — whether or not you thought of it that way.
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