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The past, present and future practice of law (reality not hype). Brought to you by @brianinkster.bsky.social of @inksters.bsky.social | #LegalTech #LawTech #LegalIT #LegalAI #FutureLaw | thetimeblawg.com

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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
AI and Professional Negligence #AI #GenAI #LegalPractice #LegalTech #ProfessionalNegligence thetimeblawg.com/2026/07/12/a...
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AI and Professional Negligence
AI and professional negligence has possibly been clarified by the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce in their Statement on Liability for AI Harm.
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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GenAI ain't magic
'GenAI ain't magic' at Legal Geek Growth 2026. A look by Brian Inkster at the reality, rather than the hype, surrounding GenAI.
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
GenAI ain't magic @legalgeek.bsky.social Growth: thetimeblawg.com/2026/06/14/g... includes reference to a Bluesky post by @spencerkoelle.bsky.social #LegalTech #GenAI #magic #hallucinations #verificationburden
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GenAI ain't magic
'GenAI ain't magic' at Legal Geek Growth 2026. A look by Brian Inkster at the reality, rather than the hype, surrounding GenAI.
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
LinkedIn Legal Marketing: Vanity v Sanity #lawyers #LawFirms #marketing #LinkedIn #vanity #sanity - including the comments on LinkedIn following the post being published there thetimeblawg.com/2026/01/18/l...
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LinkedIn Legal Marketing: Vanity v Sanity
LinkedIn Legal Marketing circles in the UK have been awash this week with 'influencer' humble brags. See Sanity over Vanity.
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Same thing, unfortunately, happening in legal practice: thetimeblawg.com/2025/11/15/t...
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The GenAI Verification Burden in Legal Practice
The GenAI verification burden is highlighted in a paper on 'The Verification-Value Paradox: A Normative Critique of Gen AI in Legal Practice'
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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justfara @justfara.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot www.extremetech.com/computing/mi...
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Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot
Google's Gemini is on pace to push Copilot into third place.
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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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Brian Inkster @brianinkster.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
How to Grow Your Business the Smart Way (an interview with yours truly) #ForwardThinkingLaw #PlugPlayLaw #GrowthBlueprint youtu.be/pWiIkWUyNVg?...
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How to Grow Your Business the Smart Way (with Brian Inkster)
YouTube video by The Growth BluePrint Podcast
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The #GenAI Verification Burden in Legal Practice #Lawyers #LLM #LegalTech #Hallucinations thetimeblawg.com/2025/11/15/t...
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The GenAI Verification Burden in Legal Practice
The GenAI verification burden is highlighted in a paper on 'The Verification-Value Paradox: A Normative Critique of Gen AI in Legal Practice'
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Godot before ABS in Scotland? #ABS #LegalServices #Regulation #Reform #Scotland thetimeblawg.com/2025/09/20/g...
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Godot before ABS in Scotland?
Will Godot turn up before Alternative Business Structures (ABS) in Scotland? Paul Rogerson of the Law Society Gazette thinks so.
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
"AI chatbots are a privacy disaster in progress". #AI #GenAI #LLM #privacy #Grok #Google www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot appears to have published messages without users' knowledge.
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
ABS in Scotland kicked into the long grass again? #ABS #LegalServices #Regulation #Scotland thetimeblawg.com/2025/08/21/a...
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ABS in Scotland kicked into the long grass again?
Has ABS in Scotland been kicked into the long grass again? A Law Society event on Regulation of legal services reform suggests it may be.
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
It was, I suppose, just a matter of time before a court failed to spot hallucinated case law! 😕 #GenAI #courts #Caseload #hallucinations abovethelaw.com/2025/07/tria...
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Trial Court Decides Case Based On AI-Hallucinated Caselaw - Above the Law
Appellate court to trial judge: you know these cases are made up, right?
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Legal Geek Growth 2025: The one that grew too big? #LegalGeek #LegalGeekGrowth #LegalTech #GenAI #AI thetimeblawg.com/2025/06/08/l...
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Legal Geek Growth 2025: The one that grew too big?
Legal Geek Growth is the summer alternative, for SME law firms, to the larger Legal Geek event (aimed at Big Law) in London in the Autumn.
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
"Machinery kills labour. People need jobs." #RaceAcrossTheWorld #India
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Consumer Horse @consumerhorse.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
For anyone who missed it. This is beyond parody!
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/05/2025
Alabama hires bespoke law firm to defend its prison system; firm uses ai and cites cases which don’t exist.
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Alabama paid a law firm millions to defend its prisons. It used AI and turned in fake citations
Butler Snow faces sanctions after lawyer cites false case law defending against inmate who says he was stabbed 20 times
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
ABS to be permitted in Scotland without any requirement of lawyer ownership #law #legalservices #regulation #reform #Scotland #ABS #TescoLaw thetimeblawg.com/2025/05/22/s...
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Significant Majority Ownership Reform ignored by the Law Society of Scotland
Majority ownership reform ignored by the Law Society of Scotland in their press release on the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill Passed thetimeblawg.com/2025/05/21/r... #LegalServices #Regulation #Reform #Scotland
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Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill Passed
The Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill was passed by the Scottish Parliament on 20 May 2025 following a raft of stage 3 amendments
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Brian Inkster @brianinkster.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Jedi Lawyers plugplaylaw.com/2025/05/04/j... #maythe4thbewithyou #maythefourth #maythe4th #StarWarsDay
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Jedi Lawyers
Jedi Lawyers have traits that are the same as a good Plug and Play Lawyer. If you have Jedi Lawyer traits then Plug Play Law could be for you.
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value #AI #GenAI #LLM #LegalTech futurism.com/microsoft-ce...
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Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, whose company has invested billions of dollars in ChatGPT maker OpenAI, has had it with the AI hype.
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The Great British Legal Offsite (GBLO) 2024: The one with a Penguin and a Dragon #GBLO #LawFirms #LegalTech #AI #GenAI thetimeblawg.com/2025/02/09/t...
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The Great Big Legal Offsite (GBLO) 2024: The one with a Penguin and a Dragon
The Great Big Legal Offsite (GBLO) was held at Ribby Hall Village, Kirkham (near Preston) on 3 July 2024. Unplug today to Plug-in tomorrow.
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Mastering the #legaltech that they already purchased that is sitting gathering dust on a shelf #shelfware might be a good first step 😉
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
DeepSeek AI recreated for $30 futurism.com/researchers-...
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Team Says They've Recreated DeepSeek's OpenAI Killer for Literally $30
A new breakthrough by AI researchers has found a way to reproduce DeepSeek's SLM for less than the cost of two dozen eggs.
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Free Our Feeds @freeourfeeds.com · 13/01/2025
"As Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg continue to reshape the social media space, a group of international tech entrepreneurs and advocates has launched a campaign to protect social media from the control and influence of billionaires." techcrunch.com/2025/01/13/a...
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A new campaign aims to safeguard social media from billionaires using Bluesky's underlying tech | TechCrunch
The initiative, Free Our Feeds, aims to protect Bluesky’s underlying technology, the AT Protocol, and leverage it to create an open social media ecosystem that can’t be controlled by a single company ...
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
... He clearly hasn't heard of Inkster's Law 😉 thetimeblawg.com/2023/12/16/i...
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Inkster's Law
Inkster's Law: The 2:1 ratio of time needed to check for accuracy of AI generated material. A law by Brian Inkster (term coined by Gav Ward)
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Starmer is not following the futurists with his AI predictions. Not 5 or 10 years but apparently much quicker than that to double productivity 🤔
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Saw this on LinkedIn and thought of you both. Copilot shooting itself in the foot!
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Oh, yes, you would! www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
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‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point
Last year, 10,000 sham papers had to be retracted by academic journals, but experts think this is just the tip of the iceberg
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Think I would prefer an ice cream van!
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Thought they wouldn't!
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
But do your kids/their pals call it "the metaverse"? thetimeblawg.com/2023/02/19/a...
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A Teenager's view of the Metaverse: "A term that is made fun of"
Brian Inkster asked his teenage nephew, Maks Inkster, for his views on the metaverse. Maks has spent more than 3,000 hours using VR.
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Inksters @inksters.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
If you haven't already done so, do get you #inkstersdigitalxmas hats on! A prize for the best one 🤴🤶🎅👑 Merry Christmas! #inksterschristmashats www.inkstersdigitalxmas.com
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Inksters Christmas Hats
We're missing seeing all your faces, and this year it's even easier to join in with inksters Christmas hats. Just enable your camera, take your snap and share to win a prize.
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I still wouldn't put it anywhere when blawging (other than perhaps for an occassional image)! thetimeblawg.com/2023/03/11/c...
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ChatGPT Free Law Blog
The Time Blawg is a ChatGPT Free Law Blog. It is a real Law Blog written by human beings with no AI used to create the content. No Hallucinations are involved.
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Snap!
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
"...not only are these AI models not magic, but they are also extra-fancy auto-complete, actively monitored, and interfered with by the companies that make them. Next time you think about getting facts from a chatbot, think about whether it might be better to go straight to the source instead."
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Why does the name 'David Mayer' crash ChatGPT? OpenAI says privacy tool went rogue | TechCrunch
Users of the conversational AI platform ChatGPT discovered an interesting phenomenon over the weekend: the popular chatbot refuses to answer questions if
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Also: "The problem with LinkedIn debates (and indeed social media debates in general) is they tend to be very much of the moment. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain… I like to preserve those moments for posterity. I can do that in this old fashioned thing called a blog 🙂"
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The AI in Law Debate: Shaver v Inkster and beyond
In September 2023, Denis Potemkin of Mojoto organised and chaired 'The Great AI in Law Debate' between Brian Inkster and Nicola Shaver.
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Fantastic Lawyers (Formerly WardblawG) The AI Legal Directory @wardblawg.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
“Lawyers used to start with an empty page” claims @sethgodin.bsky.social. Via his past present and future of law blog @thetimeblawg.bsky.social, @brianinkster.bsky.social says otherwise- was that a straw man argument? Well worth the read. thetimeblawg.com/2024/09/01/b... #law #legal #legalai #genai
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Blank Page Law
Blank Page Law. I never started with a blank page 30 years ago. There were always templates/styles to kick off with.
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
How to turn a Bluesky Starter Pack into a List: techcrunch.com/2024/11/22/h...
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How to turn a Bluesky Starter Pack into a List | TechCrunch
A new tool for the rapidly growing X competitor Bluesky helps you quickly create new feeds that you can pin to the app's home page to follow your various
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MLT Digital - The Marketing Agency for Law Firms @mltdigital.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Earlier this year, prominent legal sector commentator @brianinkster.bsky.social spoke with our CEO Stephen Moore, predicting the rise of #Bluesky. Now growing at 1+ million new users every day:- www.mltdigital.co.uk/brian-inkste... #law #legal #digital #legalmarketing #legalai #legaltech #genai
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Brian Inkster - Scepticism towards AI | Podcast | MLT Digital
Stephen speaks with Brian Inkster, a prominent figure in the Scottish legal sector, to discuss his journey and technology in the legal sector.
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Don't like "Skeets". Butterflies apparently crackle. So we should all be crackling 😉
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Once upon a time we had #twegals over there. Do we now have #skegals on here? Or is it #blegals? 🙂
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Brian Inkster @brianinkster.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
Episode 13 of the 'Your Law Firm Success' podcast is now available featuring yours truly interviewed by Stephen Moore of @mltdigital.bsky.social. Listen to me chat about what success in running a law firm means, #plugplaylaw #LegalTech and #GenAI www.mltdigital.co.uk/brian-inkste...
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Brian Inkster @brianinkster.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Me on #GenAI ⬇️ www.linkedin.com/posts/ylfs-p...
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Your Law Firm Success ® on LinkedIn: Brian Inkster on lawyers and generative AI
Clip 1 from our upcoming episode of the Your Law Firm Success podcast with the irrepressible and never boring Brian Inkster. We talk about legal tech…
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Not sure we will really properly get auto drive anytime soon. Also wonder the real demand for it? Turning to Grok v ChatGPT, I also wonder the real demand for it (either of them or others) given the actual limitations of current LLMs. Will a supercomputer really resolve that or just split out 42? 😉
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Is the use case not just resentment and to beat OpenAI? 🤔
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
Is it a grasp or just the money to do it? And is it money being well spent? Will there actually be a viable tech business there that will recoup a ROI?
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The Time Blawg @thetimeblawg.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
My first microcomputer, followed by a BBC.
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