Jonah Perlin
@jonahperlin.bsky.social
Dad | #LegalPractice Prof. @GeorgetownLaw | Ex: DDC, 2d Cir, W&C |🎙Host, @howilawyer.bsky.social Podcast (Top 50 Career Podcast on iTunes)
Thanks to Bloomberg for publishing my piece on why generative AI didn’t kill attorney-client privilege and maybe even strengthened it…
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
No, Generative AI Didn’t Just Kill the Attorney-Client Privilege
Opinion: Georgetown Law professor Jonah Perlin says using third-party technology doesn't categorically waive the attorney-client privilege.
news.bloomberglaw.com
August 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Thanks to Bloomberg for publishing my piece on why generative AI didn’t kill attorney-client privilege and maybe even strengthened it…
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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On LinkedIn, @jonahperlin.bsky.social has an excellent post about how when a senior lawyer asks for a draft, they mean a perfect fly-specked document. This is correct advice for the summer/junior associate.
However, sometimes the senior lawyer *doesn't* want the perfect document. 1/
However, sometimes the senior lawyer *doesn't* want the perfect document. 1/
July 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
On LinkedIn, @jonahperlin.bsky.social has an excellent post about how when a senior lawyer asks for a draft, they mean a perfect fly-specked document. This is correct advice for the summer/junior associate.
However, sometimes the senior lawyer *doesn't* want the perfect document. 1/
However, sometimes the senior lawyer *doesn't* want the perfect document. 1/
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How The Billable Hour Can Survive #GenerativeAI
This article argues that the billable hour not only has a viable path to survive in the age of AI, it may well thrive as a result.
Author: Jonah Perlin
Read More: http://spkl.io/63320A6j9e
This article argues that the billable hour not only has a viable path to survive in the age of AI, it may well thrive as a result.
Author: Jonah Perlin
Read More: http://spkl.io/63320A6j9e
June 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
How The Billable Hour Can Survive #GenerativeAI
This article argues that the billable hour not only has a viable path to survive in the age of AI, it may well thrive as a result.
Author: Jonah Perlin
Read More: http://spkl.io/63320A6j9e
This article argues that the billable hour not only has a viable path to survive in the age of AI, it may well thrive as a result.
Author: Jonah Perlin
Read More: http://spkl.io/63320A6j9e
👀 Not on Twitter much anymore but pleasantly surprised that SSRN posted my forthcoming article on Gen AI and the billable hour!
June 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
👀 Not on Twitter much anymore but pleasantly surprised that SSRN posted my forthcoming article on Gen AI and the billable hour!
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Please join me Wednesday, June 25, at 12-1 PM ET for an engaging discussion on clerkships entitled “Behind the Robes: The Real-World Value of Judicial Clerkships.” If you’re a law student or recent grad contemplating clerking, this event is for you! Register here: form.jotform.com/251546085559...
06.25.2025: Behind the Robes: The Real-World Value of Judicial Clerkships
Please click the link to complete this form.
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June 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Please join me Wednesday, June 25, at 12-1 PM ET for an engaging discussion on clerkships entitled “Behind the Robes: The Real-World Value of Judicial Clerkships.” If you’re a law student or recent grad contemplating clerking, this event is for you! Register here: form.jotform.com/251546085559...
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Really important. So many people die needlessly every year in the water. Please share.
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Really important. So many people die needlessly every year in the water. Please share.
Four weeks ago I started a free newsletter for summer associates and interns. I think my favorite paragraph so far is in today’s issue:
open.substack.com/pub/standout...
open.substack.com/pub/standout...
June 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Four weeks ago I started a free newsletter for summer associates and interns. I think my favorite paragraph so far is in today’s issue:
open.substack.com/pub/standout...
open.substack.com/pub/standout...
Step 1: How am I going to write 7,000 words.
…
Step 2: How am I going to cut this down to 17,000 words.
This is normal, right?
…
Step 2: How am I going to cut this down to 17,000 words.
This is normal, right?
a man is typing on a computer keyboard while making a face .
ALT: a man is typing on a computer keyboard while making a face .
media.tenor.com
June 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Step 1: How am I going to write 7,000 words.
…
Step 2: How am I going to cut this down to 17,000 words.
This is normal, right?
…
Step 2: How am I going to cut this down to 17,000 words.
This is normal, right?
You haven’t lived until you’ve taken seven girls under ten to sing karaoke. I have no ear drums left.
May 31, 2025 at 9:04 PM
You haven’t lived until you’ve taken seven girls under ten to sing karaoke. I have no ear drums left.
May 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
May 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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This is so important, and so hard for some students. I say it a lot, but often the ones who need help the most are the least likely to ask for it.
One thing I wish my students would hear from me is that it’s ok - brave even - to ask for help
May 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
This is so important, and so hard for some students. I say it a lot, but often the ones who need help the most are the least likely to ask for it.
Why quality of work is more important than quantity as a summer associate.
Check out issue #2 of Standout Summer Associate.
Check out issue #2 of Standout Summer Associate.
Avoid the Quantity Trap
Why it is worth focusing on the quality of your work over the quantity of work in your summer job.
open.substack.com
May 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Why quality of work is more important than quantity as a summer associate.
Check out issue #2 of Standout Summer Associate.
Check out issue #2 of Standout Summer Associate.
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In this blog post I discuss a new article in which Kevin Tobia and I examine how widespread AI texts are in legal institutions, initial policy responses some have made, and the concerns all of this raises alongside opportunities: www.wilftownsend.net/p/when-compu...
When computers generate legal text, that matters for everyone—not just lawyers
Some thoughts on "generated legal texts"
www.wilftownsend.net
May 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
In this blog post I discuss a new article in which Kevin Tobia and I examine how widespread AI texts are in legal institutions, initial policy responses some have made, and the concerns all of this raises alongside opportunities: www.wilftownsend.net/p/when-compu...
First episode of Standout Summer Associate is LIVE.
Next issue drops tomorrow morning. Read here:
standoutsummerassociate.substack.com/p/you-dont-k...
Next issue drops tomorrow morning. Read here:
standoutsummerassociate.substack.com/p/you-dont-k...
May 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
First episode of Standout Summer Associate is LIVE.
Next issue drops tomorrow morning. Read here:
standoutsummerassociate.substack.com/p/you-dont-k...
Next issue drops tomorrow morning. Read here:
standoutsummerassociate.substack.com/p/you-dont-k...
Starting a FREE newsletter for summer associates and summer interns.
First issue goes live tomorrow at 7AM.
Sign up here 👇
First issue goes live tomorrow at 7AM.
Sign up here 👇
Standout Summer Associate | Jonah Perlin | Substack
A newsletter focused on helping summer associates and legal interns succeed in sustainable ways. Click to read Standout Summer Associate, by Jonah Perlin, a Substack publication with hundreds of subsc...
open.substack.com
May 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Starting a FREE newsletter for summer associates and summer interns.
First issue goes live tomorrow at 7AM.
Sign up here 👇
First issue goes live tomorrow at 7AM.
Sign up here 👇
Happy Mothers Day friends 💕
May 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Happy Mothers Day friends 💕
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From Jeffrey Toobin's 2008 book THE NINE, this remains the greatest Justice Souter anecdote I can possibly share. RIP.
May 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
From Jeffrey Toobin's 2008 book THE NINE, this remains the greatest Justice Souter anecdote I can possibly share. RIP.
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Look, I don't wanna say this was *all* Bill Treanor's doing, but ...
Ed Martin, President Trump’s nominee to be the top prosecutor in Washington, is teetering toward failure after Republican senators signaled they couldn’t support him www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @wsj.com
a woman is making a funny face while standing in front of a man in a suit .
ALT: a woman is making a funny face while standing in front of a man in a suit .
media.tenor.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Look, I don't wanna say this was *all* Bill Treanor's doing, but ...
How many emails will I get today calling me “Josh.”
Current count: Greater than 1!
Current count: Greater than 1!
a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is sitting in a crowd .
ALT: a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is sitting in a crowd .
media.tenor.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
How many emails will I get today calling me “Josh.”
Current count: Greater than 1!
Current count: Greater than 1!
Remove a letter, ruin a movie
Moan
Moan
Remove a letter, ruin a movie
Tax Driver
Tax Driver
Remove a letter, ruin a movie.
Oldfinger
Oldfinger
May 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Remove a letter, ruin a movie
Moan
Moan
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Clever 2 factor authentication scam--using your bank's own app to fool you into giving a scammer the ability to access your bank account. Hat-tip @klonick.bsky.social
The scammer is on the phone to you.
Their accomplice is on the phone to your bank, pretending to be you.
Your bank sends you the notification.
You accept, and scammers proceed to drain your account.
Full write up: shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05...
🧵🔚
Their accomplice is on the phone to your bank, pretending to be you.
Your bank sends you the notification.
You accept, and scammers proceed to drain your account.
Full write up: shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05...
🧵🔚
Bank scammers using genuine push notifications to trick their victims
You receive a call on your phone. The polite call centre worker on the line asks for you by name, and gives the name of your bank. They say they're calling from your bank's fraud department. "Yeah, r...
shkspr.mobi
May 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Clever 2 factor authentication scam--using your bank's own app to fool you into giving a scammer the ability to access your bank account. Hat-tip @klonick.bsky.social
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Inject the second paragraph of this footnote directly into my veins.
(And then send it to the nine firms that have bent the knee.)
(And then send it to the nine firms that have bent the knee.)
Howell drips with disdain for the firms who capitulated to the White House and says of those who resisted "will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
May 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Inject the second paragraph of this footnote directly into my veins.
(And then send it to the nine firms that have bent the knee.)
(And then send it to the nine firms that have bent the knee.)
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For today's bonus "One First," @jonahperlin.bsky.social, @ksvesq.bsky.social, and I recorded a discussion about President Trump's attacks on law firms; how firms have responded; and the implications not just for the legal profession, but for the rule of law:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-146-...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-146-...
Bonus 146: Trump vs. the Law Firms
A conversation about the Trump administration's novel attacks on law firms; the firms' (varying) responses; and the broader implications of these developments for legal practice and the rule of law.
www.stevevladeck.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
For today's bonus "One First," @jonahperlin.bsky.social, @ksvesq.bsky.social, and I recorded a discussion about President Trump's attacks on law firms; how firms have responded; and the implications not just for the legal profession, but for the rule of law:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-146-...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-146-...
I wish we didn’t need this conversation but given the state of affairs with law firms it was great to sit down with my friends @stevevladeck.bsky.social & Karen to talk about what’s going on, why it’s troubling, and maybe where there is still room for hope 🙏.
Thanks for having me!
Thanks for having me!
Bonus 146: Trump vs. the Law Firms
A conversation about the Trump administration's novel attacks on law firms; the firms' (varying) responses; and the broader implications of these developments for legal practice and the rule of law.
open.substack.com
May 1, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I wish we didn’t need this conversation but given the state of affairs with law firms it was great to sit down with my friends @stevevladeck.bsky.social & Karen to talk about what’s going on, why it’s troubling, and maybe where there is still room for hope 🙏.
Thanks for having me!
Thanks for having me!