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Tokens aren’t just tech talk—they matter for lawyers ⚖️. This week’s AI Word of the Week breaks down what a token means in AI systems like ChatGPT & why it’s tied to ABA Model Rules for competence and confidentiality. Learn how tokens shape billing, privacy, and ethics in legal tech.
Word of the Week: What is a “Token” in AI parlance? — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
In artificial intelligence, a “token” is a small segment of text—such as a word, subword, or even punctuation—that AI tools like ChatGPT or other large language models (LLMs) use to understand and…
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January 22, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Why Lawyers Who Podcast Will Win the AI Search Game 🎙️🤖

Clients, referral partners, & AI tools are all “listening” to your content now. In a live roundtable from Podfest 2026, I talk w legal podcasters & marketers about why podcasting helps lawyers stand out in a crowded internet.
The Tech Savvy Lawyer
Helping Lawyers with their Technology Questions.
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January 21, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Thinking about launching a lawyer podcast in 2026, but not sure where to start—or if it will really help your practice? 🎙️ This new editorial shares insights from Podfest 2026 with other podcasters-in-law!

⚖️ — The Tech Savvy Lawyer buff.ly/2HWGI5A
MTC: Why Lawyers Should Podcast in 2026: Human Connection, Authority Building, and Tech-Smart Growth for Your Law Practice 🎙️⚖️ — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
For nearly six years, podcasting has been more than a business development tool to me; it has been a way to talk about topics that matter, in a format that feels natural, conversational, and—even for…
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January 20, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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🎙️ NEW EPISODE: Building a Tech-Forward Law Firm with Colleen Joyce (Lawyer.com CEO)!
Colleen shares the 3 non-negotiable technologies every law firm needs, reveals which intake bottlenecks AI now solves better than humans, & explains the human touchpoints you should NEVER automate.💡⚖️
🎙️Ep. 128, Building a Tech-Forward Law Firm: AI Intake, CRM Strategy & Client Experience with Colleen Joyce! — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
My next guest is Colleen Joyce , CEO of Lawyer.com, a leading legal marketplace that connects over one million consumers monthly with qualified attorneys nationwide. With nearly two decades of…
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January 14, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Lawyers: The PornHub breach proves sextortion is now a business model.

Third-party vendors = hidden risk. Your clients need guidance. Your firm needs protection. ABA Rules 1.1, 1.6, 5.1, 5.3, and Formal Opinion 483 create clear obligations. Read below.👇

👉 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
MTC: PornHub Breach: Cybersecurity Wake-Up Call for Lawyers — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
Essential Cybersecurity Lessons Law Firms Need to Protect Clients and Practice Under ABA Model Rules
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January 14, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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Anthropic vs. Agentic—a distinction that separates legal AI leaders from the rest. 🔹
Anthropic: the company building Claude AI. Agentic: the architecture that lets AI think, plan, and act independently.

Full breakdown in our Word of the Week. 📲"
— The Tech Savvy Lawyer
Words of the Week: “ANTHROPIC” VS. “AGENTIC”: UNDERSTANDING THE DISTINCTION IN LEGAL TECHNOLOGY 🔍 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
Anthropic vs. Agentic AI: Why Legal Professionals Must Understand This Critical Distinction
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January 13, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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🎙️📘 Reminder: The Lawyer’s Guide to Podcasting releases Jan 12, 2026.

Practical workflow, simple gear, ethics-aware habits.

📩 Email Admin@TheTechSavvyLawyer.Page with subject “Book Link” and I’ll send the purchase link on launch day. 🚀

👉 - The Tech Savvy Lawyer buff.ly/etafyrf
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Helping Lawyers with their Technology Questions.
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January 5, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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Lawyers: Windows 10 is officially dead. 💀 If you're still running it, you're likely non-compliant.

I wrote a no-nonsense guide on prepping your tech for 2026.

✅ Why you need 32GB RAM now 💾
✅ The shift to "Closed" AI 🤖
✅ Stopping subscription fatigue 🛑

👉 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer buff.ly/7VLKOPm
“How To” Happy New Year 2026 Edition! 🎉 Future-Proof Your Firm: The Essential Guide to Law Firm Technology for 2026 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
The year 2025 was a wake-up call for the legal industry. We watched Artificial Intelligence move from a shiny toy to a serious business tool. We saw cybersecurity threats evolve faster than our…
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January 1, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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⚖️ VERIFICATION is The Tech-Savvy Lawyer's 2025 Word of the Year—and every attorney needs to understand why RIGHT NOW. 🚨

AI hallucinations. Hidden AI in everyday tools. Failed redactions exposing client data.

‼️ Your license depends on it. 💼

👉 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer buff.ly/DkHTtaJ
📖 WORD OF THE WEEK YEAR🥳:  Verification: The 2025 Word of the Year for Legal Technology ⚖️💻 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
Verification: The Tech-Savvy Lawyer's 2025 Word of the Year Every Attorney Must Master
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January 1, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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New pod! 🎙️ Joshua Altman (Beltway•Media) joins me to break down legal storytelling and the tech stack you need to scale it. We talk AI automation (Gumloop/Abacus), avoiding crisis comms disasters, and the metrics that actually matter for law firms. ⚖️💻

👉 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer buff.ly/E70hxwv
🎙️ Ep. #127: Mastering Legal Storytelling and AI Automation with Joshua Altman 🎙️⚖️ — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
Why Legal Storytelling Matters: AI Tools, Crisis Comms, and ROI with Joshua Altman
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December 31, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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New book Mid-Jan. 2026 🎙️📘 The Lawyer’s Guide to Podcasting — simple gear, clean workflow, ethics-aware approach.

🔗 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer buff.ly/9EHXVmS
ANNOUNCEMENT (BOOK RELEASE): The Lawyer’s Guide to Podcasting: The Simple, Ethics-Aware Playbook to Launch a Professional Podcast (Release mid-January, 2026) — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
🎙️📘 Podcasting is still one of the fastest ways to build trust. It works for lawyers, legal professionals, and any expert who needs to explain complex topics in plain language. On January 12,…
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December 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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MTC: The 2025 Legal Tech Year in Review is up! 📝 From the DOJ's "Black Box" redaction disaster to the "AI Squeeze" making laptops 20% more expensive next month, we cover what you actually need to know.

Don't get caught with a failed redaction or a slow PC in 2026. Read more👇
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MTC: 2025 Year in Review: The "AI Squeeze," Redaction Disasters, and the Return of Hardware! — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
The Tech-Savvy Lawyer 2025 Year in Review: Surviving the "AI Squeeze," Redaction Fails, and What 2026 Holds for Your Firm
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December 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Watch: Redaction is more than a black box. ⬛👀📹

The DOJ's failure to properly redact the Epstein files proved one thing: hiding text isn't the same as destroying it. Watch our video breakdown 👇

👉 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer buff.ly/1CVl4It
Redaction Fails & Ethical Tales: What the Epstein Files Teach Us About Data Security — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
Join us in this Google Notebook LLM-powered discussion on last week’s How To: Redact PDF Documents Properly and Recover Data from Failed Redactions: A Guide for Lawyers After the DOJ Epstein Files…
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December 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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❗️The DOJ messed up the Epstein file redactions. Big time❗️
🚫 If you can copy-paste the text from under the black box, it’s not redacted. I wrote a simple guide on how to actually scrub data from PDFs and what your ethical duties are if you find a mistake. Don't be that lawyer. ⚖️
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How To: Redact PDF Documents Properly and Recover Data from Failed Redactions: A Guide for Lawyers After the DOJ Epstein Files Release “Leak” — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
The legal world is buzzing this week. The Department of Justice released the Jeffrey Epstein files on December 23, 2025. The New York Times reported on the disaster in their article, …
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December 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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🎄 🚨BOLO: Christmas Eve panic shopping? 🎁🛑 Pause.
Scammers are targeting lawyers and staff looking for last-minute gifts or office supplies. The "Out of Stock" refund scam is active right now.
If you get a link "claim your refund," do not click it. Legitimate refunds are automatic.
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🚨BOLO: Last-Minute Procurement Scams Targeting Firms on Christmas Eve🎄 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
It is Christmas Eve! The pressure to secure last-minute client gifts, finalize year-end office supply orders, or purchase personal items is at its peak. Scammers anticipate this desperation. They are…
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December 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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New TSL Labs Deep Dive! 🧪 We’re breaking down the massive liability gap between "Open" AI (public LLMs) & "Closed" AI (secure legal tools). 🚨

If you think a prompt box is just a prompt box, you might be accidentally training public models w client secrets.

👉—The Tech Savvy Lawyer buff.ly/zj7Kz4d
MTC: The 2026 Hardware Hike: Why Law Firms Must Budget for the "AI Squeeze" Now! — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
A perfect storm is brewing in the hardware market. It will hit law firm budgets harder than expected in 2026. Reports from December 2025 confirm that major manufacturers like Dell, Lenovo, and HP are…
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December 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Law firm tech budgets are about to take a hit. 📉 PC prices are projected to rise 20% in 2026 due to AI-driven memory shortages. If you need new laptops, buy NOW, not next year. We break down the "AI Squeeze" & what specs you actually need for legal work.

👉 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
MTC: The 2026 Hardware Hike: Why Law Firms Must Budget for the "AI Squeeze" Now! — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
A perfect storm is brewing in the hardware market. It will hit law firm budgets harder than expected in 2026. Reports from December 2025 confirm that major manufacturers like Dell, Lenovo, and HP are…
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December 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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📖 WORD OF THE WEEK (WoW): Zero Trust Architecture

🔐 ABA Model Rule 1.6(c) Compliance: Zero Trust Architecture for Law Firms
Zero Trust supports all these obligations.

Your clients expect it. ABA Model Rules require it. Your practice depends on it. ⚖️🔐
👉 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
📖 WORD OF THE WEEK (WoW): Zero Trust Architecture ⚖️🔐 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
Zero Trust Architecture for Law Firms: The Essential Security Framework Every Legal Practice Needs in 2025
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December 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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⚡ NEW PODCAST: Federal cybersecurity just underwent its biggest transformation in decades—and it's rewriting lawyer obligations under ABA Model Rule 1.1. 🎙️

👉 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
TSL Labs 🧪Bonus: 🎙️ From Cyber Compliance to Cyber Dominance: What VA's AI Revolution Means for Government Cybersecurity, Legal Ethics, and ABA Model Rule Compliance! — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
From Cyber Compliance to Cyber Dominance: VA's AI Revolution & What Lawyers Must Know About Model Rule 1.1 Technology Competence
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December 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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✍️ MTC: 👀 Your staff might be accidentally leaking client data to ChatGPT. 🚨
I realized at a recent paralegal advisory board meeting that schools aren't teaching the privacy diff. between "Public" AI & "Paid" legal AI. 🤖 It’s on us to train them.

‼️Protect your license!

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MTC: The Hidden Danger in Your Firm: Why We Must Teach the Difference Between “Open” and “Closed” AI! — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
I sit on an advisory board for a school that trains paralegals. We meet to discuss curriculum. We talk about the future of legal support. In a recent meeting, a presentation by a private legal…
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December 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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🎙️🤖⚖️ New episode: How to implement AI without the liability sanctions plaguing other firms.

Nick Tiger from Pearl.com shares the framework that separates Pearl from competitors.

👉— The Tech Savvy Lawyer buff.ly/C0uJEOp
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AI-powered search for professional services. Get fast, accurate answers in health, legal, tech & more with expert-backed solutions.
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December 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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🤖⚖️ New episode: How to implement AI without the liability sanctions plaguing other firms. Nick Tiger from Pearl.com shares the framework that separates Pearl from competitors—and why humans remain essential for high-stakes matters.

👉 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer buff.ly/BJCbqvi
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AI-powered search for professional services. Get fast, accurate answers in health, legal, tech & more with expert-backed solutions.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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MTC: From Cyber Compliance to Cyber Dominance: What VA’s AI Revolution Means for Government Cybersecurity, Legal Ethics, & ABA Model Rule Compliance

This editorial unpacks why both agency lawyers & outside counsel must upgrade their tech competence now.

👉 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer buff.ly/uVjb1NB
MTC: From Cyber Compliance to Cyber Dominance: What VA’s AI Revolution Means for Government Cybersecurity, Legal Ethics, and ABA Model Rule Compliance 💻⚖️🤖 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
“From Cyber Compliance to Cyber Dominance: What VA’s AI Revolution Means for Government Cybersecurity, Legal Ethics, and ABA Model Rule Compliance” 💻⚖️🤖
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December 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Lawyers: That Holiday Tech "Deal" Could Cost You Your License 🎧💻

TSL Labs deep dive w Google's Notebook LLM exposes how bargain laptops create compliance gaps, why smishing scams target attorneys, & more!

Essential listening for any lawyer who shops online.

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TSL Labs Bonus Podcast: Google’s Notebook LLM “Deep Dive” on December 1st, 2025, editorial on the the Lawyer’s Defense Against Holiday Scams and ‘Bargain’ Tech Traps! — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
🎧 Lawyers Beware: Holiday Tech Deals Threaten Client Confidentiality & Your Law License
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December 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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📖 “Word of the Week”: “Weatherproofing” is essential vocabulary for modern legal practice.

It means preparing your practice to function fully when winter weather closes courts and offices. ARE YOU READY!

‼️ Read now - Your Bar License could depend on it!
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📖 “Word of the Week”: “Weatherproofing” 🌨️ - How Modern Attorneys Prepare for Winter Storms and Holiday Disruptions! — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
Weatherproofing: The Essential Technology Strategy Legal Professionals Need Before Winter Weather Closes Courts and Offices
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December 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM