jump ball, 2024

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there! Being Emma Sofia’s dad is the most fulfilling part of my life. She gives me more purpose, joy, and love than I ever could have imagined. Truly the best part of life.

My new CLE with Lawline is live: Leveraging AI to Master Pre-Litigation Workflows. Watch now 👉 lawline.com/course-center/…

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 The Senate has passed The GENIUS Act by a vote of 68-30. The bill is now in the House of Representatives' hands.

Honored to be of the lucky ones to receive /riotgrl. Always moved by Amadon’s work and this one hits especially hard. Awesome concept and masterpiece art 🙏🏼

Proud to mint this one. This drop isn’t just incredible art—it’s a rescue mission. All proceeds help reunite a family torn by war. Big respect to Modest for leading with heart.

Congrats to the Harvey team. Love seeing strong investor confidence in AI-driven solutions for the legal sector.

Proud to see two leaders in their fields San Antonio Spurs and Ledger come together. As a fan of both the team and the tech, this partnership is exciting to watch. Securing the future on and off the court. 🔥

Major development in AI + copyright law: Federal court rules that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted works for training its models is protected under fair use, citing transformative value even with some memorization. This could set a powerful precedent for LLM training in the

One of the most powerful things you can do as a business to mitigate your litigation risk: Treat your employees well and listen when they point out operational and ethical issues. It vastly reduces your litigation risk. But not for the reason you think. When I'm suing a

Sharpening the mind and the game. 🌏

This is the sort of experimental, conversation-generating activity we need in the legal academy / legal scholarship. Well done to the Texas A&M School of Law Journal of Property Law.

Great essay by Julian Jacobs. U.S. federally funded retraining programs have been around since the New Deal, but eight decades of tweaks have produced no evidence that they reliably raise employment, earnings, or long‑term career satisfaction, let alone that they could handle a

Fascinating. A second AI copyright decision in as many days. Must read.

Follow the Constitution. Read the bills. Stop governing by emergency. End the forever war. Cut taxes & spending. Stop borrowing trillions. No CBDC. Protect free speech. Repeal the Patriot Act & FISA 702. No qualified immunity for government officials. End civil asset forfeiture.

GUIDMORNING.

We must abandon the illusion that yesterday’s methods or tomorrow’s specific tools offer lasting solutions. Legal education (and all professional education for that matter) is in need of drastic reform. My latest Law & Liberty piece outlines some guiding principles:

My Mother’s Hand by a/s/l (2025) added to the collection. Photo of the piece taken in an unknown convienence store in SA.

The Texas floods on July 4th were devastating and more rain is forecasted. Kerr County needs our help. If you’re looking for a way to support those impacted, consider donating to Community Foundation Flood Relief Fund.

Contract law is this: - Offer (I’ll do x for y); - Acceptance (ok let’s do it); - Consideration (you give me money and I’ll do the work); - Meeting of the Minds (we’re on the same page on what we are doing here) - Practical (sorry, I don’t care what the contract says)