Using consumer AI tools like ChatGPT or Claude to research or strategize about a legal matter could seriously damage your case, and a landmark 2026 federal court ruling makes that clearer than ever. In a recent blog post, Jacqueline Radebaugh explains how publicly available AI platforms can destroy attorney-client privilege, expose confidential strategy, and create discoverable evidence in both litigation and routine business transactions. Before you type, read this first.
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From Candidate to Member: How Co-ops Can Onboard New People Without Losing Their Balance
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A candidate period isn’t just a formality—it’s a powerful way to make sure new members are ready for the responsibilities of ownership, and that your co-op is ready for them.
In this article, Jacqueline Radebaugh explains how co-ops can structure this process, what rights candidates should (and shouldn’t) have, and share a visual flowchart to guide the journey.
Why Great Legal Work Starts with Great Communication
In my role, I think a lot about how to improve our client services and client experience. This post is about how communication plays a role in that. Recently, I worked with a long-standing client to update their suite of legal templates: a contractor MSA, SoW, NDA, and MNDA. The request came with a clear …
How Generative AI Enhances Our Mission-Driven Legal Practice
Estimated reading time: 3-3.5 min. At our law firm, we are always looking for ways to better serve our clients and support their mission-driven organizations. One of the most exciting tools we’ve recently adopted is generative artificial intelligence (AI). As your legal partners, we believe it’s important to share how we’re using AI technology to …
How Worker Co-ops Make Decisions (Without Burning Out or Voting Everyone Down)
🕒 7-Minute Read If you’ve ever been in a group trying to decide something big—what to spend money on, how to grow, when to stop and reassess—you know it can get messy fast. Now imagine that group is the business. That’s how things work in a worker cooperative: the people who do the work also …
BOIR Reporting is Back, with deadline extension
Dear Clients, We want to alert you to a significant development regarding Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reporting under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA): BOI Reporting Deadlines Extended to January 13, 2025: Despite earlier legislative proposals to extend the deadline for existing reporting companies to January 1, 2026, Congress did not include this extension in the …
Factors for a Successful Business Succession through Worker Ownership
For a few years now, we have been hearing about the approach of a “silver tsunami.” For those unfamiliar with the term, it refers to the demographic phenomenon of an aging population, associated mostly with the large wave of retirement that the baby boomer generation is about to go through. With small businesses employing roughly …
When is it okay to use a personal email for business purposes?
In the past few months, I’ve received a number of emails from clients’ employees using their personal email addresses. As business attorneys, the vast majority of our clients are business entities; our clients often indicate a person or a number of people who will communicate with me and our attorneys when the client seeks legal …
Cooperatives: the fulfilment of big tech’s empty promises
I often wonder if DAOs are really different from Big Tech. I believe they can be, but that must be an intentional choice. I hope to tell you how DAOs can be different from Big Tech. Big Tech companies have revolutionized the way we live our lives, from the way we communicate with each other …
PATHWAYS TO PURPOSE DRIVEN LEGAL PRACTICE – JACQUELINE’S JOURNEY
Like many of my colleagues in transactional practice who focus on the social enterprise spectrum, the path to my current role was not a straight line. It has however been very true to what I believe in: integrity, justice and fairness, and service to others. I hope this personal post gives you some insight on …
