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Phillip Vaden is a licensed Texas attorney turned legal tech insider — specializing in the intersection of...
| Published: | October 29, 2026 |
| Podcast: | The AI Sidebar |
| Category: | Legal Technology |
Law firms don’t have to build their businesses on someone else’s AI infrastructure. Dan Schnurbusch, a probate and estate planning attorney at Schnurbusch Law in the St. Louis area and founder of the Legal Tech Collective, a Facebook and Discord community of lawyers, legal ops professionals, and builders, shares what he’s seeing in real time. He explains what an agent harness is, why he runs the open-source Hermes desktop agent, and why he believes solos and small firms have a major advantage over larger firms still working through governance and security at scale. He also makes the case that open-weights models like DeepSeek and GLM are keeping prices in check for Western providers, why he expects capable small models to run on phones within a year, and why he doesn’t think subsidized AI subscriptions are headed for a price explosion. Schnurbusch walks through his own daily workflow of supervising agent sessions on probate matters, why he sees AI as a force multiplier for most lawyers, and why he lands as a mostly optimist who stays cognizant of what could be lost along the way.
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The AI Sidebar |
AI isn’t coming for the legal profession. It’s already changing it. The AI Sidebar cuts through the noise around legal AI and legal technology. Hosted by Philip Vaden, each episode explores how lawyers and litigation teams are using artificial intelligence in legal research, drafting, discovery, and practice management through honest conversations, real workflows, and practical takeaways you can apply immediately. Understand what AI actually means for legal practice and navigate the future of law with clarity and confidence, not hype. Presented by Infotrack.
