The Brief · Issue 003 · 18 Sep 2026
It wasn't the AI. It was never the AI.
A LinkedIn post, a seven-day three-day week and a firm demoted to mid law by arithmetic.
This week a partner's LinkedIn post was blamed on software whose only contribution turned out to be a comma. Three attendance policies were examined and none improved Wednesday. Alderwick March, with 4,800 lawyers, finished eleventh and is therefore mid law. Its rates, we can confirm, did not notice.
Lead story · News report and incident log
Partner Blames AI Hallucination for LinkedIn Post Dictated While Hallucinating
An emergency review has found the software’s only contribution was a correctly placed comma.
Celia Firth, Partnership Correspondent
Highlights
Round-up with policy extracts and Q&A
Three Days in the Office. All Seven of Them.
Three days in the office, under three separate policies, has somehow added up to seven.
News in brief
Firm With 4,800 Lawyers Becomes Mid Law After Finishing Eleventh
Alderwick March's expertise was downgraded overnight on finishing eleventh. Its rates were unaffected.
Interview and demonstration
Firm Replaces Every Desk with VR Glasses Offering Views of Places Staff Cannot Visit
Hargreaves Crake swaps desks for VR glasses showing places staff cannot visit, including, in several cases, home.
Product review and commentary
New Platform Breaks Down Law-Firm Silos in Just Ten Years
TogetherLater promises to break down silos in ten years, delivered on a date that will be someone else's problem.
Also this week
Careers feature
Five New Legal Jobs You Need to Know About Before Someone Gives You One
The profession's newest career opportunities come with strategic titles, inherited problems and someone else's name missing from the accountability chart.
The Unbillable Podcast · Episode 10 · Overview
Hallucinating Partners: When Human Error Becomes an AI Problem
What happens when the only inaccurate claim is that the machine made the mistake?
Audio coming soon.
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