Legal Exchange: Insights & Commentary

OpenClaw Raises Questions on AI Agents Acting as Trustees

The architecture behind OpenClaw has forced lawyers, technologists, and venture capital investors to rethink what “agent” means in the AI age.

Time for a New Firm? You Won’t Finish the Search Where You Start

Many lawyers who are looking to stay at a law firm assume their search starts by picking one or two target firms. In practice, that approach often narrows the field before the lawyer has the information needed to choose well.

Usage-Based Billing VAT Issues Mean Tax Teams Must Engage Early

Usage-based billing isn’t going away. AI has made it mainstream, and the same logic is spreading across digital services. Tax teams need visibility into how those models are implemented.

Accounting Firms, Schools Must Craft Next Generation’s Future

Both accounting firms and academia must design learning environments and curricula that will ensure the next generation of accountants develops AI fluency on top of critical thinking skills.

NJ Transit Looks Like a Corporation So It Can Be Sued Like One

The Supreme Court decision in Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corporation illustrates how constitutional doctrine can turn on the legal structure governments choose to create. The ruling may prompt state legislatures to more carefully examine the tradeoffs involved in creating public benefit corporations and similar authorities.

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Trump’s IRS Lawsuit Offers Lessons on Privacy and Legal Process

President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS should reinforce several lessons that extend well beyond this case: Taxpayer privacy is fundamental. Courts have tools to preserve fairness when structural conflicts arise. Presidential proximity to litigation decisions can heighten those conflicts. And policy choices about investment, access, and oversight have real-world consequences.

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Goldstein Still Has Cards to Play Even After Guilty Verdict

Several issues came up during the trial of Tom Goldstein that could be fodder for a successful appeal, according to Bloomberg Law reporter Holly Barker. Barker covered the trial of the disgraced SCOTUSblog founder and she joins our podcast, On The Merits, to talk about why the jury split its verdict and about how Goldstein’s famous propensity for risk taking influenced his defense strategy.