Off The Record

Top stories from the legal ecosystem

Stories I’m following from Harvey, private-equity owned law firms, an AI-native firms

Aug 23 • Alex Su

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July 2026

The mindset shift lawyers need to make

Your legal training isn't the problem. Knowing when to use it is.

Jul 25 • Alex Su

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June 2026

How protecting my time made me better at work

What if work-life balance isn't a tradeoff? What if it could accelerate your career?

Jun 13 • Alex Su

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May 2026

Law firm AI & non-lawyer ownership

Commentary on the recent trend of law firms becoming more business-like

May 30 • Alex Su

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My book is out on Amazon!

It's about the gap between expertise and persuasion and how lawyers can do business development more effectively

May 24 • Alex Su

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The skills law didn't teach you

Why lawyers struggle with the gap between effort and outcomes

May 17 • Alex Su

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Credibility as distribution

Anthropic and Microsoft are coming for legal. This is how you compete.

May 2 • Alex Su

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April 2026

The load bearing constraint

A framework for finding what actually drives outcomes

Apr 18 • Alex Su

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Ten years after I thought I failed

I thought I was drifting, but was actually headed in the right direction

Apr 4 • Alex Su

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February 2026

What clients are really paying for

The dynamics of "risk transfer" and what $3,400/hour tells us about whether these new AI native law firm startups will be successful

Feb 21 • Alex Su

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Who gets invited back

How innovation makes its way through the legal ecosystem. Spoiler alert: It's not about the technology, it's about trust & accountability

Feb 14 • Alex Su

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January 2026

The Hidden Ceiling

Why being indispensable to your organization eventually limits your growth

Jan 4 • Alex Su

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