of Artificial Intelligence. Essays, audits, and working tools for lawyers who’d rather verify than believe.
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Law first.
AI secnd.
Verfy lways.
Most of what follows is scaffolding — announced, not finished. One piece is done, and it is the standard the rest gets held to. If the finished thing is not worth your time, none of the promises should be either.
No juggling. One agent, or scouts. The batch cap. Versioning, to control for model recall. Four black-letter rules, with comments and illustrations — including the illustration that is my own error.
Six prompts that set up a model worth trusting. Zero legal content — that’s the point.
A blind citation-verification routine. Catches the fake case before the judge does.
AI Basics for Lawyers. Live on Zoom, accredited, and nothing like your last CLE.
On verification, provenance, and cognitive debt — the underpriced risk to junior lawyers.
First Press. One record collection, one disc at a time. With a co-host you’ll want to fact-check.
Four years producing the work product at a global firm, five years inside the courts receiving it — and a decade of building the tools in between.
Lee Czocher is an appellate lawyer in Houston. She spent four years at the Supreme Court of Texas as senior staff attorney to Justice J. Brett Busby, and before that represented the State of Texas as an Assistant Solicitor General — including an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court and oral argument in the Supreme Court of Texas. She started in antitrust at White & Case in D.C., where she rebuilt the litigation team’s document-review tooling herself rather than wait for someone to do it for her. A habit, it turns out.
Now she teaches lawyers to use AI the way she uses it: verified, versioned, and on her own terms.
Trivia · true crime · kayaking · a miniature schnauzer named Mojo.
You look good, counselor.