I recently came across Cat Casey’s new book, AI in Legal Tech: How Generative AI Is Transforming Legal Technology and the Practice of Law , and was drawn to three things I haven't seen explored in quite this way before. This book is designed for the future-ready lawyer who sees these tools as a catalyst for growth (p. 6). By integrating AI, savvy practitioners can amplify their expertise, deliver greater value, and lead the next era of legal practice. First, litigation analytics is accelerating the profession into hard data (p. 131). AI can now analyze decades of court records to reveal judge-specific ruling patterns and motion tendencies (p. 132). This empowers "scientific forum shopping," where litigators aggregate judicial decisions to file in jurisdictions where specific arguments have the highest statistical probability of success. AI also unlocks deeper metrics by tracking fact patterns to provide a data-driven assessment of the likelihood of success. These metrics...