<p>In this episode, I'm talking with Zack Shapiro, founder of an AI-native law firm, Rains LLP. Zack is a corporate lawyer focused on startups and business law who has transformed his two-person practice into a high-leverage powerhouse serving over 200 clients. Despite describing himself as "uniquely bad at using tech tools," he has pioneered a "Claude-native" workflow that uses agentic AI to handle his legal work.</p><br><p>We talk about the shift from "billable hours" to "high-judgment lawyering" and how prompting is becoming the most critical white-collar skill of the next decade. You’ll hear perspectives on why most legal tech "wrappers" are actually counterproductive that most lawyers are missing.</p><br><p>The Power of "Bare Metal": Why Zack avoids expensive legal AI platforms in favor of direct, "bare metal" interaction with reasoning models like Claude.</p><br><p>Prompting as an Essay: Moving beyond simple queries to 2,000-word "context dumps" that capture the nuance of a client's specific leverage and goals.</p><br><p>Building Custom "Skills": How to use your own past work as a reinforcement learning environment to create agentic workflows that compound in value over time.</p><br><p>The Entrepreneurial Opportunity: Why now is the greatest time in history for small, AI-empowered legal teams to steal market share from rigid, legacy firms.</p><br><p>The Hallucination Filter: Practical strategies for using AI to check itself, ensuring that "turning your brain off" never becomes an option.</p><br><p><br></p><p>--------</p><br><p><br></p><p>Each week I take what I'm hearing in conversations with legal leaders.</p><br><p>I analyze the market and track emerging trends in this AI era.</p><br><p>In my newsletter called The Future Lawyer Market Intel for the AI era</p><br><p>I'm focused on:</p><br><p>What AI is exposing</p><p>The opportunities</p><p>The blind spots</p><p>And the shifts shaping the next five years.</p><br><p>This is how you see the chessboard before everyone else does:</p><br><p><a href="https://hollycope.my.canva.site/thefuturelawyer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://hollycope.my.canva.site/thefuturelawyer</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>