What Tex is up to these days
Some bad news but more good news
On the heels of my billable hour opus, some personal announcements.
First, the bad news. I was laid off from my job a couple of weeks ago. I’m already in the running for some interesting opportunities, but if any readers have job leads, please send them along. Naturally, I’m interested in full-time employment but I’m also open to more immediate,
temporary contract opportunities, whether that’s doing straight legal work or something in the law/technology/operations space. Feel free to email me (makelaw@substack.com), or find me on LinkedIn here with any leads or inquiries.
The first piece of good news is that my blog is getting traction, in that people I have never met are subscribing in increasing numbers. Although no part of me believes I will make my entire living writing a weekly blog featuring 3,000 word essays about AI combined with deep analysis of 70 year old lawyer trade magazine articles, I have been mulling over whether to add paid content in addition to weekly posts.
To get a sense on whether this is feasible, I am turning on Substack’s “pledge” feature, which allows you to pledge a subscription that only gets charged to your account when I decide to turn on paid subscriptions. (I promise to send a warning before I actually do this.)
If you already subscribe and want to make a pledge, I believe you can do so by clicking on this button:
The second piece of good news is that my paper submission was accepted to the AI for Access to Justice Workshop at the International Conference on AI and Law 2025 (conveniently abbreviated to AI4A2J-ICAIL25). The workshop is in Chicago, at Northwestern law school, on June 20, as part of the larger AI and Law conference happening all week. I will be making some revisions to the paper, which will only be publisehed after the workshop, but if you’re interested in a copy, please reach out.
Finally, springtime is here.
(Credit, for her photography and emotional support, goes to my wife Rachel.)