MY BIO
I graduated from Brooklyn Law school in 1992, summa cum laude and first in my class. In 1993 I finished my last few MBA credits, and graduated with honors from Baruch College.
My first job was with the New York City Law Department, as an Assistant Corporation Counsel and was sworn in by Mayor David Dinkins. I spent 2 years in the Torts Division, defending New York City and its agencies against various accidents and claims. I then transferred to the Family Court Division where I prosecuted youths who committed crimes, or more accurately, acts that would have been crimes if they were older.
After a year ad a half more I left Corporation Counsel, and after doing per diem work for other lawyers, I opened my private practice in Manhattan, near the downtown courthouses. This is a trial and appellate practice. To date, I have tried over 500 cases and have perfected over 25 appeals in the First and Second Departments.
About 15 or so years ago, I built my first website. I started building it myself using a “homestead” template. I have continually improved the site over the years. Between 2019 and 2024 I became an seo expert, having learned fom the top seo’s in teh world, including Ted Kubaitis, Eric Lanchers, Kyle Roof, and others.
Starting in around 2019, there were some ai writing tools that many people were using to create content for their websites, or for other peoples’ websites. One of these was called “Jasper” and there were many others. I wasn’t interested in exploring these myself until chat gpt hit the news. I then started using chat to help me create pages for my website or at least help me create pages, and I was very impressed with it.
At some point, I was wondering if chat gpt could write the facts portion of an appellate brief. Without expecting much, I put in around 2 pages from a trial transcript and asked it to summarize the testimony of a witness who was a child protective specialist. I was amazed by the results, however at the time the LLM’s could only accept a few pages of text as ain input, so they were not yet ready for prime time.
But tthe LLm’s kept getting better and better, so I then started to figure out how to use ai in my trial practice. Soon, I was using it on a daily basis . While I was figuring it out, the llm’s continually improved, and I eventually came to use it on almost a daily basis for different tasks.
I found that most of my colleagues either did not have the time or the inclination to learn about how to use this technology, so the idea came to me that it would be pretty easy to teach people in one hour zoom lessons.