Phil Lamothe is a Solutions Attorney at GC AI, the legal AI platform built for in-house teams. Once a big law lawyer and general counsel before joining the legal tech co, he now teaches AI to lawyers of all types. Phil walked HeyCounsel members through how to use it without breaking their ethical duties. Watch the full thing here.
What’s new this week inside HeyCounsel?
🏢 Hiring or job hunting? Start here: our new For Job Seekers page shows who’s hiring across the community, with 35 firms and 41 roles so far. Candidates send us one resume, we match them with firms in private, and firms reach out. No recruiter fees. Job Seekers → Thread →
🎥 New recording: Alicyn McLeod and Sarah Harris of Agate CPA took member questions on S corps, year-end timing, and sales tax. Firm taxes →
🥂 Praxis gets HC members together IRL! Bay Area members turned out for our East Bay cocktail hour. Thanks to Tony Wang for hosting and to our vendor partner Praxis. Also, Shahrzad Kojouri had lunch with Mark Stansbury, and Mario Larrea met Jan Zimmermann in Miami. He wants a South Florida meetup next. Bay Area → Miami →

👋 Warm welcomes: Jeff Kinkle runs Kinkle Law in New York, an art law, IP, and litigation practice, and he wants more cross-border work with Sweden and Europe. Thread → Yana Samuels joins from Kingston, Jamaica, after a decade in-house, and she’s open to fractional and overflow work. Thread → And Jonas Hertner, a Swiss litigator in Zurich and Basel, maintains opencaselaw.ch. Thread →
💬 Big debates this week: what to do when a prospect offers volume in exchange for low rates and two-hour turnaround (16 replies), how to handle AI notetakers that can put privilege at risk (12 replies), and when an LLC raising growth equity should stay an LLC (9 replies). Rates → Notetakers → LLC →
💼 Opportunities on tap: 21 new opportunities posted this week are still live and accepting bids. Check them out on the dashboard. Matters included practice setup and compliance for a telehealth startup, a terms of use and privacy review for a medical device company, fintech compliance for a startup app, and an employment review and an equity incentive plan for a California founder.
🤝 #04-ask-a-lawyer was busy: referral requests spanning a Florida franchise dispute, Portuguese contract review, fertility health counsel, a Swiss Delaware flip, Missouri family law, a Washington non-solicit, FDA medical devices, structured finance, oil and gas leases, FEC complaints, California nonprofits, Florida wiretap defense, Irish and Colorado employment, Monterey County estate planning, New York healthcare agreements, startup sales comp, AI vendor terms, California severance, a Florida LLC split, an Illinois FTC issue, asset protection, and US bank accounts for foreign clients. Check them out here.
📆 HeyCounsel’s Upcoming Events
Fri, Nov 6 → How I Run Showalter PLLC on Claude, a free workshop (presented by Michael Showalter)
Tue, Nov 10 → Scaling a Law Firm Profitably: Financial Systems and Strategies from a Fractional CFO (presented by Kimberly DeCarrera via NBI)
Thu, Nov 12 → HeyCounsel San Diego Holiday Dinner (hosted by Daniel Goodrich)
Tue, Nov 17 → AI-Native Practice Management For Solos and Small Firms, a demo with Parley
Thu, Nov 19 → Law firm website best practices, an AMA with LeadGenix
Thanks for reading! See you next week 🤙
- Brian Scherer, Co-Founder & CEO
