 Weekly Community Digest June 19, 2026 | ⚡ This Week in 30 Seconds| → 27 new client opportunities posted this week. Tax counsel for an LLC-to-C corp conversion with QSBS planning, sponsor bank diligence for a tipped payroll card program, EU Accessibility Act exposure for a US agritech startup, and a patent broker for an AI fraud-detection portfolio. Members see the full list. See all Members | | → Colorado just signed two lawyer bills. One opens the door to Alternative Business Structures and MSOs in CO, the other restricts paid lead services for Colorado lawyers. A member surfaced the SSRN write-up. If you're thinking about how to structure or scale your practice, this is the regulatory shift to watch. Read the thread Members | | → A member published a public AI Governance Contracting playbook. It's a real, structured resource for fractional GCs and outside counsel who are getting AI policy and vendor work pushed to them. See the Community Spotlight for the broader pattern. See the post Members | | → What makes arbitration so expensive? What to do when arbitration fees start climbing. The 10-reply thread turned into practical talk about when to push for sole arbitrator, when to insist on a fee cap, and why "AAA standard" deserves a closer read. Read the thread Members |
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🔥 Community SpotlightA Member Published a Public AI Governance PlaybookA member published an AI Governance Contracting Playbook this week and put it out for the rest of us to read. It's a real practitioner document on how AI governance shows up inside customer and vendor contracts: the obligations, the standard carve-outs, where AI vendor terms hide real risk, and how a fractional GC should think about scoping the work. It's the kind of thing the community keeps producing -- members shipping real artifacts instead of buying the latest tool. Last week it was a citation checker. This week it's a contracting playbook for one of the fastest-evolving practice areas. The pattern is consistent. If you've published something useful, share it -- people here will read it and use it. See the post → Members |
💬 Threads of the WeekColorado Just Signed Two New Lawyer Bills → The CO Governor signed legislation opening Alternative Business Structures and MSOs to Colorado lawyers, along with a separate bill restricting paid lead-generation services. A member surfaced the SSRN write-up that walks through the implications. If you're tracking the slow national shift around ABS, MSO, and non-lawyer ownership rules, Colorado just moved meaningfully. Worth the read for anyone evaluating their own state's trajectory or thinking about scaling. Members |
Expensive Arbitration: What to Do About It → When to negotiate a single-arbitrator clause, fee caps as a precondition to selecting AAA, how to structure cost-shifting language so the bill doesn't land on your client, and whether JAMS or AAA actually moves faster on smaller disputes. A useful conversation for anyone drafting dispute-resolution clauses. Members |
Did Anyone Else Get the IOLTA Bank Notice? → A member flagged an IOLTA notice that landed in inboxes telling firms they need to submit a form to their bank, but the form only has two options that don't match most firms' actual situation. The thread cleared up what the notice is, who actually needs to respond, and what to do if your bank's instructions don't match the form. Practical compliance read for anyone with a trust account. Members |
What Are You Seeing ADA Lawsuits Settle For? → A member ran a quick poll on settlement ranges and the community delivered crowdsourced data. The plurality of respondents are seeing ADA web/accessibility lawsuits settle in the $10K-$15K range, with a meaningful number under $5K and another cluster at $15K-$20K. A defense attorney shared that in New York these are now settling under $10K in many cases. A useful pulse if you're advising clients on demand letter response strategy. Members |
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👋 Welcome to the PackA couple of the newest members who introduced themselves this week. Say hello in #02-introductions. Members Mary Yang · Washington, DC Founder of Juni PLLC, a solo law firm focused on the energy and FERC space -- power and electric markets, transmission, grid interconnection, data-center load, electric rates, and the regulatory side of getting generation and load projects built. Former FERC trial attorney and adviser to a FERC Commissioner, with a stint at DOE. Also COO of an energy consulting firm. Deep niche, rare profile, and worth knowing if anything in your work touches energy, utilities, or interconnection. | Joao Otavio Oliverio · Sao Paulo, Brazil Founder of Oliverio Advogados, focused on M&A, venture capital, fintech, payments, lending, digital assets, and financial services regulation -- both within Brazil and on cross-border matters between Latin America and the US. Started his career at Linklaters and DLA Piper, earned his LLM at Penn. If you have a client looking south or a Brazilian company expanding into the US, this is the connection. |
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🚀 New Client OpportunitiesA small sample of this week's opportunities -- members get access to the full list, plus the ability to submit proposals directly. See all opportunities → Members |
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