We connected Perplexity to our own AI server, fed it fictitious legal files carrying tracer words and inspected every outgoing request. What the word local does and does not tell a law firm.

Not every vibe-coded app needs to change the world. Mine translates a sentence into five generations of English.

Everyone in Luxembourg legal practice holds the same opinion: justice is too slow. It is held with complete confidence and, until recently, with no way of checking it. So I built one. Our Justice Performance Observatory turns the official sources, LUSTAT, and the EU Justice Scoreboard, into indicators anyone can interrogate. Running the profession's favourite opinion through it teaches four things worth knowing. 1. The arithmetic of a queue is unforgiving. In 2024 the Cou

Crypto profits and the Luxembourg taxman

I sat down to write a smug little article about how cheap Codex is compared to Claude. Then I typed one command, wandered off to do some actual law, and the thing spent €500 in five hours. The article, like my dignity, is now moot.

Two regulatory constitutions in the making In the spring of 2025, Washington and Brussels found themselves engaged in a rare act of near-simultaneous legislative ambition. On 29 May 2025, bipartisan leaders in the United States Congress introduced the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 (the "CLARITY Act"), a sweeping piece of legislation designed to end years of jurisdictional warfare between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading

In February 2026, a single product announcement wiped approximately three hundred billion dollars off the combined market capitalization of Thomson Reuters, RELX (the parent company of LexisNexis), and LegalZoom — in under forty-eight hours. The investment bank Jefferies coined a phrase for the event: the SaaSpocalypse. The Catalyst of Change in Legal Technology What happened? Anthropic, one of the world's leading AI laboratories, launched a legal plugin directly inside its C