Presentations
Accelerating Legal Matters with Simple Software
LLMs are powerful, but hallucinations are legal malpractice waiting to happen. So instead of cataloging failure modes, this talk is about preventative infrastructure. Meet harness — an open-source durable execution framework for legal workflows, designed to pair with Claude Code.
If you've used Temporal, the mental model will feel familiar. Temporal gives you durable execution for distributed systems — retries, state tracking, workflow orchestration. harness applies that same philosophy to legal work. A lawyer files a summons with the court, then has a statutory deadline to file proof of service. That's a workflow with hard constraints, real consequences, and state that cannot be lost. harness tracks all of it across local and cloud storage providers.
But durability is only half the story. harness also enforces a semantic layout in Markdown — think of it as a contract between Claude Code and the lawyer's workspace. It defines how client questionnaires are structured, how templates are organized, and how workflows are sketched before they execute. We will showcase demos of how we use harness to write briefs, contracts, and handle routine paperwork for our clients.
harness written in Swift, ships as a CLI, and runs on Linux, Windows, or Mac. Nothing here is legal advice, and nor affiliated with the speaker's employer.
