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Writing
Scholarship on privilege and legal AI, and articles on building and running a firm.
Scholarship
2026The AI Legal Reference Model (ALRM): A Ten-Factor Test for Distinguishing AI Tools from Third Parties in Privilege and Work Product Analysis, with Ten Unresolved Questions for Judicial ConsiderationFirst author · 101 pages · 10.2139/ssrn.6546398
2026Candor and the Algorithm: Deliberative Privilege and the Structural Vulnerability of Judicial AIFirst author · 114 pages · 10.2139/ssrn.6678078
2026The Agentic Law Firm: Competence, Supervision, Confidentiality, and Conflicts Across Six Levels of AI AutonomyFirst author · 137 pages · 10.2139/ssrn.6766598
2026When the Tool Breaks: Product Liability and the Legal AI VendorFirst author · 87 pages · 10.2139/ssrn.6741139
2026The Hallucination Problem and the Architecture of Trust: The Case for Legal-Specific Language Models in the Practice and on the BenchCo-author · 106 pages · 10.2139/ssrn.6736661
2026The Regulatory Architecture of Legal AI: Bar Authority, Federal Preemption, and the Governance GapCo-author · 127 pages · 10.2139/ssrn.6748958
Articles
May 2023From Dream to Reality: Five Steps to Create a Business Plan That Aligns With Your Personal GoalsForbes, Young Entrepreneur Council. On building Right Law Group from zero to seven figures in under five years by working backward from her own life.
Expert panel contributions
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Byline
The six papers are indexed under the byline A. Austin Litle, because the citation record parses her family name as Austin Litle. They are the same author as everything else on this site.