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Legal AI Citation Verification: Lessons from the AMLR
A legal AI system can explain a rule convincingly and still identify the wrong provision. Building a dependable compliance workflow requires accurate source identification, attention to legal context, and a way to preserve both as the law changes. When I first began using large language models for legal research, I noticed a recurring problem: a…
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Agents, Distributors or Branches? A Cross-Border Passporting Map Under PSD3
An agent, an e-money distribution person and a branch are not interchangeable routes to the EU market. Under PSD3, an agent is a separate person acting in the name and on behalf of a payment institution in providing payment services and either taking possession of funds for it or participating directly in its provision of…
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Beyond Vibe Coding: Software Architecture for Lawyers
AI coding agents can generate remarkable amounts of software, but code is only one layer of a trustworthy legal application. Drawing on the development of an EU AML compliance platform, this article explains why lawyers who build with AI must learn to think like software architects.
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Legal Engineering: What It Is, Why It Matters, and Why It May Become One of the Most Important Legal Professions of the AI Era
A few years ago, the phrase “legal engineer” sounded strange to many lawyers. It still does to some. Lawyers advise. Engineers build. Lawyers interpret ambiguity. Engineers try to reduce ambiguity into systems. Lawyers are trained to reason through facts, law, incentives, risk and institutional context. Engineers are trained to decompose problems, define requirements, test outputs…
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Vibe Coding for Lawyers: How Legal and Regulatory Professionals Can Build Powerful Compliance Tools in Hours
The legal profession has always rewarded deep subject matter expertise. What is changing now is the ability to convert that expertise directly into working software, without requiring years of traditional engineering experience. That shift is being accelerated by what many now call “vibe coding“: building software through natural-language collaboration with large language models (LLMs). For…
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Leveraging AI to perform AML Gap Analysis: A Practical Guide to Reviewing AML Policies Under EU AMLD Requirements
AI tools and agentic solutions are increasingly embedded into regulatory and compliance operations. One of the most practical and immediately valuable use cases for legal and compliance professionals is AML policy gap analysis: a usually structured assessment process used to identify whether an AML policy (or, more broadly, a collection of AML policies and procedures)…
George Filippakis
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George Filippakis
Attorney at Law