Google\u2019s recent outage wasn\u2019t just an inconvenience \u2014 it was a wake-up call. As more and more law firms rely on AI tools and AI agents to perform critical tasks, they\u2019re potentially creating a dangerous dependency that could paralyze key aspects of their practice when (not if) the AI grid goes down. In her latest [\u2026]<\/p>\n
Google\u2019s recent outage<\/a> wasn\u2019t just an inconvenience \u2014 it was a wake-up call. As more and more law firms rely on AI tools and AI agents to perform critical tasks, they\u2019re potentially creating a dangerous dependency that could paralyze key aspects of their practice when (not if) the AI grid goes down.<\/p>\n In her latest column for LawNext, AI strategist Jennifer Case<\/a> delivers a sobering reality check: \u201cAI Blackouts Are Coming: How Law Firms Can Maintain Enterprise Operations During Agent Grid Failure<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Case discusses six critical failure scenarios every law firm should plan for \u2014 from regional cloud blackouts that freeze intake chatbots to policy changes that could block your contract review agent mid-deadline.<\/p>\n But Case doesn\u2019t just sound the alarm \u2014 she provides the blueprint for survival. Her five essential steps include building redundancy into AI workflows, inserting human checkpoints, and running quarterly \u201cblackout drills\u201d to test your firm\u2019s resilience.<\/p>\n Her bottom line: The firms that survive the coming AI blackouts will be the ones that planned for them.<\/p>\n