What is Legal Lab Notebook?

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In 2026, learning AI is not prep for legal practice. It IS the practice.

Nobody’s going to tap you on the shoulder and say “now’s the time to learn AI.” And the AI discourse is full of noise. Panic on one side, hype on the other.

The reality is: Lawyers are figuring out AI in real-time. No one has a magical roadmap. We have to experiment, prototype and get our hands dirty.

That’s why I call this a lab notebook. Not a manifesto. Not a vendor pitch. One lawyer’s notes from tech — what works, what breaks and what awaits us.

I run AI bootcamps where lawyers work hands-on with these tools.

On LinkedIn, I’ve covered topics like voice-driven workflows that cut typing in half to war-gaming negotiations with AI competitive intelligence. This newsletter goes deeper.

Me

I’m Eric. I’m a product lawyer at Meta where I ship 0→1 AI glasses in uncharted terrain. I lead legal strategy, brief regulators on technology that doesn’t fit their frameworks and use AI tools every day to do it. Not as demos. To do my actual job.

Before Meta: Started as a corporate lawyer at Davis Polk in New York (with a stint in Hong Kong), moved into startups at Fenwick and then tech transactions at Applied Materials.

Three principles guide my work:

• Keep it simple. Find the fix that solves 80% of a high-value problem. Then iterate. Perfection kills progress.

• Speak plainly. AI, like law, drowns in jargon. If I can’t explain it clearly, I don’t understand it well enough.

• Start now. The field moves fast enough that everyone is still figuring it out. There is no “too late.”

My work projects:

• Meta Ray-Ban Display and Neural Band and Meta AI app (2025)

• Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses (2023)

• Meta Accounts for AI Glasses (2023)

• Ray-Ban Stories (2021)