Dan
Schnurbusch§
I’m a Missouri probate lawyer who thinks this job should take months, not years. My firm runs on a tight human team and a stack of AI agents — and I write about how that actually works.
My day job is a probate and trust-admin practice I run out of St. Louis. The rest of my time goes to building software, teaching other lawyers what I’m learning about AI in practice, and picking fights about how the profession should be using it. This site is where I keep the long version of all of that.
What I’m up to.
A firm, a product, and a community I run because somebody has to teach lawyers this stuff. In rough order of how much of my week each one eats.
Schnurbusch Law
Missouri probate, sorted — without the stress.
My day job. A Missouri probate and trust-admin firm — small team, flat fee, on a clock. Most estates close in under a year, none of them cost a percentage of what’s inside, and nobody loses a human to talk to along the way.
Legal Tech Collective
Where I do most of my teaching about AI in legal practice.
A Facebook group I started, and where I do most of my teaching about AI in legal practice. Lawyers, paralegals, and consultants actually comparing notes — minus the vendor marketing and LinkedIn theater that fills the rest of the conversation.
Airtable for Lawyers
The Airtable case-management course I built under Lawtomation.
A self-paced course on building a real case-management system in Airtable — designed for solo and small-firm attorneys who want something that actually fits how they work, without paying for enterprise software they don't need.
Benedeed.legal
Transfer-on-death deeds, done right.
A DIY beneficiary-deed builder for Missouri — walks you through the parts people screw up, then spits out a finished, properly-formatted deed you can sign, notarize, and record yourself.
Things I’ve been thinking about.
Mostly opinions, plus the occasional explainer for lawyers trying to figure AI out. No newsletter, no popup — subscribe via RSS or don’t.
- №003 · July 29, 2026
AI protective orders are becoming court-ordered staffing restrictions
Restrictive AI orders can dictate a law firm's effective labor inputs. Courts should protect discovery with clear, reciprocal controls, not enterprise labels that kneecap smaller litigants.
Read → 12 min - №002 · June 4, 2026
Hermes is a workshop, not a scalpel
Why I keep using Hermes even though Claude is excellent: one agent across surfaces, model freedom, deeper memory, owned infrastructure, law-firm crons, and marketing automations that quietly do real work.
Read → 10 min