Tom Cedoz

A working library for legal departments

Most of the case is written before anyone sues.

Checklists, frameworks, and quick-reference guides for in‑house counsel navigating employment risk and commercial disputes — the charge that arrived this morning, the termination scheduled for Friday, the demand letter sitting in someone’s inbox.

Start with the four most-used tools

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  • Each prints to one or two pages

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All resources

Checklist · Employment

Responding to an EEOC Charge: The First 72 Hours

What to do — and not do — between the day a charge arrives and the end of that week. Deadlines, holds, carrier notice, and the retaliation briefing.

14 items · prints to 2 pages

Framework · Commercial

Demand Letter Triage: The First Week

A first-week sequence for any serious demand: deadlines, preservation, insurance notice, the contract itself, and choosing a response posture on purpose.

8 steps · 2 pages

Checklist · Cross-practice

Litigation Hold: Trigger to Release

When the duty to preserve attaches, what a defensible hold covers, the sources teams forget, and how to end a hold without breaking your retention policy.

full lifecycle · 2 pages

AI risk

All AI resources

AI changes the workflow, not your legal duties. For the in-house team deciding what to adopt, how to govern it, and who answers when it gets something wrong.

Quick reference · AI & risk

What AI Is Actually Good At — and What It Isn’t

A buyer’s field guide for cutting through the pitch: where AI genuinely reduces risk, where it manufactures it, and the questions to ask any vendor.

good-fit table · 2 pages

Checklist · AI & risk

A Workplace Generative-AI Use Policy

What an acceptable-use policy actually needs — approved tools, the one data rule everyone remembers, verification duties, and the uses to put off-limits.

build checklist · 2 pages

Framework · AI & risk

AI in Hiring: An Employment-Law Risk Review

Adverse impact, ADA, and bias-audit exposure when an algorithm screens your applicants — and why “the vendor built it” is not a defense.

risk review · 2 pages

The record that decides a dispute is written in ordinary weeks — a policy update, a performance review, an email no one thought twice about. These tools are for writing it on purpose.

ManufacturingHealthcareTransportationTechnology

Built for the people who own these problems in-house. If something here is useful, take it. The full library

Recent writing

All insights
  • Michigan Litigation Journal · State Bar of Michigan

    Fixing Michigan’s Fragmented E‑Filing

    Michigan’s e-filing patchwork turns ordinary filings into logistical problems. An open-source proof of concept — built and published with the article — shows what a unified statewide system could look like.

    Spring 2026

  • Husch Blackwell · Legal Update

    Ohio’s New AI Ethics Guide: What Every Lawyer and Judge Needs to Know Right Now

    Ohio’s new professional-conduct guidance distills the sanctions orders and emerging consensus on generative AI into practical guardrails — what it actually asks of lawyers and judges.

    June 2026

Missing something? If there’s a checklist or framework your team keeps wishing existed, say so — the library grows where readers point it.