<![CDATA[The Midnight Brief: Immigration Practice, Re-designed]]>It's midnight. Somewhere, an immigration attorney is still at her desk, brief half-finished, coffee cold, inbox multiplying. We've all been her. This show is about never being her again.

The Midnight Brief is where immigration law gets rebuilt. Host Nadine Navarro (practicing immigration attorney and legal tech founder) sits down with the lawyers, technologists, and operators redesigning how immigration firms run.

Expect honest conversations, strong opinions, and zero reverence for "the way it's always been done." Because the midnight brief isn't a badge of honor; it's a systems failure. And we're here to fix the system.

Pour something, pull up a chair, and let's build the firm that lets you sleep.

]]>https://draftyai.comRiverside.fm (https://riverside.com)Sun, 18 Oct 2026 06:47:14 GMTMon, 20 Jul 2026 20:31:03 GMT60Nadine Navarro | DraftyAI<p><i>It's midnight. Somewhere, an immigration attorney is still at her desk, brief half-finished, coffee cold, inbox multiplying. We've all been her. This show is about never being her again.</i><br /></p><p><i>The Midnight Brief is where immigration law gets rebuilt. Host Nadine Navarro (practicing immigration attorney and legal tech founder) sits down with the lawyers, technologists, and operators redesigning how immigration firms run.</i><br /></p><p><i>Expect honest conversations, strong opinions, and zero reverence for "the way it's always been done." Because the midnight brief isn't a badge of honor; it's a systems failure. And we're here to fix the system.</i><br /><br />Pour something, pull up a chair, and let's build the firm that lets you sleep.</p>episodicNadine Navarro | DraftyAInadine@draftyai.comno<![CDATA[The Firm That Banned ChatGPT]]>Tahreem Kalam is a managing partner and shareholder at Minsky, McCormick and Halligan, a Chicago immigration firm founded in 1975, and one of the youngest immigration attorneys in the country to make partner.

In this episode, we get into why her firm runs on Microsoft Copilot but bans ChatGPT and Claude for legal work, the 80 to 100 PERM cases she inherited as a brand new associate and what that taught her about building systems, the 30 minute Monday meeting her firm created because immigration news always breaks on a Friday night, why she will not put an AI receptionist on the phone, and how she rolls out new technology in a 50 person firm without everyone quietly refusing to use it.

Tahreem is a Super Lawyers Rising Star and a systems thinker inside a firm that has been practicing immigration law for 50 years. Her take is the one the industry keeps skipping: the question is not whether to use AI, it is which tools, for which work, with which guardrails.

Sponsored by DraftyAI, the AI case prep platform built for immigration attorneys. Learn more at draftyai.com

]]>9d121188-f06b-4891-8e83-54a0e14ef77dThu, 17 Sep 2026 20:08:00 GMT<p>Tahreem Kalam is a managing partner and shareholder at Minsky, McCormick and Halligan, a Chicago immigration firm founded in 1975, and one of the youngest immigration attorneys in the country to make partner.</p><p>In this episode, we get into why her firm runs on Microsoft Copilot but bans ChatGPT and Claude for legal work, the 80 to 100 PERM cases she inherited as a brand new associate and what that taught her about building systems, the 30 minute Monday meeting her firm created because immigration news always breaks on a Friday night, why she will not put an AI receptionist on the phone, and how she rolls out new technology in a 50 person firm without everyone quietly refusing to use it.</p><p>Tahreem is a Super Lawyers Rising Star and a systems thinker inside a firm that has been practicing immigration law for 50 years. Her take is the one the industry keeps skipping: the question is not whether to use AI, it is which tools, for which work, with which guardrails.</p><p>Sponsored by DraftyAI, the AI case prep platform built for immigration attorneys. Learn more at draftyai.com</p>no00:35:08The Firm That Banned ChatGPTfull<![CDATA[Surviving the AI Wave]]>Ruby Powers runs a nationally recognized immigration firm, a consulting practice, wrote two books on practice management, and spends most of the year speaking at legal conferences on the road.

In this episode, we get into the boundaries that keep her sane at home and in the firm, how she spots problem cases before the consult, the AI tools her firm actually uses, what attorneys fear after the Heppner decision, and the minimum time she says every lawyer now owes to learning AI each week.

Ruby is an AILA and ABA leader, author of Power Up Your Practice, and a DraftyAI adviser.

Sponsored by DraftyAI, the AI case prep platform built for immigration attorneys. Learn more at draftyai.com

]]>dbfb8bac-84a9-44d8-9cc9-8e8f5d0ffa9cTue, 21 Jul 2026 17:39:06 GMT<p><i>Ruby Powers runs a nationally recognized immigration firm, a consulting practice, wrote two books on practice management, and spends most of the year speaking at legal conferences on the road. </i><br /></p><p><i>In this episode, we get into the boundaries that keep her sane at home and in the firm, how she spots problem cases before the consult, the AI tools her firm actually uses, what attorneys fear after the Heppner decision, and the minimum time she says every lawyer now owes to learning AI each week. </i><br /></p><p><i>Ruby is an AILA and ABA leader, author of Power Up Your Practice, and a DraftyAI adviser.</i><br /></p><p><i>Sponsored by DraftyAI, the AI case prep platform built for immigration attorneys. Learn more at </i><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://draftyai.com" target="_blank"><i>draftyai.com</i></a></p>no00:37:13Surviving the AI Wavefull<![CDATA[Why Good Lawyers Burn Out]]>Every immigration lawyer knows the midnight brief.

But what if the real problem is not that lawyers need better boundaries, more discipline, or another burnout webinar?

In this first episode, Nadine Navarro dives into what late-night lawyering is really telling us and why the future of immigration practice belongs to lawyers willing to redesign the system instead of sacrificing themselves to it.

]]>58d16713-3be5-44d0-9c36-d98bef2390f9Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:32:17 GMT<p>Every immigration lawyer knows the midnight brief.<br /></p><p>But what if the real problem is not that lawyers need better boundaries, more discipline, or another burnout webinar? <br /></p><p>In this first episode, Nadine Navarro dives into what late-night lawyering is really telling us and why the future of immigration practice belongs to lawyers willing to redesign the system instead of sacrificing themselves to it.</p><p></p>no00:09:46Why Good Lawyers Burn Outfull