Darol Tuttle is an estate planning attorney and legal technologist focused on turning legal rules into reliable, computable workflows. He is the founder of LegalEdge, where he works on systems that connect legal authority to real-world facts—helping attorneys deliver clearer, faster, more consistent work product. Darol writes about estate planning practice, legal reasoning, and the design of tools that make law operational.
A technology-independent framework engineered from first principles to address architectural challenges in legal technology: high coupling to volatile legal logic and non-deterministic outputs from opaque reasoning models.
Washington’s estate tax changed sharply on July 1, 2025, with a $3M threshold and rates up to 35%. Illinois stays at a $4M exclusion with mandatory Form 700 filing over the threshold. Here’s what families and advisors should do heading into 2026.
How four specialized components turn complex legal rules into deterministic, client-ready documents using the Velcro Model of Law.
Why facts—not queries—are the true unit of legal reasoning, and what happens when you bind them correctly.
Why a legal ontology is not a taxonomy, and why it must behave more like infrastructure than metadata.
How we extract, filter, and map rules of law across statutes to build a navigable legal universe.