Lawyer and builder
Joe Kyburz
I build research tools and write the guides I wish had existed when I needed them.
Most of them started as a problem I had firsthand: choosing a law school, a firm, or a judge to clerk for; getting a table of friends to taste wine with some structure; planning a trip with six opinions in it. Each one puts primary sources and a usable framework in front of the person who has to decide.
Legal research tools
Three career decisions, researched against your own priorities instead of a ranking.
- Open LawSignal (external site)
Choosing a law school
LawSignal
Scores every ABA-accredited law school against an applicant's own priorities: employment outcomes, cost, location, selectivity, and culture.
- Open FirmSignal (external site)
Choosing a firm
FirmSignal
Scores BigLaw and elite boutique firms against the priorities that shape a career: practice area, geography, lifestyle, and long-term goals.
- Open ClerkSignal (external site)
Researching judges
ClerkSignal
A research workspace covering every Article III judge, with verified links to primary biographical sources and no rankings or scores.
Guides
Advice I kept giving one person at a time, written down so it reaches more people.
Artificial intelligence · Web guide
AI for Lawyers, Companies, and Everyone Else
The longest piece on this site. It covers how to choose AI tools, design workflows that fail safely, manage context, and build with agents, with a source behind every claim. It carries a version number because the tools keep changing.
Read the guideTasting series
Three guided tastings for a host and a table of friends.
Each one runs the same way. The host sets the pace from a phone. Guests learn what to notice before they taste, why it matters while they taste, and compare notes after. The framework is the point. It makes wine, whiskey, and cocktails more social and less intimidating.
- Open Palate (external site)
Wine tasting
Palate
A host-led wine tasting for dinner parties: what to notice before you taste, why it matters while you taste, and a shared reveal after.
- Open Proof (external site)
Whiskey tasting
Proof
A host-run whiskey tasting built around structured pours, shared notes, and the evidence behind each bottle.
- Open Pour (external site)
Cocktails
Pour
A cocktail workshop that has you make the drink, then taste what changed when one variable moves at a time.
Planning systems
Trips with too many variables, turned into one plan the whole group can see.
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Trip planner
Eurotrip
A Europe trip selector with a generated destination catalog that matches routes, lodging, and logistics to how a group wants to travel.
Open Eurotrip (external site) -
Trip planner
Golden State
A California bucket list built for a final few weeks in the state, sequenced by geography, priority, and what is realistic.
Open Golden State -
Trip planner
Vermont
A shared road-trip planner where each traveler ranks lodging, routes, and restaurants, and the group sees one plan.
Open the planner
I'm a lawyer and builder with a background in nuclear engineering, Army leadership, and public service. Everything on this site is personal, and most of it exists because I wanted it to.
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