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Abraham Lincoln wasn't a dentist, nor was he an expert witness.

Yet as a dental expert witness, no figure in history has influenced my professional philosophy more than Lincoln.

His legal ethics, storytelling, and commitment to truth resonate in my courtroom work more deeply than even the most influential mentors in my field.

Before he was president, Lincoln was arguably the most respected trial lawyer in Illinois.

He took on over 5,000 cases during his legal career, ranging from murder defenses to land disputes, and was known for his command of logic and decency in the courtroom.

As an expert witness, I have no partisan role.

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think that is there are some good promotions being offered by microsoft they're adding urgency into it but people are now seeing the benefits before it was just a buzzword it was a nice to have now there are real business implications for adopting ai whether that be just to make processes slicker and smoother and quicker and free people's time up all the way through to marketing and finance you know things are rapidly developing I think for the first time in a long time, I've noticed a trend where people are not standing siloed.

So Microsoft are opening the doors to a lot of third-party LLMs to work through Copilot as well.

So the businesses that were on the fence as to whether to use the Microsoft solution or go for something like Claude or one of the other solutions out there, They're now able to integrate.

Do you think that's been the biggest shift then? Certainly from what I've seen, that's been a big adoption case for the larger organizations.

And do you think that's why people have resisted it for so long? I think there's been resistance because people are just unsure of the business benefits of using an AI solution.

And I think AI has been thrown around for so long that people have almost got a bit sick of it.

From my

Just that sense of, you know, I was playing, but it was like God was speaking through me to the people around and there's the sense of prophecy through it.

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, we love it when that happens and we've seen it over and over again.

One of the early stories of how we saw that happening, but not even in a church context, was being invited in Wellspring with a small group to be involved in a Christian arts conference in Bulgaria, in Sofia.

And we went there as a chamber group.

I think we had oboe, piano, cello, viola, violin, I think was the group.

And we did one or two concerts as part of this Christian Arts Festival.

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