At 11:47 PM on a Tuesday in Austin, Texas, a solo attorney stares at an 87-page vendor agreement. Her startup client needs it signed by Friday. She can't afford the $30,000 BigLaw would charge to review it properly. She'll have to wing it. Again.

But first, we need to understand what a champion is—and why strangers have always needed people willing to fight for them.
This episode traces the 3,000-year evolution of legal champions: from Wulfric oiling his blade in a Germanic forest clearing in 847 AD, to Cicero's trembling hands in the Roman Forum, to the last attempted trial by combat in England in 1818, to a BigLaw associate working through the night on due diligence, to AI systems that never sleep.

FEATURED STORIES:
• Wulfric, a professional judicial combat champion, risks his life for a widow he's never met—and grapples with whether God guides his sword or just his skill
• Cicero's first major case: defending an innocent man against Sulla's corrupt freedmen when no established advocate would take the case
• Abraham Thornton throwing down a gauntlet in 1818 Westminster, invoking trial by battle for the last time in English history
• Maya, a modern BigLaw associate, discovering the human cost of being a paper champion at 3 AM

THE CENTRAL INSIGHT:
For three thousand years, the adversarial system promised equal representation—but delivered it only to those who could afford champions. The sword became a pen became a keyboard, but the role never changed: to fight, professionally, for someone else's cause.
Now, for the first time in human history, technology is making it possible to keep that promise for everyone.
Your champion is ready. The question is: what will you ask them to fight for?

—
T Cubed is brought to you by T³ Law (Taylor Technologies & Transactional Law)—a law firm built on cutting-edge AI that delivers partner-level legal analysis at startup-friendly prices.
Visit t3-law.com to learn more.