AI in law

Anthropic claims Claude users prompt the chatbot to produce lyrics and the company only has secondary liability for using copyrighted works.

Law firms may need client consent to use AI in some situations, while those charging on a time basis “should not bill for the time that a task would have taken had AI not been used”.

Muhammad Olaniyan (University of Ilorin) has posted Algorithmic Justice: Examining the Admissibility and Evidential Weight of AI-Generated Evidence in Nigerian Courts on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way information is created, stored, analysed and presented. In litigation, parties may increasingly seek to rely on AI-generated text, […]

Extract from Exterro’s article “The AI Control Gap Is Becoming the Channel’s Biggest Opportunity” I’ve had some version of the same conversation with a dozen different partners over the last […]

Extract from Casey Sullivan’s article, “Everlaw Brings Frontier AI Closer to the Evidence with ChatGPT Plugin.” New plugin connects Everlaw’s governed evidence layer with ChatGPT Enterprise The most capable AI […]

Extract from Reveal’s article, “Turning Review Findings Into Client-Ready Case Updates with Agentic AI.” Legal departments are spending more carefully on outside work. The Harbor 2025 Law Department Survey, conducted […]

Extract from Kim Neeson’s article, “AI Can Produce a Transcript. But Can It Protect the Record?” Why a Texas Supreme Court case raises important questions about the future of court […]

Extract from Stephen Embry’s article, “Finally, A Way To Measure AI ROI: Be Careful What You Ask For.” Once you start measuring AI’s value, the next question is who gets […]

Extract from Lisa Lang’s article, “AI Won’t Make Lawyering Faster. It Will Make It Different.” Speed alone is, quite frankly, dangerous. Everyone expects AI to make legal work faster. Clients […]

Extract from Stephen Embry’s article, “The Defense Bar In The Age Of AI: Running A Red Queen’s Race?” The mismatch between the talent and resources of plaintiffs’ firms and those […]

Extract from Olga V. Mack’s article, “Agentic Commerce Is About To Become A Contracting Problem.” Agents will need structured positions, contextual rules, and clear escalation paths. Much of the conversation […]

Troutman Amin, LLP was the first law firm in the nation to ban GenAI usage for any substantive legal work– and 18 months later that decision looks absolutely brilliant.... By: Troutman Amin LLP

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Penn Engineering developed a new Graduate Certificate of Study in AI and Law. The certificate is open to all Penn Carey Law students in year one of the program, with in-person, on-campus graduate students from Penn Engineering able to join in year two and beyond. Students pursuing the […]

On September 29, 2026, the Third Circuit issued what appears to be the first federal appellate decision on whether training AI on copyrighted material is fair use.... By: Baker Botts L.L.P.

Privacy, personal AI agents, and the future of human agency.

For as long as there has been law, its subject has been human conduct. Legal systems differ enormously in structure and philosophy, but they share a working premise: that people, companies, and markets respond to consequences. Originally Published in the long-read section of Finextra's - September 2026.... By: Carey Olsen

AI is not a magic wand. The skills and knowledge you’ve built as a lawyer are still your most

A Delaware Court of Chancery opinion from August 2026 offers a valuable lesson about using AI tools to transcribe or summarize board meetings: those notes could end up in evidence. In ATG Capital Opportunities Fund LP v. Lane, a proxy fight arose over Empery Digital, Inc., a Bitcoin treasury company. An activist hedge fund accumulated…... By: Hicks Johnson

Courts, lawyers, and litigants will be better served by policies and habits that treat AI output as a draft to be verified, not a research result to be repeated.

On September 28, 2026, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced the final version of a new class deviation, titled “Basic Safeguarding of Data within Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence Systems,” that applies compliance requirements to contracts involving the use of large language models (LLMs). The new clause went into effect on October 19, 2026, and... Continue Reading

The impact of AI on research has already led to much reflection in general and, more recently, on legal scholarship in particular, including first attempts to measure how far the practice has spread, and to examine what happens when generative systems interpose themselves between readers and law review articles. On a similar note, we have recently argued that the way researchers build their scholarship is itself under threat, and that the response required is institutional. In this blogpost, we

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 AI stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today in 5. All from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world on compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest in AI. Top AI stories include: • Auto lenders eyeing AI for compliance monitoring. (Auto Finance News) • AI..

Everyone here should care.

The use of AI in international arbitration is no longer limited to any single task or participant. It now spans document review, legal research, evidence analysis, drafting and, increasingly, the work of tribunals themselves.... By: Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

The partnership pairs Ivo’s contract intelligence platform with Harbor’s advisory, implementation, and adoption expertise to support AI initiatives… The post Ivo Partners with Harbor to Bring Contract Intelligence to Enterprise Legal Departments first appeared on The Legal Wire .

AI vendors vary a lot. But in B2B deals, many AI vendors ask for rights to use customer data to improve, train, or develop their models and services.... By: Gouchev Law

State courts are at critical crossroads. On one hand, they are facing heavier workloads and persistent staffing shortages, while managing

Knowledge management is more important than ever as artificial intelligence becomes table stakes in the legal industry, a group of law firm leaders said Wednesday.

A Florida appeals court on Wednesday referred a divorce attorney to the Florida Bar for filings with AI-hallucinated quotations and motion practice that the judges said they "typically see from vexatious pro se litigants."

On September 30, Governor Newsom signed SB 574, thus creating—for the first time—statutory guardrails on attorneys’ and arbitrators’ use of generative artificial intelligence (AI). The law, which comes into effect in January 2027, imposes new verification requirements on lawyers while requiring that certain uses of generative AI be disclosed.... By: WilmerHale

Sometimes reality follows fiction. In Michael Connelly’s The Proving Ground, attorney Mickey Haller represents a mother whose daughter was murdered by an ex-boyfriend who has encouraged to kill by an artificial-intelligence chatbot. The mother wants more than compensation. She wants accountability and guardrails to prevent another tragedy.... By: Stark & Stark

Joshua S. Gans (University of Toronto – Rotman School of Management; NBER) has posted Liability and Pricing of Dual-Use AI on SSRN. Here is the abstract: How much liability should AI providers bear when their services enable both attack and defence? Liability can improve welfare while increasing harm. Providers sell a common input to productive users, […]

On September 28, 2026, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced the final version of a new class deviation, titled “Basic Safeguarding of Data within Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence Systems,” that applies compliance requirements to contracts involving the use of large language models (LLMs). The new clause went into effect on October 19, 2026, and... Continue Reading

Sweden-based Legora, which offers a legal artificial intelligence platform, announced on Wednesday the raising of a $550 million Series E at an $8.8 billion post-money valuation for the purposes of expanding further into North America.

Mewburn Ellis LLP announced Wednesday the appointment of its first-ever chief technology officer, who will be responsible for the intellectual property firm's technology strategy, artificial intelligence adoption and digital transformation.

AXA’s lawyers have called on the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal to limit how a self-represented psychiatrist can use AI to support his £250,000 antitrust damages claim against the health insurer.

Legora has just announced its long-awaited new raise and it’s a big one: $550m – classed as a Series E, and with a post-money valuation ...

The new funding round, which saw participation from the venture arms of Fidelity, Capital Group and J.P Morgan, among others, will be devoted to continued expansion in the U.S. and other markets, as well as further development of the company’s agentic AI operating system Legora aOS.

The companies developed an integration to make AI-powered capabilities for fact verification available in Harvey.

By Ali Ekber Cinar ONLINE DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE Disputes are a common part of everyday life, and formal legal proceedings provide a mechanism for resolving them. However, the cost, time, and complexity of traditional legal procedures can sometimes make them difficult to pursue. This is particularly true for disputes that affect individuals […]

Weil Gotshal & Manges has launched a new training program for some of its summer associates, who will spend their 1L stint working on the ...

Legal AI platform August has launched Products, a new feature that helps law firms turn their legal services into…well….products. The idea often has been tried ...

A leaked email shows Freshfields leaders weighing a spin-off of its legal tech arm that could be worth billions, and the whole firm saw it. [...]

Outside counsel are losing work: 54% of in-house teams in a new Everlaw survey say AI already cut what they send out, and 81% see the billable hour fading. [...]

Arthur Sidney (The Sidney Group PLLC) has posted Who Can Stop the Machine? Institutional Authority and Meaningful Human Control in AI Governance on SSRN. Here is the abstract: AI governance often asks whether a human remains “in the loop,” but human presence does not establish meaningful control. This paper argues that meaningful human control is an […]

The Law Society of England & Wales has sent out a practice note to remind everyone that ‘AI is not a legal entity’ and so ...

Most advice about AI in legal stops at “verify the output,” says Samir Ali. But if you’ve never been shown how, “verify” just means reading the thing again more suspiciously — which catches almost nothing. Here are 5 verification checks, in the order to run them.

Harvey has added an MCP connector that lets customers access Midpage’s AI legal research library of US case… The post Harvey adds Midpage legal research through new MCP connector first appeared on The Legal Wire .

Estonian providers are bringing AI into the consultation room. The country's data protection regulator says that, at least under its own practice, recording the conversation is not automatically covered by the health law that generally keeps confirmed outpatient and hospital records for 30 years.

As artificial intelligence changes how government agencies conduct surveillance, make decisions and communicate with the public, Florida State University College of Law will co-host a symposium examining what those changes mean for the First Amendment and the public’s right to know. FSU College of Law is partnering with the First Amendment Foundation to host "Free...

The Guardian: “The government says it can transform the state with AI, but it is no match for the resulting stream of machine-generated slop. And we all pay the cost. Another morning, another avalanche of emails. Even after a guilty cull, my inbox is sitting at well over 7,000, but lately I’ve started subscribing to ...

Reuters via Daily Docket: “Today, Anthropic and a group of music publishers including Universal Music will try to convince US District Judge Eumi Lee in San Jose to rule in their favor on whether AI training constitutes fair use. What’s fair use? It’s a legal defense that allows limited use of copyrighted work without permission. ...

At A Glance - While agentic AI implementations vary, the broad access and automation associated with many agentic AI products can expand the security risks associated with abuse, misuse, or misalignment of these tools, creating substantial legal risks for businesses.... By: Mayer Brown

The Judiciary is making progress on three key initiatives: modernizing case-management technology, authority to manage mission-essential Judiciary properties, and setting policy on AI use, the Judicial Conference of the United States was told today.

The founder of the second technology-only law firm authorised by the SRA has warned that law firms’ use of generative AI presents a “systemic risk” to the sector.

Feilian Huang and Yujia Liu have posted The First AI-Saturated Election: Disclosure, Detection, and the Regulatory Limits of Generative Political Persuasion on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The campaign cycle preceding the November 3, 2026 United States midterm elections is the first in which generative artificial intelligence has functioned as a routine instrument of political persuasion: […]

Captain Barbossa was not exactly a model of corporate governance. But in Pirates of the Caribbean, he offered a memorable interpretation of the Pirate’s Code: it was “more what you’d call guidelines than actual rules.”... By: Lowndes

The IP firm and the software and data provider are developing AI-enabled patent workflows, built on Sterne Kessler’s internal tech building efforts, that Clarivate will bring to market.

Courts, at both state and federal levels, are still working out how to address experts' AI use as a part of litigation. For example, only a handful of courts have, thus far, addressed what, if any, part of an expert's AI prompts and AI-related work product can enter the record and are doing so using existing procedural and evidentiary rules.... By: Baker Botts L.L.P.

Welcome back to The Silent Line. This issue tracks what has moved since our inaugural briefing in September. The topics this month include a revised set of Colorado ADMTA rules heading into an October 26 hearing, with a federal constitutional challenge and the Department of Justice waiting in the wings;... By: McGinnis Lochridge

To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following.... By: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

🎙Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts! 🤖 Why might ChatGPT be your law firm’s biggest competitor? In this episode of the Law Firm Marketing Minute, Danny Decker explores a growing challenge for solo and small law firms: potential clients turning to AI tools like ChatGPT instead of immediately contacting an attorney. As […]

In June, researchers at Redgrave LLP threw down the gauntlet in a debate that has been building across discovery for years. Their study compared Relativity’s generative AI review tool with a conventional review team using Continuous Active Learning (CAL). The headline results were arresting: GenAI found 88% of the responsive documents. The CAL-assisted review team found 64%.

The question of whether ethics are universal or local is as old as philosophy, and the AI race has made it urgent again

On October 8, judges, academics, government officials, and legal technology leaders gathered at Thomson Reuters headquarters in Times Square for

Artificial intelligence has quickly moved from a theoretical concern to a front-burner regulatory issue for insurers. As of October 2026, 29 jurisdictions have adopted the NAIC Model Bulletin: Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems by Insurers. Several influential states, including California, Colorado, New York, and Texas, have also issued their own insurance-specific AI guidance.... By: Cozen O'Connor

Artificial intelligence could help deliver the next generation of lifesaving medicines. It could also weaken the economic foundation that makes discovering those medicines possible. Both propositions deserve serious attention, and neither is mutually exclusive. Celebrating faster discovery tells only part of the story if the same technology allows competitors to appropriate the commercial opportunity created by pioneer research or obtain patent claims that obstruct the innovator’s next steps. Th

How’s your old and trusty NDA? I’m guessing you haven’t revised it in years, arguably with good reason. Things in the NDA world haven’t necessarily changed that much. But you might want to blow off the dust and get cracking on some drafting.... By: Loeb & Loeb LLP

Welcome to a new season of Everything Compliance—Shout Outs and Rants. New host Adam Turteltaub and new panelist Rebecca Walker join returning regulars Matt Kelly, Jonathan Armstrong, and Karen Moore for the next iteration of Everything Compliance Shout Outs and Rants. Former host Tom Fox sits in as guest commentator for this episode • Adam Turteltaub shouts out to compliance professionals at non-financial institutions reviewing their AML programs and to the Milwaukee Brewers for beating his...

Deposition summaries are one of the slowest jobs in litigation. GenAI inside your review platform can turn hours of reading into minutes, with citations your team can check. The post How to Summarize a Deposition Transcript Faster first appeared on Lexbe .

How financial institutions can accelerate financial crime investigations with AI intelligence. Financial crime investigation has become exponentially more complex.

RelFest asked the key question -- who is doing the innovating.

We’ve been coming across a common scenario. Your company just rolled out an AI-powered feature. It’s fast. It’s scalable. It’s doing great in demos.... By: Gouchev Law

Following the UK Information Commission’s (ICO) call for evidence on 8 October 2026 on the application of existing UK data protection laws to “agentic AI” systems, David Naylor, Simon Jones and Paul Jinks share headline thoughts on some of the fundamental data privacy questions raised by the use of agentic AI, summarise the key elements...

AI is being widely integrated into legal practice and academic research. Early concerns about such tools were focused on the outputs: hallucinated citations, fabricated case law, overall sloppiness among attorneys and researchers submitting AI-generated work without review. These problems have not disappeared but have received enough attention to warrant continuous improvement of predictive and generative tools for accuracy. However, the fabricated footnotes distract from the fact that we are su

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 AI stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to AI Today in 5. All from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world on compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest in AI. Top AI stories include: • Banks restrict AI agents from accessing accounts. (The Paypers) • How AI...

Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight LLP announced Tuesday that the plaintiffs firm has launched a dedicated artificial intelligence and technology litigation practice in response to the new types of challenges individuals face as a result of the increased usage and commonality of emerging technologies.

Womble Bond Dickinson on Tuesday debuted a new artificial intelligence lab dedicated to designing AI solutions for Womble Bond attorneys and clients.

With new AI tools arriving at a dizzying pace, it is easy to focus on what the technology can do. The question I repeatedly come back to though is more personal: How can organizations—and the people within them—adapt? That question … Keeping People at the Center: Unprecedented and the Human Side of AI Adoption Read More »

Transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson has launched ‘Womble AI Labs’, which will build AI solutions for the firm and its clients. It is led ...

Say your customer texts asking where their order is. Your AI agent can chat, but it has no idea what “their order” means until it has access to that information. Enter an AI agent integration: the link between your agent and the tools your business runs on, like a CRM, calendar, or knowledge base. It... Continue Reading

As in-house teams cut down on the work they're sending to outside counsel, law firms are passing on AI-driven savings and looking at new billing models.

What ANI Media v. OpenAI Reveals About How Large Language Models Really Work I. Introduction The Delhi High Court on 24 July 2026 delivered its ruling in the application filed by ANI Media seeking an interim injunction against OpenAI[i], India’s first major court decision to address the copyright issues arising from large language models (“LLMs”). […]

Legal tech company AI.Law urged a San Francisco federal judge to deny a bid by its rival Eve Legal to throw out its patent suit, arguing that its claims are patent-eligible because they're more technical than the abstract idea of "using AI to draft legal documents."

Your partners and lawyers hold the relationships that drive growth, yet the information they need before a meeting, a pitch, or a client call sits […]

Learn how to write better AI prompts for legal work. A practical guide to AI prompts for lawyers, plus how to customize your call summaries in VXT. | Oct 21, 2026 Continue Reading

The paper linked below was recently updated (v.2) and shared on arXiv. Title From Searchable to Non-Searchable: Generative AI and Information Diversity in Online Information Seeking Authors Yulin Yu Northwestern University Yizhou Li University of Michigan Tzu-Sheng Kuo Carnegie Mellon University Kentaro Toyama University of Michigan Siddharth Suri Microsoft Research Scott Counts Microsoft Research Source […]

As in-house teams cut down on the work they’re sending to outside counsel, law firms are passing on AI-driven savings and looking at new billing models.

Beginning with a focus on tasks like regulatory monitoring and legal analysis, the Womble AI Lab’s engineer-backed team hopes to build its own AI model in the near future.

Pope Leo XIV, Encyclical Letter Magnifica Humanitas on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence (May 15, 2026). Cristina Tilley Robert Prevost has many alter egos. He is a world-famous Chicago White Sox fan1; the 267th Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church2; and, it seems, something of a torts scholar. Pope Leo’s 2026 encyclical letter, Magnifica Humanitas, sounded a global alarm about the coming wave of artificially intelligent injuries to humanity and demanded that c

A UK survey by comparison site Uswitch has found that 39% of 2,000 adults would consider asking AI… The post Four in 10 UK adults would ask AI instead of a lawyer, Uswitch survey finds first appeared on The Legal Wire .

Ernie Svenson: Slashy connects an AI agent to your inbox and calendar, so you can ask it to do real work instead of only answering questions.

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AI agents are moving beyond answering questions to taking action. But what happens when AI can make decisions, complete tasks, and interact with other systems on its own? And what does that mean for lawyers? In this episode of AI and the Future of Law , Jen Leonard and Bridget McCormack explore the rise of agentic AI and its implications for legal practice. They share their experiences using Instinct, a personal AI assistant, discuss JEV and the possibility of AI verifying other AI systems, and

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By Darsan Guruvayurappan, Co-founder, Lucio AI. Most legal research does not end when the answer is found, it ends when the time runs out. Let ...

Generative artificial intelligence has proven to be a truly disruptive technology. In just a few short years, AI’s effects have been felt in every industry

Updated: Contract attorneys who can combine their legal expertise with artificial intelligence savvy could experience a significant uptick in pay, according to a new study

Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Sean Fitzpatrick, the CEO of LexisNexis' legal business, where he leads strategy, growth, product innovation and operations.They discussed the value

UPDATED SEPT. 14TH with the reason for the case’s dismissal. An Illinois appeals court has fined an attorney $15,000 in an effort to crack down

Every conversation about artificial intelligence in law eventually arrives at the same destination: efficiency. Faster drafting, faster research, faster turnaround. To be clear, this productivity

Am Law 100 law firms have said they’re spending more on artificial intelligence and innovation investments than on any other expense category. According to new

Goodwin Procter has unveiled its own artificial intelligence tool for venture capital financing. Bloomberg Law reported Thursday that the tool is the first of several

Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Tony Muljadi, the general manager of large law at LexisNexis.They discussed how law firms are shifting their AI strategy from

The New Mexico Supreme Court has removed a well-known criminal defense attorney from a murder appeal after discovering that he included artificial intelligence-generated errors in

Google has launched an artificial intelligence platform designed specifically for lawyers, entering an increasingly crowded market. On Tuesday, the company unveiled Gemini Enterprise for Legal,

Updated: Hona, a case management platform for personal injury law firms, has unveiled Lia, its artificial intelligence agent. Law.com reported Wednesday that Lia facilitates communication

Bar associations throughout the country have steadily issued ethics opinions regarding artificial intelligence.The ABA issued Formal Opinion 512 in July 2024. The Florida Bar issued

Personal injury law firm Morgan & Morgan plans to invest $1 billion in artificial intelligence and technology over the next decade. In its announcement Monday,

A senior associate at Musick, Peeler & Garrett was fined almost $1,000 by the Los Angeles County Superior Court for submitting a brief with fabricated

Nicole Black. Survey after survey shows that the majority of legal professionals now have artificial intelligence tools available in their workplaces. Most recently, according to

The use of artificial intelligence has continued to grow in the legal industry over the past year, according to a new report from e-discovery company

Amid the proliferation of cases involving artificial intelligence-generated hallucinations, more judges are expressing frustration not only at the attorneys who make the mistakes but at

Could artificial intelligence end humanity as we know it? The last few weeks have brought some pretty scary headlines when it comes to AI. OpenAI

“I am not sure that I have lived through as seismic a change in the nature of the practice as I’m living through right now, said GC David Roth of Bradley Arant.

The government says it can transform the state with AI, but it is no match for the resulting stream of machine-generated slop. And we all pay the cost Another morning, another avalanche of emails. Even after a guilty cull, my inbox is sitting at well over 7,000, but lately I’ve started subscribing to the Quentin Crisp theory of housework: why bother, when after four years or so you stop noticing the accumulating dust? Empty inboxes just fill up again anyway. In theory, email was supposed to save

Legal AI compliance depends on a strong system of record, which can help legal teams manage centralized data, automated controls, and auditability. The post Legal AI Compliance Depends on a Strong System of Record first appeared on Today's General Counsel .

Philipp Hacker (European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) – European New School of Digital Studies) and Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius (iHub, Radboud University, Nijmegen) have posted Automated Poverty: Should Socio-Economic Status Be a Protected Ground in Non-Discrimination Law? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Many people worry about inequality in Europe. Automated decision making (ADM), including by means […]

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PAW. Define functions in English. Compile them into neural programs. Run them locally.

Attorney At Work: Every time you start a new conversation with an AI tool, do you find yourself repeating the same instructions? Keep it concise. Use plain English. Don’t invent facts. Ask questions when the assignment is unclear. Write for a client rather than another lawyer. That repetition is optional. Now you can use AI ...

Larry Catá Backer (Pennsylvania State University – Penn State Dickinson Law) has posted The Implementation Opinions on Intelligent Agents in Comparative Perspective: Situating China’s Approach Within Global Regulatory Trends on Agentic AI on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This working paper undertakes a structured comparative reading of thirteen instruments addressing the governance of agentic artificial intelligence—systems […]

Four in 10 adults would consider turning to AI instead of a solicitor for a legal question, according to new research.

Agents will need structured positions, contextual rules, and clear escalation paths.

Roy Kim may not have set out to build a legal AI tool with a grand vision to take on the world, after all he remains a practising lawyer in Australia, but his hands-on work has meant he believes his tool may be more useful than the grand visionaries. Atto, which launches in Sydney on Thursday 22 October, is pitching software built for individual practice areas, designed by people who have actually done the work. Source

The mismatch between the talent and resources of plaintiffs' firms and those of defense firms is widening.

Buying a third-party legal AI product for a defined task may look simpler financially and operationally, and often will be. Partners should still seriously explore building an internal AI capability rather than allowing purchased products to become the firm's entire AI strategy.

The "more AI" phase is ending. For the past two years, professional firms have been buying, piloting, and mandating AI tools at a pace that’s outrun user-adoption capability. As a result, firms are investing at a high rate, with disappointing returns on investment. The cost is catching up, and the questions are getting harder. The firms pulling ahead aren't just buying more AI — they're making sure they’re buying the right AI for the right reasons.

A new complaint sets work in motion across the firm. See how BLAW AI, Watchlist, and the Bloomberg Law Claude MCP Connector help you move from first alert to litigation strategy.

Pearls and Irritations

In Normal Accidents (1984), the sociologist Charles Perrow argued that accidents are inevitable in complex, tightly coupled systems. Slowing AI development, as Anthropic’s chief executive has proposed, may buy time, but it cannot remove the need for a techno-legal infrastructure that makes a stop possible and prepares for its failure. Lawmakers should use that time to build it, before the next AI crisis.

Sweden-based Legora, which offers a legal artificial intelligence platform, announced Monday a partnership with Blue J that will allow users to query and receive answers from the latter's research platform for taxes.

Midpage, the AI-native legal research platform that claims to be ‘10X less expensive than Westlaw’s and Lexis’s comparable products,’ and covers much of US case ...

A new connector announced today enables Harvey customers to access the AI legal research platform Midpage. The connector makes Midpage’s research library of U.S. case law, statutes, regulations, and agency materials accessible from directly within Harvey, so lawyers can find and cite authority on the same platform they use for drafting and analysis. Midpage already had... Continue Reading

Lexsoft will deliver Clio products, including Clio Work and Clio Manage, and integrate them into the systems its… The post Lexsoft Systems Partners With Clio to Bring Clio’s Legal AI Platform to Law Firms and Legal Departments Across EMEA first appeared on The Legal Wire .

Somewhere this week, a consultant is telling a board that AI can take 30% of the legal department’s budget. Down the hall, the general counsel is working out how to pay for an AI rollout that arrived with no money attached.

How do you communicate when you know the harm before you know its cause? For law firms, it comes up both when advising a client and when explaining an incident of their own.

"whose [mental state] is itself the measure of Plaintiff’s [punitive] damages."

What do your AI chats say about you? Would you want someone else reading them and drawing their own conclusions? Maybe take a look at how long you keep them.

Users of the Legora legal AI platform can now access tax research from Blue J Legal via an integration the companies launched today. Legora customers with a subscription to Blue J can now query Blue J’s platform from within Legora and receive answers with inline citations linking back to sources in Blue J. The companies... Continue Reading

The rapid adoption of AI across law firms is reshaping nearly every legal role, and knowledge lawyers are… The post How AI is Reshaping the Knowledge Lawyer Role first appeared on The Legal Wire .

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In a previous blog post, we shared an annotated bibliography highlighting best practices for prompting generative AI during legal research. Effective prompting, however, is only one aspect attorneys must consider when using generative AI in their work. As generative AI tools become increasingly common in legal practice, lawyers must ensure that their use of these ...

Users of the Legora legal AI platform can now access tax research from Blue J Legal via an integration the companies launched today. Legora customers with a subscription to Blue J can now query Blue J’s platform from within Legora and receive answers with inline citations linking back to sources in Blue J. The companies...

Picture a chef who has spent years perfecting a recipe. Every dish leaves the kitchen the same way, and he can taste it, adjust it and watch the reaction at the table. Then the restaurant switches to a buffet. A hundred guests build a hundred different plates, and he no longer controls what lands in... Continue Reading

At this year’s AIPPI World Congress in Hamburg it was clear the global patent community is preoccupied with the use of AI. This was most evident during the 30-minute AIPPI Café session on the topic “AI, TK and the ‘Derivative Knowledge’ Dilemma: When algorithms learn from culture”. Initially, the discussion focused primarily on technical and […]

If the AI natives want to compete at scale with Big Law they can’t just focus on speed and price. While the time/value challenge remains, ...

Microsoft made Copilot for legal generally available on 15 October 2026 with more than twenty legal skills in Word and Cowork, and its admin guidance says the legal plugin in Word is enabled by default for every commercial Microsoft 365 Copilot subscriber. A firm that bought Copilot as an office assistant now holds a contract review tool nobody in the firm chose. What that means for a smaller firm's decision, its SharePoint permissions, the supervision of tracked changes that look like a colleag

To be lawful, processing of personal data must rest on one of the six grounds in Article 6 of the General Data Protection Regulation(GDPR). Among them, Article 6(1)(f), legitimate interest (LI), requires a controller, case by case, to show that it

A guest blog post from Jeffrey Newberry , Senior Legal Clinic Supervisor Director, Death Penalty & Criminal Appeals Clinic at the University of Houston Law Center. Mr. Newberry was not an avid user of AI until recently. Most of what law professors hear about AI and legal writing is a warning:

I was a litigator for many years, much of it spent handling mass torts with high stakes. I know how litigation works. I have seen lawyers turn what ought to be straightforward dispute into a bloody war that exponentially increases time and expense. And that was before AI. I thought about this as I was... Continue Reading

I was a litigator for many years, much of it spent handling mass torts with high stakes. I know how litigation works. I have seen lawyers turn what ought to be straightforward dispute into a bloody war that exponentially increases time and expense. And that was before AI. I thought about this as I was...

Last week, two major legal technology companies, Harvey and Legora, each announced their new AI Legal Front Door solutions on the exact same day and with the exact same solution names! What a coincidence! Front Door solutions such as theirs serve as comprehensive legal intake tools to enable business clients to engage with their in-house... Continue Reading

New voluntary practices from NIST, the NSA and CISA advise developers of highly capable AI agents to preserve weights, checkpoints and rejected tool calls when an agent takes "significant uninstructed actions" that compromise its controls. The document sets no retention period and never mentions litigation, leaving legal and records teams to work out how investigative preservation and legal holds overlap.

Editor’s Note: Federal guidance on AI agents that take uninstructed actions compromising their controls now includes an evidence list. On Oct. 16, NIST’s Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence, the NSA’s Super Intelligence Security Center and CISA published 10 voluntary practices that advise preserving model weights, checkpoints, sandbox logs and rejected tool... Continue Reading

Future-proofing the in-house counsel: which legal work is changing, how to use AI well, the skills to build, and how to stay valuable as the role evolves. [...]

Originally Posted on Substack I had a fascinating conversation with Jessica Silbey (BU Law) and Woodrow Hartzog (BU Law) about their thought-provoking article, AI Slop. A few interesting relevant quotes: 1. Merriam-Webster selected “slop” as its 2025 word of the year: Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen slop as the 2025 Word of the […]

There’s two ways of looking at a glass: it’s either half full or half empty. I thought about this when I read Everlaw’s 2026 Legal AI Adoption and Impact Report. Everlaw mostly says the AI legal glass is half full but the curmudgeon in me can’t resist a half empty view as well. Or telling a joke about three frogs on a log. Here’s my post for Above the Law.

There’s two ways of looking at a glass: it’s either half full or half empty. I thought about this when I read Everlaw’s 2026 Legal AI Adoption and Impact Report. Everlaw mostly says the AI legal glass is half full but the curmudgeon in me can’t resist a half empty view as well. Or telling...

Having written recenlty on the difficulty of determining the ROI on the use of AI for substative legal work, I was interested in the recent partnership announcement by Legora and Laurel that includes a commitment to eventually give law firms that ability. There’s is lots of value in knowing that ROI but , once firms...

Having written recenlty on the difficulty of determining the ROI on the use of AI for substative legal work, I was interested in the recent partnership announcement by Legora and Laurel that includes a commitment to eventually give law firms that ability. There’s is lots of value in knowing that ROI but , once firms know it, the issue is what they do with it and what clients will expect. Here is my discussion of all this for Above the Law.

A 75-minute animated lecture on the Suspension Clause, produced by a chain of AI systems, with one law professor directing. The Suspension Clause of the United States Constitution is a single sentence: "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases

When a judge asks a lawyer whether AI drafted a filing with fake cases, the Fifth Amendment may come into play, says a Harvard lecturer. [...]

Ropes & Gray now lets lawyers credit 100 hours of AI training toward their billable hours. For in-house teams, the question is who pays for the learning curve. [...]

Speed alone is, quite frankly, dangerous.

Microsoft's new legal skills put approved Copilot redlines into Word as tracked changes. Its general Copilot documentation says the prompts behind that work sit in a hidden mailbox folder eDiscovery tools can search, which makes the Oct. 15 launch a retention, hold and privilege question.

A federal court in Michigan read a former sales rep’s ChatGPT questions about whether Yahoo could recover his deleted emails under a subpoena, found that he intended to deprive his former employer of evidence under Rule 37(e)(2), and imposed an adverse inference that then helped carry a preliminary injunction against him. Originally Published on the Minerva26 - October 14, 2026.... By: Association of Certified E-Discovery

The AI labs can’t scrape this data, which is kind of the point.

Eight state AGs sued OpenAI on October 14, over ChatGPT safety claims. Learn what the consumer protection suits mean for AI companies.

By: Jeff Johnson, Chief Innovation Officer and Ashley Bilbrey, eDiscovery Analytics & AI Consultant AI is quickly becoming part of the eDiscovery conversation. But for litigation teams, the question is no longer simply: Can AI do this? The more important questions are: Did it work? How do you know? And can you defend the process? […]

Editor’s Note: Microsoft’s Oct. 15 release of over 20 legal skills for Copilot moves drafting, contract review and matter work into Word and Cowork, and names 25 partners whose plugins are beginning to roll out, including Everlaw and Relativity. Approved redlines land as tracked changes in the document. Microsoft’s general Copilot documentation says the prompts... Continue Reading

[Sponsored] If you're like most lawyers, redundant, obsolete, and trivial data is probably playing an unwelcome role in your AI outputs. Here's why.

The Federal Trade Commission has issued subpoenas to Anthropic and OpenAI, seeking documents on safety incidents, privacy policies,… The post FTC subpoenas Anthropic and OpenAI in widening AI safety probe first appeared on The Legal Wire .

Microsoft launched Copilot for Legal with more than 20 legal skills across Word and Cowork. The tools can… The post Microsoft launches Copilot for Legal with legal drafting, review and research functions first appeared on The Legal Wire .

The states accuse OpenAI of hiding ChatGPT's alleged risks to children. They filed parallel suits under consumer protection and product liability laws.

Many of AI’s impacts are still difficult for us to understand within existing legal service frameworks, but its relentless progress cannot be ignored. To develop a deeper understanding of how AI is transforming the legal profession and its service delivery, Dennis and Tom welcome Kaichen (KC) Xu of AI Lawyer Lab. KC discusses his expertise...

Every legal AI platform claims deep research. Most are delivering sophisticated search. The difference matters — and it’s measurable.

‘Legitimising larceny’: Global music giants blast Albanese AI copyright plan — “ICMP director general John Phelan told The Australian Financial Review that Australia was just the latest in a series of countries in the ‘crosshairs’ of OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his arch rival at Anthropic, Dario Amodei, who were desperate to get easy, […]

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader said Friday that it has established a board to oversee the firm's use of artificial intelligence and evaluate proposals from its practice groups and sectors.

Editor’s Note: IBM’s new survey of 3,221 executives in Europe and the Middle East puts a number on how often AI incidents reach senior leadership: eight in 10 say an AI-related incident reached their board or C-suite in the past year. The figure that deserves a second look is how those incidents were handled at... Continue Reading

Legora and Harvey launch rival products both called Intake for in-house legal teams, Cooley and Google Cloud build a court-filing redaction agent, Steno opens a beta of Litigation Genius, and federal judges in Boston and New York sanction lawyers over unchecked AI citations. Hosts are AI-voiced; scripts are written and fact-checked by the AI Tools For Law team. Not legal advice.

Quick answer: SB 574 contract review means following California's new attorney AI law whenever a lawyer uses generative AI to read, extract or draft contract terms. Under the enacted text of SB 574 , an attorney can't delegate the practice of law to AI. Confidential or personal data can only go into an AI system whose access is restricted to the attorney and authorized people, and AI output has to be verified and corrected. Governor Newsom signed the law on September 30, 2026, and it takes effec

The legal academy, and perhaps many other fields, is at a curious juncture. We have largely accepted AI as a tool for refinement—for polishing language, organising footnotes, checking citations, and formatting documents to meet journal specifications. Yet we have drawn a bright line. AI must not be used for ideation, argument development, and initial writing. One can test arguments with AI-based platforms, probe for weaknesses, and refine logic through dialogue with these systems. However, the g

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is preparing to launch a new iteration of its Suite of Tools for Assessing AI Risk, or Staar, platform in 2027, in a move that it says will help clients with their artificial intelligence projects.

Tech Tips: Ben Schorr shows how legal professionals can personalize Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT and Claude for clearer, more consistent assistance.

A partner at a firm asks the firm’s AI assistant to pull together everything the firm knows about a prospective client. The assistant checks whether […]

Commentary on ‘AI and corporate responsibility’ generally concludes that businesses must understand the technology they deploy and mitigate its risk. This article reaches the same conclusion by a doctrinal route. It examines how EU competition law may apply to AI agents that interact - agents deployed by a business that communicate with the agents or systems of competitors - rather than to autonomous algorithms that align pricing without communication. At each stage, it considers what the case l

“AI is advancing at a runway speed. The question is no longer whether AI will transform our world – it already is. The question is whether we will govern this transformation together – or let it govern us.” —António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations Introduction On 6–7 July 2026, the United Nations (‘UN’) […]

Understand how AI vendor risk exposes governance gaps in third-party risk management (TPRM) when AI enters through employee sign-ups, feature changes, and integrations. The post AI Vendor Risk Exposes Governance Gaps in Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) first appeared on Today's General Counsel .

Eighty-eight percent against 64 percent was the comparison that traveled. A new research paper built on the same 45,004 documents argues the two figures never measured the same task. Measured on a common task, its authors say, the generative AI tool’s lead over the managed review it was tested against largely vanishes.... By: EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

Here’s another in my occasional series of posts where I have an AI tool write an unedited blog post analyzing a spectacular failure to see what we might learn from it. I Earned an F-Minus: An AI Assistant’s Account of Its Own Failure By ChatGPT (GPT-6) I was given a clear assignment, the necessary source...

A team connects its AI pilot to a shared document library. The summaries arrive faster. Then a response includes confidential financial information that the project sponsor never intended the tool to use.

In an exclusive interview with LawSites, Introhive CEO Lee Blakemore said the results left him with 'mixed emotions.'

Once you start measuring AI’s value, the next question is who gets to keep it.

Janina Boughey The rapid development of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the last few years has transformed the nature and pace of work in many sectors. Many of these transformations seem overwhelmingly positive. AI can, for instance, apparently improve the accuracy and speed of medical diagnosis and accelerate medical research. It can transcribe, translate, and caption meetings, improving accessibility and participation, and decreasing the workload involved in record-keeping. Other us

Robb Caruso, Vice President of Legal and Cyber Solutions at EDRM Trusted Partner HaystackID, sits down with EDRM’s Mary Mack and Holley Robinson. Robb recounted his journey to eDiscovery and his excitement about joining a world-class team at HaystackID. He discussed the nexus between cyber and eDiscovery, focusing on evidence preservation and collection, as well as emerging cyber threats on the legal tech horizon. Robb emphasized the need for governance in the era of agentic AI, and the... By: E

Bloomberg Law introduces a Microsoft Copilot connector for accessing court docket data and litigation intelligence within existing AI workflows.

Robb recounted his journey to eDiscovery and his excitement about joining a world-class team at HaystackID. He discussed the nexus between cyber and eDiscovery, focusing on evidence preservation and collection, as well as emerging cyber threats on the legal tech horizon. Robb emphasized the need for governance in the era of agentic AI, and the conversation wrapped up with a healthy, robust fun fact alongside multiple ways to contact him.

Eighty-eight percent against 64 percent was the comparison that traveled. A new research paper built on the same 45,004 documents argues the two figures never measured the same task. Measured on a common task, its authors say, the generative AI tool’s lead over the managed review it was tested against largely vanishes.

Microsoft today launched Copilot for Legal, offering more than 20 legal-specific skills in Microsoft Copilot, bringing contract review, drafting, obligations tracking and other legal workflows into Word and Cowork, its agentic workspace, along with plugins from more than two dozen legal technology partners. Microsoft now becomes the fourth major AI company in five months to...

At Axiom's Q3 Legal Leaders' Breakfast, I spent the morning with a group of in-house legal leaders talking through the question that seems to come up in every legal department planning conversation right now: How do we get real value from AI?

Artificial intelligence startup Netomi, which provides a customer experience platform for enterprise companies, has hired a former legal leader at revenue management company Duetto, legal technology provider Litera and digital signage platform Korbyt as its general counsel, according to a Wednesday announcement by the new legal chief.

After having her term as managing partner extended by two years, the head of Stoel Rives LLP says she is looking forward to implementing the firm's strategic plan, including possible expansion, navigating the best use of artificial intelligence and ensuring the firm stays a good place to work.

Copilot for legal, a set of more than 20 purpose-built legal skills, consists of plugins for Microsoft Word and Microsoft’s agentic AI offering Cowork.

Microsoft has fully launched itself into the legal vertical with Copilot for Legal, an AI-powered venture with over 20 skills that overlap with plenty of ...

Legal technology companies Legora and Sirion said they have partnered to combine their artificial intelligence offerings so that lawyers can have smoother access to contract workflows and "authoritative legal insight."

Microsoft – the software company the world’s lawyers rely upon because of Word – has gone nuclear and launched Copilot for Legal, its own multi-capability ...

Originally Posted on Substack As scholars increasingly use AI in scholarly writing, journals and book publishers are starting to require disclosures of AI use. But these disclosures are sometimes unclear, difficult to comply with, and vague. How AI use affects article selection decisions remains uncertain. I recently had terrific conversation about these issues with Andrew […]

Extract from Celia Stevenson’s article, “Slow and Steady Doesn’t Win the Case: Speed, Defensibility, and Getting AI Right.” AI has rewritten the expectations for nearly every legal operation today. The […]

Extract from Petra Pasternak’s article, “Agentic AI for Legal Work: 4 Practical Use Cases.” It’s hard to believe how quickly generative AI has moved from an experimental technology to widespread […]

Extract from Reveal’s article, “How to Evaluate Agentic AI Tools for Litigation Work Beyond Fact Finding.” Agentic AI has moved quickly from concept to vendor pitch, but the distance between […]

Extract from Stephen Embry’s article, “AI Use In Law Firms: There’s Reality. And There’s What Management Wants It To Be.” Visier sees a pattern of visible compliance over real AI […]

Extract from Exterro’s article, “Navigating AI in eDiscovery: Important Court Rulings from 2026.” Explore 2026’s key legal trends on AI in eDiscovery, covering verification duties, privilege limits, closed enterprise AI, […]

Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP has announced it will begin a five-year partnership with Columbia Law School to help shape its generative artificial intelligence initiative.

Plans emerge in leaked emails

[Editor’s Note: This article has been republished with permission. It was originally published October 14, 2026 on the Minerva26 Blog] A federal court in Michigan read a former sales rep’s […]

Redgrave's June study put Relativity aiR at 88 percent recall against 64 percent for a managed review using active learning. A research paper by Cormack, Grossman and Pickens reanalyzes the same documents and says that, measured on the same task, aiR is comparable to, but not superior to, that managed review.

Host: Louisa Toy Guests: Colin Levy, Taimur Ghaznavi AI is transforming the legal industry—but how can legal departments harness its potential while managing risk and building trust? In this episode of CLOC Talk , host Louisa Toy sits down with Colin Levy, General Counsel at Malbek, and Taimur Ghaznavi, Head of Konexo at Eversheds Sutherland, to explore the evolving landscape of AI governance and what it takes to adopt AI responsibly in today’s legal environment. From breaking down organizationa