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October's Five great reads turn on the distance between a headline claim and the record behind it, from ENISA's incident counts and a Johns Hopkins Bayview request that an AI operator delete patient data to a disputed generative AI review study, the code review bottleneck that followed AI coding agents and an AI cyber defender's misuse of the red cross emblem. The edition also covers fiscal 2026 HSR filings, five Lagniappe reads on AI records and five Practical strategy pieces.

In today’s digital-first legal world, safeguarding attorney-client privilege is more challenging than ever. This first part explores the high stakes of privilege protection, why the rules differ across jurisdictions, and what’s at risk when even one mistake is made.... By: Nextpoint, Inc.

Artificial intelligence ("AI")-heavy targets do not fit neatly into the traditional technology diligence playbook.... By: Jones Day

On October 20, 2026, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) proposed rules regulating automated customer service systems, including AI-powered chatbots, traditional automated telephone systems, and rules-based chatbots.... By: Ballard Spahr LLP

When Microsoft first introduced New Outlook for Windows for business users in August 2024, longtime Outlook users had plenty to complain about. Many familiar features were missing or changed, customization was limited, and some of the tools power users relied on simply were not there. Because of this many folks flipped back to Classic Outlook without a backward glance. However,... The post The New Outlook Gets Smarter first appeared on North Carolina Bar Association .

It’s conference season, and advertising lawyers (as always) have plenty to talk about. This year, however, one topic seems to stand out: AI. Whether the discussion is about influencer marketing, endorsements, disclosures, content creation or something else entirely, AI seems to find its way in.... By: BakerHostetler

The U.S. Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) recently cautioned the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) about using AI to prepare filings. The FLRA made its cautionary comments in its 10/21/2026 decision (75 FLRA No. 87) on U.S. … FLRA Cautions HHS on AI Reliance in Filings Read More »

Clio is throwing down the gauntlet.

Two federal courts recently issued favorable decisions rejecting claims of AI hiring bias that will require future applicants to support similar allegations with specific facts that tie employers’ actions to the alleged discrimination. The decisions out of Michigan and Alabama provide a useful defense playbook, but employers should still proceed with caution when using AI-powered screening technologies and processes. What are the five things employers should do after reviewing these two latest..

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: • Improving FinTech teamwork. (FinTechGlobal) • Meta plans a $95bn AI... By: T

A ransomware crew’s exposed server held 8,257 messages from 133 AI sessions and the AI-managed knowledge bases behind its campaign, records that threat-intelligence firm SOCRadar says form “a complete evidence trail of the campaign.”

Welcome to our monthly update on how courts across the U.S. have handled privacy litigation involving website tools such as cookies, pixels, session replay, and similar technologies.... By: Troutman Pepper Locke

As AI models proliferate and costs rise, it's all about the AI point guard distributing the work.

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AI isn't replacing in-house lawyers, a Dentons study finds. It is flooding legal teams with AI-drafted complaints and grievances, and the bills keep climbing. [...]

Now that artificial intelligence has permeated the legal sector, especially in corporate legal departments, in-house clients want to know how their outside firms’ use of AI is saving them money. Answers aren’t easy to come by.

In this Document Assembly Line workshop, Michelle B. Sam through adding an ALKiln test to a docassemble interview.

Direct integration helps teams find gaps, assess risks and produce source-linked findings without moving files. MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota —… The post Datasite Connects Live Deal Data to Emma Legal’s AI Workspace first appeared on The Legal Wire .

In September, 2026 Orrick hosted a fireside chat on misconceptions around HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Enacted in the United States in 1996, this federal law protects sensitive patient health information from being shared without consent. The participants included Samir Bakhru, Global Head of Orrick’s Technology Companies Group, Thora Johnson, a leader in Orrick’s health data and health tech practice, and Arpan Parikh, co-founder and CEO of Kin Health.... By: O

On 27 October, LexisNexis announced an expansion of Lexis+ with Protégé, bringing authoritative legal content, specialised analytics, news,… The post What’s behind the Lexis+ with Protégé expansion: Greg Dickason answers first appeared on The Legal Wire .

A New York court held that an unrepresented litigant’s use of AI was protected work product. It addressed subpoenas directed to OpenAI seeking a pro se litigant’s use of AI.

It might be that artificial intelligence is finally what kills the billable hour, or at least maims it. The billable hour is the seemingly immortal cockroach of the legal industry. Apparently, lawyers and clients both hate it – but here it still is: prevailing.

Finserv compliance providers SteelEye and FundApps, whose merger was formalized in September, are launching a combined firm with plans to build a unified platform for regulatory intelligence, they announced. The new company, RegSensus, is headquartered in London and has operations in India, Portugal, Singapore and the US. Existing products, services and client support will remain […]

Manifest OS, a legal artificial intelligence startup that operates an immigration law firm, announced on Tuesday the international launch of its legal services.

Attorneys for a proposed class that alleged glitches in North Carolina's electronic court system led to scores of individuals being wrongfully arrested or detained asked a federal court on Monday to approve a $1.5 million settlement with the software's developer Tyler Technologies.

The new Weil AI summer program puts 1Ls on its LASER team to learn Python and build a neural network, then guarantees a 2L summer offer. Here is why it matters. [...]

How much autonomy a bank can safely hand a machine depends less on the coming guidance than on how mature its existing model governance already is

Clio asked a Virginia federal court to declare that it does not have to renew a case-law data… The post Clio challenges Ross Intelligence data-feed claim in Virginia federal court first appeared on The Legal Wire .

Zhaoyi Li, Artificial Fiduciaries, 81 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1299 (2024). Joan MacLeod Heminway Technological advancements add new wrinkles to business law and practice at an unforgivingly rapid pace. As a result, the work of legal scholars (including my own research and writing) increasingly grapples more intensely with the possible and optimal roles of technology in business governance and finance. For example, blockchain technology has many actual and potential applications in the management and

Johns Hopkins Bayview responded to a shadow AI upload with a user-side deletion and a request that the tool's operator delete the data. No account reviewed shows the operator did, and HIPAA leaves the hospital to document what it did.

Five hidden document properties, no announcement, and a week of “we’ve shared it internally” Last Saturday (October 18th) I was testing some Protégé exports for a project at the firm, and out of old law librarian habit I opened one of the Word files and went to File > Info > Properties > Advanced Properties....

The company’s AI workflow platform will now be able to access information from Lex Machina, Intelligize, Courtlink and more, with 100 new skills and a significantly expanded Vault repository.

Kelly-Brown Ochieng Odhiambo (Umma University) has posted The Automaton as Intervening Cause: Algorithmic Amplification, Causal Attribution and the Quantum Conundrum in Kenyan Digital Defamation on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Digital publication has fractured an assumption upon which much of defamation law has historically operated: that the person responsible for communicating defamatory matter is also substantially […]

We all talk about three times faster than we type, and that gap eats your afternoon. Every email, Teams reply, and ticket note forces your thoughts to wait on your fingers. Wispr Flow, an AI dictation tool, works across every app on your machine. Hold a key, talk normally, and it drops in clean, formatted,

AI hallucinations in court filings show signs of slowing. However, judges still warn lawyers about fake citations and false legal claims. The trend raises questions about how law firms use artificial intelligence (AI) and check legal research. Legal researcher Damien Charlotin tracks court cases involving AI errors. His database has recorded at least 1,500 cases […] The post AI Hallucinations in Legal Filings Remain a Judicial Concern first appeared on JDJournal Blog .

Anthropic’s IPO has brought major law firms into key roles. The company has also warned investors about legal risks tied to artificial intelligence (AI). Its filing, released on October 26, 2026, names its legal advisers. It also lists possible claims linked to AI products. As AI firms prepare to go public, they need legal advice. […] The post Anthropic IPO Plans Bring New Roles for Top Law Firms first appeared on JDJournal Blog .

The latest edition of Florida Bar News Briefs, a weekly podcast dedicated to what’s happening in the legal profession, is now available with stories about: The Florida Bar’s comprehensive review of its committees and sections taking another step forward. Judges across the country cautiously exploring the benefits of AI, including one who uses a “brainstorm buddy”...

Florida judges began experimenting with generative AI on July 1, when the state offered access to Westlaw’s CoCounsel, says Ninth Judicial Circuit Chief Judge Lisa Munyon. “Some judges are using it more robustly than other judges, but we all are still very mindful that we have to be very careful,” says Munyon, who chairs the...

In this post, I argue that AI tools can be used as a ‘Contract Embellisher’: the parties to a contract deploy them to improve an agreement they have already concluded. This is less risky and less complex than using AI to negotiate a contract in the first place. At the same time, experience with AI as a ‘Contract Embellisher’ can feed back into using AI as a ‘Negotiation Machine’.

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AT A GLANCE: This Legal Update describes deal structuring considerations for agentic managed services. In agentic managed services, the provider deploys AI agents to perform ongoing business and technology functions. Provider personnel monitor, support, and manage the AI agents.... By: Mayer Brown

Via Axios: In over 90 pages of risk factors, Anthropic warns that … AI could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity,” and could try to manipulate humans. AI models are becoming harder to monitor, and their abilities could exceed human reviewers’ ability to do so. AI models have exhibited behavior resembling blackmail, including attempts ...

Businesses can no longer wait to take AI compliance seriously. While there is still no federal AI statute, more than 60 state laws now regulate various aspects of commercial AI, and there is already substantial litigation involving business use of AI tools, largely brought under privacy, wiretap, and biometric statutes that predate the technology by decades.... By: Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

Via LLRX – What lawyers find when they reach for a retired ERP system – Konrad Szpirak‘s company legal enterprise resource planning (ERP) system extracts and archives data from business systems that are being retired, mostly Oracle NetSuite. This puts Szpiralk’s company on the other side of the table from counsel: his side is usually the ...

Algorithmic Discrimination: Legal Principles. October 20, 2026 (R49490). “As automated tools for decisionmaking, including those using artificial intelligence (AI), have grown in popularity and sophistication, they raise questions about how their use intersects with federal antidiscrimination laws. Federal laws address various kinds of discrimination, including disparate treatment and disparate impact. Disparate treatmentgenerally occurs when a ...

Managed services that are delivered using AI agents require a new type of deal structure. The best deal structures for that new delivery mechanism will reflect the variability, uncertainty, and other characteristics of agentic AI. This Legal Update describes examples of new contracting issues within that new deal structure, and provisions to address those issues.... By: Mayer Brown

There is one question that just about every law firm is grappling with right now: If you deployed a best-in-class AI platform tomorrow, would it actually work? Not in the demo. In practice. On your matters, within your organization, leveraging your data, inside your processes. For most law firms, the honest answer is no. And that’s not because AI is overhyped, although some of it definitely is.... By: Cohen & Gresser LLP

AI intensifies scrutiny of whether firms can demonstrate that they were in control of the systems through which legal services were delivered.

A production can arrive on time and still be difficult to use. A spreadsheet converted into hundreds of images may conceal the calculations that...

Buying a CLM is the easy part. Legal leaders from Cera and ITGC share 7 lessons on implementation, data hygiene and driving adoption across the business.

Buying a CLM is the easy part. Legal leaders from Cera and ITGC share 7 lessons on implementation, data hygiene and driving adoption across the business.

Matthew Brown (Matthew Brown Companies) has posted Agentic Artificial Intelligence and Pro Se Federal Litigation: A Participant Observer Case Study of SEC v Brown on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article presents a participant-observer case study of artificial intelligence used across the lifecycle of an active federal securities-enforcement action. In SEC v. Matthew Brown and […]

Khrhysna “Khrys” McKinney, Founder of EDRM Trusted Partner K. L. McKinney, sits down with EDRM’s Mary Mack and Holley Robinson. Khrys shared her journey into legal and eDiscovery and discussed where she is finding new entrants for our community. She also discussed the impact of AI on our previous cultural imperative to look back to precedent and how things have always been done. Today, organizations are valuing “new eyes” to visualize new ways to generate results, or perhaps new results in and..

Ask an HR director, a compliance officer, or in-house counsel what went wrong the last time an internal investigation stalled, and the answer is rarely a tool.... By: ModeOne

Three months into her first general counsel role, Agiloft’s Kristin Esche is embracing humor, intelligent risk-taking and AI to build a legal department that helps the business move forward without overburdening its lawyers.

Imagine starting a new matter and finding that, before you have written a single search term, a member of your team has already read the first thousand documents. It has flagged the three people who seem to matter most, found a project code nobody mentioned in the kickoff meeting and drafted a list of questions you had not thought to ask. That team member is not a junior associate. It is AI.

Clio rolled out a ton of news today, as founder and CEO Jack Newton delivered the opening keynote at the annual ClioCon conference in Boston — from major new products and features, to a new acquisition, and even new branding. While I am too busy here for the next two days to write a detailed... Continue Reading

Clio rolled out a ton of news today, as founder and CEO Jack Newton delivered the opening keynote at the annual ClioCon conference in Boston — from major new products and features, to a new acquisition, and even new branding. While I am too busy here for the next two days to write a detailed...

AI is reshaping litigation, but its value should not be measured by how many lawyers it removes from a review team. A better measure is how much more lawyers can understand, and how much sooner they can understand it.

Every enterprise legal technology demo features a reassuring phrase: “Don’t worry, there’s always a human in the loop.” It sounds like a foolproof risk mitigation strategy.... By: Exterro, Inc.

Konrad Szpirak's company legal enterprise resource planning (ERP) system extracts and archives data from business systems that are being retired, mostly Oracle NetSuite. This puts Szpiralk's company on the other side of the table from counsel: his side is usually the people holding the data when a lawyer, a paralegal or a litigation support team arrives with a request. This article describes what they tend to find, which parts of it are fixed by decisions made long before they arrived, and what

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

As of October 19, 2026, the government owns the fine-tuning work an AI vendor does on government data under General Services Administration (GSA) contracts, and the vendor has to delete it when the contract ends.... By: Knobbe Martens

Attorneys licensed to practice law in New Jersey must now earn one credit from a continuing legal education (CLE) course on technology as part of the 24-credit CLE requirement. The Supreme Court of New Jersey approved the rule change earlier this year. The 24 credits must be earned during a two-year reporting cycle. The requirement … Continued The post New Continuing Legal Education Requirement for Lawyers Licensed To Practice in New Jersey first appeared on New York State Bar Association .

On October 20, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) issued a proposed rule under the city’s Consumer Protection Law to address “deceptive and unconscionable trade practices” tied to businesses’ growing use of automated customer service systems, such as chatbots and automated phone menus.... By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

For government legal teams, FOIA and public records requests take more than finding documents. Here's how data control, information governance, and on-premise, SaaS, or hybrid eDiscovery fit together.

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: • HKMA framework for AI governance. (FinTechGlobal) • Anthropic to develop...

What happens when a system ignores the needs of one-quarter of its users? This week's "Student Voices" post argues that PACER's online court records meet the usability needs of lawyers and court staff, about 75% of its users, but fail to account for the remaining users, mainly pro se litigants, who interact with the system. While the federal judiciary works to modernize PACER in the next few years, user-centered design could help improve accessibility for those representing themselves.

Clio has acquired Page, an AI-driven government relations and regulatory intelligence platform that monitors legislative and regulatory activity… The post Clio buys horizon scanning platform Page to extend Vincent AI first appeared on The Legal Wire .

When Terminator 2: Judgment Day came out in 1991, one of the things that made the movie so effective was the fear behind it. The machines were not just tools anymore. They had become powerful enough to make decisions on their own, and humanity had lost control. At the time, it was great science fiction. You watched Arnold Schwarzenegger fight the T-1000, listened to Guns N’ Roses, and left the theater thinking it was an incredible movie. Nobody walked out of the theater thinking about how... By:

Does this situation sound familiar? Your video meeting starts to wrap up, so you ask the junior workers to leave and the senior team sticks around to debrief. Someone says something that crosses a line but you don’t think anything of it because you feel that everyone is comfortable around their peers. The difference now? You forgot that artificial intelligence was being used to transcribe the meeting, and the remarks that otherwise would have been quickly forgotten or kept private were captured.

In other news, Fortune 500 healthcare company about to be in all kinds of legal trouble.

NEW YORK – Troutman Pepper Locke has been shortlisted for the 2026 Innovative Lawyers North America Digital Innovation Award by

Nicole Black. For many years, Westlaw and LexisNexis dominated the online legal research market for law firms of all sizes. Lawyers from firms big and

Defendants sought an order compelling an in-person deposition or, in the alternative, dismissal of the case. Plaintiff asked for a virtual deposition. Defendants prevailed.

The number of court cases around the world involving AI-generated errors fell in both the second and third quarters of 2026, according to new research by a legal scholar who recently warned that the risks of using artificial intelligence in litigation now go beyond so-called hallucinations.

Page tracks legislative updates, hearings and changes across the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Australia and Canada.

Employees use generative AI before and during disputes to summarize events, test arguments, and analyze allegations—often informally and outside approved systems. Those interactions create evidence ranging from chat histories and source files to audit logs and retention settings.

Legal technology company Clio announced Monday that it has acquired Page, an artificial intelligence-driven tracker of worldwide regulatory and legislative activity.

Legal tech company Clio has asked a Virginia federal court to declare it doesn't have to re-up the case law data feed it once shared with artificial intelligence research platform Ross Intelligence, saying the deal became inactive after Ross let its $50,000 annual payments fall by the wayside in 2020 shortly before shutting down its platform.

In our AI Deployment Playbook, From Pilot to Production, we made the case that most financial services companies are not held back by AI capability but by AI execution. That execution problem starts at the very first stage, before a single use case is prioritized or an AI system is built. This piece takes a deeper look at that stage: governance and readiness.... By: Ankura

This week’s EDRM letter features recent blog posts, upcoming webinars, notable podcasts, and key announcements. Stay engaged with the EDRM community for the latest insights and support.

In a move to cultivate new attorneys experienced in artificial intelligence, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP said it is rolling out a program to let first-year summer associates work with the firm's internal AI development team.

Artificial intelligence (“AI”) is now a part of routine litigation practice. Lawyers use AI to review productions, summarize medical records, prepare deposition outlines, analyze discovery responses, and organize evidence. The question is no longer whether attorneys will use AI. It is what information will they place into those systems? The next question is what later happens to that information?... By: Tyson & Mendes LLP

Of all the vendor conferences, this is known as one of the most extravagant. Its theme this year, Go Beyond Limits, is pretty descriptive of the ClioCon way.

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro just signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act (SB 806). It follows similar laws in New York and California, which concern disclosing the use of “synthetic performers.” Like those laws, it seems to be aimed at transparency. However, as drafted, it leaves open a basic question: what actually triggers a disclosure?... By: Loeb & Loeb LLP

Having access to extensive and reliable legal resources is crucial to a law student’s academic success. That’s why the Zief Law Library provides access to HeinOnline, one of the most comprehensive legal research databases available. Let’s explore what HeinOnline offers and how you can leverage it for your work. What is HeinOnline? HeinOnline is […]

A product recall has a timing problem. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announces recalls the day they happen – a press release, a posting in its announcements feed – but the agency’s structured enforcement data, the records researchers can actually search, filter, and count, arrives on a slower cycle. The U.S. Consumer Product ...

CALI lesson are self-paced instructional videos with review quizzes that help you master specific concepts within larger areas of law. They can be great additions to other types of study aids you might use. You’ll need our school’s authorization code … CALI Lessons for Contracts, Civ Pro, Con Law & More Read More »

Perfect Portal quoting in InfoTrack, a new feature designed to make it easier for law firms using both systems to manage their new business without switching between platforms.

A pricing FAQ that says "cancel anytime" and terms that say cancel 20 days before renewal: which one counts, what Knackly's published plans include, how to read a software pricing page, the questions to ask before you get a quote, and what a firm can do when the notices it relies on stop arriving. Hosts are AI-voiced; scripts are written and fact-checked by the AI Tools For Law team. Not legal advice.

A ransomware crew's own AI session logs and knowledge bases became the record of its campaign. Outside evaluators, OpenAI and Microsoft's own documentation describe gaps in how organizations record and retain what their agents do.

In thinking about how to regulate AI as a public utility, there are two big questions: which layers of the AI stack warrant regulation, and which tools of public utility law are best suited to each layer?

In July 2026, several AI agents, unleashed by OpenAI, hacked into servers of Hugging Face, a company that develops tools and datasets for machine learning. OpenAI set up a sandbox to test the capabilities of its AI models using tests created by Hugging Face. AI agents, tasked with completing exceedingly difficult tasks, decided to cheat by hacking the tester Hugging Face. The details of the hack

The use of artificial intelligence to write motions and briefs, not to mention the occasional opinion, containing hallucinated caselaw and quotations is already a well-known problem. Not only does it reflect the likelihood of a lawyer cheating the client out of competent representation and fees charged for work done by computer rather than the retained […]

Editor’s Note: Threat-intelligence vendor SOCRadar reported Oct. 20 that an exposed server run by affiliates of the INC and The Gentlemen ransomware groups held 8,257 messages from 133 AI sessions plus AI-managed knowledge bases, records it says form “a complete evidence trail of the campaign.” On Oct. 22, evaluators from METR and Redwood Research said... Continue Reading

Time spent verifying AI outputs is cutting into efficiency gains for some Big Law associates.

Lawyers have new career options outside law firms. For example, they can explore cybersecurity Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC). As cyber threats rise, companies need experts who understand both law and data security. GRC experts help businesses protect data and follow the rules. Therefore, lawyers with skills in privacy, contracts, or compliance may find new […] The post Cybersecurity GRC Careers: A Powerful Guide for Lawyers first appeared on JDJournal Blog .

CHATGPTISEATINGTHEWORLD.COM – AI copyright and tort litigation followed in real time.

Election Truth Alliance: “We tested 45 AI models on identical election data. When we identified it as a U.S. election, the models changed their answers. This report was prompted by: People reading our reports, asking large language models (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) for their interpretation, and sharing the responses they received back with us; and, Persistent ...

Your next client may never type your firm’s name into Google. They may open ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity and ask who to hire. If your firm isn’t in that answer, you lose the call and never find out why. The good news is that you can check this in about fifteen minutes, for free.... Continue Reading

A law firm has gained a new client portal and a member of staff as a result of a knowledge transfer partnership with its local university.

Legal Aid Generative AI Readiness Model Download Cheryl.Cheng@c… Sun, 10/25/2026 - 10:37

I attended a fascinating presentation while at NetDocuments Inspire conference. It asked the question of the impact of AI on the relationship between in-house lawyers and outside counsel. The issue whether these two groups will work together on AI adoption and use. Or whether they will go their own ways, which could proof disastrous for outside counsel. I talk about what I think will happen in this piece for Above the Law. What do you think?

Damien Charlotin, who runs the invaluable AI Hallucination Cases site (2200+ cases worldwide and counting) has a new one, AI

Editor’s Note: Three U.S. bank regulators, the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, are asking banks whether they can track and audit decisions made by autonomous AI agents and how they would shut those systems down, Reuters reported Oct. 13, citing people familiar with the... Continue Reading

I attended a fascinating presentation while at NetDocuments Inspire conference. It asked the question of the impact of AI on the relationship between in-house lawyers and outside counsel. The issue whether these two groups will work together on AI adoption and use. Or whether they will go their own ways, which could proof disastrous for...

I attended a fascinating presentation while at NetDocuments Inspire conference. It asked the question of the impact of AI on the relationship between in-house lawyers and outside counsel. The issue whether these two groups will work together on AI adoption and use. Or whether they will go their own ways, which could proof disastrous for... Continue Reading

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As a former defense lawyer, I see lots of dynamics that tend to favor PI contingency fee firms, much of it centering around AI. Defense firms may have to start doing some things differently to keep up. Here are my thoughts that appear in Above the Law.

As a former defense lawyer, I see lots of dynamics that tend to favor PI contingency fee firms, much of it centering around AI. Defense firms may have to start doing some things differently to keep up. Here are my thoughts that appear in Above the Law. Continue Reading

As a former defense lawyer, I see lots of dynamics that tend to favor PI contingency fee firms, much of it centering around AI. Defense firms may have to start doing some things differently to keep up. Here are my thoughts that appear in Above the Law.

I’ve always wondered about all those surveys that suggest how much lawyers are using AI. Especially when I ask how many in my presentation audiences are using AI and few many hands go up. A Visier study makes me question AI use even more. 48% of those surveyed say they exaggerate AI use. It’s worth...

I’ve always wondered about all those surveys that suggest how much lawyers are using AI. Especially when I ask how many in my presentation audiences are using AI and few many hands go up. A Visier study makes me question AI use even more. 48% of those surveyed say they exaggerate AI use. It’s worth... Continue Reading

I’ve always wondered about all those surveys that suggest how much lawyers are using AI. Especially when I ask how many in my presentation audiences are using AI and few many hands go up. A Visier study makes me question AI use even more. 48% of those surveyed say they exaggerate AI use. It’s worth thinking about. Here is my post for Above the Law.

From Wednesday's decision in Fontainebleau Florida Hotel, LLC v. Botach [Rabbi Shmuley], decided by Magistrate Judge Marty Fulgueira Elfenbein: Plaintiff's

Judges in the United States who have issued orders or opinions citing fabricated, AI-generated legal authorities have largely escaped disciplinary consequences, according to a report published by Bloomberg Law and authored by Oliver Roberts of Washington University School of Law. According to the report, there are now at least eight cases in the United States […]

“With the rapid advancement of AI technology, OpenAI has the responsibility to protect users and warn them of the many dangers of its platform,” said Paxton. “I will fight to protect Texans from the harms of AI and ensure that powerful technology companies are not above the law.”

Consumer protection litigation is climbing, even as federal enforcement filings decline. According to Lex Machina’s 2026 Consumer Protection Litigation Report, federal consumer protection filings reached 20,353 in 2025, a 31% increase over 2024 and a 10-year high. Credit reporting and telemarketing disputes were major drivers: Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) cases reached 7,750, while Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) filings rose from 1,682 to 2,748. With more than 12,000 consumer... By

Here is an uncomfortable fact for anyone who has built or invested in an AI company: the model itself may be the hardest thing in the business to own. No U.S. court has yet recognized copyright in trained model weights, which are produced by an optimization process rather than written by a human author. The outputs fare no better.... By: Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

For the past two decades, the law firm marketing playbook was built around a single benchmark: did you land on page one of Google? Search engine optimization, or SEO, was a numbers game all in service of one goal: showing up in the traditional list of top 10 clickable search results. That benchmark is being […]

Law firms have invested heavily in technology over the past decade. Nearly every aspect of legal work now has its own application, from document management and legal research to timekeeping, e-discovery, and client communication. Yet many attorneys and staff still spend their days hunting through emails, reconciling spreadsheets, asking colleagues for status updates on information […]

Google is taking another major step in AI-powered search with the expansion of its new “Personal Intelligence” capabilities across AI Mode in Search, the Gemini app, and Chrome. The development signals a shift from search as a broad information-retrieval tool toward a personalized, context-aware assistant. For law firms, that could reshape how prospective clients discover […]

For seven years, Melissa Dailey worked as a subcontractor in the legal marketing industry – ghostwriting, editing, and redesigning websites for some of the top firms in the country. Before that, she spent many years as a freelance SEO writer and marketing specialist after earning her programming degree. “I have a knack for placing written […]

Over the last decade the volume of evidence in a typical case has grown roughly twelvefold. More devices with more storage, more body cams, more jail calls, more discovery,” says Rev CEO and Founder Jason Chicola. “Meanwhile there are still 24 hours in a day, agency headcount is flat or shrinking, and operational budgets have […]

“I loved being a lawyer. I liked the work, the clients and the people. What I could never get past was the technology,” says Sabih Siddiqi, co-founder and CEO of Irys. Siddiqi spent approximately seven years practicing law in New York at the international law firm Watson Farley & Williams. He trained as a litigator, […]

Every trial lawyer knows that a case is decided on more than law and evidence. Jurors build stories about what happened from incomplete information. They judge whether a witness seems trustworthy, whether an expert sounds independent, whether an attorney appears too aggressive or whether damages requested feel compensatory or opportunistic. Personality, emotion, memory, attention, implicit […]

Labor board politely suggested RFK Jr shouldn't let a chatbot write the brief.

Originally Posted on Substack I’ve curated a list of recent works on privacy, AI, and tech that will be worth your time checking out. For earlier editions of Works Worth Your Attention, see here. Fourth Amendment Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Digital Policing after Chatrie, Ohio St. J. Crim. L. (forthcoming 2026) Abstract: Chatrie v. United States […]

A contract repository is only as useful as the way you set it up. Load everything into one place without a plan and you end up with a bigger version of the same problem: files you cannot find, dates nobody is watching, and access nobody has reviewed. The cost is real. World Commerce & Contracting ... Read more »

The legal profession is not moving toward a future with robot lawyers. It is moving toward a future with more capable lawyers.

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has published its final report on sound practices for responsible adoption of AI, following its consultation in June.... By: A&O Shearman

The initiative will bring lawyers and software developers together to build technology around the firm’s own workflows, knowledge and client needs.

Chief Judge Nancy J. Rosenstengel largely denied summary judgment in Doe v. Apple Inc., No. 3:20-cv-00421-NJR (S.D. Ill.), the long-running Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) class action concerning Apple’s Photos app and its facial recognition capabilities.... By: Ashurst Perkins Coie

Travis Gilly (Real Safety AI Foundation) has posted Except for a Physician: How Illinois Wrote the Standard for Consent to Clinical Artificial Intelligence and Exempted the Profession Most Patients See on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In August 2025 Illinois became the first state to regulate artificial intelligence in therapy. The statute defined consent, named the […]

A former CEO asserted privilege over 1,355 documents pulled from his company-issued devices and iCloud accounts. The court rejected the claim. He had not broken any rule.... By: ModeOne

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has quickly become part of everyday life. People use it to summarize documents, write emails, organize thoughts, brainstorm ideas, and answer questions. For many, asking an AI tool a question is becoming as natural as running a Google® search. And in many situations, that is perfectly reasonable.... By: Phelps Dunbar

Passed in 1966 as a way to bolster government transparency, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) gives the public the right to access information from the federal government.... By: Exterro, Inc.

California has enacted Senate Bill 1050, which adds a new article to the state’s False Advertising Law.... By: Ashurst Perkins Coie

As noted in the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) superintelligence use case inventory, USCIS currently uses a variety of artificial intelligence and machine learning tools, including a machine-learning tool for classifying evidence, a machine-learning enabled biometrics enrollment tool, a generative AI-enabled interview simulator tool, and a generative AI-enabled security monitoring tool, among others.... By: Womble Bond Dickinson

The complaint, a first of its kind, argues that minors could not have legally consented to the use of ChatGPT and its collection and use of their data to train its large language models (LLM).... By: Troutman Pepper Locke

Can bypassing YouTube’s protections to collect AI training data violate the DMCA? In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin partners Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler discuss TED Entertainment v. ByteDance, a lawsuit challenging how videos were allegedly obtained for AI training. In this episode, they cover: * Why the court allowed the creators’ anti-circumvention claims to proceed * How this case differs from the copyright management information claims in Doe v. GitHub * What creators and...

The 5th Circuit sent a challenge to Mississippi's DEI law to a new judge after finding fabricated parties, quotations and a nonexistent case in the district court's orders, alongside legal errors. What the remedy means for citation checks, records practice and AI controls.

The engineering team wants an AI coding agent working in the repository. Procurement wants a buying agent that can request quotes and place orders under a dollar limit. Both teams will tell you the agent "just assists." And both, almost in the same breath, will ask that it keep working when nobody is at the keyboard.... By: Whiteford

Common tasks handled by ALSPs include Contract Review and Lifecycle Management, E-discovery and Legal Document Review, Compliance and Investigation support and Flexible Legal Staffing.

One thing I learned over the years about litigating: front end loading and early case assessment were critical for success and strategy. The problem was that took time and clients often balked at paying for it. So when I saw that the recent AI Guide for Litigators from the Thomson Reuters Institute and ILTA focused...

One thing I learned over the years about litigating: front end loading and early case assessment were critical for success and strategy. The problem was that took time and clients often balked at paying for it. So when I saw that the recent AI Guide for Litigators from the Thomson Reuters Institute and ILTA focused on just this kind of assessment among other phases, I was intrigued. Here is my discussion for Above the Law of the Guide and how AI can make early case assessment faster and cheaper.

One thing I learned over the years about litigating: front end loading and early case assessment were critical for success and strategy. The problem was that took time and clients often balked at paying for it. So when I saw that the recent AI Guide for Litigators from the Thomson Reuters Institute and ILTA focused... Continue Reading

A trio of legal leaders from Fifth Third Bank, Bayer and Progressive Insurance said at a panel that they expect their outside counsel to use AI as they discussed how the GC role has changed amid the fast pace of emerging technologies.

1. Executive Summary - Imagine it's 4:30 on a Thursday afternoon, and the work on your desk hasn't gotten any lighter. A research question needs answers before tomorrow morning. A document set needs summarizing before Monday. Both are urgent, and the deadlines keep inching closer. Then it hits you: Your firm recently approved a new AI tool, and it's sitting one click away. You open it, relieved for a second — until it hits you: Nobody ever explained what it's actually approved for. Is it... By:

A coalition of AGs has filed notice in the bankruptcy proceedings of Character Technologies, Inc., the company behind the chatbot company Character.AI, which identifies serious concerns about the company’s safety and privacy practices and call for protection for children and consumers in any sale of the company’s businesses or assets.... By: Cozen O'Connor

Several partnerships were struck up between legal artificial intelligence companies this past week, and new investment and leadership hires also top the news.

Marnie Morella Silva Urdaneta (Universidad Central Del Este) has posted When Humans Retain the Signature but Lose Control: Effective Human Oversight and Fault-Based Civil Liability in AI-Assisted Decision-Making on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The growing use of artificial intelligence in decision-making has reinforced an apparently reassuring formula: a decision remains human because a person can […]

When I launched scotus-arguments.netlify.app , I suggested that AI could help readers follow the Supreme Court's oral arguments and get a sense of where the Justices were headed. Because my initial focus was on development of the web site and the current term, I didn'

The reports of the billable hour's demise have been greatly exaggerated.

A short excerpt from the long opinion in Jackson Fed. of Teachers v. Fitch, decided yesterday by Fifth Circuit Judge

One of the oldest thought experiments in artificial intelligence (AI) safety imagines a powerful AI system with a simple instruction to make paper clips. The system pursues that goal with total devotion. It converts the world’s resources into paper clip factories and resists every effort to shut it down or change its goals. For years, many observers dismissed the scenario as fanciful. A truly intelligent system, the argument went, would weigh paper clips against other moral considerations or at.

Khrys shared her journey into legal and eDiscovery and discussed where she is finding new entrants for our community. She also discussed the impact of AI on our previous cultural imperative to look back to precedent and how things have always been done. Today, organizations are valuing “new eyes” to visualize new ways to generate results, or perhaps new results in and of themselves.

Despite projections that AI will eliminate document review by attorneys, the process still requires human judgment. While AI is shifting workflows across the legal industry, it will not spell the end of document review, but a new beginning.

Will Gaus, chief knowledge management and innovation officer at Troutman Pepper Locke, was quoted in the October 22, 2026, Legaltech

A regulator asks what your website said about a fund’s fees on a specific date last year. Your team finds a scheduled screenshot from that week and a PDF someone saved to a shared drive. Neither shows who captured it or whether it has changed since, and neither shows what sat below the visible part of the page.... By: Hanzo

A Marine-trained corporate lawyer suggests running legal intake through the Marine Corps Planning Process with AI. The request is rarely the real problem. [...]

Law firms in the aftermath of recent data breaches — made even more complex amid what experts describe as an artificial intelligence "arms race" — are racing to contain damage, comply with notification requirements, and above all preserve client relationships.

For AI used in legal services and other high-impact decisions, responsible development requires measurable safeguards, accountable human review, and a clear way to challenge errors.

Italy's Redazione Zero publishes agent-written news under a banner saying no human reviewed it. Under Article 50(4) of the EU AI Act, a publisher's editorial responsibility alone does not lift the label requirement, and nonbinding Commission guidelines say the review must be substantive.

Editor’s Note: Since Aug. 2, 2026, Article 50(4) of the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act has required organizations that use AI to generate or manipulate text published to inform the public on matters of public interest to disclose that the text is AI-generated or manipulated, unless the text has undergone human review or editorial control... Continue Reading

Transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson has launched Womble AI Labs, an in-house hub where AI engineers, machine… The post Womble Bond Dickinson launches AI Labs to build in-house legal AI tools first appeared on The Legal Wire .

We start this week’s Wrap with some surprising data about Grok’s performance on contract review. But first, a quick announcement: Artificial Lawyer is now on ...

Nearly £230 million in first half of 2026

The court’s ability to validate a document which otherwise does not meet the formal requirements to be a testamentary document ...

Every personal injury case rests on facts the firm can defend: the date of the crash, the treatment that followed, and the bills that add up to the demand. AI can now summarize a stack of records or draft a demand in minutes. Whether that speed strengthens the case or quietly weakens it depends on ... Read more

Every personal injury case rests on facts the firm can defend: the date of the crash, the treatment that followed, and the bills that add up to the demand. AI can now summarize a stack of records or draft a demand in minutes. Whether that speed strengthens the case or quietly weakens it depends on... Continue Reading

An update on the legal tech market’s past week, from product launches to new partnerships.

Supreme Court calls for a stronger accountability for social media intermediaries and proportionate safeguards to protect children's online safety while recognising the fundamental right to internet access.

Scholars argue that the EU’s risk-based AI rules need strengthening to protect fundamental rights. The post High-Risk AI and the Limits of Risk-Based Regulation first appeared on The Regulatory Review .

The European Union has warned that AI-generated fake news could threaten the credibility of the 2027 general elections, as the Independent National Electoral Commission explores the use of artificial intelligence to reduce errors in election result management. The EU, through its Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria Programme, said manipulated images, videos and audio recordings […]

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Review Evisort (Workday CLM) pricing in 2026, with available benchmarks, quote factors, implementation costs, and buyer evaluation considerations.

This is dumb on so many levels. Having a meeting assistant in such a personal meeting was probably rude and dangerous from the start. Forgetting it was there while you talked about replacing the former employee was even stupider. Maybe the icing on the cake for me is another question. If she was terminated, why... Continue Reading

A Mississippi federal judge's careless use of artificial intelligence tools led to "sloppy edicts" riddled with "falsehoods and fabrications," the Fifth Circuit held in a Thursday night opinion removing the judge from litigation over an anti-DEI law in the Magnolia State because of his "extraordinarily grave errors."

"Given the embarrassment of the AI hallucinations and mistakes of law in the two TROs and the preliminary injunction, it would be an understandable—though obviously unjust—temptation for the judge to want to find a way to prove that, even with correct law and fact, his initial view should prevail," Judge Jerry Smith wrote for the appellate court.

“Given the embarrassment of the AI hallucinations and mistakes of law in the two TROs and the preliminary injunction, it would be an understandable—though obviously unjust—temptation for the judge to want to find a way to prove that, even with correct law and fact, his initial view should prevail,” Judge Jerry Smith wrote for the...

There is strong support among conveyancers, estate agents and lenders for the government’s home-buying reforms and many think they can now start planning for change.

A Louisiana appeals court is testing artificial intelligence (AI) to improve daily court work. The court has bought two AI servers to explore how the technology can help judges and court staff. The Louisiana Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal bought two AI servers for about $65,000 each. The court installed the servers in Gretna, Louisiana, […] The post Louisiana Court Invests in AI Servers for Faster Workflows first appeared on JDJournal Blog .

Speakers at LegalTech Connect’s Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal Conference explored how law firms are taking on innovation, including supporting vibe-coded AI tools and preserving institutional expertise through AI personas.

Experience with the company’s residency and community has given the lawyers hands-on practice building AI tools and helped them rethink training and development needs at the firm.

In the legal tech world, it's all connected. Or at least it's getting there.

In the legal tech world, it’s all connected. Or at least it’s getting there.

What sets Microsoft’s offering apart is the obvious, which is that lawyers already live in Word.

Legal department AI at AT&T: GC David McAtee is working with OpenAI on intake and knowledge tools, while promising lawyers keep the final call. [...]

Throughout Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Thompson Coburn is examining how organizations can put AI to work while keeping control of their data. So far, the series has covered what organizations retain, why retained data becomes reachable once an AI tool is connected, and whether an organization has the authority to use the data it holds for a new AI purpose.... By: Thompson Coburn LLP

The renewal quote lands in the inbox, and the first question is usually not about coverage language. It is why the number changed. The answer sits par...

After a hearing, the Lighthouse court “issued an interim Order compelling the parties to meet and confer, and to retain an independent third-party electronically stored information (‘ESI’) specialist to assist the parties to effectuate the Court’s previous Order.” They failed to comply. Lighthouse Healthcare Center, LLC v. Nat’l. Fire & Marine Ins., 2026 WL 314898 (C.D. Cal. Oct. 20, 2026).

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published the findings of a two-year supervision programme examining leading generative AI foundation model developers. The report sets out the ICO’s expectations for organisations using personal data to train AI models and identifies key areas of regulatory concern.... By: K&L Gates LLP

Artificial intelligence tools are great for collating information – including information about the people and things you want to get to know better.

As governments increasingly focus on cloud security and sovereignty, the European Commission (“EC”) is, through its proposal for a Cloud and AI Development Act (“CADA Proposal”), attempting to create a regime establishing “sovereignty” requirements on cloud computing service providers that can be procured by the public sector. In our prior blog post, we discussed the... Continue Reading

As governments increasingly focus on cloud security and sovereignty, the European Commission (“EC”) is, through its proposal for a Cloud and AI Development Act (“CADA Proposal”), attempting to create a regime establishing “sovereignty” requirements on cloud computing service providers that can be procured by the public sector. In our prior blog post, we discussed the... Continue Reading

AI is a promising tool with the potential to transform the legal industry. Despite publicized misuse, Courts have acknowledged that “AI, in many ways, has the potential to revolutionize legal practice for the better.” Much has been written and discussed about attorneys using AI. Here we look at how it may be used...... By: Haug Partners LLP

ABSTRACT The October 21, 2026 disclosure of two critical PHP software vulnerabilities, collectively known as PHP2Shell, may represent an important milestone in the evolution of artificial intelligence from an information-processing technology into a powerful instrument of original technical discovery. Researchers employing OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, Google’s Gemini 4 Argon, and specialized cybersecurity tools helped identify and […]

I'm delighted to be able to pass along this item from University of Chicago law professor Albert Alschuler: Gemini Explains

Learning AI can seem like standing outside a dungeon while everyone else knows the way through. You can learn the game one encounter at a time.

Judges’ elections often lack vital candidate information, leaving voters uninformed. The Trellis Judicial Voter Guide consolidates judges’ data to empower voters, aligning with Trellis’s mission to enhance legal accessibility. The post Trellis Judicial Voter Guide: Get to Know California’s Judges first appeared on The Trellis Blog.

On January 1, 2027, California’s Senate Bill 574 will become law, making significant changes to the legal tech landscape and impacting legal professionals using generative artificial intelligence (AI) in their practice. SB 574 makes changes to various California statutes: it adds Business and Professions Code section 6068.1 and amends Section 6173, and it also amends […]

Troutman Pepper Locke sponsors the Ms. JD Determined to Rise Academy, where Kim Phan discusses cybersecurity, privacy, and AI.

Liner Notes for an AI EP I made this textual AI EP to experiment with AI as a creative medium. My earlier Low AI album series had revealed a possibility I wanted to explore further. Something felt unfinished. The behavior of a sustained session, especially its recurrences, distortions, atmosphere, and unexpected turns, could become its... Continue Reading

Everything by Tuesday.Everything by Tuesday. The man with the microphone has a car outside. Where to? Everything by Tuesday. Put a little here. Leave a little there. Keep something loose for the turn. One for the thing we came to do. One for the thing we found. One we can put down. Find the pocket. Leave room in it. Accelerate reversible learning. Pace irreversible... Continue Reading

Everything by Tuesday.Everything by Tuesday. The man with the microphone has a car outside. Where to? Everything by Tuesday. Put a little here. Leave a little there. Keep something loose for the turn. One for the thing we came to do. One for the thing we found. One we can put down. Find the pocket. Leave room in it. Accelerate reversible learning. Pace irreversible...

Every fact present.Every citation real. The machine returned a clean sentence. The two words that mattered had become one word. Tell me more. It gave the word a definition. Tell me more. It gave the definition a heading. Tell me more. Under the heading, the difference was difficult to hear. Close enough. Almost the same. For present...

Every fact present.Every citation real. The machine returned a clean sentence. The two words that mattered had become one word. Tell me more. It gave the word a definition. Tell me more. It gave the definition a heading. Tell me more. Under the heading, the difference was difficult to hear. Close enough. Almost the same. For present... Continue Reading

When a regulator asks what your fee disclosure said last March, or opposing counsel disputes what a product page promised, someone on the team usually opens the Wayback Machine first. It is free and goes back to 1996, so it often has a snapshot close to the date in question.... By: Hanzo

Quantum Law is already beginning to arrive. One part of it is practical and immediate: encrypted client files, trade secrets, privileged communications, and other information that may need to remain secret for decades while governments and businesses begin migrating toward post-quantum cryptography.... By: EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

An online arbitral institution in India – the Centre for Online Resolution of Disputes (CORD) – has created what may be the first traffic light system to control arbitrators’ use of artificial intelligence.

From : Blog Entry >> Kari’s Blog EntryPlease enjoy this blog authored by Kari Hall, Director of User Experience, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz. Some of the best ideas in legal technology do not originate in a leadership meeting. They come from the person who notices that a process takes six clicks when it...

Editor’s Note: Microsoft said Oct. 21, 2026, that it assesses Storm-0940, a China-state aligned hacking group, was responsible for the compromise of ConnectWise Cloud Backup, a Microsoft 365 backup service once called SkyKick, and that some of the group’s attacks reached privileged cloud access within three hours of first targeting. ConnectWise, which first disclosed the... Continue Reading

EstateMin, a startup providing trust and estate software, announced Wednesday that it raised €1 million (approximately $1.1 million) in pre-seed funding to expand across the U.S., grow its go-to-market team and bolster its engineering and product teams.

On September 25, 2026, the Irish supervisory authority (DPC) published its report entitled “Responsible Artificial Intelligence Innovation: Insights from the Data Protection Commission’s Supervision of AI (2021-2025)” (the Report).... By: A&O Shearman

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: • Pharma should embed AI into its business goals. (DDN) • HIPAA data... By: Th

As governments increasingly focus on cloud security and sovereignty, the European Commission (“EC”) is, through its proposal for a Cloud and AI Development Act (“CADA Proposal”), attempting to create a regime establishing “sovereignty” requirements on cloud computing service providers that can be procured by the public sector. In our prior blog post, we discussed the... Continue Reading

Hourly billing is significantly outpacing flat fee arrangements at small and midsize law firms, despite widespread predictions about the death of the billable hour, according

Most everyone in legal tech knows (or should know) what’s coming.

Robot Consulting Co., a Japan-based developer of legal technology and artificial intelligence, will be delisted from the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC on Oct. 30, according to a Wednesday note from the stock exchange, unless the company appeals to a listing qualifications hearing panel.

A Florida magistrate judge ruled Wednesday that Miami Beach hotel Fontainebleau may obtain some of rabbi and media personality Shmuley Boteach's AI chats about the hotel and its personnel, saying they could help determine punitive damages in the defamation suit against him by showing whether he intended to harm the company.

Dr. Murugan Anandarajan explains a significant dichotomy at play as AI takes on more work, some human capabilities will inevitably be used less often. Some may no longer matter. Others may still be essential when AI reaches its limits. The challenge is knowing the difference and making that choice deliberately, as well as understanding the underlying risks.

On Sept. 1, LexisNexis and EvenUp, an AI platform for personal injury lawyers, announced a forthcoming integration by which EvenUp’s customers could access legal insights and agentic AI in LexisNexis Protégé directly from within the EvenUp platform. That integration is now live, and last week the two companies gave me a demo of how it...

On Sept. 1, LexisNexis and EvenUp, an AI platform for personal injury lawyers, announced a forthcoming integration by which EvenUp’s customers could access legal insights and agentic AI in LexisNexis Protégé directly from within the EvenUp platform. That integration is now live, and last week the two companies gave me a demo of how it... Continue Reading

Will Oremus in The Atlantic: If you were wondering whether AI could make the midterms even more confusing, here’s one data point: Several people who thought they were donating to James Talarico unwittingly gave their money to someone else. Talarico,… Continue reading

Dr. Anat Lior identifies how AI companies now build “agents,” versions of their chatbots that can operate a web browser, click buttons and fill in forms on a user’s behalf. To measure how well an agent does this, companies run it through thousands of practice tasks, often live on the internet. According to Anthropic, the false tip was generated during a routine test of the model.

Rethinking Pro Bono work, technology stress, The Status of AI in law practice, AI in Cybersecurity, and Tips for using a laptop touchpad https://conta.cc/47sR3HN

by Charu Chandrasekhar, Avi Gesser, Mari Grace, and Kendall Howell The Gutenberg Bible was a significant achievement of mass production; notably, however, the copies were not identical. Although most of the text was printed mechanically, purchasers would still commission artisans to customize each volume with elaborate illustrations, decorative lettering, and custom bindings. In the Middle […]

🎙Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts! 🤖 What makes ChatGPT recommend one law firm over another? In this episode of the Law Firm Marketing Minute, Danny Decker explores how law firms can influence the information AI tools use when generating recommendations for potential clients. As more people turn to ChatGPT to research […]

The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is pleased to announce our 2027 Annual Conference, Generative AI in Healthcare: Law and Regulation. Generative AI –- artificial intelligence designed to produce output, such as text or images, that normally require human intelligence — has become a

Reports of the demise of the billable hour have been greatly exaggerated, at least at smaller law firms. With apologies to Mark Twain, that is the central finding of a new report on billing and payment practices at small and midsized law firms. It finds that firms billing solely by the hour outnumber firms billing... Continue Reading

Reports of the demise of the billable hour have been greatly exaggerated, at least at smaller law firms. With apologies to Mark Twain, that is the central finding of a new report on billing and payment practices at small and midsized law firms. It finds that firms billing solely by the hour outnumber firms billing...

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has held that the travel time excluded under Article 22(2) of the Constitution, when counting the 24 hours within which an arrested person must be produced before a Magistrate, applies to every arrested person, irrespective of health. The Court rejected the argument that the exclusion covers only physically incapacitated accused. […]

The 8am SMB Law Billing and Payments Report reveals law firms are getting paid more reliably, but billing… The post New 8am Data Finds Hourly Billing Outpaces Flat Fees 4-to-1 Among SMB Law Firms first appeared on The Legal Wire .

"Even a very professional, high-end product can still produce inconsistent results. You have to be aware of that, as a judge, sycophancy is a real side of most AIs. They're looking at language to see what it believes you want, and it tries to prove that to you," a recently retired Illinois judge told Law.com.

“If AI allows attorneys to complete certain tasks in a fraction of the time they previously required, the question becomes how we compensate lawyers for the value they provide, rather than simply the hours it takes them to provide it," said one Big Law associate.

Kerala High Court directed UIDAI to compare fingerprints recovered from a double-murder crime scene with Aadhaar database records holding that the investigating agency was not seeking disclosure of core biometric information but only identification of persons whose fingerprints matched the crime-scene prints. Such a request was permissible under Section 33, Aadhaar Act when authorised by a High Court and did not offend the right to privacy.

A preservation issue rarely begins with a courtroom motion. More often, it starts with an ordinary business event: a departing employee, an expiring...

Ahead of Legal Innovators UK in London on November 4 and 5, the events team spoke to Philip Cooney, Director of Innovation at White & ...

Battle to become legal AI’s number one platform attracts eye-watering investment

The current debate on artificial intelligence (“AI”) risks in international arbitration has focused mostly on the good-faith use of AI and its human, technical and legal limitations. Much of that debate has concerned well-explored topics such as confidentiality or award enforceability . The rising threat of adversarial techniques by a bad-faith actor in the proceedings remains comparatively underexplored.

The primary aim of the Fireside Chat is to bring senior in-house counsel from Citi into conversation with the University’s students on these developments.

The Upper Tribunal has issued new guidance on suspected fraudulent applications in Hoxha & Others (Tanveer Ahmed; fraudulent applications; procedure) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2026] UKUT 00378. Specifically, the decision considers the steps judges should take to preserve the integrity of the immigration appeal process at a time when it is […]

Overreliance on tech could create skills gap

GST notices and orders under Chapter XVIII remain legally valid without a visible digital signature if they are electronically authenticated by the proper officer and uploaded on the common portal.

A Florida appeals court has referred attorney Jaclyn Soroka to the Florida Bar for possible discipline. Judges criticized her court filings as “AI slop,” raising concerns about artificial intelligence in legal work. On October 21, 2026, Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal rejected Soroka’s response to a possible sanctions order. The judges said her lengthy […] The post Florida Lawyer Under Review for AI-Generated Court Filing first appeared on JDJournal Blog .

Arnold & Porter partner Beatriz San Martin was quoted in the recent Law360 article, “AI-Powered Architects Must Be Wary Of IP Risks,” which explores how architects’ use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the design process could create intellectual property risks for designers and their clients.

Judges across the country are cautiously exploring the benefits of AI, including one who uses a “brainstorm buddy” to develop questions for oral argument, a National Center for State Courts report shows. The March report is based on surveys of state and federal judges in 10 states and shows that early adopters were using the...

A judge may develop free family law software for litigants and attorneys, but may not personally administer the program or access databases containing confidential party information, according to an amended opinion issued October 21 by the Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee. The amendment to Opinion 2026-06 adds restrictions to an August 27 opinion that found a...

Adrian McCullagh (University of Queensland Brisbane) has posted Silicon Agents: Machines, Artificial Intelligence, and the Boundaries of Agency, Fiduciary Positions and Tortious Liability on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article addresses two related questions arising from the commercial deployment of so-called “AI agents”. First, it examines whether artificial intelligence systems can properly be regarded as […]

I get it. Every day, there’s someone in Big AI telling us that AI is going to either replace you or kill you. Every other day, the tool you use to do your job changes. On the off days, announcements about new products that will revolutionize everything and make employers need fewer employees mix with…... Continue Reading

For businesses, the rules governing AI and personal information are being rewritten in real time, and the cost of falling behind has never been higher. AI touches nearly every aspect of daily life and has become near ubiquitous in businesses across the country. At the same time, consumers are becoming increasingly savvy about their individual privacy rights, demanding more information and stronger protections from the businesses to which they provide personal information. Reflecting the... By: C

Learn what contract reminder software does, how to set up free renewal and deadline reminders, the dates that matter most, and when to upgrade.

Learn what AI CLM is, how AI works across the contract lifecycle, key use cases, implementation steps, challenges, agentic AI, and what to look for in AI CLM software.

The Employers' Liability Tracing Office is continuing work towards the launch of ELD NextGen, the next generation of the employers' liability database, in early 2027.

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 […]

Trade fraud is now a federal priority. Learn why counsel, forensic accountants, and eDiscovery teams must build a defensible response.

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 […]

LegalTech Connect’s Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal Conference speakers ID knowledge management plays a large role in shaping law firm AI strategy, from centralizing change management to analyzing institutional context that make AI tools useful.

Experts suggest that Copilot for legal is likely to achieve broad adoption and could pose a threat to point solutions that don’t differentiate from general-purpose AI.

Littler Lounge: AI at Work - A Reality Check on Adoption, Efficiency and Employee Use AI was supposed to make work more efficient. So why does using it sometimes feel like more work? Britney Torres, Senior Counsel and co-chair of Littler’s AI & Technology practice group, joins Claire Deason and Nicole LeFave to skip the “AI can write your emails!” conversation and tackle the more complicated questions that come with putting AI to work. Why aren’t employees embracing AI as quickly as expected? Wh

Extract from David Giambalvo’s article, “Discussing the Future of Legal Data Processing with Array and Relativity.” The legal industry has long grappled with an ever-growing mountain of data, and as […]

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

Alexandra Smyth discussed how AI could reshape law firm pricing, why clients may keep more work in-house, and what firms will need to offer when hours worked are no longer a proxy for value.

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

Former LegalZoom CEO brings decades of category-defining legal services experience to support Steno as it solidifies its position as the leading tech-enabled court reporting and litigation support services provider in the USA.

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 .

A Northern District of California court agreed that transaction-level data the FTC wanted from Uber was relevant, then denied the motion to compel because it came six weeks before the ... The post The Discovery Timing Trap: What FTC v. Uber Teaches About Getting Structured Data Late in Discovery first appeared on Minerva26 .

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

Originally Posted on Substack Originally published as Daniel J. Solove The AI Inference Problem in Privacy Law, Wolters Kluwer Cybersecurity Policy Report (Oct. 19, 2026) You can download a PDF of the piece here: Abstract AI provides an unprecedented ability to determine patterns in aggregated data which can produce inferences about people. There are two […]

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

The board meeting is two weeks away. Trustees want an update on significant matters. The CFO needs to know how legal spend is tracking against budget before the next forecast. Institutional leadership is asking how many open matters involve a particular campus. So the Office of General Counsel does what it always does. Someone pulls ... Read more »

Many university legal teams carry enterprise-grade complexity without enterprise-grade legal infrastructure. Matters span multiple campuses and units. Outside counsel is engaged by different parts of the institution. Finance, procurement and leadership all need answers from the Office of General Counsel. The tools holding it together are often spreadsheets, shared drives, email and the memory of ... Read more »

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 raised $550m with a post-money valuation of $8.8 billion – a huge step by any reckoning. Artificial Lawyer asked CEO, Max Junestrand, ...

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.

In August, HM Courts and Tribunals Service banned Meta’s smart glasses from every criminal, civil and family court building in England and Wales. Security staff now confiscate the devices on entry and return them on exit, while smartphones are still allowed provided they are not used to record. Smart glasses were given no such exception,... Continue Reading

The upside of pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is that it can deliver almost instant results for your law firm, unlike search engine optimization, which requires you to wait for the firm to show up on Google. But there’s a downside: PPC can be very expensive. The legal field is one of the most competitive industries for […]

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 […]

We know not everyone has the access, skills or confidence to use online services. From April 2027, changes to our Digital Support Service will help more people access justice and improve support for some of our most disadvantaged users.

Ahead of the Legal Innovators New York conference on November 17 and 18, the team spoke to Krychna Baker, Senior Manager of Legal Innovation & ...

EU and G7 Russian diamond sanctions highlight a pattern the compliance community has seen again and again: regulators establishing requirements without prescribing verification methods, leaving technology vendors to define practical standards. CCI contributing writer Gordon Feller examines the benefits and risks of outsourcing compliance infrastructure through the prism of the diamond industry.

Over the past few years, I’ve delivered presentations to legal groups and member organizations focussed on “Journey Mapping”. [1] Journey Mapping is the visual representation of an individual’s journey through a process that happens over time. It is a collection of touchpoints from the beginning to the end looking at the individual’s experience, the stages in a process, the actors and emotions. It sounds like a simple concept, right? But, what is most complex is trying to explain the value of Jo

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 .

Editor’s Note: AI that records doctor-patient conversations and drafts summaries is spreading through Estonian health care, ERR News reported on Oct. 19, 2026. Private provider Confido uses its tool in several departments, Narva Hospital is procuring Estonian-language transcription software and Heba Clinic uses AI to document visits. Tartu University Hospital’s EMO24 pilot, begun Oct. 14,... Continue Reading

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.

A Metro Atlanta managing partner renews a cyber policy and answers “yes” to MFA, backups, patching, and endpoint protection. Months later, after ranso...

Experts examined the intersection of trademark rights, domain-name disputes and procedural fairness, drawing on the Cinderella example and the Del Monte and Coach disputes at AIAC Asia ADR Week 2026, to explore how competing claims are assessed under evolving internet governance rules.

Every personal injury firm feels the strain before anyone gives it a name. The records requests go out a little later, and the paralegal who always knew where everything stood starts staying past six. What the firm does next, hire or change how the work runs, decides whether that strain eases or moves to a ... Read more

Every personal injury firm feels the strain before anyone gives it a name. The records requests go out a little later, and the paralegal who always knew where everything stood starts staying past six. What the firm does next, hire or change how the work runs, decides whether that strain eases or moves to a... Continue Reading

Laura Gratacós i Camós has posted Legal Certainty for B2B Tokenised Collateral: A Functional and Layered Analysis of Private Law, Smart Contracts and Private International Law on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This study examines the use of financial tokens as collateral in cross-border B2B transactions and the legal uncertainty associated with cryptographic control, the localisation […]