A federal court in the Western District of Washington at Tacoma excluded an expert's testimony after his report, drafted with Anthropic's Claude, contained multiple hallucinated academic citations, wi…
An Arizona court ruled that a judge wrongly allowed an AI-generated deepfake video of a deceased victim to be shown at sentencing, tossing the sentence, according to Reuters. The decision is one of se…
A legal content agency owner warns that law firms using AI for marketing materials face bar complaints under ABA Model Rule 7.1, which bars false or misleading communications about a lawyer's services…
Machine-readable contracts alone are insufficient for B2B AI agents that must make procurement, renewal, and vendor-management decisions, according to an Above the Law analysis. The piece argues that …
A federal judge ruled that a defamation lawsuit against Google over an AI-generated summary falsely stating a man killed three people can move forward, rejecting Google's defense that no one trusts AI…
David Boies proposed a patent-inspired revision of copyright fair use doctrine that would permit AI training on copyrighted works while preserving compensation for authors, Bloomberg Law News reported…
Vanderbilt Law School partnered with simulated legal training provider AltaClaro to give its students access to DepoSim, an AI tool that role-plays witnesses, opposing lawyers, and court reporters in …
A CLE-eligible webinar will examine where law departments currently stand on agentic AI and where they are headed, according to Above the Law. The event is sponsored and focuses on the shift beyond co…
Morgan & Morgan plans to spend $1 billion to build an internal AI system and sell the platform to other law firms, according to the ABA Journal. The item appeared in Above the Law's Morning Docket for…
AI vendors and enterprise customers are negotiating AI risk directly into commercial contracts rather than waiting for insurance products or legislation, according to an Above the Law analysis of the …
The New Jersey Office of the Public Defender partnered with a think tank and a university to build an AI program aimed at addressing the access-to-justice (A2J) problem for public defenders. The initi…
The New Mexico Supreme Court fined an attorney and referred the lawyer for disciplinary investigation after AI hallucinations were cited in a murder appeal, according to Above the Law. The court's reb…
Vanderbilt Law School has implemented an AI deposition simulator to train students by having them practice depositions against AI witnesses, according to Above the Law. The item appeared in the outlet…
Vanderbilt Law School has begun using DepoSim, an AI-powered simulation tool developed with AltaClaro, to let students practice depositions on AI witnesses, responding to law firms moving their hiring…
As B2B AI agents begin participating in contract negotiations, companies will need machine-usable contracting playbooks that make their logic explicit, according to a legal industry analysis. The arti…
The International Legal Technology Association (ILTACON) conference in Nashville broke its own attendance records as legal professionals gathered to discuss technology that promises to revolutionize l…
A new study urges lawyers to defend judges under siege, but questions whether the Florida Bar will act. Separately, the Trump DOJ argued in court that AI training is fair use, while California moves t…
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has adopted Lexis+ with Protégé firmwide as part of its Wendell Intelligence AI platform, integrating the legal research tool to provide attorneys with grounded, citable a…
California lawmakers passed a bill governing lawyers' use of generative AI in legal practice, introduced by state Senator Tom Umberg, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to impose potential sanct…
Above the Law published a sponsored piece examining how AI tools in legal practice are evolving from simple 'associates' to sophisticated 'doppelgangers' that can mimic human work, highlighting what i…