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Industry newsAi training data protection

Protective Orders to Restrict AI Training on Produced Data: Artificial Intelligence Best Practices

Courts are issuing protective orders that expressly prohibit AI systems from training on litigation-produced data — a direct compliance requirement every review platform must address.Read the dispatch
Industry newsE discovery ai

Harvey Partners With Everlaw to Streamline Legal Evidence Workflows

Harvey's AI integrates directly into Everlaw's e-discovery platform — attorneys can apply generative AI inside the same environment where evidence lives.Read the dispatch
Industry newsLegal ai reliability

Same Facts, Different Answer: Legal AI’s Consistency Problem

Legal AI tools producing different answers from identical facts create real liability exposure for firms relying on them in active matters.Read the dispatch
Industry newsAi regulation

California SB 574: Will AI’s Home State Kill Off AI for Law?

California's SB 574 could impose sweeping constraints on AI use in legal practice, directly threatening how vendors and firms deploy AI tools.Read the dispatch
Industry newsLegal ai platforms

DeepJudge + Legora Form ‘Bidirectional Partnership’ – Updated

DeepJudge and Legora linking their platforms could expand each tool's footprint, though the bidirectional framing suggests a marketing-heavy announcement.Read the dispatch
Industry newsLegal ai models

Ken Crutchfield: When AI Models Become Commodities -- What Open-Weight AI Could Mean For LegalTech | LawSites

As capable open-weight models drive AI costs toward zero, legal tech vendors will compete on workflow depth, trusted data, and defensible outputs rather than model differentiation.Read the dispatch
Industry newsE discovery ai

Relativity President Chris Brown Discusses AI Integrations, Broadening Company's E-Discovery Focus

Relativity's president outlines where the platform's AI integrations are heading — a direct signal from the dominant e-discovery infrastructure provider.Read the dispatch
Industry newsTar genai discovery

Old Rules, New Tools: N.D. Cal. Applies Traditional TAR Principles to Generative AI Discovery

A federal court ruling extends established TAR compliance standards to generative AI discovery tools, giving litigation teams clearer and more defensible ground rules.Read the dispatch
Industry newsAi hallucinations

Law Firm Must Pay More Than $45,000 In Attorney Fees for AI Hallucinations: Artificial Intelligence Trends

A court imposed $45,000-plus in fees after AI-generated filings contained hallucinations, making clear that unverified AI output carries real financial and disciplinary risk.Read the dispatch
Industry newsEsi protocol

Comprehensive ESI Protocol Includes Hyperlinked Files, Generative AI and More: eDiscovery Case Law

A court-approved ESI protocol now explicitly covers hyperlinked files and GenAI use, giving litigators an early compliance template before standards fully solidify.Read the dispatch
Industry newsLegal ai data

Fastcase And Alexi Head To Court This Week In High-Stakes Fight Over Legal AI, Caselaw Data And Clio’s $1B vLex Deal

A court battle over caselaw data rights could set boundaries for how legal AI vendors license public court records, with Clio's vLex deal as backdrop.Read the dispatch
Industry newsWork product privilege

GenAI Prompts in eDiscovery: Are They Protected Work Product? eDiscovery Trends

The question of whether attorney GenAI prompts are shielded as work product is unresolved, with direct consequences for how firms should document AI-assisted review.Read the dispatch
Industry newsAi evidence rules

A Judge Just Called for 10 New Rules on AI Evidence

Proposed judicial rules on AI-generated evidence would directly govern how platforms authenticate, produce, and present AI-coded records in court.Read the dispatch
Industry newsAi copyright

At 3rd Circuit, Judges Press ROSS and Thomson Reuters on Fair Use, AI Training and Market Harm | LawSites

How the Third Circuit rules on copyright and AI training data could redraw what models every legal platform can legally build on.Read the dispatch
Industry newsLegal ai tools

Thomson Reuters CEO Steve Hasker on the Next Generation of CoCounsel, the ‘Future of Professionals’ Report, and Why TR Is Building Its Own LLM | LawSites

Thomson Reuters building a proprietary LLM signals that model control and data sovereignty are becoming competitive requirements, not differentiators, in legal AI.Read the dispatch
Industry newsLegal ai market

Perplexity Gets Serious About Legal

Perplexity entering legal research puts a well-funded AI search player in direct competition with Westlaw and Lexis for a lucrative practitioner market.Read the dispatch
Industry newsLaw firm ai

How Hanson Bridgett Is Using Claude Firmwide

Hanson Bridgett's firmwide Claude rollout is one of the most detailed public accounts of an AI-first operating model inside a law firm.Read the dispatch
Industry newsLaw firm ai

Ken Crutchfield: Is Kirkland’s $500 Million AI Investment Really A Bet On Data?

Framing Kirkland's $500M commitment as a proprietary data play rather than a tooling bet has implications for how competitors justify their own AI budgets.Read the dispatch
Industry newsAi discoverability

Enviro Group Can’t Delay Handing Over AI Prompts, Shell Contends: Artificial Intelligence Trends

Courts ordering production of AI prompts would force litigation holds to cover AI tool usage, an obligation most firms haven't prepared for.Read the dispatch
Industry newsLaw firm cybersecurity

Fox Rothschild and Weil Gotshal See Data Breaches Amid Ransomware Attacks Against Law Firms

Back-to-back ransomware hits on Fox Rothschild and Weil Gotshal underscore the persistent vulnerability of law firms holding sensitive client data.Read the dispatch
Industry newsAi hallucinations

Attorneys Are Blaming Legal AI Technology Vendors for Hallucinations: Artificial Intelligence Trends

Attorneys attributing hallucinations to vendors signals mounting pressure for legal AI providers to accept contractual accountability for output accuracy.Read the dispatch
Industry newsLegal ai security

Lawyers Put Prompt Injection in a Document to Try to Influence the Court’s AI Tools: Artificial Intelligence Trends

Attorneys embedding adversarial prompts in filed documents to skew AI-assisted review exposes a critical integrity threat for any platform running LLMs on unvetted evidence.Read the dispatch
Industry newsLegal tech trends

The Kitchen Sink for April 3, 2026: Legal Tech Trends

A wide-format digest of legal technology developments covering tool releases, market moves, and emerging practice guidance across the industry.Read the dispatch

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