Legal, Cyber, Technology, and Professional Ethics. Insights on AI, Legal Tech, and the Intersection of Law and Technology
Author’s note I hold a degree from Berkeley, so my read on the law school’s new AI policy may run favorable. Weigh it accordingly. My training is in physics and engineering, and across a long career in enterprise technology the same discipline held….
In the five weeks ending March 30, 2026, three federal judges issued the first such rulings on whether materials a party ran through a commercial AI tool would survive in court. The rulings split. Judge Rakoff in Manhattan held that thirty-one…
Bar discipline reaches the lawyer who files fabricated authority. No equivalent enforcement reaches the judge who signs it. The page count gives it away. The proposed order Clayton County Assistant District Attorney Deborah Leslie filed ran 37…
Catherine read the Bloomberg headline at 6:42 in the morning, before the partners’ meeting. A federal judge in Manhattan had stripped privilege from thirty-one documents because a criminal defendant had used Anthropic’s consumer Claude product to…
You don’t know what your judge typed into ChatGPT yesterday. Until April 29, 2026, that didn’t matter. Now it might be discoverable. That morning, a doctrinal paper posted to the Social Science Research Network argued that a judge’s AI research…
When technology dismantled the crime-fraud exception’s last line of defense, it changed the calculus for attorney-client privilege in ways most lawyers haven’t fully reckoned with. The intersection of eDiscovery, AI, and privilege doctrine creates new vulnerabilities that demand immediate attention.
THE EMAIL PRIVACY ILLUSION: PART 1 OF 3 In September 2016, a paralegal on our Kazeon eDiscovery team at EMC finished imaging the email account of a solo…
In 2014, three weeks into a wrongful termination production at EMC/Kazeon, a paralegal flagged an anomaly in the plaintiff’s email collection. The plaintiff’s attorney had used a properly configured Microsoft Exchange server with Transport Layer Security encryption. Outbound messages left the firm e
Your client may be recording your conversations without your knowledge. Here is what every attorney needs to know about the legal and ethical implications of client recording in the age of smartphones.
In March 2018, a family law attorney in Columbus, Ohio, discovered that her client’s estranged husband had been reading every email she sent for eleven months. The husband had guessed his wife’s Gmail password, set up automatic forwarding to a separate account, and monitored every communication betw