Steven Schwartz, thirty years at the bar, stood before Judge P. Kevin Castel in June 2023 and tried to explain why the cases he had cited did not exist. They looked real. The tool had told him they were real. The tool, he said, had confirmed it when he asked a second time. The show-cause hearing pro

Last week, I answered a call from the Federal Reserve Bank. The caller knew my Social Security number. She recited two former addresses I had not used in a decade.

The number is 100. That is how many people must die, or suffer serious injury, before OpenAI faces legal liability under legislation the company is actively supporting in the Illinois General Assembly. For an attorney who files a single AI-fabricated citation in a federal court proceeding, the numb

Judge Bruce Schroeder stared at the zoomed-in drone footage and admitted he knew “less than anyone in the room about all of this stuff.” It was November 2021, in the middle of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. The prosecution wanted to show an enhanced video frame. The defense objected that Apple’s pinch-

John C. Farris pleaded guilty to drug trafficking in a Kentucky federal court. His appeal came next. The court appointed Steven N. Howe, a Kentucky practitioner with four decades of clean practice. Howe’s office had recently acquired Westlaw’s CoCounsel platform.

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The SharePoint email arrives at 4:47 PM on a Thursday. The sender address reads sharepointadmin at your own firm’s domain. The subject line references a matter number only you and your client should recognize. The body contains a QR code and nothing else, the kind of thin notification that has becom

The new associate — and this scenario is composite, drawn from a pattern that plays out in firms across the country — passes the bar on her first attempt, graduates in the top third of her class, and walks into her first real client matter carrying AI research tools she has used every day for three

As AI platforms consolidate into a handful of dominant providers, the attorney-client privilege faces a structural threat: your confidential communications are now processed by the same surveillance infrastructure that monetized social media. JD Morris examines what this means for legal professionals.

In December 2008, American soldiers in Iraq searched the laptop of a captured Shiite militant. What they found changed nothing about Pentagon policy for five…