On July 17, 2025, Judge David Leibowitz of the Southern District of Florida opened his sanctions order with a quotation from the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the importance of candor in judicial proceedings. The quotation was an AI hallucination.
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At 9:47 AM on February 3, 2026, a managing partner at a mid-sized litigation firm watched roughly $8 billion evaporate from Thomson Reuters’ market cap. By lunch, RELX had shed billions more. The catalyst: Anthropic had launched a legal plugin for Claude.
On October 8, 2024, Micheal Dineen, vice president of data science at Brightflag, published the number that should have ended every managing partner’s lunch early. Am Law 100 firms had raised their blended billing rates by 10% in a single year, pushing the typical blended rate to $1,057 per hour.
In November 2019, a family law attorney in Columbus, Ohio, learned that her client had recorded every phone conversation for the previous fourteen months. Not some calls. Every call. Strategy sessions before depositions. Candid assessments of the judge.
