THOUGHTS ON THE AI-NATIVE PRACTICE OF LAW
Articles on AI Adoption, Trust, eDiscovery, and Legal Research for the Modern Legal Practice
A producing party must run a reasonable search whether or not its opponent proposes search terms first, the Southern District of New York holds.
An Indiana court sanctioned a rehab facility under Rule 37(e)(1) for losing Teams messages and surveillance video despite a prompt litigation hold.
A Western District of Washington court held that an agreed ESI protocol's custodian list cannot shrink a party's Rule 34 duty to collect relevant documents.
The Delaware Court of Chancery held that a producing party who withdrew its offer of a hit report cannot lean on the untested claim that it had nothing.
A District of Rhode Island magistrate refused to order an itemized index of a production and applied Rule 34's default form of production instead.
A pro se plaintiff's spoliation motion fails: the prison preserved exactly the ten-minute video window he asked for, and the incident fell just outside it.
An ESI protocol requiring parent-child relationships to be preserved does not let a producer slipsheet out attachments it deems non-responsive.
Judge Bates refused a Rule 502(d) no-waiver order over the plaintiffs' objection and ordered a tiered hyperlink procedure into the ESI protocol.
A Vietnamese supplier's $840M case against Amazon was dismissed with prejudice after metadata exposed its purchase orders as print-to-PDF fabrications.
An E.D. Pa. magistrate judge ordered ESI from personal devices and departed employees produced, yet declined case-ending sanctions despite the factors.
The Tenth Circuit held that Rule 37(e) fixes the burden of proving prejudice from lost ESI on no one, leaving courts discretion to allocate it.
A California magistrate judge ordered Uber to produce a random 300-document sample of its TAR training set, putting the coding calls behind AI review to the test.
A California magistrate judge denied motions to bar keyword culling before GenAI review and to audit its metrics, an early map for defending AI review.
AI agents are taking on more of the production. The attorney's role concentrates around initial guidance, review, and verification. Voice fits that work.
A Sixth Circuit decision shows AI hallucinations can hide inside genuine citations. What this means for reasonable diligence under Rule 11.
Case study that delivers a wake up call for the importance of AI being grounded in law for use in legal.
By looking at success from other industries legal can learn adoptive strategies for AI implementation.
Attorneys are rethinking their peer judgement of the use of AI.
Will law firms adopt AI with the same commitment as other professional service firms?
Legal technology leaders are now placing renewed interest in eDiscovery solutions because of Generative AI applications.
Shadow AI represents both risk and opportunity. Unmanaged AI adoption can lead to ethical violations.
Generative AI offers more than just a substitute for transitional classifiers.
Thoughtful metrics are key to fairly evaluating AI in legal practice.
The increasing use of generative AI in legal practice leads to questions about efficiency gains and legal fees.
Insights into how Generative AI continues to reshape the legal technology landscape.
The Spring 2025 Legal AI Canvas release prioritizes better usability for lawyers.
Understanding SPOG: The Value of Single Pane of Glass Technology to Legal.
AI tools specifically designed for the legal industry can resolve the efficiency paradox.
Discover how century-old citator tools impact AI legal research.
Learn to implement AI in legal practice through a measured, step-by-step approach.
Legal research has come a long way from its origins in medieval England.
AI agents and agentic workflows are two terms receiving quite a bit of attention in legal tech.
Complex technical generative AI concepts often get misinterpreted between developers and legal practitioners.
Chat is becoming an essential source of data for eDiscovery.
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