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In-depth reporting, investigations, and opinion on the legal AI shift. Updated weekly.

Privilege is the next frontier and most legal AI vendors are getting it wrong
A senior in-house counsel argues that current AI tools treat privilege as a checkbox, not a doctrine.

How four BigLaw firms quietly retrained their associates to compete with AI
Inside the playbook at Cravath, Skadden, Wachtell, and Sullivan & Cromwell where first-year billables are down 19%, and the practice of law is being rewritten in real time.

EU AI Act enforcement begins next month. Here is what legal teams must ship by then.
A practical compliance checklist with the seven workstreams that should already be underway.
Israel's courts launch AI pilot for traffic and small-claims cases
The Court Administration approved an 18-month pilot testing AI for case summarization and draft judgment generation, limited to lower-stakes matters.

A circuit split is forming on AI-generated work product. The Supreme Court will likely weigh in.
Five circuits, three doctrines, and a question that affects every legal AI deployment in America.

We are not replacing lawyers. We are replacing the boring 60 percent: A conversation with Spellbook CEO
On contract drafting, why partners are easier to sell to than associates, and the one feature he will not ship.