Resources for legal AI practitioners
Guides, whitepapers, glossaries, and external references — curated by the Lawcal AI News editorial team. Free to read, free to share.
Guides
How to run an AI pilot at a law firm without burning political capital
A practical playbook from teams that have done it well, and the three classic failure modes that sink most pilots before they start.
The 2026 buyer guide to legal AI
A 60-page evaluation framework: privilege, hallucination tolerance, vendor lock-in, and citation traceability. Updated quarterly.
Israeli legal tech directory 2026
A curated directory of Israeli legal tech startups: who they are, what they build, and who they sell to. Includes extended company profiles.
Building an AI Use Policy for in-house teams
A redline-ready template covering privilege, retention, vendor review, and disclosure. Used by 200+ corporate legal teams.
Whitepapers & Reports
The state of legal AI 2026
Survey of 1,200 lawyers across the US, UK, and EU. Adoption, attitudes, and the productivity gap that is reshaping the profession.
Hallucinations in production: a year of failure modes
A taxonomy of how legal AI tools fail in production, drawn from sanctioned cases, public post-mortems, and our own incident database.
Glossary & Reference
Sanctioned-citation tracker
A continuously-updated list of US court orders sanctioning lawyers for AI-fabricated authority. 47 cases and counting.
Legal AI terminology, defined for lawyers
RAG, agentic, fine-tuning, embeddings, without the marketing fog. The reference glossary used by GCs and partners.
External references
Israel Bar guidance on generative AI in legal practice
The full official text of the 2026 Israel Bar ethics committee guidance on AI use in legal work, with annotations and context.
EU AI Act, full text and implementation timeline
Official text with our annotated reading order for legal teams. Updated as implementing acts are published.
ABA Resolution 604: AI in legal practice
The American Bar Association 2024 resolution and explanatory report. The foundational US bar guidance on AI use.