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There's a supervision failure happening inside plaintiffs' firms right now, and most litigation partners haven't named it yet. It lives at the intersection of AI-assisted case evaluation and the behavioral economics of settlement negotiation — and it's quietly costing clients money.
When a transactional lawyer uses an AI drafting tool and accepts its suggested arbitration clause, they're not getting a neutral starting point. They're getting a statistical average of whatever agreements the model was trained on — and if that corpus skews heavily toward agreements drafted...
There is a specific, recurring, and largely undiscussed failure mode embedded in how litigation teams are currently using AI timeline tools, and it is quietly poisoning case strategy from the inside. The problem is not hallucination in the dramatic sense — the AI inventing a...
There is a quiet fiction spreading through legal AI contract negotiations, and it goes something like this: if your AI vendor offers an indemnification clause, you are meaningfully protected when the tool produces bad output that causes client harm. Law firms are signing on this...
The deposition room has always rewarded preparation. In 2026, preparation increasingly means something specific: running a witness's prior sworn testimony, public statements, regulatory filings, and social media history through an AI system trained to surface contradictions before the examination begins. Plaintiffs' firms — particularly boutiques...
The legaltech press has spent the better part of three years breathlessly covering AI's impact on litigation, M&A due diligence, and contract review. Meanwhile, tax lawyers have been quietly building some of the highest per-attorney AI ROI numbers in BigLaw — and almost nobody has...
Here is something your court reporter almost certainly didn't mention when she handed you the certified transcript: the firm that employs her may be sitting on a licensing agreement with an AI company that gives that vendor the right to train models on everything she's...
Family law attorneys have been watching the AI revolution from the waiting room.
The privilege log has always been litigation's most tedious artifact. Thousands of entries, each requiring a specific factual predicate, each potentially the subject of a motion to compel. So when AI-assisted review tools promised to automate the process—flagging privileged documents, populating log fields, generating descriptions—litigation...