Research briefings
Original, data-driven reports on how the legal industry is adopting — and governing — AI. Reader-funded and conflict-free.
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Across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, state bar authorities have generated an unprecedented volume of guidance addressing attorney use of artificial intelligence tools — yet formal disciplinary enforcement remains remarkably sparse, creating a regulatory gap with significant practical and liability implications for...
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Methodology: Interview-based fieldwork, 34 law firms and corporate legal departments | Job posting corpus analysis, January 2025–June 2026
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The debate over AI in litigation has focused almost entirely on judges — their standing orders, their sanctions, their public statements. This briefing redirects attention to the professionals who actually read most of what gets filed in federal court: law clerks. As the primary pre-screening...
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The American judiciary's response to artificial intelligence in legal practice has evolved from reactive crisis management into something more systematic — though not yet coherent. As of June 2026, more than 140 federal district judges and multiple circuit courts have issued standing orders or local...
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Eighteen months of scaled AI deployment at major law firms and corporate legal departments has produced a messier, more differentiated picture than either the displacement pessimists or the redeployment optimists predicted. The honest finding: it is both, and the split is breaking along firm size,...
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Prepared for General Counsel, Managing Partners, Legal Ethics Counsel, Legal Operations Directors, and Bar Association Professional Responsibility Committees