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Legal Tech

How to Tell If Your Legal AI Vendor Built a Product or Prompted One

Most legal AI vendors are using the same frontier models. The real difference is not the model. It is what the system does before and after generation, especially where attorney review, auditability, retrieval boundaries, and legal effect are concerned.

April 9, 2026

Legal Tech

AI Recording Tools in Legal Practice: The Privilege Question Lawyers Need to Ask

AI note-takers and meeting tools are changing how lawyers capture conversations. When a third-party AI system processes a privileged conversation, confidentiality, privilege, ethics, and vendor-risk questions follow quickly.

April 8, 2026

Access to Justice

What a Free Model Lease Tells Us About Legal Access

A University of Pennsylvania law professor showed that legal access is often a distribution problem, not just a lawyer-supply problem. One better lease, placed where people were already looking, changed more than years of after-the-fact correction ever could.

April 8, 2026

AI & Technology

When an Algorithm Executes a Contract No Human Would Have Approved

A Singapore court decision on algorithmic crypto trading is one of the clearest judicial frames for agentic-system risk: when software acts without a human checkpoint, responsibility traces back to how the system was designed.

April 8, 2026

AI & Technology

What Anthropic's Mythos and Glasswing Signal for Legal Tech

Anthropic's Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing are not just cybersecurity stories. They are a warning that legal AI governance can no longer focus only on hallucinations and output review. System access is now part of the risk model.

April 8, 2026

Legal Industry

87% AI Adoption in Corporate Legal Means Less Than You Think

Corporate legal AI adoption nearly doubled in a single year. But adoption measured by license purchases is not adoption measured by workflow change. The gap between buying AI and using it is where most legal organizations are stuck.

April 7, 2026

AI & Technology

From Chatbots to Agents: Why Legal AI Governance Gets Harder From Here

The shift from AI chatbots to agentic workflows changes the legal AI liability surface. When AI takes actions, not just generates text, governance frameworks built for chatbots are not enough.

April 7, 2026

Legal Tech

ChatGPT Sued for Unauthorized Practice of Law: What It Means for Legal Tech

Nippon Life sued OpenAI alleging ChatGPT practiced law without a license. What the case means for legal AI product design, UPL boundaries, and why disclaimers alone are not enough.

April 7, 2026

Legal Tech

Why Sanctions Keep Rising as AI Spreads Through Legal Work

AI sanctions keep rising because too many legal AI systems still hide the workflow lawyers are responsible for verifying.

April 3, 2026

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