Policy & Regulation
Bar rules, court guidance, and the EU AI Act fallout.
Wolters Kluwer says legal AI usage is now near-universal. Readiness is the real story.
A new Wolters Kluwer survey says more than 90% of legal professionals now use AI, but fewer than a third believe their organizations are ready for the compliance burden that follows.
Federal judges are already drawing the line around AI in court technology.
At the IAPP Global Summit, U.S. federal judges discussed AI and emerging technology in the courts, including pilots, disabled AI features and the growing complexity of technology-related harms.
Colorado paused its landmark AI law. Legal teams should not pause their compliance work.
A federal court order and legislative rewrite may delay Colorado's AI Act enforcement, but the operational direction is clear: disclosures, impact assessments and human review are becoming board-level legal work.
DOJ issues first binding guidance on AI-assisted brief drafting
A 32-page memo released Wednesday requires federal prosecutors to disclose any use of generative AI in filings, with mandatory citation verification.
Israel Bar Association issues first binding guidance on generative AI
The Bar ethics committee published binding guidance this week on how generative AI tools may be used in legal work, with emphasis on attorney-client privilege and verification duties.
RELX to acquire Doctrine, France's leading legal AI platform, in major European consolidation move
The LexisNexis parent has announced a put option agreement to acquire Doctrine, signaling that incumbent legal publishers are moving aggressively to acquire European AI assets before the window closes.
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.
Noxtua partners with Midpage to combine European sovereign AI with US legal research
The partnership gives European lawyers AI-powered access to the full US federal and state case law corpus — while keeping all data on European infrastructure, immune to CLOUD Act compulsion.
The data privacy liability hiding in your legal AI deployment — and how to find it before opposing counsel does
Most in-house legal teams have deployed AI tools without a thorough data protection impact assessment. In the era of GDPR enforcement escalation, that gap is a live legal risk — and courts are beginning to see it.
AI in the courtroom: how trial technology is being transformed — and what judges are doing about it
From AI-generated trial graphics to real-time transcript analysis to decision-support tools for judges, AI is entering the courtroom faster than courts have developed rules for it. A survey of what is actually happening.
Law schools are failing to prepare lawyers for an AI-first practice. Here is what the curriculum should look like.
Law school curricula were largely designed for a world where the primary productivity tool was a Westlaw subscription. That world is gone. A proposal for what the AI-integrated law school curriculum should actually include.
Sovereign legal AI: how the EU's push for data independence is reshaping the market
The combination of the EU AI Act, the CLOUD Act, and GDPR enforcement is creating structural demand for European-hosted legal AI — and a new category of "sovereign" legal AI platforms is building to meet it.