California just gave law firm leaders another reason to stop thinking about AI governance as an “AI policy” problem. A new California statute governing lawyers’ use of generative AI takes effect January 1, 2027, addressing responsibilities that include verifying AI-assisted work and protecting co...
Anthropic's May 12, 2026 legal release is easy to misread if you treat it as just another legal-tech announcement. The headlines make it sound like Anthropic released a batch of legal plugins, which is true as far as it goes.
The deeper story is more important. Anthropic is trying to make Claude ...
One of the more useful phrases showing up in recent reporting is “shadow AI.” The term sounds dramatic, but the underlying issue is plain enough. It describes AI use that is happening inside an organization without enough visibility, approval, policy structure, or supervision around it.
In a law ...
Many law firms still speak about AI adoption as if it were a future decision. That framing is becoming less accurate by the month. In many firms, AI has already entered the practice, not because leadership held a retreat and approved a strategy, but because lawyers and staff are making practical ...
"It is about whether law firm leadership has decided how AI-assisted work gets reviewed, supervised, and governed before it carries the firm's name."Â - Rex Anderson
What Mata Actually Taught
In June 2023, a federal court in New York sanctioned two attorneys after a brief filed in Mata v. Avianca...
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We take advanced AI risk seriously, including the possibility that highly capable systems may become difficult to interpret and govern. But we do not accept that uncontrollability should be treated as a settled premise. Our position is that AI safety is best addressed through disciplin...
A recent set of comments from a senior judge on India’s Supreme Court has been circulating, framed around a familiar claim: artificial intelligence can assist the judicial process, but it cannot replace the act of judgment itself.
The reasoning is straightforward and, at face value, difficult to ...
There is a shift happening in software development that most professional service firms have not yet fully absorbed.Â
In its most advanced form, AI is no longer just helping write software code. It is doing the entire cycle. A system takes a problem, generates a solution, tests that solution agai...
AI and attorney-client privilege
On February 17, 2026, Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York issued what appears to be the first federal decision directly addressing whether communications with a generative AI platform are protected by attorney-client privilege or the work product...
In professional service firms, “standard of care” is not a theoretical concept. It is the line between competent practice and malpractice liability. It reflects what a reasonably prudent professional would do under similar circumstances, given the knowledge and tools available at the time.
That f...
Much of the confusion around AI today comes from the fact that very different kinds of work are being discussed as if they were the same thing.
They are not.
What is often described as “AI adoption” or “AI strategy” actually spans three distinct layers, each with its own incentives, pressures, an...
All professional service firms are being pulled into decisions about AI long before they are given the space, language, or structure to decide intentionally.
AI is not arriving as a single tool or initiative. It is arriving quietly, inside platforms, workflows, drafting processes, research habits...
