Generative artificial intelligence tools have quickly become part of everyday legal practice. Lawyers are using these tools to draft briefs, summarize cases, and streamline research. But as recent cases make clear, those efficiencies come with a serious risk: sometimes, AI simply makes things up.
Courts across the country are now confronting filings with fabricated case…
On April 14, 2026, United States Magistrate Judge Tim A. Baker for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana (the “Court”) entered an order in connection with certain unresolved discovery disputes in White v. Walmart, Case No. 25-cv-01120, finding Plaintiff’s counsel’s “exclusive reliance” on AI to identify discovery deficiencies in Defendant’s…
Put “quantum” in front of almost anything and it tends to evoke a singular reaction: it must be highly technical, theoretical, or out of reach. But when it comes to “quantum computing” – especially the business of quantum computing – those instincts are misplaced. That is because the competitive dynamics driving this industry are, in…
On December 9, 2025, the Paris Court of Appeal rendered what should be the ultimate decision in the Sultan of Sulu saga, annulling the final arbitral award that had purported to order Malaysia to pay US$ 14.92 billion to the heirs of the Sultan of Sulu. As we previously reported, the French Supreme…
At the end of 2025, amendments were made to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that fundamentally change when and how litigators must address privilege issues in federal court. These amendments followed an important decision in the Sixth Circuit in In re FirstEnergy Corp., 154 F.4th 431 (6th Cir. 2025), which provided practitioners fresh guidance…
In the recent decision in Guy Carpenter & Company Ltd v Willis Re (UK) Ltd [2026] EWHC 361 (KB), the High Court considered a series of claims between two competitor reinsurance brokers arising from a major team move of 22 employees, including two company directors
While many reported “team move” cases take place in the insurance…
Courts issued two seemingly conflicting rulings on whether AI generated materials are protected. Heppner (S.D.N.Y.) found that documents created with a consumer version of Claude AI were not privileged or work product because the tool exposed data to a third party provider. Warner (E.D. Mich.) reached the opposite result the same day on different facts,…
Abigail Slater resigned as Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ Antitrust Division on February 12, 2026—an exit widely reported as a forced ouster after the White House requested her resignation. Her departure is significant because it comes at a moment when antitrust enforcement is both high-stakes and politically salient. The Division is weeks away from…
A recent decision in United States v. Heppner appears to be the first federal ruling to directly address attorney‑client privilege and work‑product issues arising from a non‑lawyer’s use of a consumer-grade insecure AI tool for legal research. The court held that materials generated through Anthropic’s consumer version of Claude were not protected, emphasizing that entering…
In Various Claimants v Standard Chartered plc [2025] EWCA Civ 1581, the English Court of Appeal considered when a party is entitled to withhold disclosure on the basis that documents are subject to foreign regulatory confidentiality or may expose a party to foreign criminal or regulatory sanction (on the facts, in the US). This…
