Editor’s Note: The Pilgrim’s Reception Office in Santiago issued 530,987 Compostelas in 2025, its highest annual figure, and the Portuguese routes accounted for roughly 190,300 of them. Members of the ComplexDiscovery team walk the coastal one this month, from Matosinhos to Santiago, with the Variante Espiritual for the final stages.
What the route offers, beyond
D.C.’s highest court struck a brief over four fake citations and called its own sanctions authority unclear
Editor’s Note: A court of last resort struck an institutional litigant’s brief this month over four citations that did not exist. Its most quotable line, that “every firm attorney who signed the brief bears some responsibility,” is real. Senior Judge Stephen H. Glickman wrote separately to urge a narrower reading, and to argue that existing
Cyber Resilience Act reporting starts Sept. 11 on an unfinished platform
Editor’s Note: In six days the Cyber Resilience Act starts requiring manufacturers to report actively exploited vulnerabilities within 24 hours of becoming aware. The platform they must file through has no published web address.
ENISA updated its guidance Sept. 4, and the update is the story. No API at launch, so every filing against the
The Kitchen Sink for September 4, 2026: Legal Tech Trends
This week’s kitchen sink for September 4, 2026 (with meme from Gates Dogfish) discusses an AI hallucination milestone, AI hijacking “Zee Germans” & more!
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A lawyer fed AI citations to his own regulator, and the tribunal struck him off
Editor’s Note: A disciplinary tribunal in London has removed a lawyer from the register of foreign lawyers over legal authorities that generative AI invented, and those authorities sat in his defense against the regulator prosecuting him. When the regulator’s counsel flagged the errors, he answered with an email he had also drafted using AI, and
Europe’s draft cloud rule would put vendor ownership in the audit file
Editor’s Note: The Cloud and AI Development Act, a draft European regulation, asks a question many vendor questionnaires may not reach: who actually decides. Its audit annex would tell an auditor to collect the shareholders up to the ultimate owners, the cap table, the bodies that take strategic decisions, the majorities those decisions need, everyone
Your Law Firm Is Piloting AI. Your ALSP Is Using It.
A few months ago I spoke with Salesforce CLO Sabastian V. Niles on the Technically Legal podcast about his open letter challenging law firms to stop piloting AI and start really using it. It’s a frustration in-house legal teams know well. Many have watched law firms announce technology initiatives for years while the actual work
Fulfilling Employee DSARs Looks Like an eDiscovery Workflow: Artificial Intelligence Trends
Fulfilling employee DSARs looks like an eDiscovery workflow. Exterro discusses treating them as complex discovery exercises here!
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Context for the SpongeBob, Nosferatu Snafu: Artificial Intelligence Trends
I recently discussed what appeared to be an off-the-wall ChatGPT flub. Turns out it’s not so “off-the-wall”. Here’s some context for the SpongeBob, Nosferatu snafu.
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Germany names Russia for the Leipzig drone, and keeps most of its evidence out of view
Editor’s Note: Germany’s Sept. 1 attribution of the Leipzig/Halle airport drone to Russia came with a consulate closure, a lease termination and a sanctions push, and with categories of evidence rather than the underlying material. The Federal Prosecutor General’s Aug. 6 release names no suspect, no state and no service. The ministers named the state