The ABAJournal.com reported that “OpenAI has been sued for practicing law without a license, accused of providing faulty legal advice to a woman seeking disability benefits…..and OpenAI has been accused of practicing law without a license in a lawsuit brought by Nippon Life Insurance Co. of America.” The March 6, 2026 article entitled ” OpenAI
This week’s kitchen sink for March 13, 2026 (with meme from Gates Dogfish) discusses the purpose of an ESI protocol, the government vs. three AI titans & more!
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Editor’s Note: Governments are no longer just harassing journalists; they are constructing legal and digital systems designed to make the act of reporting itself punishable. This evolution represents a fundamental shift from sporadic intimidation to a formalized architecture of repression that is rapidly spreading across borders. From treason prosecutions in Belarus to surveillance-driven case building
AI is rapidly reshaping the legal landscape. This Veracity Forensics webinar on April 1st will put AI on trial in terms of real-world implications on litigation!
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In the case In re OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litig., regarding Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang’s November 24, 2025 discovery order determining that OpenAI waived the attorney-client privilege with respect to communications in 2022, New York District Judge Sidney H. Stein stated that he “concludes pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 72(a) that the
The NewYorkTimes.com reported that the “Social media companies are under pressure to crack down on so-called deepfake videos that use deceptive images of real people.” The March 10, 2026 article entitled ” YouTube Adds Tool to Help Public Figures Report Fake Videos” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/technology/youtube-deepfakes-detection-tool.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share) includes comments from Reporter Natallie Rocha:
YouTube is adding
Editor’s Note: This session during Legalweek 2026 in New York matters because it moved judicial safety out of abstraction and into the daily operating reality of courts, counsel, clients, and legal institutions. The discussion connected physical threats, digital harassment, doxxing, spoofing, swatting, online rhetoric, impeachment threats, declining public confidence in courts, and a documented drop
Part two of the General Counsel Report from Relativity and FTI Consulting shows that AI adoption in corporate legal departments is doubling! Here’s part of the press release!
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Editor’s Note: Leadership conversations at legal industry conferences rarely survive the translation to the page. They tend to flatten into motivational summaries or dissolve into anecdotes. The Legalweek 2026 Day Two keynote with Mindy Kaling was different — not because of who was on stage, but because of what was actually said about confidence, team
SCWorld.com reported that “Mozilla patched 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox that were discovered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 AI model. Anthropic said Friday that Claude discovered the first vulnerability, a use-after-free in Firefox’s JavaScript engine, within 20 minutes of exploring the open-source browser’s codebase.” The March 10, 2026 report entitled ” Mozilla fixes 22 Firefox vulnerabilities