Law firm leaders readily invest millions in talent, lateral growth, and new markets. But CRM investment? That’s where the hesitation creeps in. Not because firms doubt technology, but because traditional CRMs fail to deliver for legal. After years of over-customization, low adoption, and scattered data, many leaders understandably ask: Is a new CRM really worth
Why Practitioner Generated Secondary Law Matters With AI
For years, legal research has been built around primary law—cases, statutes, code, regulations—and traditional secondary sources such as law reviews and journals.
All still important, but missing in the day of AI is the secondary law written by legal practioners, academics, law students and other legal professionals in blog posts, insights, whitepapers, and even, newsletters.
AI-Generated Content Checklist for Lawyers: How to Use AI Confidently
Why reviewing AI-generated content matters
Generative AI can accelerate legal work, but it cannot replace the lawyer’s judgment. These systems predict what legal text should look like, they do not reason about doctrine, jurisdiction, or consequences. That’s why even fluent, well-structured answers can be subtly wrong or confidently hallucinated.
Legal-specific tools like Clio Work and
Pre-emption by Executive Order: Trump Order Moves to Block State AI Laws
On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order on “Ensuring A National Policy Framework For Artificial Intelligence” (the “Order”). The Order represents the Administration’s latest and most pointed attempt to stop and reverse the wave of state AI legislation that has emerged over the preceding year, which the Order asserts “creates a patchwork of 50 different regulatory regimes.” The Order raises the political stakes regarding state AI laws and creates uncertainty in the form of anticipated litigation, but does not instantly remove current or impending state AI law obligations for companies developing or deploying AI.
December 2025 Developments in the Insurance Industry
Please take note of the following December 2025 developments in the insurance industry.
- NAIC Elections: On December 11, 2025, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) elected the following chief state insurance regulators to serve as officers in 2026, effective January 1, 2026.
- President: Virginia Insurance Commissioner Scott A. White.
- President-Elect: Rhode Island Department of
The Hidden Legal Minefield: Compliance Concerns with AI Smart Glasses, Part 2 – Two-Party Consent and AI Note-Taking
As we explored in Part 1 of this series, AI-enabled smart glasses are rapidly evolving from niche wearables into powerful tools with broad workplace appeal — but their innovative capabilities bring equally significant legal and privacy concerns. Modern smart glasses blend high-resolution cameras, always-on microphones, and real-time AI assistants into a hands-free wearable that can
A Cautionary Tale From PERB: When AI Hallucinations Lead to Stricken Briefs and Lost Arguments
In the fast-evolving world of public sector labor law, tools
like generative AI promise efficiency and innovation. But as a recent decision
from the Public Employment Relations Board (“PERB”) reminds us, they can also
spell disaster if not handled with the utmost care. In California State
University Employees Union v. Trustees of the California
Data License Restrictions in the AI Spotlight: Careful Drafting Is More Important Than Ever
A recently-filed federal court complaint tests the enforceability of restrictive terms in a data license against the use of licensed data for generative AI purposes. The outcome of this case may turn on interpreting broad terms such as training, internal research, distribution and publication.
UPDATE: On December 18, 2025, the court denied defendant Alexi Technologies Inc.’s (“Alexi”) motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO) based on Alexi’s contention that it would suffer irreparable harm without access to Fastcase’s updated data and lose revenue and customers and suffer reputational damage. In a brief order, the court found that Alexi’s harm is “too speculative and is not sufficiently corroborated to merit emergency relief at this time.”
On November 26, 2025, legal research platform Fastcase, Inc. (“Fastcase”) sued legal AI company Alexi Technologies Inc. (“Alexi”) in a District of Columbia district court, alleging that Alexi used licensed “Fastcase Data” (i.e., a sophisticated, extensively tagged legal research database) to train and power a commercial AI legal research product in violation of a 2021 data license agreement.(Fastcase, Inc. v. Alexi Technologies Inc., No. 25-04159 (D.D.C. Filed Nov. 26, 2025)).
The complaint is particularly interesting as it involves a 2021 agreement – entered into before generative AI was a generally known technology – and thus presents the age-old question of interpreting the terms of an agreement to a technology not known at the time the agreement was entered into.
Regardless of the outcome of this case, the complaint highlights the importance of precise license drafting – for both licensors and licensees – in the age of AI. Parties should focus on well-defined understandings of how data can be used, shared and commercialized at a time where every company is seeking to leverage AI. As this complaint illustrates, vague terms can lead to uncertainty and legal disputes.[1]
Of course, we do not know if this litigation will proceed to summary judgment or trial, but if it does, we may have an opportunity to see how a court will interpret and potentially enforce broad and general restrictions in a data license (e.g., no publication, distribution, commercial use, competitive use, use for internal research purposes only) in the context of generative artificial intelligence.[2]
On the Second Day of Data… Trump Attempts to Preempt State AI Regulation Through Executive Order
Following several unsuccessful attempts to secure federal preemption of state artificial intelligence regulations through Congress, President Trump turned to executive action, signing a sweeping executive order last Thursday night, entitled “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence”. The Executive Order directs federal agencies to challenge state laws regulating AI, with the stated
Trump Administration Issues Executive Order on National AI Policy Framework
On Dec. 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence” that seeks to establish federal supremacy over state AI regulation.