Privilege and Work Product in the Age of AI
Depending on which court you ask, your latest prompt to an artificial intelligence (“AI”) chatbot is either a protected private thought or a voluntary disclosure to someone other than your lawyer. In a legal landscape struggling to keep pace with technology, two ‘first-of-their-kind’ rulings—United States
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The uneven evolution of federal and state cannabis laws continues to frustrate cannabis business operations, including, but not limited to, how intellectual property is created, valued, and deployed. While trademark rights remain closely tethered to lawful commercial use in interstate commerce,[1] patent rights operate under a different legal framework—one that has historically permitted
Artificial intelligence may be global, but patent eligibility remains stubbornly local. A recent decision out of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom seems to have nudged UK practice for computer-implemented inventions closer to the approach historically taken by the European Patent Office. The decision lowers the threshold for exclusion from patentability, reducing the likelihood
Five ways to use AI in real-world legal practice
When we discuss the infrastructural demands of the artificial intelligence boom, the conversation almost immediately defaults to the electrical grid. We talk in gigawatts and megawatt-hours. But behind every headline about AI’s power hunger lies an equally critical, yet vastly under-discussed, resource challenge: water.
At The Washington Post’s Building America: Powering the AI Age summit,
My Globe and Mail op-ed begins by noting that AI Minister Evan Solomon summoned executives from OpenAI to Ottawa last week to explain why the company declined to alert police that it had flagged the account of Jesse Van Rootselaar, the Tumbler Ridge shooter who killed eight people earlier this month. The company stopped short
In January 2026, employer layoff plans hit their highest January total since the tail end of the 2008 global financial crisis, according to the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas. United States employers announced 108,435 layoffs for January 2026, up 118% from January 2025. Whatever unpredictable factors—including continued economic uncertainties, the rise of
There is a design contradiction at the center of how high-reasoning AI tools work, and it is worth naming precisely.The promise is leverage: brief, high-intent sessions. You bring the question, the tool brings the synthesis, and you leave with more than you arrived with. That is the value proposition.Here is what often happens instead. You
Editor’s Note: What follows connects the dots across three domains that are now inseparable: cybersecurity operations facing a fast-moving surge of hacktivist and state-linked activity; information governance teams navigating data residency rules that presume stable geography; and eDiscovery leaders confronting preservation and production obligations when access can vanish overnight through outages, internet shutdowns, or physical
The EEOC just voted 2–1 to hold that federal agencies may restrict bathrooms and other “intimate spaces” based on biological sex — and may exclude transgender employees from facilities consistent with their gender identity.
“Biology is not bigotry,” says EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas.
Except according to the Supreme Court, it very much is.
