President Trump recently issued an Executive Order entitled “Promoting Access to Mortgage Credit” seeking to promote mortgage lending by community banks and smaller banks. The Executive Order refers to community banks and smaller banks as banks with assets of less than $30 billion and $100 billion, respectively.
The premise of the Executive Order
The act known as “bills of attainder” is old. It goes back to pre-1776 England. A bill of attainder occurred when Parliament would pass a bill that settled a legal dispute. A bill of attainder could find that certain creditors were not in fact owed money, or that certain heirs cannot in fact inherit. It
Smartwatches, fitness trackers, and other wearable gadgets have gone from consumer curiosities to powerful health companions. What started as simple step counters now capture heart rhythms, sleep patterns, blood oxygen levels, stress indicators, and more. Increasingly, clinicians are asking: Can these devices be used as true clinical tools?
As health systems, clinicians, and advanced practice
Editor’s Note: AI has moved from speculative promise to operational reality in privilege review, and legal teams can no longer afford to treat it as an emerging side issue. Drawn from a Legalweek 2026 panel moderated by Esther Birnbaum of HaystackID, this article examines how courts, corporate counsel, and eDiscovery practitioners are confronting the practical
AI adoption is now mainstream: 88% of businesses use AI in at least one function, with global spending expected to exceed $1.5 trillion in 2025 and approach $2 trillion in 2026. As organizations race to scale AI, many have relied upon traditional vendor risk management policies to vet third-party AI vendors and tools; however, implementation
Connected Vehicles: emerging business models and their key legal aspects
In the mid‑90s, Elastica captured a restless cultural moment with Connection—a song pulsing with the irresistible pull toward something new. Thirty years later, automotive and transportation companies are chasing the same energy through the rise of connected vehicles and new AI enabled features. Connected vehicles are becoming software-defined, sensor‑rich, and permanently online. This evolution expands both legal exposure across sectors and legal frameworks that were traditionally unfamiliar for the automotive and transportation industry: (i) telecoms licensing and cross‑border connectivity, (ii) data protection and data-sharing (e.g. with insurers/ad-tech), (iii) cybersecurity and safe Over-The-Air (OTA) governance, (iv) product liability for automated/ Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) features, (v) eCall obligations amid 2G/3G mobile network sunsets, (vi) national‑security supply‑chain controls, and (vii) IP disputes, just to name a few.
In this new issue of At a Crossroads, our Automotive & Transportation Industry Group distils the main emerging business models and integrates recent legal developments to ground the advice in reality.
Can AI summarize legal documents?
The short answer is yes: Among AI’s best use cases in law is summarizing legal documents. It isn’t, however, foolproof, and its performance depends largely on the chosen tool. Any tool’s capabilities and limitations are best understood by viewing legal AI summarization as a spectrum:
On March 6, 2026, the General Services Administration (GSA) issued a significant proposed contract clause, GSAR 552.239-7001, Basic Safeguarding of Artificial Intelligence Systems (“Clause”), for inclusion in GSA Schedule solicitations and contracts for AI capabilities. The proposed clause would impose substantial new requirements related to AI sources, intellectual property rights, data use, change management, and performance standards. The Clause would also take precedence over any other contract terms (including commercial licensing terms) related to AI, including a Seller’s terms of sale and service to which the Government had previously agreed. GSA requests comments by March 20, 2026.
An analysis of the proposed clause follows below.
At Legalweek, while everyone else was talking about AI features, I sat down with Michel Sahyoun of NopalCyber to talk about something the legal profession isn’t paying nearly enough attention to: cybersecurity in the age of GenAI.
Some facts: the average time to exploit a breach is 29 minutes. AI tools can automatically and repeatedly
March 16, 2026 — NEW YORK, NY — Pro Bono Net, the nation’s leading nonprofit access to justice technology innovator, today announced it is rebranding as Scale Justice, marking a new chapter in the organization’s 25-plus-year commitment to making legal help more equitable and attainable for millions.
The new name reflects the organization’s evolution from