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Feb 16 2026 Regulation is built, justified, contested, and revised through text: draft rules, technical analyses, public comments, and agency responses. That written record is a gold mine for scholars—but it is also a practical barrier. When the evidence is mostly presented in the form of text documents, measurement is slow, difficult to standardize, and

Calling it “the industry’s first scaled agentic AI tool for fact investigation and e-discovery,” DISCO today announced an agentic AI enhancement to its Cecilia Q&A tool, which the company says is designed to handle large-scale e-discovery matters with millions of documents and terabytes of data. The Austin-based legal technology company’s new tool adds what it describes as

Generative AI (GenAI) has the potential to make legal research faster and more effective — but used without care, it can expose lawyers to errors, reputational damage and professional?responsibility risks. A new professional intensive from Queen’s Law aims to help legal practitioners navigate this rapidly evolving landscape with confidence. The GenAI in Contemporary Legal Research Professional

Annette L. Demers Reference Librarian at University of Windsor writes on Linked In Well this is the largest costs award that I’ve seen so far – awarded against a lawyer in their personal capacity for using unverified authorities in a factum. ($17,550). Reddy v Saroya, 2026 ABCA 20, online: <https://canlii.ca/t/khpzd> [8]           Here, while the appellant did

January 13, 2026 New partnership unites top legal scholars and nationally recognized practicing lawyers to facilitate global knowledge sharing and influence cross-market standards for AI adoption.   The nationally recognized University of Southern California Gould School of Law and Am Law 100 law firm Akerman today announced the launch of their Law+AI Initiative. This groundbreaking collaboration

 Jan 12, 2026 A New State and Federal Compact for Artificial Intelligence David Beier Effective AI governance demands strong federal standards that preserve state authority. TweetSharePostEmailPrintLink Artificial intelligence (AI) has burst upon us at a pace, scale, and magnitude never seen before in modern history. It dominates news media, business, finance, entertainment, and political attention.

The Free Speech Union’s top lawyer has claimed he was targeted by Chinese spies pretending to be researchers. Bryn Harris, the chief legal counsel at the FSU, suspects he was the target of a ‘China capture’ campaign after he began receiving emails from supposed computer and artificial intelligence researchers. Speaking to The Times, Mr Harris said he knew something

It feels, pleasingly, like a scene from a cerebral James Bond film, or perhaps an episode of Slow Horses. I am in a shadowy corner of a plush, buzzy Soho members’ bar. A mild December twilight is falling over London. Across the table from me sits an old acquaintance, a senior English barrister, greying, quietly handsome,