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Just as I was putting the finishing touches to my article on 75 reported cases of suspected or confirmed AI hallucinations in the UK, I received several messages drawing my attention to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal’s decision in SRA v Kumar. The case concerned matters going beyond the use of AI, but one aspect is particularly…

Professor Yunsieg Kim presented his new paper, “Artificial Sameness,” at the inaugural AI for Law Scholars Conference at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. Professor Kim co-authored the paper with Jacob Eisler of Florida State University College of Law. The paper examines a less-discussed risk of artificial intelligence: its potential to homogenize even as it promises personalization. Kim…

Press Release homson Reuters has unveiled Thomson, a proprietary artificial intelligence model for professional work that ranked among the strongest systems in the company’s early benchmark testing. Thomson Reuters said Thomson outperformed GPT-5.5, Claude Sonnet 5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro across a range of legal and general benchmarks, while posting results it described as competitive…

Alternative legal services provider QuisLex today (20 July) unveiled a new advisory framework designed to help legal departments and law firms build the institutional capability needed to produce AI-assisted legal work that can be trusted, governed and defended.  The new offering, centred around an Institutional Capability Assessment (ICA), reflects what QuisLex founder and CEO Sirisha Gummaregula says is the next phase…

AI search tools increasingly rely on Wikipedia when recommending lawyers, making Wikipedia visibility a growing factor in legal marketing and client acquisition. Lawyers and law firms seeking Wikipedia pages must satisfy strict neutrality, verifiability, and notability standards, not merely demonstrate career success. Wikipedia submissions require transparency, reliable independent sources, and careful conflict-of-interest compliance; shortcuts or…

This was an unfortunate case of delegation, where the ultimate outsourcing ended up with an AI system.  It started as a simple block transfer application to the Chancery Division. Such applications are almost invariably determined without a hearing but the judge gave directions for the matter to be listed as a result of concerns about “misleading…

Ajudge has said an Insolvency and Companies Court ruling should serve as ‘public admonishment’ of international firm Pinsent Masons and senior lawyers, after two botched uses of artificial intelligence. ICC Judge Mullen concluded in Cork & Anor v Smith that the firm had misled the court twice: once by providing references which featured AI hallucinations, then a…

UK Law Society Gazette Solicitors need a clear set of rules around how they can use AI to prepare court documents, their representative body said today. The Law Society called on regulators and the government to set out exactly how AI can be managed responsibly in court proceedings, as well as kick-start discussions on how litigation will…

Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication by me, David Lat. You can learn more about Original Jurisdiction by reading its About page, and you can email me at davidlat@substack.com. This is a reader-supported publication; you can subscribe by clicking here. Tonight brings huge news out of Sullivan & Cromwell.1 We can now add S&C, truly one of the…

Anthropic has just released Claude for Word in Beta – in itself a major move, but even more significant is that the AI giant is intentionally targeting lawyers. And this may impact several legal tech companies. For example, on the dedicated Anthropic page for Claude for Word, it lists several ‘example use cases’. The very…