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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

The University of Michigan Law School has launched its AI Advisory Council, a distinguished group of alumni and leaders from across the legal profession, the technology sector, and academia. The council reflects Michigan Law’s growing engagement with artificial intelligence and its commitment to shaping how the legal profession adapts to rapidly evolving technologies. The launch of the AI Advisory Council

COPRAC Advisory Regarding Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hallucinations Due to the increased usage of artificial intelligence (AI) in the legal profession, the Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) continues to provide guidance on relevant ethical and practical considerations that arise from the use of these technologies. Generative AI tools (such as ChatGPT and Perplexity) are

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

 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.

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,