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Law in the age of AI, two years on: A state of the union for 2026 and 2027

By Kanon Clifford ( April 29, 2026, 3:05 PM EDT) -- In 2024, I opened a piece in this publication (Law in the age of AI: Balancing tradition and innovation in 2025) by imagining a courtroom where lawyers consulted artificial intelligence for real-time research, where blockchain verified documents in seconds and where disputes resolved themselves online. I called it “the reality unfolding in our legal system.”...