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Atty Apologizes For ChatGPT-Hallucinated Citations In Briefs
A patent attorney has apologized to a Kansas federal judge for submitting a court filing with case citations hallucinated by ChatGPT, calling the experience "shameful and embarrassing" and saying he was in a poor mental state at the time due to his mother and aunt being hospitalized and dying shortly after.
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Courthouse News NC Electronic Filing Suit Headed To Trial
A North Carolina federal judge on Monday refused to grant a summary judgment win to Courthouse News Service in its suit claiming the state's e-filing system created dayslong delays in obtaining new civil suits, saying the state court administrators have demonstrated there is a genuine dispute over whether the case is moot due to allegedly improved access to filings.
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Foley, McElroy Latest Law Firms To Disclose Data Breaches
Foley & Lardner LLP and McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP, along with several smaller law firms, publicly disclosed data breaches last month, making them the latest firms to experience cyberattacks.
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Legal Tech Leaders' 2026 Focus: Ensuring AI Delivers
The consensus among legal tech leaders is that generative artificial intelligence is here to stay, and their goals for 2026 include making it easier for attorneys to leverage this technology and finding the best tools in a crowded market.
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McGuireWoods Appoints Longtime CTO As Chief Info Officer
McGuireWoods announced Friday the appointment of its long-time chief technology officer to chief information officer, overseeing the firm's information systems, including legal, operational, client management, administrative, financial, marketing and human resources.
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How AI Will Factor Into Most Concerns For GCs In 2026
The top challenges for most top corporate lawyers over the next 12 months will revolve around one topic: artificial intelligence.
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14 Bold Legal Technology Predictions For 2026
Tech and innovations will simultaneously improve and destabilize the legal industry in a way that is expected to transform the business permanently.
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His Client Got A Pro Se Suit. Then The AI Filings Started.
Employment attorneys say the increased use of AI by pro se plaintiffs has the potential to clog dockets, drag out cases and make litigation significantly more expensive.
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ContractPodAi Rebrands As Leah, To Match Its AI Assistant
Contract management software provider ContractPodAi, which offers an automated legal assistant called Leah, announced Monday it would rebrand the company to match its artificial intelligence software.
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Atty Largely Loses Bid To Trim Sanctions Over Fake Citations
A Pennsylvania-based attorney facing sanctions for filing a motion filled with fake citations has been allowed to complete a required legal ethics course virtually due to health concerns over travel, with a Florida federal judge otherwise affirming the initial order.
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Calif. ABS Fee Sharing Ban Cleared To Kick Off In 2026
A new California law banning alternative business structure fee sharing with out-of-state law firms owned by nonattorneys has been allowed to go into effect after a Los Angeles federal court rejected an attorney's bid to temporarily block its enforcement ahead of the new year.
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Copyright Cases To Watch In 2026
U.S. federal courts this year will continue to review consequential copyright infringement suits involving artificial intelligence, while appeals court decisions remain pending in a pair of notable fair use cases involving ROSS Intelligence and Microsoft. Here are Law360's picks for copyright cases to watch in 2026.
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BigLaw Leaders Tackle Growth, AI, Remote Work In New Year
Rapid business growth, cultural changes caused by remote work and generative AI are creating challenges and opportunities for law firm leaders going into the New Year. Here, seven top firm leaders share what’s running through their minds as they lie awake at night.
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ILFA Spotlight: Darrow Has Sights On $100M Revenue In 2026
Legal violation detection platform Darrow, which was named most innovative legal technology provider at the inaugural International Legal Finance Association awards, aims to reach up to $100 million in revenue next year, its chief revenue officer told Law360 Pulse.
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CS Disco Hires Former Socure CFO
E-discovery software company CS Disco this week announced the hiring of Aaron Barfoot, formerly the chief financial officer of Socure, as its lead financial executive effective Jan. 12.
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NYC Bar Issues Opinion On AI Use For Recording Client Calls
The New York City Bar Association's Professional Ethics Committee has issued an opinion addressing how the New York Rules of Professional Conduct impacts the use of artificial intelligence tools to record, transcribe and create summaries of conversations in audio and video calls between attorneys and their clients.
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Miss. Attys Sanctioned Over AI Misuse In Age Bias Case
A Mississippi federal court on Friday sanctioned three attorneys for misusing artificial intelligence in an age discrimination case against a school district, resulting in hallucinated citations in the matter as well as other cases in the state.
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Calif. Atty Slams 'Protectionist' ABS Fee-Sharing Ban
A California attorney has pushed back on opposition from California's attorney general and the state's bar association amid his efforts to block enforcement of a ban on fee sharing with out-of-state law firms owned by nonattorneys, arguing the new state law is a "protectionist act, in defiance of the constitution."
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4 Legal Ethics Matters That Rocked 2025
This year, judges across the country grappled with attorneys' use and misuse of generative artificial intelligence, and prominent federal prosecutor battles dominated headlines in some of the top legal ethics matters of 2025.
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Filevine Acquires Calif.-Based AI Contract Co. Pincites
Legal practice management platform Filevine has acquired Pincites, a contract review platform that uses artificial intelligence, less than a year since its last acquisition in April, Law360 Pulse confirmed Monday.
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Lawyers Don't Expect AI To Lower Billing Targets
Generative AI is raising questions about how time-based billing adapts when tasks become faster to complete, but most attorneys recently surveyed by Law360 Pulse are skeptical that AI will shift expectations anytime soon.
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Florida Supreme Court Approves Limits For Non-Lawyer Roles
The Florida Supreme Court has signed off on a rule change to spell out that nonlawyers at a law firm cannot supervise the work of attorneys or perform policymaking duties that affect the practice of law.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week with a mega law firm merger announcement and eye-popping year-end bonuses at a handful of elite boutiques. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Legal Tech Roundup: A360inc, PandaDoc
The acquisition of a digital notarization platform tops this roundup of recent legal technology news.
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E-Discovery's 'Black Box' Worry: Is This AI Prompt Privileged?
Despite the infusion of generative artificial intelligence into e-discovery tools, ethics and quality control questions loom about the use of this technology and a contrary judicial decision could set the industry back many years.
Expert Analysis
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The Future Of Legal Ops: Time To Get Serious About Data
Most corporate legal departments collect surface-level data around their operations, such as costs and time to resolution, but legal leaders should explore more in-depth data gathering to assess how effective an attorney was, how efficiently legal work was performed, and more, says Andy Krebs at Intel.
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Why You Should Leverage AI For Privilege Review
While many lawyers still believe that a manual, document-by-document review is the best approach to privilege logging, certain artificial intelligence tools can bolster the traditional review process and make this aspect of electronic document review more efficient, more accurate and less costly, say Laura Riff and Michelle Six at Kirkland.
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Tips For Evaluating Machine Learning For Contracts Review
Law firms considering machine learning and natural language processing to aid in contract reviews should keep several best practices in mind when procuring and deploying this nascent technology, starting with identifying their organization's needs and key requirements, says Ned Gannon at eBrevia.
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Collaborative Tech Will Dictate Future Law Firm Success
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Law firms need to shift their focus from solving the needs of their lawyers with siloed solutions to implementing collaboration technology, thereby enabling more seamless workflows and team experiences amid widespread embrace of hybrid and remote work models, says Kate Jasaitis at HBR Consulting.
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Roundup
Ask A Mentor
As the legal profession undergoes a dramatic period of change, experts answer questions on career and workplace conundrums in this Law360 guest article series.
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How Dynamic Project Management Can Help Law Firms
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Law firms looking to streamline matter management should consider tools that offer both employees and clients real-time access to documents, action items, task assignee information and more, overcoming many of the limitations of project communications via email, says Stephen Weyer at Stites & Harbison.
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How Firms Can Benefit From Creating Their Own ALSPs
As more law firms develop their own legal services centers to serve as both a source of flexible personnel and technological innovation, they can further enhance the effectiveness by fostering a consistent and cohesive team and allowing for experimentation with new technologies from an established baseline, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.
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Keys To Digitizing Inefficient Contract Management Processes
Neville Eisenberg and Mark Grayson at BCLP explain how they sped up contract execution for one client by replacing email with a centralized, digital tool for negotiations and review, and how the principles they adhered to can be helpful for other law firms looking to improve poorly managed contract management processes.
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Law Firm Tips For Evaluating AI And Machine Learning Tools
Many legal technology vendors now sell artificial intelligence and machine learning tools at a premium price tag, but law firms must take the time to properly evaluate them as not all offerings generate process efficiencies or even use the technologies advertised, says Steven Magnuson at Ballard Spahr.
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Learning How To Code Can Unleash New Potential In Lawyers
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.