The Play — Issue #23: Fifty-Four Percent, and That Was the Good Number
A private answer key for grading legal AI, four vendor defaults that flip in thirty days, a token price cut that may not lower the bill, and what OpenAI's own agents did last week.
An evaluator who does not report to the buyer, Latham's own GPU servers, Morgan & Morgan's four percent, and the gap between using AI and deploying it.
The Play — Issue #21: The Fix Never Reached the Template
Four plays: fake citations that lived in a go-by, a filing whose metadata named its author, a D.C. judge's cite-check model against California's, and ChatGPT's forward-only off switch.
The Play — Issue #19: Your Legal AI Vendor Is Now a Connector
Four Points: renegotiate before you sign, read what California actually amended, fix the taxonomy the connector inherits, and watch who is building the plumbing.
Four plays: a position check your cite-check cannot run, the appendix that ended a case, twenty-five dollars a client, and a sanction the lawyer cannot bill.
The Play — Issue #17: The Notetaker Kept a Copy for Itself
A federal court drew the line between a tool and a party, and Otter landed on the wrong side. Plus the legal AI tool nobody vetted, and a mark inside your drafts.
The LexisNexis outage happened on somebody else's servers. Plus the NYC Bar on recording anyone who isn't your client, and the model providers moving into implementation.
