AI

The Play — Issue #16: Your Vendor Has Vendors

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.

The Play — Issue #15: The Agent Didn't Access Anything. You Did.

The Play — Issue #14: Nobody at Your Firm Bought the Bot in the Room

A researcher found 180,000 call records sitting open in January. The vendor never answered, and it was still open yesterday.

The Play — Issue #13: The Word Document That Edits Your Work On the Way Out

One play: decide which inbound documents your AI assistant is allowed to read. Plus a firm insuring its agents, Goldman's stake in Harvey, and the $1,500-per-citation math.

The Play — Issue #12: The Layer Beneath Your AI Tools

Three plays: the real AI vendor lock-in, validating an agent-led contract migration, and a ruling that could decide whether AI training needs a license.

The Play — Issue #11: The Next Bad Citation in Your Case Won't Be Yours

Three plays: check the other side's citations, put a source cite on every fact, and cut your biggest AI project down to one input and one output.

The Play — Issue #10: Your AI Policy Governs the Keyboard

Four plays: inventory what your AI tools can reach, move your policy from approved-tool to verified-citation, audit your engagement letter, and score build-vs-buy on maintenance.

The Play — Issue #9: The AI Failure That Doesn't Leave a Trace

Three plays: spot-check for the AI failures that show no error signal, clean your document corpus before you connect AI to it, and bring a real number to the pricing conversation.

The Play — Issue #8: Your AI Prompts May Be Discoverable. Here's How to Protect Them.

How to structure AI-assisted document review so your prompts survive a motion to compel, plus the single-agent consolidation pitch and reading your vendor's roadmap.

The Play — Issue #7: Your Malpractice Carrier Is Already Asking This Question

Spellbook's autonomous contract AI, a malpractice insurance gap nobody's checked, and Reed Smith's consolidated AI unit

The Play — Issue #6: The Warning Said Months. It Took Nine Days.

The Play — Issue #5: A Legal AI Unicorn Just Broke the Billable Hour

Norm Ai's outcome-based unicorn, a data-license fight that predates gen AI, and BigLaw's $440K hiring problem

The Play — Issue #4: Both Sides Just Tore Up the AI Contract

Buyers are cutting terms to a year. Vendors are un-fixing prices. Your next renewal is the play.

The Play — Issue #3: Five Governments Say AI Cyberattacks Are Months Away

A joint intelligence warning, a Kirkland exclusivity deal, and the court rules catching up to Issue #1.

The Play — Issue #2: Washington Pulled the Plug on a Frontier AI Model

If your AI tools depend on a frontier model API — and they probably do — this is what a government-ordered shutdown actually looks like.

The Play — Issue #1: The Ninth Circuit Just Ended the 'I Didn't Know' Defense

A precedential ruling and a new Florida rule mean sanctions are coming for legal-grade AI tools too — not just ChatGPT.