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California Lawyers, the State Bar AI Practical Guidance, and the Compliance Picture
California Lawyers, the State Bar AI Practical Guidance, and the Compliance Picture On November 16, 2023, the State Bar of California issued its Practical Guidance for the Use of Generative...
Basel IsmailMay 27, 2026
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Insurance Defense Firms and the AI Confidentiality Gap With Carrier Data
Insurance Defense Firms and the AI Confidentiality Gap With Carrier Data Insurance defense work has always involved a confidentiality structure that most other practice areas never have to think...
Basel IsmailMay 27, 2026
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Litigation Discovery Requests for AI Tool Logs Are Now a Thing
Litigation Discovery Requests for AI Tool Logs Are Now a Thing A colleague forwarded me a set of discovery requests from a breach of fiduciary duty case last month. Buried in the document requests,...
Basel IsmailMay 26, 2026
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The Unauthorized Practice of Law and AI Legal Tools Sold Direct to Consumers
The Unauthorized Practice of Law and AI Legal Tools Sold Direct to Consumers In March 2024, DoNotPay agreed to pay $193,000 to settle an FTC complaint alleging it had marketed itself as the "world's...
Basel IsmailMay 26, 2026
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Bar Association Guidance on AI: A 2026 State-by-State Map
Bar Association Guidance on AI: A 2026 State-by-State Map If you are a lawyer using AI in your practice right now, or advising a company that does, you are navigating a regulatory landscape that...
Basel IsmailMay 26, 2026
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Legal Research AI and the Source Verification Habit Every Lawyer Needs
Legal Research AI and the Source Verification Habit Every Lawyer Needs Westlaw's AI-Assisted Research launched in late 2023. Lexis+ AI went generally available around the same time. Both promise to...
Basel IsmailMay 26, 2026
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Why a Law Firm CIO Should Have an AI Governance Committee Right Now
Why a Law Firm CIO Should Have an AI Governance Committee Right Now Law firms are adopting generative AI tools at a pace that outstrips their internal governance structures. A 2024 Thomson Reuters...
Basel IsmailMay 26, 2026
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Engagement Letters and the AI Disclosure Section You Should Be Adding
Engagement Letters and the AI Disclosure Section You Should Be Adding If your engagement letters haven't been updated since before November 2022, they are almost certainly missing something material....
Basel IsmailMay 26, 2026
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Attorney-Client Privilege and the AI Tool Question
Attorney-Client Privilege and the AI Tool Question A lawyer drafts a memo analyzing litigation risk for a client. Solid work product, clearly privileged. Then they paste the whole thing into ChatGPT...
Basel IsmailMay 25, 2026
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Law Firm Data Rooms, M&A Practice, and the Shadow AI Problem
Law Firm Data Rooms, M&A Practice, and the Shadow AI Problem A second-year associate at a midsize firm is reviewing 400 documents in a virtual data room for a buy-side acquisition. The deal is moving...
Basel IsmailMay 25, 2026
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Citation Errors, Hallucinations, and the Mata v. Avianca Lessons
Citation Errors, Hallucinations, and the Mata v. Avianca Lessons By now most of you have heard about Mata v. Avianca, Inc. , No. 22-cv-1461 (S.D.N.Y. 2023). It became the canonical cautionary tale...
Basel IsmailMay 25, 2026
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Document Review With AI and the Privilege Log Question
Document Review With AI and the Privilege Log Question AI-assisted document review has been defensible in federal court since at least 2012, when Judge Andrew Peck blessed predictive coding in Da...
Basel IsmailMay 25, 2026
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