GitHub disabled 73 repositories across four Microsoft organizations on June 5 after the self-replicating supply-chain campaign known as Miasma re-compromised Azure’s durabletask project, according to the research group...more
A general counsel facing a bet-the-company problem no longer types keywords into a search box. She opens a chatbot, describes the situation, and asks what to do, and the reply already reads like a shortlist....more
6/9/2026
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Brand ,
Content Marketing ,
Content Strategy ,
Cybersecurity ,
Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Information Governance ,
Legal Technology ,
Machine Learning ,
Marketing ,
Marketing Perspectives ,
Search Engines ,
SEO
Anthropic on Tuesday expanded Project Glasswing beyond its roughly 50 initial partners, extending access to a new cohort of approximately 150 organizations in more than 15 countries. The restricted Claude Mythos Preview...more
6/5/2026
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Cyber Insurance ,
Cybersecurity ,
Executive Orders ,
Information Governance ,
Machine Learning ,
National Security ,
Popular ,
Risk Management ,
Vulnerability Assessments
A finance worker joined a routine video call with his chief financial officer and several colleagues. Every face on the screen was a forgery. By the time he called head office to check, the equivalent of about $25.6 million...more
6/2/2026
/ AI Act ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Chain of Custody ,
Cybersecurity ,
Deep Fake ,
Fraud ,
Incident Response Plans ,
Information Governance ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Management
“Ireland is the de facto regulator of AI globally.” Dr. Barry Scannell said it flatly, early on the main stage of the Dublin Tech Summit. The claim framed the discussion that followed, even as the panel turned quickly to the...more
5/28/2026
/ AI Act ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Data Protection ,
Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
EU ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Innovative Technology ,
Ireland ,
Legal Technology ,
Machine Learning ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Technology-Assisted Review
FutureLaw 2026 closed in Tallinn with the conversation getting harder. Where Day 1 framed who should govern AI and who should build with it, Day 2 pulled the discussion onto two fault lines the legal industry has not yet...more
In 2012, the worldwide eDiscovery market was estimated at $4.73 billion. By 2030, reconciled estimates place it at approximately $28.08 billion – close to six times the 2012 baseline, after an 18-year compounding that has...more
5/20/2026
/ Analytics ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Big Data ,
Cloud Computing ,
Data Collection ,
Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
IaaS ,
SaaS ,
Software ,
Technology-Assisted Review
Anthropic on Tuesday turned Claude into a legal-software hub, releasing 20-plus integrations and 12 practice-area plugins that bring contracts, eDiscovery, research, and deal rooms under one assistant. The vendor map for...more
5/15/2026
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Contract Management ,
Data Privacy ,
Document Management ,
Document Review ,
e-Discovery ,
Information Governance ,
Legal Operations ,
Legal Technology ,
Machine Learning ,
Popular
The extortion group ShinyHunters defaced Canvas login pages at universities across North America on Thursday, opening what appears to be a second wave of pressure against learning-platform parent Instructure ahead of a May 12...more
5/8/2026
/ Class Action ,
COPPA ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
e-Discovery ,
Educational Institutions ,
FERPA ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Incident Response Plans ,
Information Technology ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Universities
China has just ordered the unwind of a closed cross-border AI deal — and U.S. acquirers are taking notes.
On April 27, China’s National Development and Reform Commission ordered Meta Platforms and AI startup Manus to...more
Andrew Haslam’s eDisclosure Systems Buyers Guide just entered its 14th year. It still reads like the project of a working practitioner who wanted peers to have better information than they could easily find anywhere else. ...more
4/28/2026
/ Acquisitions ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Data Management ,
Discovery ,
Discovery Costs ,
Document Review ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Emerging Technologies ,
Legal Technology ,
Mergers ,
Technology-Assisted Review
AI now scales faster than the institutions built to govern it. That is the through-line of Stanford’s 2026 AI Index Report, the ninth edition of the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence’s annual audit, and the...more
4/24/2026
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Cybersecurity ,
e-Discovery ,
Information Governance ,
Machine Learning ,
New Legislation ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Transparency
In four months, law enforcement authorities across the European Union will gain the power to compel service providers in other member states to hand over electronic evidence within 10 days — or in emergencies, just eight...more
The premerger notification program logged 203 transactions in March 2026 — the highest monthly total since December 2025’s 232 and a figure that would have been unremarkable just 18 months ago. Against the backdrop of March...more
ComplexDiscovery Editor’s Note: AI-generated hallucinations in court filings have crossed the threshold from embarrassing anomalies to a measurable enforcement trend. In the first quarter of 2026, U.S. courts imposed at least...more
4/9/2026
/ Appellate Courts ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Discovery ,
Document Review ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Judges ,
Legal Ethics ,
Legal Technology ,
Litigation Strategies ,
Machine Learning ,
Penalties ,
Popular ,
Risk Management ,
Sanctions ,
Technology-Assisted Review
A defense contractor scores itself at -142 on a cybersecurity self-assessment, then waits nearly a year — and a federal subpoena — before correcting the record. A genomics company sells sequencing systems riddled with...more
Nearly three million dating-app users never knew their photos ended up training a facial recognition system. On March 30, the Federal Trade Commission settled with Match Group Americas and its subsidiary Humor Rainbow, Inc. —...more
4/2/2026
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Biometric Information Privacy Act ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data Privacy ,
Data-Sharing ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Facial Recognition Technology ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
FTC Act ,
Popular ,
Privacy Policy ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices
This article introduces a structured scoring framework — the Total Success Predictor Rating — that translates subjective vendor assessments into comparable, defensible numbers across four dimensions: Capability,...more
3/30/2026
/ Acquisition Agreements ,
AI Act ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
e-Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Information Governance ,
Innovative Technology ,
Machine Learning ,
Merger Agreements ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Vendors
The rulebook for artificial intelligence in America just got rewritten — and the ripples will reach every compliance officer, eDiscovery attorney, and information security team in the country. On March 20, 2026, the Trump...more
3/26/2026
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Cybersecurity ,
e-Discovery ,
Executive Orders ,
Information Governance ,
New Legislation ,
Popular ,
Preemption ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Trump Administration
ComplexDiscovery Editor’s Note: Meta’s consecutive AI agent incidents — an inbox takeover in February and a sev‑1–grade data exposure in March — mark a turning point for professionals across cybersecurity, information...more
3/25/2026
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Authentication ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Security ,
Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Incident Response Plans ,
Information Governance ,
NIST ,
Popular ,
Risk Management
ComplexDiscovery Editor’s Note: AI has moved from speculative promise to operational reality in privilege review, and legal teams can no longer afford to treat it as an emerging side issue. Drawn from a Legalweek 2026 panel...more
3/20/2026
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Attorney-Client Privilege ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Law Practice Management ,
Legal Technology ,
Machine Learning ,
Privilege Logs ,
Privileged Documents ,
Risk Management ,
Rule 502 ,
Technology-Assisted Review ,
Work-Product Doctrine
Disclosure: This article is based on a panel session sponsored by HaystackID at Legalweek 2026. The panel moderator, Esther Birnbaum, is Executive Vice President of Data Intelligence at HaystackID. The panel also featured...more
The heartbeat of American deal-making skipped a beat this February, but the underlying rhythm suggests a market that is far from flatlining. While the 188 Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) transactions reported in February 2026...more
ComplexDiscovery Editor’s Note: Generative AI is no longer a future-state concept in eDiscovery pricing; it is already reshaping how legal, technology, and corporate teams evaluate cost, value, and defensibility. In this...more
3/10/2026
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Chain of Custody ,
Cyberforensics ,
Data Collection ,
Data Management ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Processors ,
Discovery ,
Discovery Costs ,
Document Review ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronic Evidence ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Expert Witness ,
Forensic Examination ,
Infrastructure ,
Law Practice Management ,
Legal Project Management ,
Legal Technology ,
Machine Learning ,
Mobile Devices ,
Technology-Assisted Review
ComplexDiscovery Editor’s Note: AI literacy has become the baseline expectation for cybersecurity, information governance, and eDiscovery work—and the organizations treating it as “nice to have” are already paying for that...more
3/9/2026
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Attorney-Client Privilege ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Security ,
Discovery ,
Document Productions ,
Document Review ,
e-Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Information Governance ,
Law Practice Management ,
Legal Ethics ,
Legal Technology ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Technology-Assisted Review