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Courts are increasingly faced with deciding whether information litigants share with public artificial intelligence (“AI”) services and the AI’s output (together, “AI materials”) can be attorney-client privileged or protected...more
On February 17, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a ruling in United States v. Heppner, No. 25‑cr‑00503‑JSR (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 28, 2025), holding that the attorney‑client privilege and the...more
Earlier this month, Benjamin Edwards, a broker-dealer firm, agreed to a censure and to pay a $750,000 fine for failing to properly supervise and preserve its employees’ business-related text messages....more
Michael Cammack, Deputy Information Security Officer, and Stephanie Wienke, Security Specialist for EDRM Trusted Partner HaystackID, sit down with Mary Mack and Holley Robinson. In this episode, Michael and Stephanie recount...more
Need to know what's going on with M365 and eDiscovery? James Province has the answers. James practiced law as a litigator and then later became a legal technologist for many years. He was one of the first in our field to...more
If you read, watch, and listen to industry content, you might think everyone is using AI all the time. Some certainly are. We work with many of them. There are still many skeptics. I understand why. Some tools...more
Two recent decisions from U.S. federal courts have produced strikingly different outcomes on whether materials generated using AI tools are protected by privilege or work-product doctrine. Both cases involved individuals or...more
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For years, the legal industry has tried to rebrand the Alternative Legal Services Provider moniker (ALSP). Some ALSPs call themselves “Law Companies,” others “Legal Tech Innovators,” and many shy away from the ALSP acronym...more
Clients can lose privilege protection through explicit waiver (caused by disclosure), implied waiver (usually caused by reliance on undisclosed privileged communication to gain some litigation advantage), or as a sanction for...more
Medical records win and lose civil cases. They corroborate testimony, quantify damages, and often compel early settlements. However, medical records are protected by the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability...more
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When Sir Brian Leveson published Part I of his Independent Review of the Criminal Courts, the emphasis was on structural reform. Part II moves decisively into operational reforms, setting out a dense and practical package...more
On February 17, 2026, the Honorable Jed S. Rakoff of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a written decision with potentially far reaching implications for whether documents created using...more
In a first‑of‑its‑kind decision, Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Southern District of New York ruled that a criminal defendant’s written exchanges with a publicly available generative AI platform were not protected by either the...more
Jennifer Ellis, JD, LLC, has posted a very interesting blog, Two Courts, Two Answers: When Does Using AI Waive Privilege? – JLE (Feb. 21, 2026). She compares the holding in U.S. v. Heppner, __ F. Supp. 3d __, 2026 WL 436479...more
Courts issued two seemingly conflicting rulings on whether AI generated materials are protected. Heppner (S.D.N.Y.) found that documents created with a consumer version of Claude AI were not privileged or work product because...more
Depending on which court you ask, your latest prompt to an artificial intelligence (“AI”) chatbot is either a protected private thought or a voluntary disclosure to someone other than your lawyer....more
Baker Botts and ACC Houston hosted a half-day seminar on January 29, 2026 that featured timely discussions on AI, employment law, and what’s ahead for the workplace. Partners Russell Lewis, Scott Elliott and Harrison Reback...more
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You’re in luck – we have eDiscovery case law! In our March 2026 monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery Today blog, we will discuss disputes related to waiver of attorney-client privilege on communications,...more
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York recently held that communications by a criminal defendant with a publicly available generative AI platform are not protected by attorney-client privilege or work...more
Baker Botts and ACC Houston hosted a half-day seminar on January 29, 2026 that featured timely discussions on AI, employment law, and what’s ahead for the workplace....more