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AI Innovation and Risk in IP Litigation: A 2026 Business Outlook

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has moved rapidly from an emerging technology to a foundational component of modern business operations. With that growth has come an expanding set of intellectual property (IP) disputes....more

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Why Springing Member Provisions Are Often Required for Bankruptcy Remote Entities

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A Delaware LLC can be used as a bankruptcy-remote entity or single-purpose entity, but the structure needs a way to continue if its sole member ceases to be a member. A springing member provision in the operating agreement is...more

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Ohio Board of Professional Conduct Issues Ohio Ethics Guide on Artificial Intelligence for Lawyers and Judicial Officers

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On June 2, 2026, the Ohio Supreme Court, through the Ohio Board of Professional Conduct (“OBPC”), issued the Ohio Ethics Guide on Artificial Intelligence for Lawyers and Judicial Officers (“Ethics Guide”). The Ethics Guide...more

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[Webinar] Strengthen your E-Discovery IQ in a Rapidly Changing AI-Fueled Market - June 19th, 11:00 am PDT

See What's Coming and Using Proven Techniques to Prepare - The AI boom is forcing legal teams to act faster and develop a culture of rapid decision-making. In this discussion, members of the ACEDS Global Advisory Board...more

IR Global

What’s a Legal Context Graph, and Why Do Legal AI Agents Need One?

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A new associate joins a complex matter and spends days reconstructing context that already exists somewhere in the firm. A partner asks whether the firm has handled a similar issue before, and the answer depends on who...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

Illumination Zone: Episode 232 | Jeff Rutherford and Justin Fitzsimmons of Magnet Forensics sit down with Mary Mack and Holley...

Jeff Rutherford, Forensic Consultant, and Justin Fitzsimmons, Technical Prosecutor Lead for EDRM Trusted Partner Magnet Forensics, sit down with EDRM’s Mary Mack and Holley Robinson. In this episode, Jeff and Justin recount...more

Hanzo

Claude for Legal Is Here – Now Legal Teams Need the Workflow Layer to Scale Its Impact

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May 2026 has been an eventful month for legal AI, and we view the recent momentum as a positive and encouraging development. Anthropic launched Claude for Legal with 12 practice-area plugins, 20+ MCP connectors, and...more

Furia Rubel Communications, Inc.

Chambers and Partners Is Basically a Board Game: Are You Playing to Win?

For many law firm marketing departments, Chambers and Partners rankings can feel intimidating, frustrating, and at times, completely overwhelming. There are deadlines. Spreadsheets. Matter lists. Reference wrangling....more

DOAR

Chatbots, Jurors, and Liability: A Jury Consultant’s Perspective on Emerging AI Cases

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Recent lawsuits involving alleged chatbot-related harm have intensified public scrutiny around conversational AI and raised new questions about liability, user vulnerability, and juror perception....more

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Who is the “Human” in Human-in-the-Loop AI?

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The phrase “human-in-the-loop” frequently surfaces in AI conversations, but the question of who the human actually is rarely gets asked.  The reassurance that a human is in the loop is often taken at face value: a human is...more

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Managing IOLTA funds under amended Rule 1.15

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Recent amendments to Mass. R. Prof. C. 1.15 have significantly changed how Massachusetts lawyers must handle unclaimed and unidentified funds held in IOLTA accounts. What was once an area marked by uncertainty and...more

Copo Strategies + Law Firm Editorial Service

Algorithm, shmalgorithm: Social media followers still matter today

In this video, Wayne Pollock (Founder of Copo Strategies and the Law Firm Editorial Service) explains why the chatter about social media followers not mattering anymore is wrong, especially for professional services...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

[Webinar] 5 Minutes, Not 90: The New Standard for Subpoena Response - June 17th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

A typical subpoena can take 60–90 minutes just to read, enter, triage, and route across disconnected systems. Multiply that across hundreds or thousands of requests—and you’re looking at weeks of lost time every year spent...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

Best Enterprise Legal Management Software: 2026 Comparison Guide

If you’re trying to choose the right Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) software in 2026, you’re not alone. Legal teams everywhere are managing more work, higher expectations, regulatory complexity, and increasing pressure...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

AI State Regulatory Frontiers: Emerging Issues on AI, Privilege, and Work Product in Legal Practice — Regulatory Oversight Podcast

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In this episode of Regulatory Oversight’s “AI State Regulatory Frontiers” series, co-host Ashley Taylor is joined by colleagues Gene Fishel and Dan Waltz to examine how AI is reshaping expectations for attorneys, clients, and...more

Poston Communications

“Cross-Selling From the Inside Out: A Practical Playbook for Lawyers,” The National Law Review

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How to turn internal relationships, hot-topic intelligence and industry group access into a steady pipeline of new client work – without ever feeling like a salesperson. Originally Published in The National Law Review -...more

Cimplifi

Know When to Hold Em: Duty to Preserve and the Federal Rules

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The duty to preserve evidence has always been central to the integrity of litigation and regulatory investigations. But the way organizations fulfill that duty has transformed dramatically over the past half century....more

Holland & Knight LLP

HB 5487 Passes, Ushering in New Regulation of MSOs, ABS Models and Law Firm Operations

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The Illinois General Assembly passed House Bill (HB) 5487 on May 31, 2026, seeking to address concerns regarding private equity investment and non-lawyer influence in legal services. Although the bill is widely discussed as...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Deposing the Expert Witness

The first in a series of articles on basic strategies for questioning commonly encountered witnesses in civil litigation. This week: expert witnesses. Few depositions carry more weight than the one taken of the other side’s...more

BDO USA

AI, Privilege, and the Cognitive Miser: Rethinking Legal Ethics in the Age of Generative AI

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In this episode of BDO’s Legal Tech Talk, host Daniel Gold and co-host Eric Derk are joined by James Sherer, partner at BakerHostetler and co-leader of the firm’s emerging technology team, to explore one of the most pressing...more

Exterro, Inc.

Intelligent Legal Holds: Beyond the BCC and the Spreadsheet

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When a preservation obligation is triggered, many corporate legal departments immediately default to a familiar manual workflow: drafting an email, copying a long list of custodians on the BCC line, and logging the event in a...more

Hanzo

The Cost of Over-Collection in eDiscovery and How to Avoid It

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When teams begin preparing for litigation or investigations, the instinct may be to collect as much information as possible. However, the cost of over-collection in eDiscovery and how to avoid it has become a growing concern...more

Stange Law Firm, PC

New employees are meant to speed your law firm up — not slow it down

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Law firms often hire because they need help immediately. The phones are ringing. Cases are piling up. Existing employees are overwhelmed. Deadlines are stacking up. Partners and supervisors feel stretched thin. In many cases,...more

Exterro, Inc.

Why Your Organization Needs an eDiscovery Playbook… Today.

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Modern legal and compliance teams are currently navigating a profound data reckoning. The equation is daunting: more data, more scrutiny, and less margin for error. Despite years of investment, adding one solution here for...more

Poston Communications

Content: Optimizing Legal Content for AI-Powered Search

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Law firm websites are being evaluated differently than they were even a year ago. The shift is not just about how people search, but how answers are delivered. Increasingly, potential clients are not browsing – they are...more

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