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June 1, 2026 Issue – Client with Decision-Making Limitations

Q: Dear Ethics Lawyer, I have represented an individual entrepreneur in various business matters for the past 20 years. She has always been capable, with clear ability to receive and apply my advice and quickly make what I...more

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Citations, Not Hallucinations: Why Trust in Legal AI Depends on Process, Not Perfection

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Generative AI (GAI) has captured the legal industry’s imagination and its attention. Recent headlines about GAI hallucinations, especially fake legal citations and unsupported arguments, have understandably made legal teams...more

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The AI Visibility Report Am Law 200 Marketing Leaders Should Be Demanding From Their Agencies

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If you are the CMO or marketing director of an Am Law 200 firm, you have almost certainly sat in a meeting in the last six months where someone asked, “Are we showing up in AI??” and you have almost certainly looked down at a...more

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Can Using AI Break Attorney-Client Privilege? AI and IP: The Legal Frontier - Season 2, Episode 3

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Host Justin Pierce talks to partner Calvin Nelson and David Levie, vice president, associate general counsel, Real Estate, Park Hotels and Resorts, about how generative AI is creating a new and fast-moving set of questions...more

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Curiosity + AI: Durable Skills, Judgment, and the Future of Legal Work

A practical framework for role-appropriate AI literacy, durable skills, and responsible governance in legal work - AI is already part of legal work. The real issue is that many teams are still asking the wrong question....more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

AI is Becoming an Advisor, and It is Rewriting How Buyers Find You

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

Charles E. Rounds, Jr. - Suffolk University...

When a trust beneficiary is time-barred from holding the trustee liable for a breach of trust

Equity not the law is the jurisprudential context. Assume trustee without authority self-deals with trust estate. Absent an applicable statute of limitations, laches doctrine governs whether the dilatory beneficiary is...more

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The Hidden Half: Understanding Consumers Who Aren’t Buying

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In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Blockbuster Video was the dominant competitor in the home video rental market, with a valuation at nearly $3 billion. Unfortunately, the company made a mistake in its market research: it...more

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What Is AI Telling Clients About Your Attorneys?

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When a general counsel asks ChatGPT, “Which attorneys handle cross-border M&A disputes in New York?,” AI systems return a shortlist. That shortlist is a synthesis of every topic the model has come to associate with each...more

IR Global

Why Succession Planning Starts Earlier Than Most Owners Think

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Over the years, we’ve seen the same pattern with many firms we’ve worked with....more

Secretariat

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

Cogency Global

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

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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

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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

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