Lawsuit Alleges AI Chatbot Engages In Unauthorized Practice Of Law

Kaitlyn E. Stone and William M. Carlucci | Barnes & Thornburg Highlights Liability surrounding AI tools remains an open question, and litigants are testing the limits of such liability via novel legal theories. As discussed in a recent alert, some litigants and legislators are trying to graft traditional product liability frameworks onto AI technologies. Now,… Continue reading Lawsuit Alleges AI Chatbot Engages In Unauthorized Practice Of Law

First Impression: Attorney-Client Privilege And AI Use

Courtney Baird and Ryan S. Crawford | Duane Morris In an issue of first impression, a federal court held that information a defendant input to a consumer generative AI system on his own initiative is not protected by the attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine. That holding extended to documents the defendant generated using AI and… Continue reading First Impression: Attorney-Client Privilege And AI Use

Emerging Perils Of Ai Providing Legal Advice

Dee Ware | Tactical Law There is no question that artificial intelligence (“AI”) can be a valuable research and analytical tool, but beyond hallucinations and expanding regulation applying to the use of AI by attorneys, courts are grappling with the consequences of both AI acting like a lawyer in certain instances and users treating AI… Continue reading Emerging Perils Of Ai Providing Legal Advice

Are AI Chatbot Prompts Discoverable? Courts Say ‘YES!’

Jenny H. Kim and Virginia Su | Boies Schiller Flexner Anyone faced with litigation risk should be prepared for the inevitable request for their employees’ user prompts on either enterprise-licensed or individual user accounts on ChatGPT, Claude, or other AI chatbots. In fact, parties have already started making these requests in discovery. Although case law is limited,… Continue reading Are AI Chatbot Prompts Discoverable? Courts Say ‘YES!’

Who Picks the Arbitrator — You or the Algorithm?

Giuseppe De Palo and Annie Lespérance | JAMS When artificial intelligence enters the process of arbitrator selection, the question it raises is often framed as technical. In reality, it is structural.  At stake is not simply how arbitrators are identified or ranked, but how arbitral authority itself is constituted — and whether the mechanisms that… Continue reading Who Picks the Arbitrator — You or the Algorithm?