Law & Legal Work

AT&T is working with OpenAI to overhaul how its in-house legal team handles incoming work. The project builds on LegalEdge, AT&T's existing group of lawyers and technologists focused on applying AI internally. The planned system would use…

AI Adoption · OpenAI

A new study tested whether AI tools verifying legal citations know when to say "I don't know." When researchers removed the correct legal precedent from test questions, standard chatbot-style AI models still picked a wrong answer 38-86% of…

Elite law firm Sullivan & Cromwell built an AI tool called Agreement Analyzer with OpenAI that reviews draft contracts against the firm's own precedents and playbooks, then produces a memo and suggested tracked changes for lawyers to…

AI Adoption · OpenAI

Legal tech firm LegalOn cut its daily AI development costs by roughly 65% by rationing which OpenAI models its engineers could use for which tasks, rather than letting everyone default to the most powerful (and expensive) option. Simple…

AI Adoption · OpenAI

Two new studies point to the same weakness. One tested five AI compliance systems, tools that check whether a case breaks a regulation or platform policy, by secretly deleting, swapping or negating the rule while keeping the case the same.…

AI Safety & Risk

A new benchmark called PIJ tests how well AI models perform detective work: reconstructing crimes and profiling suspects from 2,500 real homicide cases across five countries, before any arrest is made. Researchers evaluated nine leading…

Law firm Cooley built a custom AI tool called GO Public on top of OpenAI's ChatGPT Work platform to help its lawyers manage IPO filings, which typically involve sorting through mountains of financial disclosures, regulatory documents, and…

AI Adoption · OpenAI

MIT labor economist David Autor and colleagues ran a pre-registered three-month randomized trial giving 133 practicing patent lawyers at eleven U.S. intellectual property firms a custom AI drafting assistant, with blinded expert attorneys…

AI & Jobs

Meta built an AI agent meant to act as a compliance specialist's backup—capturing knowledge from human experts and applying it across the organization. Instead of retraining a model every time an expert corrects it, the system logs those…

AI Agents · AI Adoption · Meta

A study of 153 Reddit legal-advice narratives and over 5,300 community reactions found most people accept AI-generated legal guidance not because they've verified it, but because it sounds authoritative and offers emotional reassurance.…

Researchers ran a blind Turing Test pitting leading LLMs against human candidates on Italy's actual bar, judges, and notary exams, having expert graders score AI-written papers mixed in with real ones. Results were uneven: some models…

Europe & UK

German tax and legal advisory network HSP GRUPPE rolled out ChatGPT Enterprise across 81 affiliated firms, building custom tools like an AI booking assistant for standard German accounting frameworks and a client-communication agent. The…

AI Adoption · Europe & UK · OpenAI

A study of crime analysts working with an AI tool built for a UK law enforcement agency found they don't simply accept the system's predictions—they use them selectively and routinely cross-check against traditional evidence. Researchers…

AI Adoption

Researchers have built LOCUS, the first large-scale, machine-readable database of U.S. local ordinances—the municipal and county codes that govern zoning, permits, business licenses, and daily life but have been locked inside vendor…

Law professors preferred AI-generated answers over those written by their peers in blind evaluations, according to a Stanford Law School study. Researchers had 16 law professors across U.S. law schools evaluate nearly 3,000 anonymized…

A new NBER paper argues that AI hiring tools encoding bachelor's degree requirements—what the authors call 'algorithmic credentialism'—may face legal challenges under existing civil rights law. The paper contends that because degree…

AI & Jobs

Peter Q. Blair (Harvard Graduate School of Education) and co-author Rui Guo argue that AI hiring tools which automatically screen out candidates without bachelor's degrees may violate civil rights law. When these algorithmic credential…

AI & Jobs

Philadelphia courts will ban all smart glasses and AI-integrated eyewear starting Monday, with violators facing arrest and contempt charges. The ban covers any eyewear with recording capability—including prescription glasses—and aims to…

Privacy & Surveillance · Meta

A developer converted Spain's entire body of state legislation—8,642 laws—into a Git repository where each legal reform becomes a commit with its historical date. The pipeline, built in roughly four hours using Claude Code, pulled from…

AI Agents · Anthropic

Researchers have released CrimeNER, a dataset of over 1,500 annotated documents drawn from terrorist attack reports and DOJ press releases, designed to train AI systems to extract crime-related information. The dataset defines 22 entity…

Military & National Security

A Harvard Law School essay argues that AI won't automatically reduce legal costs for consumers—despite GPT-4 passing the bar exam and partner rates now exceeding $2,300/hour. The authors identify three structural bottlenecks that must be…

AI & Jobs

A research paper claims GPT-5 produced more legally correct answers than federal judges on reasoning tests—but the finding is contested. The study measured adherence to what researchers defined as 'correct' outcomes. Critics argue this…

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