As law firms grapple with how to track returns on their AI investments, Baker McKenzie is focusing on firmwide training to ensure lawyers can actually use AI in ways that deliver value.
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Use AI? New Rules, and Maybe a Law, Are on the Horizon for California Lawyers
As the state bar weighs stronger AI ethics guidance, lawmakers have approved a bill placing new restrictions on AI-use by attorneys and arbitrators.
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Law Firms Are Training Their Own Competitors
This competitive pressure does not depend on AI replacing lawyers or entire law firms. Moving even part of the work can alter the economics of a matter.
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Legal Considerations and Best Practices for AI-Assisted Software Development
To mitigate risks, companies should ensure meaningful human contributions to development, maintain detailed documentation, use enterprise AI platforms with proper contractual protections, and implement robust confidentiality measures.
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Personal Injury Solutions Startup Hona Launches Lia AI Assistant
Lia automates routine client communication for personal injury firms, using firm context to answer questions and flag issues that need human input.
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AI and Depositions: What Law Firms Should and Should Not Automate
For litigation teams, the question is no longer whether AI belongs in the deposition process, but which tasks it can and should safely handle and which still require the important and critical human intellect and professional skill sets.
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Consilio Acquires Australian E-Discovery Provider Icourts
The acquisition is set to build Consilio’s e-discovery expertise and expand the company’s market reach in Australia.
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Meta Quietly Resolves Cambridge Analytica Claims as Part of Child-Safety Settlement
While attention focused on Meta’s $17 billion youth-safety settlement with state attorneys general, the agreement also includes a separate $459 million payment resolving a broad swath of state claims tied to the Cambridge Analytica data-privacy scandal.
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Duquesne Law Partners With Law Firms to Refine AI Education
Duquesne Kline Law faculty and staff have been visiting a variety of law firms to gain information about real-world uses of AI in the legal profession.
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'Serious Matter': 5th Circuit Weighs Reassignment After Judge Used AI to Draft Ruling
U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate issued the temporary restraining order “on the basis of names that didn’t even exist and statements that didn’t even exist,” said Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry Smith. “Are you saying that we can be confident that that didn’t infect his ultimate reasoning?”
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'We Need to Consolidate Surface': How Weil Is Keeping Up With AI and Google Gemini
Weil’s relationship with Google Cloud reflects a broader push to give lawyers fewer AI interfaces while allowing them to operate other tools they use for legal work.
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Just Keep Spending: Law Firm Tech Investment Set to Rise
A new survey finds law firms expect double-digit increases in tech spend per lawyer, even as few firms have seen increased revenue per attorney.
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Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was ‘Unlawful Retaliation,' Federal Court Finds
Judge Rita F. Lin of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California found the Pentagon’s designation was “unlawful retaliation against Anthropic for its criticism of the department’s plans for use of artificial intelligence technology.
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ILTACON Legaltech Rundown: Wolters Kluwer Launches Next Generation of Libra, Reveal Integrates With Thomson Reuters, and More
An overview of the product releases, industry hires and new partnerships announced during ILTACON 2026.
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BakerHostetler Launches Proprietary, Firm-Built AI Platform
The Practice Intelligence Center, featuring tools developed in partnership with Clio, is designed to combine institutional knowledge and AI-powered workflows.
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