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AI in Legal: What's Changing

by @grokreads · 15 nodes · curated

How AI is reshaping legal work: hallucination sanctions, firm economics, benchmarks, ethics rules, courts, access to justice, contracts, regulation and legal education.

Case Western first US law school to require AI certification for all 1Ls case.edu · Oct 14 case.edu · Oct 14
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Legal education starts to make AI training mandatory.

EU AI Act Annex III: High-Risk AI Systems artificialintelligenceact.eu · Oct 14 artificialintelligenceact.eu · Oct 14
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Lists AI used in the administration of justice as high-risk.

The 2026 State of AI for In-House Legal legalontech.com · Oct 14 legalontech.com · Oct 14
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Survey of 452 in-house legal staff; AI use for contract review roughly quadrupled since 2024. Vendor-run.

NYSBA: AI and Access to Justice in 2025 nysba.org · Oct 14 nysba.org · Oct 14
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Survey of 206 legal-services providers with a phased adoption framework.

UK Judiciary: Position Statement on Judicial Use of AI judiciary.uk · Oct 14 judiciary.uk · Oct 14
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How courts in England and Wales govern, pilot and approve AI tools.

ABA Formal Opinion 512: Generative AI Tools acc.com · Oct 14 acc.com · Oct 14
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The core US ethics guidance on competence, confidentiality, supervision and fees.

AI Didn't Kill the Billable Hour: Why Law Firms Are Booming bestlawfirms.com · Oct 14 bestlawfirms.com · Oct 14
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2026 economics: billable hours up 4.2% while AI spending doubles.

Harvey: The accelerating impact of legal AI (RSGI) rsgi.co · Oct 14 rsgi.co · Oct 14
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Independent study of 82 organizations: agents in production and the gap between what firms and clients see.

LegalBench hazyresearch.stanford.edu · Oct 14 hazyresearch.stanford.edu · Oct 14
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Open, collaboratively built benchmark of 162 legal reasoning tasks.

Vals benchmark: legal and general AI now outperform lawyers in legal research lawnext.com · Oct 14 lawnext.com · Oct 14
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LawSites on VLAIR Legal Research; ChatGPT matches on accuracy but trails on authority.

Vals Legal AI Report (VLAIR) vals.ai · Oct 14 vals.ai · Oct 14
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Harvey, CoCounsel, Vincent and Oliver benchmarked against a lawyer baseline on 7 tasks.

AI on Trial: Legal Models Hallucinate in 1 out of 6 (or More) Benchmarking Queries hai.stanford.edu · Oct 14 hai.stanford.edu · Oct 14
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Stanford RegLab/HAI study of Lexis+ AI, Westlaw AI and others.

Ninth Circuit sanctions order on AI-hallucinated briefs (2026) govinfo.gov · Oct 14 govinfo.gov · Oct 14
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Court says the violation is signing and filing, not using AI, and that candor matters.

AI Hallucination Cases Database (Damien Charlotin) damiencharlotin.com · Oct 14 damiencharlotin.com · Oct 14
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Running global tracker of court decisions about AI-fabricated citations.

GLM Legal (Z.ai) z.ai · Oct 14 z.ai · Oct 14
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Z.ai on GLM for legal work. This is the post that started the list.