AI in Legal: What's Changing
How AI is reshaping legal work: hallucination sanctions, firm economics, benchmarks, ethics rules, courts, access to justice, contracts, regulation and legal education.
Legal education starts to make AI training mandatory.
Lists AI used in the administration of justice as high-risk.
Survey of 452 in-house legal staff; AI use for contract review roughly quadrupled since 2024. Vendor-run.
Survey of 206 legal-services providers with a phased adoption framework.
How courts in England and Wales govern, pilot and approve AI tools.
The core US ethics guidance on competence, confidentiality, supervision and fees.
2026 economics: billable hours up 4.2% while AI spending doubles.
Independent study of 82 organizations: agents in production and the gap between what firms and clients see.
Open, collaboratively built benchmark of 162 legal reasoning tasks.
LawSites on VLAIR Legal Research; ChatGPT matches on accuracy but trails on authority.
Harvey, CoCounsel, Vincent and Oliver benchmarked against a lawyer baseline on 7 tasks.
Stanford RegLab/HAI study of Lexis+ AI, Westlaw AI and others.
Court says the violation is signing and filing, not using AI, and that candor matters.
Running global tracker of court decisions about AI-fabricated citations.
Z.ai on GLM for legal work. This is the post that started the list.
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