Artificial Intelligence & Robotics

5th Circuit blasts federal judge for AI errors in rulings

Suspecting artificial intelligence-generated errors, a federal appeals panel has overturned a preliminary injunction barring a Mississippi law that prohibits diversity, equity and inclusion in public schools and universities and ordered the case to be reassigned to a different judge on remand.

Oct 26, 2026 10:28 AM CDT

Athletic conference pushes back on university’s recruiting claims over ‘hallucinated’ case citations

Disputing claims of “hallucinated” case citations in a lawsuit challenging Louisiana State University’s attempts to add former professional players to its sports teams, a collegiate athletic conference asked an Alabama court Thursday to strike the allegations.

Oct 26, 2026 10:10 AM CDT

Florida appeals court refers lawyer for possible discipline over ‘AI slop’

A Florida state appeals court has referred a lawyer to the Florida Bar for possible discipline over filings that it referred to as “AI slop.” In September, Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal said it suspected that Jaclyn Soroka submitted filings in a divorce case that contained components generated by…

Oct 23, 2026 9:00 AM CDT

Nearly all in-house teams send less work to outside counsel, new report shows

More than 50% of in-house teams have cut back on work that they send to outside counsel, and another 44% intend to take similar steps in the coming year, according to Everlaw’s In-House Innovation Report, which was published Tuesday.

Oct 21, 2026 9:58 AM CDT

When AI training casts survivors as fabricators, survivors pay the price

Lawyers, law enforcement and judges need to understand how to evaluate digital evidence: where a file came from, what its metadata can and cannot tell us, and how to consider other evidence alongside it.

Oct 20, 2026 3:10 PM CDT

Ex-state deputy attorney general accused of making AI-generated child porn

Prosecutors in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, have alleged that a since-fired New Jersey deputy attorney general used artificial intelligence software to produce sexually explicit images of children and circulated them through the communication platform Discord.

Oct 19, 2026 11:58 AM CDT

Could artificial intelligence destroy us all?

Does artificial intelligence need guardrails? And if so, how should those guardrails look, and what can lawyers do to try to push AI toward a more beneficial outcome for humanity?

Oct 14, 2026 9:14 AM CDT

Attorney questioned over AI errors in parental rights appeal

The West Virginia Supreme Court recently confronted an attorney who admitted to including fake artificial intelligence-generated citations in a brief in a parental rights case.

Oct 13, 2026 10:04 AM CDT

Claude provided false tip in unsolved murder case, Anthropic says

Anthropic said its artificial intelligence tool Claude gave a false tip about an unsolved murder case to the Philadelphia Police Department.

Oct 12, 2026 8:44 AM CDT

Florida judge suspended over AI deepfake phone call

A Florida trial judge has been suspended for 30 days and fined $10,000 for campaign messaging relying on a deepfake artificial intelligence-generated recorded phone call of a conversation between Florida Supreme Court justices and the Ninth Judicial Circuit chief judge.

Oct 12, 2026 7:51 AM CDT

Ropes & Gray allows more attorneys to count AI testing toward billable hours

Ropes & Gray is expanding opportunities for its lawyers to test artificial intelligence and count that time toward their annual billing requirements.

Oct 9, 2026 10:14 AM CDT

AI use changes in-house teams’ approach to work, outside counsel

As AI use becomes more common in legal departments, it also could be changing how much in-house lawyers rely on outside counsel.

Oct 8, 2026 1:48 PM CDT

NCBE runs remotely proctored test to audition NextGen UBE questions

The National Conference of Bar Examiners is using proctored remote testing to test-drive potential questions for upcoming administrations of the NextGen Uniform Bar Examination, including some questions generated with support from artificial intelligence.

Oct 8, 2026 12:53 PM CDT

Texas Supreme Court could allow AI-generated transcripts of depositions

The Texas Supreme Court is considering allowing transcripts that are generated by artificial intelligence for witness depositions.

Oct 7, 2026 1:56 PM CDT

DOJ lawyers told to replace term ‘AI’ with ‘super intelligence’

A senior official at the U.S. Department of Justice in the Trump administration has told DOJ employees, including its lawyers, to replace the term “AI” with “super intelligence” in court filings and other official communications “when appropriate.”

Oct 7, 2026 9:36 AM CDT