Blog – LLRX

Your medical provider might be recording your mental health care visits

Mental health providers are increasingly using AI technology to record conversations, raising privacy concerns among patients and practitioners. Roxsy Lin informs us that during these sessions, mental health professionals are required to obtain patients’ consent before using the tool. However, as shared by multiple providers, that consent process does not include explanations about how the information is handled. Nor does it say how long and where recordings are stored, or who has access to the data.

Subjects: AI, Healthcare, Privacy

Before Judgment: AI and the Developmental Gap in Legal Formation

AI, legal tech and legal education expert Sean Harrington discusses the complex challenges of new lawyers now learning powerful systems on the job, often without clear institutional guidance, shared professional norms, or confidence in their own ability to supervise the output.

Subjects: AI, Continuing Legal Education, Legal Education, Legal Profession, Legal Research

Create An AI Policy Before Your Firm Falls Further Behind

The majority of law firm employees are using AI with virtually no guidance or guardrails. How does your law firm compare? Do you have an AI policy in place, and have you educated your staff about appropriate AI usage? Nicole Black explains drafting AI governance isn’t as difficult as it might seem, and there’s no better time than now to get started.

Subjects: AI, Continuing Legal Education, Legal Education, Legal Profession, Legal Research

AI In Finance and Banking, June 15, 2026

This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and as available, indicate links to alternate free versions. Six highlights from this post: Warren’s Warning: Is The AI Boom America’s Next Financial Crisis?; What Investment Data Implies about the AI Transition; AI Financial Advice: Supply, Demand, and Life Cycle Implications; Review into the long-term impact of AI on retail financial services (The Mills Review); Financial Stability Risks Mount as Artificial Intelligence Fuels Cyberattacks; and Banking AI Explainability Is Now a Regulatory Requirement—Are Banks Ready?

Subjects: AI in Banking and Finance, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 13, 2026

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: FCC Proposal Could Ban Anonymous Burner Phones in US; Fighting Spyware: An Update From WhatsApp; Emergency Weather Alerts on Netflix? There is a Growing Push to Get the FCC To Mandate Alerts on Streaming; The Pope’s AI Warning Could Help Workers Seek Religious Exemptions From Using AI; and If you don’t fall for these extortionists’ calls, they’ll show up with USB sticks.

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Legal Research, Privacy

Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health and the Rule of Law – Part 9

This article is the ninth in a series by Sabrina I. Pacifici focused on the Trump administration’s unrelenting policy of attacking science, healthcare, public health, and the rule of law. The cornerstone of this series are topical highlights on hundreds of anti-government actions conducted by this administration. The greater goal of the series is to identify the consequences of these actions to shatter the health and welfare of our nation – terms broadly used to encompass our nation’s democracy. Together these articles form an actionable pathfinder to identify what must be restored or recreated and relaunched, when we commence the hard work of rebuilding our government.

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Resources, Health, Healthcare, KM, Leadership, Legal Research, Medical Research, United States Law

Tracking hallucination marketing claims from legal tech vendors

Damien Charlotin tracks the claims made by some LegalTech vendors in the past and today with respect to how they handle hallucinations from their offerings. Charlotin is relying on internet-based written marketing material, trying to highlight the changes in how these products are and were presented. The main vendors were a bit more cautious he thought though most still overclaimed in this respect and eventually backtracked, at least implicitly.

Subjects: AI, KM, Legal Profession, Legal Research, LEXIS

Deep Coverage

Right now the dominant AI strategy in law is using AI to replace or augment human labor on work product. Document review. Contract analysis. Research. First drafts. The logic is straightforward: if AI can do in minutes what an associate does in hours, the firm gets more efficient, margins improve, and clients eventually get lower costs. Every elite firm is running this play. Almost none has reckoned with where it ends. Josh Kubicki⁠ proposes an innovative, actionable and success driven deep coverage alternative that re-frames the institutional infrastructure around both the partners and the clients.

Subjects: AI, Education, Law Firm Marketing, Legal Marketing, Legal Profession, Legal Research, Management