Category «Legal Technology»

LLRX April 2026 Issue – Articles and Columns

YIKES! The Bluebook’s Generative AI Is Flawed – Despite its unpopularity and the availability of other citation manuals, The Bluebook remains widely used at many law schools to teach legal citation format to law students, and it is relied on by law reviews and courts. The twenty-second edition of The Bluebook was released in May …

Subjects: KM

Book Review – How To AI: Cut Through The Hype. Master The Basics. Transform Your Work.

In the current publishing cycle, books about AI are being produced at a rate that suggests at least some were written with hyperspeed AI. How To AI swims against the tide of fast, disposable books. Jerry Lawson recommends this book as a keeper.

Subjects: AI, KM, Legal Research, Legal Technology

I Tested Claude for Word on Some Classic Litigator Tasks

Over the past several days Rebecca Fordon has been digging into the Claude for Word add-in, and the headline finding surprised her. On document-intensive legal work — cite-checking, consistency review, Table of Authorities assembly — it seems to need less supervision than either Claude on the web or Claude Code. Four tests bear that out, with limits worth knowing.

Subjects: AI, Continuing Legal Education, Legal Research, Legal Technology, Technology Trends

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 25, 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: We Don’t Really Know How A.I. Works. That’s a Problem; Online Betting Is Fueling a Wave of Bankruptcies Among Young Americans; Anthropic’s Mythos Model Is Being Accessed by Unauthorized Users; Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight crime; and Sam Altman’s Creepy Eyeball-Scanning Company Gets in Bed With Zoom and Tinder.

Subjects: AI, Big Data, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Healthcare, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

Hallucinations” by West & Lexis AI?

Michael Berman addresses benchmarks used for AI legal research platforms in the context of the risk of hallucinations in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) AI outputs. As Berman states, verification, of course, is not only good advice, but also an ethical mandate.

Subjects: AI, Continuing Legal Education, Ethics, Legal Research, Legal Technology

Claude Legal Is Here, and It’s Worth a Closer Look

With the recently launched Claude Legal plugin, Nicole L. Black recommends to lawyers and legal professionals Claude’s AI for tasks like document review and contract drafting. The Claude Legal plugin runs within Claude Cowork, a desktop app that you can download, and no specialized legal software subscription is required.

Subjects: AI, KM, Legal Research, Legal Technology

One‑way attack drones: Low‑cost, high‑tech weapons ‘democratize’ precision warfare.

Commercial manufacturing, precision guidance and advances in artificial intelligence and autonomy have democratized the ability of militaries and militant groups to accurately strike their adversaries. This includes first-person-view, or FPV, drones – a type of one-way attack drone with interfaces like video games – that groups aligned with Iran are already using to target American forces in the Middle East. Prof. Michael C. Horowitz and Senior Research Analyst Lauren Kahn discuss how drones have rapidly changed military strategy, tactics, and pinpoint destructive force.

Subjects: Technology Trends

Seeing Is Believing: Visualizing Legal Research

This article by Hannah Rosborough, winner of the 2026 Schulich School of Law Teaching Excellence Award, provides an overview of some visual aids for teaching legal research that she has developed over the past few years. Rosborough shares these based on positive student feedback and with the hope that others might find them useful in their own teaching or training.

Subjects: AI, KM, Legal Education, Legal Research, Legal Research Training, Legal Technology, Search Strategies

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 11, 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: As the Federal Government Rushes Toward AI, Here Are Three Cautionary Tales; Combating cybercrime and fraud: A unified approach; Signal messages on an iPhone have been harvested despite app security; Anthropic Says Its Latest AI Model Is Too Powerful to Be Released; and Cybersecurity Alert: Criminals Are Now Using Emojis to Avoid Detection.

Subjects: AI, Criminal Law, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Email Security, Financial System, Privacy