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Original analysis of legal AI for practising attorneys. Brief-style citation discipline. Primary-source links to bars, courts, and rules. No vendor recommendations. No marketing fluff.
Original analysis on legal AI.
AI for lawyers: a practical map for 2026.
What "AI for lawyers" actually covers in 2026. The six categories of tooling. What small firms actually use. The five Model Rules duties. The vendor landscape without the listicle. What stops adoption. What good implementation looks like.
NC State Bar 2024 FEO 1: what it actually requires.
An operational reading of North Carolina\'s first formal ethics opinion on AI. Which Rules apply. What is permitted. What is required. What the opinion deliberately leaves open, including privilege and tool-selection.
ABA Formal Opinion 512: an implementation playbook.
The ABA\'s federal-Model-Rules statement on lawyer use of generative AI, mapped to operational practice. Each Rule the opinion interprets, the duty it imposes, and the artefact a firm needs to demonstrate compliance.
Mata v. Avianca, three years on.
A survey of the original Mata sanctions order, the Second Circuit affirmance, and three years of post-Mata caselaw. The verification standard now required of every signing attorney, and the operational practice that satisfies it.
State bar AI opinions: a comparative tracker.
Adopted state-bar opinions and formal guidance on lawyer use of AI: ABA Op. 512, California, Florida, New York, North Carolina, D.C., Mississippi. The common analytical pattern, what multi-state practitioners should track, updated quarterly.
AI vendor diligence: contract clauses to redline.
The contract clauses that recur in legal-AI vendor agreements: training data rights, confidentiality, output ownership, retention, indemnity, breach notification, termination, audit. Per pattern: what to redline. When to walk away.
AI mining judgments for errors: the post-Coney Island map.
AI tools can now read judgments at scale. The Supreme Court's January 2026 decision in Coney Island Auto Parts v. Burton just narrowed what can be done with what they find. The post-Coney Island doctrinal map: void judgments, fraud on the court, mass-litigation exposure, and the constitutional question the Court left open.
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