Michael Gerstenzang, senior partner at Cleary Gottlieb, says generative AI is eroding the traditional billable‑hour model. He predicts firms will move toward pricing based on speed, outcomes and subscription models as software handles routine work at lower cost.
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U.S. courts have levied more than 1,200 sanctions for AI‑generated filing errors, with a federal judge ordering a lawyer in Oregon to pay $109,700—the largest penalty to date. The trend underscores growing regulatory pressure on attorneys using generative AI tools.
“Really bad look for Westlaw, the top brand in the legal space, to be hallucinating legal citations within an accurately cited case.”
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Michael Gerstenzang, senior partner at Cleary Gottlieb, says artificial‑intelligence tools are eroding the traditional billable‑hour model, forcing firms to adopt speed‑and‑results pricing. He points to his firm’s ClearyX subsidiary, which delivers due‑diligence work at roughly 50% of junior‑associate cost, as...

“Recently, certain legal research providers have touted methods such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) as “eliminating” (Casetext, 2023) or “avoid[ing]” hallucinations (Thomson Reuters, 2023), or guaranteeing “hallucination-free” legal citations” 👀 https://t.co/kn1551aRr5
“when I fed it intermediate to hard to very difficult questions in the past, Westlaw AI shrugged, gave me unhelpful gibberish…And people are paying for this (loads).” 👀

The CIO Talk Network episode focuses on the practical limits of predictive coding—often called technology‑assisted review—in complex eDiscovery cases. Host Sanjog interviews Shannon Krypton, eDiscovery counsel at Ropes & Gray, to dissect when the technology delivers value and when it...

“Howe claims that this appeal was his first time utilizing Westlaw CoCounsel “in this way for a Court of Appeals brief.”” 👀 https://t.co/FBc20Es4dL

Two years ago AI clauses were an afterthought, but today’s enterprise deployments demand contracts that reflect the technology’s autonomy. The traditional SaaS model—where vendors host the model and buyers merely access it—assumed human oversight at every decision point. With agentic...

“Al is already changing how legal information is accessed and applied at scale. The only real question was whether that shift would be resisted or structured” 👀 https://t.co/iu12fpk15G
Two letters to the editor revisit historic and technical debates. One recounts the first use of a Texas Instruments Silent Series 700 computer in a 1970s EPA courtroom, highlighting its luggable design and rapid data retrieval via thermal‑paper terminals. The other...
A federal court in Oregon ordered a lawyer to pay $109,700 in sanctions for filing AI‑generated citation errors, marking the largest penalty to date. The ruling follows a rapid rise in sanctions—over 1,200 worldwide, about 800 in the U.S.—as courts...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly entering mediation and arbitration, prompting a debate over whether neutrals should disclose its use. Practitioners are considering three emerging approaches: treating AI as a routine professional tool with no disclosure, offering limited transparency about its administrative...
Workable announced integrated Form I‑9 and E‑Verify capabilities for U.S. customers, embedding federal hiring verification into its onboarding workflow. The move eliminates separate PDFs and manual steps, aiming to cut compliance risk and accelerate new‑hire processing.