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Practical articles on AI governance for small and mid-size law firms. All content is verified against primary sources before publication.
October 1, 2026
AI Court Orders: Disclosure or Verification?
What the AI standing orders, local rules and court rules in our tracker ask of filers, counted from the tracker itself: verification, disclosure, citation certifications, limits on use, and the orders courts have withdrawn.
October 1, 2026
AI Sanctions, April to September 2026: A Six-Month Read
Six months of AI-related sanctions, warnings, and discipline in the tracker, by court system, tool, filer, remedy, and dollar amount, with the coverage limits stated up front.
October 1, 2026
AI Citation Problems on Appeal: What the Courts Did
A count of the tracker's decided appellate and state supreme court entries by what the court itself did: sanctions, struck briefs, dismissals, warnings, and merits rulings that only note the problem.
October 1, 2026
From AI Disclosure to Citation Accuracy: Legal AI Governance, April to September 2026
Florida replaced its circuits' AI disclosure orders with one citation rule, other state courts wrote similar duties into their rules, and the tracker logged 188 decided matters in six months.
October 1, 2026
Statewide AI Court Rules in 2026: Verification, Not Disclosure
What the 2026 statewide court rules on AI require of filers, how they differ from judges' standing orders, and why California's disclosure duty came from the legislature rather than the courts.
May 9, 2026
ABA Formal Opinion 512 vs. State Bar AI Rules
ABA Formal Opinion 512 sets six attorney AI duties. State bars that have ruled went further on disclosure, billing, and confidentiality. A working comparison.
May 9, 2026
AI Hallucination Sanctions: Patterns Across the 2023-2026 Docket
An aggregated read of the public court record on attorney AI sanctions, by error, by jurisdiction, by court action, and by dollar amount.
April 23, 2026
Why Your Malpractice Carrier Is Starting to Ask About AI
Only one of the malpractice application forms we reviewed asks about AI, but brokers see underwriters watching firms' AI controls. What carriers ask, why now, and what firms need at renewal.