The Alabama State Bar has released “Artificial Intelligence Use: Best Practices Under Existing Professional Conduct Rules,” clarifying how existing duties under the Alabama Rules of Professional Conduct apply to AI tools rather than creating new obligations. It draws on ABA
Willkie announced a July 22 collaboration with OpenAI to roll out ChatGPT Enterprise firmwide and power proprietary Willkie Works platforms across legal, business, training, financial insights, private funds, and litigation workflows. The firm says Codex will also support its internal
Legaltech News published a July 22 analysis of Kirkland & Ellis’s reported partnership with Palantir to build a proprietary AI platform for private fund formation, side letters, documentation, and compliance obligations. The piece frames the deal as a market signal:
Long Beach-based Vikk AI has raised $4.2 million across pre-seed and seed rounds to expand its AI-powered legal discovery platform and its sponsored lawyer advertising product. Investors include tax attorney Ronson Shamoun, injury attorney Joe Samo, and healthcare and pharma
Clifford Chance launched an AI-enabled knowledge-management platform built with Microsoft and Epiq Advisory. The firm says it contains 400,000+ reclassified and summarized documents, with natural-language search, summarization, generative answers, smart tagging, and permissioned access controls for confidentiality. For lawyers, the
Almost every legal AI product currently on the market shares a design assumption most users don’t even notice anymore: the intelligence sits behind a prompt.
You navigate to it, ask it a question, and evaluate what it returns. That model
ORF published a July 18 analysis on how AI is changing India’s legal profession, focusing on courts, apprenticeship, access-to-justice gaps, and professional responsibility. The piece says Indian courts are moving faster than bar regulators: draft court AI rules would require
Arizona lawyers — and self-represented litigants — may face sanctions if they submit AI-generated briefs citing nonexistent cases. KJZZ reports the Arizona Court of Appeals issued the warning after a probate litigant admitted using generative AI without verifying citations. Possible
Leading US law schools are tightening rules on AI use in classrooms. The University of Chicago Law School will ban laptops, tablets, and phones for first-year students this fall and add an in-person oral exam component to the substantial research
After 30 years serving 99% of the Am Law 100, Litera relaunches around one platform, one agent, and one dataset spanning every corner of the firm
CHICAGO – July 15, 2026 – Litera, the Legal AI platform provider that
