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A small newsletter about legaltech
AI
AI-generated errors in court filings are ramping up, as are fines, attorneys’ fees and costs for lawyers found misusing GenAI tools
Are general-purpose GenAI tools catching up with legal-specific ones for legal research? Perhaps …
An A2J legaltech firm has created The LAW Accelerator, a platform of AI litigation tools, training and peer support for self-represented litigants [LawSites]
To be consumed in tandem - “The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 262: Zack Shapiro on the Claude AI Native Law Firm” and “The AI Future of Law Is Already Here — It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed”
Thomson Reuters has a two-part blog series “honing legal judgment” in the age of AI:
“How professional acumen & fiduciary care can keep lawyers relevant in the age of AI”
“The AI era requires changes to how lawyers are trained during and after law school”
A law professor/legaltech firm performed an audit of March 2026 court filings from federal and state courts that found the 95% of them contained verifiable errors [Law360 ($) | Trace.law]
A recent ruling found that a plaintiff who used ChatGPT to help develop her proprietary frameworks had voluntarily disclosed the secret and therefore had no protection over the trade secret [IP Watchdog | Thompson Hine - Trade Secret Quarterly | Beck Reed Riden | Docket | Opinion]
Miscellaneous
The New York Times has a very long article alleging that a reporter has found the creator of Bitcoin, who used the alias Satoshi Nakamoto (The subject of the article denies that he is the creator of Bitcoin)
From 404Media [$]: “FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database”
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that sports betting on prediction markets cannot be regulated by New Jersey’s Division of Gaming Enforcement, due to federal pre-emption by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission [Ars Technica | Docket | Opinion]
A wave of lawsuits have been filed this week against Epic Games (developers of Fortnite) and Roblox, alleging the developers purposefully designed their games to make them addicting for child players
Greece plans to implement a ban on social media use by children and teens under 15 years of age, starting next year [Reuters ($) | Courthouse News | The Guardian]
Long Reads
Bednar, Nicholas and Cleveland, David R. and Erbsen, Allan and Schwarcz, Daniel, Artificial Intelligence and Human Legal Reasoning (April 05, 2026). Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper 2026-21, https://ssrn.com/abstract=6525800
