Coworking
A small newsletter on legaltech
AI
Anthropic released a series of ‘knowledge work plugins’ to use with its no-code agentic app, Claude Cowork (Mac only so far), one specifically for typical legal tasks involving contract review, NDA triage, compliance and more; markets responded on Monday with stock price falls of major financial & legal data companies, including Thomson Reuters (owner of Westlaw), RELX (owner of Lexis), Wolters Kluwer and more [ Claude Plug-ins - Legal | GitHub repository: Legal - README | Legal IT Insider | LawSites | Artificial Lawyer | Reuters ($) | The Guardian (UK) | Wall Street Journal ($)]
State and federal judges Maritza Dominguez Braswell, Xavier Rodriguez Scott Schlegel have formed a Judicial AI Consortium, open to state and federal judges only, to tackle issues of AI adoption by the judiciary, with a first meeting scheduled for February 28th [ (sch)Legal Tech | Law.com ($) | JAIC website]
The California Supreme Court has transferred back to the Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District, Kjoller v. The Superior Court of Nevada County, where a district attorney was accused of including fabricated citations in his court filings, vacating the lower court’s order to deny a motion for sanctions and a demand that the lower court issue an Order to Show Cause [CA Supreme Court docket | 3rd App. District docket | NY Times ($) | Horvitz & Levy blog | Amicus letter in support for petition for review to the CA Supreme Court]
Fabrication Follies
Lexos Media IP, LLC v. Overstock.com, Inc. [Docket | Memorandum and Order]
Blockchain and Digital Currency
The value of Bitcoin dropped below US$70,000 today, with the total value of cryptocurrency losing $2 trillion since October 2025 [CNBC | CoinDesk | Financial Times | Reuters ($)]
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett testified in front of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs and was quoted as saying, “There seems to be a nihilist group in the industry who prefers no regulation over this very good regulation” and “We have to get this Clarity Act across the finish line. And any market participants who don't want it should move to El Salvador” [Coindesk | Senate Hearing page (with video and written testimony)]
Data Privacy
The Walla Walla (WA) Police Department has ended its use of Flock cameras after the Skagit County Superior Court ruled that images captured by the license plate readers are public records subject to the state’s Public Records Act [Apple Valley News Now | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law - City of Sedro Wooley v. Rodriguez]
From Ars Technica: “A federal judge in Virginia ruled Tuesday that the City of Norfolk’s use of nearly 200 automated license plate readers (ALPRs) from Flock is constitutional and can continue, dismissing the entire case just days before a bench trial was set to begin”
From Wired [$]: TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users
Miscellaneous
35 state Attorneys General signed a letter to xAI (recently acquired by SpaceX), requesting the company take more action to restrict GenAI platform Grok from generating and disseminating non-consensual intimate images [Wired ($) | Letter | National Law Review]
Spain has announced a plan to usage of social media platform by people 15 and under, while Greece is considering a similar ban for those 14 and under [BBC | Reuters ($)]
From CNBC: Prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket are allowing users to open contracts on which companies will have Super Bowl ads this year, raising concerns over insider trading; meanwhile, NY Attorney General Leticia James urged caution around participating in “unregulated prediction markets”
Long Reads
Gregory Duhl, All In: Embedding AI in the Law School Classroom (December 15, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5924465 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5924465
Judge Xavier Rodriguez, “Judging AI: How U.S. Judges Can Harness Generative AI Without Compromising Justice,” Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law (2025) https://judicature.duke.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/01/RODRIGUEZ-Vol-109-No-2.pdf
Judy H. Shen and Alex Tamkin, 2026. How AI Impacts Skill Formation (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245
