Happy Thanksgiving 2025
A small newsletter on legaltech
AI
Several large insurance companies are seeking to exclude coverage for liability arising from AI risks in the US [Financial Times ($) | Tom’s Hardware]
Corporate landlord Greystar has settled an antitrust lawsuit, alleging it illegally used algorithms to collude with other companies to drive up rents, for US$7 million [AP News]
Related: the DOJ has offered a proposed settlement in the antitrust case against RealPage, the software provider that allowed landlords to share rental rates to increase housing prices [Press release | Proposed final judgment]
Legal AI software provider Luminance has launched an AI certification program at 3 law schools: 2 in the UK and one at Vanderbilt University School of Law’s AI Law Lab [Law360 ($) | Legal IT Insider (press release)]
From NBC News: “AI-generated evidence is showing up in court. Judges say they're not ready”
From AP News: “Tucked in a two-sentence footnote in a voluminous court opinion, a federal judge recently called out immigration agents using artificial intelligence to write use-of-force reports, raising concerns that it could lead to inaccuracies and further erode public confidence in how police have handled the immigration crackdown in the Chicago area and ensuing protests”
Some suggestions on how law firms and senior lawyers can use AI to help train and mentor junior associates
A second report by Deloitte, this one commissioned by the government of Newfoundland and Labrador, was found to have fabricated citations likely generated by LLM tools
Fabrication Follies
California State University Employees Union v. Trustees of the California State University (San Diego), Public Employment Relations Board [EdSource] | LAist | Order re: Sanctions]
Kjoller v. Superior Court of Nevada County [NY Times ($) | Daily Journal ($) | Sacramento Bee | CA Supreme Court Case Summary]
Miscellaneous
Families of victims of the Oct. 7, 2023 attack in Israel by Hamas have filed a lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchange Binance and its recently-pardoned CEO, Chengpang Zhao, for allegedly helping Hamas and other groups designated as terrorist organizations receive funds [NY Times ($) | CNBC | BBC | Reuters ($) | Docket | Complaint]
The Border Patrol has built a network of surveillance cameras and license plate readers covering the nation’s highways and collaborating with other agencies to build “something more akin to a domestic intelligence operation” that extends from the borders to major American cities
From Eric Goldman: “Emoji Evidence Errors Don’t Undo a Murder Conviction–People v. Harmon”
Long Read(ish)s
Bisconti, Piercosma, Prandi, Matteo, Pierucci, Federico et al, “Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models,” Nov. 19, 2025, https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304v1
Roberts, Abby, The Future of Legal AI: A Conversation on Benchmarking and Evaluation with Tara Waters and Anna Guo [video with transcript], Abby’s Substack, Nov. 20, 2025, https://abbyroberts46.substack.com/p/the-future-of-legal-ai-a-conversation