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November 26, 2025

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

  • Buchanan v. Vuori, Inc. [Law360 ($) | Docket | Order]

  • 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

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