Highway Speeds
A small newsletter on legaltech
AI
There is a new(ish) AI Law tracker that includes fabrications in court filings, First Amendment-related lawsuits, torts suits and cases that use AI as evidence
Consumer Reports and Stanford University have started a project to “advanc[e] research and standards to make AI agents secure, loyal, and effective advocates for consumers everywhere”
Related: Will AI agents require more sophisticated prompting by users to avoid adverse outcomes? [LinkedIn post]
From Bloomberg Law [$]: “Paying Hidden ‘AI Tax’ May Help Lawyers Stop the Slop”
From Ars Technica: “You won’t believe the excuses lawyers have after getting busted for using AI”
Folie à deux: both the plaintiff and defendant in Evans v. Robertson (each representing themselves) were found to have used fictitious citations and quotations (presumably from GenAI use) [Docket | Order to Show Cause]
Miscellaneous
McDermott Will & Schulte is reportedly considering a ‘restructuring’ that would split the law firm into two entities, one which would allow it to “sell a stake to private equity groups” [Bloomberg Law ($) | Financial Times ($) | Non-Billable]
Waymo driverless taxis has started using freeways in Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles this week [NBC News | The Verge]
Apple has launched a digital ID in the U.S. that can be used in lieu of Real ID at TSA checkpoints for domestic travel [TechCrunch | Axios | ABC News]
Long Reads
Huet, Ellen and Metz, Rachel, The Chatbot Delusions, Bloomberg Businessweek [$], Nov. 7, 2025
Melumad, Shiri, Yun Jin Ho, Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning, PNAS Nexus. 2025 Oct 28;4(10) doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf316
Reuter, M., Lingenberg, T., Liepina, R., Lagioia, F., Lippi, M., Sartor, G., Passerini, A. and Sayin, B., Towards Reliable Retrieval in RAG Systems for Large Legal Datasets, Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2025 (pp. 17-30) Nov. 2025 https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06999