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A federal appeals court warned lawyers to verify their citations, and its own notice pointed to the wrong rule. One missing digit, on a notice about checking your work, for about two years. It's the most relatable thing a court has ever done, and it holds a real lesson for every legal team using AI.

Your company vets the snack supplier's security more carefully than the law firm holding your deal files. This week's report of a social engineering incident at a large law firm is a timely reminder to close that gap. Use this copy-and-paste questionnaire, scoring guide, and contract checklist at your next engagement or panel review.

A security incident is an IT event, but the notification work that follows is a legal project on a regulatory clock. This week brought a law firm social engineering incident and a notable breach response acquisition, and both point to the same lesson. We diagnose why breach notification review hurts so much and map it to the technology built to fix it.

Every legal department has someone who stamps "Privileged & Confidential" on everything, including the lunch order. This week, a privilege fight in the social media addiction litigation turned that habit into a headline, complete with embroidered hats. Here's why over-labeling backfires, and five practical fixes your team can make before a judge samples your privilege log.

Legal industry tradition dictates that at every conference, at least one panelist must declare the billable hour dead. It has been dead since roughly the invention of the fax machine. And yet, invoices keep arriving, itemized in six-minute increments, rates up again. AI might finally change that. Or it might just become the newest line in the obituary. Let's argue about it.