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A Dozen Great Litigation Podcasts
What follows is a list of 12 well-made podcasts that address legal issues of broad interest to litigators in the United States. It’s not a collection of “best podcasts” or an endorsement of any individual podcast or its producer. Instead, think of this list as that small sliver of the podcasting universe deserving of the…
Federal Court Turns Up the Heat on Attorneys Using ChatGPT for Research
Most lawyers regard Mata v. Avianca, Inc., 678 F. Supp. 3d 443, 448 (S.D.N.Y. 2023), as the leading case on the consequences of misuse of generative artificial intelligence in legal pleadings. It was from Mata v. Avianca that the legal community first became widely aware of the distinct possibility that publicly available generative AI tools…
AI-Generated Evidence Calls for Searching Judicial Inquiry
So-called “deepfake evidence” and computer-authored legal pleadings share, in several respects, similar attributes. They’re each created by widely available artificial intelligence technologies. They can be highly persuasive, even when false or fanciful. And they each have the potential to undermine the integrity of the civil justice system by injecting difficult-to-detect, compelling-but-unreliable digital materials into legal…
How Jury Instructions Can Support Deposition Preparation
Experienced litigators often describe successful trial preparation as a process that begins with identifying desired outcome, followed by “reverse engineering” the constituent parts of the desired result. In most cases, the constituent parts of civil litigation leading to a successful jury trial are the pleadings, pretrial discovery and deposition practice, witness testimony at trial, trial…
Tech Titans Invoke, and Grow, Apex Deposition Doctrine
Plaintiffs’ attorneys often hope to put a famous face on the business end of lawsuits against corporate defendants. The sight of a celebrity from the business world answering uncomfortable questions creates courtroom drama and, sometimes, a “wrong” for a motivated jury to “right.” And while testimony from a high-level corporate executive can be relevant in…
New York Courts Promote Technology for Document-Heavy Litigation
There was a time not long ago when parties resisting a remote deposition would argue that their deposition was “document heavy” and thus unsuitable for remote proceedings. As recently as 2016, a leading treatise on commercial litigation declared: Business litigation is typically document-intensive, and the use of multiple documents at a remote deposition requires the questioner to decide…
When AI Productivity Collides With Professional Reputation
Are you feeling “left behind” or possibly irrelevant because you’ve yet to integrate artificial intelligence into your law firm’s operations? You could easily feel that way after reading the 2025 Future of Professionals Report, published last week by Thomson Reuters. The report paints a dire picture for lawyers who are tardy to the generative AI…
Generative AI Shines With Deposition Transcript Summaries
Notwithstanding frequent “hallucinations” and the consequent embarrassment of getting caught relying on court rulings that do not exist, generative artificial intelligence is nevertheless fast becoming a familiar component in the workflows of busy litigators. The reason is that, for many routine litigation chores, generative artificial intelligence technologies are really, really good. One area where AI…
Federal Experts Weigh Rule Changes for Deepfake Evidence
Seeing is believing, and that’s a problem when it comes to deepfake evidence in court. We’ve already remarked on the many instances where careless use of generative artificial intelligence is flooding courthouses with legal arguments supported by hallucinated case citations. Litigators and court clerks today are spending time vetting an opposing party’s pleadings for superficially…
How AI Is Helping Corporate Legal Departments
According to a recent survey, artificial intelligence gained a significant foothold in corporate legal departments in 2025, where it is being used mostly for contract drafting and review, legal research, and document translation. The survey, AI in Legal Departments: 2025 Benchmarking Report, published by Spellbook, a provider of AI-powered contract review software, indicates that 38%…
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