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How Technology-Assisted Review Actually Works — and What Rule 26 and Rule 502 Require Before You Deploy It

EU AI Act Obligations for General-Purpose Models Took Effect August 2: What Legaltech Vendors Selling Into Europe Must Track

The AI Act's transparency and copyright duties for general-purpose AI models became binding on August 2, 2025, reaching US legaltech and regtech vendors with EU customers.

Verifying Authority in the AI Research Era: The Citator Discipline That Still Decides Cases

Generative research tools answer questions; the citator answers whether the answer is still law — and the sanctions era made skipping the second step expensive.

Judicial Standing Orders on Generative AI: The Filing Checklist Nobody Standardized

Hundreds of federal judges now publish their own AI-filing rules — varying in scope, disclosure, and certification — and litigation teams keep a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction checklist because no one else will.

Knowledge Graphs for Statutory Monitoring: Tracking Amendment Risk Across Jurisdictions by Machine

Regulatory change management outgrew spreadsheets when the amendment volume did; the graph is how legal teams make change legible to systems that can alert.

Microsoft Enters Contract Review: What Platform Distribution Does to Legal AI Diligence

The company that owns the document now sells the review — Artificial Lawyer called it a new era on May 1, and compliance buyers should read it as a diligence reset.