Your Client Talked to ChatGPT First: AI Chats and Attorney-Client Privilege
A federal court has held consumer AI conversations are neither privileged nor work product. What Heppner means for clients and the lawyers who inherit their chats.
AI in Law
Artificial intelligence reached legal practice faster than any technology in the profession's history, and the coverage of it splits between vendor enthusiasm and generalized alarm. This section examines legal AI the way this publication examines everything: what the tools actually do, what they cost, what the evidence shows, and what the rules of professional conduct require.
Coverage serves law firms of every size, corporate legal departments, and the businesses that buy legal services and want to understand how AI is changing what they pay for.
Published Analysis
Implementing AI in the Small and Midsize Law Firm
How to use ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini without purchasing a large-firm AI platform or losing control of client information, with a 30-day implementation model.
Federal Court Accepts Generative AI for eDiscovery: What the LinkedIn Decision Means for Legal Teams
A magistrate judge treated Relativity aiR making final responsiveness calls as ordinary Technology Assisted Review. Why the restraint is the story, and what the order does and does not hold.
AI Tools for Law Firms: What Practices Are Actually Buying
The six legal AI product categories, real pricing from CoCounsel to Harvey, the adoption data, the governance gap, and an evaluation path by firm size.
Coverage Areas
Legal AI Products
Independent examination of the platforms law firms are evaluating: research engines, enterprise platforms, drafting tools, and practice management AI.
AI Legal Research
Grounded research tools, citation reliability, hallucination risk, and whether lawyers can trust AI assisted research and on what terms.
Contract AI
AI contract review, drafting, redlining, and contract lifecycle management for firms and corporate legal departments.
AI in Litigation and eDiscovery
Document review at scale, generative AI in discovery, and the most judicially supervised AI category in law.
Legal Automation and AI Assistants
Document automation, intake, legal workflows, and what general purpose AI assistants can and can't responsibly do in a practice.
AI Governance for Law Firms
Professional responsibility, ABA Formal Opinion 512, confidentiality, firm AI policies, and supervision of AI assisted work.
In Preparation
- Harvey AI: What It Does and Why Law Firms Are Using It
- AI Contract Review: How It Works and What Law Firms Should Know
- AI Legal Research: Can Lawyers Trust It?
- Claude for Lawyers: Practical Legal Uses and Limitations
- ChatGPT for Lawyers: Business Uses, Risks and Limitations
- AI Legal Assistants: What They Can and Cannot Do
- Legal Document Automation With AI
- Contract Management AI: What Businesses and Legal Departments Should Know