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On May 28, 2026, the Florida Supreme Court amended Rule 2.515(d) to require every signer of a filing to represent that cited authorities exist and are accurate. Effective June 15, 2026. What every Florida firm needs to do before the deadline.

Florida Now Requires Citation Certification

On May 28, 2026, the Florida Supreme Court amended Rule 2.515(d) to require every signer of a filing to represent that cited authorities exist and are accurate. Effective June 15, 2026. What every Florida firm needs to do before the deadline.

AI Is the Future. Treat It With Absolute Caution. Both Are Right.

Two headlines, twenty-four hours apart. The Washington Post calls AI the future of legal work. The Bar Standards Board says treat agentic AI with absolute caution. Both are right - and the space between them is where every solo and small firm now operates.

Governance, Not Guardrails

Anthropic announced a three-layer guardrail stack to prevent hallucinated citations. When the bar opens a grievance, it will not ask what the guardrails did. It will ask what you did.

You Don't Ask the Liar If He's Lying

One year after a federal court struck a Claude-generated citation in Anthropic's own defense, Anthropic has launched Claude for Legal with an AI Governance Legal plugin. A vendor cannot independently audit its own product.

The Four-Factor Framework

Most AI tool reviews for law firms cover features and cost. They skip the two factors that decide whether the tool can touch a client matter. The Four-Factor Framework, the patterns it surfaces across 67 vendors, and where I want your pushback.

The Same Legal AI Tool Can Be Both Prohibited and Authorized

Will Chen's Mike OSS landed with a thousand GitHub stars in 72 hours. Run it through the four-factor framework and the same tool scores anywhere from Prohibited to Conditionally Authorized. What deployment-dependent risk means for small firms.

57 of 63: The Greg Lake Suspension

Nebraska indefinitely suspended Greg Lake; days later, Sullivan & Cromwell apologized for the same pattern. Eight governance questions every small firm should answer before the next filing.

The Sullivan & Cromwell AI Filing

S&C had mandatory AI training, a firmwide verification standard, and a separate citation review policy. All three failed on the same filing. The teaching case for every law firm using AI.

The AI Law Firm Debate Is Missing the Point

Everyone is debating whether AI law firms will disrupt the legal profession. But 450,000 firms already exist - and the real gap isn't better AI tools. It's the governance infrastructure those firms need to adopt AI without putting their licenses at risk.

Same Question. Same Day. Opposite Answers.

Two federal courts confronted whether AI-generated documents are protected by attorney-client privilege - and reached opposite conclusions. What the split means for every lawyer using AI.

A Federal Judge Just Wrote Your Firm's AI Policy

In Morgan v. V2X, a federal judge issued the most comprehensive AI-in-litigation ruling to date, and the protective order language reads like a governance checklist every law firm should already have.

25 New AI Laws in 2026

In just three months, 25 new state AI laws have been signed across the U.S. with 27 more pending. A state-by-state breakdown of what passed, what it requires, and what businesses and law firms need to do now.

Florida Just Drew a Line on AI in Court

A Florida appellate court issued the state's first AI-specific sanctions warning, and two of Florida's largest circuits now require mandatory AI disclosure in all filings. What every Florida attorney and business needs to know.

The Hidden Risk in Legal AI Isn't Hallucinations

Every AI discussion in legal circles turns to hallucinations. But for most firms, the graver risk is already inside the building: attorneys and staff using AI without policy or oversight.

The Three Questions Every Law Firm Must Ask

Before your firm adopts any AI system, three threshold questions determine whether you are ready: the retention question, the supervision question, and the workflow question.

What Your Firm Owes Its Clients Before Using AI

A practical article on the governance gap many firms overlook before using AI.