Litigation AI GRC Briefings & Analysis for Law Firms

EXPERT OPINION By Pouya Shafabakhsh As legal AI moves from producing answers to completing multi-step work, end-stage review may come too late. Human approval should sit immediately before actions that create material or hard-to-reverse consequences. Reprinted with permission from the September 24, 2026 edition of the “Legaltech News” © 2026 ALM Global Properties, LLC. All rights reserved. Further duplication without permission is prohibited, contact 877-256-2472 or...

An expert may write every sentence and still rely on a record that artificial intelligence helped select. By Pouya Shafabakhsh Reprinted with permission from the September 29, 2026 edition of the “New York Law Journal” © 2026 ALM Global Properties, LLC. All rights reserved. Further duplication without permission is prohibited, contact 877-256-2472 or asset-and-logo-licensing@alm.com. Consider a lost-profits dispute in New York’s Commercial Division. The damages expert writes

Quebec’s new judicial guidelines offer an occasion to examine how AI assistance enters a litigation file, without confusing judicial guidance with lawyers’ duties. By Pouya Shafabakhsh This article was originally published by Law360 Canada (LexisNexis Canada Inc.) on September 23, 2026. Read the original article on Law360 Canada. A Quebec litigation team receives an English summary of French correspondence shortly before filing. The prose reads well. Yet a witness’s uncertain

Reprinted with permission from the September 22, 2026 edition of the “New York Law Journal” © 2026 ALM Global Properties, LLC. All rights reserved. Further duplication without permission is prohibited, contact 877-256-2472 or asset-and-logo-licensing@alm.com. New York already has the preservation and discovery framework. The practical task is identifying consequential AI records, their custodians and their retention settings early enough to use it. By Pouya Shafabakhsh The ne

This article was originally published by Law360 Canada (LexisNexis Canada Inc.) on September 15, 2026. Read the original article on Law360 Canada. Law360 Canada (September 15, 2026, 2:49 PM EDT) -- The Sept. 1 amendment to Ontario’s Rules of Civil Procedure is narrow in wording but broad in effect. Ontario Regulation 275/26 now requires the person signing the statement in a factum to certify not only that every cited authority is authentic, but also that every quotation accur

A Managing Partner usually does not hear about an AI problem when the draft is comfortable and the deadline is three weeks away. The call comes when a brief is due tomorrow, a partner cannot locate one cited proposition, opposing counsel has challenged a quotation, or nobody can say exactly how an AI-assisted section made it into the filing. That is the search intent behind “AI court filing risk”: not curiosity about technology, but an urgent question about whether a paper is

Digital evidence is increasingly central to intellectual property and patent disputes, while synthetic media and deepfake technologies create new questions about what a digital exhibit can reliably establish. On September 25, 2026, the New York State Bar Association will present a one-hour virtual CLE program, “Authenticating What You Cannot Trust: Synthetic Media and Deepfake Evidence in IP and Patent Disputes.” The program is designed to introduce practical authentication i

Executive Summary The May 28 developments shared one practical theme: AI governance was moving from policy discussion into operational accountability. Courts were confronting fabricated authorities and unreliable AI-assisted submissions. Corporate leaders were being asked to show how AI systems were selected, supervised and monitored. Regulators and professional bodies were paying greater attention to data provenance, automated decisions and risk ownership. For senior executi