This week in legal AI — United States (federal)

9 updates on the record, 2026-08-29 to 2026-09-05.

• Research · 2026-09-05
  AI chat logs, note-takers and privilege: what courts have compelled, protected and excluded, 2024 to 2026
  17 rulings and opinions on AI privilege, discovery and AI-generated evidence, 2024 to 2026, coded by question, plus what five note-taker vendors say they keep.
• Research · 2026-09-05
  Consumer AI legal services and self-represented litigants: the services, the court record and the regulators
  12 consumer legal-AI services on one schema, 41 self-represented rows in the incident tracker, two docket studies of AI pro se filings, and the regulators.
• News · 2026-09-04
  D.C. Court of Appeals strikes Deutsche Bank brief over Google AI citations
  The D.C. Court of Appeals struck a Deutsche Bank appellee brief after counsel used Google's generative AI search tool without verifying four nonexistent cases.
• Analysis · 2026-09-04
  Ellis George and K&L Gates: the $31,100 AI-research sanction, and the re-filing that made it worse
  A C.D. Cal. Special Master sanctioned Ellis George and K&L Gates $31,100 after an AI-drafted brief cited fake cases and was re-filed without disclosure.
• News · 2026-09-04
  Virginia appeal brief drew CLE sanction after 25 phantom quotes
  The Virginia Court of Appeals ordered counsel to take AI or appellate-practice CLE after an appellee brief attributed 25 phantom quotations to Virginia cases.
• Analysis · 2026-09-04
  May judges and court staff use AI in their own work?
  The regulation map records 39 country answers on judicial AI use: binding rules, guidance, proposals and one case-law answer.
• Analysis · 2026-09-04
  Must lawyers verify AI output before relying on it?
  Across 130 country records, 50 have a binding, guidance, proposed or case-law answer on verification of AI output.
• Analysis · 2026-09-04
  Sullivan & Cromwell's AI hallucinations: what the firm told the bankruptcy court, and what happened next
  Sullivan & Cromwell disclosed AI-hallucinated citations in a Chapter 15 emergency motion in April 2026. The letter, the 28-citation count, and the docket since.
• Weekly briefing · 2026-09-03
  This week in legal AI safety: tracker reaches 122 incidents; SRA AI warning notice; Ireland's HC 142 live
  Issue 1: 50 incidents added, the SRA's misuse-of-AI warning notice, Ireland's Practice Direction HC 142, deferred EU high-risk duties, 128 tools on record.

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