AI in law and how the courts are answering it, e-courts and digital filing, e-discovery and electronic evidence, practice management and the research tools lawyers actually use.
The bench asked the bar council to frame guidance and said counsel, not the tool, is answerable for every authority cited in court.
By Nikhil Rao, Legal technology correspondent
The order requires lawyers to attest that each cited authority was checked against the reporter, and refers both firms to their state bars.
By Rachel Okafor, US courts correspondent
The court split the case in two, finding the training itself transformative while sending the question of the shadow-library downloads to a damages trial.
By Rachel Okafor, US courts correspondent
One case number that follows a matter from trial court to Supreme Court, e-filing as the default, and a cause list you can subscribe to.
By Nikhil Rao, Legal technology correspondent
Trials and criminal proceedings stay in person, but the pandemic-era rules for everything else are now written into the national policy.
By Rachel Okafor, US courts correspondent
Courts are treating auto-delete settings left on after a litigation hold as spoliation, and adverse-inference instructions are following.
By Nikhil Rao, Legal technology correspondent
The new evidence code asks for a hash of every electronic record produced. Two high courts have now said what happens when it is missing.
By Nikhil Rao, Legal technology correspondent
Advocates may sign and store digitally, provided the records sit on servers in India and clients are told where their files are kept.
By Nikhil Rao, Legal technology correspondent
General counsel are writing AI-use clauses into outside counsel guidelines, and some now ask to see what the tools were asked and what they returned.
By Nikhil Rao, Legal technology correspondent
Fifty questions, five tools, every citation checked against the reporter. The error rates ranged from one in twenty to one in four.
By Nikhil Rao, Legal technology correspondent