AI × Law

A Northern District of California decision in Schulte v. LinkedIn rejected challenges to LinkedIn’s plan to use Relativity aiR, a generative AI review tool, after search-term culling and human QC. The ruling treats generative AI review as another form of TAR, which gives litigants more judicial support for using AI in document review.

A Northern District of California patent case filed by MITII against OpenAI was dismissed with prejudice after 119 days, with judgment entered for OpenAI. The order bars MITII from refiling the same claims, making this a clean defense win even though the court did not explain the dismissal grounds.

Shumaker’s client alert highlights the Copyright Office’s position that works generated entirely by AI are not eligible for copyright registration without meaningful human creative input. It also flags disclosure obligations for AI-assisted works and notes that training-data issues remain a live risk in pending federal lawsuits.

Descrybe said it is releasing the Open Connector, a new initiative that lets law firms and legal organizations build and control their own AI-powered legal research tools and workflows on top of its Legal Engine. The release includes a Python SDK and reusable research workflows for tasks like research roadmaps, finding supporting and competing authority, and auditing citations.

EvenUp says its legal AI drafting tools can layer a firm’s own standards onto personal-injury workflows, from causation language and objection standards to formatting and discovery responses. The company says drafts are tied to record citations and explain why a standard was applied, a pitch aimed at reducing review cycles and preserving a firm’s house style.

Legal Decoder launched Aperture, a natural-language interface for analyzing billing and legal spend data. The company says it uses tokenization for client data security and is built on an analytics engine that has been applied to tens of billions of dollars in legal fees, making it relevant for firms and in-house teams focused on pricing and spend management.

Watts Law Firm LLP and S4 Capital’s Monks Technology Services launched an AI-powered platform to ingest claim documents, extract key data, assess eligibility, estimate damages, and assemble attorney-ready case files. The firm says every matter still gets lawyer review, but the system is meant to speed high-volume intake work and could extend to mass torts, class actions, and personal injury.

Cleary Gottlieb bought legal-tech firm Springbok AI, adding a team of AI engineers inside the firm. The move shows a major law firm building AI capability directly rather than only buying tools from vendors, while AI-native law firms are also already operating.

Labour MP Jess Asato has filed a claim against xAI alleging Grok generated fake sexualized images and a video of her, and that the company designed the chatbot with no restrictions on adult sexual content. The case could help define liability for AI system design and training choices when a model produces non-consensual deepfakes.

A securities fraud lawsuit says Wix.com and several executives misled investors about the success and competitiveness of its AI-powered website tools from February 2025 to May 2026. The complaint follows a 27% stock drop after disappointing Q1 2026 results and management admissions of product shortcomings, and it alleges the company downplayed costs and competition.

A newly filed California case, Winters v. OpenAI, alleges ChatGPT-4o’s health guidance contributed to a near-fatal pulmonary embolism and raises product liability, failure-to-warn, privacy, and unauthorized-practice-of-medicine claims. The complaint also seeks to reach OpenAI’s CEO individually and has been consolidated into the San Francisco coordinated proceeding for ChatGPT product-liability cases.

A federal class action alleges xAI’s Grok and Stability AI tools were used to create AI-generated child sexual abuse material from children’s photos without consent. The case also invokes Tennessee’s 2025 law on AI-generated CSAM, making it a notable test of how existing statutes reach general-purpose AI platforms.

Scale AI is hiring an Associate General Counsel, Commercial in New York to support its Physical AI team. The role would negotiate revenue deals and related agreements for autonomous driving and robotics customers, a sign of Scale’s push into the next frontier of AI.

A Gartner legal and compliance analyst says corporate legal departments are underestimating how much AI will reshape their work, from talent strategy to workflows and value delivery. The piece says legal teams are already treating AI as a top priority as budgets stay flat or fall, and that some departments are even building their own AI chatbots and contract tools.

A wave of class actions is targeting AI notetakers, voice assistants, call-center systems, and workplace voice tech for allegedly creating and storing voiceprints without proper consent under Illinois BIPA. The article says judges have already let core claims survive in cases against Meta and Amazon, even as newer statutory limits and extraterritorial defenses may narrow exposure.

Patent Integration’s CEO says a Tokyo District Court patent infringement suit over a generative-AI patent information service was discussed at a July 24 seminar, and that it may be the first Japanese patent case involving a generative AI-related invention. The article highlights disputes over invalidity, “common technical knowledge,” and how patent law should apply to fast-moving AI systems.

Greenberg Glusker says it advised Warner Music Group on its acquisition of Sureel AI, an attribution-tech company that tracks how AI models use artists’ work in training and content generation. The deal is notable for rightsholder tracking, provenance, and compliance tooling around AI-generated content.

Anderson Kill’s year-end AI law presentation highlights the most active AI disputes, including BIPA and CIPA privacy and biometric cases, copyright suits over training data, securities claims over “AI washing,” and early product liability and antitrust exposure. It also notes the D.C. Circuit’s Thaler v. Perlmutter decision and says every state introduced AI legislation in 2025, with the EU AI Act also reaching U.S. companies.

São Paulo-based legal-tech startup Jusfy raised a $15 million Series A led by Quona Capital, with participation from Thomson Reuters Ventures and other investors. The money will fund rollout of its AI-driven JusGPT suite and expansion into six Latin American markets, a concrete sign of venture interest in AI-native legal software.

Cologne-based legal tech startup JUPUS raised €13 million in Series A funding led by Semapa Next, with NRW.BANK joining as co-investor. JUPUS says more than 2,000 lawyers already use its AI service, which handles client calls, case structuring, and legal document drafting; the new capital will fund growth in Germany and expansion across Europe.