Daily legal AI news
Catch-up: Three stories from Oct. 21–22 that we had not covered yet. Each item shows its own date.
3 stories on AI in courts, ethics rules, regulation and legal software, each in a sentence or two with a link to the original source.
The Fifth Circuit on Oct. 22 vacated a Mississippi federal judge's injunction against the state's diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) law and ordered the case reassigned to a different judge. The court said the judge's orders contained invented facts and a nonexistent case, errors the judge had blamed on a law clerk's use of AI.
The Federal Labor Relations Authority said on Oct. 21 that 35 of 42 legal or record citations in a Health and Human Services brief were fictitious, erroneous or irrelevant, and that the agency may have used a generative AI tool.
Source: flra.gov (opens in a new tab)
8am, maker of MyCase and LawPay, said on Oct. 22 that 48% of the more than 60,000 law firms using those products billed only by the hour in the first half of 2026, compared with 10% that used only flat fees (vendor data). Flat fees made up 88% of invoices at traffic firms and 64% at immigration firms.
Source: 8am.com (opens in a new tab)
Summaries are written by our team from the linked sources. They are news, not legal advice.