Daily legal AI news
Catch-up: Four stories from Oct. 30 to Nov. 2 that we had not covered yet. Each item shows its own date.
4 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 New York State Bar Association adopted ethics guidelines for lawyers' use of AI on Oct. 31. They say lawyers may bill for time spent checking an AI tool's output but not for learning the tool, and an AI tool's cost is overhead unless it is specially incurred for a case. Lawyers must supervise AI work as they would a non-lawyer's. Worth a look before you set an AI billing policy.
Source: nysba.org (opens in a new tab)
Legora and Conga said Nov. 2 that teams using both will be able to pull contracts from Conga's contract lifecycle management (CLM) software into Legora for drafting, review and due diligence, with Conga's access permissions carried over. The integration is not available yet and rolls out in phases; later ones add saving edits back to Conga and plain-English contract search. Ask both vendors for dates.
Source: legora.com (opens in a new tab)
Riverside Payments and related firms will pay $600,000 to settle FTC and Washington state allegations, announced Nov. 2, that they promised small businesses savings while hiding fees, auto-renewing contracts and a $695 early termination fee. Under the proposed order, businesses can cancel without a termination penalty for 60 days. If your firm takes card payments, check your renewal and cancellation terms.
Source: ftc.gov (opens in a new tab)
The national average scaled score on the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), the multiple-choice part of most bar exams, fell to 1407 in July 2026 from 1424 a year earlier, the State Bar of California said Oct. 30. the pass rate on California's General Bar Exam dropped to 48.3%, its lowest July rate in five years, and pass rates also fell in Florida, New York and Texas.
Summaries are written by our team from the linked sources. They are news, not legal advice.