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Case analyses, research summaries, and policy explainers from the editorial team. Every post links to the same primary sources we cite elsewhere on the site. RSS coming.

  1. 2026-06-15
    Reg S-P's new baseline for smaller firms. The SEC's amended Reg S-P turns a dusty privacy rule into a cybersecurity mandate — written incident response, 30-day customer breach notice, and vendor oversight — with the smaller-firm deadline now here.
    BUSINESSLAW
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  2. 2026-06-15
    AI in e-discovery: defending TAR and GenAI review. TAR has been judicially blessed for over a decade and generative-AI review is joining the workflow — but the hard part is defending the process: proportionality, validation by recall and precision, and a human who certifies under Rule 26(g).
    LAWRESEARCH
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  3. 2026-06-15
    AI governance from the security chair: what the CISO owns. When an organization adopts AI, governance lands on the security chair — the CISO's remit across NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, the EU AI Act, deepfake risk, and board reporting.
    RESEARCHBUSINESS
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  4. 2026-06-15
    Arbitration's new rules for AI evidence and discovery. The JAMS AI Disputes Rules show how to gate AI-touched evidence — secured-environment expert access to models and data, disclosure of AI use, and proportionality.
    LAWRESEARCH
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  5. 2026-06-15
    AI tools and attorney-client privilege. Pasting client material into a third-party AI tool can breach confidentiality and waive privilege — what ABA Rule 1.6, Formal Opinion 512, and FRE 502 require counsel to do.
    LAWBUSINESS
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  6. 2026-06-15
    Building a deepfake incident-response plan for smaller firms. A checklist-driven playbook for voice-clone and deepfake incidents — detect, contain, preserve, notify, recover — grounded in NIST SP 800-61, FBI IC3, and CISA guidance.
    BUSINESSCASE
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  7. 2026-06-15
    Agentic AI and accountability: who answers when an agent trades? Autonomous AI agents are trading and drafting disclosures with little supervision — so when one breaks the securities laws, who answers? The SEC's "AI washing" cases and why agency law keeps the firm liable.
    RESEARCHLAW
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  8. 2026-06-15
    The hallucination tax: what unverified AI citations really cost. A fabricated AI citation is no glitch — it's a self-inflicted breach of the duty of competence that taxes the whole proceeding in sanctions, wasted hours, and lost credibility.
    LAWRESEARCH
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  9. 2026-06-15
    “Follow the money” is no longer enough. A cloned voice induces the wire and on-chain layering erases the trail — why financial tracing alone no longer proves modern fraud, and what investigators must add.
    LAWBUSINESS
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  10. 2026-06-15
    Forensic neutrals: who decides when digital evidence is contested? When adversaries deadlock over whether digital or AI evidence is authentic, courts can appoint a neutral technical authority under FRCP 53 or FRE 706 whose only client is the record.
    LAWRESEARCH
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  11. 2026-06-15
    Investigating white-collar fraud when the evidence can be fake. Generative AI lets fraudsters fabricate documents and voices — and lets investigators be misled by fluent synthetic artifacts. How curiosity and rigor keep an investigation honest.
    CASERESEARCH
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  12. 2026-06-15
    Deepfake defense for real-estate closings — stopping wire fraud at the process layer. Voice and video impersonation is hitting title, escrow, and closing workflows. The break point isn't the model — it's the missing out-of-band callback on wiring instructions.
    CASEBUSINESS
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  13. 2026-06-15
    Deepfakes and the integrity of evidence in family court. In custody court a fabricated clip lands before anyone proves it fake — but Rules 901 and 902, used affirmatively, put the authentication burden back where it belongs.
    LAWRESEARCH
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  14. 2026-06-15
    Authenticating AI-touched evidence: do we need a new rule? Rule 901's lenient gate met its match in generative AI — 901(b)(9), 902(13)-(14), proposed Rule 707, and what litigators should do now.
    LAWACADEMIC
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  15. 2026-06-15
    Deepfakes are reshaping workplace sexual harassment — what HR should do. Synthetic intimate imagery of a coworker is a workplace event, not a private one — and Title VII reaches conduct that never happened at the office.
    LAWPERSONAL
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  16. 2026-06-15
    When the file lies about itself: AI-generated metadata hallucination. Generative AI can fabricate the hidden author, date, and provenance metadata we rely on to prove a file is authentic. How to verify with hashing and Content Credentials.
    RESEARCHPROVENANCE
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  17. 2026-06-15
    From code to canvas: the copyright fight over generative-AI creations. Two copyright fights collide over generative AI — whether AI output can be owned, and whether training on copyrighted works was lawful.
    LAWRESEARCH
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  18. 2026-04-27
    What the Arup deepfake actually proves — and what it doesn't. The break point wasn't the model. It was the absence of an out-of-band callback above the wire-transfer threshold.
    CASEBUSINESS
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  19. 2026-04-27
    Why deepfake detectors fail on new generators — and what to do about it. A short tour of the cross-generator generalization gap, the field's central open problem.
    RESEARCHACADEMIC
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  20. 2026-04-27
    What the TAKE IT DOWN Act actually changes — and what it doesn't. A practical reading of S.146 for survivors, platforms, and counsel.
    LAWPERSONAL
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