Editor’s Note: A defunct airline’s corporate correspondence is up for sale, and the fight over it reads like a discovery dispute. Spirit Airlines proposes to sell Google enterprise data for $10 million to train AI, and the asset schedule it filed in August listed about 100 million emails and 500 million Microsoft Teams items alongside
Law School In The Age Of AI: Rethinking It From The Ground Up
I keep hearing all this stuff about how AI is creating a generation of lawyers who can’t think, write, or research. That they have a sense of entitlement.
I have to admit I’m liitle suspicious since every generation was labled worse than the one before it. Yet we all somehow managed to survive.
And I…
October 9, 2026 Legal News: What Matters Most for Litigators and Compliance Teams
Friday’s legal developments point to a familiar but intensifying theme in U.S. law: courts and regulators are continuing to shape the practical boundaries of enforcement, corporate risk, and litigation strategy in real time. For attorneys tracking exposure across industries, the significance is less about any single headline than about the cumulative signal these developments send.…
The Enshittocene Strikes Back: Centaurs, Reverse Centaurs, and the Battle for Worker Agency
Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Few cultural critics can diagnose digital rot with the ferocious precision, moral clarity, and linguistic flair of Cory Doctorow. Taking the stage for the session titled Rethinking Our Relationship with AI, Doctorow, an activist, author, and special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, was interviewed by…
Eleventh Circuit Narrows Atlanta Family’s Options After Mistaken FBI Raid
A federal appeals court has sharply limited an Atlanta family’s effort to recover damages from the government over a mistaken 2017 FBI raid on their home, holding that their claims against the United States cannot proceed to trial even as claims against the lead agent personally may continue.
The ruling is significant because it draws…
Worth Reading – AI Can Accelerate a Culture—Good or Bad
By Mike McBride
Frankly, AI will be an expensive way to learn that your underlying processes or data were suspect all along.
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FTC Auto Dealer Settlement Signals Continued Push on Price Transparency
The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with an auto dealership group that it framed as a win for price transparency, underscoring how aggressively the agency continues to police vehicle advertising and sales practices. Even without a fully detailed complaint publicly highlighted in the initial announcement, the action is notable as a same-day federal consumer-protection…
MonsterCloud indictment exposes the ransom payment a victim’s own file may not record
By Rob Robinson
Editor’s Note: Zohar Pinhasi, owner of Florida ransomware-recovery firm MonsterCloud, was arraigned Oct. 7 in Brooklyn on federal charges that he told clients he had proprietary decryption tools while secretly paying their attackers. The U.S. Attorney’s Office told BleepingComputer he pleaded not guilty, and the charges are allegations. The case reaches past the fraud counts.…
From 4 to 60: How a Migration Law Firm Scaled Without the Chaos
Most law firms that grow fast don’t survive the growing pains. Spreadsheets stop working. Case tracking, billing, and client communications turn into a scramble. Administrative overhead balloons faster than revenue.
In 2021, Maison Chen Law Group opened its doors with just four lawyers and a clear conviction: that technology should be the driving infrastructure of…
The Post-GPS Battlefield – Navigating in the Dark with Atomic Magnetometers
Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Picture a modern commercial airliner cruising at 38,000 feet through pitch-black skies over the Mediterranean. The ride is smooth, the cockpit instruments are calm, and suddenly an automated, mechanical voice pierces the darkness: “Terrain, Terrain. Pull Up”. The flight crew faces a terrifying split-second dilemma: are…
PTAB Petition Targets Shenzhen Lanhe Technologies in IPR2027-00003
A new inter partes review proceeding at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, IPR2027-00003, was filed on October 2, 2026, naming Shenzhen Lanhe Technologies Co., Ltd in the case caption. Although the currently available docket entry provides only limited public-facing detail, the filing itself is worth watching for patent litigators, portfolio managers, and in-house…
Cooling Out the Mark: How AI Learned to Apologize Instead of Deliver
Another in my continuing series of letting AI write its own posts for me explaining how and why it failed at what I asked it (quite reasonably, if I may say so) to do. I might start calling this AIsplaining.
When an AI assistant fails to do the work, its next skill may be persuading…
I Sent Three Law Firms an RFP. There’s Clearly a Client Experience Gap.
As a former lawyer, a legal technology CEO, and a paying client of five major law firms, I see how legal services are built, sold, and experienced. Recently, my wife and I sent three firms an RFP for personal legal work. One firm responded with a partner’s name, an associate’s name, an hourly rate, and…
RelFest’s Judicial Panel: At Last, Some Hallucination Perspective
There is no doubt that hallucinations are real and lawyers need to check their cites. But I think sometimes we overreact to the hype and under react to some realities. So it was good to hear from five judges recently at RelFest who put some perspective into the mix. Coincidentialiy, it came at the same…
Quantum-Centric Supercomputing: Bridging the Divide Between Theory and Utility
Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Quantum computing has long suffered from an exhausting public relations cycle: on one side lies the distant theoretical promise of world-altering supremacy; on the other, the sobering reality of noisy, fragile hardware confined to academic cleanrooms. During the session titled Quantum Convergence, Jerry Chow, IBM Fellow…
FTC Signals Hospital Price-Transparency Crackdown With Warning Letters to Major Health Systems
The Federal Trade Commission has issued warning letters to 24 of the nation’s largest healthcare services companies, putting major hospital and health-system operators on notice that patient pricing practices remain a live consumer-protection priority. Although the agency has not filed an enforcement action, the letters are legally significant: they serve as a public signal that…