Governance
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Governance · 10 min · September 18, 2026 · Read more →
Why AI Governance for Law Firms Needs an Engineering Layer
A written AI policy can't stop an associate from pasting client facts into ChatGPT or catch a hallucinated citation before it reaches a brief. Here's the engineering layer including access controls, verification gates, audit trails that turns governance from intention into something actually enforced.
Governance · 9 min · September 17, 2026 · Read more →
How to Answer Your Cyber Insurance Carrier’s AI Questions Without Setting Off Alarms
Carriers now treat AI as material underwriting factor, not a novelty question. Here's the 5-step framework for answering AI questions on your renewal, what an audit log actually needs to contain and common answers that trigger red flags.
Governance · 10 min · September 17, 2026 · Read more →
Mata v. Avianca, Two Years Later: How US Law Firms Actually Prevent Hallucinated Citations
Two years after Mata v. Avianca, hallucinated citations in court filings haven't slowed down, they've doubled and courts now treat them as a governance failure, not a one-off mistake. Here's the verification workflow firms with clean records actually use.
Governance · 9 min · September 16, 2026 · Read more →
A State-by-State Guide to AI Ethics Opinions for US Law Firms (2026 Update)
Fifteen jurisdictions have issued formal AI ethics opinions for lawyers. Thirteen have said nothing at all. Here's where every state stands in 2026, what each requires and why knowing which authority controls which decision matters more than the opinion count.