Michael McCambridge

May 7, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Michael McCambridge |Stephen Medlock |Alex Rant

[co-author: Jennifer Williams]Privilege logging is one of the most time-consuming, expensive, and contentious components of discovery. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5)(A), which governs the withholding of privileged material, provides little concrete guidance to alleviate these burdens. But the broad language of the rule also offers litigants significant flexibility to incorporate new technology, most notably automation and artificial intelligence, into their privilege logging practices.

Dec 15, 2023 | jdsupra.com | Dylan Ballard |Michael McCambridge |Stephen Medlock

[co-author: Jennifer Williams]Recent headlines have been dominated by rapid developments in generative artificial intelligence, and a number of startups are positioning themselves to offer new tools to the legal industry making use of this groundbreaking technology. While these developments may change legal practice going forward, machine learning and other powerful algorithms already play a huge role in modern lawyering.

Dec 15, 2023 | jdsupra.com | Dylan Ballard |Michael McCambridge |Stephen Medlock

[co-author: Jennifer Williams] The legal world recently learned an important lesson about the blind adoption of generative AI when two New York attorneys were sanctioned for using ChatGPT to write a brief that included entirely fabricated cases.1 The firm admitted they “made a good faith mistake in failing to believe that a piece of technology could be making up cases out of whole cloth.”2 Reactions in legal circles have run the gamut, from a more measured recognition that AI tools, while...