As clients and lawyers increasingly turn to generative AI tools to enhance legal work, an important question arises: under what circumstances ...

As generative artificial intelligence (AI) becomes part of everyday legal drafting and analysis, courts are beginning to ...

In reaching this decision, the court emphasized that the AI database discloses to users that it reserves the right to ...

(This article was originally published on October 1, 2025. It was updated on April 7, 2026 to reflect developments in caselaw.) Law firms and legal departments are increasingly using GenAI to ...

In 2026, courts ruled that AI tools aren’t protected by attorney-client privilege, but work product protection may apply if AI is used under counsel’s direction. Using AI independently or without ...

Attorneys at Withers examine a recent 6th Circuit decision addressing how the attorney-client privilege and wok product doctrine apply to internal investigations in which information sought involved ...

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BOSTON — Lawyers across the country are assessing the ramifications of a federal judge’s ruling that a white-collar criminal defendant waived the attorney-client privilege to — and lacked work-product ...

A nationwide U.S. court precedent in United States v. Heppner has determined that communications between a lawyer and a generative AI tool are not protected by attorney-client privilege or the work ...

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A flat-bladed screwdriver can hew away strips of wood. But any woodworker knows a chisel would be the preferred tool for shaving and shaping the wood. Forcing a tool to perform another task not only ...