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Ethics & Governance · April 2026 · 7 min read

ABA Opinion 512 is a compliance framework, not a checklist.

A closer reading of Formal Opinion 512. The opinion does not declare any class of legal AI tool compliant or non-compliant — it assigns the analysis to the lawyer. Most firms' due-diligence processes were designed for a different category of technology than the one they are now evaluating, and that gap is where the real compliance question lives.

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Regulatory · April 2026 · 8 min
California, New York, and Florida are writing the actual rules.
The state bars are moving faster than the ABA. What Florida Opinion 24-1, the California Practical Guidance, and NYCBA Formal Opinion 2024-5 actually require — and where the variance produces real exposure.
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Architecture · Coming soon
When AI agents act autonomously, whose infrastructure they run on stops being a procurement question.
The industry moved from assistants to agents. The ownership question just became existential — and most firms have not caught up.
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Technical · Coming soon
The hallucination crisis is not an AI problem. It is an architecture problem.
Stanford measured 17% and 34% error rates from purpose-built legal AI tools. The sanctions are accelerating. Here is the structural reason, and what a different architecture produces.
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