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Tracked Changes, Friday, June 5, 2026

What changed in legal AI · · 2 min read

  1. Ninth Circuit suspends two lawyers for six months over fake AI citations and orders two years of AI disclosures

    In an order on June 3 in Lnu v. Blanche, a Ninth Circuit panel fined two California lawyers $2,500 each and suspended them from practice before the court for six months after their briefs cited cases that do not exist. For two years, every lawyer at their firm must state in each filing whether generative AI was used. The court said it was not sanctioning them simply for using AI.

    Source: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, via FindLaw · Read more: How to avoid AI-hallucinated citations in court filings, ABA Formal Opinion 512 explained: what the ABA says about lawyers using generative AI

  2. Federal rules committee sends proposed Rule 707 on machine-generated evidence back for more study

    At its June 3 and 4 meeting, the federal judiciary's Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure decided not to recommend action on proposed Federal Rule of Evidence 707, according to the law firm Proskauer. The draft rule would require machine-generated evidence offered without an expert witness to meet the reliability standards of Rule 702. The committee sent it back for revision and further study, together with a separate question about deepfakes.

    Source: Proskauer

  3. OpenAI hires Ironclad co-founder Jason Boehmig to lead its product work for the legal industry

    Jason Boehmig, who co-founded the contract management company Ironclad in 2014 and stepped down as its CEO in 2025, said in a June 1 LinkedIn post that he had started at OpenAI, leading product for the legal vertical. LawSites reported the move on June 2. OpenAI made no official statement about its legal plans. Boehmig wrote that no single player, even a frontier lab, can do it alone.

    Source: LawSites · Read more: What should a law firm's generative AI policy cover?

  4. Wordsmith raises $70 million to help in-house legal teams handle more work without outside counsel

    Legal AI company Wordsmith announced a $70 million Series B on June 3, taking its total funding to $100 million. It builds a platform for corporate legal departments and says it does not serve law firms. The company says more than 500 companies run on Wordsmith and that its revenue grew more than 14 times in the past year. It also says work handled in-house means fewer outside counsel invoices.

    Source: Wordsmith