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Tracked Changes, Wednesday, October 7, 2026

What changed in legal AI · · 2 min read

  1. Florida appeals court makes a lawyer and his clients jointly pay the other side's appeal fees over AI-fabricated cases

    On October 7, Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal affirmed a judgment for City National Bank of Florida and a co-defendant and granted their sanctions motion. The initial brief cited a nonexistent case seven times and attributed to real cases quotations they do not contain. Counsel said his client supplied research and his firm used generative AI in drafting. The court awarded appellate attorney's fees, with the plaintiffs and their counsel jointly and severally liable.

    Source: Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal (via the AI Hallucination Cases database) · Read more: How to avoid AI-hallucinated citations in court filings

  2. Harvey releases a motion to dismiss workflow built with LexisNexis case law and Shepard's

    Harvey announced on October 7 a Motion to Dismiss workflow co-developed with LexisNexis. The company says an agent reads the complaint and proposes up to eight ranked grounds, the lawyer approves the plan, and other agents research and draft the motion with a table of authorities. It is available to Harvey customers with Ask LexisNexis access or a Lexis+ with Protégé subscription. Harvey says a summary judgment workflow comes next.

    Source: Harvey

  3. ROSS says it will ask the Supreme Court to review the Third Circuit's AI training ruling for Thomson Reuters

    LawSites reported on October 2 that ROSS Intelligence, the shuttered AI legal research company, will seek Supreme Court review of the Third Circuit's ruling for Thomson Reuters. The appeals court sided with Thomson Reuters in the companies' copyright dispute that week. In a statement on ROSS's behalf, Yar Chaikovsky of White & Case said the decision creates continued uncertainty around the application of copyright law to AI model training.

    Source: LawSites

  4. Relativity says no new matters can go on its on-premises Server product from January 1, 2028

    At a media briefing on October 1, the last day of Relativity Fest in Chicago, CEO Phil Saunders confirmed that from January 1, 2028, every new matter must be hosted in the cloud rather than on Relativity Server. He said the policy does not end Server itself. The company says nearly 84% of its annual recurring revenue came from its cloud platform, now called Relativity aiR, as of the end of June 2026.

    Source: LawSites