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Tracked Changes, Friday, October 23, 2026

What changed in legal AI · · 3 min read

  1. Judge fines a lawyer $5,000 and orders him to notify the state bar after he filed his clients' ChatGPT-drafted brief

    On October 23, Judge Stanley Blumenfeld Jr. of the Central District of California dismissed a False Claims Act case against the Los Angeles Film School and sanctioned relators' counsel Mark Kleiman $5,000. The relators had drafted the opposition brief with ChatGPT, and it cited fabricated authority without the AI disclosure the judge's standing order requires. Kleiman must report the sanction to the State Bar of California and complete eight hours of ethics CLE.

    Source: U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (via the AI Hallucination Cases database) · Read more: How to avoid AI-hallucinated citations in court filings, What should a law firm's generative AI policy cover?

  2. Harvey makes its Connector Library generally available, linking it to the tools firms already use

    Harvey said on October 21 that its Connector Library is now generally available, linking Harvey to outside tools such as NetDocuments, Everlaw, Outlook and Docusign. Harvey customers can enable connectors in their workspace, and the company says each connector goes through its security review. Firms can also add a custom connector for an internal system. Harvey says write-back is starting with document management platforms.

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

  3. Harvey adds a connector to Midpage, an AI legal research platform

    LawSites reported on October 19 that a new connector lets Harvey run searches in Midpage, an AI legal research platform covering U.S. case law, statutes, regulations and agency materials. Sources Midpage finds appear in Harvey's final output. Users must be customers of both Harvey and Midpage. LawSites did not report pricing for the connector.

    Source: LawSites

  4. Billables AI integrates with Filevine to capture time automatically for hourly and contingency firms

    Billables AI announced on October 22 an integration that sends automatically captured time entries into Filevine, sorted by client and matter. The company says it works for hourly, contingency and hybrid fee firms and pulls activity from Microsoft, Google, Zoom and AI tools without full-screen monitoring. It says the integration is available now to all Filevine customers. Pricing was not announced.

    Source: Billables AI (press release via LawSites) · Read more: How to bill for AI-assisted legal work: hourly time, flat fees, tool costs and disclosure

  5. Conseal launches a $29.99 a month desktop app that masks client data before it reaches AI tools

    Sprintfour Technologies announced Conseal on October 23, a Windows and macOS app that finds and removes sensitive information on the user's own computer. The company says it can permanently redact court filings or replace names with reversible labels before text is pasted into an AI tool, and that data never leaves the device. It costs $29.99 per device per month.

    Source: Sprintfour Technologies (press release via LawSites) · Read more: What should a law firm's generative AI policy cover?, ABA Formal Opinion 512 explained: what the ABA says about lawyers using generative AI

  6. Legal Hub Group offers a free AI check that flags common errors in California e-filings

    Legal Hub Group, a certified e-filing service provider for California courts, announced on October 20 that its Lexary assistant checks filings for missing signatures, blank dates, empty caption fields and mismatched party names. The company says Lexary is free with every filing, and visitors without an account get five free checks a day. Its California e-filing costs a flat $14.99 per filing, plus court fees.

    Source: Legal Hub Group (press release via LawSites)