Topic: Technology

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has affirmed a partial summary judgment holding that ROSS Intelligence infringed copyrights in Westlaw headnotes and could not establish a fair-use defense for its use of those materials.

For the past two years, much of the discussion around AI in the legal space has focused on sanctions for hallucinated citations and fabricated quotations, and lawyers' professional obligations to verify AI-generated content.

In this post, we cover Winters v. OpenAI, Inc. et al., a San Francisco Superior Court lawsuit filed by Scott Winters, a 55-year-old Florida pastor who claims that responses from ChatGPT-4o contributed to a near-fatal pulmonary embolism.

Norton Rose Fulbright has been closely monitoring a growing body of decisions released in 2026, that address whether GenAI prompts and outputs are entitled to privilege protections.

AI Appreciation Day 2026 provides a timely lens on how AI is moving into an era of accountable adoption.

While the Act incorporates concepts appearing in other recently enacted state AI laws, it also introduces a new requirement of mandatory independent third-party audits of covered AI systems.

On June 1, 2026, the Florida Office of the Attorney General, State of Florida and the Florida Department of Legal Affairs, sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company of ignoring safety warnings and releasing ChatGPT while knowing it was harmful to users.

In a recent decision, the Texas Business Court held that AI chat logs created by a litigant may be protected by work-product privilege under Texas law and that disclosure of information to an AI platform does not automatically waive that protection.

Gen AI tools have become commonplace in legal practice, offering attorneys a means to research, draft and refine legal documents at unprecedented speed.

On May 28, 2026, a California federal judge held in Mobley v. Workday that artificial intelligence bias-testing data may be protected against discovery based on the attorney-client privilege shield.