Eight Attorneys General Filed Suit Against OpenAI
Every company racing to bolt a chatbot onto its product this year should take a long look at what just happened to the company that makes the chatbot everyone else is bolting on. On October 14, 2026, attorneys general from Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, and Montana announced they are suing OpenAI […]
Who’s Liable When Your AI Agent Acts?
On August 4, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a landmark ruling in Amazon.com Services, LLC v. Perplexity AI, Inc., No. 26-1444. The question at the center of the case: when an AI agent accesses a third-party website on behalf of a user, who is responsible under the Computer Fraud […]
Your AI Chatbot Could Get You Sued. Seriously.
If your business uses AI tools—chatbots for customer service, contract review software, or even ChatGPT to draft routine correspondence—you need to pay attention to Nippon Life Insurance Company v. OpenAI Foundation, filed March 4, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Case No. 1:26-cv-02448). Here is what happened: After a […]
Delaware Wants to Let Robots Run Companies. What?
On September 24, 2026, Route Fifty reported that Delaware Secretary of State Charuni Patibanda-Sanchez’s proposed “Artificial Intelligence Company” legislation — which would let AI agents operate as independent legal entities, sign contracts, and run day-to-day business without human supervision, under a proposed 30-month regulatory sandbox — is drawing pointed criticism from corporate-governance academics. York University […]
Seidman Law Group’s article “The New Playbook For High Stakes Corporate Risk” was published in the summer issue of Impact Wealth magazine. It can be found here: Impact Wealth Summer 2026 Issue Featuring David Booth – Impact Wealth
AI Can Draft Your Contract — But Can It Close Your Deal?
The tools keep getting better. AI can now produce a passable first draft of an NDA in seconds, flag deviations from your standard positions, and catch cross-reference errors that would take a junior associate an hour to find. For businesses negotiating commercial agreements in 2026, that is genuinely useful. But businesspeople need a sharp reminder […]
Third Circuit Rules Against AI Training on Westlaw’s Headnotes
Every few months, generative AI forces a court to reinvent copyright law from first principles. This week, the Third Circuit looked at that invitation and said, politely, “not today, but thanks for asking.” In Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. ROSS Intelligence Inc., decided September 29, 2026, the Third Circuit affirmed that ROSS Intelligence’s use […]
Case Update: Spousal Privilege in Commercial Litigation
A corporate governance and trade secret case in Delaware involved a complex dispute between the co-founders of an artificial intelligence startup. The plaintiff alleged that the defendant co-founder breached his fiduciary duties by secretly developing valuable generative AI text-to-image software using company resources while simultaneously maneuvering to repurchase the plaintiff’s equity shares for a nominal […]
AI and Law Firms
The legal profession is experiencing a technological paradigm shift. Artificial Intelligence offers unprecedented capabilities for drafting, research, and data analysis. However, for law firms and their clients, this rapid adoption has triggered a massive privacy reckoning. The way most consumer AI tools handle data is fundamentally incompatible with the strict demands of attorney-client privilege. At […]
Illinois Appellate Court Is A Stickler For Use Of Notice Provision
3 R Health Care Products, Inc. v. Cardinal Health 110, LLC, 2026 IL App (1st) 241911 (Ill. App. Ct. May 26, 2026) This matter emerged from a commercial supply contract dispute involving the distribution and warehousing of healthcare equipment. The plaintiff initiated an action for breach of contract, alleging that the defendant failed to fulfill […]
