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Lawyers are learning to work with artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is learning to work with law. This blog explores how — through pedagogy, practice, policy, and the ethical questions that connect them.

  • API Access and the Limits of Data-Handling Compliance

    March 23, 2026 AI Data Privacy Compliance

    Using an LLM through an API rather than a consumer chatbot improves your data-handling posture—sometimes dramatically. But an API alone does not satisfy FERPA, HIPAA, or any other regulatory framework, and treating it as though it does mistakes a technical control for a legal one.

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  • Privilege and the Consumer Chatbot: Data Handling Across Claude's Tiers After Heppner

    March 20, 2026 AI Legal Ethics Data Privacy

    A comparison of Anthropic’s data-handling policies across Claude’s consumer and commercial tiers—and why the distinction now carries legal consequences after the SDNY’s decision in United States v. Heppner.

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