Technology
May 1, 2026
The practice nobody licensed: Nippon Life v. OpenAI and the vacancy at the heart of AI legal liability
When AI practices law without a license, who is responsible? That is the question Nippon Life v. OpenAI forces courts to answer. If the answer is no one, we might be abolishing our profession.
What happens when ChatGPT can pass the bar? It hangs out a shingle.
Graciela Dela Torre found out the hard way. In early 2025, Dela Torre uploaded a letter from her attorney into ChatGPT and asked whether she had been given good advice. ChatGPT told her she hadn't. It questioned her settlement, suggested she had been pressured into signing a blank signature page, and concluded that her lawyer's correspondence amounted to gaslighting. She fired hi...
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