There is a federal court decision from February of this year that every attorney using AI tools in their practice needs to read carefully. Not because of what it held, but because of what it did NOT hold, and because a significant amount of the published commentary about it is mischaracterizing the scope of the ruling in ways that could lead attorneys to draw precisely the wrong conclusions.
The case is United States v. Heppner, decided in the Southern District of New York on February 10, 2026. If you have read any of the dozens of law firm alerts, bar journal articles, or legal tech newsletters that have covered it since then, there is a meaningful chance you walked away with an incorrect understanding of what the court actually decided.
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