In United States v. Heppner (2026), Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that communications with the consumer AI chatbot Claude are not protected by attorney-client privilege or the work-product doctrine, as the AI is not a licensed attorney and the user agreed to terms allowing data review by Anthropic. The ruling highlights that using public AI for legal research can waive privilege, though it suggests a different analysis for secure enterprise AI environments. Read the analysis from Crowell & Moring at Crowell & Moring.
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