AI has made the news harder to stay ahead of. A ruling posted in the morning is rewritten across dozens of sites by noon and buried by the next day. One story runs under a dozen headlines, and the rulings and settlements that matter get lost among the copies.
I built Mass Tort Wire for my own desk to keep up with that pace. Each time it opens, it gathers the news on the litigations I follow and the firms I watch. It folds the rewrites of a story into one item and sets aside the stories that would waste the morning. Through March 2027 I am setting up free copies for a small number of plaintiff firms, policyholder-side teams, and the companies that serve them.
What it watches
Your litigations. The wire follows each litigation you track under every name the press uses for it. Talc also catches “baby powder,” and asbestos also catches “mesothelioma.”
The firms you watch. The wire follows each firm you name for verdicts, filings, leadership appointments, sponsorships and deals. A firm’s own blog can feed the wire directly. When the firm’s post and the press story about it cover the same event, the two appear as one item.
The trade and legal press. Reuters and Law360 run on every copy. The update pages on Lawsuit Informer and the analysis on Lawsuit Intelligencer arrive the day they publish. Informer also gathers its update pages on one current mass tort cases board, which shows where each case stands with the newest court entries first.
What it sets aside
I read the raw feed every day and write a filter for each story type that wastes a reader’s morning. Stock-market coverage of defendants stays off the wire. A documentary about the 1982 Tylenol poisonings stays out of the Tylenol litigation. A hockey player who shares a firm’s name stays out of that firm’s news.
A story that names none of your litigations or firms goes behind an OFF-TOPIC line, one tap away.
How it reads
The wire runs in a phone or desktop browser and installs to a home screen like an app. It groups stories by day and marks each one NEW for 24 hours after it arrives.
Two tabs sort the feed. News Wire carries everything. AI Wire follows AI in the courts and in legal work, along with the AI safety and policy news that tends to reach the courts next.
A third tab holds whichever desk a firm runs. A firm that tracks law firm investment, MSO or funding topics gets Deal Wire there. A policyholder-side team gets Risk Wire, for coverage litigation and the exposures that drive it.
A copy can also carry a Docket tab for the dockets a firm signs. The tab checks those dockets four times a day and lists each new order, ruling and settlement, with a link to the filing. Appearances, summonses, short-form complaints and clerk entries stay off the list.
Four starting desks
Litigation desk. The active consumer mass torts and the national plaintiff firms, for a firm that signs cases.
Deal desk, buyer. MSO and private equity news, the platforms doing deals, and the docket events that price an inventory: bellwether results, Daubert rulings, settlement programs.
Deal desk, seller. The same deal coverage, plus the state rules on nonlawyer ownership and fee sharing, and the firms that have already taken investment.
Risk desk. Coverage litigation read from the policyholder’s side. It covers denials and bad faith verdicts, and the exclusions carriers are writing into D&O and technology errors and omissions policies. It also follows allocation and exhaustion fights in long-tail exposures, and the recalls and enforcement actions that become coverage disputes before they become settlements.
Every desk is a starting point. A firm adds its own litigations and firms on top, and I adjust any copy the same day a firm asks.
Terms of the pilot
A copy is free through March 31, 2027. It lives at its own address with the firm’s name at the top. The firm gets a read-only key to share across its team, and only I can change the copy. The firm’s topic list stays in that copy and is never shared with another firm.
The wire counts opens, scans and story clicks so I can see whether it earns its place on a firm’s screen. It records nothing else. It may carry one sponsor line later, from a company that serves the plaintiff bar. A law firm will never be a sponsor.
The pilot covers the news copy and a Docket tab for up to three dockets the firm signs. Before the pilot ends, I will send each firm the terms for keeping its copy after March 31, and the firm decides then. A firm that stops owes nothing, and its copy comes down.