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Seattle Law Firm Inks Insurance Deal In $1M Data Breach Suit
Insurers Cowbell Cyber Inc. and Spinnaker Insurance Co. have reached a tentative agreement with a Seattle law firm over the firm's alleged loss of more than $1 million following a data breach by hackers, according to an order Monday in Washington federal court.
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Relativity Partners With LegalTech Fund For $170M Dev Lab
Legal software company Relativity ODA LLC announced on Monday the launch of an investment arm and innovation hub focused on legal data intelligence in partnership with venture capital firm LegalTech Fund.
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Atty Sanctioned For 'Reckless' AI Use In DC FCA Case
An attorney who admitted to relying on generative artificial intelligence to help craft a brief that contained errors in all of its nine citations, was ordered to pay fee sanctions in a judge's order that emphasized attorneys should stick to the fundamentals taught in law school: "check your legal citations for accuracy."
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Epiq Acquires First Watch Data Breach Solutions
Legal tech company Epiq Systems Inc. announced Monday its acquisition of the data breach solutions division from cybersecurity services company First Watch Technologies, which will add 100 employees and new incident response capabilities to Epiq.
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8th Circ. Revives Part Of Legal Tech Worker's OT Dispute
The Eighth Circuit said in a published opinion Monday that the Minnesota federal district court must reexamine whether it has jurisdiction over an employee at legal document review company Consilio's pursuit of statutory damages for unpaid overtime under the Minnesota Fair Labor Standards Act.
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Harvey Lands €50M Investment To Boost International Growth
The legal artificial intelligence platform Harvey is eyeing international growth after securing a €50 million (about $58.5 million) strategic investment on Monday.
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Logistics, Grocery Cos. Can't Keep Wage Suit In Fed. Court
Inflated damages calculations and speculative attorney fee estimates can't keep a worker's suit accusing a logistics company and a wholesale grocery store chain of wage and hour violations in federal court, a California federal judge said Friday, vacating an earlier arbitration order.
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CEO-Led Consortium Releases Framework For Procuring AI
The Data & Trusted AI Alliance, a data-focused nonprofit group led by chief executive officers, has announced the release of its AI Vendor Assessment Framework, which it claims can help businesses navigate the vendor review process while evaluating generative artificial intelligence products.
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NetDocuments Buys OpenText Legal Doc Software For $163M
Canada-based information management software company OpenText has announced the sale of its legal document management software eDOCS and its related assets and staff to cloud platform NetDocuments for $163 million in cash.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another busy week, with more government attorneys moving to private practice, leadership changes and artificial intelligence-related court filing mishaps. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Nordic Legal AI Startup Saga Raises €1.5M In Seed Funding
Saga, a year-old startup based in Norway and the Netherlands, announced Thursday its first outside raise, bringing in seed funding of €1.5 million (around $1.76 million) for its legal artificial intelligence platform.
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NY Courts Back Use Of New Evidence Management Tech
The chief administrative judge of the New York Courts encouraged its commercial division in an administrative order to take advantage of web-based digital platforms known as virtual evidence courtrooms to help manage and present evidence during trials.
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Kennedys Partners With AI Copilot Spellbook To Train Attys
U.K.-based law firm Kennedys Law LLP announced the coming launch of a training program for its younger attorneys in partnership with Spellbook, a document automation software provider, to supplement the type of entry-level coaching lost with the introduction of artificial intelligence into the legal profession.
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Legal AI Platform Harvey Expands To 11 More Law Schools
Harvey, a domain-specific generative artificial intelligence platform for legal professionals, announced Tuesday that it is expanding the law school alliance program it launched last month to even more institutions.
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Google Unit Flags China-Linked Cyberthreat To Legal Sector
The U.S. legal sector, as well as the software and tech industries, are being targeted by hackers with suspected ties to the Chinese government who use malware to creep into computer systems and maintain access to the targeted organizations, according to a warning issued by Google's Threat Intelligence Group.
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Everlaw Hires Ex-Google Engineering Director As 1st CTO
Investigation and litigation platform Everlaw on Wednesday announced the hiring of a former engineering director at Google as its first chief technology officer, as it looks to expand its software's artificial intelligence features.
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Data Services Co. HaystackID Expands In London
Data services company HaystackID, which helps teams with legal and compliance events, announced Wednesday both the expansion of its artificial intelligence capabilities and growth in London, including the hiring of a former digital forensics investigator for London's Metropolitan Police.
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7th Circ. Urges Litigants To Exercise Caution In Using AI
A Seventh Circuit panel ended an inmate's appeal of his life sentence, noting in an unpublished opinion filed Tuesday that his lawyer found no real legal issues worth raising, while warning the parties not to rely blindly on generative AI when writing court papers, as it can lead to serious mistakes.
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Law Professors, Tech Groups Back ROSS In Westlaw IP Fight
A tech startup appealing an adverse fair use ruling to the Third Circuit has received nearly a dozen briefs in support of its position that it did not infringe copyrighted material from Thomson Reuters' Westlaw platform to create a competing legal research tool driven by artificial intelligence.
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Texas Law Firm Sues Staff Over Accessing Zoom Transcript
A Texas state judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking three Tessmer Law Firm employees from accessing the firm's records and electronic systems, on the same day the San Antonio firm launched a suit accusing the workers of having improperly accessed the transcript of a confidential Zoom meeting and later tampered with firm files.
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FCA Suit Tainted By Expert's AI 'Hallucination' Gets Dismissed
A False Claims Act suit rocked by allegations of AI-generated hallucinations in an expert's report ended Tuesday after the federal government joined the case and quickly urged a Utah federal judge to throw it out.
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Miami Law Adds AI Prompting To Admissions Application
The University of Miami School of Law, which launched an artificial intelligence law lab last year, is including an optional question in its admissions application this fall that is designed to assess prospective students' ability to craft prompts for generative AI tools.
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Legal Tech Co. Eve Valued At Over $1B After $103M Series B
Eve, a legal artificial intelligence tool designed for plaintiff law firms, achieved the "unicorn" status of being valued at over $1 billion after securing a $103 million Series B investment Tuesday.
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Epiq Launches Program To Boost Legal Operations Efficiency
Epiq has launched a program to provide flexible legal talent access to its subject matter experts, the legal technology and services provider announced Tuesday.
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Eversheds ALSP Adds Biz Professional From A&O Shearman
Eversheds Sutherland announced on Tuesday that the former U.S. head of Allen Overy Shearman Sterling's global flexible sourcing platform has joined the firm to lead the interim legal resourcing offerings of its alternative legal services provider, Konexo US.
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Legal Tech Talks
Company founders, attorneys and other professionals working in the legal tech space share their journeys into the industry, challenges they face when working with law firms and legal departments, and common misconceptions about technology.
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Legal Tech Talks: Morphisec CMO On Cybersecurity Threats
Brad LaPorte, chief marketing officer of Morphisec, discusses how, despite advancements in legal tech, many firms still struggle with properly securing and organizing vast amounts of data, as well as how the legal industry often lags in tech adoption due to misconceptions about its complexity.
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The Augmented Lawyer: AI Exercises For Junior Attorneys
As artificial intelligence tools become increasingly adept at handling entry-level legal tasks, firms and organizations must consider new ways to train and mentor junior attorneys to prepare them for leadership in an AI-integrated profession, say attorneys at KXT Law.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Embrace LinkedIn
Attorneys who recognize LinkedIn as a powerful professional platform can gain significant competitive advantages in business development via strategic content creation, meaningful industry discussions and consistent visibility within target markets, says Agatha Mouillet at Horvitz & Levy.
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AI-Powered Biz Development Can Democratize Rainmaking
As fluency in artificial intelligence becomes a competitive imperative in the legal industry, the next generation of rainmakers likely won’t be defined by their Rolodexes or club memberships, but by their ability to leverage AI business development tools effectively, says Jessica Aries at By Aries.
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How Law Students Can Effectively Use AI In Their Job Search
Law students can use artificial intelligence tools strategically throughout the job application process to review materials, prepare for interviews and navigate employers’ use of similar tools, but there are several key missteps they should be careful to avoid, says Lauren Wong at University of San Diego School of Law.
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Legal Tech Talks: Integreon CEO On Stalled Progress
Subroto Mukerji, CEO of Integreon, discusses how progress can stall when teams focus too heavily on selecting the right technology rather than identifying the right applications, and highlights how there is a need for consistent, principle-based frameworks that guide responsible artificial intelligence usage.
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The Augmented Lawyer: Crafting Responsible AI Policies
As the legal industry increasingly looks to impose responsive guardrails for artificial intelligence use, firms and organizations’ internal use policies, outside counsel guidelines and vendor contracts can address confidentiality and data retention concerns in several ways, say attorneys at KXT Law.
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Attorneys often limit the impact of their thought leadership by letting their content languish after initial publication, but through four easy strategies for retooling existing content, they can maximize its reach and further their business development goals, says Jillian McKenna at Verrill Dana.
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Market Consolidation Is Driving Legal Tech's Future
The legal artificial intelligence market is nearing a strategic reset driven by market consolidation, rising expectations for reliability, and a widening skills gap between AI-native and AI-skeptical lawyers, say Saahil Dama at McKinsey and Amulya Chinmaye at ServiceNow.
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Talking Mental Health: Encouraging New Attys To Find Joy
Rudene Haynes at Hunton discusses her experiences as a hiring partner, common sources of stress that newer attorneys face and steps that law firms can take to protect their attorneys' mental health and encourage personal life fulfillment.
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Fla. Bar's Cyber Incident Response Plan Sets Precedent
The incident response plan developed by the Florida Bar's cybersecurity and privacy committee might not seem all that consequential, but it's a long overdue framework that could go a long way toward protecting the highly sensitive data law firms handle — and could even set a model for other professional organizations to follow, says Chris Boehm at Zero Networks.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Be A Mentor Or Mentee
Mentorship is a powerful tool for business development when both mentors and mentees approach their relationships with strategic purpose, ensuring professional success while supporting broader business goals, say Angela Liu at Dechert and Jessica Lewis at WilmerHale.
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Law Schools Must Teach Applied AI Literacy
To truly future-proof their graduates, law schools must move beyond treating artificial intelligence as a passing topic or niche elective — instead, it must become a fundamental part of the core curriculum, says Mark Doble at Alexi.
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Risk Mitigation Tips For Legal Teams Using Unvetted AI Tools
The rapid growth in ungoverned artificial intelligence usage in legal departments stems directly from significant resource constraints, creating fertile ground for shadow AI adoption, so compliance leaders must implement governance now or face enforcement actions, lawsuits and competitive disadvantage later, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.