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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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How Real Estate Attorneys Are Tapping Into Tech
Between the arrival of artificial intelligence in the mainstream and real estate companies' embrace of technology and data over the past few years, real estate attorneys have been confronted by a need to keep up, while also being presented with an array of new tools to enhance their work.
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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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Legal Tech's New Law Firm Experiment Faces Old Challenges
After years of selling software, some legal technology companies have bought or launched their own law firms or stepped further into providing legal services. What will be worth watching is whether these new firms learned from the lessons of the previous generation of would-be law firms, which mostly ended up in the tech graveyard.
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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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SimpleDocs Buys Law Insider, Combining Contract Tools
The artificial intelligence-native contract automation platform SimpleDocs has acquired the public contract and clause database Law Insider, combining two companies with similar products and leadership, according to a Tuesday announcement.
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Atty Behind Bogus Cites 'Tremendously Wrong,' Judge Says
A Georgia federal judge ruled Monday that an attorney for four women suing comedian Katt Williams violated a federal civil procedure rule by filing briefs including erroneous citations suspected to be generated by artificial intelligence, even as the lawyer claimed it was "the first time I've ever heard of" said rule.
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Analytics Co. Legal Decoder Gets Investment, Appoints CEO
Billing analytics platform Legal Decoder announced Monday it received a strategic investment from New York-based growth equity firm Trajectory Capital Management for an undisclosed price.
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Legal Network Meritas Names New Legal Tech Program Head
International law firm network Meritas said Monday it has chosen a former training and support manager at Chicago-based Goldberg Kohn Ltd. to be the new head of its legal technology program.
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Italy-Based Lexroom.ai Raises €16M Series A
Italy-based Lexroom.ai, which offers an artificial intelligence-based legal research tool, closed a €16 million Series A funding round (around $18.8 million) for scaling its operations, according to cofounder Paolo Fois in a LinkedIn post Monday.
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Trump Demands Microsoft Fire Ex-Biden Deputy AG Monaco
President Donald Trump on Friday demanded that Microsoft fire its new President of Global Affairs Lisa Monaco, deputy attorney general in the Biden administration and homeland security adviser in the Obama administration, in what seems to be the president's latest effort to exact revenge on his perceived political enemies.
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Atty Fights Uphill To Nix Sanctions For Motion With AI Errors
MPH International's counsel urged a California federal judge Friday to change his mind on sanctions requiring him to report to the state bar for filing a summary-judgment motion with AI-generated errors, arguing he had COVID, such mistakes are becoming commonplace and disciplinary proceedings could harm small practices and pro-bono work.
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Calif. Justices Approve Changes To Bar Exam Oversight Rule
The California Supreme Court has approved amendments to the state rules of court, in part to clarify oversight of the California bar exam in the wake of a botched administration in February.
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Texas' Eastern District Tightens Sealed-Document Procedures
Chief U.S. District Judge Amos L. Mazzant III of the Eastern District of Texas issued new protocols Wednesday for filing sealed documents that will prohibit electronic access effective immediately, a move that comes amid escalating cyberattacks on the federal judiciary's case management system.
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TruLegal To Continue Recruiting Technologists For ICAAD
TruLegal, which operates a talent network to help law firms and legal departments fill roles in areas such as e-discovery and data privacy, announced it will continue its partnership with the International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination that connects the nonprofit with volunteer technology professionals.
Expert Analysis
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Collaborative Tech Will Dictate Future Law Firm Success
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Law firms need to shift their focus from solving the needs of their lawyers with siloed solutions to implementing collaboration technology, thereby enabling more seamless workflows and team experiences amid widespread embrace of hybrid and remote work models, says Kate Jasaitis at HBR Consulting.
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How Dynamic Project Management Can Help Law Firms
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Law firms looking to streamline matter management should consider tools that offer both employees and clients real-time access to documents, action items, task assignee information and more, overcoming many of the limitations of project communications via email, says Stephen Weyer at Stites & Harbison.
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How Firms Can Benefit From Creating Their Own ALSPs
As more law firms develop their own legal services centers to serve as both a source of flexible personnel and technological innovation, they can further enhance the effectiveness by fostering a consistent and cohesive team and allowing for experimentation with new technologies from an established baseline, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.
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Keys To Digitizing Inefficient Contract Management Processes
Neville Eisenberg and Mark Grayson at BCLP explain how they sped up contract execution for one client by replacing email with a centralized, digital tool for negotiations and review, and how the principles they adhered to can be helpful for other law firms looking to improve poorly managed contract management processes.
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Law Firm Tips For Evaluating AI And Machine Learning Tools
Many legal technology vendors now sell artificial intelligence and machine learning tools at a premium price tag, but law firms must take the time to properly evaluate them as not all offerings generate process efficiencies or even use the technologies advertised, says Steven Magnuson at Ballard Spahr.
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Learning How To Code Can Unleash New Potential In Lawyers
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.