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Corporate Clients Want Receipts On Law Firm AI
Both law firms and in-house legal teams say they are noticing an uptick in requests for proposals that demand greater detail on how outside counsel uses artificial intelligence to increase efficiency for client work.
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Key Details To Know As Judiciary Rules Face Decisive Votes
Judiciary panels are poised for pivotal votes on controversial rules governing wide-ranging topics — from the age-old and analog to the newfangled and high-tech — after a six-month stretch of public hearings and trade group mobilization climaxed with an influx of impassioned opinions.
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Anthropic Makes Legal Inroads With 4 New Partnerships
The artificial intelligence research company Anthropic released new integrations across multiple enterprise software platforms Tuesday, including new partnerships with four legal technology companies.
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Ex-Goodwin Silicon Valley COO Joins Sandstone As Adviser
Legal technology company Sandstone announced Tuesday that Mary O'Carroll, most recently the Silicon Valley-based chief operating officer of Goodwin Procter LLP, joined it as a product expert adviser.
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Pro Se Atty Asks 10th Circ. To Rehear Frontier Bias Suit
A self-represented attorney asked the Tenth Circuit on Monday to reconsider its decision to back the lower court's dismissal of her racial discrimination lawsuit against Frontier Airlines, arguing that a panel misread her allegations that gate agents mocked her Indian accent and denied her boarding.
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Legal AI Co. LawFairy Gains SRA Authorization
LawFairy Ltd., which provides intelligence services to legal professionals and businesses, announced Monday that it's gained approval by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to operate as a law firm in England and Wales under a separate entity.
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Stanford Law School Names Executive Director Of AI Initiative
Stanford Law School announced Monday the appointment of a former artificial intelligence adviser to the California State Senate as executive director of the Stanford Law School AI Initiative, which seeks to advance interdisciplinary research, teaching and engagement with industry leaders and policymakers.
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Pittsburgh Law Firm Hit With Class Claims Over Data Breach
A Pittsburgh-based law firm has been hit with proposed class claims alleging it failed to protect clients' private information, which was compromised by a data breach in May.
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DocLegal.ai Files Cease-And-Desist Over Similar Domain
Hong Kong-based legal document template provider DocPro Ltd. announced Monday it has sent a formal cease-and-desist demand to the operators of a website using a similar domain name to its DocLegal.ai solution.
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Harvey Inks Deal To Integrate Privilege Protection Into AI
Legal tech platform Harvey said Monday that it has signed a deal with risk management software provider Intapp to integrate privilege protection guardrails into its technology as an increasing number of law firms embed artificial intelligence into their workflows.
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'Scare Tactics Work' But Hope Persists For Legal Industry DEI
The suspension of Diversity Lab's Mansfield Certification program is the latest indication that political threats against BigLaw are working, as the Trump administration targets DEI programs, observers say. Still, some supporters of legal industry diversity initiatives predict law firms will continue to pursue inclusive hiring practices — even if they don't talk about it publicly.
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What's Costing Legal Marketing Officers Sleep
Finding the best ways to implement artificial intelligence and maximizing employees' business development are some of the things keeping legal industry professionals up at night, according to a new report by public relations firm Greentarget.
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Attys Regret Unnoticed ChatGPT Errors In Conn. Court Filings
Attorneys ordered to explain errors in two January Connecticut Supreme Court briefs said ChatGPT altered legal arguments that counsel did not notice when they asked the artificial intelligence software to help limit duplicate passages, meet word count rules and format the filings.
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HSF Kramer Wants To Show BigLaw Can Also Be AI-Native
On the heels of its recent transatlantic merger, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP is one of the largest law firms seeking to become "AI-native," a term being used by several newly launched smaller law firms that promise to provide cheaper and faster legal services than traditional law firms.
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Boies Schiller Partner Faces Possible Sanctions For AI Errors
A Boies Schiller Flexner LLP partner must explain why he should not face monetary sanctions for filing a brief containing artificial intelligence-generated citation errors amid his representation of women who allege the Church of Scientology harassed them for reporting convicted actor Danny Masterson's sexual assaults.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another busy week for the legal industry as law firms hired new talent and named new leaders across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Legal Tech Roundup: Qumis, Doctrine
An attorney-trained insurance platform securing another investment tops this roundup of recent legal technology news.
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Legal Operation Structuring Key To Efficiency, Says AI Co.
Legal departments considering operational improvements through hiring should instead consider implementing centralized and automated processes, according to a report from legal technology startup Streamline AI titled "The State of Legal Efficiency."
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Meet The Attys 'Vibe-Coding' Their Own AI Apps
Some attorneys are creating their own artificial intelligence applications from scratch with new software, inspiring others in the legal profession to follow do-it-yourself technology dreams.
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Ethics Guidance Lags Private Equity's Interest In Legal Field
More lawyers are expected to seek guidance on the ethical issues surrounding the growing interest in using managed services organizations to allow private equity investment in law firms, but thus far any input on the model from state ethics committees is in short supply.
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5th Circ. Sanctions Atty Over AI-Generated Errors In Brief
The Fifth Circuit on Wednesday sanctioned a Texas attorney for using generative artificial intelligence to draft a brief that was "riddled with fabricated quotations and assertions," while rebuking the attorney for not being more forthcoming about her use of the technology and her failure to check its accuracy.
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Ex-Palantir Engineers Cleared To Return To Work For Rival
A New York federal judge Wednesday preliminarily blocked several former Palantir employees from recruiting from Palantir for their rival company, Percepta AI, but he refused to block them from working there, as Palantir had requested in the litigation accusing them of stealing confidential information for their new endeavor.
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Amazon Says Atty Accused Of TM Scheme Used AI Citations
Amazon has told a Seattle federal judge that California attorney Kathy Q. Hao relied on artificial intelligence-hallucinated case law in her effort to escape its lawsuit accusing her of participating in a fraudulent trademark scheme, urging the court to weigh sanctions against the lawyer over what the e-commerce and technology giant called "fabricated citations."
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Google's Kent Walker Talks AI, Competition, Digital Regulation
Kent Walker, general counsel and president of global affairs for Google LLC and its parent company Alphabet Inc., said in a recent speech in Ireland that new technology has given the world "a reset button," similar to the discovery and development of algebra, but that it was incumbent on European Union leaders to streamline regulations and act as a force for growth.
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AltaClaro, Verbit Team Up For Deposition Simulation Software
Lawyer training program AltaClaro Inc. and artificial intelligence-powered transcription platform Verbit announced Wednesday the joint launch of DepoSim, which provides deposition simulation training for attorneys.
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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Roundup
Ask A Mentor
As the legal profession undergoes a dramatic period of change, experts answer questions on career and workplace conundrums in this Law360 guest article series.
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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.