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Gibson Dunn Partner Joins Harvey As Strategy Chief
Legal artificial intelligence giant Harvey named BigLaw partner Keith Enright as its chief strategy officer on Monday, the latest attorney from a major law firm to join the growing legal technology player.
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Ore. Atty Sanctioned $10K For Brief With Fabricated Citations
An Oregon appellate court has ordered an attorney to pay $10,000 for filing an opening brief containing fabricated case citations, quotations that "do not exist anywhere in Oregon case law" and other inaccuracies, according to an opinion.
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Where Calif. State Courts Landed On Generative AI Use Rules
The majority of California's 58 superior courts — together making up the country's largest trial court system — have decided to greenlight the use of generative artificial intelligence in their work this year, a Law360 investigation found.
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Emory Law School Launching An AI Study Program
Emory University School of Law in Atlanta is launching a concentration center on artificial intelligence and the law that will be offered beginning in the upcoming academic year.
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HSF Kramer Plans To Expand AI Acceleration Team In US
HSF Kramer is recruiting for at least three new artificial intelligence roles in the U.S. after appointing its first global chief AI officer, positioning its team as a driver of growth for the firm.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
During this past week in legal industry news, there were leadership transitions, new offices, and the dissolution of a combination. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Client Engagement Co. Case Status Hits Staff With Layoffs
Client engagement platform Case Status has told staff that many of its teams will be reduced by 30% as leadership pivots toward becoming a "full" artificial intelligence company focused on customers at mid-to-large law firms.
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Legal Tech Roundup: Relativity Quietly Files For IPO
The filing of an initial public offering from a legal technology company tops this roundup of recent industry news.
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Overheard At Legalweek: AI Enters Next Phase
Governance, legal operations, specialized tools, tangible results and vendor similarities are poised to dominate the next era of artificial intelligence, according to what I overheard at a recent legal technology conference.
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Anatomy Of A Citation Hallucination: AI Edit, Associate Review
Counsel for consumers in a supplement labeling lawsuit against Amazon responded Wednesday to a Seattle federal judge's order to explain an AI-hallucinated citation, saying the error was introduced by a generative artificial intelligence tool used to "harmonize" drafts of a brief, then missed by a fifth-year Boies Schiller associate tasked with checking the citations.
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AI Errors Likely To Persist Despite Escalating Court Sanctions
Judges have begun issuing sanctions to lawyers, escalating the consequences over artificial intelligence-generated errors, but attorneys say that penalties might not be enough to stop the problem.
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Irish Firm Arthur Cox Hires Ex-PTSB Lead As CTO
Ireland-based corporate law firm Arthur Cox LLP announced on Thursday the hiring of the former head of enterprise information technology services at personal and business bank Permanent TSB Group Holdings PLC as its chief technology officer.
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Calif. Bills Would Reform Litigation Funding, Client Recruiting
Two new bills introduced to the California Assembly this week seek to impose reforms on the state's legal industry, including adding mandatory disbarment for attorneys convicted of felony "capping" — or illegally paying for client recruitment — and blocking corporate litigation funders from influencing cases.
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Legal Software Company Luminance Hires Chief Tech Officer
Luminance Technologies Ltd., a U.K. software company producing artificial intelligence tools for enterprise legal teams, announced it has hired the former vice president for product and AI at business software startup ClickUp to serve as its chief technology officer.
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Lawhive Plots US Law Firm Buying Spree After NY Expansion
Artificial intelligence-native law firm Lawhive opened an office in New York on Wednesday and disclosed plans to acquire other U.S.-based law firms to grow its presence across the country.
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Goodwin Launches OC Office With 3 Ex-Jones Day Partners
Goodwin Procter LLP has launched its first Orange County office with a trio of powerhouse cybersecurity and privacy attorneys from Jones Day, marking yet another expansion of its West Coast footprint, with existing offices in Los Angeles, Santa Monica and the Bay Area, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Norway Startup Newcode.ai Raises $6.5M
Norway-based Newcode.ai, which claims to be building an operating system designed for artificial intelligence use by legal teams, announced Tuesday that it raised $6.5 million in seed funding.
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Cyber Risk Increases Around Transactions, Study Finds
Nearly one in four executives has experienced a cyber incident during or shortly after a transaction, according to a report released Tuesday by FTI Consulting Inc. evaluating the correlation between cybersecurity incidents and corporate transactions.
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Ex-Crowell & Moring E-Discovery Co-Chair Rejoins Pillsbury
The former co-chair of the e-discovery and information management practice at Crowell & Moring LLP joined Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP to serve as head of e-discovery consulting and counsel in its litigation group, according to a LinkedIn post Monday.
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Willkie Inks Deal For LexisNexis Protégé After Harvey Rollout
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has adopted LexisNexis' AI-powered legal assistant, the latest legal tech tool the firm has endorsed after it rolled out Harvey for its lawyers.
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Mullen Coughlin Grows Litigation Team With E-Discovery Atty
Data-privacy-focused firm Mullen Coughlin LLC is expanding its team, bringing in as a partner an artificial intelligence, e-discovery, and privacy and security expert who most recently was with Guidepost Solutions.
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Judges Using AI For Some Tasks, But Cautious About Risks
Every federal and state judge who participated in a recent survey said they are using generative artificial intelligence in their work, but acknowledged the risks the technology poses and insisted it should only help with speeding certain tasks, according to a new report.
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Australian Legal AI Startup MiAI Launches With Initial Capital
A technology startup in Australia aiming to grow its legal artificial intelligence reasoning system officially launched Monday after what it described as successful beta tests with law firms.
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DLA Piper Rolls Out Firmwide Access To Harvey AI
DLA Piper said Monday that it has deployed artificial intelligence platform Harvey firmwide to help its lawyers use the technology to draft documents and other materials more efficiently after it ran a competitive trial.
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Pro Bono Net Rebrands To Scale Justice
Pro Bono Net announced on Monday that it has changed its name to Scale Justice in what the nonprofit calls "a new chapter in the organization's 25-plus-year commitment to making legal help more equitable and attainable for millions."