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The School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis has announced the launch of its inaugural AI Advisory Board, as well as the 19 lawyers, judges, executives and academics making up the initial cohort at the law school.
In today's turbulent times — especially regarding technology — general counsel are having to brief the board on geopolitical volatility as much as on legal issues, an expert panel told an AI legal conference Wednesday.
A California federal judge has sanctioned a California class action attorney for filing a motion riddled with "egregious" erroneous citations, finding that the citations "bear the hallmarks" of cases hallucinated by artificial intelligence despite the lawyer's insistence that she'd never even heard of AI until opposing counsel made the accusation.
Jus Mundi, a France-based search engine that helps lawyers involved with international arbitration gather vital data quickly, announced on Wednesday the launch of its new legal assistant product Jus AI 2, which leans more on agentic artificial intelligence than its previous iteration.
Wolters Kluwer's CT Corp., which is the legal entity compliance management unit for the professional services and software giant, announced Tuesday a collaboration with ABC Legal Services that it claims will streamline service of process in the U.S. through digital delivery.
Lawhive said on Wednesday that it has bought a regulated English law firm, in a first for the U.K. legal market as the legal technology platform expands after securing funding from Google's venture capital arm.
Nearly nine out of 10 business leaders who participated in a recent survey expect artificial intelligence agents leading contract negotiations to become a reality by 2028, although many acknowledge the risks involved, according to a report on the results released Wednesday.
A Connecticut federal judge on Tuesday warned a multistate solo practitioner that an "eye-catching sanction" may be necessary to stop attorneys from filing briefs rife with fake case law generated by artificial intelligence systems, while the lawyer bemoaned the fact that he'd "trusted a tool."
Managed services organizations are quietly gaining ground in the U.S. legal industry as private equity companies eye the use of MSOs to overcome rules against fee sharing and nonlawyer ownership of firms, but critics warn that such a shift could open up an ethical Pandora's Box.
Intellectual property law firm Finnegan has launched an artificial intelligence practice group structured into four teams with dedicated leads handling niche matters in patents, copyrights, privacy and trade, the firm announced Tuesday.
Over 75% of respondents in a new general counsel survey released Tuesday reported that their companies expect them to implement artificial intelligence without any dedicated funding, forcing legal teams to redirect existing budgets.
Addleshaw Goddard LLP announced Tuesday that it hired the former head of law tech and chief knowledge and innovation officer at U.K. law firm Macfarlanes as a financial services partner with a focus on bolstering its tech offerings to clients.
Legal tech company Epiq Systems Inc. announced Tuesday the hiring of Kimberly Anstett, former global chief information officer at cybersecurity company Trellix, as its chief operating officer.
Zeal, a startup selling a subscription-based contract management platform, announced Monday the appointment of Darren Guy, a former legal operations director at insurance company AIG, as a member of its advisory board.
Pinsent Masons LLP announced Monday that it has started an online legal due diligence platform for use by clients and firm members in mergers and acquisitions transactions.
Thomson Reuters integrated its generative artificial intelligence assistant CoCounsel with the contract intelligence platform Icertis on Monday, in a new partnership aimed at improving efficiency and compliance across the enterprise.
Deloitte Legal and Swedish legal tech company Legora have announced plans to work together to help the law firm's U.K. lawyers and clients streamline their work through the use of artificial intelligence.
OnlyFans users who have alleged the site employs professional "chatters" to impersonate content creators are facing possible sanctions in their case, as a California federal judge ordered their attorneys to appear in court for filing briefs with nonexistent citations and quotations generated by an AI chatbot.
National employment law firm Jackson Lewis PC has changed its practice group structure and leadership, including appointing leaders for its workplace analytics and preventive strategies group and subgroups.
SCOREalytics, a legal intelligence platform that uses artificial intelligence to help organizations detect and manage legal risk, raised more than $3 million in seed funding on Friday.
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Palo Alto, California-based legal artificial intelligence startup Eudia has launched a law firm in Arizona, but the company's CEO Omar Haroun says it is designed to reduce in-house counsel's reliance on law firms.
A Connecticut federal judge has declined a gunmaker's bid to sanction a civil litigator who filed a document without proper redactions, finding that the error was inadvertent and did not meet the "high bar" necessary to run afoul of Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
The online platform OnlyFans' parent company said that a bid to correct legal briefs in a proposed class action against the company should be denied, arguing that the decision to use artificial intelligence to create mistake-riddled documents is severe misconduct and the briefs should be struck instead.
Legal technology has the potential to eliminate barriers for disabled attorneys navigating their careers and for disabled clients seeking access to justice, but to truly level the playing field, accessible technology must be designed with input from and empathy for the often-underrepresented communities it serves, say Lisa Mueller at Casimir Jones and attorney Haley Moss.
Despite strides made in the e-discovery industry, document reviews continue to be one of the most expensive line items for litigation, so law firms working with alternative legal service providers should consider key best practices, including providing clear protocol, having transparent deadlines, and more, says Phoebe Gebre at Integreon.
Generative AI applications like ChatGPT are unlikely to ever replace attorneys for a variety of practical reasons — but given their practice-enhancing capabilities, lawyers who fail to leverage these tools may be rendered obsolete, says Eran Kahana at Maslon.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's recent elimination of a rule that partially counted pro bono work toward continuing legal education highlights the importance of volunteer work in intellectual property practice and its ties to CLE, and puts a valuable tool for hands-on attorney education in the hands of the states, say Lisa Holubar and Ariel Katz at Irwin.
Several forces are reshaping partners’ expectations about profit-sharing, and as compensation structures evolve in response, firms should keep certain fundamentals in mind to build a successful partner reward system, say Michael Roch at MHPR Advisors and Ray D'Cruz at Performance Leader.
As law firms turn to legal technology to help expedite case processing and other workflows, leaders must focus on creating a lean set of business tools and keep one eye on the future to plan their technology road map, says Simon Whitburn at Exterro.
Taking the time to learn which cybersecurity attacks could pose the most likely threat to your law firm is the first step to keeping sensitive data safe, protecting valuable client relationships and potentially saving millions of dollars in losses, says Daniel Klein at Cynet.
As law firms embrace Web3 technologies by accepting cryptocurrency as payment for legal fees, investing in metaverse departments and more, lawyers should remember their ethical duties to warn clients of the benefits and risks of technology in a murky regulatory environment, says Heidi Frostestad Kuehl at Northern Illinois University College of Law.
New York's recently announced requirement that lawyers complete cybersecurity training as part of their continuing legal education is a reminder that securing client information is more complicated in an increasingly digital world, and that expectations around attorneys' technology competence are changing, says Jason Schwent at Clark Hill.
Companies must focus on several preliminary tasks when integrating artificial intelligence into their contract life cycle management systems to reap the benefits of data-driven insights and seamless processes, says Charmel Rhyne at Onit.
Summer associates are expected to establish a favorable reputation and develop genuine relationships in a few short weeks, but several time management, attitude and communication principles can help them make the most of their time and secure an offer for a full-time position, says Joseph Marciano, who was a 2022 summer associate at Reed Smith.
Gibson Dunn's Debra Yang shares the bumps in her journey to becoming the first female Asian American U.S. attorney, a state judge and a senior partner in BigLaw, and how other women can face their self-doubts and blaze their own trails to success amid systemic obstacles.
Law firms that are considering creating an in-house alternative legal service provider should focus not on recapturing revenue otherwise lost to outside vendors, but instead consider how a captive ALSP will better fulfill the needs of their clients and partners, say Beatrice Seravello and Brad Blickstein at Baretz & Brunelle.
Law firms implementing artificial intelligence tools to help lawyers find answers to administrative questions should remember that poor data integration practices can be costly and time-consuming, and must consider four steps to lay the groundwork, says Bim Dave at Helm360.
Best practices for adopting new legal technology include considering the details of the organization's needs, assembling an implementation team, integrating the new tool into the workflow and making it as easy as possible for the user, says Kate Orr at Orrick.