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5th Circuit Does It Again: Puts Yet Another Law Already Deemed Unconstitutional Into Effect With No Explanation

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From the the-5th-circuit-is-lawless dept The post 5th Circuit Does It Again: Puts Yet Another Law Already Deemed Unconstitutional Into Effect With No Explanation appeared first on Above the Law.

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LexBlog’s Role in the Ethics and Security of AI-Assisted Legal Blogging

Kevin O'Keefe

Education and working with a trusted partner may be the best answer in assuring you as a lawyer or law firm are acting in an ethical and secure fashion when using AI in legal blogging. Large law firms began blogging twenty years ago, not without ethical and security concerns. LexBlog, having brought the concept of blogging to lawyers and law firms, addressed as many of these concerns as anyone.

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Thomas Suh and Ken Block on How LegalMation is Revolutionizing Litigation Efficiency (TGIR Ep. 222)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

On this episode of The Geek in Review, hosts Marlene Gebauer and Greg Lambert interview Thomas Suh , Founder and CEO, and Ken Block , Senior Account Executive of ⁠ LegalMation ⁠. The company provides AI-powered tools to help litigators automate repetitive tasks and work more efficiently. The conversation focuses on LegalMation’s products, overcoming resistance to adopting new legal tech, and predictions for the future evolution of legal service delivery.

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Trellis CEO Dishes on Company Origin & Current LegalTech Developments — Law of Tech Podcast

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Catch the latest episode of The Law of Tech podcast subseries ‘LegalTech Startup Spotlight’, to zoom in on some of the amazing LegalTech companies across the globe and the incredible minds behind them. You’ll hear from our CEO and co-founder… Continue reading → The post Trellis CEO Dishes on Company Origin & Current LegalTech Developments — Law of Tech Podcast first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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Visibility Into the Strategy & Supporting Documents of Major US Law Firms

Law Firm Intelligence by Trellis aggregates state trial court data across the Trellis platform enabling users to: look up a particular metric related to a specific law firm (such as, how many cases a law firm had or has against another law firm), and see the actual dockets and documents supporting the metric. Trellis data is maximized in a revolutionary and unique way to provide users an exclusive look into a law firm litigating in state trial courts.

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The legal industry reacts to Amazon investing up to $4bn in Anthropic

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Amazon and Anthropic this week announced a strategic collaboration that will see Amazon invest up to $4bn in the gen AI startup, massively accelerating the development of its future foundation … The legal industry reacts to Amazon investing up to $4bn in Anthropic Read More » The post The legal industry reacts to Amazon investing up to $4bn in Anthropic appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Tech Survey Reveals The Era Of Biglaw AI Is Already Here

Above the Law - Technology

Biglaw may be all in on AI but they aren't exactly sure what to do with it. The post Tech Survey Reveals The Era Of Biglaw AI Is Already Here appeared first on Above the Law.

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Quiz: Anything Wrong With These Sentences?

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Teddy Snyder | Let's test your attorney grammar skills with a communication quiz! Figure out if these sentences are fine or if you can make them better. The post Quiz: Anything Wrong With These Sentences? appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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French lawmakers propose new copyright law about generative AI

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On September 12, several French lawmakers from the Assemblée nationale presented a law proposal to the Presidency which has the objective of reform some norms in existing copyright law (text of the proposal here).

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In A Law Practice Management Deal, MyCase Sells Off Accounting Software Soluno to Actionstep

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AffiniPay , the parent company of law practice management company MyCase , has sold off the legal accounting software Soluno to another law practice management company, Actionstep , in what the New Zealand-based Actionstep says is an important milestone for its expansion into the U.S. and Canadian markets. MyCase acquired the cloud-based Soluno in 2021, saying at the time that it would leverage Soluno’s expertise to develop full-featured accounting natively within the MyCase platform.

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Breaking: Judge Rules Ross Intelligence Copied Westlaw’s Headnotes, But Leaves for Jury to Decide if It Violated Thomson Reuters’ Copyright

Above the Law - Technology

It has been a while since I have written about the copyright lawsuit by legal research giant Thomson Reuters against the no-shuttered legal research startup Ross Intelligence, in which TR alleges that Ross stole copyright content from Westlaw to build its own completing legal research product. But today, the judge overseeing the case, 3 rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephanos Bibas, sitting by designation in the U.S.

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Stay On Top of Newly Filed State & Federal Litigation: Curated Just for You!

With Daily Filings Report by Trellis you will receive an email and csv file daily with all new cases filed in the jurisdictions you're tracking. Each new case will include all case metadata like judge, parties, counsel, practice area, and even direct links to the full docket and complaint. Trellis Daily Filings Reports provide direct access to newly filed state and federal litigation curated just for you.

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Supreme Court to Decide First Amendment Clash Between Social Media Platforms and States

Kevin O'Keefe

Adam Liptak of The New York Times reports that the Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether Florida and Texas may prohibit large social media companies from removing posts based on the views the posts express, setting the stage for a major ruling on how the First Amendment applies to powerful tech platforms. Trade groups like NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association oppose the laws, arguing they violate First Amendment rights by requiring private companies to

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I Filed an Amicus Brief Against New York’s Editorial Transparency Law

Eric Goldman

Earlier this week, TechFreedom (led by Corbin Barthold and Andy Jung) and I filed an amicus brief with the Second Circuit against N.Y. General Business Law Section 394-ccc, the 2022 law that requires social media platforms to disclose their editorial policies towards “hateful conduct.” A New York federal district court preliminarily enjoined the law on constitutional grounds, and the case is now on appeal to the Second Circuit.

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The Truth About Hallucinations in Legal Research AI: How to Avoid Them and Trust Your Sources

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Hallucinations in generative AI are not a new topic. If you watch the news at all (or read the front page of the New York Times), you’ve heard of the two New York attorneys who used ChatGPT to create fake cases entire cases and then submitted them to the court. After that case, which resulted in a media frenzy and (somewhat mild) court sanctions, many attorneys are wary of using generative AI for legal research.

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‘Is AI Eating Legal Tech?’ Asks Zach Abramowitz

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Is AI, or more specifically generative AI, eating legal tech? That is the question posed by sector expert Zach Abramowitz of Killer Whale Strategies. The.

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AI Marches Inexorably Into Discovery Space As Relativity Announces aiR for Review

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Artificial intelligence comes to discovery. The post AI Marches Inexorably Into Discovery Space As Relativity Announces aiR for Review appeared first on Above the Law.

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The Future of Legal Blogging: Embracing AI While Ensuring Ethics and Security

Kevin O'Keefe

In a recent conversation on the use of AI by legal professionals, Ed Sohn , the SVP of Product & Solutions at Factor Law, brought us back to ground with what’s most important. [A] lot of people are talking about horsepower and the number of use cases they have and the kind of what’s under the hood, [the] technical explanation. [But] we have found that people have not been as vocal about what this means for the human—the challenges on the team—and we think that’s a really important dimension.

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Justia Legal Guides: Estate Planning Legal Center

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Death seems distant to most people in their 20s and 30s. They usually don’t think much about putting together a will or another type of estate planning instrument for their property in case they pass away. Legendary musician Jimi Hendrix was no different. On September 18, 1970, two days before his 28th birthday, Hendrix died from an overdose of alcohol and sleeping pills.

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Calming a Lawyer’s Warrior Brain

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Gray Robinson | Try these techniques to shut down your warrior brain and practice law from a calmer and easier place. The post Calming a Lawyer’s Warrior Brain appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Taylor Swift and the end of the Hollywood writers strike – a tale of two media narratives

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Professor Aarushi Bhandari was taken aback when she learned that not a single student had heard that the Writers Guild of America had reached a deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, or AMPTP, after a nearly 150-day strike. This historic deal includes significant raises, improvements in health care and pension support, and – unique to our times – protections against the use of artificial intelligence to write screenplays.

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Faster Horses

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AI is so new and so foreign to most legal professionals that they may think of their current mode of working when expressing their needs. The post Faster Horses appeared first on Above the Law.

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AI in the Workplace Will Come With a Price – and a Savings, Microsoft’s CoPilot is one Example

Kevin O'Keefe

Microsoft wil start selling its AI software, CoPilot, on November 1. CoPilot will be priced at $30 a person per month, which comes on top of the price for the legacy Office 365 suite. Will Feuer of the The Wall Street Journal reports , The Copilot software is designed to help employees with building PowerPoint presentations, managing their Outlook inbox and creating Word documents, among other uses.

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Justia Ask A Lawyer by the Numbers: Second Quarter 2023

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Justia Ask A Lawyer is our free forum where consumers can seek real answers to basic legal questions directly from licensed attorneys! The platform connects individuals with legal questions to knowledgeable lawyers. All users need to do is anonymously submit their questions. Then, lawyers in our directory can provide a basic answer that helps the user better understand the law.

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SHOP SAFE Act Reintroduced, Because Some Congressmembers Really Want to Kill Online Marketplaces

Eric Goldman

Two years ago, I covered the introduction of the SHOP SAFE Act, which would create a new species of trademark liability for online marketplaces. My 5,000 word post deconstructed the bill in detail so check it out to see what all the fuss was about. This week, Sens. Coons and Tillis reintroduced the SHOP SAFE Act with only minor changes from its 2021 incarnation.

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Relativity Announces aiR for Review, Its Generative AI Review Product, Plus Other AI Products for E-Discovery and Data Management

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At its Relativity Fest user conference in Chicago today, the e-discovery company Relativity announced the forthcoming release of Relativity aiR for Review, the first of a planned series of products that will use generative artificial intelligence to help legal professionals in their work. Built on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Services, aiR for Review will enable user to more quickly locate data that is responsive to a discovery request, material relating to different legal issues, and key documents, R

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Industry Insights On Am Law Marketing And Business Development

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New research sheds light on large firms' use of data to win business. The post Industry Insights On Am Law Marketing And Business Development appeared first on Above the Law.

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Harnessing the Positive Power of AI as a Lawyer: Get Amplified, per Former Google CEO and Executive Chair, Eric Schmidt

Kevin O'Keefe

I was blessed to catch a CNN interview with Former Google CEO and Executive Chair, Eric Schmidt , earlier this year. With what seems like the majority of folks, including the CNN reporter, focusing on the dangers of AI, Schmidt sees its benefits. Schmidt’s take is an important one for lawyers and law firms, who and the people they serve – including the society at large have so much to gain through is AI.

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Omnizant Makes Quality Websites Affordable with OneFirst Legal

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Legal websites run the gamut from simple “electronic business cards” to richly interactive sites. However, building the site is not enough. A website is not a Field of Dreams ; it’s not enough to build it and they will come. Success means site visitors ultimately become clients. A Website to Meet Your Goals Building and promoting a website often seems complex, expensive, and unnecessary to firms that earn most of their business from referrals.

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China Proposes Significant Changes to Cross-Border Transfer Rules

Inside Privacy

On September 28, 2023, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“ CAC ”) issued draft Provisions on Standardizing and Promoting Cross-Border Data Flows (Draft for Comment) (规范和促进数据跨境流动规定(征求意见稿)) (draft “ Provisions ”) (Chinese version available here ) for a public consultation, which will conclude on October 15, 2023. The draft Provisions propose significant changes to the existing cross-border data transfer regime established under China’s Personal Information Protection Law (“ PIPL ”).

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 23, 2023

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Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.

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Special Master Should Have Kept His ‘Reply All’ In The Drafts

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With email etiquette like this, you'd think he had gone to Columbia The post Special Master Should Have Kept His ‘Reply All’ In The Drafts appeared first on Above the Law.

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On LawNext Podcast: Training Lawyers to Use Generative AI, with AltaClaro Founder Abdi Shayesteh

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As generative AI sweeps through the legal profession, lawyers face challenges in learning to use it responsibly and properly. This summer, one of the world’s largest law firms, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe , began to address that challenge by partnering with the legal skills training company AltaClaro to develop a training program for its summer associates on prompt engineering and the responsible use of generative AI.

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Why Client-Focused Firms Are Choosing Flex Payments

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With flex payments, clients benefit from a secure and simplified payment process, with real-time financial insights. The post Why Client-Focused Firms Are Choosing Flex Payments appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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From Surprise Cuts to Overages: Hacks for In-House Legal Budgets

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Whether you need to make cuts pronto, or you're over budget (again), here are some productivity hacks that can help you quickly make sense of your legal budget.

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Mark Bilson joins Xperate to lead US expansion 

Legal IT Insiders

Legal technology veteran Mark Bilson is joining Xperate as its chief commercial officer to lead its expansion into North America, in a major hire for the UK-founded legal software development … Mark Bilson joins Xperate to lead US expansion Read More » The post Mark Bilson joins Xperate to lead US expansion appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Managing GAI Risk: Introducing The Generative AI Maturity Model

Above the Law - Technology

Maturity models allow your department to put its best foot forward in a rapidly changing and competitive field. The post Managing GAI Risk: Introducing The Generative AI Maturity Model appeared first on Above the Law.

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