Wed.May 03, 2023

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Actual Fake News: Elon Musk Threatens To Give Away News Source’s Account If They Don’t Behave

Above the Law - Technology

You got to hand it to a man who continues to make poor business decisions after halving his companies values and getting out-voted from leading it. The post Actual Fake News: Elon Musk Threatens To Give Away News Source’s Account If They Don’t Behave appeared first on Above the Law.

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AI-Assisted Professional Development: The Future of Attorney Training

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

If you haven’t seen Sal Khan’s TED Talk on how he has leveraged GPT-4 into his new offering of Khanmigo , then let me suggest that you spend 15 minutes of your time watching it. After watching it, continue on down the page for some thoughts that I had on how law firms could also use AI in their Professional Development and Training programs. Are you a law firm looking for ways to enhance the education and professional development of your attorneys?

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Law Librarians Play Central Role In Legal Tech Adoption And Use, AALL ‘State Of The Profession’ Report Shows

Above the Law - Technology

Whether they work in law firms or corporate legal, academia or government, law librarians play a central role in testing, recommending and deploying legal technology, according to the American Association of Law Libraries’ 2023 State of the Profession report, an exhaustive 252-page survey of the legal information landscape. This is the third time AALL has conducted this survey, which is actually three separate surveys of U.S. law librarians based on the type of organization for which they

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Chatbot Hallucinations Require Bloggers to Make Smart Use of AI

Kevin O'Keefe

If you don’t know an answer to a question already, I would not give the question to one of these systems [AI/ChatGPT],” says Subbarao Kambhampati, a professor and researcher of artificial intelligence at Arizona State University. This from a good piece , Wednesday morning by The New York Times’ Karen Weise and Cade Metz. Figuring out why chatbots make things up and how to solve the problem has become one of the most pressing issues facing researchers as the tech industry races toward the develop

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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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Now Live At The Non-Event: Your Guide To Clio App Integrations! [Sponsored]

Above the Law - Technology

We're pleased to present this new guide to the products that work well with Clio. (Clio itself has no involvement in this publication.) The post Now Live At The Non-Event: Your Guide To Clio App Integrations! appeared first on Above the Law.

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Top Online Forums for Lawyers

CaseFox

Legal professionals have a vast array of resources available to them for continuing education, networking, and staying up-to-date on industry trends. One of the most valuable resources for legal lawyers is online forums. Forums provide a platform for legal professionals to connect with each other, share experiences, ask questions, and gain insight into their practice areas.

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Attorney Compensation Trends: A Mid-Year Evaluation and How Proactive Law Firms Can Respond

Attorney at Work

Advice from the authors of the bestseller, "RESPECT: An Insight to Attorney Compensation Plans." The post Attorney Compensation Trends: A Mid-Year Evaluation and How Proactive Law Firms Can Respond appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Legal Innovators California: Adam Bentley, Uber Freight

Artificial Lawyer

This week’s Legal Innovators California Profile is with Adam Bentley, Global Head of Legal for Uber Freight, an Uber business that is taking logistics in a new direction for.

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The Updated UK Top 200 is out now! 

Legal IT Insiders

Today (3 May) we’re excited to soft launch our updated UK Top 200, which shows you the core systems in use at each of the UK’s top 200 largest firms by revenue. … The Updated UK Top 200 is out now! Read More » The post The Updated UK Top 200 is out now! appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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CJEU’s Advocate General Issues Opinion on GDPR Fines Against Companies

Inside Privacy

On April 27, 2023, the Advocate General (“AG”) of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) issued its opinion in the case C-807/21 on the conditions for imposing GDPR fines on legal persons (e.g., companies). He opined that Member States’ law may not stipulate conditions going beyond those set out in the GDPR that make it more difficult to impute GDPR infringements to companies.

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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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About Rapid Security Responses for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS–Apple

lennyesq

Rapid Security Responses deliver important security improvements between software updates. Rapid Security Responses are a new type of software release for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. They deliver important security improvements between software updates — for example, improvements to the Safari web browser, the WebKit framework stack, or other critical system libraries.

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Exclusive: UK top 100 firm Browne Jacobson to go live on Aderant Expert 

Legal IT Insiders

UK top 100 law firm Browne Jacobson is set to go live on Aderant Expert this month, swapping out the LexisOne enterprise resource planning system that it selected in 2014. … Exclusive: UK top 100 firm Browne Jacobson to go live on Aderant Expert Read More » The post Exclusive: UK top 100 firm Browne Jacobson to go live on Aderant Expert appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Apple pushes first-ever ‘rapid’ patch – and rapidly screws up–The Register

lennyesq

Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Apple on Monday pushed to some iPhones and Macs its first-ever rapid security fix. This type of patch is supposed to be downloaded and applied automatically and seamlessly by the operating system to immediately protect devices from exploitation, thus avoiding the usual system update cycle that users may put off or miss and thus leave their stuff vulnerable to attack.

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Former NFT Marketplace Employee Found Guilty of Wire Fraud, Money Laundering

Legal Tech Monitor

The verdict came in a historic case the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York described as the first-ever prosecution in a “digital asset insider trading scheme.

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Lawyers and Cybersecurity: Security By Obscurity Is Not Security

TechLaw Crossroads

Photo by FLY:D on Unsplash Tomorrow (May 4) is World Password Day. World Password Day occurs on the first Thursday of May. It was created by Intel several years ago to raise awareness about the importance of stronger passwords and promote better password habits. Passwords are critical gatekeepers to our (and our clients) digital and business records and identities.

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Contract Lifecycle Management, Law Department: Mphasis

Legal Tech Monitor

“Legal innovation means finding ways, either through technology or process, to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of our legal work, and enhance the value we add to the organization,” says Eric Winston, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at Mphasis.

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The Lost Art of the Vendor Business Review – Checklist and Survey

Dewey B Strategic

Early in my career, one of the hallmarks of customer service excellence was the prevalence of periodic “business reviews.” Business reviews are formal meetings that function as a “checkup” on vendor and contract performance. For several decades these reviews were offered by most large vendors throughout the course of a contract to assess past performance and set goals for the next period.

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Taking Different Paths: How US, EU Approach Generative AI Privacy, Security Concerns

Legal Tech Monitor

From regulations to investigations and enforcement actions, generative AI-powered tools have received growing attention in recent months. During “The Age of AI: A Proskauer Webinar Series-Privacy and Data Security” webinar, panelists discussed some of the different approaches taken by the EU, U.S. and U.K. to regulate this technology.

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Relativity to Enhance Access to Education and Technology with Support from Microsoft

Legal IT Professionals

Relativity , a global legal technology company, today announced it is working with Microsoft Corp. to expand the impact of its programs, Justice for Change and Relativity Academic Partners.

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Out of Frame

Legal Tech Monitor

Reading Time: 8 minutes I struggle with perspective on a regular basis. You look at a problem and you see it one way and then you talk to someone else and they see it differently. Sometimes it’s just two ways of seeing something but, when you’re making a decision, the difference can determine how or whether you invest resources. The difficulty I have is knowing whether the frame through which I view the problem is an appropriate one.

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Daniel Gold, AI Visionary, on Leveraging AI to Learn, Teach, and Go Faster

Relativity

For Daniel Gold at BDO, AI is the clear path forward for the more efficient, thoughtful, and just practice of law. But it isn’t as easy as pressing go when you need to get colleagues and clients on board with new technology.

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Lawyers and Cybersecurity: Security By Obscurity Is Not Security

Legal Tech Monitor

Photo by FLY:D on Unsplash Tomorrow (May 4) is World Password Day. World Password Day occurs on the first Thursday of May. It was created by Intel several years ago to raise awareness about the importance of stronger passwords and promote better password habits. Passwords are critical gatekeepers to our (and our clients) digital and business records and identities.

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ChatGPT vs Italian Supervisory Authority: who wins?

Legal IT Group

In 2023 the real technological “boom” happened — products based on artificial intelligence flooded the market. They can accomplish different tasks: Midjourney generates text into images, Soundful allows you to create music, and SlidesAI can prepare presentations for you. However, the most famous and popular one is ChatGPT. ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) — is a chatbot based on AI, developed by the US laboratory OpenAI, which gives information and answers to users’ requests.

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“All of humanity is just a passing phase, for intelligence.”

Legal Tech Monitor

By Joseph Raczynski At MIT EmTech Conference – Cambridge, MA This is not a joke. Our time is short here on Earth, according to Geoffrey Hinton Emeritus Professor, University of Toronto; Engineering Fellow, Google, “All of humanity is just a passing phase, for intelligence.” In other words, we don’t have much more time. This is a stunning statement, and what I just witnessed was one of the most impactful sessions I have ever seen in the many hundreds of conferences I have participated or spoke

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Greenlights, Passing Grades and Seals of Approval: Keeping Up with the Downsides of Technology

Pillsbury Law Internet and Technology blog

New and emerging technologies have always carried a host of potential risks to accompany their oft-blinding potential. Just as dependably, those risks have often been ignored, glossed over or just missed as public enthusiasm waxes and companies race to bring a product to market first and most effectively. Automobiles promised to get people (and products) from one place to another at life-changing speeds, but also posed a danger to life and limb while imposing a new burden on existing infrastruct

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5 Steps to Navigate Vendor Compliance Requirements

Legal Tech Monitor

Today’s businesses rely on a vast network of vendors whose services play a critical role in a company achieving its goals. At the heart of these business relationships are contracts [.] The post 5 Steps to Navigate Vendor Compliance Requirements appeared first on Exigent.

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The Top Big Law Firms in 2023

Clio

Many lawyers and aspiring practitioners are struck by the allure of “Big Law.” Generally comprised of the largest firms in the US, Big Law can provide attorneys with an opportunity for high compensation and prestige. But what exactly do we mean by the term Big Law? Which law firms earn this distinction? Here, we delve into the meaning of the term “Big Law” and the criteria for inclusion in this category.

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Law Librarians Play Central Role In Legal Tech Adoption And Use, AALL ‘State Of The Profession’ Report Shows

Legal Tech Monitor

Whether they work in law firms or corporate legal, academia or government, law librarians play a central role in testing, recommending and deploying legal technology, according to the American Association of Law Libraries’ 2023 State of the Profession report, an exhaustive 252-page survey of the legal information landscape. This is the third time AALL has conducted this survey, which is actually three separate surveys of U.S. law librarians based on the type of organization for which they work —

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EU-US data transfers: LIBE Committee to stop debate over adequacy decision due to concerns over insufficient privacy safeguards

Technology Law Dispatch

On 13 April 2023, the EU’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE Committee) passed a resolution to stop the debate over the draft adequacy decision stating that the new EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) and the Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for US Signals Intelligence Activities issued by the US President do not provide sufficient privacy safeguards.

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Nervous System: How Computers Saved Wall Street

Legal Tech Monitor

A Paperwork Crisis forced Wall Street to change the way it did business, ushering in automation and hastening the business world’s transition to the Computer Age.

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Employee Spotlight - Meet Andrew Field, the Surfing, Scuba Diving Sales Sensation

Lawmatics

What is your role at Lawmatics, and what does your job entail? I’ve been working on the sales team at Lawmatics for the past year. My responsibilities include prospecting for new firms and walking potential new customers through demonstrations of the platform. How did you end up working for Lawmatics? I saw an opening on Linkedin as a Sales Development Representative, then looked into the company and thought it was a cool concept.

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What is Legal Operations and How Does it Help Legal Departments

Legal Tech Monitor

The role of Legal Operations is becoming increasingly important in today’s fast-paced and complex corporate legal department. With more companies expecting their legal departments to contribute to their overall vision and mission, as well as their bottom line, a greater emphasis has been placed on managing and optimizing these departments.

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Lexsoft Systems Announces Expansion into North America with Opening of Chicago Office

Legal IT Professionals

Lexsoft Systems, a provider of IT and business process solutions, announces the company’s expansion into the North American market with the opening of its office in Chicago.

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AI-Assisted Professional Development: The Future of Attorney Training

Legal Tech Monitor

If you haven’t seen Sal Khan’s TED Talk on how he has leveraged GPT-4 into his new offering of Khanmigo , then let me suggest that you spend 15 minutes of your time watching it. After watching it, continue on down the page for some thoughts that I had on how law firms could also use AI in their Professional Development and Training programs. Are you a law firm looking for ways to enhance the education and professional development of your attorneys?

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Intapp acquires Paragon Data Labs

Legal IT Professionals

Intapp, a leading provider of cloud software for the global professional and financial services industry, announces that it has acquired Paragon Data Labs (Paragon), a leading cloud-based employee compliance software solution provider.