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AI and ChatGPT: A Powerful Message from Australia’s Top Law Firms

Kevin O'Keefe

A powerful message on ChatGPT and AI from Australia’s leading law firms and lawyers. Law firms should be embracing ChatGPT, not fearing it as a threat. ChatGPT is an opportunity, so much so that law firms may even have the obligation to use GPT to best serve their clients. The Australian Financial Review ’s Michael Pelly talked to leaders in some of Australia’s major firms, all bullish on GPT.

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Justia Legal Guides: Child Safety Center

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

Most parents devote lots of time, energy, and expense to keeping their children as safe as possible. Children are naturally curious, and they may not understand all the risks of their surroundings. Moreover, adults or other children may harm a child through careless behavior or intentional wrongdoing. At Justia, we understand the immense responsibility involved in raising a child.

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Legal Innovators California – Special 50% Off Early Bird Tickets!

Artificial Lawyer

The early bird catches the legal innovation conference! For a limited time only, the Legal Innovators California conference, taking place in San Francisco on June.

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5 Ways to Cultivate Compassion

Attorney at Work

Jamie Spannhake | Developing a sense of compassion — or at least neutrality — can make relationships better. It can also improve outcomes. The post 5 Ways to Cultivate Compassion appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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No Objections: Better Case Management with AI for Paralegals

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Join this session to get a fresh look at how AI tools can help you work smarter, faster, and more effectively! Attorney and law professor Joe Stephens, J.D., will walk you through the complete journey of a legal case—from the first client meeting through the final outcome—while showing you how artificial intelligence can transform your daily work at each important step.

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Colin Lachance on Jurisage’s MyJr and How He’s Looking at AI to Assist in the Synthesis and Reading of Legal Cases (TGIR Ep. 190)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

It is pretty apparent that we are in a super Hype Cycle when it comes to AI tools like ChatGPT, but for many of us in the legal profession, we’re not used to reaching this point of the cycle at the same time as the rest of the world. Because things are happening so fast, we wanted to bring in someone like Colin Lachance from Jurisage to talk about how they are integrating Generative AI tools into their products.

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Lawyer Commercials From the Big Game

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

The annual Super Bowl is not just the biggest night of the year in American sports. It is also the biggest night in advertising. Each year, millions of viewers tune in to watch the big game and check out the commercials too! Big brands often work the legal industry into their spots and some law firms even run ads. Now that a few days have passed since the big game, we are looking back at some of the most memorable law firm commercials to grace viewers’ screens this year.

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Best Practices: Engaging Managed Services Providers to Build Your Firm’s Legal Data API Integrations

Attorney at Work

Josh Blandi | Best practices for working with MSPs to build out your firm's API integrations. The post Best Practices: Engaging Managed Services Providers to Build Your Firm’s Legal Data API Integrations appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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As Allen & Overy Deploys GPT-based Legal App Harvey Firmwide, Founders Say Other Firms Will Soon Follow

LawSites

Yesterday, Allen & Overy , one of the world’s largest law firms, announced that it had integrated the legal artificial intelligence product Harvey into its global practice, where it will by used by more than 3,500 lawyers across 43 offices operating in multiple languages. I wrote about Harvey in November , when the previously stealth startup emerged with news that it had raised $5 million in funding led by the startup fund of OpenAI, the company that is the developer of the GPT AI tech

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Free PDF of My Successful Innovation Outcomes in Law Book

Dennis Kennedy

I’ve decided that I want as many people as possible to read my book, Successful Innovation Outcomes in Law: A Practical Guide for Law Firms, Law Departments and Other Legal Organizations , so I’m now making it available as a FREE PDF download – Successful Innovation Outcomes in Law – 2023 PDF Version. If you like the book and PDF is not the best format for you (or you want to support the author), you can still buy the book in paperback and Kindle formats on Amazon.

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The Efficacy of ChatGPT: Is it Time for the Librarians to Go Home?

LLRX

In preparation for a presentation about race and academic libraries Curtis Kendrick , formerly Dean and currently Binghamton University Libraries Faculty and Staff mentor, tried ChatGPT (Jan 9 version) to see what it (they?) had to say. He was curious about how it worked and how accurately it responded to queries. For our consideration, Kendrick offers his analysis of this interaction.

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Leverage Trellis Court Data To Identify More Investment Opportunities

Finance teams find Trellis to be particularly effective in conducting comprehensive due diligence on both individuals and businesses. With our court data solution, financial experts can access critical litigation insights, making it an invaluable resource for informed decision-making in the financial sector.

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Are You Dealing With Executive Functioning Disorder?

Attorney at Work

Wendy Merrill | Lawyers who struggle with organization and focus may be dealing with EFD. The post Are You Dealing With Executive Functioning Disorder? appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Reminder: A Chance For You To Share Your Legal Tech Insights And Possibly Win A Gift Card

LawSites

Here’s a possible win-win: Share your legal tech knowledge or experiences with the legal community and possibly win a gift card for doing so. Two weeks ago, we announced a unique campaign to encourage writers to contribute to the resources library of the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. Contribute an article during February and put yourself in the running to earn a gift card.

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How Important Are Collaboration Platforms In Large Enterprises (And How Does This Affect Ediscovery)

Hanzo Blog

In the 2022 Collaboration Data Benchmarking Report , just over a third (38%) of organizations said that they could not live without collaboration tools, while another 35% said that some of their teams could not live without collaboration tools. When asked how important collaboration tools will be 12 months down the road, 16% of organizations said they wouldn’t be able to live without them, while 37% said they will become more dependent on them.

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What the First Amendment really says – 4 basic principles of free speech in the US

LLRX

Lynn Greenky , Associate Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University delves into Elon Musk's claim that he believes in free speech no matter what. He calls it a bulwark against tyranny in America and promises to reconstruct Twitter, which he now owns, so that its policy on free expression “matches the law.” Yet his grasp of the First Amendment – the law that governs free speech in the U.S. – appears to be quite limited.

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The Tech-Savvy Paralegals Playbook: How To Leverage AI

Speaker: Allison Mears, Adela Wekselblatt, and George Socha

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal industry, and paralegals are at the forefront of this transformation. As AI becomes more integrated into legal workflows, paralegals can streamline their daily tasks, enhance efficiency, and add greater value to their firms and organizations. But what exactly does AI mean for paralegals today—and how can you leverage it to your advantage?

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Hèrmes wins MetaBirkin NFT lawsuit

TechnoLlama

Luxury brand Hermès has won a trademark jury trial in New York against artist Mason Rothschild. The dispute was over Rothschild’s NFT collection MetaBirkins, which are sold on the marketplace SuperRare, consisting of links to images of furry Birkin bags.

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Stress Due To Understaffing Plagues Midsized Firms, Survey Finds, But Professionals See Relief In Tech

LawSites

A survey out today of lawyers, paralegals and administrative support professionals at midsized law firms finds that nearly three-quarters report feeling stress, burnout, or being overwhelmed in the past year, and that understaffing is a leading cause, with 92% saying their firms have been impacted by staffing or resources shortages. Of the lawyers and paralegals who responded to the survey, the greatest sources of their stress are understaffing and client demands.

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The Top 7 Skills for Lawyers

Clio

While law school helps you develop the legal knowledge to practice law, it doesn’t always help you with many of the “soft skills” that are equally essential top skills for lawyers. Having the right soft skills, in addition to a strong knowledge of the law, is crucial for building a successful legal career—and for running a successful practice, if you decide to go that route.

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Reaching the 20th Blogiversary of DennisKennedy.Blog

Dennis Kennedy

One of the big challenges about publishing a blog on focused topics is that external events can intrude and make your posts seem like they don’t live in the real world. Twenty years ago today, I published my first post on this blog. Over the years, I liked to mark each blogiversary (or blawgiversary) with some kind of a clever post. For this one, which is kind of a big deal, I had a few clever ideas.

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Smarter Patent Family Research: The Tools And Tactics You Need Now

Speaker: Andrew Klein

Are there mysteries lurking in your family tree? 🕵 No, not a long-lost half-brother - I'm talking about a patent family tree! IP paralegals need fast and easy ways to verify and report on essential data about foreign equivalents of US assets. Join us to master the global scope of key assets to support prosecution, portfolio management, litigation, licensing, competitive monitoring and more!

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New York’s Mandatory Editorial Transparency Law Preliminarily Enjoined–Volokh v. James

Eric Goldman

Last year, as part of the first wave of censorial mandatory editorial transparency laws, New York enacted N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law § 394-ccc. The “has two main requirements: (1) a mechanism for social media users to file complaints about instances of “hateful conduct” and (2) disclosure of the social media network’s policy for how it will respond to any such complaints.” The complaint mechanism defines “hateful conduct” as “(1) conduct that vilifies; (2) conduct that humi

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Filevine Unveils AI-Driven Immigration Forms, Accounting Integration with Oracle NetSuite, and A Broad Vision for AI

LawSites

At its LEX Summit user conference this week, the law practice management company Filevine made two major product announcements, and its CEO outlined a broad vision for incorporating AI throughout the company’s products. The first of the two product announcements is a feature that uses artificial intelligence to translate client documents and then extract and label data from those documents which can then be used to auto-populate immigration forms.

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Smarter eDiscovery with OpenText Axcelerate CE 23.1

OpenText

Mastering modern eDiscovery requires a more holistic methodology than the traditional approach of disjointed point solutions based on the stage in the EDRM. Legal teams are looking for a greater ability to embrace litigation requirements from initial project framing to using the data surfaced during review in case management processes. OpenText Axcelerate 23.1, scheduled … The post Smarter eDiscovery with OpenText Axcelerate CE 23.1 appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Is the full potential of generative AI in legal practice being inhibited?

Legal Tech Innovation Wales

Allen & Overy recently announced that they are integrating innovative AI programme, Harvey, into everyday practice at the firm after testing it in beta since November 2022. Harvey’s founders include former lawyers and was partly funded by OpenAI’s Startup Fund. The programme comes in the form of a chat bot which incorporates OpenAI’s GPT technology and is designed to assist lawyers with document drafting and legal research by analysing data and using natural language processing and machine l

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Prep with Purpose: How to Build Better Trial Binders

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Get ready to master the art and science of trial preparation organization that top attorneys rely on in this exclusive webinar! Attorney and law professor, Joe Stephens, J.D., will walk through proven systems for creating comprehensive trial notebooks and binders that transform scattered case materials into a powerful command center. Learning Objectives: Strategic Organization 📊 Learn the essential sections every trial notebook needs and how to structure them for maximum clarity and acce

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 11, 2023

LLRX

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, 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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Have You Hired a Terrorist? 4 Kinds of Law Firm Employees

Attorney at Work

Brooke Lively | A Financial Breakdown for Recruiting and Hiring a New Attorney (Holy Cow!) The post Have You Hired a Terrorist? 4 Kinds of Law Firm Employees appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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4 questions to ask before choosing an enterprise legal management system

Simple Legal

Like it or not, tech is the way of the future. Yes, even in legal ops. Nearly 90% of legal professionals in a Bloomberg survey agree that legal tech is important , but a whopping 70% either don’t have a process in place to evaluate legal tech or are unsure if a process exists at their organization. With so many legal tech options to choose from, it’s tough to know what features will make one platform more useful for your organization over another.

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Days of Future Passed – Law Practice in 2025 – (Part 2) Guest Lecture with Jared Correia

Solo Practice University

In Part 2 of our series, Days of Future Passed - Law Practice in 2025, we will discuss two critical topics; what will it mean to actually be a lawyer in 2025 and how will we price our services and collect on those fees. What are the clients' expectations of who we are and how they should value our services? It's a truly provocative and informative conversation.

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AI for Paralegals: Everything You Need to Know (and How to Use It Safely)

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Ready to cut through the AI hype and learn exactly how to use these tools in your legal work? Join this webinar to get practical guidance from attorney and AI legal expert, Joe Stephens, who understands what really matters for legal professionals! What You'll Learn: Evaluate AI Tools Like a Pro 🔍 Learn which tools are worth your time and how to spot potential security and ethics risks before they become problems.

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Buy-Side vs. Sell-Side Contracts: Differences, Similarities, Opportunities, & Challenges

AXDRAFT

Your company’s performance can be defined by how well you sell and how you buy. Regardless of the industry, there are always two sides to every deal, and you’ve likely been on both at one time or another. Consequently, the way you manage both sell-side and buy-side contracts directly impacts the success of your business. By knowing their specifics, similarities, and differences, not only can you achieve your organizational goals faster, but you can also set more ambitious ones.

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Justice for Change: Accountability for Australia's Corporate 'Net Zero' Emissions Claims

Relativity

The Environmental Defenders Office is currently representing the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility in a landmark case that examines environmental claims made by a major Australian oil and gas company.

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 IoT Crypto Standards are unlikely to fix +20Billion old IoT devices!

Vogel IT Law

DarkReading.com reported that “The National Institute of Standards and Technology has settled on a standard for encrypting Internet of Things (IoT) communications, but many devices remain vulnerable and unpatched. A new encryption standard for Internet of Things (IoT) should help advance security for these connected devices in businesses, manufacturers, critical infrastructure, and other sectors running this equipment.

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On Taking Typing out of Litigation (Automating Legal Drafting with AI) Nathan Walter (CEO Briefpoint)

Technically Legal

Nathan Walter, founder of Briefpoint, joins Technically Legal to explain how his company is using technology and artificial intelligence to automate routine legal drafting tasks. A good portion of lawyers’ time and those helping them is copying or re-using prior work. This is especially true in litigation and especially in discovery. Thankfully more and more apps have been developed that help automate the creation of legal documents.

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Case Closed: How to Optimize Your Legal Intake Process for Efficiency

Speaker: Anne Post, CEO North America, Xakia Technologies

Do you know that 40% of U.S. Legal Departments now have a formal legal intake process? With that in mind, where does your legal department stand today? Many legal teams still struggle with a flood of incoming requests, leaving everyone overwhelmed and frustrated. Implementing a formal legal intake process can seem like an obstacle between the business and the legal department, but it doesn’t have to be!