Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 28, 2024

Two US officials exclusively tell Breaking Defense the details of new international 'working groups' that are the next step in Washington's campaign for ethical and safety standards for military AI and automation - without prohibiting their use entirely. The post US Joins Austria, Bahrain, Canada, & Portugal To Co-Lead Global Push For Safer Military AI appeared first on Above the Law.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

For all the discussion of how generative AI will impact the legal profession, maybe one answer is that it will weed out the lazy and incompetent lawyers. By now, in the wake of several cases in which lawyers have found themselves in hot water by citing hallucinated cases generated by ChatGPT, most notoriously Mata v. Avianca , and in the wake of all the publicity those cases have received, you would think most lawyers would have gotten the message not to rely on ChatGPT for legal research, at le

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Artificial Lawyer

APRIL 28, 2024

For many years there have been efforts to create an easy to use, reliable and affordable legal AI system that will give people advice and even draft documents for them.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 9, 2024

With the shift toward remote collaboration, we're witnessing a significant shift from the traditional “pen-holder" approach to document management to a more dynamic and collaborative method of co-authoring legal documents. The post The Future of Collaboration: Embracing the Digital Shift in Co-Authoring Legal Documents appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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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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Colin S. Levy

APRIL 16, 2024

Monica Goyal is the Director of Legal Innovation for Caravel Law. In her role as Director of Legal Innovation, she evaluates new technologies and implementation within the firm. She has overseen the implementation of their internal contract and document automation system, design and implementation of their client onboarding process, and the implementation of our corporate services solutions.

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Inside Privacy

MARCH 13, 2024

Yesterday, the European Parliament approved the Cyber Resilience Act (“CRA”), which sets out cybersecurity requirements for “products with digital elements” (“PDEs”) placed on the EU market. The term PDE is defined broadly to include both hardware and software products, such as antivirus software, VPNs, smart home devices, connected toys, and wearables.

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TechLaw Crossroads

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

“If you want to show up and be seen in your life, you’re going to get your ass kicked.” Brene Brown I recently finished a book by Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn entitled Id eaflow: The Only Business Metric that Matters. The book talks a lot about ideas and their power. The authors go to great lengths to explore ways to nurture ideas, how to work in teams to enhance ideas, and how to turn ideas into reality.

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LLRX

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The thesis of Kyra Strick's instructive paper promotes a proactive approach to a rapidly increasing online security crisis. Strick states that in the dynamic landscape of cybersecurity, scam baiting has emerged as a captivating and unconventional approach to combating online fraud. Scam baiting is the practice of engaging with scammers to expose their tactics and disrupt their operations.

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Hanzo Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

In the rapidly evolving world of Artificial Intelligence (AI), it's crucial for enterprises to adopt technologies that integrate seamlessly into mission-critical workflows. Understanding the practicalities of this integration, especially in the legal domain, is key. To delve deeper into this topic, I had the opportunity to speak with Dave Ruel, VP of Product at Hanzo.

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MAY 9, 2024

Studies determined that at least one litigant does not have a lawyer in 75% of civil cases in the United States. The number is even higher when it comes to family law, domestic violence, housing, and small claims matters. But organizations like Oregon’s Commons Law Center are doing something about it. On this episode, Kamron Graham, the Law Center’s Executive Director, talks about the not for profit law firm’s efforts to provide affordable legal assistance to people that make too much to qualify

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 25, 2024

With AI hype outrunning reality, DoD AI chief Craig Martell told lawmakers his office is ‘building what we're calling a maturity model’ to assess what generative AI really can and cannot do. The post ‘Useful’ Or ‘Dangerous’: Pentagon ‘Maturity Model’ For Generative AI Coming In June appeared first on Above the Law.

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LawSites

APRIL 17, 2024

ClaimScore, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to help detect fraudulent claims in class action lawsuits, has closed a $3.15 million seed funding round led by ROC Venture Group, a private investment firm based in Naples, Fla.

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Artificial Lawyer

APRIL 23, 2024

LexisNexis has launched a ‘second-generation’ upgrade for its legal generative AI Assistant Lexis+ AI. The legal tech giant said that: ‘Utilizing continuous user feedback, the.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 1, 2024

Choose from this buffet of essential lawyer skills to plan your ascent to the heights of the legal profession. The post Essential Lawyer Skills for a Successful Law Practice appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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Colin S. Levy

APRIL 30, 2024

On a Saturday morning in 2016, I found myself sitting in a brightly lit auditorium in my role as an advisor for the Campbell Law School Law Review unaware that my life would take an unexpected turn. As a representative from Lex Machina, a legal analytics company, took the stage, I had no idea that the journey I was about to embark upon would lead me to the very frontiers of human knowledge and understanding.

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Martindale-Avvo

APRIL 30, 2024

Torts, contracts, criminal law – did you take a law school class on empathy? If you’re like the vast majority of legal professionals, the answer is no. There’s been buzz on the words “empathy” and “emotional connectivity” in the legal industry of late, as people in the profession have been rethinking the detached approach many take to legal practice.

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Clio

JANUARY 2, 2024

With the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions early last year, it’s become clear that l aw firms are operating in a rapidly changing world. The past year has launched a storm of conversations about the role of AI in every workplace, including law firms, as well as a flurry of new tools and excitement. With that in mind, how can your law firm succeed in 2024?

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Legal IT Insiders

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

So, Clifford Chance has set the cat among the pigeons with its announcement that it is rolling out Copilot and Viva Suite to its 7,000+ employees. After a number of law […] The post The Orange Rag Newsletter is Here! appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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LLRX

MARCH 31, 2024

Marcus P. Zillman's guide is a selective listing of open Generative AI resources that includes current awareness reports, guides, research tools, resources and applications from the open metaverse and Chat GPT. These references include AI best practices to facilitate implementing AI technology in specific sectors and within critical areas that involve engaging subject matter. expertise to deliver internal and external client and customer services.

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Hanzo Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we step into 2024, the legal industry continues to be reshaped by technological advancements. This year promises to bring new developments that could revolutionize how legal professionals work and interact with clients.

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Legal IT Professionals

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

LexisNexis ® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of information and analytics, today released results from a survey of senior leadership at top U.S. law firms and legal professionals at Fortune 1000 companies. The survey was conducted to better understand the business impact of generative AI technology on the legal industry and how it is redefining itself.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 3, 2024

From the maybe-address-the-people-that-are-handling-the-speech-poorly dept. The post Appeals Court: Just Because Speech Provokes Negative Reactions Doesn’t Mean It’s Not Protected appeared first on Above the Law.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Editor’s note: The following guest post is a response to my recent post, The Justice Gap in Legal Tech: A Tale of Two Conferences and the Implications for A2J. It is written by Mark Chandler , former chief legal officer at Cisco Systems from 2001- 2021 and now a lecturer in law at Stanford Law School and a fellow at the Stanford’s Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession , where he helps lead the Filing Fairness Project , and Jess Lu , a third year law student at Stanford and a civi

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Artificial Lawyer

APRIL 26, 2024

Here is a statistic (wild guess…?) that will be in every legal tech company’s pitch deck to VCs from now on… ! Technology market analysts Gartner.

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 25, 2024

Susan Cohodes | Three months into semi-retirement, I still find it difficuilt to give less than full-time attention to my part-time legal work. The post Semi-Retired: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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Colin S. Levy

MARCH 5, 2024

How have you and how has Clio adapted to accommodate the dynamics of the legal world? Frankly, Clio is driving a lot of that change, not reacting to it. When we launched in 2008, we were the first cloud-based practice management system to market. And so our approach to guiding our customers along through change across the wider legal industry has been highly iterative in the sense that there are distinctive chapters in the history of Clio that mark both Clio and the legal industry’s evolving r

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Martindale-Avvo

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

To many, February is the month to celebrate love. And when there is love, there are thoughts of marriage. And when divorce lawyers think about marriage, they often think about prenuptial agreements. For those unfamiliar with a prenuptial agreement (known as a prenup), it is an agreement between marrying parties that serves to protect each party in the event of divorce or death.

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Clio

MARCH 13, 2024

For many lawyers, becoming a partner is considered the apex of their legal career—an achievement that promises everything from professional prestige to decision-making authority. While it also comes with significant financial rewards, many people wonder: Just how much do partners make at law firms? The answer, as it turns out, isn’t so simple. From the many factors influencing compensation to the art of negotiation, a multitude of aspects determine law firm partner salaries.

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Legal IT Insiders

MAY 2, 2024

Contract lifecycle management vendor Agiloft today (2 May) announced the launch of its Generative AI Prompt Lab, which includes pre-configured prompt templates that can leverage customer’s own data – and […] The post Agiloft launches Gen AI Prompt Lab including ‘bring your own LLM’ capability appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

The New York Times has joined the AI Wars by suing OpenAI and Microsoft (complaint here). The case was filed while I was on my yearly holiday, so I am late to the party. Quite a lot has already been written on the subject by various parties.

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Lineal Services

APRIL 24, 2024

Written by Jeanne Somma In the realm of eDiscovery, the efficient handling and transformation of data are paramount. The concept of data reuse as explored in our blog “The Art and Science of eDiscovery Data Reuse: Unlocking Discovery Datasets” delves into the methodical steps required to make case data not only relevant but also reliable and robust enough for further analysis.

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TechLaw Crossroads

MARCH 4, 2024

We best be careful, or we will find ourselves in a closet talking to ourselves too much. Once upon a time, I had a good client who was fond of saying, “We best be careful, or we will find ourselves in a closet talking to ourselves too much.” Meaning, of course, that you get into trouble if you don’t get diverse viewpoints from people who perhaps see the problem and the world differently than you.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 1, 2024

It has been a whirlwind year for the Open AI-backed, generative AI legal tech startup Harvey, which went from a $5 million seed round in November 2022 to a $21 million Series A in April 2023 to an $80 million Series B in December 2023 at a valuation of $715 million.

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LawSites

APRIL 15, 2024

Thomson Reuters has launched a global Developer Portal giving access to over 100 APIs, providing tax, legal, risk and fraud professionals with tools to more easily integrate their workflows with the company’s technology, data, content and insights.

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APRIL 1, 2024

Hi everyone, I have an announcement to make. As promised, I am returning from my sabbatical and Artificial Lawyer will be back to regular publishing from Wednesday, April 10.

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