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Supreme Courts of Delaware and Georgia Act to Regulate Use of Generative AI in the Courts

Above the Law - Technology

In a coincidence of timing that reflects how legal professionals are wrestling with issues around generative artificial intelligence, the supreme courts of Delaware and Georgia issued orders within a day of each other last week relating to the use of AI in the courts and by legal professionals. On Oct.

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 National Paralegal Day inc NALP Paralegal Achievement Awards, Mon. 11th Nov at Six Clerks Bar, The Law Society

Ward Blawg

The National Association of Licensed Paralegals (NALP) will be hosting the fourth National Paralegal Day with an evening event at the Six Clerks Bar within the Law Society at 113 Chancery Lane, London on Monday 11th November from 7pm to 9pm. The event will also host the annual ‘NALP Paralegal Achievement Awards’. The Awards are for: […] The post National Paralegal Day inc NALP Paralegal Achievement Awards, Mon. 11th Nov at Six Clerks Bar, The Law Society first appeared on WardblawG.

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LAION wins copyright infringement lawsuit in German court

TechnoLlama

Copyright AI nerds have been eagerly awaiting a decision in the German case of Kneschke v LAION (previous blog post about the case here), and yesterday we got a ruling (text of the decision in German here, courtesy of Mirko Brüß).

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Clio Sets Legal Tech Funding Record with $900M Raise at $3B Valuation; LawNext Has Exclusive Podcast Interview with Founder Jack Newton

LawSites

The law practice management company Clio today announced a record-setting raise of $900 million, at a valuation of a whopping $3 billion, in an oversubscribed Series F investment round that the company says will accelerate its ability to continue to build and develop its multi-product platform and expand its market both to larger firms and […]

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We Need To Talk About GenAI Accuracy

Artificial Lawyer

Generative AI is without doubt the most powerful technology to be applied to the legal sector since the arrival of digital tools, yet it has a serious challenge: accuracy.

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Law Firm Marketing: A Comprehensive Guide

Clio

Law firm marketing is the practice of attracting new potential clients to your firm. A law firm marketing plan may cover a mix of digital marketing, SEO, blogging, print, and digital ads. It may also include other tactics, such as harnessing technology like Clio Grow to streamline your marketing efforts. You can even hire a legal marketing company to help you.

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Shoosmiths and Enzai launch AI compliance platform

Legal IT Insiders

UK top 100 law firm Shoosmiths and AI governance platform Enzai have launched AI Comply, which is designed to help businesses navigate the complex AI regulatory landscape. As the adoption […] The post Shoosmiths and Enzai launch AI compliance platform appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Unlocking History: How a Small Group of Researchers Dominates the Declassification Appeals Process

LLRX

Attorney and FOIA expert Michael Ravnitzky shines a spotlight on people, process and procedural challenges with his illuminating article. A small core group of researchers and historians have filed most of the declassification appeals being reviewed by the responsible appellate body. While these individuals are working diligently to facilitate public access to long-classified records that shed light on our nation’s history, their efforts also highlight weaknesses in the declassification framewor

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X Corp. v. Bright Data is the Decision We’ve Been Waiting For (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

by guest blogger Guy Rub , The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law A Web Scraper Beats a Platform: The Same Story, but Different It seems like we’ve been here before, and not that long ago. A platform sues a web scraper in the Northern District of California for (among others) a breach of its Terms of Service (ToS) —and the platform loses.

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The Cyber Resilience Act is One Step Closer to Becoming Law

Inside Privacy

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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Second Circuit Says Libraries Disincentivize Authors To Write Books By Lending Them For Free

Above the Law - Technology

From the this-can't-be-right dept The post Second Circuit Says Libraries Disincentivize Authors To Write Books By Lending Them For Free appeared first on Above the Law.

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ABA TechShow: The Power (and Pain) of Ideas

TechLaw Crossroads

“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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The New York Times lawsuit: the case and its wider implications

TechnoLlama

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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Not Again! Two More Cases, Just this Week, of Hallucinated Citations in Court Filings Leading to Sanctions

LawSites

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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How AI Can Reshape Legal Education + Lawyer Training

Artificial Lawyer

AI will change not just legal work, but legal education and lawyer training – here are five examples of how. AI’s application to the law also raises key questions about evaluating legal work.

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Small Firm Hourly Rates by State and Practice Area

Attorney at Work

Clio's annual Legal Trends Report is a treasure trove of data on hourly rates by state and by practice area. The post Small Firm Hourly Rates by State and Practice Area appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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Linklaters launches GenAI training programme in collaboration with Kings College law school

Legal IT Insiders

Linklaters has launched a training course to provide its lawyers with technical and practical expertise in Gen AI, designed and prepared by Linklaters’ Gen AI Programme Team in collaboration with […] The post Linklaters launches GenAI training programme in collaboration with Kings College law school appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Get Off My Cloud: Just How Secure is Apple’s Private Cloud Compute? 

Lawyerist

This week, Apple announced its plan to bring artificial intelligence capabilities to iPhones and other Apple devices. This means photos, text messages, Notes, and other content will be able to capitalize on certain AI functionality. Imagine removing the background of a photo on your phone with Apple Intelligence. Cool, right? AI processing and Apple security, however, don’t inherently go together.

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How to Make Sure What Happened to TikTok Doesn’t Happen to Your Clients: Protect Your Reputation with Nextpoint Document Review

Nextpoint

The post How to Make Sure What Happened to TikTok Doesn’t Happen to Your Clients: Protect Your Reputation with Nextpoint Document Review appeared first on Nextpoint.

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Eleventh Circuit Gives the Slip to the Duct-Taped Banana Copyright Appeel–Morford v. Cattelan

Eric Goldman

You probably recall this case. A California artist, Morford, created a work called “Banana and Orange” where he duct-taped the fruits to the wall. An Italian artist, Cattelan, created a work, “Comedian,” involving just a banana duct-taped to the wall. Cattelan sold Comedian for $100k+ (seriously?) and Morford sued him for copyright infringement.

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Paper Discovery – Are We Still Managing Paper for Discovery?

CloudNine

The Persistence of Paper in Discovery Despite the increasing digitization of information, the legal industry still frequently encounters paper documents during discovery. Whether these are legacy documents, physical contracts, handwritten notes, or printed records, the need to incorporate paper into modern discovery workflows is a critical challenge.

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Case Management Platform Clarra Unveils Suite of New Features, Including Gen AI, Analytics and Tracking of Client Communications

Above the Law - Technology

It was a year ago last month that I wrote here about the launch of Clarra, a cloud-based case management platform designed to be optimized for docket-driven litigation practices.

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An Inside Look at How Atlassian Uses Its Own Tools to Power Legal Workflows and Encourages Thoughtful Adoption of AI (Stan Shepard, General Counsel)

Technically Legal

This episode features Stan Shepard, General Counsel of Atlassian, a leading provider of team productivity and collaboration software. Stan discusses his unique career journey from a finance journalist to the current GC of Atlassian. He shares valuable insights into how Atlassian's legal department leverages the company's productivity software products and AI for maximum efficiency.

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A short guide to the Copyright Wars

TechnoLlama

My social timeline has been abuzz with the latest copyright decision regarding the Internet Archive, which lost its appeal in the copyright lawsuit from Hachette.

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New Gavel Feature Uses AI to Convert PDFs into Automated Document-Generation Workflows

LawSites

If you are a lawyer whose practice involves regularly working with PDF forms, such as those from courts and government agencies, a new generative AI feature from document automation company Gavel could help save you time.

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Spellbook Launches Associate: ‘First Full-Fledged’ Legal AI Agent

Artificial Lawyer

Spellbook, a pioneer in legal genAI, has launched ‘the first full-fledged AI agent’ for legal work. The agentic capability, branded ‘Associate’, aims to eliminate drudgery.

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Is it Real or Is It Fake? The Emerging Challenges of Authenticating Digital Evidence in Courtrooms

TechLaw Crossroads

Back in the 1970s, there was a television commercial featuring jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald with a wine glass, a recording studio, and a recordable audio cassette made by a company called Memorex. The pitch was that the audio recording of Ella’s voice could break the wine glass, just like her live voice. The tagline was, “Is it live or Memorex?” Courts and the Deep Fake Problem Courts may soon be facing a similar question when it comes to audio evidence, photos, videos, and various other forms of

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Microsoft unveils autonomous AI agents at AI Tour London: Some reflections 

Legal IT Insiders

At the Microsoft AI Tour event in London this week (22 October), Microsoft announced that Copilot customers will be able to create autonomous agents with Copilot Studio, out in public […] The post Microsoft unveils autonomous AI agents at AI Tour London: Some reflections appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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The Heritage Foundation’s Reckless Misuse of FOIA to Target Individuals

LLRX

In this Opinion researched and authored by Michael Ravnitzky the Heritage Foundation’s current public records campaign is an outright abuse of the FOIA process. In recent years, the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project and its publishing spinoff, The Daily Signal, have filed an unprecedented and overwhelming number of FOIA requests – 65,000 according to Reuters and more than 50,000 according to ProPublica.

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Elon Musk Says Advertisers Are Doing The RICO If They Don’t Give Him Money

Above the Law - Technology

Free speech absolutist explains that 'free speech' means 'forcing everyone to give him money.' The post Elon Musk Says Advertisers Are Doing The RICO If They Don’t Give Him Money appeared first on Above the Law.

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Free Speech Galaxy Brain Elon Musk Promises Lawsuit Against Advertisers For Not Giving Him Their Money

Above the Law - Technology

First Amendments. how do they work?!? The post Free Speech Galaxy Brain Elon Musk Promises Lawsuit Against Advertisers For Not Giving Him Their Money appeared first on Above the Law.

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ChatGPT Exec Says AI Will Replace $2000/Hr Paralegals… Who Wants To Tell Her?

Above the Law - Technology

Tell me you don't understand this industry without telling me you don't understand this industry. The post ChatGPT Exec Says AI Will Replace $2000/Hr Paralegals… Who Wants To Tell Her? appeared first on Above the Law.

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Justice Alito’s Views On Social Media And The First Amendment Seem To Shift Depending On Who He Wants To Win

Above the Law - Technology

From the which-way-the-wind-blows dept. The post Justice Alito’s Views On Social Media And The First Amendment Seem To Shift Depending On Who He Wants To Win appeared first on Above the Law.

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Court To RFK Jr.: Fact-Checking Doesn’t Violate 1st Amendment Nor Does Section 230 Make Meta A State Actor

Above the Law - Technology

From the that's-not-how-any-of-this-works dept. The post Court To RFK Jr.: Fact-Checking Doesn’t Violate 1st Amendment Nor Does Section 230 Make Meta A State Actor appeared first on Above the Law.

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‘Useful’ Or ‘Dangerous’: Pentagon ‘Maturity Model’ For Generative AI Coming In June

Above the Law - Technology

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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Federal Court Says First Amendment Protects Engineers Who Offer Expert Testimony Without A License

Above the Law - Technology

From the look-who's-(capable-of)-talking-(without-fear-of-being-fined) dept. The post Federal Court Says First Amendment Protects Engineers Who Offer Expert Testimony Without A License appeared first on Above the Law.

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US Joins Austria, Bahrain, Canada, & Portugal To Co-Lead Global Push For Safer Military AI

Above the Law - Technology

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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