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Supio Debuts CaseAware AI, Partners With Thomson Reuters
A startup that developed an artificial intelligence platform for personal injury and mass tort law firms said Thursday it is expanding its reach through a new strategic partnership with Thomson Reuters.
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Fried Frank Hires Ex-Wachtell IT Director As CIO
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP announced Wednesday the hiring of a chief information officer that most recently served as director of information technology at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz.
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CLOC President Exits To Launch Tech Venture
The president of the board of directors for the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium, or CLOC, a member-run organization for in-house legal operations professionals, stepped down on Wednesday.
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Courts Told Head-In-The-Sand Approach To AI Can Backfire
State courts might be inclined not to implement generative artificial intelligence tools or to ban staff from using them to avoid hallucinations and privacy breaches, but that strategy could backfire, a panelist told a court technology conference Tuesday.
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Louisiana Judge Releases Guide For Judicial Use Of AI
A Louisiana state appellate judge on Tuesday offered a 10-phase guide for fellow jurists to navigate integrating generative artificial intelligence into their workflow.
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PostSig Gets $4.1M To Simplify Contract Compliance With AI
PostSig, a post-signature contract management tool serving legal and other teams, secured a $4.1 million seed funding round Tuesday to help businesses turn documents into actionable intelligence.
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Alaska Court System Preparing To Launch Self-Help Chatbot
The Alaska Court System is developing a generative artificial intelligence chatbot to help self-represented litigants navigate legal information about probate cases on its website, according to a trio of panelists at a livestreamed event Tuesday.
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Stanford Tech Lab Partners With Cleary, Davis Wright, Vorys
Stanford Law School on Monday announced the official launch of its Legal Innovation through Frontier Technology Lab, whose advisory board founding members include law firms and an artificial intelligence company.
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These Firms Were The Top For Their Summer Associates
Working as a summer associate is a rite of passage for many law students, and these training programs can boost aspiring attorneys' confidence in their career paths. Find out what students valued most and how they rated those experiences in a new survey from Law360 Pulse.
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Summer Associates Remain On The Fence About AI In Law
Most summer associates used generative artificial intelligence tools at their firms this year, but views on adoption were mixed. Students told Law360 Pulse the tools were useful for research and drafting, but voiced concerns over reliability, job loss and diminished writing skills.
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What Summer Associates Learned From Working At Firms
We asked this year's cohort about the most valuable lessons they learned during their summer associateship. Here's the advice they shared for those ready to jump into law firm life.
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Calif. Court Issues AI Hallucinations 'Warning,' Sanctions Atty
A California appeals court has issued a published opinion "as a warning" to Golden State attorneys to personally review case law quotations made by generative artificial intelligence, and imposed a $10,000 monetary sanction on plaintiff's counsel in an otherwise straightforward appeal in an employment case.
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Lowenstein Sandler Unveils Tech-Centered Data Privacy Team
Lowenstein Sandler LLP has rolled out a new multidisciplinary data privacy team, bringing together attorneys with both legal and tech experience to advise on a range of data-related issues.
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McCann FitzGerald Taps Ex-Vodafone Exec As CTO
Irish law firm McCann FitzGerald announced Monday it hired a longtime former executive at British telecommunications company Vodafone as its first chief technology officer.
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BakerHostetler Manager Joins Troutman As AI Director
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP said Monday that it has hired a senior manager of legal tech consulting at BakerHostetler to fill a new post of director of artificial intelligence and automation.
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Atty Claims Judge's Conduct Shows Bias In Katt Williams Suit
An attorney representing four women suing comedian Katt Williams in Georgia federal court said that the presiding judge in the case should step down from the matter because he showed bias and questioned the lawyer's "honesty, candor and credibility" at a hearing last month that involved discussions of a brief she submitted containing artificial intelligence hallucinations.
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Law Firms Embrace AI, But Full Deployment Remains Rare
Most law firms are currently using generative artificial intelligence tools, but a new survey with responses from hundreds of legal technology leaders has found that most adoption is occurring through pilots rather than firm-wide deployment.
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HSF Kramer Eyes AI To Speed US Growth After Merger
Just over 100 days since it was created, HSF Kramer says the transatlantic merger is helping to boost its market share in the U.S. Here, the chair and senior partner of the firm talks to Law360 about investing in artificial intelligence as its use expands in the legal industry.
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Dentons Ducks Chinese Vape-Maker's Hacking Suit
Dentons has officially escaped allegations it helped the founder of vape distributor Next Level sabotage and usurp manufacturer Avid Holdings' brand, in part by hacking into its founder's laptop to access confidential information, according to newly filed documents.
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Hagens Berman Doubles Down On AI-Tainted Brief Correction
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP said that the firm has an ethical duty to correct briefs tainted by artificial intelligence errors and that the corrected versions shouldn't be stricken from a proposed class action against online platform OnlyFans' parent company.
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Calif. Bill Blocking Fee Sharing With ABS Firms Heads To Gov.
A bill heading to California Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk is poised to tighten rules to restrict alternative business structure law firms from operating in the Golden State by blocking lawyers from sharing fees with out-of-state firms owned by non-lawyers.
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AI Company GCs Talk Of Being In The Belly Of The Beast
Five general counsel who are deeply involved in artificial intelligence, including from Microsoft and Anthropic, recently spoke of its impact on their legal departments, and of the ever-present need for trust, judgment and good people skills during this "inflection point with AI."
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Legal Tech Roundup: DragonGC, Cimplifi
Two former BigLaw attorneys joining legal technology companies tops this roundup of recent industry news.
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Texas Bar Rolls Out AI Toolkit As 'Living Resource'
The State Bar of Texas has rolled out an artificial intelligence toolkit that aims to help Lone Star State legal professionals get the most out of the technology while keeping them mindful of professional conduct rules and potential pitfalls.
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Law Firms Push Back On AI Vendors' All-Or-Nothing Pricing
Law firms exploring legal generative artificial intelligence tools want flexible contract terms, but some report that vendors are pushing firmwide licenses tied to multiyear commitments.
Expert Analysis
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Law Firm Tips For Evaluating AI And Machine Learning Tools
Many legal technology vendors now sell artificial intelligence and machine learning tools at a premium price tag, but law firms must take the time to properly evaluate them as not all offerings generate process efficiencies or even use the technologies advertised, says Steven Magnuson at Ballard Spahr.
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Learning How To Code Can Unleash New Potential In Lawyers
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.