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AI Agents To Negotiate Contracts Soon, Execs Predict
Nearly nine out of 10 business leaders who participated in a recent survey expect artificial intelligence agents leading contract negotiations to become a reality by 2028, although many acknowledge the risks involved, according to a report on the results released Wednesday.
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Judge Warns Fake AI Cites May Need 'Eye-Catching Sanction'
A Connecticut federal judge on Tuesday warned a multistate solo practitioner that an "eye-catching sanction" may be necessary to stop attorneys from filing briefs rife with fake case law generated by artificial intelligence systems, while the lawyer bemoaned the fact that he'd "trusted a tool."
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PE Firms Leap Into MSO 'Frontier' For Slice Of Legal Industry
Managed services organizations are quietly gaining ground in the U.S. legal industry as private equity companies eye the use of MSOs to overcome rules against fee sharing and nonlawyer ownership of firms, but critics warn that such a shift could open up an ethical Pandora's Box.
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Finnegan Opens AI Practice With Dedicated IP Teams
Intellectual property law firm Finnegan has launched an artificial intelligence practice group structured into four teams with dedicated leads handling niche matters in patents, copyrights, privacy and trade, the firm announced Tuesday.
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GCs Say They're Implementing AI With Little Budget Support
Over 75% of respondents in a new general counsel survey released Tuesday reported that their companies expect them to implement artificial intelligence without any dedicated funding, forcing legal teams to redirect existing budgets.
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Addleshaw Goddard Hires Innovation Lead From Macfarlanes
Addleshaw Goddard LLP announced Tuesday that it hired the former head of law tech and chief knowledge and innovation officer at U.K. law firm Macfarlanes as a financial services partner with a focus on bolstering its tech offerings to clients.
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Epiq Hires Ex-Trellix Executive As COO
Legal tech company Epiq Systems Inc. announced Tuesday the hiring of Kimberly Anstett, former global chief information officer at cybersecurity company Trellix, as its chief operating officer.
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Ex-AIG Legal Director Joins Contract Co.'s Advisory Board
Zeal, a startup selling a subscription-based contract management platform, announced Monday the appointment of Darren Guy, a former legal operations director at insurance company AIG, as a member of its advisory board.
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Pinsent Masons Launches Due Diligence Platform
Pinsent Masons LLP announced Monday that it has started an online legal due diligence platform for use by clients and firm members in mergers and acquisitions transactions.
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CoCounsel Unites With Icertis, Accenture For New Integration
Thomson Reuters integrated its generative artificial intelligence assistant CoCounsel with the contract intelligence platform Icertis on Monday, in a new partnership aimed at improving efficiency and compliance across the enterprise.
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Deloitte Legal Embraces Legora To Drive AI Transformation
Deloitte Legal and Swedish legal tech company Legora have announced plans to work together to help the law firm's U.K. lawyers and clients streamline their work through the use of artificial intelligence.
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OnlyFans Users May Face Sanctions Over AI 'Misuse'
OnlyFans users who have alleged the site employs professional "chatters" to impersonate content creators are facing possible sanctions in their case, as a California federal judge ordered their attorneys to appear in court for filing briefs with nonexistent citations and quotations generated by an AI chatbot.
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Jackson Lewis Shift Includes New Workplace Analytics Heads
National employment law firm Jackson Lewis PC has changed its practice group structure and leadership, including appointing leaders for its workplace analytics and preventive strategies group and subgroups.
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Baker McKenzie Spinoff SCOREalytics Gets $3M Seed Round
SCOREalytics, a legal intelligence platform that uses artificial intelligence to help organizations detect and manage legal risk, raised more than $3 million in seed funding on Friday.
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Legal Tech Roundup: MyLegal, Courtroom5
An acquisition involving source code tops this roundup of recent legal technology industry news.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off September with another busy week as BigLaw firms made new hires and expanded practice areas. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Legal AI Startup Eudia Launches Law Firm In Arizona
Palo Alto, California-based legal artificial intelligence startup Eudia has launched a law firm in Arizona, but the company's CEO Omar Haroun says it is designed to reduce in-house counsel's reliance on law firms.
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No Atty Sanctions After Failed Redaction In Gunmaker Lawsuit
A Connecticut federal judge has declined a gunmaker's bid to sanction a civil litigator who filed a document without proper redactions, finding that the error was inadvertent and did not meet the "high bar" necessary to run afoul of Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
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OnlyFans' Parent Says AI-Tainted Briefs Are Unsalvageable
The online platform OnlyFans' parent company said that a bid to correct legal briefs in a proposed class action against the company should be denied, arguing that the decision to use artificial intelligence to create mistake-riddled documents is severe misconduct and the briefs should be struck instead.
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European AI Law Expert Joins Noxtua As Legal Chief
The legal AI startup Noxtua SE welcomed a renowned digital specialist as its first chief legal officer on Thursday.
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Epiq Buys Consultancy Specializing In Intapp Implementation
Legal tech company Epiq Systems Inc. is growing its law firm advisory services by acquiring a boutique consultancy that solely does implementation and professional services for Intapp products, it announced Tuesday.
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Chatbot Or Not, Ind. Judge Urges Sanction For Bad Citation
An Indiana federal judge has recommended sanctioning an attorney representing a woman in an employment discrimination suit against a county court's juvenile detention center after the lawyer included faulty citations in a discovery brief, regardless of how the citations got there.
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Goodwin Taps Flock Safety CIO To Lead Global Tech Strategy
Goodwin Procter LLP has hired safety technology platform Flock Safety's former chief information officer for a newly created chief digital and technology officer role, the firm said Wednesday.
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Legora's VP Of Legal Innovation On Why Legal Tech Is 'Cool'
Legal artificial intelligence software startup Legora has added a former Morgan Lewis and Bockius LLP partner as vice president of legal innovation and strategy. Kyle Poe talks to Law360 Pulse about his goals for the position and what makes the platform unique.
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Overheard At ILTACON: The Reality Underneath The AI Buzz
A more grounded approach to artificial intelligence is emerging among law firm leaders, many of whom say they are focusing on team structure and cloud strategy, and in some cases recognizing where AI simply isn't needed.
Expert Analysis
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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.