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Pinsent Masons Unit Adds Head Of Client Development
Pinsent Masons LLP's alternative legal services unit Vario said Monday that it has hired experienced law firm professional Jenny Grotepass to be head of client development for its managed legal services and consulting teams.
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NC, Utah Attorneys General Launch Nationwide AI Task Force
Democratic North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson and Republican Utah Attorney General Derek Brown have announced the formation of a nationwide artificial intelligence task force in collaboration with developers OpenAI and Microsoft, as well as the Attorney General Alliance, a nonprofit group of bipartisan state attorneys general.
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Why Seasoned Attys Are Attracted To GC Roles At AI Startups
Longtime general counsel and law firm lawyers who walked away from stable jobs elsewhere in the law profession to lead legal functions at AI startups say they're excited by the chance to help set policy around innovation and continue to learn in an emerging space.
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Legal Tech Giant Harvey And Vocal AI Co. ElevenLabs Partner
Legal generative artificial intelligence platform Harvey has announced a new partnership with ElevenLabs, which will see the latter's text-to-speech and speech-to-text software used to deliver multilingual communication for legal professionals.
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Buchalter Won't Be Sanctioned For 'Hallucinated' AI Citations
An Oregon federal judge has decided not to sanction Buchalter PC and other counsel representing an environmental nonprofit in a trademark infringement dispute for submitting "hallucinated" case citations generated by an artificial intelligence tool, saying he is satisfied with "remedial actions" already done or to be taken.
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Legal Tech Roundup: K2, Omnilex
A merger involving a private equity firm and three legal technology providers tops this roundup of recent industry news.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another busy week with more lateral hires and leadership changes, and one BigLaw firm exploring private equity investments.
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Wolters Kluwer To Buy Legal AI Assistant Biz For €90M
Dutch information services giant Wolters Kluwer NV said Friday it will acquire German legal tech company Libra Technology GmbH for up to €90 million ($105 million) to provide products aimed at helping law firms with their research and document analysis.
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NY Judge Declines Sanctions For Citation Errors — Again
For the second time in as many months, a Manhattan federal judge has stopped short of sanctioning an attorney for including false case citations in a filing, warning the lawyer in an order that he had better not allow errors again.
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E-Discovery Co. Lighthouse Hires UnitedLex VP
Seattle-based e-discovery company Lighthouse Document Technologies Inc. announced on Wednesday it has hired of an executive vice president of corporate and commercial services at legal services company UnitedLex as head of information governance.
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Netrio's GC Applauds AI While Acknowledging It's Imperfect
One of the most challenging aspects about being a general counsel in 2025 is that employees have access to AI, without it being completely mature and fleshed out, said the general counsel at IT managed service provider Netrio.
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AI Startup That Automates SEC Disclosures Raises $3M
Greenshoe, an artificial intelligence startup designed to automate disclosure filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, announced Thursday that it had raised $3 million in seed funding.
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Software Biz Takes Minority Stake In Danish Legal Firm Replik
Swiss software company Trifork Group AG said Thursday that it has taken a 10% stake in Danish legal services firm Replik A/S in a move to help develop artificial intelligence products designed to improve legal advice.
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Valve Suggests AI Created Quotes, Cases In Patent 'Troll' Feud
Video game company Valve Corp. has told a Washington federal court that a patent licensing company's filings seeking to exclude Valve's experts contained quotes and case citations that were nonexistent, suggesting the filings may have been made using artificial intelligence.
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CLOC's New CEO Aims To Lead Legal Ops Into The Future
From doing a governance audit on the organization to adding vendors and alternative service providers to its board, the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium is making major changes to move itself forward in 2026.
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HelloPrenup Adds Two Divorce Attorneys As Advisers
HelloPrenup, an online platform for creating prenuptial agreements, has announced the addition of two family law attorneys to its strategic advisory council.
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Cozen O'Connor E-Discovery Biz Names New Operations Director
Cozen O'Connor has named the practice technology and e-discovery director at Shepherd Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP as the new operations director for its electronic discovery business unit.
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Howard Kennedy IT Director Joins Legal Group Lawfront
Regional law firm group Lawfront has chosen experienced information technology leader Tony McKenna, who was director of IT and change at London-based law firm Howard Kennedy LLP for more than five years, to be its chief information officer.
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Legal Prediction Platform Theo AI Names GC Advisory Board
Top in-house attorneys for Bristol Myers Squibb, Docusign and GoDaddy are among the members of the newly announced general counsel advisory board for Theo Ai, a company using an artificial intelligence platform to predict outcomes in civil suits.
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Sheppard Mullin Picks Legora To Boost Efficiency, Innovation
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP has adopted Legora's AI platform as it continues to look at ways to make the most of technological innovation to deliver legal services more efficiently.
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General Counsel AI Raises $60M Series B At $555M Valuation
General Counsel AI Inc., a legal artificial intelligence platform for in-house counsel, announced on Wednesday a $60 million Series B funding round that values the company at $555 million.
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Harbor Buys Legal Tech Training Co. Encoretech
Harbor Global LLC is expanding its capabilities in technology adoption and change management after acquiring the tech training provider Encoretech, the legal industry consulting and services company announced Wednesday.
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Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 76 Firms
The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2025 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing significant achievements in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.
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Legal Tech Giant Clio Raises $500M At $5B Valuation
Major legal tech company Clio announced Monday it raised $500 million in a Series G funding round that values the company at $5 billion.
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Neostella Offloads Staffing Biz To 'Double Down' On Tech
Provana, a provider of technology-enabled managed services, announced Monday it has acquired the staffing and talent business line of the legal technology company Neostella.
Expert Analysis
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How 2 Litigators Decided Dad Would Stay Home With The Kids
Jennifer Hoekstra at Aylstock Witkin shares the tough conversations about timing, goals, logistics and values involved in her family's decision that she would build her career as a litigator and law firm partner while her husband stepped back from his own litigation role to stay home with their children.
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Legal Tech Talks: DraftWise CEO On Barriers To Adoption
James Ding, CEO and co-founder of DraftWise, discusses misconceptions attorneys often have about working with new technologies, including that software will replace jobs, and the importance of preparing for additional regulations as governing bodies develop a better understanding of artificial intelligence.
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Talking Mental Health: Managing Depression As A Co. Founder
New Era ADR co-founder Collin Williams discusses his journey navigating a clinical depression diagnosis, how this experience affected his leadership style, and what the legal industry can do to better support attorneys with mental health conditions.
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The Winners And Losers Of AI In The Legal Services Industry
Artificial intelligence in the legal services industry will unlikely eradicate law firms, but it will still undoubtedly test their resilience — especially big firms, says Santiago Rodríguez at Arias SLP.
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The Last Lawyer: The Evolution And Ethics Of Legal AI Tools
Chatbots represent a powerful but provisional tool, but lawyers must exercise caution and use only vetted, properly guardrailed silicon advocates, scalable for future services, say Marty Robles-Avila at Berry Appleman and Michele Carney at Carney & Marchi.
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Talking Mental Health: Tackling Stress As A Practice Leader
Constance Rhebergen at Bracewell discusses how she handles the stress of being a practice chair, how sources of stress have changed in the legal industry over the past decade and what law firms can do to protect attorney mental health.
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Legal Tech And Lawyer Workflow: Enhancing, Not Replacing
When selecting from an increasing pool of legal technology capabilities, think about micro moves with macro effect, as the most successful tools will be those that feel like a natural extension of how lawyers are already accustomed to working, says Ilona Logvinova at Cleary.
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How Firms Can Effectively Evaluate Their Summer Associates
One of the most effective ways firms can ensure their summer associate programs are a success is by engaging in a timely and meaningful evaluation process and being intentional about when, how and by whom feedback should be provided, say Caroline Cimei and Erica Fine at Shutts & Bowen.
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Talking Mental Health: Life As A Lawyer With OCD
Kelly Hughes at Ogletree discusses what she’s learned in the 14 years since she was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, recounting how the experience shaped her law practice, what the legal industry and general public get wrong about the disorder, and how law firms can better support employees who have OCD.
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'Blind Spots' Pose Major Hurdle To AI Adoption In Legal Tech
Legal tech circles have been focused on how to eliminate large language model hallucinations, but blind spots, or inaccuracies through omissions, are a rarely discussed shortcoming that pose an even larger risk in the legal space, says James Ding at DraftWise.
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3 Innovative Ways AI May Be Used In Legal Practice
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Artificial intelligence tools will increasingly be used by outside counsel to better predict the outcomes of litigation — thus informing legal strategy with greater precision — and by clients to scrutinize invoices and evaluate counsel’s performance, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.
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Former Minn. Chief Justice Instructs On Writing Better Briefs
Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, now at Greenberg Traurig, offers strategies on writing more effective appellate briefs from her time on the bench.
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Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents
Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.
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General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together
It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.
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How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers
A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.