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Fla. Bar Partners With AI Biz To Offer Legal Tool To Members
The Florida Bar has announced it is partnering with legal artificial intelligence company Clio to offer its members free access for a time to a legal AI tool the company says aims to reduce certain ethical concerns, including AI-produced hallucinations in filings.
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Scientologists Want 'Ignored' Boies Schiller AI Errors Review
The Church of Scientology has asked the California Supreme Court to review an appellate order that didn't impose sanctions on Boies Schiller Flexner LLP for filing a brief containing artificial intelligence-generated citation errors in a harassment and retaliation suit pending against the church.
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Legal Tech Roundup: Kalipso, GoVeda
New funding rounds from a pair of early-stage startups top this roundup of recent legal technology news.
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Cooley Turns To Legora For AI Tool Aimed At Startup Clients
Cooley LLP this week launched Cooley GO Lab, an artificial intelligence-powered workspace for startups, with support from Legora and the startup accelerator Y Combinator.
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Legora's New AI Pricing Model May Usher In Larger Changes
Legora's move to a consumption-based pricing model could spur other legal tech companies to follow suit and charge for usage, but experts say that any benefit for law firms won't be automatic or immediate.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The summer wind brought in another busy week for the legal industry as firms expanded their practices and doled out extra cash for attorneys. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Attys Urged To Challenge Clients Who Demand AI Research
A Connecticut federal judge urged attorneys during a Thursday sanctions hearing to push back against clients who demand lawyers use generative artificial intelligence tools to conduct legal research, saying the technology is no substitute for professional judgment and discretion because it "aims to please" and can misstate the law.
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NJ Professional Services Co. Daida Acquires Scan-Optics
Daida, a national provider of business process services and document and content management, has announced the acquisition of Scan-Optics LLC, which provides document process, managed capture services and digital transformation.
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3rd Circ. Vexed By Diabetic Worker's Atty, AI Issues
A Third Circuit panel questioned Thursday whether a hospital employee's disclosure of her diabetes was "too little, too late" to trigger an accommodation after she was written up for sleeping on the job — and whether her attorneys should be sanctioned for filing a minor motion that appeared to include AI-hallucinated citations.
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FiscalNote Appoints Board Member As President, CEO
Policy and intelligence provider FiscalNote announced Wednesday the hiring of growth equity fund founder and board member Key Compton as its president and chief executive, replacing Josh Resnik after a year-and-a-half in the job.
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This Startup's CLO Says Lawyers Are 'Supercharged' By AI
The top lawyer at Liquid AI, which aims to build general-purpose AI at every scale, recently told Law360 Pulse that innovation can't replace human judgment, persuasion or negotiation. It can, however, supercharge lawyers by allowing them to do "exponentially more" with their time.
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Legal Tech Co. Sues US Over Anthropic AI Shutdown Order
Legal tech company Legion has sued the U.S. government in D.C. federal court over a directive ordering Anthropic to shut down two of its advanced AI models to foreigners, alleging the move caused the company to lose access to one of the models that powers its platform.
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AAA Rolls Out Protocol For AI Agent Transactions
The American Arbitration Association launched an open-source method on Wednesday for attaching legal terms to transactions brokered by artificial intelligence agents, saying most agent-to-agent transactions currently lack verifiable terms and are unclear about which jurisdiction's law governs.
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Conn. Justices Threaten Sanctions For AI Errors
The Connecticut Supreme Court has threatened to sanction GLG Law LLC and one of its attorneys for submitting documents in two cases "that misrepresented the law through the use of generative artificial intelligence," according to a Tuesday order that summoned them to appear in court next month.
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How 3 Courts Are Approaching AI Adoption
The rules surrounding artificial intelligence experimentation in courts run the gamut from court systems offering proprietary tools and training to unwritten policies that essentially amount to don't ask, don't tell.
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Legal Tech Company Dye & Durham's CEO Out After 1 Year
Toronto-based legal technology company Dye & Durham Ltd. announced its chief executive, George Tsivin, would immediately vacate both his CEO role and position on the board of directors.
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Shoosmiths Launches AI Contract Review Platform
Shoosmiths unveiled a new AI tool on Wednesday that it has built in-house to help lawyers review contracts more quickly as the firm uses innovation to drive growth.
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German AI Co. Jupus Raises $15M In Series A Funding Round
Germany-based legal artificial intelligence startup Jupus announced on Tuesday it has raised €13 million ($14.8 million) in a Series A funding round.
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Connecticut Courts Require Verification Of AI Output In Filings
Connecticut's state judges on Tuesday issued a new requirement that attorneys and pro se filers independently verify all citations, legal authorities and evidence produced by generative artificial intelligence tools, threatening to impose case-ending sanctions on those who flout the rule.
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Associates Unhappy Over Leave, Firm Leadership
Associates are dissatisfied over the lack of transparency at their law firms, what they perceive to be limited opportunities for advancement and how their leaders communicate, Law360 Pulse found in its sixth annual Lawyer Satisfaction Survey.
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What Attorneys Really Think About Their Profession
Law360 Pulse asked attorneys for their thoughts on what being an attorney is actually like — what they love about their job, what they see as the biggest misconceptions about a career in law and what advice they have for new lawyers. Here's what they said.
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Are Attorneys Happy At Work? Depends Who You Ask
Most lawyers are satisfied with their careers, but their happiness at work varies depending on their rank, a new Law360 Pulse survey found.
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Legora To Move To Consumption-Based Billing
Legal AI startup Legora is moving to consumption-based pricing for its new Agent Pro product, reflecting a broader industry shift from flat subscriptions to usage-based billing.
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Firm Prospects, UniCourt Team Up On Deeper Lawyer Profiles
Legal data company Firm Prospects announced Tuesday that it has entered into a strategic partnership with UniCourt that will change the way law firms and legal search companies recruit attorneys.
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Fish & Richardson Launches Patent-Focused AI Tool
Intellectual property firm Fish & Richardson PC announced Monday that it has launched an artificial intelligence tool created in-house to assist with patent prosecution matters.
Expert Analysis
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How I Owned My Power As An Asian American Woman In Law
Gibson Dunn's Debra Yang shares the bumps in her journey to becoming the first female Asian American U.S. attorney, a state judge and a senior partner in BigLaw, and how other women can face their self-doubts and blaze their own trails to success amid systemic obstacles.
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Successful In-House Alt Legal Services Start With 4 Questions
Law firms that are considering creating an in-house alternative legal service provider should focus not on recapturing revenue otherwise lost to outside vendors, but instead consider how a captive ALSP will better fulfill the needs of their clients and partners, say Beatrice Seravello and Brad Blickstein at Baretz & Brunelle.
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How Firms Can Prepare For AI-Based Knowledge Management
Law firms implementing artificial intelligence tools to help lawyers find answers to administrative questions should remember that poor data integration practices can be costly and time-consuming, and must consider four steps to lay the groundwork, says Bim Dave at Helm360.
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Guiding Principles For Implementing New Legal Technology
Best practices for adopting new legal technology include considering the details of the organization's needs, assembling an implementation team, integrating the new tool into the workflow and making it as easy as possible for the user, says Kate Orr at Orrick.
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Future Lawyers Expect DEI Commitments Beyond Recruiting
To attract future lawyers from diverse backgrounds, firms must think beyond recruiting efforts, because law students are looking for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that invest in employee professional development and engage with students year-round, says Lauren Jackson at Howard University School of Law.
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How Law Firms Can Innovate Amid Rising Client Demands
As clients increasingly tell law firms to integrate new legal technologies, firms should consider service delivery advancements that directly address the practice of law and can truly distinguish them — both from a technology and talent perspective, say members of Axiom Consulting.
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The Case That Showed Me The Value Of E-Discovery Plans
Robert Keeling at Sidley reflects on leading discovery in the litigation that followed the historic $85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger and how the case highlighted the importance of having a strategic e-discovery plan in place.
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What Litigators Can Expect From The Metaverse
As virtual reality continues to develop, litigators should consider how it will affect various aspects of law practice — from marketing and training to the courtroom itself — as well as the potential need for legal reforms to ensure metaverse-generated data is preserved and available for discovery, says Ron Carey at Esquire Deposition Solutions.
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The Future Of Legal Ops: Time To Get Serious About Data
Most corporate legal departments collect surface-level data around their operations, such as costs and time to resolution, but legal leaders should explore more in-depth data gathering to assess how effective an attorney was, how efficiently legal work was performed, and more, says Andy Krebs at Intel.
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Why You Should Leverage AI For Privilege Review
While many lawyers still believe that a manual, document-by-document review is the best approach to privilege logging, certain artificial intelligence tools can bolster the traditional review process and make this aspect of electronic document review more efficient, more accurate and less costly, say Laura Riff and Michelle Six at Kirkland.
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Tips For Evaluating Machine Learning For Contracts Review
Law firms considering machine learning and natural language processing to aid in contract reviews should keep several best practices in mind when procuring and deploying this nascent technology, starting with identifying their organization's needs and key requirements, says Ned Gannon at eBrevia.
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Collaborative Tech Will Dictate Future Law Firm Success
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Law firms need to shift their focus from solving the needs of their lawyers with siloed solutions to implementing collaboration technology, thereby enabling more seamless workflows and team experiences amid widespread embrace of hybrid and remote work models, says Kate Jasaitis at HBR Consulting.
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Roundup
Ask A Mentor
As the legal profession undergoes a dramatic period of change, experts answer questions on career and workplace conundrums in this Law360 guest article series.
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How Dynamic Project Management Can Help Law Firms
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Law firms looking to streamline matter management should consider tools that offer both employees and clients real-time access to documents, action items, task assignee information and more, overcoming many of the limitations of project communications via email, says Stephen Weyer at Stites & Harbison.
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How Firms Can Benefit From Creating Their Own ALSPs
As more law firms develop their own legal services centers to serve as both a source of flexible personnel and technological innovation, they can further enhance the effectiveness by fostering a consistent and cohesive team and allowing for experimentation with new technologies from an established baseline, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.