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Fla. Atty Suspended Over Bogus Cases After Possible AI Use
A Florida federal judge on Friday suspended an attorney from practicing law in the Middle District of Florida for one year after he fabricated cases listed on court documents, saying they may have resulted from his use of artificial intelligence.
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Harvard Law Releases 40M Pages Of Digitized Case Law
Harvard Law School's Library Innovation Lab is releasing nearly 40 million pages of scanned case law for free as part of the Caselaw Access Project, a public-private partnership between the innovation lab and legal tech startup Ravel Law.
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Legal Tech Roundup: Proof, Dura Software
The arrival of a new chief technology officer tops this roundup of recent legal technology news.
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As Deepfakes Rise, Prof Says Expert Fee Rules Must Change
Loyola Law School professor Rebecca Delfino recently published a paper about how the costs of litigating deepfake evidence, in particular expert witness fees, create access to justice barriers for litigants. Here, Delfino talked with Law360 Pulse about her proposal for addressing these barriers.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry marked the beginning of March with another busy week as BigLaw firms made new hires and adjusted their practices.
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Norton Rose AI Leader Talks Mixed Terrain For 'Evolving' Tech
As head of Norton Rose Fulbright's new artificial intelligence practice team in the U.S., Chuck Hollis said he and other firm attorneys are aiming to guide corporate clients through their use of the "constantly evolving" technology amid differing regulations across the globe.
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Mass. Atty's AI Gaffe Prompts Warning, 'Restrained' Penalty
A Massachusetts judge has put the state's legal bar on notice of the dangers of trusting artificial intelligence by sanctioning an attorney $2,000 for filing court papers that were full of realistic-sounding but fictitious case citations.
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And The Oscars' Legal Questions Go To ... John Quinn
When he was the general counsel to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Quinn Emanuel founding partner John Quinn attended the Oscars dozens of times, and he did so with a copy of the broadcast network contract tucked into his tuxedo pocket.
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Legal Sales Platform Propense.ai Raises $3M
Propense.ai, which provides software that identifies cross-selling opportunities for professional services companies, has announced a seed funding round of $3 million as it moves into production from an invite-only beta test.
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GCs See Data Privacy, ESG As Growing Risk Areas For 2024
While regulatory compliance remains top of mind for chief legal officers, data privacy, and environmental, social and governance have entered the conversation as leading risks for legal department leaders, according to the results of a new survey.
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Ontra Further Bolsters C-Suite, Hires Ex-C2FO Marketing Lead
Contract automation and intelligence provider Ontra announced on Wednesday its latest C-suite addition, bringing aboard the former global chief marketing officer of financial technology company C2FO to lead its marketing efforts.
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Invoice Outfit Oddr Expands Into Asia With Pickering Pearce
Oddr, a Silicon Valley-based invoicing platform for the professional services industry, announced on Tuesday its expansion into the Asia-Pacific regional market through a partnership with law firm consultancy Pickering Pearce.
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Where E-Discovery Generative AI Efforts Currently Stand
More e-discovery companies are announcing new capabilities that harness the power of generative artificial intelligence, but I'm hearing confusion among some law firm leaders about the immediate availability of the tools in a more crowded legal tech market.
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Why This Contract Software Co.'s 'Sweet Spot' Is Law Firms
While many contract software companies primarily cater to in-house legal teams, contract drafting platform Henchman is directing its attention toward law firms.
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Zimmerman Reed Rips L'Occitane Privacy 'Shakedown' Suit
Zimmerman Reed LLP has asked a California federal court to toss L'Occitane's suit claiming the firm and thousands of its clients have conspired to "weaponize" a California wiretapping law against the luxury retailer, arguing that there's no "legitimate factual basis" backing the allegations.
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Houser LLP Hit By Class Action Over 2023 Data Breach
Houser LLP was hit with a proposed class action in California federal court from a man who alleges that the business litigation law firm's negligence in properly securing its files from potential cyberattacks led to the exposure and theft of his personal data in 2023.
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Danish Compliance Co. Formalize Raises €15M
Denmark-based compliance solutions provider Whistleblower Software announced on Tuesday it raised €15 million ($16.3 million) in a Series A funding round, along with rebranding itself as Formalize.
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Legal Services Co. Adds Banking Exec As Chief Tech Officer
John Wei, chief technology officer and senior vice president at Comerica Bank, has joined legal and business support services provider Integreon Inc. as CTO and executive vice president, the company said Tuesday.
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Legal Marketing Co. Sues Ex-VP Over Trade Secrets Theft
Legal case acquisition marketing company Tort Experts LLC has sued a former senior vice president of marketing in Colorado federal court for allegedly sharing screenshots of the company's internal systems, pricing and margins with competitors in violation of an employment agreement and federal law.
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Texas IP Attorney Looks To Donate Study App He Patented
McKool Smith intellectual property associate Kyle Ryman wants to donate a study app he co-developed and patented that helped him pass the Texas bar exam.
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Laptop Dustup Pits Steptoe & Johnson Against Bookkeepers
A Manhattan federal judge on Monday prodded Steptoe & Johnson PLLC to try to settle claims that it unlawfully exploited the contents of a Pennsylvania accounting and tax concern's laptop, but the law firm's counsel denied it had any such device.
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FTI Consulting Acquires Actuarial Firm Madison Consulting
Washington, D.C.-based international business advisory firm FTI Consulting Inc. announced on Monday its acquisition of Madison Consulting Group, an actuarial firm based in Madison, Georgia, and Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.
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Houser Reports Data Breach Affected 325,000 People
Houser LLP experienced a data breach beginning in May that affected more than 325,000 people, the law firm said in a regulatory filing with the Office of the Maine Attorney General posted Wednesday.
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How GCs Can Safeguard Ethics, Data In Face Of Evolving Tech
New technology is moving so fast, as well as the laws relating to attorneys' use of technology, that panelists at a Thursday evening webinar complained it was nearly impossible to have an up-to-date slide deck.
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Employment Law Firm Sues IT Co. Over Ransomware Attack
California-based employment law firm Mastagni Holstedt has sued an IT solutions company in Sacramento County Superior Court, saying that after hiring the company to install a network system and server, the firm suffered a ransomware attack forcing it to pay a group known as Black Basta to retrieve its data.