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Carolinas Law Firm Hit With Suit Over 2024 Data Breach
Riley Pope & Laney LLC, a law firm with offices in North and South Carolina, was hit with a proposed class action in South Carolina federal court alleging that consumers' personally identifiable information was exposed in a 2024 data breach.
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Automated Due Diligence Co. Jurimesh Raises €1.6M
Belgium-based due diligence software company Jurimesh said Thursday it raised €1.6 million ($1.67 million) in a pre-seed funding round to scale its product and market.
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Harvey Leads In Benchmarking Study Against Human Lawyers
Harvey emerged as the top-performing platform in an independent benchmarking study of legal artificial intelligence tools released Thursday, which also showed how AI's strengths and weaknesses compared to a group of human lawyers.
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Lexitas Aims To Be National One-Stop Shop For Legal Support
Over the last decade, legal support services provider Lexitas has made several dozen acquisitions to expand its services and geographic footprint, aiming to become a national provider of services for law firms and corporations.
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Ballard Spahr Launches AI Tools Led By 'Ask Ellis' Chatbot
National law firm Ballard Spahr will roll out a custom suite of generative artificial intelligence tools, highlighted by Ask Ellis, a chatbot named after a co-founding attorney of the 140-year-old firm.
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E-Discovery Co. Purpose Legal Launches Consulting Service
E-discovery and document review services company Purpose Legal announced Wednesday the launch of a consulting service for law firms and corporations.
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Bird & Bird Equips Lawyers With Legora Generative Tool
Bird & Bird LLP said Tuesday that it has armed the whole firm with Legora's generative text platform aiming to cut turnaround times and free up its lawyers' time.
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Why DeepSeek Is A Turning Point For Some Legal AI Vendors
As law firms remain tentative about using DeepSeek's generative artificial intelligence tool, legal technology vendors are more optimistic, with some already exploring the AI model and integrating it into their platforms.
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Law Firm Network Meritas Starts Legal Tech Ed Program
International law firm network Meritas has launched a legal technology education program that will include online and in-person curriculum provided by top legal tech companies.
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Syngrafii Hires Ex-Norton Rose, Fasken Partner As GC
Virtual signature platform Syngrafii Inc. has announced the hiring of Janne Duncan, a longtime partner at Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP and Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, as its latest general counsel.
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Legal Tech Co. Dye & Durham Gets Unsolicited Buyout Offer
Dye & Durham received an unsolicited proposal to purchase the company and take it private but is not currently in talks to accept the bid, the Canadian legal technology software provider confirmed Tuesday.
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Legal Advisory Firm Baretz & Brunelle Makes First Acquisition
Legal advisory firm Baretz & Brunelle LLC has bought legal innovation accelerator LexFusion, marking its first acquisition, the company said Tuesday.
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Injury Attys Sanctioned Over AI-Hallucinated Case Citations
A Wyoming federal judge overseeing a personal injury lawsuit against Walmart sanctioned the plaintiffs' attorneys from Morgan & Morgan PA and the Goody Law Group after they filed pretrial motions containing case law hallucinated by artificial intelligence, but acknowledged Monday their "remedial steps, transparency and apologetic sentiments."
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Lloyd's Says Cadwalader's Suit Claims Nonexistent Tort
A Lloyd's of London syndicate has urged a North Carolina judge to toss part of Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP's coverage lawsuit stemming from a data breach, saying there's no tort remedy for the allegation that the insurer exposed the firm's confidential information in a court filing.
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Recently Launched Tech Co. Applies AI To Corp. Governance
With a new report on public company stock grants released on Monday, one-year-old DragonGC is showing how artificial intelligence can be brought to bear helping in-house counsel shape corporate governance.
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AI Models Improving, But Still Require Oversight, Report Says
Two newer artificial intelligence programs, OpenAI o1 and Google Gemini 2.0, performed far better than other large language models when tested on legal questions, a recent Linklaters LLP report has found, but the law firm still does not recommend their use in English law advice without human supervision.
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Mishcon Wants To Boost AI Uptake With Pilot Program
Mishcon de Reya LLP said Monday that it had teamed up with a legal artificial intelligence platform to give its lawyers a slew of new collaborative tools, as the firm hopes to embrace generative technology more widely.
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PwC Partners With Legal Spend Management Tool Persuit
Seeking to expand its footprint in corporate legal departments, the Big Four accounting firm PwC formed a global alliance with the legal technology platform Persuit on Monday.
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Texas Atty Dinged For AI-Generated Fake Citations In Briefs
A Texas lawyer could face a $15,000 personal sanction and other potential discipline for filing three separate briefs using generative artificial intelligence that included fake citations in an Indiana ERISA case, according to a report and recommendation by a federal judge in the Hoosier State.
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WilsonAI Raises $1.7M For 'AI Paralegal'
London-based in-house legal software startup WilsonAI announced Monday the raising of $1.7 million in preseed funding to expand its AI Paralegal product.
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Litigation Support Cos. Expand Nationwide Reach In Merger
The Philadelphia-based Magna Legal Services has joined forces with Texas-based Republic Services to expand its resources and stretch its footprint into the Lone Star State.
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Law Firms Chart New Leadership Paths In Changing Times
As law firms grow larger and more tech-driven, law firm leaders are shifting their focus more on embracing technology, refining communication strategies and building stronger personal brands to guide their firms through changes, an upcoming white paper found.
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Legal Tech Roundup: StructureFlow, Sedgwick
A pair of divestments tops this roundup of recent legal technology news.
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Dye & Durham Appoints Ex-Equifax Executive As Interim CEO
Toronto-based legal technology company Dye & Durham Ltd. switched out its interim chief executive on Friday as a newly appointed board of directors continues its search for a permanent replacement.
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