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Denver Law Firm Faces Class Action Over Data Breach
The former spouse of a Sherr Puttmann Akins Lamb PC client has launched a putative class action in Colorado state court alleging that sensitive information she provided to the Denver-based family law firm, including her Social Security number, ended up on the dark web following a data breach.
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3 Factors Attorneys Should Keep In Mind When Using AI
Attorneys who hope to leverage new artificial intelligence programs in their legal work should stay mindful of three rules of conduct from the American Bar Association dictating attorney competence, client confidentiality and billing procedures, according to a recently published paper from the International Association of Defense Counsel.
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DiCello Levitt Opens 'Trial Center' For Litigators
Litigation firm DiCello Levitt announced Monday that it has launched a physical "Trial Center" that offers attorneys a space to stress-test their litigation through focus groups, trial preparation and other exercises.
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CoCounsel's Research Changes Costly But Largely Embraced
CoCounsel, a popular generative artificial intelligence tool in the legal industry, significantly changed its research capabilities in 2024, sparking mixed reactions from law firms.
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Insurers Have Long Used AI; Now Litigation Funders Want In
As State Farm waded into the nascent field of "artificial intelligence" tools in the mid-1980s, its mainframe computers began to overheat under the strain of calculating the values of claims.
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Legal Tech Co., Ethiopian Univ. Partner On Legal AI Program
WickardAI, a U.S.-based startup that helps teach and implement artificial intelligence at law firms and schools, announced a two-day educational summit in partnership with the Addis Ababa University School of Law in Ethiopia, marking the first time such a program has been held in East Africa, according to both parties.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as firms prepared for increased lobbying activity in anticipation of the upcoming election, while lawyers nationwide came together to support a nonpartisan initiative focused on protecting the electoral process. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Legal Tech Roundup: Genie AI, First
A pair of legal technology startups — an AI assistant for lawyers and an online consumer platform for lawyer-reviewed prenuptial agreements — secured new funding this week.
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Conn. Bar Committee Wants Software Crash Suit Tossed
The Connecticut Bar Examining Committee says a test-taker's federal lawsuit linking her failing grade to computer malfunctions or software crashes must be dismissed, because two different statistical analyses showed her tech woes "likely had no impact on her ultimate score."
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Ga. Bar Eyes Atty Guardrails On Use Of Third-Party Vendors
A board for the State Bar of Georgia has said in a proposed ethics opinion that lawyers could be on the hook for the alleged misconduct of third-party vendors they use to request documents from a nonparty, such as medical records or bills.
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Lawfty Seals $40M Debt Financing Deal With CoVenture
Lawfty, a national personal injury firm, has signed a $40 million debt financing deal led by CoVenture Management LLC, which will allow the practice to accelerate the development of its business, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Alt Legal Buys Trademark Paralegal Support Services Firm
Automated trademark docketing software Alt Legal will be adding intellectual property paralegal services called Alt Legal Assist to its offerings with the acquisition of Denver-based trademark paralegal support services firm WeberMark LLC, the company said Thursday.
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Addleshaw Goddard Names Tech Companies For Mentorship
Addleshaw Goddard LLP announced on Thursday that it has awarded more than a dozen start-up tech companies places on a legal mentorship and advisory program that it runs each year to help innovative businesses overcome their legal challenges.
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Legal Sector Is Adopting GenAI, Preparing For Talent Shifts
The integration of generative AI is fundamentally transforming how legal professionals manage their daily tasks, with many anticipating that these AI-driven efficiencies will lessen the reliance on billable hours, according to a survey report posted Thursday.
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OpenAI Hires Uber Ethics Head As New Compliance Chief
OpenAI Inc. has brought on Uber Technologies Inc.'s chief ethics and compliance officer to head up its compliance department as it works to "build on [its] ongoing efforts to responsibly advance AI," the company said Tuesday.
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Dye & Durham Responds To Takeover Report
Toronto-headquartered legal technology company Dye & Durham Ltd. is actively seeking a sale, the company has disclosed to investors.
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Why A Growing Tech Startup Switched Contract Tools
For global tech startup Matillion, hiring a new head of legal resulted in the company replacing its contract lifecycle management, or CLM, tool within the year. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a look at what spurred the change.
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Travers Smith Launches AI Training Program For Staff
Travers Smith LLP announced on Wednesday that it has launched an internal training program to improve literacy on artificial intelligence across the business as more and more firms make use of new technology for client work.
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Calif. Supreme Court Signs Off On Remote Bar Exam
The California Supreme Court on Tuesday gave the green light to the California State Bar's push to make the Golden State's bar exam mostly remote starting in February 2025, according to an order that also backed a study pretesting "experimental" exam questions.
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Del. Justices Set Guardrails For How Courts Can Use AI
The Delaware Supreme Court has adopted a brief interim policy to guide judicial officers and court personnel in the use of generative artificial intelligence, permitting the "safe and appropriate" use of the technology in First State courts.
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Ariz. Firm Axiom Advice Adds DLA Piper Atty In Phoenix
Arizona-based law firm Axiom Advice & Counsel, has welcomed a corporate and securities attorney from DLA Piper, growing its offerings to private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, venture-backed entities and closely held businesses, the firm said.
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LegalZoom, Ex-User Clash Over Unlawful-Practice Arbitration
Legal services provider LegalZoom cannot force a proposed class action alleging unauthorized practice of law into arbitration, a former customer has told a New Jersey federal judge, because the web platform provided an inadequate explanation for a supposedly binding arbitration agreement.
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Georgia Supreme Court Forms Generative AI Committee
The Georgia Supreme Court has established a 16-person committee to explore uses of generative artificial intelligence in the judiciary, in partnership with the National Center for State Courts, the court said Tuesday.
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How Law Firms Get And Keep Elite Status
For decades, a handful of New York-based law firms thoroughly dominated the national consciousness when it came to power, profitability and prestige. But in today's legal market, increased movement of partners and clients from one firm to the next has begun to shake things up and create opportunities for go-getters to ascend the ranks.
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Prestige Leaders: The Firms In The Billionaires' Club
As many BigLaw firms see their revenues climb ever higher, we highlight those that reported topping the billion-dollar mark in the most recent calendar year.
Expert Analysis
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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.
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A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy
Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.
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AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024
The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.
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How ALSPs And Generative AI Can Work Together
Alternative legal service providers can marry the best attributes of artificial and human intelligence to expedite turnarounds and deliveries for contract review, e-discovery and legal research, says Tariq Hafeez at LegalEase Solutions.
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How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security
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In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.
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How To Thrive As A New Legal Operations Manager
To make their first 90 days on the job a success, new legal operations managers should focus on several key objectives, including aligning priorities with leadership and getting to know their team, says Ashlyn Donohue at LinkSquares.
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Resume Gaps Are No Longer Kryptonite To Your Legal Career
Female attorneys and others who pause their careers for a few years will find that gaps in work history are increasingly acceptable among legal employers, meaning with some networking, retraining and a few other strategies, lawyers can successfully reenter the workforce, says Jill Backer at Ave Maria School of Law.
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Law Firm Guardrails For Responsible Generative AI Use
ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools pose significant risks to the integrity of legal work, but the key for law firms is not to ban these tools, but to implement them responsibly and with appropriate safeguards, say Natalie Pierce and Stephanie Goutos at Gunderson Dettmer.