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After WSJ’s Explosive Exposé on Judges’ Financial Conflicts, Free Law Project Posts the Data For All to See

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In an explosive exposé last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that 131 federal judges broke the law by hearing cases where they had a financial interest. To uncover those violations, reporters reviewed the financial holdings of some 700 federal judges and compared them against tens of thousands of court cases.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

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In the realms of legal technology and innovation, the pandemic had yielded silver linings – greater adoption of technology, more flexible workplaces, hybrid courts – that promised a future in which the legal profession and justice system would better serve those who need them. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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Richard Susskind + Mark Cohen on Educating + Skills for Legal Professionals

Ron Friedmann

Mark largely agrees with Richard and also hears the same question regularly. Courts : This is hard to compare given the multiple US jurisdictions. But UK government is way ahead with a major court reform program underway, backed by $1b in government funding. Richard cites difference in how Supreme Courts reacted.

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Ep 268: How Gen AI Can Be A Game-Changer for Discovery and Litigation, with Everlaw CEO AJ Shankar

LawNext podcast

As you’ll hear him say, he makes no bones about calling it a game changer. With a doctorate in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, Shankar founded Everlaw in 2011 as one of the earliest cloud-based e-discovery platforms. Littler, local everywhere.

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A brief look at the copyright issues raised by generative AI

Ikigai Law

The term “person” has also been interpreted conservatively by the Courts in respect of copyright law. In 2019, the Delhi High Court rejected a copyright claim over a list compiled by a computer, on the grounds of, inter alia, lack of human intervention. [8] Few of the cases are discussed below.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

LawSites

In the realms of legal technology and innovation, the pandemic had yielded silver linings – greater adoption of technology, more flexible workplaces, hybrid courts – that promised a future in which the legal profession and justice system would better serve those who need them. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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The Legal Singularity and the Future of Legal Research – Benjamin Alarie and Abdi Aidid (TGIR Ep. 193)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

He led the team of lawyers and research analysts and helped develop AI-informed predictive tools, which predict how future courts are likely to rule on new legal situations. The most notable of which for my own work was the AI informed predictive tools helping to predict how future courts are likely to rule on new legal situations.