Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Ascensions May cyberattack compromised 5.6 million patients personal and health information, including Social Security numbers, credit card numbers and addresses. However, there is no evidence that any data was stolen from Acensions EHR or other clinical systems, the health system said. The post 5.6 Million Patients’ Data Stolen During Ascensions Ransomware Attack Earlier This Year appeared first on MedCity News.

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Sally Schmidt | Six associate business development activities to help young lawyers get a running start building their law practices. The post Business Development Starters for Law Firm Associates appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 23, 2024

It says something about our collective attitude towards generative AI in legal that this blog’s most-read story of the year was about lawyers getting sanctioned for hallucinated case citations. In fact, it will probably not surprise you to learn that, of my 40 most-read stories of the year, 24 involved generative AI in some way.

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Martindale-Avvo

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Its rather uncommon for someone in their advanced years to describe themselves as a former lawyer, or retired attorney. Many people continue to practice well past the usual retirement age. According to an American Bar Association (ABA) report in 2023, almost 14% of lawyers are over the age of 65. Thats about twice the 7% of all U.S. workers who are in the same age group.

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Speaker: Anne Post, CEO North America, Xakia Technologies

Do you know that 40% of U.S. Legal Departments now have a formal legal intake process? With that in mind, where does your legal department stand today? Many legal teams still struggle with a flood of incoming requests, leaving everyone overwhelmed and frustrated. Implementing a formal legal intake process can seem like an obstacle between the business and the legal department, but it doesn’t have to be!

Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Were drilling down on all things document management + AI on the Non-Eventcast podcast. The post The Rest Is Still Unwritten: What Is The Future For Legal Document Drafting? appeared first on Above the Law.

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DECEMBER 23, 2024

Deepa Shivaram President Biden used his clemency authority Monday to commute the sentences of 37 of the 40 men on federal death row to life without parole, in one of the most significant moves taken against capital punishment in recent presidential history. Biden did not commute the sentences of three men who were involved in cases of terrorism or hate-fueled mass murder, including Robert Bowers , convicted for the 2018 mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue; Dylann Roof , convicted for the 201

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DECEMBER 23, 2024

It’s all made from our data, anyway, so it should be ours to use as we want OPINION by Alexander Hanff Research by RISE , a Swedish state owned research institute, states that OpenAIs GPT-4 was trained with 1.7 trillion parameters using 13 trillion tokens, using 25,000 NVidia A100 GPUs costing $100 million and taking 100 days and using a whopping 50GWh of energy.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This is a FOSTA case involving Backpage, but it’s against Backpage’s vendor Salesforce. That makes this a tertiary liability claim. Here are the steps in the plaintiffs’ alleged chain of liability: V) victims promoted in Backpage advertisements (plaintiffs) –> D1) advertisers (alleged sex traffickers) [1st party perpetrators] –> D2) publishers (Backpage) [provided advertising support for perpetrator] –> D3) vendor to publisher (Salesforce) [provide

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