Above the Law - Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In what it described as a case pitting “real lawyers against a robot lawyer,” a federal court in Illinois has dismissed a law firm’s suit against the self-help legal service DoNotPay. In March, the Illinois law firm, MillerKing brought the putative class action against DoNotPay on behalf of “all law firms in the United States,” alleging false association and false advertising under the federal Lanham Act and Illinois state law.

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Kevin O'Keefe

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I asked Lou , LexBlog’s AI powered publishing assistant, how it would explain to a kindergarten class why lawyers blog. To which Lou responded. Imagine you have a big, difficult puzzle to solve, but you’re not sure how to do it. Lawyers are like helpers who know a lot about a special set of rules called ‘laws’ that everyone must follow. They write blogs, which are like online diaries or storybooks, to share what they know about these rules.

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Legal IT Insiders

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Africa’s largest law firm, ENSafrica, will shortly deploy Virtual Pricing Director, the legal SaaS pricing platform conceived and built over five years by international legal pricing experts Validatum, we can … Legal IT Win: Leading African law firm selects Virtual Pricing Director Read More » The post Legal IT Win: Leading African law firm selects Virtual Pricing Director appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This is another preliminary ruling in the copyright battle over generative AI. The stakes of this battle couldn’t be higher. Copyright law has the capacity to nix the entire generative AI category. Fortunately, Judge Chhabria easily rejects the copyright owners’ overclaims. The defendant in this case is Facebook’s LLaMa, a “ foundational, 65-billion-parameter large language model ” that is “ available for free for research and commercial use.” The plaint

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Mark Haddad | In this series on AI and the small law firm, Mark Haddad addresses the importance of domain expertise when using generative AI. The post Generative AI and the Small Law Firm, Part 2: The Value of Legal Domain Expertise appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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LLRX

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Nabiha Syed is the chief executive officer of The Markup. She interviews Dr. Joy Buolamwini who has been thinking about collective harm and AI for years, especially when it comes to algorithmic accountability and justice. Her new book, “Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines,” is a must-read exploration of how broad swaths of humanity are vulnerable in a world that is rapidly adopting AI tools.

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Legal IT Professionals

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Virtual Pricing Director ® , the legal pricing platform conceived and built over five years by leading international legal pricing experts Validatum will shortly be deployed by Africa’s largest law firm, ENS.

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Debevoise Data Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Key takeaways from October include: Employee monitoring: Following new guidance issued by the UK ICO, employers may want to review their existing employee monitoring to ensure it meets the regulator’s latest expectations, including ensuring that any monitoring is necessary, proportionate, and conducted transparently. Data protection & AI: In particular: (i) the French CNIL published its first set of guidance on GDPR compliance when developing AI tools; and (ii) the UK ICO issued a preliminar

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In what it described as a case pitting “real lawyers against a robot lawyer,” a federal court in Illinois has dismissed a law firm’s suit against the self-help legal service DoNotPay. In March, the Illinois law firm, MillerKing brought the putative class action against DoNotPay on behalf of “all law firms in the United States,” alleging false association and false advertising under the federal Lanham Act and Illinois state law.

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Debevoise Data Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

On November 16, 2023, the Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct for the State Bar of California (“COPRAC”) provided initial recommendations regarding use of generative AI by lawyers (the “Guidance”). The Guidance uses the existing Rules of Professional Conduct as a framework, but recognizes that generative AI is a rapidly evolving technology that might necessitate new regulation and rules in the future.

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

“Agencies are very worried about big companies buying smaller, nascent competitors who have a good idea but not a lot of market share yet,” said Anant Raut, Meta’s former director of global competition policy.

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CaseFox

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Your law firm’s online presence starts with the right domain name. It can pretty much make or break your brand image if used correctly. When it comes to developing a new law office website for our business, good domain names play integral roles, as they act as stepping stones for your online success. According to the WHOIS database, there are almost 33,000 domain registrations taking place everyday.

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Africa’s largest law firm, ENSafrica, will shortly deploy Virtual Pricing Director, the legal SaaS pricing platform conceived and built over five years by international legal pricing experts Validatum, we can. Legal IT Win: Leading African law firm selects Virtual Pricing Director Read More » The post Legal IT Win: Leading African law firm selects Virtual Pricing Director appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Vogel IT Law

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Computerworld.com reported that “in 2015 New York Life Insurance Co. began building up a data science team to investigate the use of predictive models to improve efficiency and increase productivity.” The November 14, 2023 article entitled “Q&A: NY Life exec says AI will reboot hiring, training, change management” ( [link] ) included these comments: Last month, New York Life announced the hire of Don Vu , a veteran data and analytics executive, to lead a newly formed artificial intelligence

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Longtime legal technology veteran Rick Hellers, who came out of retirement to start a new role at Scan Logic, talked to Legaltech News about what the industry is still lacking in all these years later, and what it’s doing well.

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Rocket Matter

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

While the end of the year may put most people in a festive mood, not all aspects of the season are universally celebrated. The overabundance of holiday cookies. One too many “Season’s Greetings” emails. And year-end tax prep. While there’s no enjoyable time for year-end tax prep, let’s face it: the year’s end is probably the worst possible time for it, with attorneys juggling a multitude of personal and professional responsibilities, as well as waning motivation as time out-of-office awaits.

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Are legal proceedings, courts and laws ready for the rise of deepfakes? Panelists from the CIA, Relativity and the Institute for Advanced Study came together during the Toledo Bar Association’s “Utilization of AI Applications in the Legal System and Throughout the Nation” webinar to explore how generative AI is infiltrating the legal market.

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LLRX

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Benjamin Jensen , a war strategy expert from American University School of International Service who served 20 years in the military explained that civilians often become pawns in war when one side does not have a military advantage against a stronger adversary – and looks for other ways to weaken their opponent.

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Our Allied Legal Professionals: A National Framework for Program Growth report provides a comprehensive overview of the discussions held during our 2022 convening, including agreement on best practices, differences in program approaches, and insights gained from current programs. In previous posts, here and here , we explored key recommendation areas crucial to allied legal professional programs, encompassing aspects like establishing suitable titles, defining roles and responsibilities, ensuri

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

On this episode of LawNext: An interview recorded live with Erika Harold , executive director of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism , an organization charged with working to enhance civility and professionalism and to eliminate bias within the legal profession. A former litigator, Harold was named executive director in April 2022, to succeed retiring executive director Jayne Reardon , who has also been a guest on this podcast.

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Today we investigate what I think is a striking lack of women represented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields, especially the FinTech sector. With only 8% of leadership roles in FinTech companies held by women, I spend some time with Monica Eaton, Founder of LIFT to understand what might be happening, and more importantly what we can do to change this dynamic.

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Legaltech News looked back at some of the significant cybersecurity incidents from this fall, from “lax” practices to evolving strategies from bad actors.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Part Two of a Two-Part Article A report on the September panel discussion sponsored by the Miami Dade Bar Association Law and Technology Committee, on AI and how to effectively use it in law firms.

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

“As a law clerk, if the artificial intelligence tools can enable you to do what might have taken 100 hours of legal research in five or 10, that helps your judge. That helps the court get to the right answer,” said Peter Torcicollo, managing director at Gibbons in Newark.

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The firm has also announced a shake-up of its financial institutions group leadership.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Jurisdictions differ on their approach to AI governance, from some countries taking a more hands off approach to others looking to pass new AI legislation.

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The American Bar Association recently released a qualitative study on the experiences of Native American women in the legal profession. The study is only the second national study focused on Native American attorneys and the first specifically focused on Native American women attorneys. While younger generations of Native American women attorneys noted in the study that advancements have been made in terms of access to law school and legal careers, they still feel the same levels of bias, harass

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

“Humanity is just a passing phase for evolutionary intelligence.” This is a tough one to swallow, but this could absolutely change everything in your life. Your job is likely going away very soon. Seriously, that sounds ridiculous, and I know is painful to ponder. I believe this will happen in the coming handful of years for many; and unfortunately, that is not the worst of it.

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

On this episode of LawNext: An interview recorded live with Erika Harold , executive director of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism , an organization charged with working to enhance civility and professionalism and to eliminate bias within the legal profession. A former litigator, Harold was named executive director in April 2022, to succeed retiring executive director Jayne Reardon , who has also been a guest on this podcast.

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