Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 4, 2024

In October, the contract lifecycle management company SpotDraft announced an early-access release of its new generative AI add-in for Microsoft Word, called VerifAI , designed to help lawyers streamline the process of reviewing contracts. Now, SpotDraft is releasing the product for general availability, with the option for anyone to try it free for two weeks.

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TechnoLlama

JANUARY 4, 2024

The New York Times has joined the AI Wars by suing OpenAI and Microsoft (complaint here). The case was filed while I was on my yearly holiday, so I am late to the party. Quite a lot has already been written on the subject by various parties.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 4, 2024

OpenAI's Prompt Guide for ChatGPT and other LLMs contains a wealth of knowledge to up your game. The post A Gift for Lawyers in the New Year: OpenAI’s Prompt Guide for ChatGPT appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 4, 2024

This is a SAD Scheme case. The plaintiff, Jiangsu Huari Webbing Leather, owns U.S. Patent No. 11,478,673 for an outdoor exercise product (“a rectangular-shaped buckle-and-belt mechanism, embodied in a Hanging Exercise Product that is sold online”). The plaintiff sued 163 defendants for online marketplace sales and got an ex parte TRO, including Amazon account freezes.

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Inside Privacy

JANUARY 4, 2024

In late December 2023, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) published a Report and Order (“Order”) expanding the scope of the data breach notification rules (“Rules”) applicable to telecommunications carriers and interconnected VoIP (“iVoIP”) providers. The Order makes several notable changes to the prior rules, including broadening the definitions of a reportable “breach” and “covered data,” requiring covered entities to notify the FCC in addition to federal law enforcement of breache

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Legal IT Insiders

JANUARY 4, 2024

If you had any doubt about Microsoft’s determination to drive the adoption of Copilot this year, the tech giant announced today (4 January) that it will be ushering in the … Microsoft adds Copilot key to Windows 11 PC Keyboard Read More » The post Microsoft adds Copilot key to Windows 11 PC Keyboard appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Technically Legal

JANUARY 4, 2024

This episode is a conversation with Katherine Porter about her journey from practicing law to founding her own company, Resourceful Lawyer which is a consultancy helping legal teams implement project management techniques into their legal work. Katherine discusses her unique approach to problem-solving in the legal field, which involves design thinking and project management principles.

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Relativity

JANUARY 4, 2024

Hon. Lida Kharooti Sayeed courageously shared her experiences and helped teach Relativity Fest 2023 attendees about the dire situation of judges in Afghanistan today—and how our industry can help.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 4, 2024

After FisherBroyles ramped up quickly to become the first distributed firm in the Am Law 200, it lost roughly half its lawyers to a spinoff. But there’s a surprising lack of rancor surrounding the exodus.

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lennyesq

JANUARY 4, 2024

Pursuant to the Court’s December 18, 2023, unsealing order, and following conferral with Defendant, Plaintiff files this set of documents ordered unsealed. The filing of these documents ordered unsealed will be done on a rolling basis until completed. This filing also excludes documents pertaining to Does 105 (see December 28, 2023, Email Correspondence with Chambers), 107, and 110 (see ECF No. 1319), while the Court’s review of those documents is ongoing.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 4, 2024

If you had any doubt about Microsoft’s determination to drive the adoption of Copilot this year, the tech giant announced today (4 January) that it will be ushering in the. Microsoft adds Copilot key to Windows 11 PC Keyboard Read More » The post Microsoft adds Copilot key to Windows 11 PC Keyboard appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 4, 2024

Famed attorney Alan Dershowitz, holding what he said was a file folder containing checks, said as a gesture of good faith and an effort to resolve the longest-running Chancery case after nearly 10 years.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 4, 2024

In October, the contract lifecycle management company SpotDraft announced an early-access release of its new generative AI add-in for Microsoft Word, called VerifAI , designed to help lawyers streamline the process of reviewing contracts. Now, SpotDraft is releasing the product for general availability, with the option for anyone to try it free for two weeks.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 4, 2024

Legaltech News looked back at some of last year’s predictions about emerging technologies to see where the legal industry was right—and where it may have missed the mark.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 4, 2024

The convergence between privacy and competition questions has been driven by the ever-growing importance of data in the digital economy.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 4, 2024

This month, Oregon will join an increasing number of states licensing paralegals and other legal professionals who are not attorneys to provide discrete legal services in family and landlord/tenant law , which was previously only provided in Oregon by licensed lawyers. These professionals will be called Licensed Paralegals (“LPs” for short), though you can find them referenced by a myriad of other names across the country and in Canada.

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