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The Three Principles of Responsible AI Development, and Other Takeaways from the Everlaw Summit

Above the Law - Technology

At the Everlaw Summit in San Francisco last week, the annual customer conference of the e-discovery company Everlaw, founder and CEO AJ Shankar delivered a keynote address in which he announced the general availability of three generative AI features the company first introduced last year and had been developing in beta ever since.

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How Do We Train Junior Lawyers In The Age of AI?

Artificial Lawyer

The questions keep coming up: if genAI will increasingly be able to do process-level work, what happens to the most junior associates? What work will.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 26, 2024

LLRX

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.

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Ticketmaster’s Attempt to Game Arbitration Services Fails–Heckman v. Live Nation

Eric Goldman

In an effort to curb mass arbitration, Ticketmaster sought to switch arbitration service providers to New Era ADR, including for past ticket purchases. New Era incorporated some defense-favorable provisions to its mass arbitration provision. The Ninth Circuit holds those provisions go too far and are procedurally and substantively unconscionable. This opinion contains enough criticism to go around, especially with respect to New Era’s policies and practices.

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Webinar: How Will GenAI Change Legal Education + Training?

Artificial Lawyer

Artificial Lawyer and LexisNexis are teaming up to bring you a series of webinars with the best experts and latest insights so you can stay ahead of legal AI.

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Amendment to Public Health Law §267 Menstrual Products in Schools–NYSED

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The New York State Education Department would like to inform schools of an amendment to Public Health Law §267 that went into effect July 1, 2024. It requires all elementary and secondary public and non-public schools serving students in any grade from six through twelve to provide menstrual products at no cost to students in school restrooms. This revised law replaces the term feminine hygiene products with menstrual products.

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SEC Charges Four Companies for Misleading Cyber Disclosures

Debevoise Data Blog

On October 22, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) announced settled charges in separate actions against four technology companies—Avaya Holdings Corp. (“Avaya”), Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (“Check Point”), Mimecast Limited (“Mimecast”), and Unisys Corp. (“Unisys”)—each of which was a downstream victim of the unprecedented 2020 cyber-attack in which threat actors believed to be state-sponsored hackers in Russia inserted malware called SUNBURST (the “SUNBURST

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Perplexity AI decries News Corp’s ‘simply false’ data scraping claims–theregister.com

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‘They prefer to live in a world where publicly reported facts are owned by corporations’ Iain Thomson Artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI has hit back at a lawsuit claiming that it’s unfairly harvesting data from Dow Jones & Co and the New York Post to feed its AI engine, as well as stealing and mangling content. At the start of the week, News Corp took legal action on behalf of its publications, claiming in court documents [PDF] that Perplexity was posting whole

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Ep 264: Live from #ClioCon: A Deep Dive into the 2024 Clio Legal Trends Report, with Joshua Lenon, Clio’s Lawyer in Residence

LawNext podcast

At the recent Clio Cloud Conference in Austin, Texas, Clio released its ninth annual Legal Trends Report , a report that uses both survey responses and anonymized data from Clio users to paint a picture of key trends in law practice and legal technology. This year’s report has some intriguing findings on lawyers’ adoption of AI and the types of tasks within a law office that could be automated using AI.The survey also looks at trends in hourly and flat fee billing, and includes the results of a