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Sovereign AI Plan Could Mean £££ For UK Legal Tech

Artificial Lawyer

Following on from the earlier story about the UK Governments new AI Action Plan (see here), there is one item that this site has spotted that may make a difference to legal tech: the creation of a

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How AI Legal Document Review Drives Faster Case Prep

Clio

Reviewing legal documents is undeniably tedious. However, while it may be time-consuming, legal document review is also essential for building a strong case strategy and effectively preparing for trial. And, because even the most tenured lawyer can make mistakes or miss important details, it has to be effective and thorough. In this post, well examine everything you need to know about AI for legal document reviewfrom the basics of AI technology to best practices for implementing it responsibly a

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Will UK AI Action Plan Help Legal + Legal Tech Sectors?

Artificial Lawyer

Today, the UKs Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has announced the formal launch of the AI Opportunities Action Plan, a wide-ranging State-backed effort to drive.

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The Importance of Opting In: Pitfalls of AI Enablement Without Client Buy-In

Pillsbury Law Internet and Technology blog

Imagine youre an associate at a consulting firm. Youre surprised to see a new AI Assist button appear in your email application one morning. Without any training or guidance from your firms IT department, you decide to try it out, asking the AI to draft a response to a clients inquiry about tax implications for a proposed merger. The AI confidently generates a response that looks professional and well-written, which you quickly review and send.

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Case Closed: How to Optimize Your Legal Intake Process for Efficiency

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!

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Legal Tech Burn Rate Dips For 1st Time Since 2018

Artificial Lawyer

New data from Legal Complex has shown that the burn rate for legal tech companies dropped in 2024, the first time it has done so since 2018.

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Catching Up on the Heavyweight Scraping Battle Between X and Bright Data (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Last year, I wrote about how Elon Musk had inadvertently become web scrapers most powerful legal advocate. Not because he wanted to advocate for them. But rather, in seeking to enforce a no-scraping ban in X Corp.s terms of use in a way that was targeted to stifle speech that was critical of him in X Corp. v. Center for Countering Digital Hate , he gave a face to the strongest policy arguments in favor of scrapers.

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Court docs allege Meta trained its AI models on contentious trove of maybe-pirated content–theregister.com

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Did Zucks definition of free expression just get even broader? Simon Sharwood Meta allegedly downloaded material from an online source thats been sued for breaching copyright, because it wanted the material to train its AI models, according to a new court filing. The accusation was made in a document [PDF] filed in the case of Richard Kadrey et al vs Meta Platforms, in which novelist Kadrey (and others including comedian Sarah Silverman) allege stolen versions of their work were used to train AI

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Ep 274: Insights on Leadership and Innovation in Legal Education, with Anastasia Boyko

LawNext podcast

Anastasia Boyko likes to say that shes Goldilocks-ed her way through her career. True, its been a varied career, as shes tried out different roles, but it is a career that has taken her full circle, from Yale Law School, where she graduated, and then eventually back to Yale Law to create a program in leadership for lawyers, and from Salt Lake City, where she grew up after she and her mother fled Soviet-era Ukraine, and then back to that city as chief innovation officer at the University of Utahs

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Explainer: Supreme Court to Hear Landmark Tennessee Gender-Affirming Care Case–thejurist.org

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Chloe Miracle-Rutledge | Georgetown University Law Center, U The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday in a landmark case involving a Tennessee law that prohibits gender-affirming healthcare for minors. United States v. Skrmetti marks the Supreme Courts first opportunity to address transgender rights under the Equal Protection Clause and comes in the wake of a rise in state laws regulating gender-affirming care and a presidential election that brought a proliferation of debate over

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Lessons Learned from 2024 and the Year Ahead in AI Litigation

Debevoise Data Blog

As generative AI platforms grow in sophistication, the initial era of text chatbots led by ChatGPT has evolved into a complex AI ecosystem of voice assistants and image and video creation platforms. Yet that is just the beginning; a world of autonomous AI agents is on the horizon. Generative AI has transformed how people around the world work; how they create; and what they see, hear, and watch online.

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Trellis Launches Trellis AI to Streamline Trial Court Litigation

Trellis AI leverages the largest repository of state trial court data to help litigators evaluate cases, automate brief drafting, suggest winning strategies, and more. Key components: Draft Arguments — Uses similar/successful motions in the Trellis database to generate arguments/citations for your motions seeking dismissal, summary judgment, etc. Case Assessment — Predict the likely outcomes of a case at any stage to help you decide to accept it, guide motion practice, make settlement offers, an

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Viky Manaila: “Trust is fundamental in every aspect of our lives”

Global LegalTech Hub

By Pablo Yannone Sancho , Journalist at GLTH Viky Manaila is bound to build trust over the Internet in digital transactions. This goal is kind of a background that is present in the current point of her professional career: nowadays, she is Trust Services Director within Intesi Group, an Italian private company in the field of trust services around eIDAS regulation.

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Sex, Lies, And Deepfakes: CES Panel Paints A Scary Portrait

Above the Law - Technology

Lack of trust has enormous implications for lawyers, judges, and the way we resolve disputes. The post Sex, Lies, And Deepfakes: CES Panel Paints A Scary Portrait appeared first on Above the Law.

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