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Airline Said It’s Not Responsible For Terrible Advice From Its Own Customer Service AI Bot. The Court… Disagreed.

Above the Law - Technology

Not even ChatGPT could invent a case to make this stick. The post Airline Said It’s Not Responsible For Terrible Advice From Its Own Customer Service AI Bot. The Court… Disagreed. appeared first on Above the Law.

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Frozen Embryos Now Considered Children: Unpacking the Alabama Supreme Court Decision and the Future of Fertility Care

Trellis.Law Blog

Last Friday, in a first-of-its-kind ruling, the Alabama Supreme Court held that embryos are considered people under Alabama state law. As such, those who destroy embryos could be held liable for wrongful death. The decision has concerned reproductive rights advocates… Continue reading → The post Frozen Embryos Now Considered Children: Unpacking the Alabama Supreme Court Decision and the Future of Fertility Care first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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News and Notes From Google Local Services Ads: February 2024

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

Google Local Services Ads (LSAs) are an invaluable tool for lawyers, allowing them to prominently feature their practices atop Google search engine results pages (SERPs) and gain the coveted “Google Screened” badge for enhanced credibility. In a dynamic online landscape, LSAs provide consistent value by offering prime visibility and the opportunity to connect with a diverse audience of potential clients.

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Thomson Reuters Launches CoCounsel Core in Canada and Australia

Legal Tech Blog

Thomson Reuters, a global content and technology company, has continued the rapid execution of its AI technology strategy by making CoCounsel Core available in Canada and Australia. These are the first of the English-speaking international markets the generative AI legal assistant will be rolled out to, less than three months after the launch of CoCounsel Core to Thomson Reuters customers.

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Snapchat Isn’t Liable for Offline Sexual Abuse–VV v. Meta

Eric Goldman

According to the complaint, a 12-year-old girl made a Snapchat account, connected with sexual predators on Snapchat, met them offline, and was sexually abused. She sued Snapchat for her harms. Snapchat successfully defends on Section 230 grounds. The contested issue is whether the claims treat Snapchat as a publisher/speaker of the third-party content.

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EU Data Act Regulates Business-to-Business Contracts Relating to Access and Use of Data

Inside Privacy

While the EU Directive on Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts prohibits certain clauses in standard ( i.e. , unilaterally imposed) contracts between businesses and consumers, some recently enacted EU laws restrict the use of certain clauses in standard contracts between businesses (“B2B”). The Data Act is the latest example of such a law, as it prohibits certain “unfair contractual terms” (“Unfair Clauses”) in standard contracts between businesses relating to the access and use of data.

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ABA Requests Public Comment on Possible Regulatory Implications of Exploring Possible Amendments to Model Rule of Professional Conduct 5.5 to Increase Permissible Cross-Border Practice

Legal Tech Monitor

The ABA Center for Professional Responsibility Working Group on ABA Model Rule of Professional Conduct 5.5 (MRPC 5.5) is requesting public comment on an Issues Paper it developed regarding possible regulatory implications associated with exploring possible amendments to MRPC 5.5 to increase permissible cross-border practice. The Working Group is currently in the early stages of its work in “determining whether and how to amend MRPC 5.5,” which deals with the unauthorized practice of law and mult

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Best Use of Artificial Intelligence—Contract, Document & Project Management, Provider: NetDocuments

Legal Tech Monitor

“Legal innovation means continual forward motion, knocking down the status quo, and delivering technology that helps legal professionals do their very best work,” said Reid Cram in Product Marketing for NetDocuments.

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Anderson Lloyd selects NetDocuments for cloud transformation of document and email management

Legal IT Professionals

NetDocuments, the #1 trusted cloud platform for law firms, corporate legal teams and business organisations, today announced that Anderson Lloyd has selected NetDocuments as its new Document Management System (DMS). Anderson Lloyd is a leading New Zealand law firm with a history of supporting the industries that make the country successful.

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Law Firms, Legal Departments Are Investing in Gen AI, but for Different Purposes

Legal Tech Monitor

In addition to highlighting differences in generative AI investments, a LexisNexis survey also found that legal professionals expect generative AI to spur the hiring of more technologists, and the potential loss of some associates and partners.

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Legal IT Win: Anderson Lloyd selects NetDocuments

Legal IT Insiders

Leading New Zealand law firm Anderson Lloyd has selected NetDocuments as its new document management system, swapping out ‘all in one’ practice management system LawMaster, which in 2022 was acquired […] The post Legal IT Win: Anderson Lloyd selects NetDocuments appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Justice Frias-Colo n Named Co-Chair of the Court Modernization Action Committee

Legal Tech Monitor

A new report highlights strides the court system has made in leveraging technology to streamline operations and details the next steps in continuing to advance the courts’ post-pandemic modernization efforts.

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The White House Addresses Responsible AI: Impacts on the Public Sector

Relativity

Since Biden's Executive Order on AI was signed, new developments have emerged regarding its impact on the federal government. Continuing our coverage of the EO and its e-discovery implications, this article covers those developments in the public sector.

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Federal Judge: CVS Health Job Candidate Has Standing in Failure to Notify Use of AI-Powered 'Lie Detector Screening'

Legal Tech Monitor

Attorneys with Seyfarth Shaw, on behalf of CVS Health Corp., moved to dismiss the third count of the complaint brought by the plaintiff, Brendan Baker, who accused CVS of violating a state law known as the “Lie Detector Statute.

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Artificial Intelligence Will Supercharge Knowledge Management for Lawyers

Legal Tech Monitor

Much like the apocryphal stories of Mark Twain’s demise, the reports of KM’s death continue to be greatly exaggerated. In this case, that which does not kill KM makes it stronger—artificial intelligence will, in fact, supercharge knowledge management.

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Airline Said It’s Not Responsible For Terrible Advice From Its Own Customer Service AI Bot. The Court… Disagreed.

Legal Tech Monitor

Not even ChatGPT could invent a case to make this stick. The post Airline Said It’s Not Responsible For Terrible Advice From Its Own Customer Service AI Bot. The Court. Disagreed. appeared first on Above the Law.

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Frozen Embryos Now Considered Children: Unpacking the Alabama Supreme Court Decision and the Future of Fertility Care

Legal Tech Monitor

Last Friday, in a first-of-its-kind ruling, the Alabama Supreme Court held that embryos are considered people under Alabama state law. As such, those who destroy embryos could be held liable for wrongful death. The decision has concerned reproductive rights advocates. Continue reading → The post Frozen Embryos Now Considered Children: Unpacking the Alabama Supreme Court Decision and the Future of Fertility Care first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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Responsibility of Law Authors for Public Access

Legal Tech Monitor

Reading Time: 13 minutes I downloaded the District of Columbia Court of Appeals opinion in Trump v. U.S.A. as soon as I heard it had been issued. It was pretty amazing to be reading the words without having to have them interpreted for me, or chopped up into little bits by the media. And yet. Within a few pages, the document was dense with dead-end citations.

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