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Enough About The Future Of AI… What Can Legal Do (Responsibly) With It Right NOW?

Above the Law - Technology

Someday these tools may work magic, but most people aren't even using the existing products to their full potential. The post Enough About The Future Of AI… What Can Legal Do (Responsibly) With It Right NOW? appeared first on Above the Law.

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GLTH announces the appointment of Simonetta Buccellato and Diana Vaccaro as Alliance Ambassadors in Europe

Global LegalTech Hub

Both are lawyers and co-founders of LexTranslate, a legal translation company that transcends borders and languages, providing its services to international law firms, entities, courts, companies, multinationals corporations, universities, and European Union institutions. Simonetta has worked as a lawyer in law firms in Milan and Brussels, as well as at the Court of Justice of the EU and the European Commission.

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AI’s Impact On Law Firms Of Every Size [Sponsored]

Above the Law - Technology

How solo lawyers, midsize firms, and global large law firms have an opportunity to adjust the way they work. The post AI’s Impact On Law Firms Of Every Size appeared first on Above the Law.

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Lawyer Depression: Recognizing the Signs and Dealing With It

Clio

Depression in the legal profession is widespread, with far-reaching impacts. For attorneys struggling with lawyer depression, the illness can have devastating personal and professional repercussions—but it also affects clients, partners, staff, and business. Depression affects a significant portion of the general population, with 7.1% of all adults in the United States—17.3 million adults—having suffered a major depressive episode in 2017.

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Back to Work, Our GenAI Future + A Conference

Artificial Lawyer

Is legal tech a good subject for a novel? Is the arrival of genAI in the legal world going to be more of a revolution than an evolution? Who is speaking at Legal Innovators California?

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Agiloft launches Gen AI Prompt Lab including ‘bring your own LLM’ capability 

Legal IT Insiders

Contract lifecycle management vendor Agiloft today (2 May) announced the launch of its Generative AI Prompt Lab, which includes pre-configured prompt templates that can leverage customer’s own data – and […] The post Agiloft launches Gen AI Prompt Lab including ‘bring your own LLM’ capability appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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7 Tips to Reduce Lawyer Stress Levels

Clio

Lawyer stress levels are through the roof. Over two-thirds of lawyers endure mental health issues , an estimated 93% of junior lawyers feel stressed at work, while 40% say they’ve become more stressed since the onset of the pandemic. Unfortunately, lawyer burnout is more prevalent than ever. This is perhaps unsurprising. Lawyers have a reputation for working long hours and handling important work.

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Justia Webinars: Retirement Planning Strategies for Law Firm Owners

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

You know the ins and outs of law in your practice area, helping clients day-in and day-out for years to achieve the happy ending to their cases, but now it’s time for you to settle down for your happy ending too. However, there are many multifaceted considerations to think about as a law firm owner when you retire: the financial decisions, the business planning, the ethical and regulatory elements, and more.

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Avoiding Trust Account Errors with CosmoLex

Lawyerist

Mishandling client money is among the top client complaints about attorneys. When we think of mishandling, we often think first of misappropriation—taking client funds to spend on oneself. But such actions, however sensational, represent a distinct minority of trust account problems. More commonly, problems with law firm trust accounts, also known as IOLTA (“interest on lawyer trust accounts”), arise from errors of expediency and neglect rather than nefarious intent.

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Wolters Kluwer launches competitive bidding software LegalCollaborator  

Legal IT Insiders

Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions today (2 May) announced the launch of LegalCollaborator, a competitive bidding software that makes it easier for corporate legal departments to compare, contrast, and enforce law […] The post Wolters Kluwer launches competitive bidding software LegalCollaborator appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Dropbox dropped the ball on security, haemorrhaging customer and third-party info–The Register

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Only from its digital doc-signing service, which is isolated from its cloudy storage Simon Sharwood Dropbox has revealed a major attack on its systems that saw customers’ personal information accessed by unknown and unauthorized entities. The attack, detailed in a regulatory filing , impacted Dropbox Sign – a service it bills as an “eSignature solution [that] lets you send, sign, and store important documents in one seamless workflow, without ever leaving Dropbox.” So basically

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Can I register a trademark created by Artificial Intelligence?

Brett Trout

Brett Trout Patents require a human inventor and copyright requires a human author, but trademarks require neither a human inventor nor author. There are many reasons the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) might reject your application for federal trademark registration, such as likelihood of confusion with an existing trademark, being merely descriptive or misdescriptive, being merely a surname, being merely ornamental etc.

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What is Intake Software?

Lawmatics

Legal client intake software is a type of technology specifically designed to streamline the process of collecting information from clients or potential clients in the legal industry. Legal client intake automation is typically used by law firms, legal departments, or legal service providers to efficiently gather relevant details about a case or legal matter during the initial consultation or intake process.

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Wolters Kluwer Launches LegalCollaborator to Improve Competitive Bidding

Artificial Lawyer

Wolters Kluwer has launched LegalCollaborator, a competitive bidding feature using templates that builds upon its Total Legal Spend Management system to ‘capture law firm engagement.

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Short Message Data 101: Handling Chats During e-Discovery

Relativity

Today’s short message apps contain much more information than just the text users type into a chat. How well does that nuance translate into an e-discovery review?

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Agiloft Extends Lead in Delivering “AI Your Way” with Differentiated Generative AI Capabilities

Legal IT Professionals

Agiloft, the most trusted global leader in data-first contract lifecycle management (CLM), announced enhanced capabilities for contract intelligence and connectivity today. The new Generative AI Prompt Lab capabilities empower users to leverage public or private large language models (LLMs) to enhance any contract data within their Agiloft environment bringing, for the first time, organization-specific AI capabilities to every element of contract lifecycle management.

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Top 10 Cybersecurity Measures for Deploying AI Systems from the NSA, FBI and CISA

Debevoise Data Blog

The integration of artificial intelligence into companies’ business practices poses increased cybersecurity risks, which we have previously written about here. As AI systems become ubiquitous, they also become targets for cyberattacks due to their valuable data and operational significance, and because their rapid development may leave certain AI systems outside some of a company’s robust cybersecurity controls.

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Intapp acquires Transform Data International

Legal IT Professionals

Intapp, a leading global provider of AI-powered software for professionals at advisory, legal, and capital markets firms, today announced that it has acquired Transform Data International (TDI). TDI is exclusively focused on delivering easy-to-use digital workplaces, based on Microsoft 365 applications, for professional services firms.

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The 7th Circuit’s Section 230 Jurisprudence’s Impact on FOSTA Cases

Eric Goldman

Last August, in GG v. Salesforce, a split Seventh Circuit panel ruled that Salesforce didn’t qualify for Section 230 in a FOSTA case. I never blogged that opinion for two reasons. First, it came at a busy time (I was just ramping up for the semester). Second, the opinion was so clearly wrong and garbled that I expected the Seventh Circuit would take the case en banc and issue a more coherent and less terrible opinion that I would then blog.

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Darrow Names Mathew Keshav Lewis As Chief Revenue Officer & US General Manager

Legal IT Professionals

Darrow, the leading AI-powered justice intelligence platform, today announced the appointment of Mathew Keshav Lewis as its first Chief Revenue Officer and US General Manager.

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Hong Kong office addition strengthens Opus 2 presence in Asia-Pacific region

Legal IT Professionals

Opus 2, the leading provider of integrated software and services for the global legal disputes market, is proud to announce the opening of a new office in Hong Kong to meet growing demand in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.

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Wolters Kluwer’s launches new LegalCollaborator solution to transform engagement between corporations and their law firms

Legal IT Professionals

Today Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions launched today LegalCollaborator, an innovative new legal engagement and competitive bidding software designed to help corporate legal departments capture early law firm engagement information.