June, 2023

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The Impact of AI and Generative AI on the Legal Profession

NSLT

Abraham Lincoln once said, "The best way to predict your future is to create it." In today's increasingly connected, complex, and competitive legal landscape, this quote resonates more than ever. Lawyers at all career stages, whether they work in-house or in private practice, have a generation-defining opportunity to shape the future of legal practice by embracing technologies powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

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What’s the Best Legal Pad for You?

Legal Tech Monitor

I must confess that, although the Attorney at Work website is one of my top resources, some posts there by Analog Attorney. Call it “digital bias” if you will. But sometimes the pieces seem to strain to do something the traditional way, even when digital methods are preferable. That is noted because I want to encourage you to read “ Run Your Practice More Mindfully on a Legal Pad ” from Attorney at Work.

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The Secret of Increased Production for Your Law Practice? Accountability

Attorney at Work

Brooke Lively | When you have accountability, your practice can achieve remarkable growth. The post The Secret of Increased Production for Your Law Practice? Accountability appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Lawyers Who Used ChatGPT To Fake Opinions Are In Real Trouble

Above the Law - Technology

Mistakes were made. The post Lawyers Who Used ChatGPT To Fake Opinions Are In Real Trouble appeared first on Above the Law.

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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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A.I. Explosion in Legal Tech Being Fueled by Entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists

Kevin O'Keefe

The New York Times’ Yiren Lu reports that A.I. has exploded in the eyes of company founders and venture capitalists alike. Not referring to legal tech specifically, Lu shares, “One appeal of generative A.I. is that it offers something for every would-be entrepreneur. For the technically minded, there is research to be done. For the business types, it’s easy to create applications on top of the OpenAI platforms.

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Measuring Against Nothing (Or, Budgets Without Scope Aren’t Really Budgets)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

I have had several epiphanies of late, and they reverberate back to almost everything I have been doing to drive innovation in the legal industry over the past many years. At its core, what I’ve realized is that I’ve been missing something fundamental about measuring value. The legal industry has struggled to put its arms around value. Implicit in this struggle is the idea that the data we have been collecting contains something of value to measure.

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Litigation-Tech and Abraham Lincoln Share Common Interests

Trial Technology

Image credit: Al Holguin Litigation-Tech has been around for many years, helping attorneys navigate their way onto the technology highway in the courtroom. We have a lot of stories to tell, but here's some insight from one of our very first clients. Abraham Lincoln was a master of using language to persuade and inform. He was also a skilled storyteller, and he knew how to use visuals to illustrate his points.

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The Rumors Were True: Thomson Reuters Acquires Casetext for $650M Cash

LawSites

Rumors had been swirling that Thomson Reuters was about to acquire Casetext, and they proved to be true. Just before 9 p.m. Eastern time today, TR said it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Casetext for $650 million cash. “The proposed transaction will complement Thomson Reuters existing AI roadmap and builds on its recent initiatives, including a commitment to invest more than $100 million annually on AI capabilities, the development of new generative AI experiences across its p

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Court Imposes Sanctions On Lawyers Who Filed Bogus Cases After Relying On ChatGPT For Legal Research

Above the Law - Technology

A federal district judge has imposed monetary and other sanctions on the two lawyers who filed a brief laden with bogus cases they found when they relied on ChatGPT for legal research. The judge ordered the lawyers, Peter LoDuca and Steven A. Schwartz, as well as the law firm of Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, to pay a penalty of $5,000. He also ordered them to notify their client of the sanctions, and to notify each judge who was falsely identified as the author of the fake court opinions gener

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AI Doesn’t Replace the Legal Blogger, AI is a Tool for the Legal Blogger

Kevin O'Keefe

Following my post yesterday about how AI will make for more effective legal blogging, I received a response over on LinkedIn that the use of AI in legal blogging would result in blogs without any substantive content. A good discussion ensued with my taking the position that the use of an AI-powered publishing assistant in blogging would result in more substantive legal blog content.

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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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The Rising Cost of Legal Services: Insights from 10 Years of Data from CounselLink’s Kristina Satkunas

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

Our guest this week is ⁠ Kristina Satkunas ⁠ , Director of Analytic Consulting at LexisNexis. Kristina discusses the recently released LexisNexis CounselLink Enterprise Legal Management Trends Report for 2023. This annual report provides insights and benchmarks on key metrics related to corporate legal spending and outside counsel relationships. The 2023 report found that law firm hourly rates increased 4.5% over the past year, the highest year-over-year increase in the 10 years LexisNexis has p

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Will the real Web3 please stand up?

TechnoLlama

If you have been around tech circles, you may have heard the use of the term Web3 (or Web 3.0). Web 1.0 was the read-only web, static websites, while Web 2.0 was the read-write Internet characterised by interactive websites, social media, the cloud, and user-generated content.

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How Can AI Models Legally Obtain Training Data?–Doe 1 v. GitHub (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Doe 1 v. GitHub, Inc. is one of the first major class-action lawsuits to dive into questions of online collection of “public data” and generative AI training data sets. Given the importance of generative AI and the implications for other generative AI projects, and the number of legal issues involved, many legal observers were keen to follow the first few breadcrumbs in this case.

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In A First For A State Bar, Florida To Provide All Members With Free Trust Accounting Software To Help Ensure Compliance And Protect The Public

LawSites

In what appears to be a first for a state bar association, The Florida Bar is providing each of its 110,000 members with free access to legal trust accounting software – a move its new president believes will help attorneys better comply with trust accounting requirements and better protect the public from trust violations. The Florida Bar, the official regulatory and disciplinary arm of the Supreme Court of Florida, has entered into a relationship with the legal financial management company Not

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Visibility Into the Strategy & Supporting Documents of Major US Law Firms

Law Firm Intelligence by Trellis aggregates state trial court data across the Trellis platform enabling users to: look up a particular metric related to a specific law firm (such as, how many cases a law firm had or has against another law firm), and see the actual dockets and documents supporting the metric. Trellis data is maximized in a revolutionary and unique way to provide users an exclusive look into a law firm litigating in state trial courts.

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Maryland Cops Can’t Seem To Understand Why Marijuana Legalization Means They Can’t Search Cars Just Because They Smell Marijuana

Above the Law - Technology

Duh, you smelled something legal. The post Maryland Cops Can’t Seem To Understand Why Marijuana Legalization Means They Can’t Search Cars Just Because They Smell Marijuana appeared first on Above the Law.

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Apps Could Help Move AI Into the Mainstream

Kevin O'Keefe

Remember how apps made the iPhone immensely popular? The same thing is likely to happen with AI. While a majority of U.S. adults have heard of ChatGPT, only 14% have tried it, according to Pew Research. This does not AI will be a passing fad, per The Wall Street Journal’s Cordilia James. Apps will make AI services more accessible and more popular. The Journal has compiled a list of easy-to-try AI apps and websites in various categories to give you a taste of what’s coming.

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Curt Meltzer on Why Legal Tech Companies Should Give Back: The Business Case for Pro Bono, A2J, and Community Outreach (TGIR Ep. 207)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

This week on The Geek in Review, Marlene Gebauer and Greg Lambert talk with ⁠ Curt Meltzer ⁠ , principal of ⁠ Meltzer Consulting, LLC ⁠. Meltzer has over 40 years of experience in the legal and legal tech industry. He discusses his interest in pro bono and community outreach programs in law firms and legal tech companies. He notes that while 95% of AmLaw 200 law firms highlight pro bono work on their websites, many legal tech companies do not prioritize these efforts.

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Make AI Your Intern, Not Your Replacement as a Lawyer

Attorney at Work

Nothing But the Ruth | Does the 'bogus cases' ChatGPT incident reveal a bigger problem? The post Make AI Your Intern, Not Your Replacement as a Lawyer appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Stay On Top of Newly Filed State & Federal Litigation: Curated Just for You!

With Daily Filings Report by Trellis you will receive an email and csv file daily with all new cases filed in the jurisdictions you're tracking. Each new case will include all case metadata like judge, parties, counsel, practice area, and even direct links to the full docket and complaint. Trellis Daily Filings Reports provide direct access to newly filed state and federal litigation curated just for you.

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Would You Join a Webinar on How I’m Currently Using ChatGPT?

Dennis Kennedy

Would you help me out with a LinkedIn poll I’m currently running? I’ve been told by several people (yes, more than one) that I should share what I’ve been doing with ChatGPT for personal productivity, planning, and innovation, and give some practical tips on those approaches. I’ve been doing a ton of experiments and have found some great uses. These people have noted the potential benefits of my insights on my own practical use of this AI tool to boost personal productivity, streamline planning

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Connecticut Legislature Passes Amendments to the Connecticut Data Privacy Act

Inside Privacy

The Connecticut legislature passed Connecticut SB 3 on June 2, 2023. If enacted by the governor, the bill would amend the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (“CTDPA”) to include a number of provisions related to health and minors’ data. Additional detail on the CTDPA can be found in our previous blog post here. The health-related provisions would take effect on July 1, 2023.

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Lawyer Figures Out ChatGPT Made Up Fake Cases In His Brief On Day Of Hearing

Above the Law - Technology

Would've been nice to catch this a little earlier. The post Lawyer Figures Out ChatGPT Made Up Fake Cases In His Brief On Day Of Hearing appeared first on Above the Law.

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Quantifying the Value of an AI-Powered Publishing Assistant to a Legal Blogger, An Early Assessment

Kevin O'Keefe

Can you quantify the value of AI to a legal blogger? Let’s have some fun looking at the question. For lawyers just starting to blog – and maybe just starting to practice law – who use AI to stragically identify niche areas of the law to practice in and blog on, the upside in revenue is pretty strong. There are many examples of blogging lawyers who focused on niches going uncovered who have done very well for themselves.

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Section 230 Doesn’t Apply to High Schoolers’ Online Bullying–Kutchinski v. Freeland Community School District

Eric Goldman

HK built an Instagram account impersonating a teacher. He “made one innocuous post on the account.” He unwisely shared the login credentials with two classmates, KL and LF. Those classmates made “incendiary posts” about other teachers (and tagged those teachers) and another student. “H.K. monitored the account and viewed the posts himself.

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As Thomson Reuters Explains Its Acquisition of Casetext, Some Investors Seem Uncertain

LawSites

Compared to Thomson Reuters, Casetext is a relatively small company with relatively minimal revenue, and one that effectively refocused its product strategy over the past year, launching its generative AI product CoCounsel just four months ago. So why did TR shell out a record $650 million in cash to acquire Casetext? That was the question on the minds of several of TR’s institutional investors during a call this morning at which the company briefed them on the deal, announced late last ni

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What Does Lawyer Development Mean in the Age of Generative AI? New Innovation Lab Will Seek Answers

Legal Tech Monitor

A legal innovation lab launching today seeks to answer the question of how to approach the training and development of new lawyers in an age of generative AI. The Legal Innovation Lab is being launched by SkillBurst Interactive , a 10-year-old company that provides on-demand training to larger law firms and their corporate clients. The lab’s focus will be on creating “transformative digital learning solutions for lawyers in the age of generative AI,” the company said, serving as a hub for law fi

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EU and US Lawmakers Agree to Draft AI Code of Conduct

Inside Privacy

On 31 May 2023, at the close of the fourth meeting of the US-EU Trade & Tech Council (“TTC”), Margrethe Vestager – the European Union’s Executive Vice President, responsible for competition and digital strategy – announced that the EU and US are working together to develop a voluntary AI Code of Conduct in advance of formal regulation taking effect.

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Do NOT, I Repeat, Do NOT Use ChatGPT For Legal Research

Above the Law - Technology

These chatbots are bald-faced liars that pull facts out of thin air. The post Do NOT, I Repeat, Do NOT Use ChatGPT For Legal Research appeared first on Above the Law.

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To Avoid Sanctions, the Dumb Lawyers Now Say They Were Tricked By ChatGPT to Use Fictitious Research

Kevin O'Keefe

It was crazy enough to hear that lawyers were dumb enough to cite cases pulled from ChatGPT without ever reading them. Things only get wilder in the lawyers’ defense of sanctions. They blamed ChatGPT for tricking them into including fictitious legal research in a brief supporting a personal injury claim against Avianca Airlines. Tricked. Really? Not only did the cases not exist, but airlines referenced in the cases cited didn’t even exist.

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Yikes! I’ve Lost My Job — Now What?

Attorney at Work

Roy Ginsburg | I’m not going to lie. Losing a job sucks big-time, but these dos and don'ts will help you maintain your sanity. The post Yikes! I’ve Lost My Job — Now What? appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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“Successful Innovation Outcomes in Your Law Department” – My New Keynote Presentation

Dennis Kennedy

Is your leadership team asking for more innovation from your law department? Is delivering innovation results on your department or personal annual objective list? C-suites are demanding that their general counsels and law departments accelerate their efforts to keep pace with innovation goals across the organization. They want their law departments to be as creative as the rest of the business.

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Uh-Oh, the Ninth Circuit Is Messing Again With Its Roommates Ruling–Vargas v. Facebook

Eric Goldman

The Roommates.com case plays a critical role in the Ninth Circuit’s Section 230 jurisprudence. The (unnecessarily confusing) majority opinion suggested several exclusions to Section 230’s immunity, including these statements: “If you don’t encourage illegal content, or design your website to require users to input illegal content , you will be immune.

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New Visalaw.ai/AILA Product Uses GPT-4 for Immigration Law Research, Drafting and Summarization

LawSites

A new generative AI product for immigration lawyers announced today is designed to help them conduct research, draft and summarize complex legal documents, and engage with potential clients through a chat interface. Called Visalaw.ai Gen , the product has been developed as a collaboration between the company Visalaw.ai, the technology affiliate of the immigration law firm Siskind Susser , and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the national bar organization of more than 16,000 i

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Passwords May Be Extinct Sooner Than You Think

Above the Law - Technology

Thanks to passkeys, the days of passwords will soon be numbered. The post Passwords May Be Extinct Sooner Than You Think appeared first on Above the Law.

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