November, 2023

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10 legal writing tools and software that will simplify your life

NSLT

Do you need legal writing tools for day-to-day working life? The truth is, if you’re in the legal profession, you’re probably already a pretty good writer. Our jobs are so word-intensive that you really can’t make it all that far in the law if you aren’t a natural wordsmith. That said, we can all use a helping hand from time to time. The good news is, in this day and age — there’s an app for that!

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OMG, China Has ACTUAL Legal Robots And All The Legal Tech Patents

Above the Law - Technology

All of these examples are actual examples of the technology that has been live in the Chinese justice system for at least five years. The post OMG, China Has ACTUAL Legal Robots And All The Legal Tech Patents appeared first on Above the Law.

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Don’t Believe the Hype? A More Practical View of Using AI in Legal (Stephen Embry – TechLaw Crossroads)

Technically Legal

This episode is conversation with attorney and legal tech aficionado Stephen Embry. He is also the man behind the TechLaw Crossroads blog which is a great resource for practical and real world insight about legal tech and how technology is impacting the practice of law. Stephen discusses his journey from practicing law to becoming a technology advisor for legal professionals and firms.

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Celebrating 20 Years of my blog, “Real Lawyers Have Blogs:” Some Perspective

Kevin O'Keefe

Twenty years ago, on November 22, 2003, I embarked into the world of blogging. With a simple picture of Perry Mason saying “Hmm… I should have a blog,” “Real Lawyers Have Blogs” was born. Post-LexisNexis, armed with lessons from my first company, Prairielaw.com, and driven by a passion to help lawyers harness the internet for building a name and building a business , I stumbled upon blogging.

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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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TGIR Ep. 228 – Cat Moon and Mark Williams Launch the New Vanderbilt AI Law Lab (VAILL)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

Vanderbilt Law School recently launched an exciting new initiative called the Vanderbilt AI Legal Lab (VAILL) to explore how artificial intelligence can transform legal services and access to justice. In this episode, we spoke with VAILL’s leadership – Cat Moon ,(?) Director of Innovation at Vanderbilt’s Program on Law and Innovation ( PoLI ), and Mark Williams , Associate Director for Collections and Innovation at the Massey Law Library – about their vision for this pioneering lab.

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Navigating the Ethical Landscape of Artificial Intelligence in Legal Practice: A First Look at the State Bar of California's New Guidelines

Internet for Lawyers

Navigating the Ethical Landscape of Artificial Intelligence in Legal Practice: A First Look at the State Bar of California's New Guidelines By Mark Rosch As the legal profession grapples with the continually-shifting landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), the State Bar of California has taken a first-of-its-kind step forward to help lawyers use the technology in.

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In First for A U.S. Appeals Court, 5th U.S. Circuit Court Considers Rule Requiring Lawyers to Certify they Did Not Rely on AI to Create Filings

Above the Law - Technology

In what it appears would be a first for a federal circuit court, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is considering adoption of a rule change that would require lawyers and unrepresented litigants to provide a certification regarding their use of artificial intelligence in preparing court filings. Lawyers and other filers would be required to certify either that they had not used AI in drafting the document or that, if they did, “a human” had reviewed the document for accuracy.

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Airbnb in the Big Apple: How the Short-Term Rental Ban Affects Hosts and Travelers in NYC

Trellis.Law Blog

Home Alone 2, Lost in New York premiered a little over three decades ago, just in time for Christmas. The holiday release became an instant classic. One can imagine that an updated version would perhaps include an Airbnb stay, were… Continue reading → The post Airbnb in the Big Apple: How the Short-Term Rental Ban Affects Hosts and Travelers in NYC first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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Exploring AI’s Role in Legal Blogging: Insights from Yale’s New Seminar, “Writing Essays With AI”

Kevin O'Keefe

More commentary of use to legal bloggers and legal marketing professionals on the AI in legal blogging front. Rather than telling students to stay clear of AI in their writing, Yale offers a new English seminar, “Writing Essays with AI,” taught by Yale’s Ben Glaser , an associate professor of English. While there are ethical concerns about AI compromising students’ academic integrity, there is also growing awareness of the ways in which AI tools might actually support and influence students in t

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The Future of KM is Bright: DiDomenico, Miro, and Little Review the KM&I for Legal Conference (TGIR Ep. 229)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

This week, we cover the highlights of the recent Knowledge Management and Innovation for Legal Conference with our guests, Patrick DiDomenico , founder of Inspire KM Consulting and the organizer of the conference; Tanisha Little , Director of Knowledge Management at Simpson Thatcher; and Sara Miro , Director of Knowledge at Sullivan Cromwell. In a time of Generative AI Hype, the basic ideas behind Knowledge Management have never been more relevant.

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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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Addleshaw Goddard selects CoCounsel, Spellbook, Microsoft Copilot and its own AGPT platform after gen AI trials

Legal IT Insiders

Having conducted trials or proof of concepts with five generative AI vendors in the drafting, review, legal review and productivity space – as we first revealed in June this year … Addleshaw Goddard selects CoCounsel, Spellbook, Microsoft Copilot and its own AGPT platform after gen AI trials Read More » The post Addleshaw Goddard selects CoCounsel, Spellbook, Microsoft Copilot and its own AGPT platform after gen AI trials appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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85+ Top Legal Technologist Specialists, Leaders & Heroes in the UK (Scotland, England & Wales and NI)

Ward Blawg

These top legal technologist specialists, leaders and heroes in the UK are redefining what it means to practise law, and indeed to succeed with legal service delivery, in the 21st century.

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Elon Musk’s ‘Thermonuclear Lawsuit’ Is Here And It’s… Positively Tepid.

Above the Law - Technology

After promising a bombshell of a lawsuit against Media Matters, Elon Musk delivers a dud. The post Elon Musk’s ‘Thermonuclear Lawsuit’ Is Here And It’s… Positively Tepid. appeared first on Above the Law.

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Fifth Circuit Sets AI Usage Rules for Legal Filings

Trellis.Law Blog

As jurists, law firms, legal professionals, and the public struggle to keep pace with the swift advancement of artificial intelligence, it is no surprise that courts are beginning to draft and enact rules for using these tools in legal proceedings.… Continue reading → The post Fifth Circuit Sets AI Usage Rules for Legal Filings first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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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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Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella Remains Bullish On OpenAI: Emily Chang Video Interview

Kevin O'Keefe

Incredible interview of Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella by Emily Chang of Bloomberg. What a crazy story hearing that Satya had no inclination there was a rift between Sam and the OpenAI board – and to this day he has not talked to anyone on the board as to why they fired Sam. Yet Satya is happy to support Sam’s return to OpenAI, if that’s what comes of things – so long as there is a change in governance allowing Microsoft to protect itself.

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The $650M Casetext Story: Coloring Book Edition

LawSites

Once upon a time, in a magical city called San Francisco, three former lawyers came together to develop an innovative legal research platform, as an alternative to traditional legal research services such as Thomson Reuters Westlaw and LexisNexis. They called their new company Casetext. Their original idea was to create a free, comprehensive library of primary legal research materials, supplemented by crowdsourced annotations and edits contributed by users, like a Wikipedia for law.

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Quick Matter Add

Xakia

Every member of a legal team is under time pressure. Receiving, reviewing, resolving and reporting on in-house legal work requires rapid digestion and a super smooth legal operations process. You do not have even one minute to spare.

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The Persistent Gavel: A Curious Phenomenon in ChatGPT and DALL-E 3’s AI Technology

Ward Blawg

In the fascinating world of AI in the legal sector and AI-generated content, a peculiar trend has emerged: the unyielding presence of gavels in images created by DALL-E 3, even when explicitly requested to be omitted. This phenomenon highlights the intriguing quirks of AI and its interpretation of requests. What’s the problem with gavels?

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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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Generative AI, Having Already Passed the Bar Exam, Now Passes the Legal Ethics Exam

Above the Law - Technology

Well, it’s happened again: Generative AI has passed a critical test used to measure candidate’s fitness to be licensed as a lawyer. Back in March, OpenAI’s GPT-4 took the bar exam and passed with flying colors , scoring around the top 10% of test takers. Now, two of the leading large language models (LLMs) have passed a simulation of the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE), a test required in all but two U.S. jurisdictions to measure prospective lawyers

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Ethics Exam Showdown: Chat GPT vs. Law Students – A New Era in Legal Education

Trellis.Law Blog

Last Thursday, LegalOn Technologies published a study claiming AI chatbots outperformed most aspiring lawyers on the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE). According to the report, OpenAI’s Chat GPT-4 performed best by answering 74% of the exam questions correctly, outperforming the… Continue reading → The post Ethics Exam Showdown: Chat GPT vs.

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When Successful, Art Exceeds Its Creator’s Plans – Especially In the Days of AI

Kevin O'Keefe

When successful, art exceeds its creator’s plans. So true in these days of AI. No one could have envisioned the “travelings” of a book, an article or a legal blog post. To the “Books3 database” for Meta’s AI? Ian Bogost , a contributing writer for The Atlantic, takes a contra – and refreshing – view to that of most authors, reporters and publishers when it comes to the scraping of their work for the training of AI large language models such as ChatGPT.

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How to Take the Awkward Out of Holiday Parties

Attorney at Work

Holiday parties can be more awkward than meeting the parents. Try these tips to become confident. The post How to Take the Awkward Out of Holiday Parties appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Exclusive: Economic Optimism Among Smaller Law Firms Drives Increased Spending, But They Still Face Challenges Meeting Client Demands, New Survey Finds

LawSites

Even amid a highly variable and possibly decelerating U.S. economy, smaller law firms are showing greater optimism about their futures. The post Exclusive: Economic Optimism Among Smaller Law Firms Drives Increased Spending, But They Still Face Challenges Meeting Client Demands, New Survey Finds appeared first on Above the Law.

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75+ Top Legal Technologist Heroes in the UK (Scotland, England & Wales and NI)

Ward Blawg

In an era where technology intertwines with every aspect of our lives, the legal industry is no exception. Legal technology, or ‘legal tech’, has become a cornerstone in modern law practice, enhancing efficiency, accuracy, access to justice and legal service delivery.

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Elon Musk Threatens ‘Thermonuclear Lawsuit’ Prompting Thermonuclear Terrible Legal Takes

Above the Law - Technology

Elon Musk wants to sue Media Matters for. something. The post Elon Musk Threatens ‘Thermonuclear Lawsuit’ Prompting Thermonuclear Terrible Legal Takes appeared first on Above the Law.

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? Trellis Origin Story: CEO Nicole Clark Shares Inside Scoop on Lawyer Stories Podcast

Trellis.Law Blog

The Lawyer Stories Podcast Episode 161 features Nicole Clark, Co-founder, CEO at Trellis, located in Los Angeles, California. In this podcast, Nicole shares her story and how the idea for Trellis was born late one night as Nicole was trying… Continue reading → The post ? Trellis Origin Story: CEO Nicole Clark Shares Inside Scoop on Lawyer Stories Podcast first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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Exploring the Ethics of AI in Legal Writing and Blogging

Kevin O'Keefe

Lukasz Ostrowski has a great piece over on Medium about the ethics of writing with AI. I’m in the law, where I’d guess the majority of blogging and digital publishing lawyers have thrown ethics out the window already by paying others to write content for them and publishing the content in their own name. For the lawyers who write their own blog posts, here’s some excellent points from Ostrowski – with my commentary – when it comes to using AI in writing.

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Handwritten Notes Help Build Real Relationships

Attorney at Work

I got a handwritten note in the mail the other day from a colleague. We live in the same neighborhood in Chicago, text about 30 times a week, and see each other at least once a month. However, we play Words With Friends with ferocity and two days before, I'd played high scoring tiles across three bonus spaces for a single word total of 119 points at the very end of the game.

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Hanzo Wins “Best Use of AI for eDiscovery” In 2023 LegalTech Breakthrough Awards Program

Hanzo Blog

Hanzo wins 'Best Use of AI for eDiscovery' at 2023 LegalTech Breakthrough Awards, for its innovative AI-driven tool, Hanzo Illuminate with Spotlight AI.

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Small Law Firms Made Progress this Year On Their Biggest Challenge, Thomson Reuters Survey Finds

LawSites

Seven times since 2016, Thomson Reuters has conducted a survey on the state of small law firms in the U.S., and every time, it found that small firms had made virtually no progress on one of their greatest challenges, which is that they spend too much time on administrative tasks to the exclusion of practicing law. As Thomson Reuters itself says, “Previous editions have frequently been a case of ‘the more things change, the more things stay the same.'” But this year, in the jus

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White House AI Exec Order Raises Questions On Future Of DoD Innovation

Above the Law - Technology

'What's really going to matter is how these various departments and agencies actually start building the rules and interpreting the guidance that they received in the executive order,' Klon Kitchen of Beacon Global Strategies told Breaking Defense. The post White House AI Exec Order Raises Questions On Future Of DoD Innovation appeared first on Above the Law.

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Questionable Ethics in Focus: Supreme Court Adopts Code of Conduct Amid Rising Concerns

Trellis.Law Blog

On Monday, the Supreme Court announced the adoption of a new code of conduct for the justices. The document is 14 pages (with the Code laid out over nine) and includes five cannons of conduct on topics ranging from what… Continue reading → The post Questionable Ethics in Focus: Supreme Court Adopts Code of Conduct Amid Rising Concerns first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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How Would You Explain Why Lawyers Blog to a Kindergarten Class? Lou AI Says to Think of Them as Superheroes

Kevin O'Keefe

I asked Lou , LexBlog’s AI powered publishing assistant, how it would explain to a kindergarten class why lawyers blog. To which Lou responded. Imagine you have a big, difficult puzzle to solve, but you’re not sure how to do it. Lawyers are like helpers who know a lot about a special set of rules called ‘laws’ that everyone must follow. They write blogs, which are like online diaries or storybooks, to share what they know about these rules.

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