Trellis.Law Blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

Last fall, we dove into the various lawsuits filed against leading AI tech companies over their alleged misuse of copyrighted content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs) to create chatbots (like OpenAI’s ChatGPT). Content creators, from famous authors to… Continue reading → The post Machine Learning vs. Creativity: Tech Giants Respond to Copyright Challenge first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 26, 2024

Neither the FCC nor FTC has a particularly good track record of standing up to broadband and cable giants when it comes to their longstanding track record of anticompetitive behavior, price gouging, or nickel-and-diming their often captive customers with bogus, hidden fees. Though occasionally one of the two agencies does step in to try make a bare […] The post Cable Giants Insist That Forcing Them To Make Cancellations Easier Violates Their First Amendment Rights appeared first on Above t

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Kevin O'Keefe

JANUARY 21, 2024

Solo law firms have experienced only half the revenue growth of larger firms over the last four years, according to the Clio Legal Trends report. This gap doesn’t have to persist; legal blogging is an underutilized strategy for solos. Through enhanced visibility and established expertise, a legal blog becomes more than just a marketing tool; it’s a direct catalyst for business growth and increased revenue.

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LawSites

JANUARY 25, 2024

A new ethics opinion from The Florida Bar says that lawyers may ethically use generative AI technologies, provided they are careful to adhere to their ethical obligations. The opinion also urges lawyers to continue to develop competency in the use of new technologies such as AI and the risks and benefits inherent in those technologies. Approved unanimously by The Florida Bar’s Board of Governors Jan. 19, the non-binding Ethics Advisory Opinion 24-1 was originally drafted by the bar’

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Trellis.Law Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

Two concertgoers filed a class action lawsuit against Madonna, tour operator and promotor Live Nation, and Brooklyn Events Center, which does business as Barclays Center. The lawsuit alleges that Madonna started her Celebration Tour concert in Brooklyn, New York, two… Continue reading → The post Late for Work: Madonna Sued for Commencing ‘Celebration Tour’ Concerts Behind Schedule first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 24, 2024

AffiniPay , the parent company of a group of technology products for managing law practices and accepting online payments, including LawPay and MyCase , today announced the launch of AffiniPay IQ, its strategic initiative to embed generative artificial intelligence across all of its products and make AI a native component of legal professionals’ daily workflows.

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Kevin O'Keefe

JANUARY 22, 2024

I have been working on blog posts about subjects I have written about long ago. I probably even wrote about the subject more than one time. I have been writing about legal blogging for twenty years. Seeing that I was starting a blog on legal blogging back in 2003, Ernest Svenson, who was publishing the blog, Ernie the Attorney , sent me a nice email saying cool idea, but what was I going to blog about the next week.

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LawSites

JANUARY 24, 2024

In November, when Thomson Reuters announced the integration of generative AI within its flagship legal research platform Westlaw Precision, it also announced the beta version of a generative AI integration within Practical Law. Today, Thomson Reuters is formally releasing that generative AI feature in Practical Law, called Ask Practical Law AI, and also releasing a second AI-driven Practical Law tool, Practical Law Clause Finder.

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Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 26, 2024

Sending clients text messages can interrupt the delicate dance of the work-life balance as texts are more likely reserved for personal communication. The post Texting With Clients Has Benefits And Disadvantages appeared first on Above the Law.

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Legal IT Insiders

JANUARY 23, 2024

Panoram, the enterprise legal software solutions company founded by former Neota Logic managing directors Rick Seabrook and Greg Wildisen and Epiq Systems’ president Chris Olofson, has launched its own contract … Exclusive: Panoram launches contract lifecycle management application in M365 Read More » The post Exclusive: Panoram launches contract lifecycle management application in M365 appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 22, 2024

I continue to maintain my census of U.S. cases referencing emojis or emoticons. In 2023, I logged 225 such cases (this number will grow a bit due to lags with the electronic databases). The case count continues to grow exponentially. The 2023 count represented a 17% increase over the 2022 count. 2023 marked a significant milestone: my census now counts over 1,000 total U.S. cases referencing emojis and emoticons (the exact number is 1,017).

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LawSites

JANUARY 24, 2024

Join me today at 1 p.m. ET for a free roundtable discussion for law firms, Navigating the New Legal Landscape, Where We Are and What’s Ahead. We plan to take a deep dive into the current state of the industry and offer a lens to what the future holds. The panel will feature Jayanth Madheswaran , founder and CEO of legal AI company Eve.AI ; Jim Hallenbeck , president and CEO at Black Hills AI ; and me.

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Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 26, 2024

Stealing a dead man's set? Now that’s ‘Bad For Ya.’ The post AI George Carlin Just Dropped A Comedy Special. The Estate Isn’t Too Happy About That. appeared first on Above the Law.

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Martindale-Avvo

JANUARY 24, 2024

“Martindale-Nolo’s adoption of AI and improvements to identity validation and lead screening is a game-changer.” — Jyoti Suhag, Director of Product at Martindale-Nolo Martindale-Nolo, the leading Pay-Per-Lead provider for law firms and part of the Martindale-Avvo Legal Marketing Network, today announced new AI-powered enhancements that improve lead generation quality, delivery and effectiveness for attorneys and law firms.

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Xakia

JANUARY 24, 2024

Your lawyers are busy, there’s no doubt about that – it’s evident from their long hours, that long list of projects, and perhaps a (now annual) budget overage.

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Clio

JANUARY 24, 2024

Email is central to any legal professional’s day. Whether corresponding with colleagues, communicating with clients, or staying up-to-date with court notifications, lawyers’ email inboxes are brimming with a near-constant stream of messages—it can be seriously overwhelming. While the sheer volume of emails that lawyers juggle daily is stressful in itself, the consequences of ineffective email management can be more pervasive.

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Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 22, 2024

For lawyers and technologists, understanding open source is crucial for compliance and harnessing its potential as a strategic business tool. The post Open Source And AI: The Untapped Potential appeared first on Above the Law.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 23, 2024

Wendy Merrill | The only way younger associate attorneys will make money for your firm is if they feel the firm is invested in their training and success. The post Protecting Your Investment: How to Realize a Robust ROI From Associates appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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LLRX

JANUARY 22, 2024

Jennifer (Greig) Wondracek identified that her AI results are much better when she stops and thinks them through, providing a high level of detail and a good explanation of what she want the AI system to produce. So, good law librarian that she is, she created a new form of plan for those who are learning to draft a prompt. And the result is the AI prompt worksheets she shares in this article.

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LawSites

JANUARY 25, 2024

A new intellectual property tool debuting today uses artificial intelligence to draft patents and office action answers in order to deliver — as its website puts it — “better patents in half of the time.” Called davinci , the tool was developed by Kili Technology Inc. , a company founded in 2018 in France that focuses on building high-quality data sets for training AI, and that has built AI products for such customers as SAP, Airbus, and Allen Institute for AI.

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Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 23, 2024

One thing is for sure: as AI helps automate and make work more predictable, both law firms and clients will benefit. The post Does AI Signal The End Of The Billable Hour? appeared first on Above the Law.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 21, 2024

Gray Robinson | The stress of a law practice is unrelenting — these practices can help you become more resilient. The post Becoming a Burnout-Proof Attorney: 5 Steps appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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LLRX

JANUARY 20, 2024

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.

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Inside Privacy

JANUARY 22, 2024

In December 2023, the Dutch SA fined a credit card company €150,000 for failure to perform a proper data protection impact assessment (“DPIA”) in accordance with Art. 35 GDPR for its “identification and verification process”. First, the Dutch SA decided that the company was required to perform a DPIA because the processing met two of the nine conditions set out in the EDPB Guidelines on DPIAs.

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Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 26, 2024

With continued tech improvements, it’s become easier than ever before. The post Track Meet: If You’re Not Tracking Your Time, Then What Are You Doing? appeared first on Above the Law.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 24, 2024

This is the latest entry in a long-running legal battle between Hayley Paige Gutman, a bridalwear designer, and JLM Couture, her one-time employer. Gutman created a Pinterest account in 2011 and an Instagram account in 2012, shortly after she began working for JLM. Over time, “Promotional posts were interspersed with more personal content, in a strategy that JLM referred to as the ‘personal glimpse,'” and other JLM employees helped manage the accounts.

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Solo Practice University

JANUARY 24, 2024

How do you launch a new law firm? What is your 'go to market plan' for your solo practice? Or, if you are relaunching how do you tackle marketing in an effective way? Jared shares an abundance of information to help you meet your goals. Listen and learn.

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LawSites

JANUARY 26, 2024

This week brought notable funding rounds for two legal technology companies, Proof and Spellbook, and a much-smaller seed round for a newer legal tech startup. Proof Raises $30M Series B Proof Technology , whose platform facilitates on-demand service of process and electronic filing, has closed a $30.4 million Series B funding round. The round was led by Long Ridge Equity Partners with participation from existing investors including Blue Heron Capital and The LegalTech Fund.

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Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 25, 2024

Lawyers’ reluctance to embrace AI, coupled with its ever-evolving and unpredictable nature, can leave many vulnerable to a fear-based, reactionary mindset that is untenable in the long term. The post Avoid A Reactionary, Band-Aid Approach To AI In Law appeared first on Above the Law.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 23, 2024

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy The intersection of the Federal Arbitration Act and the law of online contracts has become utterly corrosive to our legal system. Many people think this is true. But not enough lawyers say it often enough. Or loudly enough. When Congress enacted the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), it did so to establish a policy favoring arbitration when contracting parties sought to resolve their disputes by arbitration.

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Inside Privacy

JANUARY 22, 2024

On January 16, 2024, the Belgian Supervisory Authority sanctioned a data broker for violating several provisions of the GDPR. In particular, the data broker processed personal data without an appropriate legal basis and in violation of its transparency obligation. The more than 100-page decision explains that until July 2021 the data broker collected personal data from different sources and sold the data to interested third parties (“data delivery services”).

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 24, 2024

Lawyers who ask “What business problems am I trying to solve, and where can AI assist with those problems?” will come out on top with AI. The post Lawyers: Take a Thoughtful Approach to AI If You Want to Lead the Pack appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 25, 2024

Block billing used to be the teeth grinder. Now, it's AI. The post AI, MJP, And UPL: Alphabet Soup For Lawyers? appeared first on Above the Law.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 21, 2024

My SAD Scheme paper provided some data indicating that 88% of SAD Scheme cases involved trademarks, with only 6% each in copyright and patents. So SAD Scheme copyright cases aren’t unheard of, but they are rare. * * * A copyright owner, Viral DRM, brought SAD Scheme cases against YouTube uploaders in the Northern District of California (not the more typical N.D.

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Legal IT Professionals

JANUARY 25, 2024

Today, successful startup Kili Technology Inc. officially launched davinci, a new artificial intelligence (AI) technology tool which drafts patents and office action answers in a fraction of the time that manual methods require.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 26, 2024

Sally Schmidt | The best coaches put their players in a position to succeed; do the same thing for your business development. The post Business Development Strategy for Lawyers | Open the Playbook appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 24, 2024

The line between personal and business social media accounts can be blurry. The post Whose Instagram Login Is It, Anyway? appeared first on Above the Law.

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