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AI and ChatGPT: A Powerful Message from Australia’s Top Law Firms

Kevin O'Keefe

A powerful message on ChatGPT and AI from Australia’s leading law firms and lawyers. Law firms should be embracing ChatGPT, not fearing it as a threat. ChatGPT is an opportunity, so much so that law firms may even have the obligation to use GPT to best serve their clients. The Australian Financial Review ’s Michael Pelly talked to leaders in some of Australia’s major firms, all bullish on GPT.

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5 Ways to Cultivate Compassion

Attorney at Work

Jamie Spannhake | Developing a sense of compassion — or at least neutrality — can make relationships better. It can also improve outcomes. The post 5 Ways to Cultivate Compassion appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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ChatGPT: What It Is And Why It Matters To Lawyers

LLRX

Attorney and legal technologist Nicole Black cautions user that ChatGPT is a great start, but that’s all it is. No matter what you’re using ChatGPT for, whether for personal or professional reasons, you’ll need to have a full understanding of the topic at hand and thoroughly review, edit, and supplement the draft language it provides you.

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As Allen & Overy Deploys GPT-based Legal App Harvey Firmwide, Founders Say Other Firms Will Soon Follow

LawSites

Yesterday, Allen & Overy , one of the world’s largest law firms, announced that it had integrated the legal artificial intelligence product Harvey into its global practice, where it will by used by more than 3,500 lawyers across 43 offices operating in multiple languages. I wrote about Harvey in November , when the previously stealth startup emerged with news that it had raised $5 million in funding led by the startup fund of OpenAI, the company that is the developer of the GPT AI tech

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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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Free PDF of My Successful Innovation Outcomes in Law Book

Dennis Kennedy

I’ve decided that I want as many people as possible to read my book, Successful Innovation Outcomes in Law: A Practical Guide for Law Firms, Law Departments and Other Legal Organizations , so I’m now making it available as a FREE PDF download – Successful Innovation Outcomes in Law – 2023 PDF Version. If you like the book and PDF is not the best format for you (or you want to support the author), you can still buy the book in paperback and Kindle formats on Amazon.

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Best Practices: Engaging Managed Services Providers to Build Your Firm’s Legal Data API Integrations

Attorney at Work

Josh Blandi | Best practices for working with MSPs to build out your firm's API integrations. The post Best Practices: Engaging Managed Services Providers to Build Your Firm’s Legal Data API Integrations appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Reminder: A Chance For You To Share Your Legal Tech Insights And Possibly Win A Gift Card

LawSites

Here’s a possible win-win: Share your legal tech knowledge or experiences with the legal community and possibly win a gift card for doing so. Two weeks ago, we announced a unique campaign to encourage writers to contribute to the resources library of the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. Contribute an article during February and put yourself in the running to earn a gift card.

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We ask ChatGPT: Are true crime findings admissible in court?

Martindale-Avvo

If you haven’t tried ChatGPT before, it’s an automated tool that generates text and copy solely through artificial intelligence. While it can help break through brain fog and writer’s block, it also has taken on a life — almost literally — of its own. I’ve had an idea to write a piece about true crime authors and their findings (are they admissible in court, what’s legal, etc.), and I thought this would be a perfect topic to test out ChatGPT.

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Are You Dealing With Executive Functioning Disorder?

Attorney at Work

Wendy Merrill | Lawyers who struggle with organization and focus may be dealing with EFD. The post Are You Dealing With Executive Functioning Disorder? appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Hèrmes wins MetaBirkin NFT lawsuit

TechnoLlama

Luxury brand Hermès has won a trademark jury trial in New York against artist Mason Rothschild. The dispute was over Rothschild’s NFT collection MetaBirkins, which are sold on the marketplace SuperRare, consisting of links to images of furry Birkin bags.

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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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Stress Due To Understaffing Plagues Midsized Firms, Survey Finds, But Professionals See Relief In Tech

LawSites

A survey out today of lawyers, paralegals and administrative support professionals at midsized law firms finds that nearly three-quarters report feeling stress, burnout, or being overwhelmed in the past year, and that understaffing is a leading cause, with 92% saying their firms have been impacted by staffing or resources shortages. Of the lawyers and paralegals who responded to the survey, the greatest sources of their stress are understaffing and client demands.

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Justia Legal Guides: Child Safety Center

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

Most parents devote lots of time, energy, and expense to keeping their children as safe as possible. Children are naturally curious, and they may not understand all the risks of their surroundings. Moreover, adults or other children may harm a child through careless behavior or intentional wrongdoing. At Justia, we understand the immense responsibility involved in raising a child.

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The Efficacy of ChatGPT: Is it Time for the Librarians to Go Home?

LLRX

In preparation for a presentation about race and academic libraries Curtis Kendrick , formerly Dean and currently Binghamton University Libraries Faculty and Staff mentor, tried ChatGPT (Jan 9 version) to see what it (they?) had to say. He was curious about how it worked and how accurately it responded to queries. For our consideration, Kendrick offers his analysis of this interaction.

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Reaching the 20th Blogiversary of DennisKennedy.Blog

Dennis Kennedy

One of the big challenges about publishing a blog on focused topics is that external events can intrude and make your posts seem like they don’t live in the real world. Twenty years ago today, I published my first post on this blog. Over the years, I liked to mark each blogiversary (or blawgiversary) with some kind of a clever post. For this one, which is kind of a big deal, I had a few clever ideas.

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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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Filevine Unveils AI-Driven Immigration Forms, Accounting Integration with Oracle NetSuite, and A Broad Vision for AI

LawSites

At its LEX Summit user conference this week, the law practice management company Filevine made two major product announcements, and its CEO outlined a broad vision for incorporating AI throughout the company’s products. The first of the two product announcements is a feature that uses artificial intelligence to translate client documents and then extract and label data from those documents which can then be used to auto-populate immigration forms.

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Lawyer Commercials From the Big Game

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

The annual Super Bowl is not just the biggest night of the year in American sports. It is also the biggest night in advertising. Each year, millions of viewers tune in to watch the big game and check out the commercials too! Big brands often work the legal industry into their spots and some law firms even run ads. Now that a few days have passed since the big game, we are looking back at some of the most memorable law firm commercials to grace viewers’ screens this year.

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What the First Amendment really says – 4 basic principles of free speech in the US

LLRX

Lynn Greenky , Associate Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University delves into Elon Musk's claim that he believes in free speech no matter what. He calls it a bulwark against tyranny in America and promises to reconstruct Twitter, which he now owns, so that its policy on free expression “matches the law.” Yet his grasp of the First Amendment – the law that governs free speech in the U.S. – appears to be quite limited.

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Legal Innovators California – Special 50% Off Early Bird Tickets!

Artificial Lawyer

The early bird catches the legal innovation conference! For a limited time only, the Legal Innovators California conference, taking place in San Francisco on June.

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New York’s Mandatory Editorial Transparency Law Preliminarily Enjoined–Volokh v. James

Eric Goldman

Last year, as part of the first wave of censorial mandatory editorial transparency laws, New York enacted N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law § 394-ccc. The “has two main requirements: (1) a mechanism for social media users to file complaints about instances of “hateful conduct” and (2) disclosure of the social media network’s policy for how it will respond to any such complaints.” The complaint mechanism defines “hateful conduct” as “(1) conduct that vilifies; (2) conduct that humi

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Smarter eDiscovery with OpenText Axcelerate CE 23.1

OpenText

Mastering modern eDiscovery requires a more holistic methodology than the traditional approach of disjointed point solutions based on the stage in the EDRM. Legal teams are looking for a greater ability to embrace litigation requirements from initial project framing to using the data surfaced during review in case management processes. OpenText Axcelerate 23.1, scheduled … The post Smarter eDiscovery with OpenText Axcelerate CE 23.1 appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Is the full potential of generative AI in legal practice being inhibited?

Legal Tech Innovation Wales

Allen & Overy recently announced that they are integrating innovative AI programme, Harvey, into everyday practice at the firm after testing it in beta since November 2022. Harvey’s founders include former lawyers and was partly funded by OpenAI’s Startup Fund. The programme comes in the form of a chat bot which incorporates OpenAI’s GPT technology and is designed to assist lawyers with document drafting and legal research by analysing data and using natural language processing and machine l

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 11, 2023

LLRX

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, 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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4 questions to ask before choosing an enterprise legal management system

Simple Legal

Like it or not, tech is the way of the future. Yes, even in legal ops. Nearly 90% of legal professionals in a Bloomberg survey agree that legal tech is important , but a whopping 70% either don’t have a process in place to evaluate legal tech or are unsure if a process exists at their organization. With so many legal tech options to choose from, it’s tough to know what features will make one platform more useful for your organization over another.

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Have You Hired a Terrorist? 4 Kinds of Law Firm Employees

Attorney at Work

Brooke Lively | A Financial Breakdown for Recruiting and Hiring a New Attorney (Holy Cow!) The post Have You Hired a Terrorist? 4 Kinds of Law Firm Employees appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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The Top 7 Skills for Lawyers

Clio

While law school helps you develop the legal knowledge to practice law, it doesn’t always help you with many of the “soft skills” that are equally essential top skills for lawyers. Having the right soft skills, in addition to a strong knowledge of the law, is crucial for building a successful legal career—and for running a successful practice, if you decide to go that route.

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Buy-Side vs. Sell-Side Contracts: Differences, Similarities, Opportunities, & Challenges

AXDRAFT

Your company’s performance can be defined by how well you sell and how you buy. Regardless of the industry, there are always two sides to every deal, and you’ve likely been on both at one time or another. Consequently, the way you manage both sell-side and buy-side contracts directly impacts the success of your business. By knowing their specifics, similarities, and differences, not only can you achieve your organizational goals faster, but you can also set more ambitious ones.

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Justice for Change: Accountability for Australia's Corporate 'Net Zero' Emissions Claims

Relativity

The Environmental Defenders Office is currently representing the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility in a landmark case that examines environmental claims made by a major Australian oil and gas company.

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Recession-Proof Your Law Firm: Legal Tech and ROI

Centerbase

Law firms across the country are buzzing, and it feels suspiciously like 2008. The word “recession” is being whispered in hushed water-cooler conversations. Many firms are looking to optimize their operations and hunker down in anticipation of lean times. Weathering the storm will be challenging, but the law firms that come out strongest on the other side will be the ones that have figured out how to optimize their performance as part of their recession-proofing strategy.

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 IoT Crypto Standards are unlikely to fix +20Billion old IoT devices!

Vogel IT Law

DarkReading.com reported that “The National Institute of Standards and Technology has settled on a standard for encrypting Internet of Things (IoT) communications, but many devices remain vulnerable and unpatched. A new encryption standard for Internet of Things (IoT) should help advance security for these connected devices in businesses, manufacturers, critical infrastructure, and other sectors running this equipment.

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On Taking Typing out of Litigation (Automating Legal Drafting with AI) Nathan Walter (CEO Briefpoint)

Technically Legal

Nathan Walter, founder of Briefpoint, joins Technically Legal to explain how his company is using technology and artificial intelligence to automate routine legal drafting tasks. A good portion of lawyers’ time and those helping them is copying or re-using prior work. This is especially true in litigation and especially in discovery. Thankfully more and more apps have been developed that help automate the creation of legal documents.

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Justice for Change: Accountability for Australia's Corporate 'Net Zero' Emissions Claims

Relativity

The Environmental Defenders Office is currently representing the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility in a landmark case that examines environmental claims made by a major Australian oil and gas company.

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Review: CovoBox: hide your electronics behind real books

iPhone J.D.

One of the unfortunate consequences of our increasingly digital lives is a need for more plugs, cords, routers, hubs, etc.  And as they accumulate, they become more unsightly.  I have a set of shelves in my living room, and on one shelf I have a lot of electronics: an eero Pro to provide great Wi-Fi in my living room, the cords for a HomePod mini, a hub for my Lutron Caséta system (connected to the extra Ethernet port on that eero Pro), a cord for a diffuser, etc.  It makes sen

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What is the Problem with False Light?

The Barrister

The four invasion of privacy torts are well known to lawyers and law students: (1) appropriation; (2) intrusion upon seclusion; (3) public disclosure of private facts; and (4) false light. The last tort is infamous among the states as many states have either rejected the tort or have yet to recognize it as a separate cause of action. Ten states have rejected the claim of false light, including Colorado, New York, North Carolina, and Virginia.[1] Eleven states have yet to recognize the tort, incl

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Attorney at Work Podcast Survey 2023

Attorney at Work

We're conducting a brief survey to gather recommendations for the most useful and entertaining podcasts for lawyers. The post Attorney at Work Podcast Survey 2023 appeared first on Attorney at Work.