Above the Law - Technology

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 25, 2024

The post ‘Useful’ Or ‘Dangerous’: Pentagon ‘Maturity Model’ For Generative AI Coming In June appeared first on Above the Law. With AI hype outrunning reality, DoD AI chief Craig Martell told lawmakers his office is ‘building what we're calling a maturity model’ to assess what generative AI really can and cannot do.

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Above the Law - Technology

JULY 11, 2024

The post Free Speech Galaxy Brain Elon Musk Promises Lawsuit Against Advertisers For Not Giving Him Their Money appeared first on Above the Law. First Amendments. how do they work?!?

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 28, 2024

The post US Joins Austria, Bahrain, Canada, & Portugal To Co-Lead Global Push For Safer Military AI appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above the Law - Technology

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

appeared first on Above the Law. 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.

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Above the Law - Technology

JULY 3, 2024

The post Justice Alito’s Views On Social Media And The First Amendment Seem To Shift Depending On Who He Wants To Win appeared first on Above the Law. From the which-way-the-wind-blows dept.

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 5, 2024

The post Federal Judge Uses ChatGPT To Make His Decision And It Makes More Sense Than You’d Think appeared first on Above the Law. Eleventh Circuit judge explains why he used generative AI to develop his reasoning in a recent case.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 14, 2024

SmarterDx — an AI startup that provides clinical review and quality audits for medical claims — closed a $50 million Series B funding round, bringing its total funding to date to $71 million. The post SmarterDx Rakes In $50M For Its AI That Helps Hospitals Capture More Revenue appeared first on MedCity News.

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MARCH 21, 2024

Ai.law , a legal technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to generate litigation documents, has added a new module that will draft the complaint to initiate a lawsuit.

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Above the Law - Technology

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Intelligence analysts need to be especially cautious about artificial intelligence ‘hallucinations’ or other false outputs, said the CIA’s Chief Technology Officer — but AI can also generate genuinely useful insights out of left field.

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 11, 2024

The post New Pentagon AI & Data Chief Plans Big Initiatives For Fall, From Back Office To Battlefield (EXCLUSIVE) appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 14, 2024

Just a few weeks ago, I wrote about two more cases of AI-hallucinated citations in court filings leading to sanctions , and now comes the case of a Florida lawyer suspended from practice after filing cases that were “completely fabricated.” ” On March 8, the U.S.

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Above the Law - Technology

JULY 30, 2024

In its first major pronouncement on the ethics of using generative AI in law practice, the American Bar Association has issued an opinion saying that lawyers need not become experts in the technology, but must have a reasonable understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the specific generative AI technology the lawyer might use.

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Above the Law - Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Multiple lawyers who are using the payments app Venmo in their law practices are exposing client information to the public — and they may not even know it. These accounts expose client names and sometimes other details, such as payment amounts, the nature of the representation, or even the client’s financial straits.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 3, 2024

The post Appeals Court: Just Because Speech Provokes Negative Reactions Doesn’t Mean It’s Not Protected appeared first on Above the Law. From the maybe-address-the-people-that-are-handling-the-speech-poorly dept.

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Above the Law - Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

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.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

At the American Bar Association’s Techshow this week in Chicago, the law practice management platform Smokeball will unveil its plan to deploy generative artificial intelligence within its platform across the client lifecycle, from intaking new clients to handling their matters to billing them for the work.

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Above the Law - Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2024

From the keystone-kops-handling-the-Drug-War dept The post LAPD Raids Medical Lab For (Nonexistent) Weed, Get Gun Stuck In An MRI Machine appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 24, 2024

A new legal ethics opinion on the use of generative AI in law practice makes one point very clear: lawyers are required to maintain competence across all technological means relevant to their practices, and that includes the use of generative AI.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 9, 2024

When the American Bar Association’s ethics panel finally got around to issuing an opinion on lawyer blogging in 2018 — a full two decades after lawyers had started blogging — it conjured for me the image of Rip Van Winkle, who fell asleep in 1769 and awoke 20 years later, having slept through the Revolution. […]

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 16, 2024

In what has become an annual tradition, nominations have now opened for the American Legal Technology Awards, which honor exceptional achievement in various aspects of legal technology.

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Above the Law - Technology

AUGUST 20, 2024

Two veterans of legal media have partnered to launch a communications firm to represent to represent legal and business clients in marketing, media relations, crisis management and more.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The post Lawyers Still Haven’t Learned ChatGPT Just Isn’t For Them appeared first on Above the Law. It isn't meant for legal research.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

From the I-thought-this-was-America dept The post Immunity Denied To Cop Who Ticketed A Man For Telling The Cop To Turn On His Headlights appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 21, 2024

appeared first on Above the Law. OpenAI didn't name the new ChatGPT voice 'ScaRleTt JoHAnsSoN' but might as well have. The post OpenAI Made ChatGPT Sound Like Scarlett Johansson… But Is There Any Legal Problem With That?

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It was a bathroom break that inspired Bradley Neal , a 3L at The George Washington University Law School , to develop a product that uses generative AI to help law students better understand and brief cases. Returning to class after a visit to the bathroom, he had lost the thread of the case the professor was discussing.

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Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 11, 2024

appeared first on Above the Law. The 'industrial Metaverse' found the spotlight at CES. Here's one way it could apply to lawyers. The post Is The Metaverse A Solution For Declining Trial Experience?

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 12, 2024

The post Artificial Intelligence May Not Disrupt The Legal Profession For A While appeared first on Above the Law. The work of artificial intelligence definitely still needs to be reviewed by a lawyer.

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Above the Law - Technology

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

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

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 29, 2024

In Los Angeles, the legal services organization Bet Tzedek has long run regular in-person legal clinics designed to help self-represented individuals better understand and navigate the sometimes complex process of conservatorship, by which a court appoints a person to manage the personal and financial affairs of someone who cannot make decisions for (..)

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 28, 2024

Stanford University will augment the study it released last week of generative AI legal research tools from LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters, in which it found that they deliver hallucinated results more often than the companies say, as others have raised questions about the study’s methodology and fairness.

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Above the Law - Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Yesterday, I attended the Harvard Law AI Summit organized by the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School.

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Above the Law - Technology

AUGUST 12, 2024

It’s not quite BattleBots, but competitors LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters both made significant announcements today involving the development of generative AI legal assistants within their products.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 27, 2024

Yesterday, I reported here on a lawsuit filed March 20 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan by a legal tech executive who alleges her former company owes her over $1 million in stock and that her former boss sexually harassed her.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 16, 2024

While adopting new technology is obviously a big part of healthcare innovation teams’ work, there are plenty of worthwhile initiatives that don’t involve advanced technologies, pointed out Dan Shoenthal, chief innovation officer at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

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MARCH 7, 2024

The aftermath the cyberattack on Change Healthcare remains messy, with patients across the country still struggling to obtain their prescriptions. The federal government has even stepped in to help address the fallout of the attack, urging payers to quickly alleviate the digital bottlenecks that providers and pharmacies are facing.

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JULY 24, 2024

In reporting yesterday on the record-setting $900 million investment in law practice management company Clio, I included a list of the 10 largest previous investments in legal tech. It did not take long for me to learn that the list was incomplete. So I set about trying to come up with a more accurate list. […]

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