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Generative Text Still A Question Mark For Judges In Courts
Generative text could become a boon for self-represented litigants, but questions remain about whether and how judges should use the technology, a panel of experts said Monday.
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Pennsylvania Senate Passes Bill To Combat Deepfakes
A new bill unanimously passed by the Pennsylvania Senate this week aims to push back against the growing use of artificial intelligence to create deepfake images and videos of pornography.
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Australian Legal Verificiation Co. Atticus Raises $7M
Australia-based document verification software company Atticus has announced the raising of AU$10.8 million ($7.1 million) to help scale its fact-checking software.
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5th Circ. Won't Adopt Rule On AI-Drafted Docs
The Fifth Circuit has decided this week not to adopt a proposed rule requiring attorneys to verify that documents were not written using generative artificial intelligence, or if they were, that they were checked for accuracy by humans.
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Compliance Software Co. Mitratech Acquires HotDocs
Legal and compliance software company Mitratech Holdings LLC announced on Monday the acquisition of HotDocs, an automated document creation and management platform.
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Law Firms Roll Back Summer Programs In Tight Legal Market
Law firms that can't find enough work for the deluge of prospective and newly minted attorneys already on their hands are tightening their pipelines for new talent this season, rolling back their summer associate positions for 2024, according to legal industry experts.
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What Are Summer Associates Saying?
Law360 Pulse asked prospective summer associates about how their top-choice firms distinguished themselves from their peers. Here are some of the ways.
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These Law Firms Are Where Summers Want To Work
Concerns and anxieties about future job prospects have continued to arise among law students as they find themselves facing reduced success in securing interviews for sought-after summer associateships this year, according to Law360 Pulse's 2024 Summer Associate Survey.
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In-House Legal Teams' AI Use Outpaces Law Firms
More corporate legal professionals are trusting of artificial intelligence and using the technology than law firm professionals, according to a report released Tuesday by contract management platform provider Ironclad.
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Attys Adopting Generative AI Tools As They Learn The Lingo
Law firms are full steam ahead on generative tools, although some attorneys are still learning the vocabulary associated with this new technology, a panel of experts said Monday.
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Kirkland Faces Class Claims Over Breach Of File Transfer Tool
A proposed class of victims of a data breach has sued Kirkland & Ellis LLP and various other entities in a Massachusetts federal court, accusing them of failing to "properly secure and safeguard [the] plaintiff's and other similarly situated individuals' private information" in the lead-up to the massive 2023 MOVEit data breach.
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Global Law Firm Experiments With 3 Generative AI Tools
London-headquartered international firm Ashurst LLP has been experimenting with three different generative artificial intelligence tools and found these tools can help with writing first drafts more quickly and efficiently, according to a report released Monday.
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Canada-Based AI Litigation Startup Alexi Raises $11M
Canada-based legal technology startup Alexi announced on Monday the closing of an $11 million Series A fundraising round, with the new capital going toward hiring and scaling production to meet demand.
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AI Law Firm Marketing Tool FirmPilot Secures $5M Series A
Legal technology provider FirmPilot, which developed a marketing tool for law firms that uses artificial intelligence, said Monday it has received a $5 million Series A investment.
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Calif. Atty Faces Hacking Charge In Utility Billing Scandal
A San Fernando Valley attorney accused of scheming with lawyers representing the city of Los Angeles to settle a customer billing class action favorably for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power also plotted to access the email and phone accounts of the judge overseeing the litigation, the State Bar of California asserted in an additional disciplinary charge filed Thursday.
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Court Software Co., NC Sheriff Fight To Exit Civil Rights Action
Texas-based software company Tyler Technologies and a North Carolina sheriff continued their push this week to escape a proposed class action alleging North Carolina's new digital court system led to wrongful arrests and extended jail time.
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Thompson Hine Launches Team To Be On Top Of AI
Thompson Hine LLP, a full-service business law firm with about 400 lawyers in eight offices, has launched a multidisciplinary team dedicated to artificial intelligence and its related issues.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry began June with another action-packed week as BigLaw firms expanded their offerings and made new hires. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Legal Tech Roundup: LegalShield, ActiveNav
A legal technology platform hiring a new vice president tops this roundup of recent industry news.
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How GCs Are Supporting GenAI At Their Companies
When it comes to generative artificial intelligence, general counsel Virginia Chavez Romano tries to stay away from saying, "No," outright to her business partners, and instead works with them to find a solution moving forward, she said during a panel discussion in New York City on Wednesday evening.
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Alphabet Faces Investor Votes On More AI Oversight
At Alphabet Inc.'s virtual annual meeting on Friday, shareholders will consider three proposals dealing with the safety and societal impacts of fostering artificial intelligence.
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Legal Payment Co. LawFi Taps Prism Data Founder
LawFi Inc., a mobile legal payment and lending platform, has announced the addition of another adviser after bringing aboard former Microsoft sales executive Bob Culliton last month.
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E-Discovery Co. ProSearch Hires Chief Revenue Officer
ProSearch, an e-discovery and legal data analytics company, announced Wednesday the hiring of a chief revenue officer, as part of a bid to expand its legal data products.
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Sirion Acquires Eigen And Plans London AI Research Center
The contract lifecycle management company Sirion acquired intelligent document processing company Eigen Technologies on Thursday, amid an industry push to expand artificial intelligence capabilities for documents.
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Tokyo Contract Co. MNTSQ Raises $6.4M
MNTSQ, a legal tech startup in Japan, has announced the raising of 1 billion yen ($6.4 million) to invest in further development of its contract lifecycle management software, and, in particular, new artificial intelligence capabilities introduced earlier this year.