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How Law Firms Can Protect Themselves With Cyber Insurance
What should law firms look for in a cyber insurance policy? A partner in Christian & Barton LLP’s healthcare and business law practice groups has some tips.
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LexisNexis Acquires Belgian Contract Co. Henchman
LexisNexis Legal & Professional announced Monday the acquisition of Belgium-based contracting drafting platform Henchman.
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Justice Gorsuch Calls Colleagues 'Best Writers' In History
Justice Neil Gorsuch recently sat down for a keynote conversation during the 25th annual Burton Awards in Washington, D.C., where he reflected on his approach to writing opinions, his originalist method to interpreting the Constitution and the civility that exists between his fellow justices.
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Orrick's $8M Deal To End Data Breach Claims Nears Prelim OK
A California federal judge indicated Friday that she'll preliminarily approve Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's $8 million deal to end putative class claims over a 2023 data breach that purportedly exposed personal information for 638,000 individuals, but said the "very broad" scope of the settlement's release "raised my eyebrows."
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Legal Tech Roundup: 11thEstate, Suralink
A platform for securities class actions raising a seed round tops this roundup of the biggest legal tech news from this week.
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Smith Gambrell Faces Slimmed Data Breach Suit
A California federal judge has trimmed the claims a proposed class of data breach victims brought against international law firm Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP, leaving the firm to face claims of negligence, invasion of privacy and violation of the California Unfair Competition Law.
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Robins Kaplan Can't Escape Sanction Over Dropbox Access
A New York state appeals court has upheld the $156,000 sanction on litigation funding firm KrunchCash and its counsel Robins Kaplan LLP for poking through an opposing party's Dropbox database that was accidentally shared in a $10 million suit, finding that they knew or should have known it was privileged information.
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Legal Writing Biz Hires 3 Execs To Help Expand Product Line
Legal writing and editing tool BriefCatch announced Thursday the hiring of three executives as part of an expansion of the company's footprint and product line.
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Don't Fear AI Hallucinations, Embrace Them, Scholar Says
When it comes to artificial intelligence, most early adopters fear the so-called hallucinations that the systems can produce. However, one scholar says the creativity those hallucinations represent is a valuable feature lawyers should embrace.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The end of May marked another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw firms made headlines and Donald Trump became the first former U.S. president convicted of a felony. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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'Lawyers Are Expensive': Why LegalZoom Is Tackling Prenups
LegalZoom, known for its self-service online legal platform used by consumers and entrepreneurs, is expanding beyond general legal advice to participate directly in legal matters.
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Regulator Says Attys Hit For AI Use Have Themselves To Blame
An attorney for Colorado's ethics watchdog said Thursday that recent disciplinary action against lawyers for filing briefs with fake case citations generated by ChatGPT indicates a "lawyer problem" rather than issues with the technology.
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KKR Buys Majority Stake In Legal Tech Co. Agiloft
The investment firm KKR is expanding its presence in the growing contract lifecycle management market by acquiring majority ownership in the legal technology company Agiloft on Thursday.
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ExamSoft, Bar Examiners Face $2M Software Crash Claims
A 68-year-old former paralegal who hopes to become a pro bono attorney has sued the Connecticut Bar Examining Committee and ubiquitous bar exam test-taking software vendor ExamSoft Worldwide Inc. for $2 million, claiming three software crashes stymied her ability to take a exam offered remotely because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ex-UnitedLex Exec Moves To E-Discovery Co. Repario As GC
New York-based e-discovery services company Repario announced Thursday that it hired a former executive at legal services and technology provider UnitedLex as its new general counsel.
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Visual Modeling Platform StructureFlow Raises $6M Series A
StructureFlow, a visualization platform used by law firms and other business professionals, secured a $6 million Series A investment on Thursday.
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Stanford Updates AI Legal Tools Study After Pushback
Stanford University researchers released Thursday an amended study on artificial intelligence legal research tools that includes results from their evaluation of a Thomson Reuters tool not featured in the original study after the company criticized the study's methodology last week.
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American Arbitration Association Strikes First Tech Co. Buy
For the first time in its nearly 100-year history, the American Arbitration Association is expanding its capabilities through a technology acquisition.
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Data Privacy Co. Transcend Raises $40M In Series B
San Francisco-based privacy startup Transcend announced Tuesday the raising of $40 million in a Series B funding round.
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Non-Atty Advice To Debtors Is Unprotected, 2nd Circ. Told
New York urged the Second Circuit on Wednesday to find that stopping a nonprofit focused on bankruptcy education and the South Bronx pastor it's working with from advising low-income debtors represents a content-neutral regulation on who can practice law that does not violate the First Amendment.
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From Virtual Roots, Husch Blackwell To Grow Nashville Office
After hiring eight attorneys based in Nashville, Tennessee, through its fully remote Link office over the past year, Husch Blackwell announced plans Wednesday to open a brick-and-mortar location in the city, to be led by intellectual property partner Tim Capria.
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Ex-BigLaw Associate On Starting Legal Tech Co. Robin AI
Richard Robinson, a former BigLaw associate and founder and CEO of contract review software company Robin AI, believes artificial intelligence can help reduce attorney burnout, increase diversity in the legal profession and change society's perception of lawyers.
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UK Law Firms Turning To Tech Quicker Than Global Peers
U.K. law firms are adopting new technologies such as artificial intelligence at a quicker pace than their global rivals in response to economic headwinds, according to a report released Wednesday.
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Microsoft, OpenAI Beat Overstuffed Privacy Suit, For Now
A California federal judge threw out, for now, consumers' suit alleging their privacy was violated by Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI LP's products, slamming the complaint as "excessive" and packed with "unnecessary and distracting allegations" to the point it's "nearly impossible" to determine the adequacy of the claims.
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Clio Unveils Its 2 Latest Leadership Appointments
Legal tech company Clio announced two more leadership appointments Tuesday, tapping a former executive from software development company ServiceTitan to become its senior vice president of customer success and its recently hired strategic adviser to become vice president of legal content and migrations.
Expert Analysis
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.