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Aspiring in-house counsel should consider buffing up on their understanding of legal technology and artificial intelligence, as legal leaders increasingly ask about their experiences when seeking executive partners, according to Major, Lindsey & Africa recruiter Pamela Salling.
New York's highest court has announced the jurisdiction will adopt the Next Generation bar exam developed by the National Conference of Bar Examiners beginning July 2028.
State courts can start tackling data governance by forming a committee, providing additional training to current team members, hiring more team members and creating data use guidelines, according to a pair of state court leaders.
It's the start of a new year in legal technology, and several companies appointed new executives in the first week of 2025.
The legal industry kicked off 2025 with another action-packed week as BigLaw firms inked mergers, made leadership changes and promoted associates. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
A vape-maker has urged a California federal court to deny a bid by the founder of vape distributor Next Level to arbitrate the manufacturer's claims that he broke into a laptop to access its confidential information, saying he's not a signatory to an underlying arbitration agreement.
Balancing profitability, growth and the implementation of generative artificial intelligence are the top challenges and priorities on the minds of law firm leaders going into 2025, according to the results of a recent survey by public relations firm Greentarget.
A retired real estate lawyer has accused British Telecommunications and a paralegal firm of conspiring to exclude him from a system he created to find building asset risks, alleging they robbed him of more than £8.75 million ($10.8 million) in future annual revenue.
A West Virginia federal judge has granted class status to consumers who are accusing a plaintiffs' firm of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by blasting them with unsolicited calls seeking their participation in litigation against the federal government over contaminated water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.
Lawyers advising organizations through nonclient constituents may be obligated to clear up any confusion about their role that may cause the constituents to mistakenly think they can rely on the lawyer's advice to avoid criminal or civil liability, the American Bar Association said in a formal opinion Wednesday.
ZwillGen PLLC, a boutique law firm specializing in technology and privacy law, announced on Wednesday the acquisition of lawyers, data scientists and proprietary processes and technology from Luminos.Law LLP in tandem with the launch of its new artificial intelligence division.
A Florida Bar special subcommittee has released a guide for how attorneys can responsibly incorporate generative artificial intelligence tools in their legal practices.
ExamSoft has asked a Connecticut federal judge to dismiss a bar examinee's $2 million software crash lawsuit, saying her claims of disability-based discrimination fail because she did not allege the software "poses an imminent threat of harm or is currently inflicting harm."
The next wave of states that test and permit nonlawyer ownership of law firms will be driven primarily by advancements in legal technology.
Seattle-based legal services and settlement solutions company JND Legal Administration announced Tuesday the promotion of an e-discovery adviser to the new role of senior vice president of innovation and strategy.
A Los Angeles judge Tuesday tossed a proposed class action against Hill Farrer & Burrill LLP alleging it failed to stop a preventable cyberattack carried out by hackers and said he would not allow for the complaint to be amended because the case law cited by the lead plaintiff is deficient.
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP has promoted two executives in New York and Washington, D.C., to serve in the new role of chief practice innovation officer and as the firm's new chief business development and marketing officer, the firm announced Tuesday.
Legal technology companies raised about $4.98 billion in funding in 2024, the highest ever in the industry since Law360 Pulse began keeping track of investment totals in 2021.
When Goodwin Liu became a California Supreme Court justice in 2011, the constitutional law professor found the intellectual demands of judging similar to academia, but was surprised to learn that "the art of judging is much more practical than people think."
Information technology managed service provider Integris has launched a legal practice to meet law firms specialized IT needs including cybersecurity and compliance, the company said Tuesday.
Data management and intelligence company Cellebrite DI Ltd. announced to investors Monday that it had appointed a new interim chairman and new lead independent director to its board following the resignation of former chief executive Yossi Carmil in November.
A conservative talk radio show host pushed back Monday against OpenAI's quest to secure summary judgment in his defamation lawsuit, calling the company "the high-tech equivalent of the neighborhood gossip."
Elite Technology, which provides financial management and business operations solutions to law firms, announced on Monday its acquisition of Tranch Inc., a venture-backed, business-to-business payments provider.
Husch Blackwell LLP has hired an Adobe veteran to serve as its first senior director of artificial intelligence advisory services, the firm said Monday, making it the latest law firm to add a senior AI role.
Litigation services provider Lexitas is kicking off the new year with some leadership changes, promoting its Chief Operating Officer Nishat Mehta to the top C-suite position, while its former CEO Gary Buckland has been named chairman, the company said Monday.
Many legal technology vendors now sell artificial intelligence and machine learning tools at a premium price tag, but law firms must take the time to properly evaluate them as not all offerings generate process efficiencies or even use the technologies advertised, says Steven Magnuson at Ballard Spahr.
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
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.
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.