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This was another action-packed week for the legal industry as BigLaw made big hires and Donald Trump's legal woes continued. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
E-discovery and managed review company KLDiscovery Inc. on Wednesday finalized a restructuring agreement announced in July, reducing its long-term debt and allowing lenders to gain company shares.
The general counsel at legal tech company ContractPodAi doesn't believe lawyers need to be masters in AI. But they must take the steps to learn, understand and become knowledgeable about the developments taking place — or risk being left behind by other attorneys who are embracing innovation.
Legal technology company LegalZoom has chosen Noel Watson, who joined the company in 2020 as chief financial officer, to be its chief operating officer, according to a recent corporate filing.
The North Carolina Business Court on Monday did not outright reject a bid by a Lloyd's of London syndicate looking to unseal a complaint by Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP seeking coverage for a November 2022 data breach, though the judge did admonish the syndicate for failing to consult with Cadwalader's counsel before filing the motion.
Venture-backed startup Darrow, which has a legal violation detection platform for plaintiffs lawyers, announced Wednesday the expansion of its client vetting platform to include mass arbitration matters.
Food and beverage gatherings, demos during meetings and statements from passionate advocates are just some ways law firms are getting attorneys excited about new technologies, a panel of leaders said Tuesday.
The University of California, Berkeley School of Law has announced it will launch its first law degree focused on artificial intelligence in 2025, and it is now accepting applications for the new master of laws degree program.
The U.S. Department of Justice is working to keep pace with the swift rise of the tools known as artificial intelligence, investigating potential fraud as its Criminal Division learns the nuances of the technology — an unsettling dynamic for some defense lawyers.
As more law firms track data to achieve profitability, vendor consolidation and the rise of generative artificial intelligence are forcing some to change how they protect profitability, a panel of law firm leaders said this week.
Enterprise legal management provider AdvoLogix announced Tuesday the launch of an all-in-one platform to allow legal teams to more easily manage both financial operations and legal cases using artificial intelligence functionalities.
Law360 Pulse caught up with Michelle Behnke, the American Bar Association's new president-elect, to discuss the challenge of keeping up with changes in the legal profession.
Eleventh Circuit Judge Kevin C. Newsom said judges should consider using artificial intelligence to analyze the ordinary meaning of terms in legal disputes, a proposal that comes as no surprise to attorneys who know him as an innovative jurist, a committed textualist and talented writer who pens "colorful" and "vibrant" opinions.
The New Jersey State Bar Association is urging the state Supreme Court to overturn an ethics advisory opinion allowing attorneys to purchase other attorneys' names to use as keywords in online searches in order to redirect web traffic to their website.
The role of data managers and stewards in law firms has evolved in the past few years to help make data more accessible for staff, and they will play an important role in the adoption of generative tools, a panel of legal industry experts said Monday.
Legal data and analytics platform UniCourt, which provides real-time court data, announced on Monday the launch of an artificial intelligence platform that allows users to search a database of litigation data, attorneys, law firms, parties and judges throughout the United States.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP was sued in New York state court by a debt collection agency over an alleged unpaid balance of more than $350,000 in fees to legal technology company TransPerfect Legal Solutions.
Legal writing and editing tool BriefCatch announced on Monday the hiring of a longtime legal technology executive and consultant as its chief operating officer.
Goodwin Procter LLP has hired contract software giant Ironclad Inc.'s chief community officer as its Silicon Valley-based chief operating officer, the firm said Monday.
International law firm Cooley LLP recently launched a generative artificial intelligence chatbot called Cooley GObot to make it easier for startups to access online resources provided by the firm about building a company.
LexisNexis Legal & Professional is offering a new generative artificial intelligence assistant called Protégé on the third-generation of the Lexis+ AI platform for law firms to test out through a U.S. commercial preview program, the Law360 parent company said Monday.
A large collection of data that includes examples of judges citing passages of precedent along with context, such as the court and the time of the precedent, will be released on Monday at a natural language processing conference, a researcher from MIT told Law360 Pulse.
A cyber litigation specialist has moved from leading his own practice for over a decade to the rapidly expanding Pierson Ferdinand LLP in Ohio, the firm said Thursday.
The acquisition of a document processing platform tops this roundup of recent legal industry news.
The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms hired new talent and the American Bar Association held its annual meeting in Chicago. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Legal Tech Talks: DraftWise CEO On Barriers To AdoptionJames Ding, CEO and co-founder of DraftWise, discusses misconceptions attorneys often have about working with new technologies, including that software will replace jobs, and the importance of preparing for additional regulations as governing bodies develop a better understanding of artificial intelligence.
New Era ADR co-founder Collin Williams discusses his journey navigating a clinical depression diagnosis, how this experience affected his leadership style, and what the legal industry can do to better support attorneys with mental health conditions.
Artificial intelligence in the legal services industry will unlikely eradicate law firms, but it will still undoubtedly test their resilience — especially big firms, says Santiago Rodríguez at Arias SLP.
Chatbots represent a powerful but provisional tool, but lawyers must exercise caution and use only vetted, properly guardrailed silicon advocates, scalable for future services, say Marty Robles-Avila at Berry Appleman and Michele Carney at Carney & Marchi.
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Talking Mental Health: Tackling Stress As A Practice LeaderConstance Rhebergen at Bracewell discusses how she handles the stress of being a practice chair, how sources of stress have changed in the legal industry over the past decade and what law firms can do to protect attorney mental health.
When selecting from an increasing pool of legal technology capabilities, think about micro moves with macro effect, as the most successful tools will be those that feel like a natural extension of how lawyers are already accustomed to working, says Ilona Logvinova at Cleary.
One of the most effective ways firms can ensure their summer associate programs are a success is by engaging in a timely and meaningful evaluation process and being intentional about when, how and by whom feedback should be provided, say Caroline Cimei and Erica Fine at Shutts & Bowen.
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Talking Mental Health: Life As A Lawyer With OCDKelly Hughes at Ogletree discusses what she’s learned in the 14 years since she was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, recounting how the experience shaped her law practice, what the legal industry and general public get wrong about the disorder, and how law firms can better support employees who have OCD.
Legal tech circles have been focused on how to eliminate large language model hallucinations, but blind spots, or inaccuracies through omissions, are a rarely discussed shortcoming that pose an even larger risk in the legal space, says James Ding at DraftWise.
Artificial intelligence tools will increasingly be used by outside counsel to better predict the outcomes of litigation — thus informing legal strategy with greater precision — and by clients to scrutinize invoices and evaluate counsel’s performance, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.
Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, now at Greenberg Traurig, offers strategies on writing more effective appellate briefs from her time on the bench.
Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.
It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.
A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.
Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.