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NYU Law Professor On His AI-Powered Tenants' Rights Bot
New York City tenants routinely face uphill battles when prodding their landlords to make repairs in their rented homes. A recently launched AI chatbot designed by an NYU law professor could help turn things around.
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Sidley Joins Other Firms In Hiring AI Chief
Sidley Austin LLP announced the hiring of a chief data and artificial intelligence officer, joining a growing wave of firms over the past year to fill such a director position amid technological advances and client expectations.
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Legal Tech Roundup: Deel, Lawpath
A secondary market transaction tops this roundup of recent legal technology news.
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Founders Of 'AI Judge' Arbitrus On Arbitration Tech's Promise
In an interview, the creators of a new so-called AI judge for arbitration discuss how the tool ensures accuracy and fairness, how they plan to convince parties to trust the tool, and the future of dispute resolution.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry kicked off February with another action-packed week as attorneys took on new roles in BigLaw and the Trump administration. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Barbri Adds Legal Study Aid Service Quimbee
Quimbee, a platform that provides study guides for law students, became the latest acquisition by Dallas-based Barbri Global, which sells bar exam preparation courses, according to an announcement Thursday.
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Davis Wright Partners With Stanford's CodeX On Legal AI
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP announced Thursday a new partnership with Stanford University's legal technology hub CodeX to collaborate on new artificial intelligence tools, joining other universities the past year in striking up partnerships with law firms and legal tech companies to advance research and real-world implementation of AI into law.
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Clio Appoints Canadian General Manager Amid Expansion
Legal tech giant Clio has announced the appointment of a general manager in its home country of Canada as part of a strategic expansion in the market.
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AI Chatbot DeepSeek A 'Privacy Nightmare' For Legal Sector
While Chinese startup DeepSeek's open-source generative artificial intelligence model presents some opportunities for the legal tech industry, the company's Chinese ownership is a "privacy nightmare" for law firms, according to industry experts.
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Litera Buys Microsoft Ind. Software Vendor Peppermint
With a focus on helping law firms get more out of their Microsoft applications, legal technology giant Litera acquired Peppermint Technology, a Microsoft independent software vendor, on Thursday.
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Texas Bar Says Lawyers Can't Partner With Non-Attorneys
A new ethics opinion from the State Bar of Texas says lawyers practicing in the Lone Star State cannot partner with law firms offering legal services in other jurisdictions if the partnership includes a non-lawyer, even if such arrangements are permitted in the jurisdiction where the law firm is based.
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UK Gov't Data Shows Rise In Legal Sector Data Breaches
Data breaches in the U.K. legal sector have increased by more than a third, impacting 7.9 million individuals in the 12 months that ended July 1, 2024, according to an analysis released Wednesday of U.K. Information Commissioner's Office data by document and email management company NetDocuments.
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E-Discovery's Move Toward The Cloud Is Gaining Ground
A recent announcement from a major e-discovery software player highlights the growing acceptance of cloud computing, even as some legal professionals still cling to older technology.
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Ivo Lands $16M Series A And Launches Contract Search Tool
A contract software company that rebranded in 2024 raised its largest investment on Wednesday and marked the milestone with the release of its new search tool.
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Colorado Atty Says She's Blameless For Divorce Money Hack
A Colorado divorce attorney wants out of a tangle of lawsuits that have sprung up since conservative radio personality and lawyer Randy Corporon mistakenly wired a client's $375,000 divorce settlement to Hong Kong, arguing that the claims are premature and statutorily barred, and that her malpractice insurer already covered damages.
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Ex-Paul Hastings Partner Co-Founds Private Funds Tech Co.
SmartEsq Inc., a startup aimed at the private equity market, emerged out of stealth on Tuesday and announced that its legal workflow platform, designed for private funds lawyers, will be commercially available during the first quarter of the year.
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Ex-StubHub GC Joins Manatt Tech Team In San Francisco
Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP beefed up its resources in artificial intelligence and technology this week with the addition to the San Francisco office of an attorney who previously served as deputy general counsel for Twitter and general counsel for StubHub.
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Fragomen Reaffirms Client Innovation With New Digital Chief
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP is doubling down on its efforts to create innovative client services with the appointment of a new chief digital officer, the immigration services law firm announced Tuesday.
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Ex-Withers Partner Joins Inflection AI As General Counsel
Artificial intelligence company Inflection AI announced on Monday the hiring of a general counsel who served as a partner and practice lead for the past five years with international law firm Withers.
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Financial Document Service Semeris Raises $4.3M
London-based private equity firm Puma Growth Partners has announced an investment of $4.3 million into legal and financial technology company Semeris.
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Paul Hastings Taps Ex-Fried Frank AI Expert For New Practice
Paul Hastings announced Monday the hiring of a former partner at Fried Frank to lead its new technology transactions practice out of New York.
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Texas Justices Won't Shut Down Court Reporter's AI Case
A Texas court reporter will be permitted to continue pursuing an administrative complaint against an artificial intelligence-powered "digital reporting firm," after the administrative agency in charge of court stenography in Texas lost its bid for the state's high court to end the case on Friday.
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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2025 Editorial Boards
Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2025 editorial advisory boards.
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E-Discovery Trend To Watch In 2025: Increased Use Of AI
Nearly half of surveyed software and service providers, law firms, consultants and businesses think the increased use of artificial intelligence, including generative AI, will be the biggest e-discovery trend in 2025, according to a recent report.
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LegalZoom Hit With Racial Bias Suit From Ex-Employee
A former human resources employee at LegalZoom has hit the legal services company with a discrimination suit in Nevada federal court, alleging she was underpaid compared to her white colleagues doing the same work and retaliated against when she brought up her concerns.
Expert Analysis
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Talking Mental Health: Tackling Stress As A Practice Leader
Constance 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.
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Legal Tech And Lawyer Workflow: Enhancing, Not Replacing
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.
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How Firms Can Effectively Evaluate Their Summer Associates
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 OCD
Kelly 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.
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'Blind Spots' Pose Major Hurdle To AI Adoption In Legal Tech
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.
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3 Innovative Ways AI May Be Used In Legal Practice
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
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.
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Former Minn. Chief Justice Instructs On Writing Better Briefs
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.
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Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents
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.
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General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together
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.
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How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers
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.
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A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy
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.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.
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AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024
The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.