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  • New Jersey Cases Attorneys Are Watching In 2024

    Jersey City is fighting the Garden State's cannabis legalization law and argues it conflicts with federal gun control legislation, while the bankrupt former chief financial officer of McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP is facing civil claims he defrauded the firm and paid himself millions in unauthorized salary.

  • LegalShield Used AI To Record Clients, Suit Says

    Online legal service company LegalShield has been letting a call center software company use artificial intelligence to intercept, analyze and record its customer calls and chats, according to a lawsuit recently pulled into California federal court.

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    Client Says Negligence Led To NJ Firm's Ransomware Attack

    A client of The Wacks Law Group LLC hit the New Jersey firm with a proposed class action claiming that its negligence in properly securing its data storage led to the theft of hundreds of clients' personal information in a March cyberattack.

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    SurePoint CEO On How Law Firms Can Modernize With AI

    Eric Thurston, chief executive of practice management solutions provider SurePoint Technologies, sees legal technology, particularly artificial intelligence, as key to modernizing the legal space. Here, Law360 Pulse speaks to him about the company's recent acquisition, its approach to AI and what trends he sees emerging in the legal tech space.

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    Troutman Pepper's Generative AI Assistant One Year Later

    Since Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP launched its generative artificial intelligence assistant Athena a year ago, the firm has added several capabilities and features, including the ability to upload documents for query and analysis, a mobile app and image creation abilities.

  • Legal Tech Roundup: ModelOp, Elite

    A Series B investment for a governance software platform tops this roundup of recent legal technology news.

  • Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

    The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms expanded practices, shook up partnership models, and outlined new policies on office attendance. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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    Execo Adds Ex-DXC Technology GC To Advisory Board

    Alternative legal services provider Execo announced on Thursday the appointment of a veteran general counsel in legal technology to its advisory board.

  • Judge Delays AI Trial In Thomson Reuters, ROSS IP Row

    A Delaware federal judge on Thursday delayed the first trial involving an artificial intelligence product, postponing a highly anticipated clash in which Thomson Reuters is accusing tech startup ROSS Intelligence of creating an AI legal research platform using copyrighted material from the media company's Westlaw database.

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    Wilson Sonsini-Backed Legal AI Startup Hires CLO

    Dioptra.ai, which sells generative artificial intelligence aimed at contract review, has hired technology and legal operations veteran Laurie Ehrlich as its chief legal officer, according to an announcement Wednesday.

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    Spellbook CEO Aims For AI To Cut Junior Associate Drudgery

    A legal technology company known for its artificial intelligence contract drafting and review software is releasing a new AI copilot on Thursday to help legal teams become more efficient.

  • How AI Could Shake Up Federal Evidence Rules

    Judges, lawyers and academics say it's only a matter of time before the breakneck development of artificial intelligence collides with a cautious, slow-moving judicial system and gives rise to a thorny array of evidentiary issues. They're just not sure what to do about it.

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    NJ Judges, Attys Brace For Tech 'Evolution' In Litigation

    With technology like artificial intelligence poised to reshape the legal industry, New Jersey litigation experts and judges are forecasting an "evolution" in how parts of the practice law, from meet and confers to evidentiary hearings, will be handled, according to a panel discussion broadcast Wednesday.

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    L&F Brown Launches Practice Dedicated To Legal Tech

    L&F Brown PC announced Wednesday that it is launching what it calls "the first dedicated legal tech practice group at any law firm in the United States," with a California-based team of two firm founders and two new hires, most of whom previously worked in the C-suite of online legal services giant LegalZoom.

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    AI Startup FirmPilot Adds LexShares Founder To Board

    Legal technology provider FirmPilot, which developed a marketing tool for law firms that uses artificial intelligence, announced on Tuesday the appointment of LexShares' founder and former chief executive to its board of directors.

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    Thomson Reuters Buys AI Biz Started By A&O Trainee

    Thomson Reuters said on Wednesday that it has acquired an artificial intelligence company which was founded by a trainee solicitor at Allen & Overy LLP more than two years ago.

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    Stanford-LA County Court Judicial Access Project Gets Grant

    Stanford Law School announced it has received a grant to bolster an ongoing partnership with the Superior Court of Los Angeles County that aims to implement new approaches to lower the barrier to participate in the judicial process across the county.

  • Deloitte Legal Tech Tool Spins Out, Raises VC Funds

    Amsterdam-based Moonlit.ai, which runs a legal research and monitoring platform in European jurisdictions, announced Tuesday it received an investment from Curiosity VC and is spinning out from Deloitte, becoming an independent company.

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    A Deep Dive Into Law360 Pulse's 2024 Women In Law Report

    The legal industry continues to see incremental gains for female lawyers in private practice in the U.S., according to a Law360 Pulse analysis, with women now representing 40.6% of all attorneys and 51% of all associates.

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    Representation In The Ranks: How Firms Are Faring

    The Law360 Pulse Women in Law Report provides a data-driven view of U.S. law firms at the end of 2023. Here, we look at the representation of women at all levels of a typical law firm, from associates to equity partners.

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    These Firms Have The Most Women In Equity Partnerships

    The legal industry still has a long way to go before it can achieve gender parity at its upper levels. But these law firms are performing better than others in breaking the proverbial glass ceiling that prevents women from attaining leadership roles.

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    The 2024 Women in Law Report: How Firms Stack Up

    Female attorneys have reached a new high in their share of law firm equity partnerships, but firms' progress simply hasn't been significant enough to shatter the longstanding glass ceiling in the industry.

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    Legal Sector Doubles Down On AI Use Despite Concerns

    The number of legal professionals reporting they have used artificial intelligence has doubled since 2023, yet security and trustworthiness concerns are holding others back from adopting the technology, according to a report released Tuesday.

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    Ballard Spahr Adds Biz Development Exec From Norton Rose

    Ballard Spahr LLP expanded its leadership team this week with the addition of a business development expert who joined the firm after more than nine years with Norton Rose Fulbright, the firm said Monday.

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    Legal Tech Co. DocPro Raises $500K In Pre-Seed Funding

    Hong Kong-based legal document template provider DocPro Ltd. has raised half a million dollars in pre-seed funding for artificial intelligence product development, staffing and marketing, the company said Monday.

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