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Legal Sector Is Adopting GenAI, Preparing For Talent Shifts
The integration of generative AI is fundamentally transforming how legal professionals manage their daily tasks, with many anticipating that these AI-driven efficiencies will lessen the reliance on billable hours, according to a survey report posted Thursday.
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OpenAI Hires Uber Ethics Head As New Compliance Chief
OpenAI Inc. has brought on Uber Technologies Inc.'s chief ethics and compliance officer to head up its compliance department as it works to "build on [its] ongoing efforts to responsibly advance AI," the company said Tuesday.
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Dye & Durham Responds To Takeover Report
Toronto-headquartered legal technology company Dye & Durham Ltd. is actively seeking a sale, the company has disclosed to investors.
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Why A Growing Tech Startup Switched Contract Tools
For global tech startup Matillion, hiring a new head of legal resulted in the company replacing its contract lifecycle management, or CLM, tool within the year. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a look at what spurred the change.
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Travers Smith Launches AI Training Program For Staff
Travers Smith LLP announced on Wednesday that it has launched an internal training program to improve literacy on artificial intelligence across the business as more and more firms make use of new technology for client work.
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Calif. Supreme Court Signs Off On Remote Bar Exam
The California Supreme Court on Tuesday gave the green light to the California State Bar's push to make the Golden State's bar exam mostly remote starting in February 2025, according to an order that also backed a study pretesting "experimental" exam questions.
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Del. Justices Set Guardrails For How Courts Can Use AI
The Delaware Supreme Court has adopted a brief interim policy to guide judicial officers and court personnel in the use of generative artificial intelligence, permitting the "safe and appropriate" use of the technology in First State courts.
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Ariz. Firm Axiom Advice Adds DLA Piper Atty In Phoenix
Arizona-based law firm Axiom Advice & Counsel, has welcomed a corporate and securities attorney from DLA Piper, growing its offerings to private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, venture-backed entities and closely held businesses, the firm said.
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LegalZoom, Ex-User Clash Over Unlawful-Practice Arbitration
Legal services provider LegalZoom cannot force a proposed class action alleging unauthorized practice of law into arbitration, a former customer has told a New Jersey federal judge, because the web platform provided an inadequate explanation for a supposedly binding arbitration agreement.
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Georgia Supreme Court Forms Generative AI Committee
The Georgia Supreme Court has established a 16-person committee to explore uses of generative artificial intelligence in the judiciary, in partnership with the National Center for State Courts, the court said Tuesday.
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How Law Firms Get And Keep Elite Status
For decades, a handful of New York-based law firms thoroughly dominated the national consciousness when it came to power, profitability and prestige. But in today's legal market, increased movement of partners and clients from one firm to the next has begun to shake things up and create opportunities for go-getters to ascend the ranks.
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Prestige Leaders: The Firms In The Billionaires' Club
As many BigLaw firms see their revenues climb ever higher, we highlight those that reported topping the billion-dollar mark in the most recent calendar year.
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These Firms Are The 2024 Prestige Leaders
Clients flock to firms with prestigious reputations, and so does top talent. Here are this year's Law360 Pulse Prestige Leaders — the 100 firms the industry recognizes for their prominence, power and distinction
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Procurement Tool Zip Worth $2.2B After Series D Investment
Zip, an artificial intelligence-powered procurement orchestration platform used by legal and other corporate teams, secured a $190 million Series D funding round on Monday.
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Ex-Holland & Knight Atty Slams 'Incendiary' Client Info Suit
A former Holland & Knight LLP partner asked a Pennsylvania federal judge Monday to toss a lawsuit alleging he unlawfully accessed a client's confidential documents in order to gain an upper hand in his contentious divorce, saying the "incendiary and defamatory" complaint is vague and fails to state viable claims.
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Lexitas Hires Epiq Lead As Chief Revenue Officer
Litigation services company Depositions Solutions LLC, which does business as Lexitas, announced on Monday the hiring of a chief revenue officer who spent 10 years in leadership roles at legal technology business Epiq.
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Kirkland Hires 2 Structured Finance Attys In NY, London
Kirkland & Ellis LLP is continuing the build-out of its structured finance and private credit practice, announcing on Saturday the lateral hiring of two partners in New York and London.
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Former Litera CEO Returns To Role Amid Company's AI Push
Legal technology giant Litera has brought back former CEO Avaneesh Marwaha to lead the company as it integrates its ecosystem with more generative artificial intelligence.
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Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attys From 74 Firms
The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2024 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.
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9th Circ. Judge Doubts AI 'Robot Judges' Can Replace Jurists
Ninth Circuit Judge William Fletcher expressed skepticism Friday that artificially intelligent "robot judges" should replace jurists, saying during a conference on complex litigation ethics that judges understand how to creatively apply the law to best serve justice, and "I don't trust the AI system to break the law when it should."
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It's Not Too Late For Attys To Help Safeguard Election
With the presidential election mere weeks away, a small army of lawyers will deploy throughout the country in a nonpartisan effort to ensure the process is fair, smooth and safe.
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LinkSquares Sued For Denying OT To Legal Tech Sales Reps
A former sales employee has filed an overtime class action alleging his former employer, Boston-based legal tech company LinkSquares Inc., misclassified inside sales staff as exempt from overtime pay in violation of federal and state wage laws.
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Getting Attys To Change Isn't Easy, But Psychology Can Help
Convincing lawyers to adopt new tools often comes with a lot of resistance, but law firms can alter their approach to get lawyers to comply with almost anything, a leading legal industry expert said Friday.
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Holtzman Vogel Launches AI Practice Group Led By 2 Attys
National firm Holtzman Vogel has announced the launch of an artificial intelligence practice group that is led by partner Jason Torchinsky and associate Oliver Roberts and includes three other attorneys.
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Redactable Nabs $1.9M Contract Increase With Air Force
Redactable Inc., whose software tool uses artificial intelligence to detect personally identifiable information in documents and redact it, announced Thursday a $1.9 million contract increase with the U.S. Air Force and its innovation arm AFWERX, two current customers with the New York-based startup.