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With Rise Of Gen AI, Firms Advised To Rethink Billable Hours
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Thompson Coburn Hit With Suit Over Healthcare Data Breach
Dye & Durham Nominates 7 To Board Amid Proxy Fight
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RI-Based Personal Injury Atty Expands His Legal Services Co.
Rhode Island personal injury attorney Rob Levine announced Wednesday that he would consolidate several of the legal services companies he's founded under his consulting and legal support service Rob Levine Legal Solutions.
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UA Law School To Name Legal Tech Group As Changemaker
The University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law announced Wednesday that the nonprofit Justice Technology Association will be the first group honored with its inaugural Changemaker Award, which highlights organizations actively engaged in improving access to justice in their communities via innovative solutions, services or policy reform.
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Gowling Taps Norton Rose Innovation Head To Lead AI Efforts
Gowling WLG said Wednesday that it has tapped the former director of strategic innovation and legal design at Norton Rose Fulbright to lead its efforts around the use of artificial intelligence.
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Axiom Launches Services To Tackle Corporate Litigation
Alternative legal service provider Axiom announced Tuesday it is launching two new litigation services for large-scale businesses and smaller operations offering lower-cost options for dealing with contract issues, unpaid invoices and other routine business disputes.
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Live Nation Ruling Chills Modern Arbitration, 9th Circ. Told
The Ninth Circuit's recent decision invalidating Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and Ticketmaster's choice of a digital arbitration startup for consumer antitrust claims has created "massive uncertainty" and undermines innovative approaches for dealing with abusive mass arbitrations, the live event companies argued in a rehearing petition Tuesday.
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Corporate Legal Offices May Double Technology Spend By '27
Leaders in legal, risk and compliance functions are so intrigued by automation that they will double their departments' technology spend by 2027, Gartner Inc. predicted on Wednesday.
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Calif. Bar Latest To Offer Smokeball Billing Software For Free
Legal practice management software provider Smokeball furthered its plan to provide state bar associations with free access to its trust accounting billing software, adding the California Lawyers Association to its growing list of partnerships, according to a Tuesday announcement.
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Robin AI Raises $25M, Adding To Earlier 2024 Funding
Contract software company Robin AI Ltd. on Tuesday announced an additional raise of $25 million earlier this year to go along with the $26 million Series B it secured in January.
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In-House Counsel Less Wary Of Making BigLaw Jump
While most in-house counsel aren't actively looking to shift to private practice, a survey out Tuesday found there may be an increasing openness to that career lane shift if certain conditions — such as better salaries, work-life balance, and firm culture — are met.
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E-Discovery Co. Consilio Opens 2 Data Centers In Australia
E-discovery and document review company Consilio LLC announced Monday that it has further expanded into Australia with the completion of two new data centers in Sydney and Melbourne, along with the establishment of a local team led by its Asia-Pacific regional director.
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Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Billable Hours Patent Against RELX
The Federal Circuit won't undo a New York federal judge's finding that a Realtime Tracker Inc. patent for tracking billable hours was invalid as an abstract idea, backing a win for LexisNexis parent company RELX.
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Law360 Names Attys Who Moved Up The Firm Ranks In Q3
A promotion to partner or election to practice group chair means a slew of new responsibilities and also lots of well-deserved recognition. Law360 reveals the list of attorneys whose commitment to legal excellence earned them highly coveted spots in the law firm leadership ranks. Find out if your old legal friends — or rivals — moved up in the third quarter of the year.
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Legal Payments Startup Talli Emerges With $4M Seed Round
A startup that developed a digital payments platform for the legal industry secured a $4 million seed funding round on Monday.
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Texas Bar Eyes Ban On Revenue Sharing With Non-Atty Cos.
A proposed ethics opinion from the State Bar of Texas says lawyers shouldn't pay revenue percentages to nonlawyer-owned businesses that provide legal support services, though attorneys may own equity interests in such companies under certain conditions.
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Judiciary Advisers Back Development Of AI Evidence Rules
The federal judiciary's advisory panel for evidentiary issues agreed Friday to develop rules aimed at strengthening scrutiny of testimony and materials derived from artificial intelligence systems, saying AI-generated information should meet the same reliability standards that apply to expert witnesses.
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Fla. Law Firm Gunster To Pay $8.5M Over 2022 Data Breach
Florida corporate law firm Gunster has agreed to shell out $8.5 million to resolve a proposed class action alleging it failed to properly safeguard the personal information of nearly 10,000 clients, employees, and other individuals from cybercriminals, according to a motion to preliminarily approve the deal filed in Florida federal court.
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Attys Ask 11th Circ. To Affirm Arbitration Denial In ERISA Case
The American Association for Justice has urged the Eleventh Circuit to find that a legal technology company's arbitration clauses are unenforceable, arguing that the company should face workers' Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit in court.
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Legal Nonprofit Accuses AI Startup Of Wrongly Using Its Work
Artificial intelligence-powered legal research startup Caseway wrongfully downloaded work from the nonprofit Canadian Legal Information Institute's website in bulk and is selling it for a monthly subscription fee, according to a lawsuit filed by CanLII, a nonprofit that provides free legal information.
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UK Firm Browne Jacobson Appoints Tech Director As COO
Nottingham, England-based Browne Jacobson LLP promoted its technology and operations director Abby Ewen to the role of chief operating officer.
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Legal Tech Roundup: Disco, Com Pro
The addition of a new sales chief at an e-discovery software company tops this roundup of recent legal technology news.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms named new leaders and Donald Trump became president-elect. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Dell, Lattice Semiconductor Attys Work Through AI Risks
A Dell in-house attorney picked up errors artificial intelligence made in his daughter's math homework, while a Lattice Semiconductor attorney was surprised that a rough translation AI provided was actually accurate, leading them to encourage a room of patent attorneys on Thursday to be cautious.
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Canada's Competition Bureau Seeks Dye & Durham Docs
Canada's Competition Bureau announced Thursday that it obtained a court order to gather information and advance an ongoing investigation into alleged anti-competitive conduct by legal technology company Dye & Durham Ltd., which has been scrutinized over the past year by activist investors and other national regulatory bodies.
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Ross Fights Thomson Reuters Bid To Toss Fair Use Defense
Ross Intelligence pushed back on Thomson Reuters's renewed bid to block it from claiming fair use in a suit alleging that Ross ripped off the Westlaw research platform for its artificial intelligence product, saying in a filing unsealed Wednesday that the output of its tool "did not contain or depend on" any copyright materials claimed by Thomson Reuters, the owner of Westlaw.
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Kutana+Brochet Adds Contract Drafting Through Acquisition
A U.K.-based document life cycle technology provider that serves legal and corporate clients announced Wednesday that it has acquired a majority stake in the contract software company Contract Genetica.
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Talking Mental Health: Working As A Mom Of An Autistic Son
Sarah Kovit Hanna at Assurant discusses how she balances the demands of her in-house role and the support needs of her son, who was diagnosed with autism, as a single mom, and reflects on how the legal industry can better support caretakers of family members who have special needs.
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A New Standard For Ethically Bringing AI Into Legal Practice
Legal professionals' hesitance to fully embrace artificial intelligence reflects ongoing concerns about accuracy, bias and client confidentiality — but new standards like ISO/IEC 42001 can help law firms implement AI responsibly, benefiting from its advantages while bolstering stakeholder confidence, says Danny Manimbo at Schellman.
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Talking Mental Health: The View From Life After BigLaw
Life coach and author Wendy Tamis Robbins discusses why she left a career in BigLaw to work in the professional well-being space after finding freedom from anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and substance use disorders, and highlights two changes the legal industry should implement to address attorneys' mental health.
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How 2 Litigators Decided Dad Would Stay Home With The Kids
Jennifer Hoekstra at Aylstock Witkin shares the tough conversations about timing, goals, logistics and values involved in her family's decision that she would build her career as a litigator and law firm partner while her husband stepped back from his own litigation role to stay home with their children.
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Legal Tech Talks: DraftWise CEO On Barriers To Adoption
James 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.
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Talking Mental Health: Managing Depression As A Co. Founder
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.
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The Winners And Losers Of AI In The Legal Services Industry
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.
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The Last Lawyer: The Evolution And Ethics Of Legal AI Tools
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 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.