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Attys Suing FIFA Appear To Have Used AI In Fighting DQ Bid
A Puerto Rico federal judge is threatening sanctions for attorneys accusing soccer's international governing body, its Puerto Rican affiliate and a regional soccer association of trying to block local rivals, after the attorneys appeared to use artificial intelligence to help write briefs containing citations to nonexistent cases.
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Litigation Finance Platform Launches With $70M In Offerings
JurisTrade, a new electronic platform aimed at standardizing and streamlining transactions in the notoriously opaque litigation funding sector, has launched with more than $70 million in initial funding opportunities, according to an announcement Thursday.
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Women In Legal Ops Continue To Be Underpaid, Study Finds
Women continue to be compensated less than men in legal operations positions, according to a report released Thursday from e-billing and matter management platform Brightflag, despite making up three-quarters of the survey's respondents.
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Rocket Lawyer Founder Retires, CFO Named Interim CEO
Rocket Lawyer founder and Chief Executive Officer Charley Moore has retired after nearly 20 years of leadership, the legal technology company said in an announcement Thursday.
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Malbek Promotes Legal Tech Influencer To General Counsel
Malbek has promoted its very first legal hire to general counsel to help guide an ambitious growth phase, the New Jersey-based contract management software company announced Thursday.
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Clifford Chance Extends Partnership With Legal Tech Biz
Clifford Chance LLP plans to continue to make the most of new artificial intelligence technology from Wexler following a pilot to free up lawyers' time on complex disputes, the two organizations confirmed Thursday.
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Westlaw Rival Seeks Early Appeal Of 1st AI Ruling On Fair Use
Legal tech company ROSS Intelligence Inc. has urged a Delaware federal court to let it seek the Third Circuit's opinion on two issues concerning the copyrightability of Thomson Reuters' Westlaw headnotes and fair use, saying the district court's recent about-face on the issues made it clear that legal guidance was needed.
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Legal Tech Group ILTA Honors Five Influential Women
Five attorneys, including leaders from CS Disco, King & Wood Mallesons and Legaltech Hub, were honored Tuesday by the International Legal Technology Association as part of its 2025 list of Influential Women in Legal Tech, an annual list published by the professional network.
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Kennedys Tech Unit Releases AI Risk Analysis Insurance Tool
The client-facing technology division for U.K.-based law firm Kennedys released a tool on Wednesday to conduct fully auditable risk analysis for the insurance market.
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Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2025 Editorial Boards
Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2025 Editorial Advisory Boards.
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CaseBlink Raises $2M For Immigration-Focused AI Tools
CaseBlink, an artificial intelligence software company focused on immigration law, announced the raising of $2 million in a preliminary seed funding round.
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CS Disco Appoints Workday Director To Board
E-discovery software company CS Disco announced Monday the appointment of Tom Bogan to its board of directors amid ongoing changes to its C-suite the past year.
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Bar Examinee Defends $2M ExamSoft Software Crash Suit
A former paralegal and would-be attorney has asked a federal judge to keep alive her software crash suit against ExamSoft, arguing that both the popular software company and the Connecticut Bar Examining Committee violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by not giving her extra time under an approved accommodation when her computer crashed during a remote COVID-era test.
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Ex-BigLaw Exec's Legal Data Startup Raises $4.5M
Entegrata, a legal technology startup that helps law firms manage and utilize data, closed its seed round Tuesday to bring its total funding to date to $4.5 million.
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Harbor Boosts Law Firm Growth Services Via New Acquisition
Harbor Global expanded its law firm business development services by acquiring CLIENTSFirst Consulting, a marketing technology and data quality management services provider, on Tuesday.
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Cleary Acquires AI Developer To Boost Its Legal Tech
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP said Monday that it has acquired Springbok AI, a developer of generative artificial intelligence products for the legal industry, to build custom tools in-house.
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Sheppard Mullin's CIO Jumps To Lewis Brisbois In Calif.
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP's longtime chief information officer has left to take the same role at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, the latter firm announced Monday.
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Vorys Releases Labor-Focused AI Tool For Its Attys, HR Pros
Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP announced Monday the launch of an in-house agentic artificial intelligence product designed to help its attorneys and human resources professionals answer questions regarding federal, state and local employment laws.
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Small Firms Increasingly Adopting AI, But Concerns Remain
Small firms and solo practitioners are increasingly integrating artificial intelligence into their workflows, according to a study released on Monday by Smokeball, a legal practice management software provider, but legal professionals also express unease around the ethics of the technology.
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24 Law Firm, Corporate Leaders Celebrated For AI Innovation
Leaders from Sidley Austin LLP, PayPal, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and Bayer were among those honored by the legal technology company Relativity ODA LLC on its annual list of Artificial Intelligence Visionaries on Monday.
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Client Who Sent Money To Fraudster Wins Suit Against Firm
An optometrist who claims a fraudster infiltrated her lawyer's email system and tricked her into wiring $90,586 to an incorrect account has won a lawsuit against Mancini Provenzano & Futtner LLC after a Connecticut state court judge found the firm was negligent in failing to secure its system.
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Philly Firm Decries Ex-Holland & Knight Atty's Counterclaims
A tawdry courtroom brawl between Pennsylvania personal injury firm Fritz & Bianculli LLC and former Holland & Knight LLP partner Patrick McCabe continues to boil, as Fritz & Bianculli denies that it is only suing McCabe for leverage in a messy divorce caused by his wife's "salacious" affair with name partner Brian Fritz.
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Advisory Firm ZRG Acquires Executive Recruiter EP Dine
Talent advisory firm ZRG Partners LLC on Thursday announced its acquisition of executive legal recruiting company EP Dine Inc., effectively expanding its capabilities in placing general counsels and widening its talent pool to include law firm hires.
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Legal Tech Roundup: Wolters Kluwer, Podqi
Another massive Eurobond pricing for a professional services juggernaut tops this roundup of recent legal technology news. A few legal tech startups also announced new funding rounds.
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Ferguson Braswell Hopes To Bring Tech Buzz Back To Dallas
Ferguson Braswell Fraser Kubasta PC has launched a strategic partnership with a Texas coworking company that the law firm said will make the Dallas area more attractive for technology startups.
Expert Analysis
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Law Firm Threat Awareness Is Key To Cyberattack Prevention
Taking the time to learn which cybersecurity attacks could pose the most likely threat to your law firm is the first step to keeping sensitive data safe, protecting valuable client relationships and potentially saving millions of dollars in losses, says Daniel Klein at Cynet.
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What Web3 Means For Lawyers' Ethical Duties
As law firms embrace Web3 technologies by accepting cryptocurrency as payment for legal fees, investing in metaverse departments and more, lawyers should remember their ethical duties to warn clients of the benefits and risks of technology in a murky regulatory environment, says Heidi Frostestad Kuehl at Northern Illinois University College of Law.
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NY's Cybersecurity CLE Rule Is A Sign Of Changing Times
New York's recently announced requirement that lawyers complete cybersecurity training as part of their continuing legal education is a reminder that securing client information is more complicated in an increasingly digital world, and that expectations around attorneys' technology competence are changing, says Jason Schwent at Clark Hill.
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4 Steps For Integrating AI Into Contract Management
Companies must focus on several preliminary tasks when integrating artificial intelligence into their contract life cycle management systems to reap the benefits of data-driven insights and seamless processes, says Charmel Rhyne at Onit.
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A Law Student's Guide To Thriving As A Summer Associate
Summer associates are expected to establish a favorable reputation and develop genuine relationships in a few short weeks, but several time management, attitude and communication principles can help them make the most of their time and secure an offer for a full-time position, says Joseph Marciano, who was a 2022 summer associate at Reed Smith.
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How I Owned My Power As An Asian American Woman In Law
Gibson Dunn's Debra Yang shares the bumps in her journey to becoming the first female Asian American U.S. attorney, a state judge and a senior partner in BigLaw, and how other women can face their self-doubts and blaze their own trails to success amid systemic obstacles.
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Successful In-House Alt Legal Services Start With 4 Questions
Law firms that are considering creating an in-house alternative legal service provider should focus not on recapturing revenue otherwise lost to outside vendors, but instead consider how a captive ALSP will better fulfill the needs of their clients and partners, say Beatrice Seravello and Brad Blickstein at Baretz & Brunelle.
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How Firms Can Prepare For AI-Based Knowledge Management
Law firms implementing artificial intelligence tools to help lawyers find answers to administrative questions should remember that poor data integration practices can be costly and time-consuming, and must consider four steps to lay the groundwork, says Bim Dave at Helm360.
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Guiding Principles For Implementing New Legal Technology
Best practices for adopting new legal technology include considering the details of the organization's needs, assembling an implementation team, integrating the new tool into the workflow and making it as easy as possible for the user, says Kate Orr at Orrick.
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Future Lawyers Expect DEI Commitments Beyond Recruiting
To attract future lawyers from diverse backgrounds, firms must think beyond recruiting efforts, because law students are looking for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that invest in employee professional development and engage with students year-round, says Lauren Jackson at Howard University School of Law.
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How Law Firms Can Innovate Amid Rising Client Demands
As clients increasingly tell law firms to integrate new legal technologies, firms should consider service delivery advancements that directly address the practice of law and can truly distinguish them — both from a technology and talent perspective, say members of Axiom Consulting.
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The Case That Showed Me The Value Of E-Discovery Plans
Robert Keeling at Sidley reflects on leading discovery in the litigation that followed the historic $85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger and how the case highlighted the importance of having a strategic e-discovery plan in place.
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What Litigators Can Expect From The Metaverse
As virtual reality continues to develop, litigators should consider how it will affect various aspects of law practice — from marketing and training to the courtroom itself — as well as the potential need for legal reforms to ensure metaverse-generated data is preserved and available for discovery, says Ron Carey at Esquire Deposition Solutions.
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The Future Of Legal Ops: Time To Get Serious About Data
Most corporate legal departments collect surface-level data around their operations, such as costs and time to resolution, but legal leaders should explore more in-depth data gathering to assess how effective an attorney was, how efficiently legal work was performed, and more, says Andy Krebs at Intel.
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Why You Should Leverage AI For Privilege Review
While many lawyers still believe that a manual, document-by-document review is the best approach to privilege logging, certain artificial intelligence tools can bolster the traditional review process and make this aspect of electronic document review more efficient, more accurate and less costly, say Laura Riff and Michelle Six at Kirkland.