It says something about our collective attitude towards generative AI in legal that this blog’s most-read story of the year was about lawyers getting sanctioned for hallucinated case citations.
In fact, it will probably not surprise you to learn that, of my 40 most-read stories of the year, 24 involved generative AI in some way.…
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Similar to regulatory reform initiatives in Utah and Arizona, the Washington Supreme Court has entered an order approving a pilot program that will allow companies and nonprofits that are not owned by lawyers to provide legal services under carefully monitored conditions.
The court’s order (Order 25700-B-721), entered Dec. 5, approves
The Illinois Supreme Court today released a policy on the use of generative AI in the courts that authorizes its use by attorneys, judges, court staff and others, provided the use complies with legal and ethical standards.
The Illinois Supreme Court AI Policy, which will take effect Jan. 1, emphasizes that attorneys, judges and…
nQ Zebraworks, a company whose “invoices-to-cash” solution automates the billing cycle for large and mid-sized law firms, has closed a $4.5 million funding round, bringing its total investment to $13.5 million.
The investment was spearheaded by the company’s lead investor Reckon Limited and supported by key shareholders and will be used to drive…
On today’s LawNext: we hand over the podcast to NotebookLM to discuss the state of law practice management technology.
If you haven’t heard of NotebookLM, it is a generative AI tool from Google that turns your documents into engaging audio discussions. Its output sounds a whole lot like, well, a podcast,…
Saying there is a critical need for changes to the ethics rule, the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers has submitted a letter to the president of the American Bar Association urging significant revisions to Model Rule 5.4, the long-standing prohibition on lawyers sharing fees with non-lawyers.
The Dec. 12 letter conveys a report…
You cannot have innovation without adoption. That was a theme we heard repeatedly when we attended the Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal conference in New York City in October. Our guest today, Paul Henry, would take that a step further and say you do not really…
Today on How it Works, Lead Product Manager for ShareFile, Pedro Ventura, walks me through simple and complex document sharing from both the law firm and the client perspective.
ShareFile is a document sharing portal for law firms, which “helps streamline common document-heavy workflows while enhancing security for document sharing, onboarding, communication, and other tasks.…
SixFifty, a company that helps businesses automate employment law compliance and documentation, today announced the launch of SixFifty AI, an AI-powered research tool that builds on SixFifty’s database of employment law information to provide companies with plain-English answers to employment law questions.
The tool is designed to address the problem often faced by employers…
The former president of legal document management company Worldox has been sentenced by a court in Arizona to 120 years in prison after having been found guilty of 10 counts of possessing child pornography.
Raymond Zwiefelhofer had been president of Worldox since 2009 when police in Tempe, Ariz., arrested him on suspicion of possessing child…
If there is a single “it” conference right now in legal tech, it is the TLTF Summit. Last week was the third annual occurrence of this invite-only event, and while organizers accepted 500 registrants – up from 150 the first year – it left another 1,000 hopefuls sitting on a waiting list.
I guess…
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