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At its Momentum Global conference in Dallas today, legal technology company Aderant unveiled four new cloud-based financial management applications, marking a significant expansion of the company’s AI-powered offerings for law firms.
The new applications — Cloud Accounts Receivable (AR), Cloud General Ledger (GL), Stridyn Analytics, and askMADDI — were officially launched during this morning’s keynote address at the annual user…
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Dubai, UAE, Token 2049: Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, recently delivered a candid and ambitious assessment of his company’s role in the global financial system. Framed as “a once-in-a-century company,” Ardoino’s talk explored Tether’s origins, its staggering growth, and its philosophy of leveraging profits to build resilient, open infrastructure for a changing world.

From Humble Beginnings to Global Scale

Tether,…
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When they see a junior lawyer accomplish weeks of merger due diligence in a matter of days, enabled by AI, a fundamental question arises: “Why isn’t this speed and efficiency reflected in how I’m billed for other legal services?” The traditional billable hour, a model that inherently rewards the time spent on a task, is now facing a direct challenge…
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The legal controversies surrounding many of the current administration’s policy initiatives have included calls to impeach judges who have ruled against the government, and even threats to the physical safety of judges and their families. Defenders of the judiciary frequently have characterized these events as attacks on the rule of law. But what exactly is the rule of law, and…
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Using an open AI model can provide significant advantages, including avoidance of licensing fees and greater control over your data. However, adoption of open source AI is not as straightforward as using conventional open source software (OSS) because an AI model has more components than just the software.
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  • Summit will feature leading researchers and lawyers discussing why lawyers bully, the personal and professional impacts, and strategies for responding
  • Commission will launch 6-day bullying prevention challenge for lawyers and bar associations
  • Summit sponsored by ISBA and CBA and co-sponsored by bar associations across Illinois
  • 5 hours of diversity and inclusion CLE credit is available

The Illinois Supreme Court Commission…
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Cambridge, MA – MIT EmTechAI: Azeem Azhar’s presentation at MIT EmTechAI offered a sweeping, incisive overview of the current state and future trajectory of artificial intelligence, focusing on the unprecedented speed and complexity of technological change. Azhar began by highlighting how the pace of AI advancement-both in terms of technical breakthroughs and business adoption-is unlike anything seen in previous tech…
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Welcome to the ultimate sneak peek of what’s coming from the MIT EmTechAI Conference which occurred in Cambridge, MA in May. It was a gathering where the world’s brightest minds push the boundaries of artificial intelligence, and where, I captured the pulse of every major theme, debate, and breakthrough. If you’re eager to know what’s next for AI and how…
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One recurring thought relating to artificial intelligence is its impact on new staff. The promise of AI is that it will routinize the lower value work, the repetitive tasks, and allow knowledge workers to focus on higher value projects and outputs. This is great, but it begs the question of how someone new to a field…
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