On Oct. 18, the NYCBA learned that between Dec. 2, 2022, to Dec. 24, 2022, an unauthorized actor may have accessed certain personal information located on the city bar’s network, the spokesman said.
Continue Reading NY City Bar Reports Cyberattack That Impacted Its Members, Workers

KM touches everything in law firms connected to technology, data, and service delivery, and it carries the innate potential to enhance all other functions within a firm when adequately utilized.
Continue Reading Law Firm KM as a Collaborative Function for Growth

Organizations remain evenly split between those that expect to increase their use of generative AI over the next year and those that are still waiting to decide, according to a new poll from Deloitte shared exclusively with Legaltech News.
Continue Reading Hallucinations Are Legal's Main Concern With Generative AI, But Maybe Not For Long

Employees need to be given clear examples of AI uses they can do on their own, as well as examples of uses that require approval and where they can obtain that approval, the consultancy Gartner says in a new report.
Continue Reading General Counsel Must Set AI Boundaries—Without Being Heavy-Handed

One person said the removal could mean the firm has paid a ransom to the hacking group, which is of the most notorious in the world and is viewed as having strong links to Russia.
Continue Reading Allen & Overy Removed from Ransomware Website 1 Day Before 'Deadline'

The rise of the empowered user-builder heralds innumerable new ways of working for an in-house legal team. General counsel should identify their own paths to accelerate how this arrives in their legal function.
Continue Reading Build Versus Buy Will Never Be the Same Again, Thanks to Custom GenAI

A&O faces having confidential data published on the dark web following an attack by ransomware group LockBit—a cyber security expert explains how the firm’s merger with Shearman could well have caught the hackers’ attention.
Continue Reading A&O Has 5 Days to Meet Hackers' Demands: Expert Q&A

U.S. District Judge William Orrick truncated plaintiffs’ claims in a class action lawsuit against AI content generators. For many across the country fighting AI copyright suits, the order may be important tool in their arsenal.
Continue Reading Inside Judge Orrick's AI Copyright Order: Is LAION a Copycat?

Legaltech News caught up with some industry insiders to discuss OpenAI’s head-spinning leadership changes from the past week, ranging from the board’s ousting of Sam Altman to reinstating him as CEO as of Nov. 21.
Continue Reading Altman Was Out, Until He Wasn't: Legal Tech Reacts to OpenAI's Leadership Shuffle

“OpenAI and Microsoft have built a business valued into the tens of billions of dollars by taking the combined works of humanity without permission,” reads the proposed class action filed on behalf of nonfiction author Julian Sancton.
Continue Reading 'Nothing Less Than Rampant Theft': OpenAI, Microsoft Sued Over Copyright Claims

Jurisdictions differ on their approach to AI governance, from some countries taking a more hands off approach to others looking to pass new AI legislation.
Continue Reading 5 Jurisdictions, 5 AI Approaches: How AI Regulation is Shaping Up Globally