A trio of professors at the University of Southern California and University of Minnesota called their effort the first randomized controlled trial studying the effects of large language models on legal analysis.
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Announcing the 2024 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards Finalists and Lifetime Achievement Winners
The final winners in all categories will be announced during an in-person awards ceremony on January 29, 2024, during the Legalweek conference in New York.
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LTN Startup Spotlight: Ontra Co-Founder Ben Levi on Leveraging Competition, Finding Best Talent
Legaltech News caught up with Ben Levi, co-founder of Ontra, to look back on the company’s decade in the legal tech industry, from changes in competitors to investors’ evolving appetites.
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NY City Bar Reports Cyberattack That Impacted Its Members, Workers
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.
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Law Firm KM as a Collaborative Function for Growth
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.
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Epiq Acquires Digital Transformation Firm Mainspring, Seeking to Solve CLM Shortcomings
As the legal industry expresses mixed feelings and concerns about the implementation capabilities of their contract lifecycle management solutions, Epiq is hoping to beef up its CLM consultancy offering with its latest acquisition, Mainspring.
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Hallucinations Are Legal's Main Concern With Generative AI, But Maybe Not For Long
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.
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General Counsel Must Set AI Boundaries—Without Being Heavy-Handed
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.
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Allen & Overy Removed from Ransomware Website 1 Day Before 'Deadline'
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.
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Build Versus Buy Will Never Be the Same Again, Thanks to Custom GenAI
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.
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A&O Has 5 Days to Meet Hackers' Demands: Expert Q&A
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.
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Inside Judge Orrick's AI Copyright Order: Is LAION a Copycat?
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.
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Altman Was Out, Until He Wasn't: Legal Tech Reacts to OpenAI's Leadership Shuffle
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.
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'Nothing Less Than Rampant Theft': OpenAI, Microsoft Sued Over Copyright Claims
“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.
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5 Jurisdictions, 5 AI Approaches: How AI Regulation is Shaping Up Globally
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.
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Keep an Eye on Judges' Chambers for Insight Into AI Adoption in Law
“As a law clerk, if the artificial intelligence tools can enable you to do what might have taken 100 hours of legal research in five or 10, that helps your judge. That helps the court get to the right answer,” said Peter Torcicollo, managing director at Gibbons in Newark.
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