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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
February ended with a bang as BigLaw made moves and the Supreme Court waded into former President Donald Trump’s legal woes. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Troutman Pepper Launches Team To Address Cyberattacks
Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP is addressing the threat to businesses from cyberattacks and data breaches with a new incidents and investigations team led by firm veterans on both sides of the country with deep expertise in data security and privacy issues.
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Judge Analysis Platform Bench IQ Raises $2.1M
Bench IQ, a new startup founded by Ross Intelligence executives that analyzes a judge's record of decisions using artificial intelligence, announced Thursday the raising of $2.1 million in pre-seed funding from several venture capital groups, law firms and angel investors.
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Wilson Sonsini, Fenwick West Back Atty-Founded Equity Tool
Global equity platform Slice Global Inc., which uses artificial intelligence to ensure that companies issuing equity to international employees stay in compliance with laws and regulations, secured a $7 million seed funding round on Thursday.
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E-Discovery Co. ProSearch Hires Ex-Exterro COO
ProSearch, an e-discovery and legal data analytics company, announced Wednesday the hiring of a former executive at Exterro Inc. as its first chief operating officer.
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Ousted Roche Freedman Atty Wants Ex-Partners Sanctioned
The ousted partner of the law firm formerly known as Roche Freedman LLP asked a New York federal judge to impose sanctions on his former colleagues, claiming the partners destroyed evidence when they communicated through an application that auto-deleted their messages in the lead-up to voting him out of the firm.
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Husch Blackwell Launches AI Practice Group
Husch Blackwell has launched a cross-practice artificial intelligence group focused on advising clients on regulatory and legal matters related to the burgeoning technology.
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Small Calif. Firm Goes All In On AI
A California plaintiff's boutique announced Wednesday that it will integrate artificial intelligence into "every aspect" of its practice as legal tech startup Eve's first "AI-native law firm."
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BakerHostetler Launches Tech Offering For Estate Planning
National law firm BakerHostetler announced this week that its private wealth group has created an estate planning app called FinClar, short for Financial Clarity, making it one of the latest firms to launch a technology offering.
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OpenAI 'Fails to Explain' Away Fee Bid, 11th Circ. Told
A Georgia radio host is continuing to press his case that OpenAI owes him legal fees for its abortive bid to remove his defamation suit against the company to federal court, telling the Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday that there's ample grounds to send the case back to the district court level for the explanation he's owed.
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Sheriff, Clerk Tacked On To NC Court Software Class Action
The Mecklenburg County sheriff and clerk of courts have joined a growing list of defendants in a proposed civil rights class action alleging that North Carolina's new digital court system has led to unlawful arrests and detentions in the Tar Heel State.
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UK-Based Osprey Approach Hires Ex-Xerox IT Head As CEO
Legal software provider Osprey Approach announced Tuesday that it has added the former head of information technology services at Xerox as its new CEO.
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Hanson Bridgett Joins Other Firms In Launching AI Task Force
Hanson Bridgett LLP plans to introduce an artificial intelligence task force in March, joining other firms in recently launching similar teams to advise clients on use of the burgeoning technology.
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Norton Rose Fulbright Taps Atlanta Atty To Lead AI Practice
Norton Rose Fulbright announced Tuesday that it had formally created an artificial intelligence practice team in the U.S., and that it would be helmed by an Atlanta-based partner who came aboard last year from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP.
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Individual Enthusiasm For AI Leads In Contract Management
There's a growing divide between personal and organizational views of artificial intelligence, particularly as legal and procurement teams weigh the benefits and risks of this technology, a new survey revealed on Monday.
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Gowling Launches AI Tool To Fight Online Infringement
Gowling WLG on Tuesday launched an AI-powered service to protect brands against various forms of online infringement, allowing users to request the filing of takedown notices "at the click of a button."
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Lexsoft Launches OpenAI-Powered Legal Software Tool
Legal technology company Lexsoft Systems SL has floated a new artificial intelligence tool that uses OpenAI's technology to allow lawyers to automate parts of their workflow.
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Approach The Bench: Judge Michael Baylson
Though his standing order on lawyers writing briefs using artificial intelligence — one of the first in the country to address the technology — is fairly broad, Judge Michael Baylson of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania says he's "not banning AI."
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Helping Attys Nix Hourly Rates Is A Family Affair At AltFee
Launched in 2020 by a father and his two sons, legal software provider AltFee Solutions Inc attracted fresh industry attention this month when it won the American Bar Association Techshow's startup competition, beating 14 other finalists, including legal writing tool BriefCatch and e-discovery platform Beagle.
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Conn. Client Pans Firm's Late Reveal Of Prior Email Mess
An optometrist who claims a fraudster infiltrated her lawyer's email system and tricked her into wiring $90,586 to an incorrect account has challenged the firm's "very late post-trial disclosure" of five pages of emails about an alleged earlier incident, saying the messages are relevant to her own case.
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Marshall & Melhorn Seeks Pause To Settle Data Breach Row
Ohio firm Marshall & Melhorn LLC and a proposed class of over 27,000 of its clients affected by a 2021 ransomware attack urged an Ohio federal judge on Friday to institute a pause in the suit so they can reach a settlement with an outside mediator.
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Bar-Takers See Accommodation Gap For Periods, Lactation
As would-be lawyers prepare to take the bar exam, testing accommodations for those who menstruate or lactate will vary by jurisdiction. In recent years, there's been a reckoning on state bar policies that affect women and transgender test-takers, but advocates say there's more to be done.
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Legal Tech Roundup: Apryse, Compex Legal
A document processing technology provider's latest acquisition tops this roundup of recent legal technology news.
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LegalZoom COO To Depart Next Month
Online legal services provider LegalZoom Inc. is parting ways with its chief operating officer next month, according to a recent government filing, four months after announcing plans to layoff more than 100 sales employees in Austin, Texas.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
This was another busy week for the legal industry as law firms expanded their practices and attorneys made moves. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.