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CLM Co. Agiloft Hires Ex-Mitsubishi, John Deere Exec As GC
Contract lifecycle management provider Agiloft Inc. on Monday announced the hiring of a former senior vice president and deputy general counsel at Mitsubishi HC Capital America Inc. as its general counsel, following the recent vacancy of the company's chief legal officer role.
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Barbri Buys Lega To Advance AI Fluency In Legal Sector
Barbri said Monday it has acquired legal technology startup Lega to help law students and lawyers become proficient in the use of AI as the technology reshapes the delivery of legal services.
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'Mortified' Atty Takes Blame For Fake Quotes In Taco TM Fight
A Connecticut attorney facing possible sanctions over fake case quotations in a taco restaurant trademark fight told a federal judge that he takes "full and unqualified responsibility" for the flawed filings, saying he is "mortified" and acknowledging that his verification process for AI-assisted legal work fell far short.
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Mich. Panel Sanctions Atty Over AI-Hallucinated Cases
A medical malpractice suit in the Michigan Court of Appeals led to financial sanctions against an attorney who the court said during litigation repeatedly cited nonexistent cases that were generated by artificial intelligence.
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Rhode Island Supreme Court Lays Out GenAI Guidelines
The Rhode Island Supreme Court has amended the state's rules to better address the use of generative artificial intelligence by attorneys and judicial officers while also laying out interim guidelines.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
Law firms continued to dole out raises and bonuses during another busy week for the legal industry. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Broadfield Hires Ex-White & Case Atty As Innovation Chair
International law firm Broadfield announced the hiring of a former White & Case LLP attorney as a partner in its New York corporate practice and as chair of the firm's innovation committee.
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AI Use In Arbitration Faces Red-Line Questions
An apparently novel decision in Canada setting aside an arbitral award for overreliance on artificial intelligence raises several important questions, including: How much is too much reliance on AI, and in the absence of glaring issues like hallucinations, how would you even be able to tell?
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Kilpatrick Hires Fried Frank Innovation Leader In NY
A former artificial intelligence and knowledge management expert from Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP has joined Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP as director of innovation, executive search firm The Alexander Group announced Thursday.
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Legal Tech Roundup: Turbo Law, LDM Global
A new investment for a legal technology startup in the complex litigation space tops this roundup of recent industry news.
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Judiciary Cites AI Deepfakes In Opposing Courtroom Cameras
Two bipartisan bills to bring cameras into federal courtrooms advanced Thursday, but the policymaking body for the federal judiciary continues to oppose them and raised the issue of deepfakes in the age of artificial intelligence.
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Eve Legal Accused By AI.Law Of Infringing AI Drafting Tech
Eve Legal ripped off legal tech company AI.Law's patent that allows lawyers and other legal professionals to use artificial intelligence to generate legal documents, AI.Law alleged in a patent infringement lawsuit filed Wednesday in California federal court.
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Longtime Deloitte E-Discovery Director Joins GeorgeJon
E-discovery managed services provider GeorgeJon has announced the appointment of a former managing director at Deloitte as a member of its advisory board.
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Ex-Syke Founder Joins AI Co. Flank As Senior Executive
Flank, which offers an artificial intelligence-driven legal assistant that automatically addresses requests from business users, announced Wednesday that it hired Alistair Maiden, founder of legal engineering consultancy group Syke, as a senior executive.
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Law Firms Turn To Lateral Market, AI To Win Funds Race
Law firms are getting creative as they seek to secure a toehold in the fiercely competitive funds space, relying on new technologies and aggressively branching into new areas of finance to woo clients.
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For 6th Time Since 2022, Wolters Kluwer Prices Eurobond
Wolters Kluwer priced a new seven-year, €500 million (about $580 million) senior unsecured Eurobond on Monday, marking the fifth consecutive year the professional information software and services giant has relied on this debt instrument.
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Swedish AI Patent Co. Lightbringer Raises $10M Series A
Swedish startup Lightbringer announced on Tuesday the raising of a $10 million Series A funding round to expand into the U.S. while further developing its artificial intelligence patent platform.
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Smokeball Offers Free Software Access To Over 900,000 Attys
Smokeball, the legal practice management software provider, announced it has reached 28 state bar associations and more than 900,000 attorneys through free access programs provided in partnerships since 2024.
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Agiloft Appoints New CLO To CPO Role
Contract lifecycle management provider Agiloft Inc. announced Monday that its chief legal officer will replace its current chief product officer, who plans to step down at the start of July.
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Summize Buys InnoLaw Talent To Boost CLM Consulting
Summize is acquiring key personnel and proprietary assets from InnoLaw Group to bolster its implementation services capabilities, the artificial intelligence-powered contract lifecycle management, or CLM, platform told Law360 Pulse exclusively on Monday.
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Atty Faces Sanctions Over Fake Quotes In Taco TM Fight
A Connecticut attorney could be sanctioned for including fake case quotes and misrepresentations of the law in court filings that seek dismissal of a trademark case against a taco restaurant, a federal judge said Friday in questioning whether the documents were sullied by artificial intelligence.
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GCs Tell Law Grads To Embrace Uncertain, Nonlinear Careers
Five speakers, all alumni of the law schools where they addressed graduates this spring, shared their wisdom for a new generation of lawyers as they start to build careers amid rapid artificial intelligence advancements, ongoing wars, strained political climates and global upheaval — all of which create disruption and uncertainty. Their advice is guidance that even the most seasoned attorneys might find useful.
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E-Discovery Co. Relativity Acquires AI Drafting Tool Gavel
E-discovery platform provider Relativity announced Friday its acquisition of Gavel, which develops an artificial intelligence platform to help draft, review and automate work product in Microsoft Word and on the web.
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Legal Tech Roundup: Steno, Courtroom
The arrival of a new CEO and a startup's pre-seed funding round top this roundup of recent legal technology news.
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Cleary Senior Partner Sees Decision Fatigue Setting In On AI
For Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP's senior partner, the biggest obstacle to the firm's plans for artificial intelligence isn't model hallucination or vendor risk, but something far more human — decision-making fatigue.
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Keys To Digitizing Inefficient Contract Management Processes
Neville Eisenberg and Mark Grayson at BCLP explain how they sped up contract execution for one client by replacing email with a centralized, digital tool for negotiations and review, and how the principles they adhered to can be helpful for other law firms looking to improve poorly managed contract management processes.
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Law Firm Tips For Evaluating AI And Machine Learning Tools
Many legal technology vendors now sell artificial intelligence and machine learning tools at a premium price tag, but law firms must take the time to properly evaluate them as not all offerings generate process efficiencies or even use the technologies advertised, says Steven Magnuson at Ballard Spahr.
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Learning How To Code Can Unleash New Potential In Lawyers
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.