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Attorneys Blame Legal AI Vendors As Hallucinations Increase
Lawyers are increasingly naming specific legal artificial intelligence tools that they allege were involved in hallucination errors in court, pushing legal tech products into the spotlight.
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Bipartisan Bill Would Modernize Court Records Systems
U.S. Sens. John Kennedy, R-La., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on Tuesday jointly introduced the Open Courts Act, which they said would modernize the court records systems PACER and CM/ECF.
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Trump's AI Cyber Order Has Indirect Legal Tech Impact
President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday to expand governance of artificial intelligence. While the order doesn't directly affect legal technology, several provisions might affect vendors that offer AI technology to legal professionals.
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Litigation Support Provider Nationwide Legal Gets PE Backing
Nationwide Legal has become the latest litigation support provider to get financial backing from private equity, with CIVC Partners LP announcing a strategic investment in the firm on Monday.
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Legora Acquires Commercial Real Estate AI Co. Cadastral
Sweden-based Legora, a legal artificial intelligence platform, announced Tuesday its acquisition of Cadastral, an AI startup focused on commercial real estate.
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7th Circ. Fines Deported Migrant's Atty For ChatGPT Misuse
The Seventh Circuit has rejected a Mexican citizen's petition challenging an immigration court's removal order on the merits, while sanctioning his attorney $5,000 for filing two legal briefs "riddled with" fabricated quotes and case citations hallucinated by ChatGPT.
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Angeion Group Appoints Ex-ALM Lead As CEO
Angeion Group, which provides legal notice and administration services, announced Tuesday the hiring of former ALM Global chief executive Bill Carter as its top executive, as founder Steven Weisbrot moves into an executive chairman role.
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As Judicial AI Use Gains Steam, Training Lags
Court systems around the country are emerging bullish on the use of generative artificial intelligence by judicial officers, but implementation, training, resources and overall regulations remain scattershot, giving rise to concerns that a learning gap could lead to missteps.
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New NY State Bar President Talks Advocacy, AI And More
Attorney Taa Grays speaks about her goals and concerns for the legal industry as she becomes the first Black woman president of the New York State Bar Association on June 1.
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Consilio Hires Ex-CS Disco Executive As Chief Product Officer
E-discovery and document review provider Consilio announced on Monday the hiring of a new chief product officer who spent over three years as an executive at e-discovery software company CS Disco.
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Calif. Panel Reverses Order For Citing Atty's Bogus Case Law
A California appellate panel on Thursday reversed a judgment in favor of a man accused of abusing his son, finding that "without doubt" the trial judge abused her discretion by incorporating the man's bogus legal citations into her ruling, despite being alerted to the mistakes in advance.
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AI Comms Co. Wants Calif. Phone Service Suit Moved To NY
Connex One, a customer communications software company that uses AI, asked a California federal judge to dismiss or transfer a lawsuit by personal injury firm DK Law alleging it oversold the capabilities of its call center platform, delivered defective services and improperly extended the parties' contract.
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Weil Hit By Cyberattack Impacting Client Files
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP was recently hacked and had a "limited number" of client documents uploaded to an external cloud storage site, Law360 Pulse confirmed Friday.
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Legal Tech Roundup: Arken Innovations, Noxtua
A new investment for a decision intelligence tool tops this roundup of recent legal technology news.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
Attorneys took on new roles and law firms expanded their operations as the legal industry closed out May this week. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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European Legal AI Startup Nu:legal Raises €1.3M
Legal artificial intelligence startup nu:legal has raised €1.3 million ($1.5 million) to develop software that mixes the capabilities of a chatbot with attorney oversight, beginning in the employment law and data privacy fields.
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Florida High Court Adopts AI Policy For Lawyers
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday amended the state's rules to require those filing court documents to check any artificial intelligence-generated content for accuracy, and allow for sanctions if the content contains errors.
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Fried Frank Debuts AI Tool To Speed Fund Document Work
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP has become the latest BigLaw firm to develop a new proprietary artificial intelligence platform, announcing Thursday the launch of a tool for its asset management practice.
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Litigation-Focused Legal Tech Startup Expands In US
A London-based startup aimed at providing AI tools for litigation and founded by former associates at Willkie and Patterson Belknap has raised $2.5 million in seed funding and launched a New York office as part of its U.S. expansion, the company announced Thursday.
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Fla. Court Refers Atty To Bar Over Bogus Case Citations
A Florida state appeals court has referred an appellant's attorney to the state's bar for disciplinary proceedings after filing a petition that appears to be generated by artificial intelligence and "raises frivolous arguments, misstates the law, and cites non-existent case law."
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Court Bets On Prediction Markets Stir Insider Trading Fears
Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi provide opportunities to make money on court-related wagers, raising concerns that judges, court employees or litigants could use nonpublic information to bet on the outcomes of cases or the judiciary's personnel moves.
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Spellbook Hires Ex-Shopify CTO For New Executive Role
Contract software company Spellbook announced Wednesday the hiring of Shopify's former chief technology officer in a new executive role.
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Kirkland Investing $500M To Build Its Own AI Platform
Kirkland & Ellis LLP has earmarked $500 million of its revenues to develop its own artificial intelligence platform that will allow its attorneys to leverage the firm's collective knowledge, Law360 Pulse confirmed Thursday.
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Fla. Judge Strikes Ex-Chartwell Atty's Sanctions Motion
An attorney who claims Chartwell Law Offices LLP fired her over social media posts about Gaza won't win sanctions against the firm after a Florida federal judge on Wednesday struck her motion as unfounded and said she would consider monetary sanctions over hallucinated AI citations in the motion.
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Legal AI Founder On 'Alternative Vision' Behind Free Platform
Will Chen, founder of MikeOSS, joined Law360 Pulse for a conversation about the new open source legal AI project and his “alternative vision” for legal AI.