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Axiom Closes Ariz. Law Firm Amid Suit Alleging PE Control
Legal staffing and services provider Axiom received approval Tuesday to shutter its Arizona law firm subsidiary, while a pending lawsuit claims the experiment was tainted by Axiom's private equity backer putting "revenue over ethics."
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JND Legal Administration Hires Ex-Bayer E-Discovery Lead
Seattle-based legal services and settlement solutions company JND Legal Administration announced Monday the hiring of the former e-discovery squad lead at pharmaceutical company Bayer as its senior director of innovation and strategy.
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HaystackID Taps EY Director To Oversee European Operations
Data services company HaystackID, which helps corporations and law firms with legal and compliance events, announced Tuesday the hiring of a former director of forensic and integrity services at EY to oversee its European operations.
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AI Docs Sent By Exec To Attys Not Privileged, Judge Says
A Manhattan federal judge said Tuesday that a Texas financial services executive accused of a $150 million fraud cannot claim privilege over documents that he prepared using an artificial intelligence service and sent to his attorneys — but suggested the materials could be problematic if used at trial.
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Legal Tech Co. Justpoint Opens Arizona-Based Law Firm
Justpoint, a justice technology company focused on public health, announced Tuesday the launch of Justpoint Law LLP, a law firm operating as an alternative business structure under Arizona law.
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10th Circ. Ends Civil Rights Suit, Sanctions Atty For AI Errors
A self-represented Maryland attorney could not revive her $15 million racial discrimination suit against Denver-based Frontier Airlines after a Tenth Circuit panel found the district court had not erred in its dismissal, in a ruling that also sanctioned the lawyer for misusing generative artificial intelligence.
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ABA Delegates Back Forgiving Loans For Public Interest Attys
The American Bar Association's policymaking body on Monday encouraged student loan forgiveness for lawyers engaged in public interest employment and asked that trust and estate law be part of the NextGen bar exam.
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Disco Announces Agentic AI For Its Cecilia Q&A Tool
E-discovery software company CS Disco announced on Monday its plans around an agentic artificial intelligence tool for fact investigations and e-discovery.
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Conn. Atty Sanctioned For Another Case Of AI Misuse
A Connecticut labor litigator's vow to permanently cease using generative artificial intelligence tools in his practice after he allowed AI-generated errors to appear in separate but similar June filings has weighed in his favor as a Bridgeport federal judge ordered sanctions against the attorney.
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Louisiana Attys Face Possible Sanctions For AI Slop Usage
As part of an order dismissing the remaining claims in a real estate matter, a Louisiana federal judge has threatened to sanction attorneys from two local firms for submitting a brief riddled with errors generated by artificial intelligence.
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Arbitrators Take Cautious Approach To Integrating AI
Norms, practices and regulations surrounding the use of generative artificial intelligence in arbitration are developing just as rapidly as they are in the courts. Here, Law360 Pulse talks with legal tech vendor Veritext's senior vice president in charge of alternative dispute resolution about how the arbitration industry is interacting with AI.
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Groq's CLO 'Horrified' By Some Firms' Ongoing AI Resistance
The chief legal officer at Groq said she is "horrified" by the number of law firms that continue to resist artificial intelligence and refuse to let their lawyers use it — and she encourages her mentees who are in the early stages of their careers and work at those firms to play around with AI outside their jobs.
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Legal Tech Roundup: BoostDraft, Maven Technology
A leadership change for a legal document software company tops this roundup of recent legal technology news.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry began February with another busy week as BigLaw firms shuffled their leadership and opened new offices across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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A&O Shearman US Data Privacy Leader Joins Norton Rose
Norton Rose Fulbright is boosting its West Coast team, bringing in an Allen Overy Shearman Sterling cybersecurity pro as a partner in its San Francisco office.
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Judge Says AI Errors Show Atty Can't 'Learn' From Mistakes
A New York federal judge concluded that an attorney who repeatedly submitted filings with false AI-generated citations must be punished with case-terminating sanctions against a client he was defending in a trademark lawsuit, saying Thursday that the lawyer "has not, and apparently cannot, learn from his mistakes."
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Wash. Lawyer Faces Sanction Threat Over Alleged AI Errors
A federal judge has ordered an attorney in Washington state to submit a sworn declaration explaining why she shouldn't be sanctioned for what opposing counsel claimed are dozens of artificial intelligence "hallucinations" across multiple case filings.
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Fake Case Pulled From Toshiba Malicious Prosecution Suit
A former printer toner salesman is trying to salvage his lawsuit against Toshiba after the company flagged nonexistent citations, apologizing to the California federal court in a corrected brief Thursday defending claims that the electronics company manufactured a criminal case against him and others to maintain an illegal monopoly.
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Texas Atty Must Explain AI 'Misuse' In Employment Case
A prominent civil rights attorney representing a University of Texas at Austin nurse in an employment discrimination case must explain why he shouldn't be sanctioned "for his apparent misuse of artificial intelligence" to research and write a brief, a Texas federal judge ruled.
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New Carmody Leader On AI Challenges, Firm Growth
After joining Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP nearly a quarter-century ago, Fatima Lahnin recently took over as the Connecticut-based firm's managing partner with an eye on maintaining steady growth and examining how best to take advantage of technological advances like artificial intelligence.
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Legal Tech Providers Shrug Off Anthropic's Market Disruption
Some major legal artificial intelligence platforms say they are unfazed by the arrival of Anthropic's new legal plug-in for its Claude product, even though the news sent shock waves throughout the stock market this week.
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Ex-Disco Chief Tech Officer Joins Lineal As Information Chief
E-discovery and digital investigations company Lineal Services has announced the hiring of Keith Zoellner, the former chief technology officer and executive vice president of e-discovery provider CS Disco Inc., as its chief information officer.
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Lawhive Raises $60M Series B For US Expansion
U.K.-based legal tech startup Lawhive announced Thursday the closing of a $60 million Series B funding round as it plans to accelerate its expansion into the U.S. legal market, which it entered last year, and scale its artificial intelligence product.
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Ga. Chief Justice Highlights AI Risks, Civil Justice Gap
Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Nels S.D. Peterson told state lawmakers on Wednesday that evidence fabricated by artificial intelligence is a greater threat to the judiciary than attorneys filing briefs with nonexistent cases based on AI hallucinations.
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Sinclair To Pay $175K For Lost Texts In Price-Fixing MDL
A Chicago federal judge has approved a joint stipulation by which Sinclair Broadcast Group agreed to pay $175,000 after it was sanctioned for failing to preserve text message data from more than 50 company-issued cellphones amid discovery in multidistrict litigation over an alleged unlawful price-fixing scheme.
Expert Analysis
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The Augmented Lawyer: Crafting Responsible AI Policies
As the legal industry increasingly looks to impose responsive guardrails for artificial intelligence use, firms and organizations’ internal use policies, outside counsel guidelines and vendor contracts can address confidentiality and data retention concerns in several ways, say attorneys at KXT Law.
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Attorneys often limit the impact of their thought leadership by letting their content languish after initial publication, but through four easy strategies for retooling existing content, they can maximize its reach and further their business development goals, says Jillian McKenna at Verrill Dana.
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Market Consolidation Is Driving Legal Tech's Future
The legal artificial intelligence market is nearing a strategic reset driven by market consolidation, rising expectations for reliability, and a widening skills gap between AI-native and AI-skeptical lawyers, say Saahil Dama at McKinsey and Amulya Chinmaye at ServiceNow.
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Talking Mental Health: Encouraging New Attys To Find Joy
Rudene Haynes at Hunton discusses her experiences as a hiring partner, common sources of stress that newer attorneys face and steps that law firms can take to protect their attorneys' mental health and encourage personal life fulfillment.
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Fla. Bar's Cyber Incident Response Plan Sets Precedent
The incident response plan developed by the Florida Bar's cybersecurity and privacy committee might not seem all that consequential, but it's a long overdue framework that could go a long way toward protecting the highly sensitive data law firms handle — and could even set a model for other professional organizations to follow, says Chris Boehm at Zero Networks.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Be A Mentor Or Mentee
Mentorship is a powerful tool for business development when both mentors and mentees approach their relationships with strategic purpose, ensuring professional success while supporting broader business goals, say Angela Liu at Dechert and Jessica Lewis at WilmerHale.
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Law Schools Must Teach Applied AI Literacy
To truly future-proof their graduates, law schools must move beyond treating artificial intelligence as a passing topic or niche elective — instead, it must become a fundamental part of the core curriculum, says Mark Doble at Alexi.
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Risk Mitigation Tips For Legal Teams Using Unvetted AI Tools
The rapid growth in ungoverned artificial intelligence usage in legal departments stems directly from significant resource constraints, creating fertile ground for shadow AI adoption, so compliance leaders must implement governance now or face enforcement actions, lawsuits and competitive disadvantage later, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Engage With The Media
Business development is all about awareness — and by taking existing skills and adapting them to build media relationships and thereby address today's audiences, lawyers can expand their outreach and use thought leadership to build a more complete, compelling personal brand, says Michael Goodwin at Stanton PR.
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What GCs Value Most: 7 Habits Of Great Relationship Partners
When seeking outside legal advisers, general counsel want commercially savvy lawyers who cultivate relationships of trust with their in-house counterparts, back up the GC's authority and focus on actionable advice instead of abstract legal analysis, say Andrew Dick at The L Suite and Rob Morvillo at Olo.
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Legal Tech Talks: Level Legal CEO On Building Trust
Joey Seeber, CEO of Level Legal, discusses two opposing extremes in how attorneys view legal tech, as well as how to evaluate new technology and prioritize trust over data points.
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Roundup
Nonprofit Launch Tips From Founders In The Legal Industry
In this season of giving, take a look back at this Law360 series featuring legal professionals who have founded industry-related nonprofits. They discussed the biggest challenges to getting started, and how to balance the launch and management of an organization along with the demands of their primary work.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Advertise Ethically
Business development in the legal industry is about building authentic connections and showcasing expertise in a way that reflects reality, and, when done right, it can elevate a practice, establish credibility and bring in clients without risking an ethics violation, says Melody Jackson at Robinhood.
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Legal Tech Talks: Mitratech's Lugones On Putting People First
Liz Lugones, vice president of corporate legal and claims professional services at Mitratech, discusses how at the end of the day, legal tech isn't just about streamlining workflows or improving efficiency — it's about people.
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Conversations around retirement and succession can be understandably difficult, but when attorneys make a plan for the transition early and effectively, they have the opportunity to not only keep work but also increase it, says Jillian McKenna at Verrill Dana.