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A former business executive at a Texas law firm and legal technology company called on a Texas federal court Monday to toss her former employer's lawsuit against her, claiming the company and its founders attempted to preempt her New York lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and unlawful termination.
Charles Russell Speechlys LLP said Tuesday it has forged a new department dedicated to ensuring the law firm leaves no gains on the table in its hunt to incorporate legal tech and artificial intelligence into its services.
Despite increased demand for artificial intelligence, most professionals are not using this technology at work, with legal professionals lagging behind other sectors, according to a new survey on Tuesday.
Nixon Peabody LLP has added a litigator who most recently led Meta Platforms Inc.'s artificial intelligence-related ranking policy work to be the head of its new AI, digital platforms and emerging technologies team, the firm announced Monday.
Attorneys must ensure the use of artificial intelligence does not compromise the attorney-client privilege, advised a report from the New York State Bar Association on Monday, with additional recommendations provided for lawyers interested in exploring the burgeoning technology.
Information management company OpenText has hired a former sales executive from Oracle and Apple to be president of worldwide sales, and it promoted two executives to president status, the Ontario-based company said Monday.
A practice innovation attorney at Gunderson Dettmer, the chief strategy officer at SkillBurst Interactive and a senior information services project manager at Cooley LLP were among the 10 professionals honored by the International Legal Technology Association in its 2024 Young Professionals to Watch list, released on Monday.
The heads of the U.S. Senate and House commerce committees have taken a major step toward enacting a comprehensive federal consumer data privacy framework, reaching a long-awaited deal on proposed legislation that would minimize the personal data companies can gather, allow consumers to bring lawsuits and eliminate a growing patchwork of state laws.
Legal technology companies raised less money in the first quarter of 2024 than in the same period last year and reported fewer capital raises, but debt financing deals remained steady.
As generative artificial intelligence becomes more commonplace in the legal industry, attorneys must better understand the limitations of large language models and programs to "reason" so as to best take advantage of the burgeoning technology, a Hong Kong-based law professor argues in a new research paper.
The legal industry marked the beginning of April with another busy week as law firms expanded their offerings and made new hires. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
This week, there was a shakeup in e-discovery with an acquisition and a new CFO. Also, a former CEO bought a majority stake in a legal technology company this week. Here's a roundup of the biggest legal tech news from this week.
The legal tech startup Eve is specifically targeting plaintiffs firms with its new AI-native law firm program, using artificial intelligence trained by lawyers and customized to a firm’s caseload. The first firm to pilot the program, Frontier Law Center, says the comprehensive AI assistant has been a game changer.
Tokyo-based Robot Consulting Co. announced on Tuesday the raising of 1.07 billion yen (around $7.08 million) in a Series B funding round to deliver a "robot lawyer" that uses large language models to deliver legal consultations.
Litigation services company Lexitas announced on Wednesday its acquisition of Brea, California-based Kopy Kat, marking the second purchase of a records retrieval business by Lexitas this year.
In an effort to reevaluate how it conducts traditional business operations and offers legal services, Reed Smith LLP is hiring a director of change leadership to support the firm's goal of creating a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
Latch, a contract software company that uses generative artificial intelligence, changed its name to Ivo and secured $4.8 million in new funding on Thursday.
Federal enforcers and private plaintiffs filed more new antitrust cases last year than the year before but the slight uptick still kept 2023 as the second lowest in a decade, according to a new Lex Machina report.
A former Morris Manning & Martin LLP partner and an ex-Krevolin & Horst LLC counsel have unveiled a new Atlanta-based law firm designed to wield artificial intelligence and other technologies to better serve clients' needs.
The National Center for State Courts' artificial intelligence rapid response team has released more interim guidance on how courts can start experimenting with AI and what they should consider about platforms using the technology, the center said Wednesday.
Legal industry staffing firm Latitude announced Tuesday the hiring of a former marketing lead at contract software company Ironclad as its chief revenue officer.
After a well-known dispute resolution startup became insolvent and entered liquidation in late 2023, the space has been volatile. A new startup, however, is trying to become viable.
A Texas federal judge threw out a proposed class action accusing Fleming Nolen & Jez LLP of waiting a month to disclose a cyberattack that exposed more than 100 clients' protected health information, citing the lead plaintiff's admission that she didn't even know if any of her data was compromised.
Winston & Strawn LLP announced Wednesday the launch of a low-cost legal solutions option to compete with alternative legal service providers.
The Eleventh Circuit vacated a Georgia federal judge's decision not to dock OpenAI attorney fees for attempting to remove a Georgia radio host's defamation suit to federal court, saying the judge should have but did not adequately explain the reasons for the denial.