Welcome back, my fellow legal innovators! You’re the forward thinkers who understand that the future of law isn’t coming—it’s already here. 🤖⚖️And for those just joining our exploration of AI in legal practice, you’re arriving at the perfect moment. There’s never been a more exciting time to reshape how we deliver justice and legal services.
Stephen Embry’s article Billable Hour Tiers for Associates: Progressive or Lipstick on a Pig? has the diagnosis right:
Bloomberg Law recently reported that the venerable firm Steptoe would allow associates to choose their own billable hour targets. The program will start next year. An associate can choose to bill 2200 hours and receive top pay,
Texas is joining a growing number of states in considering comprehensive laws regulating use of AI. In particular, the Texas Legislature is scheduled to consider the draft “Texas Responsible AI Governance Act” (the “Act”), which seeks to regulate development and deployment of artificial intelligence systems in Texas. Critically, as most states continue to grapple with
MSSPAlert.com reported that “The cyberthreat landscape continued to expand and accelerate in 2024, keeping MSSPs busy, as bad actors expanded their arsenals – in particular, their embrace of generative AI – and tactics, including their growing use of cybercrime-as-a-service, which gave criminals new revenue streams and lesser-skilled hackers easy access to ready-to-use tools for launching
If I ask AI to do legal research or provide legal insights, should I assume that the data would be privileged? As the article points out, why would I believe that if no lawyers were involved?
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In this special year-end episode of The Geek in Review, Greg Lambert takes listeners on a unique journey through the past year’s 50 episodes, all with the help of Google’s NotebookLM audio overview tool. Inspired by Josh Kubicki of the Brainyiacs Newsletter, Greg experiments with this cutting-edge AI tool to synthesize and discuss the
This might seem like a new problem, but it’s an old problem that shows up when trying to do something new.
There is a lack of a strategy for data security and data rot. Too many organizations have punted when deciding what data to keep versus delete and haven’t made the hard decisions about implementing
17 December 2024 Commenting on the Government’s announcement of a consultation on artificial intelligence, copyright law and the creative industries, Chair of the CMS Committee, Dame Caroline Dinenage MP, said: “Our Committee has heard widespread concerns from the creative industries about how their copyrighted works are used to train AI models without consent or compensation. The
UNESCO, with the Qatar Ministry of Justice, and the Qatar National Commission for Education, Culture and Science, organized a regional training on AI and the Rule of Law. Ministry of Justice of Qatar 11 December 2024 From December 8 to 11, 2024, UNESCO, the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Ministry of Justice
Oliver Roberts is Editor-in-Chief of AI and the Law at The National Law Review, Co-Head of the AI Practice Group at Holtzman Vogel, and CEO/Founder of Wickard.ai As 2024 comes to a close, it’s time to look ahead to how AI will shape the law and legal practice in 2025. Over the past year, we’ve witnessed growing adoption