Lawyers Weekly Australia The NSW Supreme Court outlawed certain uses of generative artificial intelligence in courtrooms to prevent inaccuracies and “laziness” from entering the legal profession, Chief Justice Andrew Bell has said. From the start of 2025’s first law term, legal practitioners caught using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in affidavits, witness statements, and other evidentiary
Stetson Uni (USA) Says They Are The Best At AI
Here’s their pitch and it’s pretty comprehensive How Stetson Leads the Way in AI & the Legal Profession On campus and beyond, the Stetson Law community leads in this new frontier. From Crummer Courtyard to the gym to the Dolly & Homer Hand Law Library, the Stetson Law campus in Gulfport is buzzing with
Podcast: The Challenges of Governing AI
Artificial intelligence, or AI, is both one of today’s hottest technologies and a significant challenge for lawmakers and regulators. As AI-based applications continue to proliferate, where are guardrails needed, and where might a hands-off approach be smarter? And how can legal scholars impact the discourse while teaching the next generation of lawyers about this important
USA: Newly launched Charleston law firm to focus on AI, data privacy
Header Image: Steve Britt has launched Britt Law, a new corporate and technology law firm. (Photo/Britt Law A newly launched Charleston law firm will focus on a growing tech industry. Britt Law, a new corporate and technology law firm, has launched in Charleston, with a special focus on artificial intelligence and data privacy for companies
Australia: 3 legal bodies issue joint guidance on AI
Lawyers Weekly Australia Regulatory bodies overseeing the legal profession within the three Uniform Law jurisdictions have realised a joint statement delineating clear principles and expectations for lawyers when utilising AI tools in their legal practices. This initiative, spearheaded by the Law Society of NSW, the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia, and the Victorian Legal Services Board
Responding To Strong Market Interest In Its Gen AI Product, Josef Closes ‘Lightning-Fast’ Funding Round
Legal automation company Josef has closed what it is describing as a lightning-fast funding round in order to capitalize on market response to Josef Q, the AI-powered product it brought out of beta in November 2023 that enables legal and compliance teams to easily create self-service Q&A tools. Participants in the round were Josef’s existing
Government Finally Splits the Online Harms Bill: Never Too Late To Do The Right Thing…Or Is It?
Justice Minister Arif Virani yesterday finally bowed to public pressure by agreeing to split Bill C-63, the Online Harms bill. The move brings to an end the ill-conceived attempt to wedge together Internet platform responsibility with Criminal Code provisions and the potential weaponization of the Canada Human Rights Act that had rightly sparked concerns
What’s New? December 2024
Autumn Budget infotech initiatives
As part of its first Budget, the government announced £20.4 billion of investment for research and development projects in the UK, in an effort to drive economic growth. A portion of this will undoubtedly fund artificial intelligence (AI) projects, and to help lay the framework for AI development the government:
And yet another AI document drafting product, “Lawformer: New Legal Document Drafting with AI”
Lawformer is emerging as a game-changing solution for legal professionals struggling with inefficient contract creation processes. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Francisco, this enterprise SaaS startup is transforming how legal teams approach document drafting. The Problem: Time Lost in Legal Bureaucracy Legal teams traditionally spend up to 25% of their valuable time searching
Wexler AI raises $1.4m pre-seed funding
UK-founded GenAI legaltech startup Wexler AI today (3 December) announced that it has raised $1.4m in pre-seed funding as it celebrated a number of key milestones, including that it has processed over one million queries since April this year. Wexler’s platform uses large language models to automate essential fact-checking and intelligence gathering in legal disputes. We first