Updated September 12, 2024. Originally posted August 7, 2024.
On Wednesday, August 7, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would amend its rules under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) to incorporate new consent and disclosure requirements for the transmission of AI-generated calls and texts. The NPRM builds
— Reality Check — Before I get into the substance of this article, let me acknowledge that we are presently in the trough of disillusionment in relation to Generative AI in the legal profession right now. This will change soon enough, and I’m not saying this disposition is universal or inevitable, but the naysayer’s are
This is part of an ongoing series of Covington blogs on implementation of Executive Order 14028, “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” issued by President Biden on May 12, 2021 (the “Cyber EO”). The first blog summarized the Cyber EO’s key provisions and timelines, and subsequent blogs described the actions taken by various government agencies to implement
For at least two decades, artificial intelligence has been used in e-discovery to help surface and prioritize review of potentially responsive documents from large document collections. But while technology-assisted review (TAR) has traditionally been driven by AI in the form of supervised machine learning, some vendors and e-discovery professionals are starting to experiment with the
On July 29, 2024, the American Bar Association (“ABA”) Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility released its first opinion regarding attorneys’ use of generative artificial intelligence (“GenAI”). The opinion, Formal Opinion 512 on Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools (the “Opinion”), generally confirms what many have assumed: GenAI can be a valuable tool to enhance efficiency
Law practice management company LEAP recently announced the launch of three major AI features built directly into the platform, including LawY, a new legal AI assistant backed by human verification. In this latest installment in the LawSites video series How It Works, you get to see LEAP’s new AI assistant in action. In this video,
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The WashingtonPost.com reported “Google pulled a video advertisement it had been running prominently on Olympics coverage that showed a father using artificial intelligence to help his daughter write a letter to her sports hero, the latest example of the tech giant receiving backlash for its AI products. “The August 2, 2024 article entitled “Google pulls Olympics
The American Association of Law libraries, Annual Meeting & Conference brought several harbingers of good news on the job market for law librarians and knowledge management professionals.
I don’t need to remind anybody that the “death of the law librarian” has been repeatedly predicted over the past 20 years. Many law firm administrators and legal
I was recently at a conference of elite trial lawyers where I presented with Dr. Maura Grossman and was on a panel session where we demonstrated how Generative AI could be practically used. But perhaps the most enlightening time was spent outside of the conference in networking conversations which is, of course, typical.
One of