Clearbrief, a legal technology company that uses AI to help lawyers find and insert facts to support their legal writing, has raised an additional funding round of approximately $4 million. This brings the company’s total funding since its founding in 2021 to nearly $8 million. This latest round was led by Authentic Ventures, How Women
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“Digital Content Authentication” – MIT EmTech Digital Conference
In today’s digital age, the authenticity of online content is more critical than ever. With the rise of deepfakes, manipulated media, and synthetic content, ensuring the transparency and trustworthiness of what we see and hear online has become a paramount concern. Mounir Ibrahim, Executive Vice President of Public Affairs and Impact at Truepic, addressed this…
Beyond Simple Answers: Kentucky’s Nuanced Ethical Roadmap for Lawyers Using Gen AI and Technology

Several state bar associations and courts have leaped into the tar pit of issues that Gen AI seems to have raised. Many of these, at least early on, were little more than knee-jerk reactions. Most were brought about by a lack of understanding of the tools available and what they could do.
Recently, Kentucky’s Bar…
The GenAI Courtroom Conundrum
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The GenAI Courtroom Conundrum
In the wake of ChatGPT-4’s release a year ago, there has been a notable uptick in the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools by lawyers when drafting court filings. However, with this embrace
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New Gavel Feature Uses AI to Convert PDFs into Automated Document-Generation Workflows
If you are a lawyer whose practice involves regularly working with PDF forms, such as those from courts and government agencies, a new generative AI feature from document automation company Gavel could help save you time. The new feature, Gavel Blueprint for PDF, allows lawyers to automatically convert PDF forms into automated document-generation workflows, automatically…
A LAWYER’S GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING AI HALLUCINATIONS IN A CLOSED SYSTEM
Understanding Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the possibility of hallucinations in a closed system is necessary for the use of any such technology by a lawyer. AI has made significant strides in recent years, demonstrating remarkable capabilities in various fields, from natural language processing to large language models to generative AI. Despite these advancements, AI systems…
Article – Artificial Lawyer: GenAI Hallucinations? Lawyers Aren’t Perfect Either
Instructive that this article is penned by “Anonymous”. By Anonymous. Lawyers make mistakes. That’s why they take out professional liability insurance. This raises the question in the wake of the Stanford University study into the accuracy of Thomson Reuters’ and LexisNexis’ generative AI tools: what are we comparing these systems against when it comes…
California Legislature Advances Several AI-Related Bills
In a new post on the Inside Privacy blog, our colleagues summarize bills under consideration by the California Legislature that would impose requirements on developers and deployers of generative AI systems.
New Legal Ethics Opinion Cautions Lawyers: You ‘Must Be Proficient’ In the Use of Generative AI
A new legal ethics opinion on the use of generative AI in law practice makes one point very clear: lawyers are required to maintain competence across all technological means relevant to their practices, and that includes the use of generative AI. The opinion, jointly issued by the Pennsylvania Bar Association and Philadelphia Bar Association, was…
How BLUEOCEAN.law use Perplexity Pro AI
This blog article introduces Perplexity Pro AI & showcases how BLUEOCEAN.law have started using it to supercharge our online legal research and quickly generate quality website content.