Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋This is the sixth episode of the 2024 season of the LawDroid Manifesto podcast, where I will be interviewing key legal innovators to learn how they do what they do.If you want to understand the role of technology in the modern courts and the challenges that institutional culture and mindset play,
Tech Snippets Today – Petra Molnar, Harvard Faculty Associate, Lawyer, and Anthropologist with Joseph Raczynski
Today we focus on migration and technology, and the people caught in the middle.
My guest, Petra Molnar, has written: The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence offers a global story of the sharpening of borders through technological experiments while also introducing strategies of togetherness across physical and ideological borders.
Are you ready for the Microsoft AI Copilot Personal Computer?
Computerworld.com reported that “Microsoft has announced a new category of Windows PCs, designed to leverage the full power of AI. Christened Copilot+ PCs and developed in collaboration with PC manufacturers such as HP, Dell, Samsung, Asus, Acer, Lenovo, and Microsoft Surface, these devices will boast higher processing power, all-day battery life, and a suite of
Catching Up on AI Agents, and Agentic Processes
In this impromptu episode of The Geek in Review, hosts Marlene Gebauer and Greg Lambert reconnect after being on the road for a few weeks. They discuss their recent “Love and LegalTech” mini-series, which featured eight couples sharing their experiences working in the legal technology industry. The series provided insights into communication, work-life
An AI-Assisted Book Review: Law Democratized
Very pleased to see The Impact Lawyers reprint my review of Renee Knake Jefferson‘s excellent new book Law Democratized: A Blueprint for Solving the Justice Crisis.
Ms. Jefferson believes that artificial intelligence “has the potential to become the single most important tool in solving the legal justice crisis,” so on completing this review,
FutureLaw'24: the Legal Innovation Conference of Northern Europe
Thanks again to all my readers! You are the best. 🥇And to you newbies, come right this way! 👇
This substack, LawDroid Manifesto, is here to keep you in the loop about the intersection
Italian AI bill: Main issues and risks
On 23 April, the Italian Council of Ministers passed a bill (AI Bill) aimed at introducing national AI provisions. The main scope is to establish regulatory criteria to balance the opportunities offered by new technologies with the risks associated with improper and harmful use. It supplements the European Regulation on Artificial Intelligence (AI Act), which
The Road to AI efficiency: the trend toward smaller more performant AI and AI at the edge
The creative process…
It’s 4:31 in the morning, a watery dawn is breaking, and I’m wafting down an almost empty M40 motorway heading to Heathrow for an early flight. The advanced autopilot features in the car are helping with the driving (in the UK it amounts to lane keeping and smart cruise control rather than
Thomson Reuters announces the “Buy Now Program” for New CoCounsel Drafting end-to-end Solution.
Today Thomson Reuters announced the “Buy Now Program” which will enable law firms and legal departments to lock in pricing before the official rollout of their new CoCounsel Drafting solution.
Rawia Ashraf, VP, Product, Legal Technology at Thomson Reuters provided a product walkthrough. She described the product as an end-to-end workflow solution for both transactional
101 Whack-a-Mole – Yet Another Software Patent Falls Victim to Section 101
In 2014, the Supreme Court upended U.S. patent law in the landmark ruling for Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International. The Alice decision established new standards for determining whether inventions, especially those related to software and business methods, are eligible for patents.
Following the Alice decision, there was a significant increase in 101 rejections, particularly