The colossus International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Conference kicked off with an evening reception yesterday at the Gaylord Hotel and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland for the 45th time. ILTA is a global, volunteer-led organization that aspires to serve legal professionals and organizations through education, networking, and sharing innovative solutions. ILTA focuses on fostering knowledge and
Powering Innovation at the Intersection of AI & Science Highlights from the AI+ Science Summit
A Bold National Investment in AI and Science
David McDonald framed the conversation by highlighting the scale and ambition of the NSF’s AI Institutes program over 500 million dollars invested in 40 plus centers nationwide, designed to accelerate scientific discovery through AI. These institutes span disciplines and blend academic, government, and industry partnerships to create
The Form of the Law
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There are times when you know you need help and you take the step to ask for it. We were selling a house in Canada and moving to the United States. There are tax consequences and they were complicated because now we had 2 national tax regimes to deal with: capital
LexisNexis Introduces Protégé General AI: Choose Your Own General AI Model in a Secure Environment
LexisNexis® Legal & Professional has announced the U.S. customer preview of Protégé™ Protege General AI which compliments the functionality of Protégé Legal AI which launched in August 2024. Lexis will be demonstrating this new suite of tools this week at the Annual ILTACON conference in National Harbor, Md. The launch gives lawyers increased control and the
Tom Martin on the Five Levels of Legal AI and What GPT-5 Means for the Future of Law
This week, we welcome back Tom Martin, CEO of LawDroid, to discuss his widely read “AI Law Professor” column for Thomson Reuters and his five-level roadmap for legal AI. Martin explains that the framework was inspired by a leaked OpenAI memo and aims to give legal professionals a clearer picture of AI’s trajectory. The
Patent Office Memo to Examiners Gives Insight For Patenting Software Inventions
On August 4, the Deputy Commissioner of Patents issued a memorandum to Examiners on evaluation of claims in software-implemented inventions for subject matter eligibility under Section 101. While the memorandum does not fundamentally change the USPTO’s guidance published in the MPEP, the memorandum does provide useful clues as to how the USPTO and the Examining
Coming Soon: The Interactive GenAI Legal Hallucination Tracker — Sneak Peek Today!
If you follow me on LinkedIn or spoke with me at AALL, you’ve probably seen me teasing this project like it’s the season finale of a legal tech drama. Well, the wait is (almost) over — here’s your official sneak peek at our forthcoming interactive GenAI Legal Hallucination Tracker.
The People Behind the Tracker
First,
Carney’s Digital Recalibration: How the Government is Trending Away from Justin Trudeau’s Digital Policy
Digital policies did not play a prominent role in the last election given the intense focus on the Canada-U.S. relationship. Prime Minister Mark Carney started as a bit of a blank slate on the issue, but over the past few months a trend has emerged as he distances himself from the Justin Trudeau approach with
Cybersecurity risks increasing because of GenAI Tools!
Darkreading.com reported that “Threat actors are increasingly leaning on generative AI (GenAI) tools to drive their malicious activity.” The August 4, 2025 article entitled “Threat Actors Increasingly Leaning on GenAI Tools” (https://www.darkreading.com/remote-workforce/threat-actors-leaning-genai-tools) included these comments:
That’s according to CrowdStrike’s “2025 Threat Hunting Report,” which was published today and outlines several trends across the
Aderant Signs Deal to Acquire Legal Tech Assets of HerculesAI, Including Its AI Platform for Billing Compliance
In an in-depth piece I wrote about HerculesAI last February, I noted that the past year had been a big one for the company. Well, it just got even bigger, as Aderant, a leading global provider of business management software for law firms, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire HerculesAI’s legal technology