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
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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
The state of copyright and AI in 2025
It’s coming up to three years since ChatGPT was released to the public in November 2022. In April 2024, we considered the impact of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) on professional writers; the “double whammy” of having their copyright material used for training LLMs (without receiving payment) whilst being made redundant as a result
Latest wave of obligations under the EU AI Act take effect: Key considerations
The first comprehensive legal framework for artificial intelligence (AI), Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (the EU AI Act), entered into force last year. Rather than taking immediate effect, the harmonized rules on AI under the Act have been staggered in application.
The first of the EU AI Act’s obligations took effect on February 2, 2025, prohibiting certain
The New C-Word: How Silicon Valley's Latest Slur Reveals Our Deepest Fears About the Future
Picture this: A delivery robot, one of those glorified coolers on wheels that’s become ubiquitous in urban landscapes, sits motionless on a patch of grass. A couple drives by, windows down, and hurls an epithet at the machine: “Clanker!” The robot, naturally, doesn’t flinch. It can’t. But something profound just happened in that moment of