UK-founded GenAI legaltech startup Wexler AI today (3 December) announced that it has raised $1.4m in pre-seed funding as it celebrated a number of key milestones, including that it has processed over one million queries since April this year. Wexler’s platform uses large language models to automate essential fact-checking and intelligence gathering in legal disputes. We first
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Press Release: Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Tests Custom LLM from OpenAI, Broadening its Multi-Model Product Strategy
Source: PR Newswire Thomson Reuters, a content-driven technology company, announced they are testing a version of their CoCounsel GenAI assistant that employs a custom model built on OpenAI o1-mini, the AI pioneer’s latest large language model (LLM), notable for its enhanced reasoning skills. Because OpenAI o1-mini “thinks” before it responds—”chain of thought” reasoning—it enables CoCounsel to…
UK – Course: AI and Civil Justice: Judging through Algorithms
This Faculty of Humanities and and Social Sciences Student Bursary Project is open to, year 3 and year 4 LLB students and postgraduate law students at Queen Mary University of London. While digitalised courtrooms expanded in use during the 2020/21 pandemic with on-line judicial processes implemented and having since become the norm, the issue now…
Court Aid: Ask any Australian Legal Question and Get References in Seconds
Just came across this Courtaid.ai has access to to over 300K judgments and legislation from all Australian states and territories. Does this work better than ChatGPT? Yes, it does. Data is key in the world of AI. Courtaid.ai has access to 300k+ Australian judgments and legislation, behind the scenes an enterprise search engine is used to…
SLAW: Mastering AI Prompts for Legal Professionals Practical Strategies and Tools
This submission is part of a column swap with the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) bimonthly member magazine, AALL Spectrum. Published six times a year, AALL Spectrum is designed to further professional development and education within the legal information industry. Slaw and the AALL Spectrum board have agreed to hand-select several columns each year as…
Media Report: Lawyer Submits Anti-AI Document That Appears to Have Been Created Using AI
Yahoo News A lawyer in Minnesota who claims to be an expert on how “people use deception with technology,” has been accused of using an AI chatbot to draft an affidavit — in support of an anti-deepfake law in the state. As the Minnesota Reformer reports, lawyers challenging the law on behalf of far-right YouTuber and Republican state representative…
YouTuber accuses Minnesota AG of submitting court docs containing ‘hallucination’ generated by AI
Law & Crime A conservative YouTuber who is suing to challenge Minnesota’s law against so-called “deepfake” videos has accused Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison of submitting court documents that cite fake expert studies allegedly generated by artificial intelligence. The court documents were filed in connection with a lawsuit filed by Christopher Kohls, a content creator who uses…
UK Law Society Gazette Survey on AI is Published – “AI is created by 3rd parties, often based in other countries. As lawyers, we cannot be certain that the data is being appropriately handled”
Here’s the report in its entirety Key Take – Outs Nearly half have used AI to digitise/automateactivities in the last 12 months. • Usage is more prevalent amongst smaller andprivate practice organisations. • Efficiency and productivity are driving usage. • Usage is more likely to be for softer activitiessuch as research and document drafting/review rather…
Canadian law professor gives Lexis+ AI “a failing grade….‘Given its current limitations, I cannot recommend this to my law students, and I would not use it for my own legal research at this time’”
Legal Insider: A law professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) has concluded that Lexis+ AI’s content is “riddled with mistakes” and should not be used by law students yet, following a series of tests of the generative AI research and drafting solution. Benjamin Perrin, who in addition to being a legal professor also leads the UBC Artificial…
China unveils AI model to facilitate judicial work
(Xinhua) 20:39, November 15, 2024 BEIJING, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) — China’s Supreme People’s Court on Friday held a press conference to unveil a national large AI model, which will serve as infrastructure for the better use of AI technologies in the law profession, such as enhancing the efficiency of judicial paperwork. The FaXin foundation model system…