Artificial intelligence, or AI, is both one of today’s hottest technologies and a significant challenge for lawmakers and regulators. As AI-based applications continue to proliferate, where are guardrails needed, and where might a hands-off approach be smarter? And how can legal scholars impact the discourse while teaching the next generation of lawyers about this important
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USA: Newly launched Charleston law firm to focus on AI, data privacy
Header Image: Steve Britt has launched Britt Law, a new corporate and technology law firm. (Photo/Britt Law A newly launched Charleston law firm will focus on a growing tech industry. Britt Law, a new corporate and technology law firm, has launched in Charleston, with a special focus on artificial intelligence and data privacy for companies…
Australia: 3 legal bodies issue joint guidance on AI
Lawyers Weekly Australia Regulatory bodies overseeing the legal profession within the three Uniform Law jurisdictions have realised a joint statement delineating clear principles and expectations for lawyers when utilising AI tools in their legal practices. This initiative, spearheaded by the Law Society of NSW, the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia, and the Victorian Legal Services Board…
And yet another AI document drafting product, “Lawformer: New Legal Document Drafting with AI”
Lawformer is emerging as a game-changing solution for legal professionals struggling with inefficient contract creation processes. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Francisco, this enterprise SaaS startup is transforming how legal teams approach document drafting. The Problem: Time Lost in Legal Bureaucracy Legal teams traditionally spend up to 25% of their valuable time searching…
Wexler AI raises $1.4m pre-seed funding
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…
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…
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…