Just last week, I wrote about a first-of-its-kind benchmarking study of legal AI tools, and now comes another, much-different study, that is also the first of its kind. This time, in a randomized controlled trial, researchers have found that the latest generation of AI technologies can significantly enhance both the quality and efficiency of legal
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ABA Working Group Publishes Guidelines for Responsible AI Use By State and Federal Courts
A panel of five judges and a professor of law and computer science, all members of the Working Group on AI and the Courts of the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Law and Artificial Intelligence, have published recommended guidelines for the responsible use of artificial intelligence in judicial settings. The guidelines, “Navigating AI in…
Federal Judge Sanctions Morgan & Morgan Attorneys for AI-Generated Fake Cases in Court Filing
You may have heard the news earlier this month that attorneys at plaintiffs law firm Morgan & Morgan — the 42nd largest U.S. law firm by headcount — were facing sanctions over their submission of court filings containing fake legal cases generated by artificial intelligence. Now, the Wyoming federal judge presiding over the case, U.S.…
On LawNext: Is Arbitrus.ai – ‘The First True AI Judge’ – The Future of Dispute Resolution?
Earlier this month, a legal tech startup called Fortuna Arbitration launched what it says is the first true AI judge – an automated arbitration system called Arbitrus.ai that the company claims can fully replace human arbitrators in resolving legal disputes. The system promises to cut the cost of arbitration from an average of $100,000 to…
Remember the Legal Research ‘AI Smackdown’? I Decided To Bring OpenAI’s Deep Research to the Fight
Recently, I wrote here about the AI Smackdown presented at a Feb. 8 meeting of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries, where a panel of three law librarians reported on their comparison of the AI answers delivered by three leading platforms – Lexis+AI, Westlaw Precision AI, and vLex’s Vincent AI. Having been playing around of…
Exclusive: With Its Latest Release Out Today, vLex’s Vincent AI Adds Multi-Modal Capabilities, Litigation Workflows, and Coverage for Four New Countries
When legal intelligence company vLex released a major upgrade to its Vincent AI last September, I wrote that it might just be the most capable generative AI assistant in the legal market. Now, vLex is releasing another major upgrade to Vincent AI that pushes it further beyond traditional legal research and document analysis, with distinct…
Exclusive: SingleFile Raises $9M Series A to Expand Its Corporate Compliance Filing Platform
Last March, I wrote here about SingleFile, a company whose mission is to help businesses navigate complex regulatory environments effortlessly by automating outdated filing processes and leveraging AI technology in a unified cloud platform. Today, it took a major step in driving that mission forward with news that it has raised $9 million in Series…
Breaking: Federal Judge Rules Legal Research Startup ROSS Infringed Westlaw’s Copyrights, Rejecting Fair Use Defense
In a significant ruling for legal publishing and AI development, a federal judge has granted partial summary judgment to Thomson Reuters in its long-running copyright infringement lawsuit against ROSS Intelligence, finding that ROSS infringed on Westlaw’s copyrighted headnotes and rejecting ROSS’s fair use defense. The ruling, issued today by 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge…
A Compendium of Legal Ethics Opinions on Gen AI (As Compiled by – You Guessed It – Gen AI)
This week, I have been experimenting with Deep Research, the AI agent OpenAI released on Sunday that it says is capable of completing multi-step research tasks and synthesizing large amounts of online information. Not to be confused with the controversial Chinese AI product DeepSeek), Deep Research is said to be particularly useful for people in…
Bloomberg Law Rolls Out Two AI-Powered Legal Research Tools, Emphasizing Accuracy and Source Attribution
Bloomberg Law has launched two new generative AI-powered research tools – Bloomberg Law Answers and Bloomberg Law AI Assistant – marking the company’s most significant foray into providing its customers with AI-enhanced legal research capabilities. While Bloomberg Law had previously rolled out targeted gen AI applications, such as AI-powered complaint summaries on dockets, these new…