How It Works: A Demonstration of MyCase Accounting Software
This week on How it Works, we have a walkthrough of MyCase Accounting software, presented to me by Sales Engineering Manager Lindsay Bushong.
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Lexis Releases Mobile App for Its Lexis+ AI Legal Research Platform
A year after releasing Lexis+ AI, its generative AI legal research platform, to general availability, LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced the release of a companion app for the U.S. market, the Lexis+ AI Mobile App, which is now available for download in both the Apple App Store and Google Play.
Legal Analytics Company Trellis Unveils AI Tools Designed to Streamline Litigation Workflows
In a move that marries a massive database of state litigation data with the generative capabilities of artificial intelligence, Trellis, a legal technology company known for its analytics tools and extensive collection of state trial court records, today released Trellis AI, a new set of generative AI tools aimed at simplifying litigation tasks.
Knowable Introduces Gen AI Tool It Says Will Revolutionize How Companies Interact with their Contracts
Knowable, a legal technology company specializing in helping organizations bring order and organization to their executed agreements, has announced Ask Knowable, a suite of generative AI-powered tools aimed at transforming how legal teams interact with and understand what is in their contracts.
Leopard Solutions Launches AI Navigator, a Gen AI Search, Data Extraction Tool
The legal business intelligence company released AI Navigator in hopes of expediting the research process for legal professionals.
TR’s CoCounsel Drafting Launches For UK Lawyers
Thomson Reuters (TR) is rolling out its genAI-driven CoCounsel for Drafting capability in the UK, after earlier launching in the US.
How Google Spent 15 Years Concealing Its Internal Conversations
"Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible…How Google developed this distrustful culture was pieced together from hundreds of documents and exhibits, as well as witness testimony, in three antitrust trials against the Silicon Valley company over the last year"
Alleged 'potato cartel' accused of conspiring to raise price of frozen fries, tater tots across U.S.
Two proposed class actions filed this week in U.S. District Court claim that four leading potato companies — including two Canadian ones — have privately swapped intel to inflate the price of frozen potato goods like fries, hash browns and tater tots over the last several years.
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HarperCollins is asking authors to license their books for AI training
HarperCollins has agreed with an unnamed AI tech company to let the company use some nonfiction titles to train its models, 404 Media reports, but only if authors opt-in to having their books be used for training. Some authors are currently suing companies like OpenAI, accusing them of copyright infringement for training AI models on their works without permission.
Trellis Launches Trellis AI to Revolutionize Trial Court Litigation - Trellis.Law Blog
Today, Trellis launched Trellis AI, a powerful new legal productivity platform designed for the complex needs of trial court litigation. Built on Trellis’ industry-leading trial court data foundation—which is the most comprehensive database of its kind in the US—Trellis AI offers tools that empower legal teams to harness data and insights in transformative ways.
AI Buzzwords: Understanding the Terms That Create Value and Drive Success
In today’s AI-powered world, it’s hard to escape the new vocabulary. From “AI Agents” to “Zero-Shot Prompting,” these buzzwords pop up everywhere, each claiming to hold the key to understanding and using the latest tools. But how do these terms apply to real work? And how can the meaningful concepts be separated from the noise?
Why Law Firms Should Focus on IA for Improved Gen AI
"Law firms should focus on their information architecture before they start leaning on gen AI," writes Alex Smith of iManage.
"Law firms should focus on their information architecture before they start leaning on gen AI," writes Alex Smith of iManage.
CIFAR leader expects CAISI to help inform AI policy in Canada and abroad
Artificial intelligence (AI) leaders believe that Canada’s new AI safety institute could help strengthen AI policy, adoption, and the country’s role on the global stage.
Canada Prof Blasts Lexis+ AI, LexisNexis Fires Back
Here we go again. An academic blasts a legal AI tool for not working as expected and the legal tech company moves to defend itself.
Legal Analytics Company Trellis Unveils AI Tools Designed to Streamline Litigation Workflows
In a move that marries a massive database of state litigation data with the generative capabilities of artificial intelligence, Trellis, a legal technology company known for its analytics tools and extensive collection of state trial court records, today released Trellis AI, a new set of generative AI tools aimed at simplifying litigation tasks.
Knowable Introduces Gen AI Tool It Says Will Revolutionize How Companies Interact with their Contracts
Knowable, a legal technology company specializing in helping organizations bring order and organization to their executed agreements, has announced Ask Knowable, a suite of generative AI-powered tools aimed at transforming how legal teams interact with and understand what is in their contracts.
OpenAI to present plans for U.S. AI strategy and an alliance to compete with China
OpenAI’s official “blueprint for U.S. AI infrastructure” involves artificial intelligence economic zones, tapping the U.S. Navy’s nuclear power experience and government projects funded by private investors, according to a document viewed by CNBC, which the company plans to present on Wednesday in Washington, D.C..
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Elon Musk targets Microsoft in amended OpenAI lawsuit
Elon Musk has updated his fraud, breach of contract, and racketeering lawsuit against OpenAI to make antitrust claims against Microsoft, accusing the two companies of attempting to “monopolize the generative AI market.” The amended complaint filed on Thursday names Microsoft as a new defendant, as well as LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Microsoft VP Dee Templeton, a former OpenAI board member.
Canadian Bar Association - Use of AI in Legal Practice: An Overview
You are likely already using AI in your legal practice. As AI becomes progressively and often undetectably integrated in more familiar platforms and tools, legal professionals must understand that they may be using AI (with all its risks) unknowingly, without diligent and ongoing oversight.
If Legal Work ‘Tops Out’ In The GenAI Era, What Then?
We often assume that even as genAI steadily takes on more ‘process level’ legal tasks, that the ceiling of complexity will keep rising to accommodate this change. But will it? What if legal work ‘tops out’ and it is only volume and scale that keep increasing?
We often assume that even as genAI steadily takes on more ‘process level’ legal tasks, that the ceiling of complexity will keep rising to accommodate this change. But will it? What if legal work ‘tops out’ and it is only volume and scale that keep increasing?
X Sues To Block California Law Targeting Election-Related Deepfakes On Social Media (via: forbes.com)
X sued to block a California law targeting political deepfakes on social media platforms—set to go into effect next year—late on Thursday, months after billionaire owner Elon Musk attacked the state’s Governor Gavin Newsom for signing the law, claiming it would make “parody illegal.”
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