11.06.20: The Election-Distraction Edition, As We Turn Away from our TVs and Discuss the Week’s Top Legaltech News
Release Date: 11/07/2020
04/05/24: Petition to ABA to cease using term "nonlawyer", Yale Law School Law Archive, and more
Legaltech Week
Each week, the leading journalists in legal tech choose their top stories of the week to discuss with our other panelists. This week's topics: With Goal of Promoting Open Access to Legal Scholarship, Yale Law School Launches Law Archive ABA Legal Profession Report Part 1: Wages, Pro Bono Work, and Mental Health Blaming Word setting for overlong briefs is 'somewhat hard to believe,' federal judge says as she tosses footnotes Legal Innovators Petition to Remove 'Non-Lawyer' From ABA Vocabulary. Lively Discussion Ensues Opinion: 25 years later, ‘The Matrix’ is less sci-fi than tech reality...
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03/29/24: Neil Gorsuch's research, first legal LLM built from lawfully obtained data, and more
Legaltech Week
Each week, the leading journalists in legal tech choose their top stories of the week to discuss with our other panelists. This week's topics: 00:00 - Introductions 05:26 - In a Gen AI First, 273 Ventures Introduces KL3M, a Built-From-Scratch Legal LLM (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 18:16 - Judges To Generative AI: You're Out Of Order! (Selected by Niki Black) 34:30 - Neil Gorsuch Confidently Declares That He Did The Research (He Did Not Do The Research) (Selected by Joe Patrice) 43:28 - Europe wields new tech law to protect EU election (Selected by Victor Li) 46:30 - 2 stories...
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March 1: Justices on social media law, ROSS cofounder returns to legal tech, and more
Legaltech Week
Each week, the leading journalists in legal tech choose their top stories of the week to discuss with our other panelists. This week's topics: 00:00 - Introductions 02:54 - Justices appear skeptical of Texas, Florida social media laws (Selected by Victor Li) 12:56 - Sora: deep fake video on steroids or just a flash in the pan (Selected by Stephen Embry) 22:56 - Court Orders Lawyer to Pay Opposing Counsel After Citing Fake AI-Generated Case (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 27:14 - LegalOn launches Gen AI assistant for contract drafting (Selected by Jean O'Grady) 31:04 - ROSS Cofounder Returns To...
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Feb. 23: Techshow and the infinite AI product updates, hallucinated cases, and chatbots
Legaltech Week
Each week, the leading journalists in legal tech choose their top stories of the week to discuss with our other panelists. This week's topics: 00:00 - Introductions 02:35 - ABA Techshow 24:10 - Not Again! Two More Cases, Just this Week, of Hallucinated Citations in Court Filings Leading to Sanctions (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 34:35 - Firm Submits Fee Request Based On ChatGPT Search... Judge Is Less Than Impressed (Selected by Joe Patrice) 48:00 - Our chatbot is a seperate legal entity responsible for its own actions. Wait. What?? (Selected by Stephen Embry)
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Feb. 9: AI deployed nukes, the rise of mid-law legaltech, and more
Legaltech Week
Each week, the leading journalists in legal tech choose their top stories of the week to discuss with our other panelists. This week's topics: The Justice Gap in Legal Tech: A Tale of Two Conferences and the Implications for A2J (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) Law Student’s Gen AI Product, Lexplug, Makes Briefing Cases A Breeze (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) AI Deployed Nukes 'to Have Peace in the World' in Tense War Simulation (Selected by Niki Black) Waymo Driverless Car Crashes Into Human Cyclist in San Francisco (Selected by Niki Black) Biglaw and Small Law have both become hotbeds for tech... is...
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Feb. 2: Legalweek conference recap, and other legal tech conference thoughts
Legaltech Week
Each week, the leading journalists in legal tech choose their top stories of the week to discuss with our other panelists. This week's topics: 00:00 - Introductions 02:52 - Legalweek Conference recap 35:50 - Report on the Innovations in Technology Conference put on this week by the Legal Services Corporation (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 40:35 - More Ethics Guidance Arrives Amid Rapid Releases Of Legal AI (Selected by Niki Black) 46:12 - Lexis Nexis Report (Selected by Jean O'Grady)
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January 26: Litigator lost her voice, AI brought it back; plus two guest panelists
Legaltech Week
Each week, the leading journalists in legal tech choose their top stories of the week to discuss with our other panelists. This week's topics: 00:00 - Introductions 02:52 - ‘Not Going Away’: A Star Greenberg Traurig Litigator Lost Her Voice. AI Brought it Back (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 13:40 - Jumping Into the Rabbit Hole: Experts Offer 3 Big 'Deepfake' Insights for Legal in 2024 (Selected by Isha Marathe) 25:45 - AI ‘hallucinated’ fake legal cases allegedly filed to B.C. court in Canadian first (Selected by Greg Lambert) 34:23 - An AI ethics opinion from the Florida...
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Jan 19 2023: What causes legal tech flops, and what role does the c-suite play; plus AI music rights
Legaltech Week
Each week, the leading journalists in legal tech choose their top stories of the week to discuss with our other panelists. This week's topics: 00:00 - Introductions 04:15 - Legalweek expectations 13:33 - What causes product flops in the legal space? Should legal tech be founded by technologists or lawyers? (Selected by Stephen Embry and Bob Ambrogi) 38:55 - AI-generated music is everywhere; is any of it legal? (Selected by Victor Li) 48:23 - Gen AI Will Require Robust KM Teams: A Chat with Legalweek Speaker Oz Benamram (Selected by Jean O'Grady)
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Jan 12 2023: Carta credibility allegations, judge rejects motion with exploding head emoji, and more
Legaltech Week
Each week, the leading journalists in legal tech choose their top stories of the week to discuss with our other panelists. This week's topics: Carta, a key tech company for startups, has a credibility problem Agiloft Releases Generative AI Feature To Shortcut Contract Negotiations and Better Align Redlines Judge Rejects a Motion With the “Exploding Head” Emoji–DePietro v. Levitt Paralegals' suit claims First Amendment right to offer legal advice on court forms Hallucinations... not just for caselaw The Bell Cannot Be Unrung': Coached Testimony Caught on Camera Results in Dismissal
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January 5, 2024: 2023 Year in Review
Legaltech Week
Each week, the leading journalists in legal tech choose their top stories of the week to discuss with our other panelists. This is our favorite episode of the year! Today, we go back through all the bizarre and impactful stories from 2023, and recap our favorites. Some of this week's topics: The Casetext acquisition Hallucinated cases GPT and the bar exam The Fastcase/vLex merger Harvey The DoNotPay debacle Kiwi Camara Undercover bear informants John Roberts on AI
info_outlineYou may be surprised to know there was news this week other than the election. Among the top stories our panelists discuss: ballot initiatives in California and Massachusetts raise data privacy issues, Deloitte acquires UK top 200 law firm Kemp Little, a report examines the viability of captive ALSPs, legal tech patents soar in China, an ethics opinion raises COVID-19 issues, chatbots for legal marketing, and new lawyer-matching site that also provides free practice software.
This week’s panelists are: Nicole Black, legal technology columnist and legaltech evangelist at MyCase; Stephen Embry, author of TechLaw Crossroads; Caroline Hill, editor in chief, Legal IT Insider; Victoria Hudgins, reporter for Legaltech News; Victor Li, assistant managing editor of the ABA Journal; Molly McDonough, media consultant, former publisher and editor-in-chief of the ABA Journal; Joe Patrice, editor, Above the Law; and Zach Warren, editor in chief of Legaltech News.