Law Sites
AUGUST 12, 2024
It’s not quite BattleBots, but competitors LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters both made significant announcements today involving the development of generative AI legal assistants within their products.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 22, 2024
New research commissioned by Cohesity, an AI-powered data security firm, reveals organizations overestimate their cyber resilience capabilities and maturity, leading to significant business continuity disruptions and ransom payments.
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Legal Dive
AUGUST 13, 2024
Executives recognize the potential for generative AI in their business operations, but chief legal officers say organizational roles and responsibilities aren’t clear.
The Marshall Project
AUGUST 6, 2024
Where Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, stands on policing, guns, prison reform and other issues.
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IP Watchdog
AUGUST 5, 2024
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Legal IT Insider
AUGUST 19, 2024
Welcome to the July/August Orange Rag, which is a compendium of all of the significant legal tech stories from across the month but also specifically at ILTACON 24. We went […] The post The July/August Orange Rag is out here! appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
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Insurance Journal
AUGUST 12, 2024
The family of a Texas man who died while working at Tesla’s Austin-area facility last week is suing the electric vehicle company and his employer. The lawsuit said the worker, Victor Joe Gomez Sr., was at the facility on Aug.
Legal Dive
AUGUST 16, 2024
A video creator alleges that the companies scraped his videos, and millions of others, without permission to help train their generative AI learning models.
The Marshall Project
AUGUST 3, 2024
Whistleblower laws have advanced in public and private sectors, but protections for police who report illegal or unethical behavior lag far behind.
IP Watchdog
AUGUST 26, 2024
Jockeying for position among the leading generative AI large language models (LLMs) has amplified their differences. Training models and code access are the source of some of the biggest disagreements. Should code for generative and other forms of AI be open or proprietary, protected under copyright, trade secret or even patent? There is a lot riding financially on the outcome, and there are good arguments for and against.
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Legal IT Insider
AUGUST 22, 2024
Canadian-founded Gen AI contract review and drafting startup Spellbook has significantly expanded the capabilities of its product with the release today (22 August) of Spellbook Associate, which uses agent technology […] The post Spellbook launches Gen AI agent Associate for legal projects appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
Law Sites
AUGUST 20, 2024
Two veterans of legal media have partnered to launch a communications firm to represent to represent legal and business clients in marketing, media relations, crisis management and more.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 4, 2024
By William Rabb Reinsurance in Florida’s long-stressed property insurance market was supposed to have stabilized this year – with only moderate rate increases and more availability.
Complex Discovery
AUGUST 7, 2024
Editor’s Note: The launch of Core Intelligence AI by HaystackID marks a significant advancement in the field of eDiscovery, offering a blend of generative AI and traditional review methods to enhance efficiency and accuracy. This development is especially relevant for professionals in cybersecurity, information governance, and data discovery, as it addresses the increasing complexities and volumes of data in modern legal contexts.
The Marshall Project
AUGUST 1, 2024
California's Proposition 36 is one effort to return the U.S. to "tough-on-crime" tactics despite declining crime rates. Can reformers stop rollbacks?
Legal Dive
AUGUST 9, 2024
Some deals are on the FTC and DOJ's radars, but for now Microsoft and Apple are among those buying their way into key technology, an antitrust specialist says.
IP Watchdog
AUGUST 4, 2024
The European Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act officially came into force on Thursday, August 1, with most provisions of the regulation applying as of August 2, 2026. However, the regulation states that compliance for prohibited practices should be in effect by February 2, 2025, considering “the unacceptable risk associated with the use of AI in certain ways.
Law Sites
AUGUST 5, 2024
Ever wonder how much coffee gets consumed at a week-long legal tech conference? Well, with ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, set to convene this weekend in Nashville, organizers plan to serve some 1,500 gallons of the caffeinated brew.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 13, 2024
James Kirsh expects the cost of the property and casualty insurance for his family-owned foundry in Wisconsin that makes cast iron parts for tractors and other equipment to at least double when it’s up for renewal this fall.
Complex Discovery
AUGUST 16, 2024
Editor’s Note: This article is essential for cybersecurity, information governance, and eDiscovery professionals navigating the complexities of legal document review. With the rapid advancements in AI technology, understanding the benefits and limitations of manual review, TAR, and generative AI is crucial for optimizing review processes. The added discussion on human interaction highlights the necessity of oversight and the innovative approaches to integrating AI in a balanced, iterative
The Marshall Project
AUGUST 1, 2024
Courts are increasingly sending children to private youth care centers, spending millions while detention center overcrowding persists.
Legal Dive
AUGUST 15, 2024
In-house legal departments adopting GenAI software must consider several issues around its value, senior leaders’ positions, data integrity and cultural changes.
IP Watchdog
AUGUST 1, 2024
On the same day that a group of senators introduced a bill—the “NO FAKES Act”—to create a right for individuals to control digital replicas of their voice and likeness, the U.S. Copyright Office issued a report addressing digital replicas created by artificial intelligence (AI). This is part one of the agency’s broader report on issues related to the exploding use of generative AI platforms.
Law Sites
AUGUST 21, 2024
The document automation company Gavel has launched pre-built workflows — sets of automated forms for document generation that are tailored to specific practice areas and jurisdictions, and that are free for any lawyer to test without a Gavel subscription.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 14, 2024
McKinsey & Co. is seeing an increase in the number of clients seeking artificial intelligence-linked projects, as faster adoption of the technology helps the consulting titan and its peers boost revenue following a period of tumult.
Law Sites
AUGUST 1, 2024
I recently wrote here about an American Bar Association survey of law schools that offer AI classes. The survey found that 55% of responding law schools offer such classes. A Reuters news story picked up on that and reported, “More than half of law schools now offer classes on AI.
Law Sites
AUGUST 27, 2024
In what it says is the first AI agent for law, the legal technology company Spellbook just released Spellbook Associate, an application that can plan and execute complex, multi-step workflows in transactional matters, much as an associate would.
Law Sites
AUGUST 15, 2024
Imagine, if you will, a small backwater town into which one day a large shiny object falls from the sky and lands dead center on the main street of the town’s modest commercial center.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 30, 2024
Specialist Risk Group (SRG) announced the acquisition of the ongoing renewal rights of Morton Insurance Brokers, a specialist in private hire and taxi insurance across the UK since 1987. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 12, 2024
UK spies are stepping up efforts to tackle cyber and artificial intelligence threats from hostile foreign states, including the sort of online manipulation that helped foment rioting across the country in the past 10 days.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 5, 2024
Firefighters have increased containment on the 627-square-mile Park Fire near Chico, California, which is now 34% contained. The fire, now the fourth largest wildfire in history, is 401,740 acres. It was 24% contained on Friday.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 28, 2024
Georgia lawmakers this year put an end to direct-action lawsuits against trucking companies’ insurers, but that did not come soon enough to bar litigation brought by people involved in accidents with ride-sharing services.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 28, 2024
Americans are seeking to change their insurance coverage more frequently than in the past, after a surge in premiums that’s squeezed household budgets, a new industry report shows.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 9, 2024
Insurers face millions of dollars in claims after a foiled attack forced three Taylor Swift concerts in Austria to be canceled, though several providers will share out the hit, two people involved in insurance for her tour told Reuters.
Insurance Journal
AUGUST 20, 2024
Grenada has become the first country in the world to use a so-called hurricane clause in a government bond – a special feature that allows authorities to postpone debt payments in the wake of a major natural disaster.
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