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A weekly round-up and review of news in legal technology and innovation. Hosted by lawyer and journalist Bob Ambrogi, with commentary from a revolving panel of industry experts. Delivered every Friday, in 15 minutes or less.

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    05/16/25: Clio report shows trends on AI and billable hour, Trellis partnership, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2025 58:57


    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: 02:46 Trellis Partners with Fisher Phillips to Deliver AI-Powered Case Strategy Reports through Automated Alerts (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 09:12 AI Hallucinations Strike Again: Two More Cases Where Lawyers Face Judicial Wrath for Fake Citations (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 14:05 Hallucination Time! (Selected by Joe Patrice) 18:39 Billable Hour Dying on Pace (Selected by Joe Patrice) 23:08 From Hype to Habits: Comparing Data on Generative AI in Law Firms (Selected by Niki Black) 27:44 Solos and Small Firms Lag with AI Adoption: Clio Report (Selected by Julie Sobowale) 34:12 Florida Judge is Accused of Sharing 'Objectively Unrealistic' Fake Recording with Editorial Board (Selected by Victor Li) 40:28 CLOC (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 44:59 Garfield AI (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins)

    05/09/25: CA sues vendor after troubled bar exam, dead guy's deep fake speaks at sentencing, & more

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025 59:19


    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: 03:19 AI Dead Guy Sentencing (Selected by Joe Patrice) 17:39 CLOC (Selected by Stephen Embry) 22:25 Should Using AI Mean Lower Fees? Virginia Ethics Committee Weighs In (Selected by Niki Black) 31:44 California State Bar Sues Vendor After Troubled Exam (Selected by Victor Li) 45:12 Legal Research Service Decisis Makes Inroads Against Fastcase As It Expands to 20 Bar Associations (Selected by Bob Ambrogi)

    05/02/25: My Pillow guy's pantsless lawyer back in news, Supio's $60M investment, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2025 59:22


    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: Seriously? Lawyer Representing the My Pillow Guy – Already Known For Having Been Caught Pantsless on Zoom – Now Faces Sanctions for Hallucinated Cases Legal Tech Startup Supio Secures $60 Million in Series B Funding to Expand AI Platform for Personal Injury Law Legal Tech Adoption: The Slow Burn Of Cloud, The Sudden Spark Of AI Law Firm Intake Reimagined: Tools to help you capture every lead Is big law moving back to remote work? BCLP is making 8% of global business services roles redundant including IT with a view to the future /investing in tech Class Is in Session: How some law schools are training students in generative AI ILTA Evolve -- General Takeaways What Will Be the Final Straw for the Misuse of AI?

    04/25/25: CA Bar used AI for exam questions, Trump calls for AI education, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2025 58:37


    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: 02:42 California Bar Reveals It Used AI For Exam Questions, Because Of Course It Did (Selected by Joe Patrice) 13:34 An App That Lets People Cheat On Everything? Just What Lawyers Need (Selected by Stephen Embry) 27:06 Trump Executive Order Calls for Artificial Intelligence to Be Taught in Schools (Selected by Victor Li) 37:52 DOJ Makes Up Fake Supreme Court Quote About Deportation Hoping No One Notices (Selected by Joe Patrice) 47:20 Midsized Law Firms Increasingly See AI and Interconnected Technology as Critical for Future Success, New Survey Finds (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 56:38 Aiming for Accuracy, Group Launches Legal AI Adoption Index; Invites Law Firms and Legal Teams to Self-Report (Selected by Bob Ambrogi)

    04/18/25: AI evaluates surveys on legal AI adoption, courtroom plagiarism, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2025 57:27


    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: 01:57 Generative AI Can Help Overworked Immigration Lawyers Navigate These Tumultuous Times (Selected by Victor Li) 12:01 10 Practical Ways for Legal Professionals to Start Using Generative AI Today (Selected by Niki Black) 17:20 An AI-Assisted Look At Four New Surveys On AI Adoption In Law: How Do They Compare? Differ? (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 25:04 AI Disruption Is Coming—Likely Later but (Much) Bigger than Expected (Selected by Joe Patrice) 35:27 Plagiarism Panic Hits the Courtroom (Again), And It's Still Nonsense (Selected by Joe Patrice) 45:39 N.J. Supreme Court Adopts Tech CLE Requirement But Declines to Adopt Duty of Tech Competence (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 48:51 And obviously there's my porn story which I will mention but I'm not sure how much discussion it will inspire (Selected by Joe Patrice)

    04/11/25: Techshow post mortem, startup alley winners, AI avatars in court, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 58:53


    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: Techshow Post-Mortem Appellant Sends AI Avatar To Oral Argument… Judges Are NOT Pleased Legal AI Could Bridge Access To Justice Gap… But Should It? Shoosmiths offers £1m bonus pot for 1 million AI prompts Startup Alley winners

    03/28/25: Legalweek post mortem, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 55:17


    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: Legalweek post-mortem Legalweek 2025: Embedded And Agentic Generative AI Expands Software Capabilities Be curious and adapt – or be left behind Who gives the best keynote: legal tech guru or big name draw?

    03/21/25: Announcing our new press release newswire for legaltech, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 55:05


    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: Our new press release newswire Entegrata Raises $4.5M To Further Its Mission To Transform Law Firm Data Analytics and Business Intelligence Generative artificial intelligence is supercharging legal analytics Cleary Acquires Springbok AI in Rare Law Firm Legal Tech Acquisition

    03/14/25: Clio joins call to discuss their move to Big Law, SXSW takeaways, and deep fakes in court

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2025 59:48


    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: 04:50 Clio moves into Big Law space with acquisition of ShareDo, with special guest Joshua Lenon 23:25 AZ Supreme Court hiring AI spokespeople (Selected by Joe Patrice) 37:00 The End of Reality? How to combat deepfakes in our legal system (Selected by Victor Li) 43:55 AffiniPay's 2025 Legal Industry Report Portrays A Profession At A Technological Crossroads (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 51:06 What I learned from a week at South by Southwest (Selected by Stephen Embry)

    02/28/25: California bar exam faces technical difficulties, experiments with Deep Research, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2025 57:55


    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: Remember the Legal Research ‘AI Smackdown'? I Decided To Bring OpenAI's Deep Research to the Fight Exclusive: With Its Latest Release Out Today, vLex's Vincent AI Adds Multi-Modal Capabilities, Litigation Workflows, and Coverage for Four New Countries From automation to generative AI, how e-discovery tools are evolving The accountants are coming! The accountants are coming! But is it ethical? California fails new bar exam, offers retake

    02/21/25: Trump cancels SEC's Westlaw subscription, Deposely offers free AI litigation tool, & more

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2025 57:00


    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 Panelist Introductions 03:43 Trump Cancels The SEC's Westlaw Subscription For Probably The Dumbest Possible Reason (Selected by Joe Patrice) 14:40 My JELL-O Theory of Legal Tech (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 30:50 Wondering what the Big 4 are up to? Stuart Bedford, KPMG's global head of legal services, makes it pretty clear (Selected by Stephen Embry) 41:50 Upsolve: Building the turbotax of bankruptcy and battling UPL restrictions (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 45:25 AI in Law Firms: Ethics Committees Are Clearing the Path Forward (Selected by Niki Black) 54:00 Deposely Offers Free AI Deposition and Litigation Tools Through New ‘Essentials' Program (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins)

    02/14/25: LexisNexis parent co. invests in competitor Harvey, DOGE cybersecurity nightmare, & more

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2025 59:51


    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 Panelist Introductions 08:20 Federal Judge Rules Legal Research Startup ROSS Infringed Westlaw's Copyrights, Rejecting Fair Use Defense (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 25:15 Harvey raises $300M, and LexisNexis is involved (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 32:40 No. 42 law firm by head count could face sanctions over fake case citations generated by AI (Selected by Victor Li) 46:00 DOGE website presents cybersecurity nightmare... and it's coming for DOJ (Selected by Joe Patrice)

    02/07/25: Women + AI summit, our experiments with OpenAI Deep Research, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2025 58:21


    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 Panelist Introductions 03:20 Women + AI Vanderbilt Summit (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 21:50 Funding Freezes, Crowdfunding, And Legal Tech: The Ever-Changing Access-To-Justice Landscape (Selected by Niki Black) 27:10 Three stories on experiment with OpenAI's Deep Research for performing deep research (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 36:40 Please, Please Stop Using ChatGPT If You're Not Checking Cites (Selected by Joe Patrice) 48:17 Recent product roll outs from Microsoft and OpenAI may provide courts with viable and secure Gen AI options. Are litigants ready for it? (Selected by Stephen Embry) 53:30 Hard lessons on selling your company (Selected by Caroline Hill)

    01/31/25: DeepSeek, Relativity sunsets on-prem, AI and access to justice, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2025 60:10


    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 Panelist Introductions 05:33 RIP: Barry Bayer (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 12:41 Why Is Everyone Talking About DeepSeek? (Selected by Caroline Hill and Stephanie Wilkins) 42:05 Putting A Nail In the Coffin of Its On-Prem Product, Relativity Sets 2028 Deadline for All New Cases to Move to the Cloud (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 50:00 Both Dakotas consider widely different public service options to bar exam, law school (Selected by Victor Li) 55:16 Access to Justice 2.0: How AI-powered software can bridge the gap (Selected by Niki Black)

    01/24/2025: First law school to require AI education certification, a surge in contracting tech, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2025 57:20


    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 Panelist Introductions A sudden surge in tech focused on contract playbooks (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) Legal tech for Plaintiffs' contingency fee lawyers draws investment dollars (Selected by Stephen Embry) Case Western Reserve School of Law becomes first law school in the U.S. to require legal AI education certification for all first-year law students (Selected by Victor Li) Bloomberg Law's new AI tools (Selected by Greg Lambert)

    01/17/2025: Tom Goldstein case, Harvey's mysterious $3B valuation, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2025 56:23


    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 Panelist Introductions 01:57 Tom Goldstein case (Selected by Joe Patrice) 17:55 CES 2025: lessons learned for legal (Selected by Stephen Embry) 29:09 Report on the LSC's Innovations in Tech conference (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 36:27 Businesses Would Report AI Layoffs to New York Under Hochul Plan (Selected by Niki Black) 46:10 Harvey's 'aggressive' $3B valuation (Selected by Joe Patrice) 48:44 Cynthia Outlook tool (Selected by Bob Ambrogi)

    01/10/2025: KPMG seeks alt. business license, AI fails in federal court complaint, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2025 53:16


    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 Panelist Introductions 04:25 - Courtroom VR... it sucks (Selected by Joe Patrice) 22:23 - KPMG Law US Seeks Alternative Business License, Shaking Up Legal Status Quo (Selected by Victor Li & Stephanie Wilkins) 32:00 - New FL Bar Guide for Lawyers (Selected by Niki Black) 38:00 - AI-Powered Tool Launches to Help New York Tenants Enforce their Repair Rights (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 41:08 - Alexi Says Its New AI Tool for Litigators Is Capable of Advanced Legal Reasoning (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 48:45 - First Fully A.I. Drafted Complaint Filed In Federal Court And... It's Hot Garbage! (Selected by Joe Patrice)

    01/03/2025: Our biggest episode of the year: 2024 Recap and 2025 Predictions

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2025 62:10


    Each week, the leading journalists in legal tech choose their top stories of the week to discuss with our other panelists. This week is our annual recap and predictions episode, which is our favorite session of the year. This week's topics:   00:00 Panelist Introductions 04:40 Reflections on 2024 21:56 The legaltech trends that defined 2024 (Selected by Niki Black) 24:45 A Notebook LM Year in Review (Selected by Greg Lambert) 31:38 Huge legal tech funding rounds (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 48:50 GenAI and large language models are being applied by vendors to internal law firm and in house materials (Selected by Stephen Embry) 50:41 Clio's Trends Report revealing that client engagement has gotten WORSE (Selected by Joe Patrice) 52:05 Predictions for 2025

    12/06/2024: Law school applications up 35% from 2023, Elon Musk tries legal tech, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2024 61:11


    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 Panelist Introductions 05:15 The Legal Tech Fund Summit (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 08:57 Generative AI And Access To Justice: Incremental Solutions Or Overhyped Promises? (Selected by Niki Black) 21:00 Elon Musk Feeds AI 'All Court Cases,' Promises It Will Replace Judges Because He's An Idiot (Selected by Joe Patrice) 32:56 PACER Sucks More Than Usual... And We Know Exactly Who To Blame (Selected by Joe Patrice) 37:10 Applications for law school up an ‘unnatural' 35% from 2023 (Selected by Victor Li) 46:28 Case about prompts (Selected by Stephen Embry)

    11/22/2024: Legaltech's X-odus, the return of Litera's CEO, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2024 60:19


    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: Amid X X-odus, Nothing But Bluesky from Now On Legal Analytics Company Trellis Unveils AI Tools Designed to Streamline Litigation Workflows Avaneesh Marwaha returns as Litera's CEO and answers a few burning questions Bear Damage To Luxury Car Interior Ends In Insurance Fraud Charges Lexis Mobile App Law professor gives Lexis+ AI a failing grade Survey Says: GenAI Usage and Firm Financials Were Both Up in Q3 2024

    11/08/2024: Trump planning on repealing AI restrictions, Trump implications on future of legaltech, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2024 59:02


    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: Major Canadian Legal Research Service Sues AI Startup Claiming Wrongful Use of Its Court Decisions Amid a Flurry of AI Ethics Opinions, New Mexico Weighs In Trump Planning to Unleash Artificial Intelligence by Repealing Restrictions Navigating the legal tech landscape under a Trump administration: Growth meets uncertainty Will AI replace TAR? Should it? When?

    11/01/2024: the $2000 paralegal; NY rules on admissibility of AI evidence, startup alley nominations, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2024 59:26


    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 05:45 - Startup Alley Nominations now open 09:05 - The $2000 paralegal (Selected by Joe Patrice) 17:25 - Alt Legal (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 21:10 - Night of the Living Bots: AI Agents Are Creeping into the News (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 25:06 - New York Surrogates Court on Admissibility of AI Evidence (Selected by Niki Black) 31:53 - Supreme Courts of Delaware and Georgia Act to Regulate Use of Generative AI in the Courts (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 38:58 - Her teenage son killed himself after talking to a chatbot; now she's suing (Selected by Victor Li)

    10/25/2024: New TR program gives Nonprofits access to CoCounsel, Everlaw & Netdocs user conferences, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2024 48:54


    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 02:00 - Thoughts on the Netdocs user conference (Selected by Joe Patrice and Stephen Embry) 11:01 - Everlaw Summit: My thoughts on attending this conference in SF this week (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 19:22 - Thomson Reuters Launches Program To Provide CoCounsel AI to Legal Services and Legal Nonprofits (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 25:00 - Attorney vs. lawyer (Selected by Niki Black) 37:10 - Florida's Professional Conduct Rules Will Include AI—But Was It Needed? (Selected by Niki Black) 41:13 - Wolters Kluwer Future Ready Lawyer (Selected by Bob Ambrogi)

    10/18/2024: KM&I conference, Rob Lowe's legaltech debut, UnitedLex CEO ousted, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2024 55:05


    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 04:04 - ClioCon post-mortem 15:10 - Knowledge Management & Innovation conference 22:50 - Rob Lowe to headline Legal Week 29:54 - UnitedLex CEO Ousted 40:10 - Law Firms FAILING At The Single Most Basic Lawyering Task

    10/08/2024: Live from ClioCon: Panelists debate some of the hottest trends of the year

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2024 59:31


    Each week, the leading journalists in legal tech choose their top stories of the week to discuss with our other panelists. This week, we're recording live from #ClioCon in Austin, hosted by Clio We took the opportunity to cast our opinions on some of the year's biggest issues. This week's topics: 00:00 - Introductions 00:09 - Should Jack Newton keep his beard? 01:49 - To what extent will GenAI replace the work lawyers do? 19:10 - The obligations lawyers have to understand AI and other tech tools 30:47 - Does news of financing rounds and m&a's matter to practicing lawyers? 41:37 - Will GenAI actually increase access to justice?

    09/27/2024: Live from Relativity Fest: DoNotPay gets FTC fine, Rocket Lawyer gets special approval

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2024 56:16


    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: Wolters Kluwer Brings Gen AI To Its VitalLaw Legal Research Platform, to Answer Questions and More   FTC Fines DoNotPay $193,000, Alleging False Claims Over 'Robot Lawyer' Service   Rocket lawyer obtains non lawyer ownership approval in Arizona but will it make a difference?

    09/20/2024: The Shrinking Ownership of Law Practice Management Technology, Midlevels hate law firm tech, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2024 59:18


    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 09:00 - The Shrinking Ownership of Law Practice Management Technology 23:00 - Will AI Disrupt the Billable Hour? 37:00 - Midlevels hate law firm tech 51:00 - LinkedIn is using your data to train AI. Here's how to turn it off. 53:00 - Going to Mexico? Be careful how many electronic devices you take   Sign up for our newsletter to receive the full articles and join our live recording: https://land.lawnext.com/Newsletter

    09/13/24: Special guests from vLex discuss news, AI learns to reason through problems, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2024 60:45


    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 03:01 - Special guests from vLex: Ed Walters, chief strategy officer, and Robin Chesterman, global head of product, will join to discuss to discuss the major updates to Vincent AI 29:38 - Filevine Conference recap, and Filevine's Depo CoPilot 39:00 - Nonlawyer entities could provide legal services in Washington in proposed pilot program (Selected by Victor Li) 43:30 - Legal Ethics in the AI Era: The NYC Bar Weighs In (Selected by Niki Black) 45:00 - Florida calls out Gen Ai specifically in competency, confidentiality and supervisory rule. Is it a good thing (Selected by Stephen Embry)

    08/16/24: ILTACON recap, CoCounsel v. LexisNexis, hacked court hearings, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2024 53:43


    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 03:00 - ILTACON recap 10:00 - At ILTACON, Anticipation for the Shiny Object (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 34:50 - New Intellectual Property Hypo Just Dropped At International Tech Show (Selected by Joe Patrice) 44:40 - CoCounsel 2.0 versus LexisNexis Protege (Selected by Bob Ambrogi)

    08/09/24: Jones Day Partner scoffs at Google antitrust ruling, the GPT wrapper behind new AI, & more

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2024 56:00


    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 04:30 - Maybe Don't Tweet That Destroying Evidence Subject To Lit Hold Is A Good Idea? Retired Jones Day Partner scoffs at Google anti trust ruling (selected by Joe Patrice) 13:52 - David v. Goliath Trial Begins this Month in Case that Challenges Thomson Reuter's Longstanding Copyrights in Legal Research Materials (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 20:55 - Delta v. CrowdStrike and Microsoft should make for one hell of a lawsuit (Selected by Stephen Embry) 27:00 - ChatGPT Wrapper' Is This Year's Hottest Snub—But Why? (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 42:25 - Texas Supreme Court Preliminarily Approves Delivery of Legal Services by Licensed Paraprofessionals (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 47:20 - Dutch Judge's Use of ChatGPT Prompts Outrage, Disbelief in the Netherland (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins)

    08/02/24: GAI drives hot job market for law librarians, new ABA ethics opinion, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2024 56:52


    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 02:25 - Take heed before using artificial intelligence, new ABA ethics opinion says (Selected by Victor Li) 16:02 - GAI is driving a hot job market for law librarians and knowledge managers (Selected by Jean O'Grady) 26:45 - AI Feature Embraces Traditional Role Of Asking First-Years To Go Back And Do A Lot More Research (Selected by Joe Patrice) 40:42 - Remember that ABA Survey of Law Schools with AI Classes? This May Be A More Accurate List (Selected by Bob Ambrogi

    07/19/24: LEAP introduces new features, Affinipay investment, judge livestreams trial, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2024 53:46


    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 02:40 - SubTech Conference 2024 with guest Dan Linna (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 16:40 - New Report Highlights GenAI Adoption Trends in Law (Selected by Niki Black) 24:15 - Lawyer dragged into a case he had nothing to do with because of legal tech (Selected by Joe Patrice) 31:44 - Exclusive: Law Practice Management Software LEAP Introduces Three AI Features – with A Unique Human-In-the-Loop Twist (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 37: 20 - Investment in Affinipay (Selected by Niki Black) 43:35 - Judge livestreams child sexual assault trial (Selected by Joe Patrice)

    07/12/24: When does GenAI progress stop, what lawyers learned during pandemic, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2024 56:27


    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 05:22 - GenAI: What if this is as good as it gets (Selected by Joe Patrice) 12:25 - Do lawyers really want to save (billable) time? (Selected by Stephen Embry) 26:55 - New Citators from vLex and Paxton Underscore That They Are The Holy Grail for Legal Research Companies (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 34:36 - What Lawyers Learned During the Pandemic (Selected by Victor Li and Niki Black)

    06/28/24: Gen AI risks in legal research, reflections on 4 years of change, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2024 56:53


    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 03:20 - The Last Roll: Reflecting On 4 Years Of Change (Selected by Niki Black) 17:03 - Generative AI Risk in Legal Research: Is the Fault in the Technology or in Ourselves? Answer is BOTH (Selected by Jean O'Grady) 24:30 - New Legal Ethics Opinion Cautions Lawyers: You ‘Must Be Proficient' In the Use of Generative AI (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 38:23 - Supreme Court on Clean Air and Water (Selected by Joe Patrice) 44:00 - AI benchmarking group to form (Selected by Niki Black

    06/21/24: Supreme Court cases decided by AI, ethics of expensing credit card fees to clients, & more

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2024 58:26


    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 04:35 - In AI we Trust, Part II: Claude was tasked with deciding Supreme Court cases (Selected by Niki Black and Joe Patrice) 19:51 - Is Gen AI Creating A Divide Among Law Firms Of Haves and Have Nots? (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 37:40 - Oregon becomes fourth state with a “right to repair” law for technology (Selected by Victor Li) 46:10 - New York On the Ethics of Expensing Credit Card Processing Fees to Clients (Selected by Niki Black)

    06/14/24: The hype behind Harvey, DoNotPay back in news, AI's impact on law firm structure, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2024 56:29


    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 02:00 - Robot lawyer' DoNotPay reaches settlement in suit alleging it's neither robot nor lawyer (Selected by Victor Li) 13:12 - The Hype Behind Harvey: How the Stealthy Startup Is Raising Industry Eyebrows (Selected by Isha Marathe) 32:25 - AAA Launches ClauseBuilder AI to Simplify Drafting of Arbitration and Mediation Agreement (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 37:45 - Thought experiments on AI's impact on Law Firm Structure (Selected by Joe Patrice) 48:50 - Elon Musk Drops OpenAI Lawsuit Right Before Forcing Lawyers To Make Bad Arguments In Court (Selected by Joe Patrice)

    06/07/24: Redo of Stanford study of LexisNexis and TR, Scarlett Johansen & Sexbot Overlords, & more

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2024 59:41


    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 02:50 - The redo of the Stanford study of hallucinations in AI legal research tools. (Selected by many) 20:15 - 11th Circuit Judge Uses ChatGPT in Deciding Appeal, Encourages Others to Consider It (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 28:47 - Are prompts the new precedents? (Selected by Jean O'Grady) 37:05 - I, For One, Welcome Our New Sexbot Overlords (Selected by Niki Black)

    05/31/24: Stanford study of LexisNexis and TR, AAA acquisition, and livestreamed crimes

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2024 57:37


    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 03:55 - The Stanford study of hallucination rates in LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters Gen AI products (Selected by many) 29:06 - Lockdown Lessons: What lawyers learned during the pandemic (Selected by Victor Li) 36:21 - The guy who live-streamed himself driving while he had a suspended license (Selected by Joe Patrice) 41:20 - American Arbitration Association Acquires ODR.com and Mediate.com to Expand Online Dispute Resolution (Selected by Bob Ambrogi)

    05/17/24: Wilson Sonsini's 'Agentic AI,' predicting the supreme court, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2024 58:07


    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 08:22 - Wilson Sonsini Brings 'Agentic AI' to Clients With New Neuron Contracting Module (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 20:28 - UK industry body launches due diligence questionnaire for vendors who use AI / I could also speak about DWF rolling out Copilot globally (Selected by Caroline Hill) 28:20 - Predicting the Supreme Court (Selected by Joe Patrice) 41:20 - Tony Mauro story (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 49:55 - Steno Launches Transcript Genius, Aiming to ‘Revolutionize How Attorneys Interact with Transcripts'; Also Announces $46M In New Financing (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins)

    05/10/24: ILTA Evolve, legal tech acquisitions, matter management guide, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2024 58:42


    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 08:34 - Thoughts on ILTA Evolve Conference (Selected by Joe Patrice) 16:47 - Legal tech acquisition Palooza (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 20:18 - Interview with Ed Walters on Robot Law, vLex merger, Start-ups, size of the legal market (Selected by Jean O'Grady) 27:40 - Fighting the bots is the new attorney niche (Selected by Victor Li) 32:04 - Harvey Underground (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 41:45 - From Intake to Outcome: An in-house lawyer's guide to matter management solutions (Selected by Niki Black) 45:55 - ABA Issues Ethics Opinion on 30-Year-Old Technology whose Use Is Waning. My Question: Why Now? (Selected by Bob Ambrogi)

    04/19/24: Thomson Reuters' CoCounsel plans (with guest Jake Heller), vLex expands Vincent AI, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2024 56:09


    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 02:32 - Special guest Jake Heller joins to discuss Thomson Reuters' Plan To Provide CoCounsel AI Assistant Across Every Professional Vertical It Serves 39:09 - vLex Expands Vincent AI With Document Analyze, Launches Law Firm AI Co-Development Lab (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 43:55 - Are Brain Waves the New Data Privacy Frontier? Novel Colorado Law Says Yes (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 49:55 - Could privacy laws be changing? Here's what's brewing in Congress (Selected by Victor Li) 52:22 - New York Bar Association New AI Guidance: Part 1 (Selected by Niki Black)

    04/05/24: Petition to ABA to cease using term "nonlawyer", Yale Law School Law Archive, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2024 56:49


    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 Luminance raises $40m Series B US and UK sign bilateral agreement to safety test AI models KLDiscovery Cites Concerns Over ‘Ability to Continue' as Major Debt Repayment Loom Winston & Strawn Launches Winston Legal Solutions, a Tech-Powered, Right-Staffing Venture for Low-Complexity Work IAPP takeaways The Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security (ELVIS) Act Protecting artists against DeepFakes of Name, Image, Likeness, and Voice (NIL+V)

    03/29/24: Neil Gorsuch's research, first legal LLM built from lawfully obtained data, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2024 56:49


    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 illustrate why law firms change so little and slowly: short term profits and back stabbing partners (Selected by Stephen Embry) 54:26 - In Los Angeles, Bet Tzedek's New Online Legal Clinic Helps Pro Se People with Conservatorships (Selected by Bob Ambrogi)

    March 1: Justices on social media law, ROSS cofounder returns to legal tech, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2024 58:27


    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 Legal Tech with Startup Using AI To Surface Judges' Decision-Making Patterns (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 42:03 - Is The Apple Vision Pro Worth The Investment For Lawyers? (Selected by Niki Black) 52:46 - First-Of-Its-Kind Credit Card/Software Combo from LawPay and MyCase Lets Law Firms Track Expenses Directly to Matters and Invoicing (Selected by Bob Ambrogi)

    Feb. 23: Techshow and the infinite AI product updates, hallucinated cases, and chatbots

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2024 57:09


    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)

    Feb. 2: Legalweek conference recap, and other legal tech conference thoughts

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2024 53:13


    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)

    January 26: Litigator lost her voice, AI brought it back; plus two guest panelists

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2024 57:58


    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 Bar (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 38:08 - A grand squabble in the Lone Star State, where a band of lawyers, as self-righteous as they be cunning, fiercely opposed a plan to let people who aren't lawyers own pieces of law firms. Safeguarding the treasure of justice or just hoarding it for themselves (Selected by Stephen Embry)

    Jan 19 2023: What causes legal tech flops, and what role does the c-suite play; plus AI music rights

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2024 55:09


    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)

    Jan 12 2023: Carta credibility allegations, judge rejects motion with exploding head emoji, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2024 57:45


    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

    January 5, 2024: 2023 Year in Review

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2024 56:28


    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

    December 15, 2023: Michael Cohen's GPT brief, UK issues GenAI guidelines, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2023 62:35


    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 03:12 - Let's all blame Schwartz! (Selected by Joe Patrice) 12:00 - UK Judicial Office issues guidelines for judges in England and Wales to use Gen AI (Selected by Stephen Embry and Stephanie Wilkins) 21:28 - Does Chat GTP have seasonal affective disorder? (Selected by Jean O'Grady) 26:20 - Silicon Valley Confronts a Grim New A.I. Metric (Selected by Niki Black) 31:46 - New Resource Catalogs and Makes Searchable Nearly 600 GPTs Related to Law, Tax and Regulatory Issues (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 35:54 - End of Year Reflections (Selected by Caroline Hill)

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