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A weekly round-up and review of news in legal technology and innovation, selected by industry leading journalists. Hosted by lawyer and journalist Bob Ambrogi,

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A weekly round-up and review of news in legal technology and innovation, selected by industry leading journalists. Hosted by lawyer and journalist Bob Ambrogi,

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English


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

5/16/2024
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)

Duration:00:58:42

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

4/19/2024
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)

Duration:00:56:09

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

4/8/2024
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:

Duration:00:56:49

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

4/8/2024
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)

Duration:00:56:49

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

3/6/2024
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)

Duration:00:58:27

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

2/26/2024
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)

Duration:00:57:09

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

2/5/2024
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)

Duration:00:53:13

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

2/2/2024
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)

Duration:00:57:58

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

1/19/2024
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)

Duration:00:55:09

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

1/18/2024
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:

Duration:00:57:45

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January 5, 2024: 2023 Year in Review

1/11/2024
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:

Duration:00:56:28

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

12/22/2023
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)

Duration:01:02:35

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December 8, 2023: Troubling finds in Smokeball small firm survey, new AI ethics guidelines, and more

12/11/2023
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 - The Legal Tech Fund Conference (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 10:20 - AI Ethics Guidance Arrives Amid Rapid Legaltech Deployments (Selected by Niki Black) 20:00 - Associate Raises, Productivity, and Salaries (Selected by Joe Patrice) 31:50 - Is virtual law firm FisherBroyles about to lose 140 lawyers? Details of ‘significant new venture’ to come (Selected by Victor Li) 36:26 - Smokeball survey reveals some troubling findings for small firms understanding of business and AI (Selected by Stephen Embry)

Duration:00:51:13

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December 1, 2023: Double-Spacing debate, ChatGPT v Supreme Court, Sam Altman, and more

12/4/2023
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 03:49 - Altman Was Out, Until He Wasn't: Legal Tech Reacts to OpenAI's Leadership Shuffle (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 12:07 - 2023: A Legal AI Odyssey (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 16:45 - Lawyering in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Selected by Niki Black) 23:30 - 5th Circuit takes aim at pro se filers with proposed GenAI rules (Selected by Stephen Embry) 33:50 - Heated Litigation Fight Over 'Double-Spacing' Ends In Judge Telling Everyone To Shut Up (Selected by Joe Patrice) 42:30 - Docket Alarm Founder Michael Sander Leaves After vLex Acquisition; Former Gavelytics Exec Joins to Lead Product Line (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 47:20 - Harvard Law School Professor Finds ChatGPT Invents Fake Law Less Than The Supreme Court (Selected by Joe Patrice)

Duration:00:53:57

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November 17, 2023: Thomson Reuters' new release, Gen AI passes the MPRE with no training, and more

11/18/2023
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 - Thomson Reuters Launches AI-Assisted Legal Research (Selected by Bob Ambrogi and Jean O'Grady) 15:10 - Lexis AI tools (Selected b Jean O'Grady) 24:50 - Gen AI Passes the MPRE With No Prior Ethics Training (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 27:55 - FL Bar proposed advisory AI ethics opinion (Selected by Niki Black) 47:08 - Pre/Dicta adds outcome predictions for four new motion types: summary judgment, class certification, venue transfer and motions to compel (Selected by Stephen Embry)

Duration:00:55:56

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November 10, 2023: China's legal robot, special guest Colin Levy, Pras Michel trial part 2, and more

11/16/2023
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 03:40 - Colin Levy joins us to discuss his new book 14:46 - China's legal robot (Selected by Joe Patrice) 25:03 - Have we sacrificed personal relationships for convenience? what are the implications? (Selected by Stephen Embry) 34:20 - WK Future Ready (Selected by Jean O'Grady) 45:36 - Beyond Word of Mouth: Proven Data-Driven Client Acquisition Methods (Selected by Niki Black) 52:50 - EyeLevel.ai Co-Founder Defends Tech's Use in Pras Michel Trial, Calls Allegations a ‘Creative Act of Fiction’ (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins and Bob Ambrogi)

Duration:00:59:29

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Nov 3, 2023: A Tribute to Monica Bay

11/6/2023
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 02:05 - A Tribute to Monica Bay

Duration:00:55:35

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October 27, 2023: Lexis+ AI launch, DOJ + pro bono union, and more

10/31/2023
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 02:30 - Lexis+ AI Product Launch 22:50 - ACC/Everlaw survey suggests clients are pushing tech in a big way (Selected by Joe Patrice and Stephen Embry) 38:27 - The 2023 Start/Stop Survey: CoCounsel Best New Product, Analytics Segment Shakeout (Selected by Jean O'Grady) 45:40 - DOJ will connect with pro bono tech platform (Selected by Victor Li) 50:42 - NetDocuments’ AI-Driven PatternBuilder MAX Is Now Generally Available; Comes with Nine Apps for Common Legal Use Cases (Selected by Bob Ambrogi)

Duration:00:55:27

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October 20, 2023: LSAT changes, big news from vLex, Kirkland Ellis tech product, and more

10/23/2023
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 02:44 - Two new legal conferences last week: KM & Innovation in NYC and LegalOps in Vegas (Selected by Bob Ambrogi and Connie Brenton) 24:10 - LSAT scraps 'logic games' section, adds more logical reasoning (Selected by Victor Li) 25:00 - Standing by in case of 'dystopian problems,' court allows use of keyword search data to find suspects (Selected by Victor Li) 31:52 - vLex (Fastcase) Unveils Beta Version Of Its Global, Multi-Language Generative AI Legal Research Tool (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 35:42 - Pras Michel of Fugees seeks new trial, contends former attorney used AI for closing argument - related to vLex 48:35 - The NoFakes Act: is outlawing deepfakes good? bad? practical? (Selected by Stephen Embry) 55:30 - Kirkland & Ellis Announces SideTrack, a Lawyer-Built Platform for Investment Funds Attorneys (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins)

Duration:00:58:41

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October 13, 2023: ClioCon wrap up, LexBlog integration, and lawyer calls evictions patriotic duty

10/16/2023
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 02:19 - ClioCon 2023 recap 19:45 - Behind the Prices: Is Generative AI Legal Tech Cheaper to Buy or Build (Selected by guest Cassandre Coyer) 34:46 - LexBlog Develops AI Integration to Help Legal Bloggers and Marketers Plan, Refine and Publicize their Blog Posts (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 41:37 - Lawyer Calls Evicting People A 'Patriotic Duty,' Apparently Cite-Checking Fake Cases In Briefs Less Of A Patriotic Duty (Selected by Joe Patrice) CLM Provider Evisort Announces Custom Large Language Model Built Specifically for Contract (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins)

Duration:00:49:18