Lawyers must be careful in revealing information about clients on an email discussion list group, even when seeking help in the representation, according to a new ABA ethics opinion.
Updated: From lookalike photos to hallucination errors to copyright infringement, the rise of lawsuits against generative artificial intelligence tools reveals a growing frustration with our silicon assistants. Naturally, lawyers are here to help.
A New Hampshire lawyer has been disbarred based on allegations that he destroyed his computer before an ethics hearing and altered metadata to make it appear that he had provided conflict letters to a client when borrowing $275,000 from her.
Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Aaron Crews, the chief product and innovation officer and head of enterprise at UnitedLex, a provider of alternative legal services.
LexisNexis launched the newest version of its generative artificial intelligence, Lexis+ AI, on Tuesday, offering users faster results and more resources. The second generation LexisNexis legal tool is expected to be available in early May.
In today's fast-paced world, in-house teams require robust tools to manage the complexities of their daily workflows. Matter management software fills this gap and provides a comprehensive solution that streamlines processes from case intake to resolution while also facilitating collaboration with members of internal legal teams and outside counsel.
Contract management. Compliance updates. Discovery responses. Intellectual property portfolio management. These rote, often-time-consuming tasks can all be part of an in-house counsel’s day-to-day schedule. The problem? Many can devolve into costly time sinks for a legal department’s salaried talent.
On Tuesday, legal technology company vLex announced that it is expanding the Vincent AI platform, offering attorneys access to more than 1 billion documents from around the world to help with contracts, pleadings and motions.
Winston & Strawn is offering its clients a lower-cost alternative to outsourced legal services that uses attorneys trained by the law firm for more routine legal tasks.
A setting in Microsoft Word is to blame for a failure to include footnotes in word counts for briefs filed on behalf of online casino provider High 5 Games, its lawyers told a federal judge in fighting a bid for sanctions.
As generative artificial intelligence stormed the scene over the past year with its snazzy Q&A interface, it was fair to ask whether existing ways of accessing knowledge, such as keyword search or templates, would become redundant. After all, why would you need those old ways of tracking down specific pieces of knowledge if you can just ask the all-knowing AI to call it up for you?
At one point, the metaverse was a groundbreaking piece of technology that promised to change lives and revolutionize industries. The term, first coined in a 1992 book, describes a world where people interact in a digital society and economy using avatars. In the intervening years, the concept has become a reality.
A little over a year ago, ChatGPT-4 was released, and in that short time, the functionality of generative artificial intelligence has been added to many of the tools that we regularly use in our day-to-day workflows. From research and brainstorming to data analysis and translation, generative AI is changing how work gets done.
The ABA Journal wants to host and facilitate conversations among lawyers about their profession. We are now accepting thoughtful, non-promotional articles and commentary by unpaid contributors.
