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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry ended May with another action-packed week as BigLaw firms expanded practices and attorneys took on new roles. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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LexisNexis Unit Hit With Class Actions Over 364K Data Breach
A LexisNexis unit was hit with at least two proposed class actions Wednesday in New York and Georgia federal courts by individuals who allege that their personally identifiable information was exposed during a massive data breach and that the company waited too long to inform them of the breach.Â
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Calif. Justices Propose Tweaking Rules For Bar Examiners
The California Supreme Court has proposed changes to the administration of the state's troubled bar exam, circulating a slate of amendments designed to clarify the role of the Committee of Bar Examiners, including spelling out its duty to review and approve all questions used in the exam.
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Law Firm GCs Warn Of AI Risks At ABA Ethics Panel
As large language models like OpenAI's ChatGPT become more prevalent, law firm general counsel who spoke as part of an American Bar Association panel outside Washington, D.C., on Thursday said their attorneys' use of the technology is something that keeps them up at night.
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For-Profit School Sued Over Thompson Coburn Leak Notices
A for-profit college operator is facing a proposed class action in Alabama federal court, alleging it failed to properly secure its data and notify students in a timely manner that its law firm, Thompson Coburn LLP, had been hit with a cyberattack causing a data breach of sensitive records.
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Wolters Kluwer Acquires Brightflag In €425M Legal Tech Deal
Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory is acquiring the artificial intelligence-powered legal spend and matter management software company Brightflag for about €425 million (about $482 million) in cash, the professional services software provider announced Thursday.
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Texas Lawyer Fined $6K For Fake AI Citations In ERISA Suit
An Indiana federal judge on Wednesday fined a Texas attorney $6,000 for filing three separate briefs using generative artificial intelligence that included fake citations in an ERISA case, imposing a personal sanction that was less than half the $15,000 fine a magistrate judge recommended.
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Redgrave Hires E-Discovery Co.'s Microsoft 365 Tech Pro
E-discovery and information law firm Redgrave LLP has hired one of the minds behind the creation of e-discovery company Lighthouse's Microsoft compliance and security compliance team, touting what the firm calls his "niche practice built to address the impact of cloud computing on eDiscovery and information governance."
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Legal Tech Co. Harbor Hires Ex-Paul Hastings CIO As CTO
Harbor Global, a legal technology services provider, on Wednesday announced the hiring of the former chief information officer at Paul Hastings LLP as its first chief technology officer, marking the second major executive hire by the company this year.
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Rate Hikes May Be Masking BigLaw's Financial Vulnerabilities
Revenue and profits have both been on a strong upward trajectory in recent years for large U.S. law firms, but those strides may not tell the whole story when considering factors like inflation and the role that aggressive rate hikes, which some say are unsustainable, have played in the increases.
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Anthropic Declaration Partly Stricken Over AI Hallucination
A California federal magistrate judge has partially stricken an expert report filed by Anthropic in copyright infringement litigation that cited a nonexistent study — an error created by the artificial intelligence company's own Claude AI tool — calling the issue "serious," but "not quite so grave as it first appeared."
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Atty Avoids Sanctions After Adding AI Hallucinations To Brief
A California attorney who represented a software company in a trade secret dispute will not be sanctioned for filing a brief that included two ChatGPT-hallucinated case citations under circumstances so unusual they "couldn't have been made up," an Illinois federal judge said Tuesday.
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Law Firms Face Growing Targeted Cyber Threat, FBI Warns
The FBI issued a warning on May 23 of a cyber threat actor targeting U.S.-based law firms through phishing and social engineering tactics.
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Calif. Bar Seeks More Remedies After Problematic Feb. Exam
The state bar of California has formally asked the state Supreme Court to approve measures including a limited provisional licensure program and a more direct pathway to admission for out-of-state attorneys, in the state bar's latest attempt to seek equitable remedies amid the fallout from the bungled February 2025 California bar exam.
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SafeGuard Privacy Adds Ex-Sizmek GC As Legal Chief
SafeGuard Privacy, a compliance privacy platform used by in-house counsel and other corporate teams, has announced the hiring of a general counsel and chief legal officer formerly of advertising technology company Sizmek.
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Why Training Partners To Supervise AI Is Now A Priority
As law firms integrate generative artificial intelligence into their operations and teach attorneys to use it, some are getting their partners up to speed by training them specifically in how to supervise the use of these tools.
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Law360 Reveals Titans Of The Plaintiffs Bar
This past year, a handful of attorneys secured billions of dollars in settlements and judgments for both classes and individual plaintiffs against massive companies and organizations like Facebook, Dell, the National Association of Realtors, Johnson & Johnson, UFC and Credit Suisse, earning them recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2025.
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Westlaw AI Win Right But Appellate Review Wise, Judge Says
A Delaware federal judge Friday voiced confidence in his ruling that tech startup Ross Intelligence infringed copyrighted material from Thomson Reuters' Westlaw platform to create a competing legal research tool powered by artificial intelligence, but explained that granting interlocutory appeal on two questions will help resolve the case more efficiently.
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Ga. Bar OKs Real Estate Deals Via Video
The State Bar of Georgia has adopted a formal ethics opinion allowing attorneys to close real estate deals via video conference, finding that the remote appearances satisfy lawyers' duty to be "present" at closings.
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AI-Generated Evidence Rule Making Way To Public Comment
A committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States is scheduled to decide whether to approve a proposed new rule on evidence generated with artificial intelligence for public comment at its June 10 meeting.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms shifted operations, expanded practices and took on new talent across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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Legal Tech Roundup: Baretz & Brunelle, Flo Recruit
The arrival of an experienced legal technology marketing leader at an advisory firm tops this roundup of recent industry news.
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Split NJ High Court OKs Atty Keyword Search With Disclaimer
A split New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Thursday that attorneys in the state may buy the search results for other attorneys' names as keywords as long as they inform prospective clients about the practice in a decision resolving a years-long ethics dispute.
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Advisory Firm Swiftwater & Co. Hires Ex-Wolters Kluwer VP
Swiftwater & Co., a legal business advisory firm, announced Thursday that it hired a former vice president and general manager at legal software provider Wolters Kluwer as a managing director overseeing technology, financial and legal operations strategy.
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Factor Law Consultancy Launches AI Training Program
Factor Law Inc., a contract management and legal operations consulting company, announced Wednesday the launch of a training program designed to help legal professionals learn to apply artificial intelligence to their day-to-day work.
Expert Analysis
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.