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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.
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Definely Launches AI Tool To Streamline Contract Drafting
Definely unveiled Thursday a new system that uses artificial intelligence technology to reduce the time law firms and in-house legal teams spend drafting and reviewing contracts.
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Judge Warns Attys Using AI To 'Advocate — Not Hallucinate'
A Florida federal judge on Tuesday sanctioned two attorneys in a shipping contract dispute for filing a brief that included a nonexistent case citation added by artificial intelligence, warning lawyers that they must "carefully evaluate, elucidate and advocate — not hallucinate" in their legal briefs.
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Cybersecurity Co. Proofpoint Acquires NJ-Based Nuclei
Enterprise cybersecurity firm Proofpoint Inc. announced on Wednesday the acquisition of Nuclei Inc., a New Jersey software developer focused on compliance archiving and workplace communication productivity tools.
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Agentic AI Software Co. Ravical Gets Pre-Seed Funding
Ravical, an artificial intelligence software startup for professional service firms, announced Wednesday that it secured a €7.3 million ($8.2 million) pre-seed funding round.
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Legal AI Biz Legora Raises $80M In Funding Round
A Swedish legal artificial intelligence platform, Legora, said Wednesday that it has raised $80 million in its latest funding round as a growing number of law firms and in-house legal teams across the globe integrate AI technology into their work.
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AI Use Surges In-House, Driving Legal Tech Revolution for GCs
In a surprising surge, almost all respondents in a recent global survey of general counsel said their legal teams are using generative artificial intelligence to some degree.
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AI Law Firm Secretary Startup Gets Seed Funding Round
A legal technology startup that calls itself an "AI secretariat" for law firms secured a €6.5 million ($7.3 million) seed round Tuesday.
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Legal Marketplace Lawtrades Hires 1st Chief Strategy Officer
Legal talent marketplace Lawtrades announced Tuesday the hiring of its first chief strategy officer, the former head of legal operations at healthcare financial tech service Cedar Cares Inc.
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Attys For Alleged Fox Hacker 'Deeply Regret' Fake AI Citations
Two attorneys apologized to a Florida federal judge on Monday for filing a motion to dismiss charges against their client — alleged Fox News video hacker Timothy Burke — that contained fake legal citations generated by artificial intelligence.
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.