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Music publishers claiming artificial intelligence company Anthropic infringed their works to train its AI models told a California federal magistrate judge Tuesday that an Anthropic expert witness cited a "fictitious" AI-generated study in a recently filed declaration, urging the judge to sanction the company's Latham & Watkins attorneys for not catching the issue.
Noxtua SE, a Germany-based company that calls itself Europe's first sovereign legal artificial intelligence, announced Tuesday the opening of a Paris office, soon after it raised money and targeted further expansion in the region.
The path to securing a summer associate position at a law firm has changed significantly over the past few years, adding new pressures for students reaching for those coveted positions and new challenges for law firms trying to find top talent, according to Law360 Pulse's 2025 Summer Associate Survey.
About 20% of law students used artificial intelligence to assist them with their summer associate job hunt, leaning on the new technology to help navigate new challenges and shifting timelines, according to Law360 Pulse's 2025 Summer Associates Survey.
As the competition to recruit future lawyers heats up, law firms are making summer associate offers earlier than ever. But even as the timeline shifts, law students' favorites have stayed largely the same, according to Law360 Pulse's 2025 Summer Associate Survey.
Legal analytics company Trellis announced Tuesday a new partnership with employer-side labor law firm Fisher Phillips LLP that will see its generative artificial intelligence software used for daily case alerts at the firm.
The Lexis+ AI generative artificial intelligence platform can drive a 344% return on investment for large law firms by helping attorneys save time and focus on higher-value work, according to a study commissioned by LexisNexis Legal & Professional on Tuesday.
Dentons announced Monday the launch of an internally developed artificial intelligence tool for its personnel in Europe and Central Asia, joining other firms in developing proprietary AI tools this year.
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP and a Lloyd's of London syndicate it sued seeking coverage for litigation stemming from a 2022 data breach have agreed to end their dispute in North Carolina's business court with prejudice, according to a joint stipulation from the parties.
A new class action filed Friday in Washington federal court accuses online legal service provider Avvo Inc. of misappropriating the identities of over 1 million attorneys to promote its legal marketing tools and referral services.
Madison Square Garden has urged a New York federal judge to reject former New York Knicks player Charles Oakley's motion for spoliation sanctions amid his assault suit, arguing missing emails were lost due to a Microsoft glitch, and that Oakley did not suffer prejudice because key evidence had been preserved through other sources.
As new artificial intelligence tools enter the market to give litigators live, in-the-moment assistance during depositions, some legal experts are raising concerns that the technology could jeopardize client confidentiality or result in the unauthorized practice of law.
A judge in Broward County, Florida, has been charged for publicly sharing a fabricated, "likely" artificial intelligence-generated recording of a chief judge disparaging another judge in the midst of her 2024 campaign for reelection, according to a notice filed Friday.
California Bar trustees voted on Friday to ask the state Supreme Court to grant provisional licenses to the hundreds of applicants who did not pass the tumultuous February bar exam, which was rife with technical, proctoring and procedural issues.
Former clerks of retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter are heartbroken over the death of a man many of them remember more for his conscientiousness, humility, kindness and disdain for the spotlight than for his undeniable brilliance as a jurist.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP announced the hiring of a former partner at Morrison Foerster LLP to serve as its Bay Area and London chair of technology transactions and artificial intelligence.
The legal industry marked another busy week with a flurry of attorneys taking on new legal roles and law firm practice expansions. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
Several new investments for growing legal technology startups top this roundup of recent industry news.
Legal operations professionals are viewed as indispensable today as more legal departments embrace the opportunities of artificial intelligence, a group of general counsel say.
National litigation support services company Magna Legal Services inked another merger this year, tying up with South Carolina-based court reporting firm EveryWord, according to an announcement on Thursday.
The free legal assistance platform Paladin announced on Thursday its expansion internationally into Canada via a partnership with the Ontario Bar Association, which will make its pro bono portal freely available to the province's 60,000 attorneys.
In January, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP merged with Locke Lord LLP to form Troutman Pepper Locke LLP. Leaders of the new firm spoke with Law360 Pulse about how they used artificial intelligence tools to save time and money while combining the two firms.
The debate over outsourcing legal work or bringing those tasks in-house is evolving thanks to new technologies and service offerings, a group of legal department experts said during a panel session Tuesday.
Initially labeled as administrative support, legal operations leaders explained to a group of peers on Wednesday how they transformed their jobs to become a key business ally for their legal departments.
Global asset management firm Arcapita Group Holdings Ltd. this week has acquired a majority stake in tech-enabled legal services provider Trustpoint.One based in Atlanta, Georgia.
ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools pose significant risks to the integrity of legal work, but the key for law firms is not to ban these tools, but to implement them responsibly and with appropriate safeguards, say Natalie Pierce and Stephanie Goutos at Gunderson Dettmer.
To safeguard against the many risks posed by generative artificial intelligence legal tools, in-house counsel should work with their information security teams to develop new data security questions for prospective vendors, vet existing applications and review who can utilize machine guidance, says Diane Homolak at Integreon.
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We Must Continue DEI Efforts Despite High Court HeadwindsThough the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down affirmative action in higher education, law firms and their clients must keep up the legal industry’s recent momentum advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the profession in order to help achieve a just and prosperous society for all, says Angela Winfield at the Law School Admission Council.
Law firms that fail to consider their attorneys' online habits away from work are not using their best efforts to protect client information and are simplifying the job of plaintiffs attorneys in the case of a breach, say Mark Hurley and Carmine Cicalese at Digital Privacy and Protection.
Corporate legal departments looking to implement new technology can avoid hiccups by taking steps to define the underlying business problem and to identify opportunities for process improvements before leaping to the automation stage, say Nadine Ezzie at Ezzie + Co., Kenneth Jones at Xerdict Group and Kathy Zhu at Streamline AI.
A recent data leak at Proskauer via a cloud data storage platform demonstrates key reasons why law firms must pay attention to data safeguarding, including the increasing frequency of cloud-based data breaches and the consequences of breaking client confidentiality, says Robert Kraczek at One Identity.
There are a few communication tips that law students in summer associate programs should consider to put themselves in the best possible position to receive an offer, and firms can also take steps to support those to whom they are unable to make an offer, says Amy Mattock at Georgetown University Law Center.
Tools like ChatGPT can help students studying for the bar exam achieve their two main goals — mastering law concepts and topics, and then successfully applying them to the various question formats on the test — but there are still limitations to this technology, including incorrect answers, says Joseph Wilson at Studicata.
Many attorneys are going to use artificial intelligence tools whether law firms like it or not, so firms should educate them on AI's benefits, limits and practical uses, such as drafting legal documents, to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving legal market, say Thomas Schultz and Eden Bernstein at Kellogg Hansen.
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Attorneys Should Have An Ethical Duty To Advance DEINational and state bar associations are encouraging attorneys to apply diversity, equity and inclusion practices in the legal profession and beyond, and these associations should take it one step further by formally recognizing ethical duties for attorneys to promote DEI, which could better the legal profession and society, says Elena Mitchell at Moore & Van Allen.
Corporate counsel often turn to third-party vendors to manage spending challenges, and navigating this selection process can be difficult for both counsel and the vendor, but there are several ways corporate legal departments can make the entire process easier and beneficial for all parties involved, says David Cochran at QuisLex.
Recent legal challenges against DoNotPay’s "robot lawyer” application highlight pressing questions about the degree to which artificial intelligence can be used for legal tasks while remaining on the right side of both consumer protection laws and prohibitions against the unauthorized practice of law, says Kristen Niven at Frankfurt Kurnit.
The growing demand for analytical data within law firms and corporate law departments — from live case status updates to diversity reports — highlights the need for improvements in legal profession reporting, with increasingly granular industry-standard codes to describe legal tasks being key, says Kenneth Jones at Xerdict.
Legal technology has the potential to eliminate barriers for disabled attorneys navigating their careers and for disabled clients seeking access to justice, but to truly level the playing field, accessible technology must be designed with input from and empathy for the often-underrepresented communities it serves, say Lisa Mueller at Casimir Jones and attorney Haley Moss.
Despite strides made in the e-discovery industry, document reviews continue to be one of the most expensive line items for litigation, so law firms working with alternative legal service providers should consider key best practices, including providing clear protocol, having transparent deadlines, and more, says Phoebe Gebre at Integreon.