New technology doesn’t merely eliminate jobs. It creates new ones.

The promise of a single method of sending up a draft law review article is increasingly in jeopardy.

A hit 1983 movie illustrates what computer scientists have long known: If you give an AI agent a goal but don’t control what it can and can’t do, you shouldn’t be surprised by what it does.

San Francisco's decision to retain its use of Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) surveillance cameras belies what we know about this spying technology tool: it endangers residents and threatens the privacy and civil liberties of our community. Based on what's in the city's press release and...

AI offers remarkable speed and knowledge, but lawyers must remain responsible for the results.

A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not—attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents.

Dutch police said the hacker, arrested for being part of the ShinyHunters cybercriminal gang, had plans to organize the murder of two people on his laptop.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today issued an opinion in the long-running copyright battle between Thomson Reuters and the now-shuttered AI legal research company ROSS Intelligence, but the op...

Section 1: Five Realities Reshaping How Corporate Restructuring Gets Done Corporate restructuring operates at the intersection of legal precision and financial complexity, with stakeholder decisions r...

People are increasingly concerned about the ways in which mass surveillance is tracking our every move: from Flock license plate readers to face recognition to creepy ads that – based on what we see and do online – seem to know everything we’re thinking and planning. It didn’t have to be this way,...

Pentagon CTO Emil Michael crowed “The hammer of justice has smashed AnthropicAI[’s] arguments.” The AI titan hinted at an appeal — but they may not be allowed one.

AL doesn’t often do board roles, but this is a biggy, so…..Steno, the court reporting and AI-driven litigation support pioneer, has appointed Brian Lee to its Board of Directors. Lee co-found…

Cybercrime is getting increasingly sophisticated, and scammers target senior citizens.

Executive to front parliamentary committee on AI as ministers reveal how brief message telling them about hack was signed off ‘best’

Legal AI platform, August, is launching a new feature that allows AI agents working inside a company to request help from lawyers – which could drive more work to law firms. It’s a novel take…

Trump's Newest 'Public Service Announcement' Is Just His 2024 Campaign Ad, Now Paid For By You: Ethics lawyers from both parties say that's the whole problem. Weil Poaches Cravath's Private Equity Chief Three Weeks After Cravath Poached Its Corporate Chair: Peter Feist is coming home. 99 Problems, And This Lawsuit Is One: Jay-Z’s accuser now says she never met him. Tony Buzbee may have some explaining to do. Lawyers Are Increasingly Folding AI Into Routine Processes: What exactly does that mean?

State says LLMs threaten civilization as "the greatest public nuisance ever created."

Humans have been quietly compensating for this gap for years. AI will make it visible.

The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) began regularly deploying drones two years ago and has since expanded their use in a way that has outpaced its documented policy and evaded existing local and state oversight of these devices. The department has a new proposed policy, which continues to be...

Florida AG says ChatGPT needs to “Stop pretending it’s human.”

In a marriage of two alternative legal services providers, Repario, a company with a focus on e-discovery and managed review, has acquired UnitedLex, a global company that provides a broader range of...

Adoption is up, but digging into DISCO's Legal AI Report reveals the industry isn't giving it the most worrying work.

Mitratech Legal has bought BotDojo, a small startup focused on agent orchestration. It will become part of the far larger company’s ARIES AI offering, they said. BotDojo formally launched back in 2…

As AI technology in healthcare becomes more deeply involved in the complex, high-stakes tasks of diagnosis and treatment planning, traditional lines of accountability will become less clear. Where does the buck stop for AI-supported medical care? 

A survey of 557 arbitration professionals in the US has found strongly conflicting data about legal AI. While some use cases for AI seem popular, many others are shunned. Likewise, while 43% report…

Company behind Claude chatbot expected to attend separate Australian government hearing on AI next week

Entertainment giant Disney is having a legal AI moment. Last week, Deadline reported that the company’s 1,000-strong Legal and Global Affairs group would face significant changes, with ‘automating …

By Stefan Ciesla, BigHand. AI is changing the economics of legal work. That much is clear. What is less clear is how law firms should price work when the inputs, effort, and delivery model are also…

Audio firm Taction Technology claimed Apple infringed its patents for tech used to power device vibrations.

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Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist speaks with NBC’s Kristen Welker in interview airing on Sunday

Apple’s Taptic Engine was found to infringe on two of Taction’s patents.

TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100 million in a settlement tied to allegations that the short-form video platform misled users about safety and was designed to addict children.

Here is a real-time video of me trying to read any new Fifth Circuit opinion on Internet Law: Odds are that the outcome will be terrible; and even if not, the reasoning will be 100% cringe. * * * This...

Locals say Google’s $15bn project in Andhra Pradesh has resulted in smallholdings being taken back off them by the government

Targeting your argument's weak spot with AI, in this episode of "Adventures in Legal Tech."

EFF legal intern Simar Kaur also contributed to this article.Americans’ First Amendment right to equal access to official government statements is violated by the Trump administration’s use of Truth Social’s preferential treatment scheme, which blocks people who won’t pay Trump’s company up to $100...

Washington says Brussels overreached when it fined X €120 million under the DSA.

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Apartment with strange view singled out in government’s fight against deceptive ads – but real estate agent says photo is no fake

For decades, private Internet services have uniformly tried to avoid being legally characterized as government actors. If they become state actors, they must comply with Constitutional restrictions–meaning the Constitutionally required freedoms of speech and press would extend to their user-authors...