Artificial Intelligence & Robotics

Will generative AI ever fix its hallucination problem?

A misplaced reliance on generative AI for research can be like overtrusting your robocar’s driving skills, resulting in real or metaphorical crashes.

Oct 1, 2024 2:30 AM CDT

‘Robot lawyer’ website DoNotPay settles FTC claims it couldn’t deliver on promises

A website that billed itself as the “world’s first robot lawyer” has agreed to pay $193,000 to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that it did not live up to its claims.

Sep 30, 2024 10:28 AM CDT

Top factors that contribute to burnout among legal professionals

Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Bill Potter, the vice president of presales engineering at Nuix, a leading investigative analytics and intelligence software provider.

Sep 23, 2024 2:10 PM CDT

Artificial Intelligence in Litigation: Streamlining deposition summarization and analysis

Generative artificial intelligence tools for legal professionals have been a large part of my focus in this column. Since 2017, I’ve written about all different types of software and have been covering AI tools. After the general release of ChatGPT in November 2022, one of my top priorities has been to include generative AI products designed for legal professionals.

Sep 20, 2024 9:55 AM CDT

AI-enabled workflow platform Vincent AI expands capabilities

Leading AI-powered legal tech company vLex released a major upgrade Thursday to Vincent AI, its workflow platform.

Sep 12, 2024 10:06 AM CDT

Despite lyrics mistake by AI, lawyer wasn’t ineffective for using tech in rapper’s case, federal judge says

A federal judge has refused to grant a new trial in a case of a rapper convicted for using straw donors in a back-channel lobbying campaign, despite evidence of a mistake by an artificial intelligence program used to help draft closing arguments.

Sep 3, 2024 12:09 PM CDT

ILTACON 2024: Selling legal tech’s monorail

Last week’s ILTACON, an annual conference sponsored by the International Legal Technology Association felt a lot like The Simpsons episode "Marge vs. the Monorail," where the smooth-talking Lyle Lanley sells the town on the idea of a flashy but questionable monorail. Lanley's famous opening line, "You know, a town with money's a little like the mule with a spinning wheel. No one knows how he got it and danged if he knows how to use it," kept coming to mind during the event’s numerous presentations.

Aug 26, 2024 9:58 AM CDT

How to combat cybersecurity threats when using artificial intelligence

If you’re nervous about cybersecurity threats to your law firm, you’re not alone. While cybersecurity will always be a threat, especially if you’re using artificial intelligence, there are ways to combat it.

Aug 26, 2024 9:06 AM CDT

How midsize firms are achieving growth through adaptation

Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Debbie Foster, the CEO of Affinity Consulting; Jennifer Sherman, the chief product and experience officer at Caret Legal; and Laura Wenzel, the global marketing and insights director at iManage.

Aug 23, 2024 10:14 AM CDT

New metric inspired by baseball stats aims to measure real value of lawyers’ work

The Thomson Reuters Institute is introducing a new metric that measures how well lawyers are generating fees and collecting them by comparing them to their peers.

Aug 19, 2024 9:18 AM CDT

How to choose a legal tech company

While it’s clear that legal technology is necessary, what’s not so crystal is determining which legal tech company will be the best fit for your law firm.

Aug 13, 2024 9:07 AM CDT

How is AI affecting courts and law practice? ABA task force report has answers

Do the Federal Rules of Evidence have to be changed to address issues created by artificial intelligence? That is one of several issues addressed by the ABA Task Force on Law and Artificial Intelligence in a report on AI’s impact on the practice of law released Monday.

Aug 8, 2024 9:38 AM CDT

Incoming ABA President Bill Bay calls on legal profession to ‘stand together’

“Individually, we have shortcomings and weaknesses,” incoming ABA President William R. “Bill” Bay told the ABA House of Delegates. “But we are strongest when we stand together, when we lift each other up, when we put aside the differences, which the world tells us should divide us.”

Aug 5, 2024 5:43 PM CDT

AI-generated court filing had name, bar number of lawyer who had nothing to do with case, complaint says

Updated: A Florida foreclosure lawyer has said his name and his bar number were used in a court filing generated by artificial intelligence. And he had nothing to do with the case.

Aug 5, 2024 2:53 PM CDT

Is the legal system ready for AI-generated deepfake videos?

New generative AI tools make it easier to create deepfake videos that can realistically depict someone’s likeness and voice to show them doing and saying something they didn’t do or say. And that could wreak havoc in the legal system.

Aug 1, 2024 2:10 AM CDT