‘Estate and tax planning require a blend of technical expertise, strategic foresight, and deep client trust. AI offers tools to enhance efficiency without compromising the human touch essential to these practice areas. The Clio report reveals that 79% of legal professionals now use AI, and nearly 25% have fully integrated it into their workflows.’ Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewerskine/2024/11/27/the-ai-revolution-for-estate-and-tax-planning-services/

‘Catalog records are key to storing and finding digital library materials. As the volume of digital materials continues to grow rapidly, the Library of Congress is exploring whether AI can help catalogers by automating the generation of metadata. AI could provide an opportunity to speed up description workflows. Yet there are numerous machine learning (ML)…

‘The standard view of judicial motivation is pluralist. Many considerations, on this view, motivate judges to apply the law. Perhaps they do so out of fear, or greed, or—on some occasions—because it is the right thing to do. Here I defend a competing view. Judges must believe legal duties are moral duties. That belief explains…

‘With AI moving faster than ever, courts have begun to grapple with the foundational elements of how artificial intelligence is treated differently from humans and how it impacts existing laws.’ Link: https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/posts/ai-in-courts/courts-genai-boom/

‘Once again, California is flexing its market power by taking bold and wide-ranging legislative action to regulate the use and deployment of artificial intelligence (“AI”) systems. In 2024, the California (“CA”) Legislature was particularly active in developing and passing dozens of AI-related bills that aim to impose wide-ranging obligations ranging from safety, consumer transparency measures,…

‘Law is big. The legal trade may be one of the slower-moving elements of our society to digitalize, but the sheer volume of information that the business operates with makes its potential application surface for intelligence technologies huge. Organizations such as American data analytics company LexisNexis have been championing the use of online portals for…

‘Only 15% of managers consistently use gen AI, but 40% of business graduate students do. These managers and leaders of the near future will soon enter a workforce that is underprepared for them and poorly designed for them to put their abilities to use. This article explores how organizations should respond. Companies should learn to…

‘When I began experimenting with Lexis+AI in my administrative law research course this past spring, we found it ineffective for questions beyond the C.F.R. For example, asking for a recent IRS private letter ruling kept pulling up rulings from the last century, and no prompt seemed able to come up with EEOC policy documents. Why did…

‘Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has been hit with a class-action lawsuit in California federal court by three authors who say it misused their books and hundreds of thousands of others to train its AI-powered chatbot Claude.’ Link: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/authors-sue-anthropic-copyright-infringement-over-ai-training-2024-08-20/

‘There is no question that artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming our society in a manner not seen since the advent of the internet. As members of the public, lawyers are not immune to the societal shifts brought about by technological advancements.’ Link: https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/code-conduct-ethical-considerations-ai-legal-practice-2024-08-13/

‘A judge in Virginia has ordered lawyers in a whistleblower lawsuit to explain why they should not be sanctioned for submitting a filing that he said appeared to include “fictitious cases,” as well as “made-up quotations” from opinions by the U.S. Supreme Court and another federal appeals court.’ Link: https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/judge-weighs-sanctioning-lawyers-over-fictitious-case-citations-2024-07-25/

‘In December, Michael Cohen, the lawyer who gained notoriety working for Donald Trump, asked a federal judge to overlook his latest transgression: citing cases fabricated by generative AI. Cohen had used Google Bard, a predecessor of Google Gemini, to cite cases that didn’t exist. Cohen claimed ignorance, saying he misunderstood the chatbot “to be a supercharged search…

‘What if every law professor could have a personalized teaching assistant without any added cost to the law school? With theadvent of AI-driven language-generation tools, this may soon be apossibility.’ Link: https://lawrepository.ualr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=lawteachingjournal