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Leaving all the responsibility to individual custodians, and assuming data is the same everywhere, won't likely resonate well in today's modern e-discovery disputes.

As part of the sale, Thomson Reuters will maintain a minority stake in Elite , which includes 3E, ProLaw, eBillingHib and Mattersphere, and actively support its ongoing development.

The merger creates a global law library with over a billion documents, which Fastcase CEO Ed Walters called "the most important training set" for large language models, such as those that power ChatGPT.

Akin partner Mac Fadlallah said OverRuled's goal is to be the legal research platform for export controls and sanctions lawyers "that platforms like LexisNexis and Westlaw are to litigators."

Plaintiffs attorneys are pushing the boundaries of what "wiretapping conversations" means in the age of chatbots and session replay software. The latest example? The wave of lawsuits brought under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA).

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.

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ESI protocols still remain a thorny issue on "both sides of the v." A recent decision helps illustrate this, where, in a discovery dispute over what was actually agreed to in an ESI protocol, a court ordered a party to proceed with a manual document-by-document review of search hits.

AI legal assistants can help with countless legal ops functions, such as acting as a "front door" to legal services, facilitating document management and search, and automating the generation of contracts and general correspondence.

Google's reputation for April Fools' Day jokes inclined many to assume the 2004 announcement of Gmail was yet another gag. In later interviews, Sergey Brin said the best form of an April Fools' prank would be to debut something that sounded so crazy it had to be a joke, and then let it sink in that the service was real and here to stay.

The development of new governance concepts to address the pitfalls and ethical repercussions of Generative AI must involve the evaluation of important questions across various functions of the law firm. They include risk management and compliance, legal, public relations and reputation management.