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).

The legal industry has traditionally been slow to adopt new technologies. However, in recent years, legal technology (also known as “legal tech”) has been gaining momentum, transforming the way legal services are delivered, managed, and accessed. Legal technology includes a…
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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.

"Getting stakeholder buy-in before rolling out something new is critical in receiving the proper deployment and integration you require," says Aleysa Nasimova, Senior Director & Associate General Counsel of Funbox.