A little birdie tells us that i-law costs have skyrocketed since the service was taken over by Lloyds list intelligence and clients can’t get any sense out of them at all. Looks like this is heading for the scrapheap fairly quickly ..read more

They love the love! Tech and Legal Industries React to the Thomson Reuters Expansion of CoCounsel The Thomson Reuters expansion of CoCounsel “spreads the LLM love beyond legal,” said Richard Tromans on social media as part of Artificial Lawyer’s coverage of the announcement. Journalists and bloggers shared their perspectives on the CoCounsel expansion, which includes the rollout of the generative AI assistant ..read more

??     Job Alerts      EGE Attorneys at Law – Legal Intern Biçer Güner – Summer Legal Intern Nobel – In-House Lawyer GLED Partners – Legal Intern Gün + Partners – Assistant Promotion and Business Development Specialist Ar?kan Partners – Legal Intern LEXIST – Senior Associate/Associate (Transactions) Gün + Partners – Assistant Trademark Attorney      Events           Articles      ..read more

A Florida man fatally gunned down a driver who allegedly attacked him — with a paper cup of ice from McDonald’s. Nicholas Koontz, 35, was convicted of manslaughter with a firearm after a three-day trial in Manatee County that ended Wednesday, according to a press release from the Florida State Attorney’s Office for the 12th Judicial Circuit ..read more

A newly-released confidential letter by a UN Special Rapporteur documents the disbarment of human rights lawyers in China and the tightening ideological control over lawyers and law firms. The UN expert denounces disappearances, closed-door trials, harassment of relatives, travel bans, and other abuses targeting human rights lawyers. On 14 February 2024, the UN Special Rapporteur ..read more

Atten: one of the lawyers of the @stopEACOP activists been attacked and beaten… we suspect this is sponsored by @TotalEnergiesUG and @EACOP_ coz the files taken from him where for the students who were to apply before court this week. @TotalEnergies this is backwardness. https://t.co/lZWrlva8TX pic.twitter.com/6z8ahMYPqX — bob barigye (@bobbarigye1) April 17, 2024     ..read more

Lawsites Debuting today is a new product, KLapper, that is a DIY legal virtual assistant builder, powered by generative AI, and designed specifically for law firm knowledge management and innovation teams. Developed by KLoBot Inc., a company that develops knowledge management technology for the legal industry, KLapper was developed to enable users to easily design, train ..read more

A powerful tribunal that scrutinises the use of state surveillance has told a Belfast-based lawyer who made a complaint it cannot provide the results of an investigation on ‘national security’ grounds despite saying it is in the “interests of justice” to do so. Details of the case have come to light as it emerged a ..read more

Lawyers Weekly reports Source: https://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/biglaw/39500-court-throws-out-sydney-solicitor-s-defamation-appeal?utm_source=LawyersWeekly&utm_campaign=19_04_2024&utm_medium=email&utm_content=2&utm_emailID=882dfb433067b4011c87c45ff376fe5c42fdf5fc8de3c999c59a0ade0bb38b91 The Federal Court threw out Simone Selkirk’s application to appeal a September 2023 finding that MyLocalPages and its owner, Martin Wyatt, did not defame her in an article viewed by only three people. The article referred to deception charges Selkirk successfully appealed but appeared like ..read more

    Cyber Security Whitepaper: How to Build a Cyber Resilient Law Firm in 2024   Leveraging insights from the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s (ACSC) Essential 8 Framework, this whitepaper provides actionable steps and best practices to mitigate cyber risks. Key Takeaways include: Insights from Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) Cyber Threat Report highlighting alarming statistics and ..read more