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* Elite firms warn that AI spending could impact profits, though most continue to believe they'll be fine. Ahem... then where are the associate raises? [ ABA Journal ] * ICE wants $20 million worth of electric shock gloves, in case you were wondering where we were on the "turning law enforcement into Spider-Man…
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Above the Law
Keeping That Raise On Ice : Ice Miller increases associate pay in New York, but not until 2027. Blame It On The AI : Company tried to pin labor law violation on ChatGPT . The Tech Isn't The Key : Legal AI needs to build a winning user experience if it's going to capture Biglaw . Everyone In MAGA Land Has Notes For…
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Comes complete with a public airing of grievances. The post The Most Infamous SCOTUS Feud appeared first on Above the Law .
Kathryn Rubino
Above the Law
Comfort and adoption with AI are rising faster than judgment maturity. The post Teaching Judgment In The Age Of AI: Building Legal Professionals Who Rely On AI Responsibly appeared first on Above the Law .
Jeremy Barker
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Because justice is apparently what happens when everyone brings a robot lawyer to court. The post Mark Zuckerberg Thinks Everyone Should Have A Superintelligent AI Lawyer appeared first on Above the Law .
Staci Zaretsky
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Company wrote that it fired employee for discussing pay and then tried to claim ChatGPT was responsible for admitting violation. The post Judge Rejects ‘ChatGPT Wrote My Confession’ Defense appeared first on Above the Law .
Joe Patrice
Above the Law
The concern isn't simply that AI creates new cyber threats. It's that organizations may unknowingly introduce risks that fall outside the assumptions underlying their insurance policies. The post Your Cyber Insurance May Not Be Ready For Autonomous AI appeared first on Above the Law .
Michael C. Maschke, Sharon D. Nelson, and John W. Simek
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AI visibility is typically seen as a content problem. But that only helps with a third of the hurdles law firms face in how legal service buyers are using AI search. The post Law Firms Don’t Have One AI Visibility Problem. They Have Three. appeared first on Above the Law .
Josh Anisfeld
Above the Law
Only New York associates are getting the raises, and they’ll have to wait until January. The post Biglaw Firm Joins The Salary Wars, But Keeps Raises On Ice Until 2027 appeared first on Above the Law .
Staci Zaretsky
Above the Law
Bloomberg Law hasn't been the loudest player in legal AI, in part because the company is focused on the parts investors aren't as interested in. The post The AI User Experience Is More Important Than Ever appeared first on Above the Law .
Joe Patrice
LawNext
For ambitious software startups, winning a new customer is only the beginning. The next challenge is getting that customer fully operational before delays, technical complications, or a difficult data migration undermine the relationship. Universal Migrator helps fast-moving startups accelerate onboarding by…
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'Never mention her friggin' name to me.' Jeanine Pirro is taking some hits. The post Peter Navarro Wants A Prosecutor Fired For The Unforgivable Sin Of Prosecuting Him appeared first on Above the Law .
Kathryn Rubino
Above the Law
Modern patent litigation remains a vibrant and challenging pursuit for both plaintiffs and defendants. The post 3 Takeaways From The Lex Machina 2026 Patent Report appeared first on Above the Law .
Gaston Kroub
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It is a platform that combines lead generation, AI-powered intake and follow-up, and automated client reactivation, all in a single product aimed at flat-fee practices. The post Exclusive: Coming Out Of Stealth, Paravo Launches What It Calls The First AI ‘Revenue Engine’ For Law Firms appeared first on Above the Law .
Robert Ambrogi
Above the Law
* Biglaw firms hit with data breaches. [ Law360 ] * Office of Legal Counsel takes position that executive privilege extends to unofficial, unconfirmed people the president talks to. [ Alternet ] * Court appearance coming up for Luigi. [ Reuters ] * FOIA requests become "Kafkaesque" mess with this administration. […
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LawNext
We are rapidly approaching budget season and planning for contingencies in 2027. Perhaps open-weight models should be part of your fall planning. Last year, DeepSeek created a scare for the American AI industry when it created a model that cost a fraction to develop relative to its U.S. counterparts. OpenAI alleges…
Ken Crutchfield
Above the Law
Biglaw Wants Private Equity's Money -- Ask Your Vet How That Turned Out: The same 'management services' trick that swallowed your dog's clinic is now knocking on Paul Weiss's door. That's Some Catch, That Catch-22 : The administration may talk like the SPLC case is a vindictive prosecution, but this Trump judge says…
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Congress just stopped changing it. The post Nine Was Never Sacred appeared first on Above the Law .
Kathryn Rubino
Above the Law
If your bios, practice pages, and thought leadership aren't structured for AI to read, cite, and recommend, you're invisible at the moment of consideration. The post A Practical Framework For Optimizing Your Firm’s Content For AI Answer Engines appeared first on Above the Law .
Jeremy Barker
Above the Law
After 20 terms on the bench, he’s not ready to leave. The post Samuel Alito Sees ‘Vultures’ Circling His Supreme Court Seat But Has No Plans To Retire appeared first on Above the Law .
Staci Zaretsky
Above the Law
Judge Emily Marks rejected the DOJ's most absurd argument, then built a standard that requires you to have been born yesterday. The post Trump Judge Rules SPLC Can’t Prove Vindictive Prosecution Without Evidence, Which She Also Won’t Let Them See appeared first on Above the Law .
Joe Patrice
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Did your law school make the list? The post The Law Schools With The Highest LSAT Scores (2026) appeared first on Above the Law .
Staci Zaretsky
Above the Law
50-49. Trump's former personal criminal defense attorney will now lead the nation's top law enforcement agency. The post The Senate Confirmed Todd Blanche At 4 am. Nothing Good Happens After Midnight. appeared first on Above the Law .
Kathryn Rubino
Above the Law
A podcast can be one of the smartest branding and relationship tools a lawyer will ever use, but only if it has a clear purpose, a strong format, and a real plan behind it. The post How Lawyers Can Start A Podcast That Actually Builds Business And Brand appeared first on Above the Law .
Steve Fretzin
Above the Law
Biglaw is looking at the playbook that killed endless shrimp. The post The Richest Law Firms Are Looking At Private Equity Cash Because I Guess They Don’t Have Enough Money appeared first on Above the Law .
Kathryn Rubino
LawNext
Howard Katzenberg’s idea for a trademark software company began with a trademark fight of his own. Today, he is formally launching that software, called GleanMark, a U.S. trademark research and workflow platform for lawyers. The platform combines free USPTO search with AI-driven clearance analysis, office-action…
Bob Ambrogi
LawNext
SurePoint Technologies, a company that provides practice-management, finance and growth technology products for mid-sized law firms, named Jeff Steinberg its chief executive officer on July 23, elevating Eric Thurston, who had led the company since 2023, to executive chairman. Two weeks into the job, Steinberg joins…
Bob Ambrogi
LawNext
DISCO is moving beyond e-discovery, the technology that has been its bread and butter ever since its founding in 2013, to launch what it describes as the industry’s first unified litigation solution, an AI-native application that combines the facts of a matter with relevant U.S. case law. The product, which the…
Bob Ambrogi
LawNext
Thomson Reuters says the large language model it has been quietly building in-house now performs competitively with the best general-purpose AI models in the world, and it has released its first benchmarking results to back up the claim. In a July 31 post on the company’s innovation blog, Chief Technology Officer…
Bob Ambrogi
LawNext
A poorly managed shutdown can create significant risk. Customers may claim that they lost access to data, were not given a reasonable opportunity to retrieve it, or received exports that were incomplete or unusable. While no technology can eliminate legal risk, a documented and organized offboarding process can…
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LawNext
LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced the opening of its Customer Innovation Lab in New York City, a physical space where legal professionals, LexisNexis engineers, and AI technology partners including OpenAI and Amazon Web Services work side by side to design, prototype and test new legal AI capabilities –…
Bob Ambrogi
LawNext
When law school AI policies have made news, it has usually been because they were controversial. UC Berkeley School of Law’s restrictive policy, which I wrote about in May, drew national attention for barring generative AI from nearly every stage of producing graded work. But a new website launched by Andrew Perlman…
Bob Ambrogi
LawNext
At a time when virtually every major AI legal research product is moving toward delivering a single, synthesized answer to your research question, a new product launching today is based on the premise that many litigators want something that sounds almost old school – just the cases. Align Research, released to…
Bob Ambrogi
LawNext
Every Friday, a panel of leading legal tech journalists come together to discuss the top stories of the week in legal tech and legal innovation. The show is live and free to attend. You can register to attend the weekly Zoom here. Missed last week’s show? Here are the recordings.h This week’s topics: (00:00)…
Bob Ambrogi
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