California State Bar Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct to craft guidance on AI in the legal profession

May 31, 2023

EINPRESSWIRE — Ruben Duran, chair of the bar’s board of trustees, formally asked the Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct, better known as COPRAC, to draft guidance for lawyers or potentially an advisory opinion by November. Regenerative AI “has already changed the way that many lawyers practice law,” Duran said during a regularly scheduled board meeting

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How the legal profession in the US can take advantage of artificial intelligence and other legal technology

May 31, 2023

GRIT DAILY — One of the major problems with developing legal tech in the United States is the state bars of the 50 states. Even when LegalZoom was just trying to create template forms back in the early 2000s, two dozen state bars filed a major lawsuit against them, resulting in LegalZoom having to pay more

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Thomson Reuters begins to integrate generative AI into legal solutions platform

May 31, 2023

THOMSON REUTERS — Legal industry journalists, bloggers and influencers shared their perspectives on Thomson Reuters incorporating generative AI capabilities across its legal solutions and developing a contract drafting solution with Microsoft 365 Copilot. Legal Current is sharing their reactions to the announcement and this week’s media briefing, where Thomson Reuters Chief Product Officer David Wong highlighted the

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How artificial intelligence chatbots could improve access to justice

May 31, 2023

THOMSON REUTERS — The explosion on the scene of advanced AI chatbots opens a new path to using this technology to help more citizens achieve the access to justice they need to meet their legal needs.

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How to best ChatGPT and other AI chatbots

May 31, 2023

CNBC — As the generative AI field heats up, consumer-facing chatbots are fielding questions about business strategy, designing study guides for math class, offering advice on salary negotiation and even writing wedding vows. And things are just getting started. 

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Stanford Law professor Daniel Ho presents testimony on artificial intelligence before US Senate

May 31, 2023

STANFORD LAW — On May 16, 2023, Professor Daniel E. Ho1 presented testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs’ hearing on artificial intelligence. Ho, the William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law, serves as an appointed member to the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Commission, advising the White

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GPT-4’s Law School Grades: Con Law C, Crim C-, Law & Econ C, Partnership Tax B, Property B-, Tax B

May 30, 2023

(TaxProf Blog) by Paul Caron — Dean Caron (Pepperdine Law) shares an article by several University of Maryland Carey Law professors that looks at how generative artificial intelligence platform GPT-4 performed on several law school final exams.

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Congress works to regulate artificial intelligence

May 25, 2023

NPR — For the past several weeks, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has met with at least 100 experts in artificial intelligence to craft groundbreaking legislation to install safeguards. The New York Democrat is in the earliest stages of talking to members of his own party and Republicans to gauge their interest in getting behind a new

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How lawyers can utilize ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence programs

May 25, 2023

ABA JOURNAL — ChatGPT and other conversational artificial intelligence built with large language models could radically change how the legal industry operates, giving early adopters a major advantage. For instance, conversational AI can automate routine tasks such as document review and contract analysis for lawyers, and help them perform legal research and writing much more

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How lawyers can use artificial intelligence to work more efficiently

May 25, 2023

FORBES — The day when AI-powered robot lawyers will represent clients in the courtroom may be fast approaching. In fact, it almost arrived on February 22, 2023, the day that DoNotPay—an online legal services company—was scheduled to send its AI-powered chatbot to court to guide a client contesting a traffic ticket. According to DoNotPay, the

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