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Thomson Reuters Launches CoCounsel 2.0
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Is That A Professional-Grade, Legal GenAI Assistant In Your Pocket Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?
Thomson Reuters set to expand its CoCounsel features across its professional offerings. - Sponsored
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Westlaw AI Launch Forces Confrontation With The Inner Workings Of A Lawyer's Mind
AI is learning to think like a lawyer.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.18.23
* White House Counsel Stuart Delery is leaving the job next month. Where will the revolving door land? Probably Gibson Dunn. [Law360]
* State judge blocks Texas law that barred Houston — and only Houston — from running its local elections after the city started electing Black women. [AP]
* NY Times mulls suing OpenAI to prevent GPT from learning how to compose whataboutism takes that put David Brooks out of a job. [NPR]
* We knew Thomson Reuters planned to buy Casetext for $650 million. It’s now official. [Legaltech News]
* Yes, you can lose your job for posting about committing vehicular manslaughter against Black people. [Reuters]
* Supreme Court could improve its legitimacy by hewing closer to rigorous policy analysis. They can’t even do rigorous historical analysis, how are they supposed to do rigorous policy analysis? [Milken Institute Review]
* Before getting indicted for joining criminal coup-spiracy, Ken Chesebro was a Larry Tribe research assistant. [ABA Journal]
* EEOC considers renewing race and gender pay reports. Raising concerns about litigation from anti-affirmative action forces who are so sure that discrimination doesn’t exist that they don’t want anyone checking their work. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Fired attorney calls cops on partner. [Roll on Friday]
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An Interview With Casetext CEO Jake Heller On His Company’s Acquisition By Thomson Reuters
'What really got me excited about this was all the possibilities of what we’re going to build together with our customers,' Heller said. -
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How A Startup Evolves: As Casetext Marks 10th Year Anniversary, Here’s Its History Through 50 Blog Posts
While its focus has changed over the years, one characteristic has not: From the very start, Casetext was an innovator. -
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One Of The Best Generative AI Products In Legal Rumored To Be In Acquisition Talks Worth 'Hundreds Of Millions'
Someone is reportedly talking to Casetext. But who? - Sponsored
Raising The Bar in Bar Prep
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The Legal Industry Has A Long Way To Go Before GPT Matches The Talk
Paradigm shifts don't come easy. -
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New GPT-4 Passes All Sections Of The Uniform Bar Exam. Maybe This Will Finally Kill The Bar Exam.
Can we admit that the bar exam is a bad test now that robots can outperform humans? -
Technology
Legal AI Knows What It Doesn't Know Which Makes It Most Intelligent Artificial Intelligence Of All
Casetext's Co-Counsel thinks like a good junior lawyer, which is exactly what lawyers need from AI. -
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What's New At Casetext: Parallel Search And DIY Neural Networks
Bringing neural nets to the law. -
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‘Straight Up Witchcraft’: Why Legal Twitter Loves This New Research Tool
Casetext’s ‘Parallel Search’ function carries you beyond your keywords.
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Non-Sequiturs
Non Sequiturs: 02.10.19
* Irina Manta, a recent addition to the roster of Volokh Conspirators, assesses some of the attacks leveled against D.C. Circuit nominee Neomi Rao. [Volokh Conspiracy / Reason]
* In other nomination news, Thomas Jipping explains why conservatives should temper their excitement over those 44 judicial nominees who just got reported out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. [Bench Memos / National Review]
* Michael Dorf’s take on Chief Justice John Roberts joining the four liberals on the Supreme Court to put the Louisiana abortion law on hold: the right to an abortion is “not in quite as much immediate danger as one might have thought. And that’s not nothing.” [Take Care]
* Lawyer to the stars Alex Spiro, partner at Quinn Emanuel, talks about how he’s approaching the representation of his latest celebrity client, rapper 21 Savage. [Complex]
* On the occasion of his 15th blogiversary (congratulations!), Rick Garnett reflects on the past and future of blogging. [Mirror of Justice via PrawfsBlawg]
* Jean O’Grady chats with Pablo Arredondo of Casetext about the platform’s newest features. [Dewey B Strategic]
* And in other legal technology news, congrats to legal AI innovator Luminance on securing another $10 million in funding (reflecting a total valuation for the company of $100 million). [Artificial Lawyer]
* Last Thursday, Alabama executed Domineque Hakim Marcelle Ray and did not allow his imam to be present (even though Christian inmates can have the prison chaplain present) — a manifest injustice, according to Stephen Cooper. [Alabama Political Reporter]
* In the latest installment of his ongoing series offering advice to trial lawyers, David Berg sets forth an essential rule of cross-examination. [YouTube]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 09.09.18
* Here’s the truth behind what some saw as Zina Bash making a “white power” sign at the confirmation hearings of her former boss, Judge Brett Kavanaugh. [Washington Post]
* With the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings in the rearview mirror, now is a good time to look back at the last four Supreme Court confirmation hearings. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Thomas Jipping summarizes research showing that the American Bar Association does tilt leftward in rating judicial nominees — which is why its unanimous “well qualified” rating for Judge Brett Kavanaugh is especially impressive. [Bench Memos / National Review]
* Jonathan Adler argues that claims of a Justice Kavanaugh threatening the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare have been greatly exaggerated. [Volokh Conspiracy / Reason]
* But a Justice Kavanaugh likely would affect the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on presidential authority and the separation of powers. [Instapundit]
* Speaking of the Supreme Court, conservative (and tiny) Hillsdale College punches above its weight in producing SCOTUS clerks — so Paul Rahe wants to know, why can’t his school get any love from the
U.S. NewsWall Street Journal rankings? [Ricochet]* President Donald Trump’s “radically direct” tweets about pending prosecutions threaten the rule of law, according to Gerald Lefcourt and Joel Cohen. [Law & Crime]
* Legal research smackdown: Lexis v. Casetext! [Dewey B Strategic]
* And in other notable news from the world of legal tech, iManage just acquired business-process company Elegrity, which works in the risk and compliance management space. [Artificial Lawyer]
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Head-To-Head Showdown Between AI-Driven Legal Research Tools
It definitely matters which AI tools you choose to use. -
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Is AI The Great Equalizer For Small Law?
How new artificial intelligence legal technologies are making their biggest impact on smaller firms. -
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You’re Bad at Legal Research, and Your Judge Knows It.
One reason artificial intelligence is a hot topic in law: When attorneys miss precedents, the stakes are high. -
Artificial Intelligence, Legal Technology, Promoted
When AI Kills
Reflections on the recent Uber tragedy, and what it means for AI applications to legal practice.