Microsoft’s AI Security Warning: A Battle That Can’t Be Won?
Will lawyers voluntarily accept a possible ethics violation without knowing? The likelihood is very high.
Lawyers, Take Note: Microsoft Offers Current Advice On Cybersecurity
These simple steps can be quickly implemented by lawyers at no or little additional cost.
Gen AI: Your Legal Research Assistant, Not Your Replacement
Here's how you can spend more time practicing law, and less time sorting, sifting, and summarizing.
NetDocuments Adds To Areas Where Legal Professionals Do Their Best Work
NetDocuments provides a cloud-native, matter-centric DMS that delivers a single system of record for securing, organizing, automating, and collaborating on documents related to matters in workspaces.
Top Magic Circle Firm Takes A Chance On Artificial Intelligence
The firm is happy to report that there won't be any kind of 'job apocalypse' thanks to its firmwide adoption of artificial intelligence technologies.
IRS Wants Microsoft To Pay $28.9B For Using Transfer Pricing To Avoid Taxes
Let’s look at what transfer pricing is, how it can be used for tax avoidance, and what problems this presents.
XBOX’s Data Collection On Kids Puts Microsoft Out A Cool $20M
I understand a mistake or two, but they did this for like 5 years.
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LawVu Enhances Contract & Matter Functionality With AI
LawVu, the category-defining legal workspace for in-house legal teams, today announced the addition of several new AI enhancements to their legal workspace.
Microsoft Ditches Twitter From Its Ads Platform… So Elon Announces Plans To Sue Microsoft
Not how any of this works.
Bad News About Lawyers’ Income – And Their Feckless Cybersecurity
What are law firms (and everyone else) doing wrong?
Finally, A Win
Even the most dogged patent defendant can sometimes be defeated.
The Fifth-Year Dilemma: Do I Stay Or Do I Go (In-House)?
How to make the right decision, and why there might be another way to shape a fulfilling legal career on your own terms.
Sometimes The Best Legal Tech Solution Is (Enhancing) What You Already Own
Intapp offers new tool extending Microsoft 365 functionality.
Bill And Melinda Gates Are Divorcing; Do They Have A Prenup?
The answer is ... it's complicated.
Morning Docket: 04.30.21
* A judge has denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Amazon challenging the award of a lucrative Defense Department contract to Microsoft. Guess Jeff Bezos doesn't have enough money already... [Verge] * The FBI has purportedly seized a phone from a lawyer who has ties to Rudy Giuliani. [Salon] * A lawyer connected to "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli has resigned from the New York Bar. [Bloomberg Law] * The family of a protester shot and killed by police during the Capitol riot earlier this year is filing a wrongful death lawsuit. [NBC News] * A New York lawyer, who is accused of vanishing and leaving clients and their money in the lurch, allegedly forged his mother's signature on loan documents. Guess the joke about lawyers being willing to throw their mothers under the bus might be true for some people... [Commercial Observer]
Morning Docket: 01.04.21
* Microsoft has asked that a lawsuit involving XBox controllers be submitted to arbitration. Would be amazing if they settled this matter with a videogame battle... [Videogame Chronicle] * A pro-Trump lawyer is in hot water for seemingly suggesting that Vice President Mike Pence should be executed by firing squad. [Business Insider] * Joe Biden has named a top lawyer for Facebook to the White House Staff Secretary position. [Vox] * A federal appeals court has dismissed an election lawsuit filed by a Republican lawmaker against Vice President Mike Pence. [NBC News] * A Supreme Court advocate reportedly doled out $100 to keep people quiet when he phoned into Supreme Court oral arguments from home. Hope he got reimbursed for that expense... [Wall Street Journal]
Morning Docket: 10.13.20
* A class action about Xbox controllers that allegedly "drift" has been beefed up. I used to blame controllers when I lost at GoldenEye as a kid... [Video Games Chronicle] * Andrew Cuomo apparently has "no interest in going to Washington" to become Attorney General if Joe Biden is elected president. [Fox News] * A Connecticut lawyer who served time in federal prison for fraud is seeking reinstatement to the Connecticut Bar. [CT Post] * Law School Transparency is hosting an event on the future of the bar exam that you should all check out! [Law School Transparency] * A black man who was allegedly led through Galveston, Texas, by a white police officer on horseback is suing the city for $1 million. [CNN] * The Florida Bar says a lawyer acted so poorly, the judge had to “resort to a discipline strategy typically reserved to parents separating bickering siblings.” This sounds like so many depositions I've attended... [Daily Business Review]