In July, legal tech expert and futurist Richard Susskind was appointed as the Special Envoy for Justice and Artificial Intelligence to the Commonwealth. Additionally, Susskind has been busy co-editing a new book, ”Computers & Law: The First 50 Years”, alongside Mark O’Conor to celebrate 50th anniversary of the Society for Computers and Law (SCL), which…

A coast-to-coast legal team has assembled to represent stockholders as a class in a securities case against Lewisville, Texas-based Orthofix Medical Inc., a global spine and orthopedics company. Attorneys with Scott+Scott Attorneys at Law in New York, along with Los Angeles, California-based Brian J. Schall of The Schall Law Firm…

Judge Gets Standing Ovation for Service to State’s Judicial Watchdog Commission | Daily Report Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2024/08/22/judge-gets-standing-ovation-for-service-to-states-judicial-watchdog-commission/ Supreme Court of Georgia honors Atlanta Judicial Circuit Superior Court Judge Robert C. I. McBurney for his service as the Presiding Officer of the Judicial Qualifications Commission of Georgia ahead of oral…

A new class action filed by Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein and Susman Godfrey on behalf of several authors alleges that artificial intelligence startup Anthropic committed “brazen infringement” by using “hundreds of thousands” of copyrighted books to train its flagship collection of large language models, “Claude.” The complaint, filed on…

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr is creating a nonequity partnership tier, the firm told the National Law Journal on Wednesday, as the number of large law firms with a single-tier partnership dwindles even further. Wilmer managing partner Anjan Sahni said in a statement that by creating a nonequity partnership tier, it will give…

Spellbook, a generative AI-powered contract drafting and negotiation platform provider, announced the release of its legal AI agent on Wednesday. The AI agent, called “Spellbook Associate,” will be available free of charge to all Spellbook subscribers as of now, Scott Stevenson, CEO and co-founder of the company, told Legaltech News.…