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LegalZoom Sued for Alleged Unauthorized Practice of Law in NJ Class Action

LegalZoom Sued for Alleged Unauthorized Practice of Law in NJ Class Action | Legaltech News Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2024/06/04/legalzoom-sued-for-alleged-unauthorized-practice-of-law-397-86842/ LegalZoom sign is seen at the entrance to its office in Mountain View, California. Credit: Tada Images/Adobe Stock NEWS LegalZoom allegedly engages in the unauthorized practice of law because it does…

Looming Privacy Law Changes in Australia Bring Unmet Demand for Lawyers

Australia will soon enact far-reaching privacy law reform, creating increased work for companies and unmet demand for privacy lawyers from corporations and law firms. A government-commissioned privacy law review last year recommended 116 changes to the 36-year-old Privacy Act, of which the government has committed to adopt 106. It expects…

Updated Stanford Report Finds High Hallucination Rates on Westlaw AI

After pushback following Stanford’s research study “Hallucination-Free? Assessing the Reliability of Leading AI Legal Research Tools,” for what many saw as comparing apples to oranges—between Thomson Reuters’ (TR) Ask Practical Law and LexisNexis’ Lexis+ AI—the researchers released an updated study on May 30. This time, they included results from AI-Assisted…

New Rules for Attorney Discipline Pending Before Texas Supreme Court

Now that the State Bar of Texas members have approved 12 new disciplinary rules, interpretive comments for the rules are under review by the Texas Supreme Court. When the court makes its decisions on the rules later this year, that will be the culmination of a deliberative process that has…

First Department Reverses Injunction Barring NYPD Use of Sealed Arrest Records

An intermediate New York appellate court on Tuesday reversed a lower court decision barring the New York City Police Department from using or sharing information from sealed arrest records—finding the ruling lacked sufficient factual findings and was overbroad. The decision from the Appellate Division, First Department gutted a March 2023…