ChatGPT Is NOT A Legal Research Tool
Olga V. Mack is a Fellow at CodeX, The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, and a Generative AI Editor at law.MIT. Olga embraces legal innovation and had dedicated her career…
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Harvard Clears Its President of ‘Research Misconduct’ After Plagiarism Charges
The battle over the fate of Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, took an unexpected turn this week, as accusations of plagiarism in her scholarly work surfaced, along with questions about how…
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Major Thomson Reuters News: Westlaw Gets Generative AI Research Plus Integration with Casetext CoCounsel; Gen AI Coming Soon to Practical Law
Thomson Reuters today delivered on its promise to integrate generative AI within its flagship legal research platform, introducing AI Assisted Research in Westlaw Precision, available immediately to all U.S. Precision…
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vLex (Fastcase) Unveils Beta Version Of Its Global, Multi-Language Generative AI Legal Research Tool
When the legal research companies vLex and Fastcase announced their merger in April, they promised the deal would fuel new opportunities for the development of generative AI for legal research….
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5 Effective Research Strategies for Law Students to Prepare
It’s a journey demanding more than mere memory skills. It’s about mastering some killer research strategies, not just for academic triumph, but also for building those skills you’ll need for…
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New Visalaw.ai/AILA Product Uses GPT-4 for Immigration Law Research, Drafting and Summarization
A new generative AI product for immigration lawyers announced today is designed to help them conduct research, draft and summarize complex legal documents, and engage with potential clients through a…
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Court Imposes Sanctions On Lawyers Who Filed Bogus Cases After Relying On ChatGPT For Legal Research
A federal district judge has imposed monetary and other sanctions on the two lawyers who filed a brief laden with bogus cases they found when they relied on ChatGPT for…
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eDiscovery Assistant, Legal Research Platform for E-Discovery, Adds AI-Generated Case Law Summaries
eDiscovery Assistant, a legal research platform for e-discovery case law and resources, is today introducing AI-generated case law summaries. The feature uses ChatGPT to deliver one-paragraph summaries of court decisions,…
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California scientist blasts climate change research
For climate change deniers, it was confirmation of a long-held suspicion: Scientists cannot be trusted. Days after publishing research that found global warming had boosted the risk of fast-growing California…
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Two Canadian Legal Tech Companies, CiteRight and Jurisage, Merge to Power Litigation Research and Drafting
Two litigation-focused Canadian legal technology companies, CiteRight and Jurisage, have merged, combining CiteRight’s litigation drafting program with Jurisage’s AI technology to create an integrated legal research and drafting solution. Had…
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Natalie Anne Knowlton’s research has provided an important foundation for regulatory reform efforts
(Photo of Natalie Anne Knowlton by Elevate Photography/ABA Journal) When states consider law firm ownership and limited law practice by nonlawyers, a common attorney criticism is that such regulation changes…
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YouTube Ads May Have Led to Online Tracking of Children, Research Says
This year, BMO, a Canadian bank, was looking for Canadian adults to apply for a credit card. So the bank’s advertising agency ran a YouTube campaign using an ad-targeting system…
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