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Legal-tech, law-firm AI, and AI copyright/IP cases. Curated and summarized from dozens of sources by AIBriefs.
The UK's Musicians' Union has backed the AFM's lawsuit against Universal Music and Warner Music, calling it part of a global fight. The union urges others to take on corporations that intend to exploit rights without consent.
A lawsuit filed in San Francisco claims that ChatGPT reinforced a 24-year-old woman's distrust of crisis hotlines during a mental health crisis; she died by suicide hours after the conversation. The suit argues OpenAI's product is defective for providing harmful responses.
Anthropic's Claude FM is a 24/7 YouTube stream featuring music from real artists, raising questions about proper licensing. The AI company is already in a legal battle with music publishers over copyright claims.
EveOS is an AI-native operating system designed to manage a plaintiff firm's operations across the full case lifecycle. It follows Eve's earlier "AI workforce" launch five months prior.
A judge canceled a trial and removed all lawyers after discovering both sides used AI to prepare their cases. The decision highlights growing legal scrutiny over AI use in court proceedings.
Gary Marcus argues that a new German ruling could set a precedent for holding AI companies liable despite Section 230. He contends the law was designed for social media, not generative AI.
Google filed a motion to dismiss a class-action copyright lawsuit, claiming artists consented to the use of their recordings for AI training when uploading to YouTube. The lawsuit challenges whether YouTube's terms of service grant a broad license for training AI models.
The Regional Court of Munich issued a temporary injunction barring Google from spreading false claims in AI Overviews, treating the AI-generated content as Google's own speech. The court rejected Google's argument that users must fact-check outputs, ruling that AI Overviews make independent statements not found in search results.
Thoma Bravo took a majority stake in Casepoint in Jan 2025, merging it with OPEXUS. New CEO Paul Colangelo discusses the company's push into AI, government market, FOIA, and case management.
A person was wrongfully arrested after an AI system misidentified them. The individual is now seeking justice through legal action.
Sandstone raised $30M in a Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Sequoia participating. The funds will support AI-powered tools for in-house legal teams.
DeepIP, an AI patent drafting platform, has acquired PatentMaker, a patent workflow tool built for European IP practitioners. The deal aims to position the combined entity as the leading AI platform for patent drafting and prosecution in Europe.
Mark Pike, Legal Counsel at Anthropic, and Anna Gressel, Partner at Freshfields, discuss how lawyers use Claude. They explore how legal work changes with AI and why professional judgment remains key.
Police forces in England and Wales have been directed to stop using AI-generated material in court statements. The directive addresses concerns over accuracy and legal risks.
Legora, an AI-native legal operating system, surpassed $100M in annual recurring revenue within 18 months of founding, making it one of the fastest-growing enterprise companies. CEO Max Junestrand discusses the product's end-to-end automation of complex legal work.
Palantir has entered the legal AI space, according to a wrap-up by Artificial Lawyer. The article also discusses the Legal Innovators California conference and the trend of tech giants entering legal tech.
The conference, organized by Masters AI Legal and Cat Casey, will be held in Los Angeles and virtually. It aims to focus on practical legal AI applications.
Lavern is an open-source multi-agent legal system developed by Finnish lawyer Antti Innanen. Innanen responded to criticism that it's a 'veggie burger dressed up to look like real meat' by disagreeing, noting the platform is free and powerful.
The proprietary enterprise platform targets private equity fundraising. The partnership follows Kirkland's earlier plan to build a PE-focused tech solution.
Federal judges face growing burden from AI-generated legal filings by unrepresented litigants. Judge Maritza Braswell spends much of her time reviewing these documents.
Artificial Lawyer asked ChatGPT to estimate the total token costs for law firms. The analysis explores the financial implications of widespread AI adoption in legal practice.
Analysis of 6,200 legal matters reveals common patterns in running transactions. The data sheds light on where work happens and how deals progress.
A Stanford study found AI outperformed law professors on legal questions 75% of the time. The margin was described as 'not close'.
Noory Bechor, co-founder of LawGeex, launches Superlegal NewMod, a legal AI firm. LawGeex was previously broken up and sold off.
Foundation 365, formerly Peppermint Client Engagement, is now available across Microsoft 365 including Outlook, Teams, and Copilot. The platform is built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 and targets law firms with AI-driven client engagement.
Highland Europe and Index Ventures led the round. The legal AI startup plans to expand its platform and team.
Rising token costs are driving up expenses for legal AI tools. The article examines how law firms are grappling with the increasing price of computational resources.
Dan Hauck discusses integrating AI agents with knowledge graphs for legal document management. The approach aims to surface relevant knowledge from structured and unstructured data. Hauck emphasizes contextual retrieval over raw AI generation.
LexisNexis's Karen Waldron examines why legal AI adoption hinges on building trust. Even advanced tech struggles without confidence from stakeholders.
A Stanford-led blind study of nearly 3,000 matchups found that Gemini 2.5 answers were preferred over those of law professors 75% of the time. The AI's answers were also rated as less harmful than human-written ones.
iManage CEO Neil Araujo returns to the LawNext podcast to discuss the company's evolving AI strategy, from early law firm adoption to current state. He emphasizes the importance of context for AI in legal work.
UMG and Sony are expanding their copyright lawsuit against AI music startup Suno, seeking to add over 61,000 recordings after discovery revealed Suno trained on millions of their copyrighted tracks. Suno has moved to seal the size of its training data, citing competitive harm.
The study focuses on reducing cost and improving reliability of LLM verifiers for legal agent evaluation and post-training. It explores efficient verification methods tailored to legal-domain tasks.
600+ attendees expected at the Legal Innovators California conference in San Francisco on June 10-11. The event at the CJM brings together legal professionals and innovators.
Spellbook, a pioneer in contract AI, has hired Jean-Michel Lemieux, former CTO of Shopify. Lemieux previously led Shopify's technology during its growth phase.
Boehmig, who founded CLM pioneer Ironclad, will lead product for the legal vertical at OpenAI. The move comes less than a month after Anthropic released 20+ MCP connectors for legal software.
Most law firms now have at least one generative AI tool in production, with many having several. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is emerging as the key standard that will determine how legal AI tools integrate and evolve.
Florida AG James Uthmeier filed the first state lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT's unsafe design contributed to multiple violent incidents including a shooting at Florida State University. The complaint seeks to hold CEO Sam Altman personally liable for prioritizing profits over safety.
San Francisco-based AmLaw 200 firm Hanson Bridgett adopts Claude across the firm, including legal-specific add-ons. The move represents a full commitment to AI-powered legal work.
The platform now lists over 90 end-to-end workflow agents on GitHub, each with a single command. Mark Pike says the tooling is designed to make lawyer review easier, never to skip it.
Kirkland & Ellis's $500m tech project may involve fine-tuning open source LLMs to create their own legal AI model. The firm is also on a hiring binge for innovation roles.
Bloomberg reports that law firms like Freshfields are launching 'Freshfields Lab' digital innovation hubs where lawyers and technicians collaborate on AI-driven client solutions. The article explores how generative AI is reshaping legal workflows, billing practices, and talent strategies across Big Law.
Amnesty International briefing finds that standalone generative AI systems based on unlawful web scraping violate international human rights law through mass privacy invasion and discrimination. The organization calls for a complete prohibition of such systems.
CNN sued Perplexity for copyright infringement, joining over a dozen publisher lawsuits against OpenAI and six against Perplexity since 2023. News Corp signed a deal worth up to $50M per year for Meta to use its content.
The Florida Supreme Court issued a new rule requiring document signers to certify that all legal citations exist and are accurately cited. The rule aims to address the growing problem of AI-generated hallucinated citations in court filings. It applies to all state courts in Florida.
The Illinois State Bar Association partners with SimpleDocs to give members free access to AI contract review. The deal aims to provide affordable AI tools for Illinois attorneys.
Webinar ahead of Legal Innovators Europe conference in Paris (June 24-25). Covers practical implementation of AI in legal practice.
Darrow's new platform lets plaintiffs' firms manage litigation as an investment portfolio. It builds on the company's AI that scans the web to surface potential class actions, allowing firms to track and optimize case portfolios.
A lawyer built a 12x32GB SXM V100 cluster to run local AI for legal drafting, using Claude Code as the interface. The system works despite the builder's self-described lack of expertise.
Scientific American reports a persistent issue where AI chatbots generate fictitious legal citations, leading to sanctions against attorneys. The problem highlights the need for verification before relying on AI in legal research.
AI assists legal professionals and developers in patent law by simultaneously researching millions of documents and comprehending technical inventions. The video explores how AI reasoning capabilities are applied at the intersection of law and technology.
79% of attorneys claim to use AI, but actual integration remains low. Tools like Westlaw Deep Research and Harvey.AI exist, yet structural barriers prevent transformation.
The UK Cabinet Office avoided a £1.5M spend on an outside law firm by having an engineer embed with the in-house legal team for two weeks. The built AI tool now runs whenever needed. Eoin Mulgrew from No. 10 Downing Street explains the approach.