The Bluebook Doesn’t Cover Everything

Given how detailed The Bluebook is, it might lull readers into a false sense of security. They might think, “Yes, The Bluebook has a large number of rules, but once I master them, I’ll know exactly…

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Tracking hallucination marketing claims from legal tech vendors

Some people have not heard of the WayBack Machine

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The Legal Tech Giants Powering ICE, Part 1 — How Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis Helped Support America’s Immigration Surveillance Machine

For the lawyers and other legal professionals who use Westlaw and LexisNexis every day, these platforms are familiar tools of the trade – essential systems for finding case law, checking citations and...

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Free Law Project Is Scanning America's Case Law

Free Law Project is scanning and digitizing millions of pages of published case law reporters, picking up where Harvard Law Library left off, to make CourtListener a complete and authoritative free so...

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What really happens on the emergency docket

By now, readers of SCOTUSblog are quite familiar with the Supreme Court’s emergency docket, where parties come to the court seeking emergency orders, oftentimes without full briefing and oral argument...

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Oregon’s New AI Companion Law: What You Need to Know – Technology Law Section

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Typos Have Plagued Us for Centuries. Just Ask the Publishers Who Printed the Seventh Commandment as 'Thou Shalt Commit Adultery' in 1631

A new exhibition at Yale Library explores the history of typos across five centuries. Visitors will see corrections that were listed inside copies of works by James Joyce, Upton Sinclair and Nicolaus Copernicus

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National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info

State attorneys general won't get climate chapter removed from a legal manual.

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Defining Technologies of Our Time - Aspen Digital

This handbook offers an accessible, easy to use entry point for grappling with the question of how to define AI in a legal context.

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Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: One Semester, Eight Vibe-Coded Teaching Tools - AI Law Librarians

Somewhere around tool number five, I realized I had a problem. The kind where you keep saying "almost done" and then it's 2 AM and you're finalizing a React app that lets your students act as bots and...

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LexisNexis Says Data Breach Has Been Cointained; Hackers Claim Access to Government and Law Firm User Data

LexisNexis Legal & Professional has confirmed that hackers breached its servers and accessed customer and business information, after a threat actor calling itself FulcrumSec publicly posted stole...

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Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.

40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

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Building the Stochastic Sandpit for AI

We've spent the last couple of years treating generative AI like a vending machine. Select a task. Insert a prompt. Retrieve a product. And to be fair, in

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LexisNexis Launches Lexis+ with Protégé, Replacing Lexis+ AI with an End-to-End Workflow Platform

You can bid adieu to Lexis+ AI. LexisNexis is today announcing the general availability in the United States of Lexis+ with Protégé, an integrated flagship platform that  fully replaces Lexis+ AI — wh...

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What the Science Says About Hallucinations in Legal Research - AI Law Librarians

This is Part 1 of a three-part series on AI hallucinations in legal research. Part 2 will examine hallucination detection tools, and Part 3 will provide a practical verification framework for lawyers....

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New database reveals how Americans use water

Water powers our lives. It feeds our crops, keeps factories running, generates electricity, and fills our taps. But until now, no one had a clear, national picture of how much water we're using—and fo...

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Introducing the Interim Relief Docket Stat Pack

For years, scholars and commentators have tracked the Supreme Court’s merits docket through detailed statistical analyses. SCOTUSblog’s Stat Pack has become an essential resource for understanding how...

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Anthropic’s Legal Plugin for Claude Cowork May Be the Opening Salvo In A Competition Between Foundation Models and Legal Tech Incumbents

To read today's news, you'd think it was the shot heard 'round the world — or around the legal tech world, at least. 'Legal software companies have suffered sharp declines in their share prices,' repo...

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AI Tools Are A Starting Point - Not A Substitute - For Legal Research - Above the Law

Using AI does not change your duties or lower the standard of competence.

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Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence

The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer....

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Legal Tech Leaders Join Other Legal Professionals In Open Letter Supporting the Rule of Law

A number of leaders from the legal technology community are joining other legal professionals in an open letter supporting the rule of law. 'Lawyers, judges, and government officials all take an oath....

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202. The Timing of Rulings in Argued Cases

The Supreme Court's internal norms usually make it more than a little difficult to be confident about which decisions in argued cases will be handed down when.

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AI’s Memorization Crisis

Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.

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Are We Prepared To Deal With The Coming Wearable Revolution? - Above the Law

Wearables offer tremendous potential benefits. But our responsibility is to think hard about the risks these wearables bring to the legal process.

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Why Account Setup Matters More Than the Generative AI Tool

Why Account Setup Matters More Than the Generative AI ToolGenerative artificial intelligence (GAI) is advancing far more rapidly than the technologies that preceded it, and adoption rates are soaring....

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Climate policy dashboard

The Inclusive Forum on Carbon Mitigation Approaches (IFCMA) is a country member-driven initiative coordinated by the OECD, bringing together OECD and non-OECD countries, to support climate action thro...

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Do you ever wonder what Congress is up to? – beSpacific

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