Ninth Circuit: Your AI Agent Can’t Violate Hacking Law. But You Might.

The rise of AI is bringing a bunch of fascinating legal questions that are harder to answer than many expect. The latest one: who is liable if an agentic system running on its own hacks someone? Th…

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SurePoint’s New CEO Jeff Steinberg on His Mandate for Change

SurePoint Technologies, a company that provides practice-management, finance and growth technology products for mid-sized law firms, named Jeff Steinberg its chief executive officer on July 23, elevat...

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Biglaw Firm Goes Even Bigger With Largest Group Hire In Firm History - Above the Law

Brown Rudnick landed a 34-lawyer intellectual property team from HSF Kramer while launching a brand-new Silicon Valley office.

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DISCO Moves Beyond E-Discovery with ‘Unified Litigation Solution’ that Combines Case Facts and Case Law

DISCO is moving beyond e-discovery, the technology that has been its bread and butter ever since its founding in 2013, to launch what it describes as the industry's first unified litigation solution,...

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‘Leicester Square, please guv’: Self-driving taxis cleared for London streets ‘later this summer’

Wayve Uber wins first minicab licence for autonomous cabs from TfL but vehicles will have a safety driver (at first)

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Thomson Reuters Partners With Laurel

Thomson Reuters is adding to its long list of legal tech partners with the addition of Laurel, the time recording system. The move follows TR’s spinning off of Elite in 2023, which also had a time …

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Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts

Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss

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Is This The Great Legal Tech Consolidation?

Yesterday, BigHand bought legal AI pricing startup Ayora; Anaqua bagged Unified Patents; and last week Legora picked up litigation intelligence newbie, Wexler – its fifth purchase this year. Is thi…

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Aavalynx Raises £1.5m Pre-Seed for Litigation Insights

Aavalynx, an AI-powered platform that gives insights into ongoing litigation portfolios for enterprises, has raised £1.5 million in pre-seed funding. Its founder and CEO, Hanna Roos, also previousl…

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Pick Your AI Judges, Give Them A Spin!

Meet BenchSim, a legal tech company that now provides video simulations of AI judges so that you can test out your courtroom prowess. Or, as they put it ‘BenchSim is an AI-powered oral argument sim…

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Tomorrow’s U.S. Senate Vote: Four Internet Bills, One Wrong Direction

The Senate Commerce Committee will vote this week on several censorious and privacy invasive bills: KOSA, the SCREEN Act, Youth AI Privacy Act, and CHATBOT Act. While we appreciate that the Committee is taking the time to look at these bills separately, it’s still impossible to ignore the message...

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Romantic Scandal Ends In Multimillion-Dollar Payout - See Also - Above the Law

It Looks Like The Jackson Walker/Federal Judge Scandal Is Officially Over: Some ~$20 million later... First Lateral Raid Just One Month After Mega-Merger: Sorry, Hogan Lovells Cadwalader, but Sidley really needed that fund finance team. Todd Blanche Is About To Be AG: Sure, his promises are basically worthless. but it's enough for the modern day GOP. Build-An-AI: LexisNexis unveils a new project bringing lawyers into a physical location with engineers to build new products.

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Trump administration reportedly drafting ban on Chinese datacenter components

Trump’s FCC is developing a measure to bar US imports of new models of Chinese datacenter devices, sources say

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Using Trust & Safety Tycoon In The Classroom

Early in the media law and ethics course I teach, as I shift gears from the ethics section to the law and core free speech issues, I try to build a foundation by introducing the many kinds of legal…

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Trump killed the Digital Equity Act, but US was forced to bring part of it back

$1.25 billion program restored, but judge ruled race provision unconstitutional.

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Appeals Court Agrees with EFF that Building a Web Browser Doesn’t Violate the CFAA

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has endorsed a commonsense technical interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a law not usually given to such interpretation. Amazon had sued Perplexity AI to try to shut down its Comet browser, claiming the browser’s optional agentic AI “...

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Lawyer Laterals: Free Agents With No Comp Caps  - Above the Law

In today's world, many of the headaches associated with making a lateral move can now be alleviated with artificial intelligence and technology.

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Telegram CEO says an extortionist planted CSAM in a chat to get it pulled from the App Store

The illegal material was allegedly planted in an old post.

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Mobile Ad Software Encourages Location Data Sharing, EFF Report Finds

SAN FRANCISCO – Some software development kits (SDKs) provided by advertising companies to help developers monetize their apps are automatically feeding users’ location data into systems that location data brokers use to track people, an Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) report found. EFF began...

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eBay And Former Execs Agree To Pay $56 Million For Trying To ‘Crush’ A Journalist

For much of Techdirt’s nearly three decades in existence we’ve covered attacks on the media by the rich and powerful. And sometimes we’ve been on the receiving end of such attacks…

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Metro Bank customer fights for £14,000 refund after AI-linked fraud

Lender was told money was being taken without authorisation, with cash used to buy credits for Claude chatbot

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Texas says data centers must pass an audit before connecting to the grid

It’s an effort to keep energy supply “reliable.”

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Reproductive technologies and the federal constitutional vacuum

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Daffodil Health Launches No Surprises Act Dispute Management Solution - MedCity News

Daffodil Health launched an AI-powered solution to help payers manage No Surprises Act disputes by automating claims review, negotiations and arbitration workflows.

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India moves to give its instant payments network a business model | TechCrunch

The legislation lays the groundwork for a potential overhaul of India's zero-merchant-discount-rate regime, under which businesses have not paid fees to accept UPI payments since 2020.

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OpenAI drags Apple’s lawsuit into the court of public opinion

It’s blogging receipts.

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LexisNexis Opens Customer Innovation Lab in New York to Bring Customers, Engineers and AI Companies Together to Build Legal AI in Real Time

LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced the opening of its Customer Innovation Lab in New York City, a physical space where legal professionals, LexisNexis engineers, and AI technology par...

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EFF Joins 18 Civil Rights Organizations Calling on Governor Hochul to Reject the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act

EFF joined a group of 18 civil society organizations to send a letter encouraging New York Governor Kathy Hochul to Senate Bill 9934A, the New York Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act. The letter states:While framed as a measure to protect local journalism, this legislation harms free expression and...

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Judge To xAI: If This Law Is So Urgent, Why Did You Wait Three Months To Sue?

Last week we wrote about how Elon Musk’s xAI had filed a lawsuit to attempt to block Minnesota’s anti-nudify app law. As we tried to explain, even if you (reasonably, understandably) di…

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