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From Co Counsel to Blockchain: Recent Key Legal Technology Updates

INTRODUCTION: The legal tech landscape is accelerating, with major announcements spanning AI, blockchain, and automation. Highlights include the American Arbitration Association’s partnership with Integra Ledger on blockchain document authentication, Thomson Reuters expanding CoCounsel and Westlaw Deep Research into law schools, law firms, law libraries and new product launches from Exterro,…

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Stanford’s Liftlab: A New Frontier in Legal Tech, And What it Could Mean for Law Libraries

Introduction Stanford Law School has recently announced the launch of the Legal Innovation through Frontier Technology Lab (Liftlab),led by Stanford CodeX research fellow Megan Ma, who will serve as liftlab’s executive director, alongside professor of law Julian Nyarko. Liftlab ia a bold new initiative designed to explore how artificial intelligence…

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Behind the Curtain: AI, Automation, and the Looming Threat to Human Knowledge Work

Inspired by Axios’s “Behind the Curtain: A White-Collar Bloodbath” (May 28, 2025) Dario Amodei, cofounder and CEO of Anthropic, is issuing an urgent warning: advanced artificial intelligence may soon pose a serious threat to millions of white-collar jobs. While today’s AI systems, like Anthropic’s own Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, are…

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Entropy, Complexity and the Dynamics of Change: Legal Systems, Libraries, Artificial Intelligence, Business and Economics, Quantum Computing, and Living Systems

Since writing and publishing my 1982 article, An Examination of the Dynamics of Change in Information Technology as Viewed From Libraries and Information Centers, 75 Law Library J. 198 (1982). I have learned a great deal—so much, in fact, that a completely new article is necessary. What I have come…

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Evaluating DeepSeek for Legal Research: Capabilities, Risks, and Comparisons

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed numerous industries, and legal research is no exception. Emerging AI-powered tools have introduced new efficiencies in case law analysis, contract review, compliance monitoring, and legal document automation. Among these innovations, DeepSeek, an open-source large language model (LLM), has garnered…

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Potential Impacts of Government Efficiency Reforms Led by Elon Musk on U.S. Government Libraries

Introduction Materials consulted in preparing this posting were curated from various sources including the recently introduced Deep Research by OpenAI. With Elon Musk at the helm of the Department of Government Efficiency,   various agencies within the U.S. government may experience restructuring aimed at streamlining operations, reducing costs, and integrating advanced…

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LexisNexis Announces Public Availability of Personalized AI Assistant Protégé

From a Legaltech News posting by Benjamin Joyner , January 27, 2025. “LexisNexis {has] announced the general availability of Protégé, a personalized artificial intelligence assistant for legal work. The release follows last August’s announcement of Protégé’s commercial preview, which allowed several dozen customers to beta test the product.” “The new…

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Articles and Comments from Jurimetrics Journal, Spring 2024 Issue.

About Jurimetrics Journal: The Jurimetrics Journal is published quarterly  “Jurimetrics is the oldest and most widely circulated peer-reviewed journal in its field and is proud to be the official journal of the American Bar Association Science & Technology Law Section. Currently, the journal is housed at the Sandra Day O’Connor…

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Technology Standardization Policy Update, Webinar

Sponsored by the American Bar Association (ABA), Science and Technology Section. November 21, 2024, 1:00 – 2:00pm ET. “The ABA Science & Technology Law Section’s Technical Standardization Committee (TSC) invites you to a webinar briefing with the latest developments in public policy around technical standards. Prompted by rapid technology developments…

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Cyberspace Law News Fall 2024

News From: Jon M. Garon, Chair, Cyberspace Law Committee, Business Law Section American Bar Association: Dear Colleagues: Here is the latest news about Cyberspace law, including AI, fintech, privacy, cybersecurity, crypto, digital personas and so much more. We look forward to seeing many of you in San Diego. Please join us…

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