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Double Trouble: The Two AI Clauses You Need for Your Engagement Agreement

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If you’ve been using artificial intelligence in your law practice – and, most lawyers have been, at least to some extent (some, without even knowing it) – you’ve probably been thinking about what you should tell your clients about that, if anything.     So, let me be the one to confirm that, yes – you should be telling your clients about how you use AI in your law practice, and why you do it .  But, there’s also something else you should be alerting them to: when they shouldn’t be using AI, in relation to their case.     My friend, Josh Noffke, a Michigan lawyer & AI consultant , has created a couple of great clauses for both scenarios.   As you can see from Josh’s engagement agreement clause , the client-facing clause about a law firm’s use of artificial intelligence can be short and sweet .  It centers the lawyer’s judgment as a control, and lays out certain use cases for AI in a law practice .  This works because clients expect or a...
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Two-Way Street: LegalTech Connects with Frontier AI

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Last week, I addressed how both Anthropic and OpenAI are making inroads into the legal vertical with their own l aw firm platforms.     Now, that’s a shot across the bow of traditional legaltech vendors, who are actively employing (usually) white-labeled versions of frontier AI tools into their platforms .   But, with frontier AI vendors releasing legal-specific p roducts , that also delivers an interesting new choice for attorneys – who could entirely avoid case management software in favor of these new tools.   Legaltech vendors, then, especially the law practice management software companies, that have traditional ly served as the hub for legal operations, now also have a choice to make: Do they continue to gatekeep their systems from frontier AI tools, or risk losing clients who want to use those tools aggressively, to those models?     Currently legaltech vendors are answering those questions in different ways .  Some (like Clio , with it...
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Incursion: Now Comes OpenAI for Legal

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In April, Anthropic hosted a live webinar entitled ‘ Claude for Legal Teams ’ – over 20,000 attorneys attended .   ( Anthropic is the AI company whose chatbot/coding product is Claude .)  In May, Anthropic released a series of Claude plugins (skills) & connectors (integrations), to lawyers and legal products .     Now, OpenAI – the company that offers the chatbot/coding product, ChatGPT – is releasing a new version of its latest model (Astra) for the legal industry (Astra for Legal) .   A number of legal integrations are being made available .  Astra for Legal is a ccessible only by select firms right now – the biggest ones; but, it will trickle down, from there.   Of course, every frontier AI model is likely to try to breach the legal space, at some point – which delivers some interesting choice s for attorneys .  Do you opt in to one of these legal-specific models, and to what else do you give it access ?  What do you need, ...
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