Technology
- LawSites reports on a survey of the Washington State Bar Association that reveals gaps in technology knowledge and cybersecurity practices. [6/17]
- Kevin Frazier writes in The Regulatory Review on the need for a fundamental shift in the cultural norms surrounding data sharing. [6/16]
- A recent NCSC webinar discusses how Orange County Superior Court is using an AI-powered Court Application Translation to serve Limited English Proficient individuals. [6/10]
- OpenAI’s newest model performs well on law school exams, Reuters reports. [6/5]
- LegalZoom and Perplexity have entered into a partnership that will provide Perplexity Pro users with LegalZoom’s legal help directly within the application, Artificial Lawyer reports. [6/4]
- Anthropic’s CEO is warning of mass displacement of entry-level white collar jobs due to AI, MSN reports and Axios reports, among others. [5/28]
- An article in Lawfare argues that judges should not rely on AI for the ‘ordinary meaning’ of text. [5/22]
Regulatory Innovation
- The American Scholar profiles access to justice pioneer and MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” recipient Rebecca Sandefur and the broader impact of the community justice worker movement. [6/4]
- Legal Futures reports on the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill and the long-awaited, but still pending, introduction of ABSs. [6/4]
Courts, Rules & Access to Justice
- Members of the Harvard A2J Lab share updates on the Lab’s Child Welfare project, which is testing the impact of embedding legal services in schools and hospitals. [6/16]
- Law360 reports on ‘facade law firms’ in North Carolina and beyond that are preying on consumers in debt. [6/13]
- Stanford Law School’s David Freeman Engstrom, Margaret Hagan, and Daniel Bernal discuss efforts to leverage technology to improve LA courts access in Stanford Legal Podcast. [6/12]
- A new paper in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies explores ways of measuring the public’s perceived inaccessibility of courts and lawyers. [6/1]
- The Colorado Access to Justice Commission and Colorado Legal Services are launching another statewide listening tour to collect feedback from community members about barriers to navigating the state’s civil courts. [5/30]
The Profession
- The Florida Supreme Court has directed The Florida Bar to stop appointing delegates to the ABA House of Delegates and to rescind or withdraw current appointments. [6/17]
- Law360 Pulse reports on the disconnect between how lawyers who serve consumers perceive their client relationships and how clients truly feel. [6/17]
- Reuters reports on the latest in the State Bar of California’s efforts to enact a provisional licensure program for first-time test takers who withdrew from or failed the February bar exam. [6/12]
- Aliza Shatzman writes in Bloomberg Law on the Transparency and Responsibility in Upholding Standards in the Judiciary Act. [6/2]
- Jonathan Adler writes on the Civitas Institute’s platform, asking whether the ABA’s accreditation monopoly is coming to an end. [6/2]
