Law Firms Are Launching Their Own Gen AI Chatbots: The Morning Minute
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September 08, 2023 at 06:00 AM
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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING
BUILD-A-BOT - As quickly as the excitement grew around generative AI's potential came the backlash over its shortcomings, with particular ire aimed at ChatGPT. But, as Law.com's Rhys Dipshan writes in the latest Law.com Barometer newsletter, pumping the brakes—and looking beyond ChatGPT's hype—may have actually been beneficial to law firms' efforts to innovate by helping them realize they "can safely allow their lawyers to experiment with the underlying generative AI models—so long as it is through their own proprietary chatbots." To receive the Law.com Barometer directly to your inbox each week, click here.
PRIVATE EDUCATION - While law firms' data privacy practices have been growing to address the legal challenges that organizations face, law schools aren't quite keeping up with market demand for qualified data privacy professionals. Law professors told Law.com's Cassandre Coyer that, while the data privacy legislation push in the U.S. has prompted more law schools to grow their privacy curriculum, that progress has been too slow to help match the market's shortage of talent. And privacy professionals warned that such a gap could become even more apparent in the age of generative AI.
ON THE RADAR - The University of Minnesota was slapped with a data breach class action Sept. 6 in the Minnesota 4th Judicial District for Hennepin County. The complaint, arising from a 2023 cyberattack, accuses the defendant of failing to safeguard personally identifying information of students, employees and applicants totaling more than 7 million individuals. The class is represented by Hellmuth & Johnson. Counsel have not yet appeared for the defendant. The case is 27-CV-23-14056, Justin D Shackelford, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated vs University of Minnesota. Stay up on the latest state and federal litigation, as well as the latest corporate deals, with Law.com Radar.
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Who Got The Work
Michael G. Bongiorno, Andrew Scott Dulberg and Elizabeth E. Driscoll from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have stepped in to represent Symbotic Inc., an A.I.-enabled technology platform that focuses on increasing supply chain efficiency, and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The case, filed Oct. 2 in Massachusetts District Court by the Brown Law Firm on behalf of Stephen Austen, accuses certain officers and directors of misleading investors in regard to Symbotic's potential for margin growth by failing to disclose that the company was not equipped to timely deploy its systems or manage expenses through project delays. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton, is 1:24-cv-12522, Austen v. Cohen et al.
Who Got The Work
Edmund Polubinski and Marie Killmond of Davis Polk & Wardwell have entered appearances for data platform software development company MongoDB and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The action, filed Oct. 7 in New York Southern District Court by the Brown Law Firm, accuses the company's directors and/or officers of falsely expressing confidence in the company’s restructuring of its sales incentive plan and downplaying the severity of decreases in its upfront commitments. The case is 1:24-cv-07594, Roy v. Ittycheria et al.
Who Got The Work
Amy O. Bruchs and Kurt F. Ellison of Michael Best & Friedrich have entered appearances for Epic Systems Corp. in a pending employment discrimination lawsuit. The suit was filed Sept. 7 in Wisconsin Western District Court by Levine Eisberner LLC and Siri & Glimstad on behalf of a project manager who claims that he was wrongfully terminated after applying for a religious exemption to the defendant's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The case, assigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge Anita Marie Boor, is 3:24-cv-00630, Secker, Nathan v. Epic Systems Corporation.
Who Got The Work
David X. Sullivan, Thomas J. Finn and Gregory A. Hall from McCarter & English have entered appearances for Sunrun Installation Services in a pending civil rights lawsuit. The complaint was filed Sept. 4 in Connecticut District Court by attorney Robert M. Berke on behalf of former employee George Edward Steins, who was arrested and charged with employing an unregistered home improvement salesperson. The complaint alleges that had Sunrun informed the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection that the plaintiff's employment had ended in 2017 and that he no longer held Sunrun's home improvement contractor license, he would not have been hit with charges, which were dismissed in May 2024. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer, is 3:24-cv-01423, Steins v. Sunrun, Inc. et al.
Who Got The Work
Greenberg Traurig shareholder Joshua L. Raskin has entered an appearance for boohoo.com UK Ltd. in a pending patent infringement lawsuit. The suit, filed Sept. 3 in Texas Eastern District Court by Rozier Hardt McDonough on behalf of Alto Dynamics, asserts five patents related to an online shopping platform. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap, is 2:24-cv-00719, Alto Dynamics, LLC v. boohoo.com UK Limited.
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