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Thomson Reuters Acquires UK Startup Safe Sign Technologies, Developer of Legal-Specific LLMs

Founded by a current trainee solicitor at A&O Shearman, Safe Sign is the second major generative AI acquisition for Thomson Reuters, following on the company's acquisition of Casetext for $650 million in cash in 2023.
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The Recorder

'A Wake-Up Call': Experts Assess Impact of SSN Data Breach Case

The breach became public knowledge this month after a California resident filed a class action lawsuit against background check company Jerico Pictures, doing business as National Public Data in Coral Springs, Florida, on Aug. 1 in the Southern District of Florida, Fort Lauderdale Division. The plaintiff is represented by Kopelowitz Ostrow, Arnold Law Firm and Wucetich Korovilas.
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Legaltech News

Legal Tech Industry Vets Launch New Marketing Comms Firm Limelight

Former journalists and marketing professionals Kenneth Gary and Erin Harrison look to leverage their years of experience at the intersection of law, business and technology to offer bespoke communications programs beyond PR for clients, founded in innovation and efficiency.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

'Tacit Collusion'?: Verizon Slams Class Action Demanding $268B in Restitution

"The factual allegations are baseless, the legal claims are frivolous, and the damages figure is pure fantasy," a Verizon spokesperson said of the antitrust class action. "We are confident a court will see this complaint for what it is while Verizon customers continue to enjoy Wi-Fi calling and mobile data as features of their service plans."
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Legaltech News

CARET Loses CEO, CRO and VP After HotDocs Sale

The layoffs took place "five to six weeks ago," according to a source with knowledge of the matter.
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New York Law Journal

Aviate, Navigate, Communicate: Training for Inevitable Cyber-Attacks

Claudia Rast and Roland Trope discuss FBI procedures for recovering payments made to ransomware attackers. The authors "draw from years of in-the-trenches cyber counseling and knowledge of the general mayhem and chaos that a cyber-attack can wreck on an organization, its personnel, and its customers or clients."
11 minute read

Legaltech News

Nervous System: Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good Privacy

The first attempt at offering commercially available email encryption software found its distributor charged with trafficking in illegal arms.
6 minute read

Legaltech News

The Next Frontier: AI Agents for Law Firms

AI agents are indeed making strides in various sectors, but come with limitations, as with every novel technology.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Nvidia Slapped With Class Action by YouTube Creators for Using Content to Train AI Software

According to the suit, Santa Clara-based Nvidia, which designs the graphics processing units that power AI, illegally used "millions" of YouTube videos as training models for its "Cosmos" AI software, a deep-learning program that was designed to support such other Nvidia products as image generation and automated driving.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

'We're Going to Tear the Barriers Down': Judge Prepares to Open App Market Floodgates on Google

"When you have a mountain that's built out of bad conduct, you're going to have to move that mountain," U.S. District Judge James Donato said.
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