Courts, regulators and attackers are deciding what technology means for practice while we're still in school. This page tracks the week's news, the court decisions, and what's been written about the work happening at Suffolk.
AI, privacy, cybersecurity, IP and legal tech, from the outlets that cover them. Each headline and description is the outlet's own; click through for the story. Refreshed twice a day.
Japanese manufacturer Iris Ohyama, the operator of the Iris Plaza shopping platform, disclosed that personal information belonging to about 7.7 million people may have been exposed after unauthorized access to a…
French cooperative bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa was targeted in a cyberattack that enabled fraudulent transactions of up to $133 million, forcing it to respond by suspending certain systems.v…
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The UK is betting on domestic AI and cyber investment to reduce reliance on US tech — but security leaders question whether the funding is too fragmented and too late.
Google is rightfully facing blowback for forcing K-12 schools to enable AI if they wanted to keep using Google search. The company quickly backtracked and decoupled and turned off the services by default, but made it…
The case, brought by AGs in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Michigan, targeted the medical transcription, coding and imaging subsidiaries of the Nevada-based Perry Johnson Companies.
DigiCert explained that over the summer, an internal business system was "externally accessible when that was not intended," and someone had created an unauthorized account.
Security researchers found hundreds of servers hosting the penetration testing tool Artex exposed to the internet, allowing anyone access to the hacking tool.
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The middle-aged men allegedly targeted accounting staff at victim companies and impersonated CEOs and lawyers to trick victims into sending large wire transfers.
Europe's supermarket freezer hacks show how security issues can cascade across an industry, disrupting supply chains at scale.
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Wanda Jones-Heath said it’s key to keeping pace with incidents and threats, speaking at a Datadog event Thursday.
As I have reported here, the legal technology company Clio is making a big push into the judiciary. It wants to develop AI tools to make judges’ jobs easier, and it has even trademarked the phrase “judiciary-grade AI.”…
As the U.S. population ages, technology developers, health care providers, and policymakers are increasingly interested in “AgeTech”—consumer technologies designed to support older adults and their caregivers. However…
Several staffers at the White House are using computers or mobile devices equipped with residential proxy services that render their internet address available for others to rent, security experts warned today. One of…
As NetDocuments rolls out a completely redesigned user experience, a new Microsoft 365 integration, and real-time co-authoring, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi speaks with Chief Product Officer Dan Hauck in an episode recorded…
Google said today it worked with industry partners to dismantle a botnet made up of more than 1.3 million Android TV set-top boxes that ship with malicious software which secretly rents the user's Internet connection…
Opinions where the court had to decide something about the technology itself. Gathered from CourtListener every week and screened before anything lands here. Each one links to the full opinion.
The court addressed the implications of filings that contained areas likely produced by artificial intelligence.
The court suspended the individual for submitting a brief containing AI hallucinations and false statements.
The court addressed the issue of fabricated citations created by generative AI in legal memoranda.
The court sanctioned the use of artificial intelligence in appellate filings.
The court sanctioned an attorney for submitting fabricated citations.
The court fined the complainant for hallucinations by ChatGPT or a similar artificial intelligence program.
The court addressed the defendant's use of artificial intelligence in his legal briefing.
The court addressed the use of AI in training geospatial models and its implications for copyright.
The court relied on an AI video rendering as evidence in the case.
The court considered surveillance video from a system that used AI facial recognition technology as evidence.
The court ruled on the admissibility of machine-generated monitoring data as evidence.
The court discussed the implications of hallucinations created by generative AI in the context of evidence.
The court required certification on the use of generative artificial intelligence in drafting.
The court engaged with the use of a risk assessment tool in the context of detention.
The court addressed the comparison of fingerprints using an automated system.
The court discussed the evaluation of a defendant using a risk assessment tool.
The court addressed the regulation of automatic, algorithmic determinations of worker eligibility.
The court considered the use of a pretrial risk assessment tool in the adjudication process.
The court affirmed the use of statistical instruments as risk assessment tools in the decision-making process.
The court ruled on the policy regarding the collection of biometric information.
The court ruled that the practice violated the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act.
The court addressed the admissibility of evidence obtained through facial recognition software.
The court evaluated whether written consent was obtained under the Biometric Information Privacy Act.
The court examined issues related to biometric profiling and behavioral surveillance.
The court found that Gunnar violated the Biometric Information Privacy Act.
The court addressed concerns over invasion of privacy related to facial recognition.
The court ruled that Miles is entitled to relief after the use of Facial Recognition Technology in the investigation.
Two databases, each built around one question.
Every decision where a court found that a filing leaned on AI-fabricated material. More than two thousand of them so far, and the count moves most weeks.
Public AI policies from 180 law schools, sorted by the question each one answers. Curated by our own dean, who takes corrections at a suffolk.edu address.
Coverage of legal innovation at Suffolk, and the pieces we've written ourselves.
LITSA's build competition is the lead photograph, captioned to the organization by name.
Sam Darkwa and Ben Westervelt on the first build competition. Seven teams, two tracks, one evening.
The LIT Center and AWS ran a generative AI hackathon at the Seaport office.
preLaw's annual list.
Every first-year student now completes an AI learning track.
Students negotiate against bots modeled on experienced attorneys, in text or voice.
Twenty-four credits, and the first of its kind in the country.
Law and business students prototype against access problems in a day.
National Jurist's ranking, the second time Suffolk took the top spot.
The design challenge run remotely through the pandemic year.
The eviction-moratorium reporting that put Suffolk's mobile smartforms in front of a national audience.
International recognition for the Lab's access-to-justice work.
The first of the National Jurist top rankings.
Where this field gets discussed. Short on purpose.
A network of lawyers who build their own tools. Invite only, with a public Substack.
Twenty years of legal technology reporting, and where a lot of this field's news lands first.
What the Lab is shipping, written by the people shipping it. Document assembly, court forms, teaching notes.
Our own journal. Student run, open to anyone, and a write-on route that carries academic credit.
The Center's own page, including what the concentration and the Lab are doing this year.