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Lawywer Ex Machina #29: Groundhog Day
February 2, 2023
AI How AI-enhanced tools for automated decision-making can undermine anti-discrimination laws and what can regulators and entities using such tools can do to...
Lawyer Ex Machina #28: DoNotPassGo
January 26, 2023
AI Will the war in Ukraine accelerate the development of fully autonomous drones for warfare, able to "identify, select and attack targets without help from...
Lawyer Ex Machina #27: the AI generation
January 19, 2023
[Editor's note; This week's newletter is longer than usual because so much appears so timely, especially ChatGPT ...] ChatGPT First - did ChatGPT really take...
Lawyer Ex Machina #26: Robo-lawyers in traffic court
January 11, 2023
AI Is the end-game in legal research AI to replace treatises? Is this a question only a librarian would ask?— Rebecca Fordon (@theFordon) January 11, 2023...
Lawyer Ex Machina #25: Happy New Year
January 5, 2023
Crypto Tweet | Docket (RECAP Archive) | Memorandum Opinion and Order In Re Celsius Network LLCForbes has published what purports to be a draft of the...
Lawyer Ex Machina #24: Happy holidays
December 8, 2022
This is the last newsletter for this year ... hope to see you all in 2023. Artificial Intelligence (Credit to attorney David Shulman prompting ChatGPT to...
Lawyer Ex Machina #23: Finals time
December 1, 2022
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has approved a new policy by the Police Department that would authorize the use lethal force against suspects by...
Lawyer Ex Machina: Happy Thanksgiving
November 23, 2022
PacerPro, which has provided automated tools for accessing and collecting federal court documents via PACER, has now unveiled StatePro, giving the same tools...
Lawyer Ex Machina #21: Crypto contagion
November 17, 2022
Playing up an AI race between China and the U.S. may lead to increased military applications as well as less ethical and legal scrutiny of AI products, some...
Lawyer Ex Machina #20: I voted
November 10, 2022
<br /> NYPD Partners With Amazon Surveillance App To Access User Posts | New York City, NY Patch Police say the partnership will help them protect New...
Lawyer Ex Machina #19: how much for a blue check?
November 3, 2022
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Lawyer Ex Machina: Happy Halloween!
October 27, 2022
From Business Insider (via Apple News): "Lawyers Rush to Benefit From Arizona's New Rules on Law Firm Ownership" [PrintFriendly] Sen. Mark Warner is the...
Lawyer Ex Machina #17: The Lettuce Won
October 20, 2022
A Stable Diffusion vid - "human evolution" by Fabio Comparelli: A post shared by . SEC Chairman Gary Gensler wants Congress to "give the Commodity Futures...
Lawyer Ex Machina #16: that crisp fall air
October 12, 2022
Two items from Bloomberg Law: Victims of crypto and NFT fraud can take theft loss deductions [$]Why lawyers reject non-attorney firm ownership [$] Do you do...
Lawyer Ex Machina #15: Away
October 5, 2022
A new study estimates that Bitcoin mining causes climate damage to a similar degree as gasoline consumption and beef production. From the ACLU: Algorithmic...
Lawyer Ex Machina #14: Happy Silent Movie Day
September 29, 2022
LawPath, an Australian legal document and contract management company that focuses on small businesses, is now courting small businesses in the US. An op-ed...
Lawyer Ex Machina #13: A Very Lucky Number
September 22, 2022
Over the weekend, Gov. Newsom signed the State Bar association funding bill, one provision of which restricts the State Bar from spending funds on efforts to...
Lawyer Ex Machina #12: Pumpkin Spice Season
September 15, 2022
Thomsom Reuters is unveiling a new upgrade of its core legal research product, called Westlaw Precision. Features include enhancements to KeyCite, graphical...
Lawyer Ex Machina #12: long live the King
September 8, 2022
An opinion from Law360: ABA Stance On Role Of Nonlawyers Is Too Black And White [$] What is a data sanctuary and how might California be poised to become one...
Lawyer Ex Machina #11: a "general holiday for the laboring classes"
September 1, 2022
"More Than $100 Million Worth of NFTs Have Been Stolen This Year, a New Report Finds." A acquaintance/colleague of mine has written a short piece on what...
Lawyer Ex Machina #10: the NY Times Pitchbot edition
August 25, 2022
There doesn't seem to be a lot of good news coming out of El Salvador regarding its adoption of bitcoin as legal tender, but one fintech firm seems to be...
Lawyer Ex Machina #9: Feel the Heat
August 17, 2022
[Editor's note: starting next week, the newsletter will be sent out on Thursdays, except for holidays.] A bill in the California Legislature that would have...
Lawyer Ex Machina #8: the calm before the 1Ls
August 10, 2022
So. Much. About. Legal. Services. Profs. Nora Ingstrom and Scott Cummings have written an op-ed for Bloomberg Law calling for amending the current bill in...
Lawyer Ex Machina #7: extra long edition
August 3, 2022
It appears likely that consideration of a bill to regulate what's known as stablecoins (cryptocurrency that's backed by a fiat one) will be delayed until...
Lawyer Ex Machina #6: The Dog Days of Summer
July 27, 2022
A fairly new paper on SSRN by Frank Pasquale and Gianclaudio Malgieri "proposes a system of 'unlawfulness by default' for AI systems," where the burden of...
Lawyer Ex Machina #5:
July 20, 2022
Have you been told to use a VPN to protect your privacy while online? U.S. Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) have sent a letter to the...
Lawyer Ex Machina #4:
July 13, 2022
A semi-popular Twitter thread: Microsoft Excel is used by 99.99% of the world’s businesses, and most people still don’t know how to use it. Here are 10...
Lawyer Ex Machina #3: the last of the fireworks
July 6, 2022
(Editorial note: I worked with Eric Goldman at SCU and I am admittedly biased due to his scholarship, the passion he brings to the issues of Internet law and...
Lawyers Ex Machina #2: [insert funny but harmless phrase here]
June 29, 2022
Meta (FKA Facebook) is facing eight lawsuits in different jurisdictions on the same subject - whether the algorithms on FB and Instagram causes addictive...
Inaugural newsletter
June 22, 2022
Hello and welcome to Lawyer Ex Machina! Lawyers are optimistic about legal technology in general, but may not like the tech tools they've been given to use....
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