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October 2019
I’m thinking of heading back to Chicago in a couple of weeks for Legal Geek North America—a one-day conference on Tuesday, June 17. I’d make a week of it to meet with clients and partners.
Legal Geek has its
At LexBlog, we’ve always viewed the author or publisher of a legal blog post as a signal of authority—not just for the individual post, but for the entire publication on which the author publishes.
When a blog post is clearly published
I mention AI and the law, and I am apt to be jumped by a lawyer telling me that AI is not to be trusted—look at the reports of hallucinations.
Get to legal blogs and things get much scarier. How
If you believe what Aneesh Raman, the Chief Economic Opportunity Officer at LinkedIn, has to say, there are some stressful days ahead for law grads—this year and next.
In an op-ed in The New York Times, Raman cited junior
It’s ironic that while many large law firms question the impact and value of legal blogs, it’s a legal blog they fear more than the mainstream media.
Read Sunday’s coverage of the legal blog, Above the Law, in The
Legal journalists/bloggers have recently raised concerns about an increase in hallucinations—factual inaccuracies generated by ChatGPT-4.0. These concerns echo what some tech teams and legal tech vendors using OpenAI’s API are also beginning to notice.
As reported by Kyle Wiggers of
I was in LinkedIn comments Monday discussing whether legal research platforms—AI or not—could incorporate legal blog posts and digital publishing by lawyers, much like how ChatGPT is citing journalism from The Washington Post and other major outlets, under a deal
OpenAI and The Washington Post recently announced a strategic partnership that will “make high-quality news more accessible in ChatGPT.”
The agreement allows ChatGPT to display summaries, quotations, and direct links to original reporting from The Post in response to relevant
In 1938, a writer from Minneapolis named Brenda Ueland published a seminal book on writing. Her message was simple: everyone is creative, everyone has a voice, and everyone should write.
That book, If You Want to Write, has stayed
Google’s AI is going to swallow the legal web—blogs, articles, bulletins, and journals. Every publisher, from solo lawyers to full-fledged law firms, is being told by Google, in effect:
“Today, you’re either in the Google index… or you’re invisible on