Sixth Circuit Slaps Steep Sanctions On Two Lawyers For Fake Citations And Misrepresentations In Appellate Briefs
This may be one of the most significant appellate sanctions rulings yet involving fabricated case citations. The post Sixth Circuit Slaps Steep Sanctions On Two Lawyers For Fake Citations And Misrepresentations In Appellate Briefs appeared…
Legalweek Has Left The Building – And Successfully Landed In A New One
Last week, Law.com Legalweek pulled off something genuinely impressive: It moved. The post Legalweek Has Left The Building – And Successfully Landed In A New One appeared first on Above the Law.
AI Legal Research Startup Descrybe Launches ‘Legal Reasoning’ Tool; Says It Outperforms ChatGPT, Claude, And Gemini On Bar Exam Benchmark
DescrybeLM answered all 200 bar exam questions correctly. The general-purpose models each missed between 13 and 23 questions. The post AI Legal Research Startup Descrybe Launches ‘Legal Reasoning’ Tool; Says It Outperforms ChatGPT, Claude,…
The Justice Department Is Lowering Its Ethical Guardrails
For generations, strict limits on the DOJ's political activity helped sustain trust. Weakening those limits threatens to erode it. The post The Justice Department Is Lowering Its Ethical Guardrails appeared first on Above the Law.
AI Adoption Among Legal Professionals Has More Than Doubled In A Year, New 8am Report Finds, But Firms Lag Far Behind Individual Practitioners
The report covers three major topic areas: gen AI adoption and perspectives, access to justice, and the rule of law. The post AI Adoption Among Legal Professionals Has More Than Doubled In A Year, New 8am Report Finds, But Firms Lag Far…
Exclusive: Confido Legal Raises $9 Million To Expand Embedded Payments And Disbursements For Law Firms
The announcement combines the current round, which closed in November, with the seed round from 2024, which Confido’s co-founder and CEO Emery Wager said totaled a little over $2 million. The post Exclusive: Confido Legal Raises $9 Million…
Three Years After Launching As First AI Legal Assistant, CoCounsel Reaches 1 Million Users — And Thomson Reuters Teases What’s Ahead
Thomson Reuters framed the milestone not just as a measure of growth but as a signal of a broader shift in how regulated industries are approaching artificial intelligence — from cautious pilots and experiments to embedded production…
Donald Trump Has Choice Words For SCOTUS Justices In The Wake Of Their Tariff Decision
Talk about a sore loser. The post Donald Trump Has Choice Words For SCOTUS Justices In The Wake Of Their Tariff Decision appeared first on Above the Law.