Experts predict how generative artificial intelligence will be used in legal departments
THOMAS REUTERS — Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technology holds the potential for a new way of working within corporate law departments, with the potential to transform contract drafting and analysis, legal research, document summarization and review, and much more. Indeed, through GenAI, there is the possibility to touch every function within the law department in…
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THE SEATTLE TIMES — For first time in state history lawyers won’t be required to take the state bar exam to show competency to earn a law license. Washington joins Oregon as the only two states with alternatives to the bar exam.
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BLOOMBERG LAW — Around five billion people worldwide lack access to justice, posing a challenge to rule of law and societal development
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UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS MEDIA ROOM — Jim Strickland, the 64th mayor of the City of Memphis, was announced today as the next dean of Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law.
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