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🌴 TLTF Summit

We just announced our Summit Advisory Committee to help curate programming for the 2024 TLTF Summit! Follow along for ongoing updates.

TLTF in the news

Congrats to Legal Karma’s Kory Kelly for winning Austin’s Startup Leader of the Year!

The TLTF Team will be headed to CLOC’s Global Institute May 6-9. Reach out if you’d like to connect and join us for a ☕ at our poolside cabana Tuesday and Wednesday! If you haven’t checked it out already, please check out our article about how we define legaltech.

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🌎 News from the world of law

• A study predicts that generative AI will result in lawyers becoming the minority on in-house legal teams in favor of data-focused hires.

• 👀 OpenAI’s confidentiality loophole allows Microsoft employees to review certain prompts, creating issues for law firms with sensitive information using its services.

• 🏛️ Judge says Microsoft Word’s format settings are not to blame for lawyers’ failure to include footnotes.

• Big Tech companies from Amazon to Meta have posted job openings for AI-focused lawyers.

• 🫸 A judge rejected a firm’s fee requests for using ChatGPT in its legal work, stating the tool needs to be significantly more reliable to be billable by attorneys.

• The UN unanimously adopted the first global AI resolution, which aims to monitor future risks and protect personal privacy.

• FL’s new law bars children under 14 from social media and mandates parental consent for older teens.

• 👤 Lego requested that a CA police department stop using Lego heads to mask suspects' faces on social media due to IP concerns.

• 🤖 The US House bans Microsoft Copilot due to leak risks, fake content threats, and job loss concerns in AI.

• 📹 A Washington judge bans AI-enhanced videos as murder trial evidence due to concerns of confusion, muddled testimony, and unreviewed AI processes.

• 74% of lawyers at tech-savvy firms reported high job satisfaction compared to 51% at less technology-forward firms and are less likely to leave their current roles.

• 🎤 The ELVIS Act in Tennessee grants property interest to people’s voices, making it illegal to reproduce someone's voice without their consent.

• New York City's "MyCity" ChatBot, aimed at assisting business owners, is criticized for sharing inaccurate information about city regulations and policies.

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👂 Listen

• NYT reporter Kashmir Hill (and TLTF Summit 2023 keynote!), talks about the evolution of privacy and technology, Clearview AI's practices, and challenges in face recognition technology. (36 mins)

• Carl Roberts, founder of SplitSmart.com, discussed leveraging technology in legal matters and the evolving landscape of tech-enabled dispute resolution. (13 mins)

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Other Things I'm Reading

• 📚 Book of the month: Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer

• Many left-handed pitchers…are apparently right-handed?

• 🛌 A man stayed in a hotel room for five years - thanks to an idiosyncratic NYC law.

• A profile of Ian Eagle, the voice of March Madness and the Brooklyn Nets (s/o to my brother Ethan - a Nets diehard).

• The quickest way to the upper echelons of basketball management is by managing the Indiana Hoosiers.

• ⛴️ Writer Gary Shteyngart’s escapades on the world’s largest cruise ship.

• 🐈 Mexico’s president announced that the presidential palace’s beloved feral cats get a lifetime of pampering.