The Docket
- jayleviste
- Sep 24
- 3 min read
BRINGING YOU THE LATEST IN LEGAL TECH NEWS
TLTF & Friends in the News
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News from the World of Law AI & LegalTech
Draining productivity and profits: Efficient vendor integrations are taking on increased importance, as firms require data to power AI software.
Stanford launched Liftlab: It unites research, prototyping, and real-time collaboration with industry, with a focus on contract risk assessment, multi-agent simulation, and AI interpretability in law.
Legalbenchmarks.ai: published their latest findings: While 97% of lawyers use AI tools, their contract drafting effectiveness varies across three key dimensions: reliability, usefulness, and platform workflow Support.
Privacy & Surveillance
Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT during sessions: Clients feel betrayed as undisclosed AI adoption risks exposing sensitive patient data and eroding the trust essential to therapeutic relationships.
Apple pays $95M to settle Siri privacy lawsuit: Plaintiffs alleged Apple recorded conversations without activation and failed to disclose that humans reviewed audio.
Google releases VaultGemma privacy-preserving AI: Company launches first differentially private LLM that prevents sensitive data memorization while maintaining performance comparable to standard models.
Legal System & Policy
Federal judge dismantles Google's search monopoly: Court bars exclusive search engine payments to device makers and browsers while ordering data sharing with rivals to restore competition.
Midsize law firms struggle with record rate increases: Firms balance growth ambitions against the "tipping point" where clients question whether smaller practices still offer compelling value propositions.
States respond to federal deregulation with three strategies: Direct regulatory action, enforcement adjustments, and legal or collaborative initiatives to fill governance gaps.
Listen
Jake Jones, co-founder of Flank, talks with Law Punx about what agents really are, how they work, and why lawyers tend to misunderstand their role. (10 mins)
Jen Leonard and Bridget McCormack discuss OpenAI’s newest model and its implications for legal practice and unpack a groundbreaking report from IAALS on regulating AI in legal services, shifting the focus from lawyers to consumers on AI and the Future of Law. (34 mins)
Alex Baker, founder of Legal Tech Collective, talks about how practicing lawyers can leverage their know-how and experience to develop and productize LegalTech solutions on Version Up. (48 mins)
Tanner’s Other Page Turners
Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk in groundbreaking public health research
News avoidance is rising as people seek relief from constant information anxiety
Rupert Murdoch buys out 3 of his children to seal the fate of his media empire, each receiving $1.1 Billion, severing any influence over Murdoch companies.
On The Road
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October 5-8 LawPro.ai will be at PIMCON The Summit: Solo & Small Firm Conference in Scottsdale, AZ.
October 13-15 Lexamica will be at SmartAdvocate Connect in Marco Island, FL.
October 14 - 16 Newcase.ai will be at ITC in Las Vegas, NV.
October 15 - 16 Infodash will be at Legal Geek Conference in London, UK.
October 16-17 LawPro.ai will be at Clio Cloud Conference in Boston, MA.
October 16-19 LawPro.ai and Lexamica will be at Law di Gras in San Diego, CA.
October 21-23 Lexamica will be at MTMP 2025 – Mass Torts Made Perfect in Las Vegas, NV.
October 22-23 ECFx and Infodash will be at KM&I for Legal in New York, NY
October 26-28 The Contract Network will be at Florence Healthcare - Research Revolution (Clinical Trials) in Atlanta, GA.
October 28-30 NLPatent will be at American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
October 29 - November 1 LawPro.ai will be at TLU in Las Vegas, NV.
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