LLRX May 2025 Issue – Articles and Columns
- The fallacy of the calculator – Jordan Furlong
- Safeguarding the Docket: A Roadmap for AI Agent Integration into Patent Docketing Workflows – This paper by John Schulte outlines the potential benefits of using AI agents in docketing workflows and proposes an implementation roadmap, including three key safeguards for law firms to consider.
- Trump Administration Continues Scrubbing Statistics and Disappearing Data – This article by Robert Berkman is a roundup of where these cuts and significant changes are happening and offers alternatives to locate datasets and statistical data that are no longer available.
- AI in Finance and Banking, May 31, 2025 – Sabrina I. Pacifici. Five highlights from this post: Wall Street Banks, Executives and U.S. Regulators Raise Warnings over Lack of AI Security; Expecting job replacement by GenAI: effects on workers’ economic outlook and behavior; The Economics of Transformative AI; Artificial intelligence and human capital: challenges for central bank; and Rising Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Financial Operations.
- Recognizing And Dealing With AI Snake Oil – Jerry Lawson
- Connecticut House Passes Landmark eBook Bill – Kyle K. Courtney
- Law Publishing Doom-Mongers, Self-Styled Heroes and Others – Akin to a 1991 major law firm management effort to declare the reign of the ‘paperless law library,’ Robert McKay’s commentary challenges the death knell of the latest iteration of powerhouse law publishing by the multitude of AI applications and programs poised to take the throne.
- From Hype to Habits: Comparing Data on Generative AI in Law Firms – Nicole L. Black brings the facts to the discussion of how and to what extent law firms are actually implementing AI.
- How redefining just one word could strip the Endangered Species Act’s ability to protect vital habitat – Dr. Mariah Meek
- AI in Finance and Banking, May 15, 2025 – Sabrina I. Pacifici. Five highlights from this post: Artificial intelligence and human capital: challenges for central banks; Artificial Intelligence and the Labor Market: A Scenario-Based Approach; How Good is AI at Twisting Arms? Experiments in Debt Collection; The rapidly increasing power of generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) models is more than a passing fad, even if the full extent of its impact in financial services is yet unclear; and Generative AI may shoulder up to 40% of workload, some bank execs predict.
- Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 31, 2025 – Pete Weiss. Five highlights from this week: Most AI chatbots devour your user data – these are the worst offenders; The US Is Building a One-Stop Shop for Buying Your Data; Digital Corruption Takes Over DC; A Starter Guide to Protecting Your Data From Hackers and Corporations; and Cybercriminals exploit AI hype to spread ransomware, malware.
- Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 24, 2025 – Pete Weiss. Five highlights from this week: A Judge Just Cracked Open the Can of Worms AI Firms Were Hoping to Avoid; How to Shield Yourself From Social Media Abuse; AI hallucinations and their risk to cybersecurity operations; the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is withdrawing its Notice of Proposed Rule: Protecting Americans from Harmful Data Broker Practices; Philadelphia woman spends months fixing Social Security error that declared her dead.
- Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 17, 2025 – Pete Weiss. Five highlights from this week: License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows; Senators want TSA to scale back facial recognition at airports; How Signal, WhatsApp, Apple, and Google Handle Encrypted Chat Backups; Deepfakes, Scams, and the Age of Paranoia; Does One Line Fix Google?
- Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 10, 2025 – Pete Weiss. Five highlights from this week: Using AI Can Be Ethically Iffy. Here’s How to Do It Right; How to Make Your iPhone as Secure as Possible; After $243M Crypto Heist, a Crucial Mistake; Postal Service Data Sharing to Deport Immigrants; and AI is getting “creepy good” at geo-guessing.
- Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 3, 2025 – Pete Weiss. Five highlights from this week: US State Privacy Legislation Tracker; Social Security Administration Introduces Secure Digital Access to Social Security Numbers; I Scammed My Bank With Just an AI Voice Generator and a Phone Call; European regulators fined TikTok $600 million – social media giant unlawfully transferred users’ personal data from the EU to China; and Internet crimes increased 33 percent in 2024.
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