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Recent Trends in Legal AI: A Comprehensive Review

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is transforming legal firms by enhancing legal text analysis, legal document management, and judicial decision prediction. Conventional rule-based and statistical methods lack the contextual understanding, and scalability required for processing complex legal texts, while deep learning and transformer-based models have revolutionized advanced Legal Artificial Intelligence (LegalAI) technologies. Large Language Models (LLMs), …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

First comes a love of books.

The New York Times gift article: “First comes a love of books. Great patience and skill is required to restore old books, but equally important is the belief that each one is a work of art. The women who run the Atelier Devauchelle in Paris sew and create new bindings. They restore old bindings and …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Contact Congress, Cabinet and News Agencies

Google Doc – Includes phone numbers/addresses/emails/Facebook as appropriate: for Senators, House, Cabinet/SCOTUS/Heritage Foundation, Major News Agencies and those in States [alphabetical order], Military Branches, and a timely poem by a 6th grade student.

Subjects: Legal Research

Rogue SCOTUS on the loose

YouTube – Ending due process for some sets the stage for camps at home and abroad: “The Supreme Court uses the shadow docket to stick a knife into due process. Read the post that inspired this episode. In this week’s episode, Andrea Pitzer looks at Monday’s Supreme Court ruling, which permits the government to send …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

We caught 4 more states sharing personal health data with Big Tech

Via LLRX – We caught 4 more states sharing personal health data with Big Tech – State-run health care websites around the country, meant to provide a simple way to shop for insurance, have been quietly sending visitors’ sensitive health information to Google and social media companies, Colin Lecher and Tomas Apodaca of The Markup and CalMatters …

Subjects: E-Commerce, E-Records, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing, Medicine, Privacy, Social Media

AI In Finance and Banking, June 30, 2025

Via LLRX – AI In Finance and Banking, June 30, 2025: This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. Eight highlights from …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

What the Supreme Court ruling against ‘universal injunctions’ means for court challenges to presidential actions

Via LLRX – What the Supreme Court ruling against ‘universal injunctions’ means for court challenges to presidential actions – When presidents have tried to make big changes through executive orders, they have often hit a roadblock: A single federal judge, whether located in Seattle or Miami or anywhere in between, could stop these policies across the entire …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

It’s 2025 and almost half of you are still paying ransomware operators

The Register: “Despite warnings not to pay ransomware operators, almost half of those infected by the malware send cash to the crooks who planted it, according to infosec software slinger Sophos. The vendor surveyed 3,400 IT pros in early 2025 about their experiences over the last year and found 49 percent paid ransoms on their …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Internet, Legal Research

Judge rejects another Trump executive order targeting the legal community

AP: “A federal judge on Friday struck down another of President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting law firms. U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan ruled that the order against the firm of Susman Godfrey was unconstitutional and must be permanently blocked. The order was the latest ruling to reject Trump’s efforts to punish law firms for …

Subjects: Censorship, Courts, Legal Research

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