Lawyer Ex Machina

Happy Juneteenth

June 18, 2025

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GenAI Folie à deux

May 15, 2025

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White Smoke

May 8, 2025

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Finals Time - Spring 2025

April 30, 2025

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AI-Generated Bar Questions

April 24, 2025

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Red Tape Bonfire

April 17, 2025

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What Child is This?

April 10, 2025

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Happy Techshow 2025

April 3, 2025

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The Agentic Age

March 27, 2025

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Happy Nowruz 2025

March 20, 2025

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Hacking for Hire

March 13, 2025

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Benchmarking Legal AI

March 6, 2025

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Unfathomable pinheadery (see Misc.)

February 27, 2025

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Presidential Rug-Pulling?

February 20, 2025

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Thomson Reuters v Ross Intelligence

February 13, 2025

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Deep research

February 6, 2025

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Welcome to 2025

January 30, 2025

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Happy Holidays 2024

December 12, 2024

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Got 99 Issues (of this newsletter)

December 5, 2024

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"The Game has been using our data exactly how we expected it was."

November 21, 2024

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OnionWars

November 14, 2024

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Post-DST lethargy

November 7, 2024

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RIP, Teri Garr

October 31, 2024

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Lock down that Venmo

October 24, 2024

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Updating LinkedIn

October 17, 2024

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Digital Trojan Horse

October 10, 2024

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Spooky Season Returns

October 3, 2024

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The Deep Doubt Era

September 26, 2024

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Digital replicas

September 19, 2024

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Active Listening

September 12, 2024

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Who turned up the heat?

September 5, 2024

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End of Summer 2024

August 29, 2024

A little newsletter about legal and tech

Hot Town, Summer in the City

August 22, 2024

AI copyright issues, AI bias law in Illinois, deepfake robocall fine, Google's 'Reimagine' tool, Anthropic lawsuit, GenAI regulatory sandbox, Future Dispute Resolution Conference, Berkeley Law AI LL.M. program, WorldCoin updates.

Return of the Son of Lawyer Ex Machina

August 15, 2024

A small newsletter on technology, law practice and legal education

Summer Break 2024

May 16, 2024

[Editor’s note: This summer, I will be traveling to conferences and I have a couple of projects moving off the back burner, so the newsletter is going on...

Happy Graduation, UCLA Law Class of '24!

May 8, 2024

[Editor’s note: I’m traveling during the usual time I release the newsletter, so it is early this week] AI Sam Altman asks if our personalized AI companions...

Intro to neurorights

May 2, 2024

AI I’m not sure the 4 Pillars of Hip Hop covered this exact scenario: the estate of the late Tupac Shakur sent a letter to Drake threatening legal reprisals...

GenAI's effect on children

April 25, 2024

AI The challenges of education in a GenAI worldA report from Stanford’s Internet Observatory predicts that the current systems for reporting and...

AI all the way down

April 18, 2024

AI Microsoft Research has unveiled VASA-1, an AI tool that can transform single images and speech into videos of people talking (or singing) in real-...

Post-eclipse

April 11, 2024

AI Generative AI developers are allegedly scrambling for more content to train current and future models: "How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for...

100 Chief AI Officers

April 4, 2024

AI From Legal Dive: "General counsel working with law firms or legal tech companies implementing OpenAI’s generative AI tools on Microsoft’s Azure cloud face...

Spring Breaking

March 28, 2024

AI There is a public tracker for judicial orders & court rules regarding the use of AI in courtsTennessee has passed the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image...

Certified non-infringing

March 21, 2024

AI Fairly Trained, a non-profit certification and auditing organization for AI models, has announced its first certification for Kelvin Legal Large Language...

Pi(e) Day 2024

March 14, 2024

AI Is New York City's AI Bias Law a failure? [Law 360 ($) | SHRM]The European Parliament has officially passed the AI Act, which is set to go into effect in...

AI Prognostication

March 7, 2024

AI Two bipartisan bills have been introduced in Congress: House Bill 7532, co-sponsored by James Comer (R-Ky.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), would "codif[y]...

Happy Leap Day 2024

February 29, 2024

Ad for AI mental health therapist found on the campus of UCLA AI A Canadian attorney in British Columbia has been reprimanded for submitting fictitious case...

The Day ChatGPT lost its mind

February 22, 2024

AI Ars Technica has linked to some great examples of ChatGPT spouting word salad earlier this week (ed. note: My fave is how it starts going off the rails...

The Techshow 2024 issue

February 15, 2024

Tweet from SF Fire Department with pictures of a Waymo driveless vehicle set afire by a crowd in Chinatown AI Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin, handling two...

More GenAI guidelines

February 8, 2024

AI More guidelines for legal use of GenAI: New Jersey Courts: Preliminary Guidelines on the Use of AI by New Jersey Lawyers (H/T to Rebecca Fordon)American...

'Taylor Swift is driving AI regulation' is a brand new sentence

February 1, 2024

AI A bill has been introduced in the California Senate that would charge the Judicial Counsel with developing and implementing methods of detection of...