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Lawyer Ex Machina #10: the NY Times Pitchbot edition

August 25, 2022

There doesn't seem to be a lot of good news coming out of El Salvador regarding its adoption of bitcoin as legal tender, but one fintech firm seems to be...

Lawyer Ex Machina #9: Feel the Heat

August 17, 2022

[Editor's note: starting next week, the newsletter will be sent out on Thursdays, except for holidays.] A bill in the California Legislature that would have...

Lawyer Ex Machina #8: the calm before the 1Ls

August 10, 2022

So. Much. About. Legal. Services. Profs. Nora Ingstrom and Scott Cummings have written an op-ed for Bloomberg Law calling for amending the current bill in...

Lawyer Ex Machina #7: extra long edition

It appears likely that consideration of a bill to regulate what's known as stablecoins (cryptocurrency that's backed by a fiat one) will be delayed until...

Lawyer Ex Machina #6: The Dog Days of Summer

A fairly new paper on SSRN by Frank Pasquale and Gianclaudio Malgieri "proposes a system of 'unlawfulness by default' for AI systems," where the burden of...

Lawyer Ex Machina #5:

Have you been told to use a VPN to protect your privacy while online? U.S. Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) have sent a letter to the...

Lawyer Ex Machina #4:

A semi-popular Twitter thread: Microsoft Excel is used by 99.99% of the world’s businesses, and most people still don’t know how to use it. Here are 10...

Lawyer Ex Machina #3: the last of the fireworks

(Editorial note: I worked with Eric Goldman at SCU and I am admittedly biased due to his scholarship, the passion he brings to the issues of Internet law and...

Lawyers Ex Machina #2: [insert funny but harmless phrase here]

Meta (FKA Facebook) is facing eight lawsuits in different jurisdictions on the same subject - whether the algorithms on FB and Instagram causes addictive...

Inaugural newsletter

Hello and welcome to Lawyer Ex Machina! Lawyers are optimistic about legal technology in general, but may not like the tech tools they've been given to use....