What’s Happening in Legal | October 27

Martindale-Avvo presents What’s Happening in Legal, our bi-weekly news flying around the legal community: 

• LexusNexis launches Lexis+AI, a generative AI solution designed to transform legal work
• NCBE is extending current bar exam until 2028 and NextGen exam will incorporate family law
• LSAT eliminates the ‘logic games’ section and replaces it with more logical reasoning
• Fugees hip-hop artist requests new trial over lawyer’s alleged experimental use of AI to compose closing argument
• Migrant family-separation settlement provides a path to asylum, and Trump-era policy receives an 8-year ban
• In the event of “dystopian issues,” the court enables use of keyword search data to identify suspects
• With a revised conservatorship definition of “gravely disabled”, California intends to expand mental health care
• Former San Antonio attorney pleads guilty in a ‘Ponzi-type scam’ that cost his clients up to $65M
• Gordon Rees rebrands new law firm to GRSM50, being the first to include a ‘numerical identification’ in its name
• According to Clio’s 2023 Legal Trends Report, clients are more optimistic about AI than legal experts
• Unauthorized ‘rummaging’ through competitor’s Dropbox leads to punishment against this law firm

Check back soon for another issue of Martindale-Avvo’s What’s Happening in Legal.