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.