Guest post: IP professionals are enthusiastic about AI but should adopt with caution, report says — from legaltechnology.com by Benoit Chevalier
Aiming to discover more about AI’s impact on the intellectual property (IP) field, Questel recently released the findings of its 2025 IP Outlook Research Report entitled “Pathways to Productivity: AI in IP”, the much-awaited follow-up to its inaugural 2024 study “Beyond the Hype: How Technology is Transforming IP.” The 2025 Report (“the Report”) polled over 500 patent and trademark professionals from various continents and countries across the globe.
With AI, Junior Lawyers Will Excavate Insights, Not Review Docs — from news.bloomberglaw.com by Eric Dodson Greenberg; some of this article is behind a paywall
As artificial intelligence reshapes the legal profession, both in-house and outside counsel face two major—but not unprecedented—challenges.
The first is how to harness transformative technology while maintaining the rigorous standards that define effective legal practice.
The second is how to ensure that new technology doesn’t impair the training and development of new lawyers.
Rigorous standards and apprenticeship are foundational aspects of lawyering. Preserving and integrating both into our use of AI will be essential to creating a stable and effective AI-enabled legal practice.
The AI Lie That Legal Tech Companies Are Selling…. — from jdsupra.com
Every technology vendor pitching to law firms leads with the same promise: our solution will save you time. They’re lying, and they know it. The truth about AI in legal practice isn’t that it will reduce work. It’s that it will explode the volume of work while fundamentally changing what that work looks like.
New practice areas will emerge overnight. AI compliance law is already booming. Algorithmic discrimination cases are multiplying. Smart contract disputes need lawyers who understand both code and law. The metaverse needs property rights. Cryptocurrency needs regulation. Every technological advance creates legal questions that didn’t exist yesterday.
The skill shift will be brutal for lawyers who resist.
Finalists Named for 2025 American Legal Technology Awards — from lawnext.com by Bob Ambrogi
Finalists have been named for the 2025 American Legal Technology Awards, which honor exceptional achievement in various aspects of legal technology.
The awards recognize achievement in various categories related to legal technology, such as by a law firm, an individual, or an enterprise.
The awards will be presented on Oct. 15 at a gala dinner on the eve of the Clio Cloud Conference in Boston, Mass. The dinner will be held at Suffolk Law School.
Here are this year’s finalists: