EU AI Act passed The European Parliament approved the Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act) on 13 March 2024. It has been hailed as the world’s first comprehensive and binding piece of legi...
https://www.infolaw.co.uk/newsletter/2024/04/whats-new-april-2024/
Since ChatGPT was released to the public in November 2022, countless articles have been written about how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) will improve the efficiency of white collar wo...
https://www.infolaw.co.uk/newsletter/2024/04/copyright-and-copywriting-ai-challenges/
The idea that the law should be freely accessible to all the people is nothing new, but it is technology that has enabled that aspiration to be realised. ICLR has taken advantage of that to provi...
https://www.infolaw.co.uk/newsletter/2024/03/how-iclr-is-leveraging-free-law/
After a long time in the making, the Online Safety Act finally received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023. According to the accompanying Government press release, the Act “places legal responsibi...
https://www.infolaw.co.uk/newsletter/2023/11/the-online-safety-act-2023-a-primer/
The SCL AI Group have released their Artificial Intelligence Contractual Clauses document which is free to access and share under a Creative Commons Licence. The development and use of AI wil...
https://www.infolaw.co.uk/newsletter/2023/10/artificial-intelligence-contractual-clauses-from-scl/
As reported here, in April 2022 The National Archives launched its Find Case Law service, and 6 months on John Sheridan of TNA described the progress that had been made. Meanwhile, ICLR systemati...
https://www.infolaw.co.uk/newsletter/2023/10/towards-a-new-benchmark-of-digital-open-justice/
It’s been almost a year since ChatGPT was released to the public back in November 2022. Although much has been written about the impact of generative AI on the legal sector as a whole, there ha...
https://www.infolaw.co.uk/newsletter/2023/10/generative-ai-and-access-to-justice/
In April 2023, legal tech disruptors vLex and Fastcase merged to form the world’s largest global law library, in what has been described as one of the most consequential mergers in the history ...
https://www.infolaw.co.uk/newsletter/2023/08/new-developments-at-vlex/
In the wake of an avalanche of publicity following the hugely successful roll-out of ChatGPT, governments around the world have been waking up to the transformative effects of generative AI tools...
https://www.infolaw.co.uk/newsletter/2023/07/global-ai-regulation/
Following his recent article on ChatGPT’s implications for the legal world, Alex Heshmaty garners answers to further questions from Dr Ilia Kolochenko. Who owns the copyright of ChatGPT respons...
https://www.infolaw.co.uk/newsletter/2023/05/chatgpt-more-questions/
The Government recently published a White Paper, “A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation,” setting out its proposals for AI regulation, in conjunction with an impact assessment and consul...
https://www.infolaw.co.uk/newsletter/2023/05/a-pro-innovation-approach-to-ai-regulation/
A new joint report entitled A New National Purpose, which explores how the UK can harness innovative technologies to meet future challenges, has recently been published by Tony Blair and William ...
The voice of your clients – and others you deal with – has potential to play much more of a leading role in the ongoing development and evolution of law firms. How to harness the voice of the...
https://www.infolaw.co.uk/newsletter/2023/03/make-more-of-the-voice-of-your-clients/
Chatbots have been around since the 1960s and coders have been trying to pass the Turing test ever since, creating increasingly sophisticated iterations of natural language processing (NLP) softw...
https://www.infolaw.co.uk/newsletter/2023/02/chatgpt-implications-for-the-legal-world/
By Allan Carton and Frank Manning of Carton & Co. Lawyers need digital onboarding now because clients’ expectations of easier digital transactions and communications ramped up during the lockdo...