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When it comes to service of process,time is always of the essence. However, it is essential to ensure that legal documents are served efficiently and properly. Choose ABC Legal to take the guessw...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/17/the-best-network-of-servers-at-your-fingertips/

On 23 April, the Italian Council of Ministers passed a bill (AI Bill) aimed at introducing national AI provisions. The main scope is to establish regulatory criteria to balance the opportunities ...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/17/italian-ai-bill-main-issues-and-risks/

Thanks again to all my readers! You are the best. 🥇 And to you newbies, come right this way! 👇 LawDroid Manifesto is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/17/futurelaw24-the-legal-innovation-conference-of-northern-europe/

The FCC has published the tentative agenda for its June 2024 Open Meeting.  The meeting is scheduled for Thursday, June 6, at 10:30 a.m. EST, and will be livestreamed at www.fcc.gov/live and ava...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/17/cybersecurity-reporting-and-loc-requirements-on-june-fcc-agenda/

The creative process… It’s 4:31 in the morning, a watery dawn is breaking, and I’m wafting down an almost empty M40 motorway heading to Heathrow for an early flight. The advanced autopilot ...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/17/the-road-to-ai-efficiency-the-trend-toward-smaller-more-performant-ai-and-ai-at-the-edge/

Starting May 27th, we’re updating our terminology for two key parts of our product.

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/17/updating-our-terminology/

In 2020, Microsoft promised to be at negative carbon emissions as a company in ten years. Instead, they have increased emissions by almost 30% since then. They promise they’ll be there in 2030,...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/16/microsofts-previous-commitments-on-emissions-took-a-back-seat-to-ai/

Today Thomson Reuters announced the “Buy Now Program” which will enable law firms and legal departments to lock in pricing before the official rollout of their new CoCounsel Drafting solution...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/16/thomson-reuters-announces-the-buy-now-program-for-new-cocounsel-drafting-end-to-end-solution/

The Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) has reminded competitive local exchange carriers (LECs) benchmarking their tariffed rates to competing incumbent LECs to file interstate tariff revisions,...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/16/wcb-reminds-competitive-lecs-to-file-revised-tariffs-by-july-17/

FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has announced the establishment of the Spectrum Steering Team (Team), which will lead the Commission’s efforts to develop and implement spectrum policies.  T...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/16/fcc-announces-the-launch-of-spectrum-steering-team/

In 2014, the Supreme Court upended U.S. patent law in the landmark ruling for Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International.  The Alice decision established new standards for determining whether inventi...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/16/101-whack-a-mole-yet-another-software-patent-falls-victim-to-section-101/

The First Circuit Court of appeals has affirmed that specific personal jurisdiction must be based on defendants’ intentional conduct. In affirming the dismissal of a consumer class action that ...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/16/personal-jurisdiction-doctrine-shows-teeth-as-first-circuit-dismisses-class-action-wiretapping-claim/

There has been a push at the state and federal level to regulate AI-generated deepfakes that use the voices and likenesses of real people without their approval.  This legislative momentum stems...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/16/state-and-federal-legislation-target-ai-deepfakes/

When I first wrote about the arrival of Bill S-210 in the House of Commons back in December, I dubbed it the most dangerous Canadian bill you’ve never heard of and warned that “Senate private...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/16/bill-s-210-study-without-witnesses-why-a-conservative-filibuster-may-lead-to-new-internet-age-verification-requirements-and-website-blocking-legislation/

This week, I share some takeaways from a course on legal prompt engineering—an essential skill for all lawyers to develop. AI will change the world, but how will it change M&A? I want to focus ...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/15/20-legal-prompt-engineering/

The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) has announced that there is sufficient funding available to fully meet the Universal Service Administrative Company�...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/15/wcb-directs-usac-to-fully-fund-eligible-category-one-and-category-two-e-rate-requests/

Last week, a divided Supreme Court held in Warner Chappell Music, Inc. et al. v. Nealy et al. that a copyright plaintiff who timely files an infringement lawsuit based on the “discovery rule”...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/15/supreme-court-allows-copyright-damages-dating-back-more-than-three-years-if-the-discovery-rule-applies/

Erin Giglia, co-owner and founder of Montage Legal Group is now a CEB contributor! CEB provides practice guides, MCLE videos, case law analysis, county-level coverage and more for California atto...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/15/collaborating-with-attorneys-outside-your-firm-ceb/

On May 8, the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics issued its formal Opinion 511 entitled Confidentiality Obligations of Lawyers Posting to Listservs. As Bob Ambrogi rightly pointed out in his recent...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/15/abas-opinion-511-and-its-impact-on-legal-ethics-in-the-ai-era-a-wake-up-call/

Maximize your law firm’s earnings with effective strategies for managing your billable hours versus your actual hours.

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/14/billable-hours-vs-actual-hours-balancing-profitability-and-productivity/

The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the Eleventh Circuit’s holding in Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy that copyright plaintiffs bringing timely claims of infringement may recover damages for acts oc...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/14/supreme-court-allows-copyright-damages-recovery-outside-three-year-limitations-period-but-questions-regarding-accrual-of-claims-remain/

The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau (Bureau) has issued a Public Notice to notify domestic and international law enforcement partners, consumers, and industry stakeholders that it has classified a gro...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/14/enforcement-bureau-classifies-royal-tiger-as-a-c-cist/

A pending lawsuit raises an interesting copyright infringement question – does scraping an AI-generated database of job listings constitute copyright infringement? In Jobiak v. Botmakers, Jobia...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/14/court-to-decide-whether-ai-scraped-job-database-is-subject-to-copyright-protection-and-is-infringed/

What’s New? OpenAI just debuted GPT-4o, a new kind of “Omnimodel” or multimodal AI model that you can simply communicate with in real time in a live voice conversation.  There is also the ...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/14/openais-new-gpt-4o-allows-voice-and-video-in-the-same-model/

The AI Act was signed into law in the EU recently.  In addition, the UK and US signed a landmark deal to work together on testing advanced artificial intelligence—both countries will now work ...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/14/tech-snippets-today-author-and-futurist-bernard-marr-with-joseph-raczynski/

Colorado has become the first state to pass legislation (SB24-205) regulating the use of artificial intelligence (AI) within the United States. This legislation is designed to address the influen...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/13/colorado-passes-ai-regulation/

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has approved full initial proposals for Delaware, Washington state, and the District of Columbia for the $42.5 billion Broadb...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/13/ntia-approves-three-jurisdictions-for-bead-implementation-funding/

This is a post I never thought I would need to write in 2024. I have been a law professor at the University of Ottawa for nearly 26 years and the principle that all students, regardless of race, ...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/13/a-post-i-never-thought-i-would-need-to-write-jewish-students-have-the-right-to-feel-safe-on-campus/

Bill C-27, Canada’s proposed privacy reform and AI regulation bill, continues to slowly work its way through the committee process at the House of Commons with the clause-by-clause review of th...

https://www.lexblog.com/2024/05/13/the-law-bytes-podcast-episode-203-andrew-clement-on-calls-to-separate-privacy-reform-and-artificial-intelligence-regulation-in-bill-c-27/