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Are You In the Weights [Yes I am, and so is this blog, and my ejournal LLRX. Cannot say that I am pleased.] Find out if you live on in GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 Mini, Opus 4.8, Haiku 4.5, Grok 4.20, Gemini 3.1 Lite, Kimi K2 0905, DeepSeek V4, Llama 3.3 70B, Llama 3.2 1B, GLM 4.7 …
Shucha, Bonnie J., Closing the AI Readiness Gap: A Framework for Law Schools (June 19, 2026). Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1921, 32 (2) Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing (forthcoming 2026), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6971418 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6971418 Gen AI literacy for new associates is expected, not optional, yet most law schools have not …
Today, we are launching the AI Status Copyright Cases Tracker. It depicts all 118 copyright lawsuits against AI companies in the United States by the stage of litigation: pre-discovery, discovery, summary judgment, interlocutory and direct appeals, and Supreme Court. It also depicts how the same AI companies are commonly facing multiple lawsuits filed by different …
Federal Agency Workforce Changes: Update for July 2025 to January 2026. GAO-26-108583 Published: Jun 17, 2026. Publicly Released: Jun 17, 2026. Full Report Executive orders in 2025 aimed to reduce the federal workforce and restrict hiring in many areas. This is our second report on these workforce changes. The number of federal employees declined across …
Scott MacFarlane Reports – “Former Federal Tax Officials Call Trump’s Settlement with IRS a “breathtaking” and unlawful deal. A group of former federal tax officials, including a former commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, are asking a federal judge to intervene and halt President Trump’s immunity deal with the Internal Revenue Service. The sweetheart deal …
Yet another example of government conducted on social media, X, owned by Elon Musk, via a posting by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, with the State Department completely absent. No American diplomats, translators, subject matter experts….just Kushner, Witcoff, Vance….and who else? This is the document posted on the OFAC site. And several notes – this waiver …
Via LLRX – Before Judgment: AI and the Developmental Gap in Legal Formation – AI, legal tech and legal education expert Sean Harrington discusses the complex challenges of new lawyers now learning powerful systems on the job, often without clear institutional guidance, shared professional norms, or confidence in their own ability to supervise the output.
404 Media [no paywall]: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) appears to be purchasing records related to immigrants’ tax identifiers from a data broker, potentially skirting a court order that banned ICE from sourcing such information, according to Senator Ron Wyden and government procurement records reviewed by 404 Media. The contract, worth nearly $10 million, is …
Reuters: “A group of major book publishers including the “Big Five” English-language book publishing houses — Hachette, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster — sued an alleged pirated book website for copyright infringement in New York federal court on Tuesday. The publishers said in the complaint, opens new tab that WeLib hosts …
Via LLRX – Create An AI Policy Before Your Firm Falls Further Behind – The majority of law firm employees are using AI with virtually no guidance or guardrails. How does your law firm compare? Do you have an AI policy in place, and have you educated your staff about appropriate AI usage? Nicole L. Black explains …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 20, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …
250 one-minute documentaries about America – A series of one-minute stories of the many people, places, and events that have built our country and remind us of the power of each person to make history. #WeAreAmerica
