Hi and welcome to the May Orange Rag, where we bring you insights, news and analysis from the past month, including key takeaways from a dinner we hosted in May in Manchester, where legal leaders shared their GenAI challenges and learnings so far.
There is still a huge amount of industry fear around the potential for error – undoubtedly not helped by a raft of cases in the United States in May, in which attorneys filed hallucinated case law in court. The need for policy, process and training is still very much a focus of conversation. But there is so much progress – sometimes we have to look at how far we’ve come, not just how much further we have to go.
In this issue I bring you some commentary on the FBI’s warning to US law firms about the Silent Ransom Group specifically targeting them, and also take a look at some of the big fundraise numbers in May – what does it mean in terms of the industry’s adoption of new technology? We also take a closer look at those hallucination cases in the US, and what it tells us about the industry’s AI readiness.
And of course, we bring you the latest wins, deals, product launches and movers and shakers.
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