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Arceus Automates Legal Contract Reviews for Startups via Slack

Arceus, a San Francisco law firm that pairs licensed attorneys with AI agents, has raised funding led by Greycroft, bringing its total to $17 million. Startups send contracts from Slack, an agent prepares the review and a lawyer signs it off at a flat fee. We explain how it works, what it costs, how it compares with Crosby and other AI-native firms, and what UK companies should check.

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Lawyer Fined $5K Over AI-Hallucinated Witnesses in a Murder Case

The New Mexico Supreme Court held Santa Fe defence lawyer Stephen Aarons in contempt, fined him $5,000 and removed him from a life-sentence murder appeal after his ChatGPT-assisted brief quoted four witnesses who do not exist and three who never said what it claimed. We read the 9 September order as quoted by the outlets that saw it, the 21 August hearing coverage, the trial record behind the appeal, and the 2,039-case AI hallucination database, and counted where this case departs from the fake-citation cases that came before it.

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Private AI Assistant for Law Firms: How to Use LLMs Without Sending Client Data to the Cloud

Private AI Assistant for Law Firms: How to Use LLMs Without Sending Client Data to the Cloud

Private AI Assistant for Law Firms is rapidly emerging as one of the most important technology strategies for modern legal practices seeking to benefit from artificial intelligence without compromising client confidentiality. Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated extraordinary capabilities in legal drafting, contract analysis, legal research, document summarization, compliance assistance, and workflow automation. However, many […]

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