Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Is there enough now for the feds to summarize into a national law?

https://www.insideprivacy.com/state-privacy/new-jersey-and-new-hampshire-pass-comprehensive-privacy-legislation/ 

New Jersey and New Hampshire Pass Comprehensive Privacy Legislation

New Jersey and New Hampshire are the latest states to pass comprehensive privacy legislation, joining California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Iowa, Indiana, Tennessee, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Florida, and Delaware.  Below is a summary of key takeaways.

…   On January 8, 2024, the New Jersey state senate passed S.B. 332 (“the Act”), which was signed into law on January 16, 2024.  The Act, which takes effect 365 days after enactment, resembles the comprehensive privacy statutes in Connecticut, Colorado, Montana, and Oregon, though there are some notable distinctions.

      …   On January 18, the New Hampshire legislature passed SB255 (“the Act”).  The Act, which will take effect on January 1, 2025, resembles similar statutes in Connecticut and other states with a few distinctions.



Have they figured everything out? 

https://abovethelaw.com/2024/01/this-is-how-am-law-100-law-firms-are-using-generative-ai/

This Is How Am Law 100 Law Firms Are Using Generative AI

…   What lawyers are finding is it can automate commodity low-rate work because there wasn’t a budget to do that kind of work.  We’re spending the same amount of time on the matter but we can automate some work.  We can dig deeper into issues.  And then the lawyer is able to spend more time on the higher-value work for the client.  We’re seeing it more as a quality play for us.  Lawyers can provide more value for the same amount of time.

— David Cunningham, chief innovation officer at Reed Smith, in comments given to the American Lawyer concerning the firm’s use of generative artificial intelligence.  Am Law reached out to members of the Am Law 100 to examine how those firms were using generative AI.  Of the 41 firms that offered responses, the most common uses of generative AI are for summarizing documents/generating transcripts (15), legal research (11), drafting marketing materials/attorney bios (8), drafting legal material (7), and e-discovery (5).


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