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LexisNexis Parent RELX Quietly Launches Legal Research Service for Bar Associations and Small Firms

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A new legal research service has quietly launched, targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms, but what is not obvious from the service’s website is that the company behind it was formed as a subsidiary of RELX, the parent company of LexisNexis. Legal InQuery Solutions was incorporated in Delaware on Nov.

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Breaking: Judge Rules Ross Intelligence Copied Westlaw’s Headnotes, But Leaves for Jury to Decide if It Violated Thomson Reuters’ Copyright

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It has been a while since I have written about the copyright lawsuit by legal research giant Thomson Reuters against the no-shuttered legal research startup Ross Intelligence, in which TR alleges that Ross stole copyright content from Westlaw to build its own completing legal research product.

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Why the Avianca ‘Bogus Cases’ News Is Not About Either Generative AI or Lawyers’ Tech Competence

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“Your affiant has never utilized Chat GPT as a source for conducting legal research prior to this occurrence and therefore was unaware of the possibility that its content could be false,” his affidavit said. My poster child for this proposition has long been the 2014 Delaware case of James v. Technology Incompetence?

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In Westlaw-ROSS Litigation, Judge Allows ROSS’s Antitrust Case to Move Forward, But Tosses ‘Sham Litigation’ Claim

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But ROSS countered that the databases TR maintains of public law and its legal search tools are, in fact, separate products, and that TR conditions access to the databases on purchase of the search tools. district judge in Delaware but who last month became a judge of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit — sided with ROSS.

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Self-Help Information by the Courts in 2021

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The Michigan Courts have their self-represented litigants page at: [link] It also provides links to the Michigan Legal Help website at: [link] And interestingly, the court has created a "Learning Center" as a resource for educators around the state. Interactive Forms and online legal research are also available.

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AI Training and Copyright Infringement: Lessons from the Ross Intelligence Case

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The Delaware District Court’s Ruling on cross-motions for summary judgment in the case of Thomson Reuters v. Ross was a legal research AI startup. (I Ross hired a subcontractor to create memos with legal questions and answers. These are the basic facts underlying this lawsuit.

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Might makes right, right?

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Say the USA were divided between California and Delaware. million would ALWAYS beat out Delaware with its population of 967,171. So, why would anyone in humble Delaware ever go out to vote if they knew they would always lose to mighty California? Might makes right, right? But, let's put this in perspective.