It says something about our collective attitude towards generative AI in legal that this blog\u2019s most-read story of the year was about lawyers getting sanctioned for hallucinated case citations.
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It says something about our collective attitude towards generative AI in legal that this blog\u2019s most-read story of the year was about lawyers getting sanctioned for hallucinated case citations.<\/p>\n
In fact, it will probably not surprise you to learn that, of my 40 most-read stories of the year, 24 involved generative AI in some way. Whether they were stories about gen AI products, gen AI studies, or gen AI screw-ups, they clearly drew readers\u2019 attention and interest.<\/p>\n
The top 40 included stories about major AI products such as CoCounsel and Harvey. They included stories about notable AI studies, such as Stanford\u2019s analysis of AI legal research tools and Clio\u2019s of trends in AI adoption. They include stories about ethics rulings on lawyers\u2019 use of AI.<\/p>\n
But AI was not the only topic that drew readers\u2019 interest. There was scandal, as well. Three of the top 40 stories, and two of the top five, involved the sudden departure of the CEO of UnitedLex, amid allegations that he had engaged in predatory behavior involving minors.<\/p>\n
The most-named company among the top 40 was Thomson Reuters. Several of those stories involved its gen AI products, including CoCounsel, but there were also stories about its closing of a law practice management product and its launch of an API portal.<\/p>\n
Other stories among the top 40 included:<\/p>\n
One surprise to my was that my recent recap of the TLTF Summit made the list. It was a surprise because I published the recap just two weeks ago, and generally the most-trafficked posts are the ones that have been up longer and had the benefit of accumulating hits over time. The fact that the TLTF post quickly garnered enough hits to make this list shows how much interest there is, broadly speaking, in that conference.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the list of my 40 most-read posts.<\/p>\n
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