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Welcome to this week's edition of The Legal Wire!

We’re dedicated to keeping you informed on the latest in AI regulations, legal tech developments, and expert insights to help you navigate artificial intelligence in the legal profession.

This week’s Highlights:

• Is Your AI Algorithm Violating Antitrust Laws?

• Headlines From Around the Web You Shouldn't Miss

• fynk: A Smarter Solution for Legal Teams’ Contract Challenges

• SettleIndex: Bringing Precision to Litigation Risk

• AI Tools to Supercharge your producivity

• Legal prompt of the week

Legal Technology

Is Your AI Algorithm Violating Antitrust Laws?

Picture this: you’re searching for an apartment in a bustling city. You find that rents across multiple complexes seem oddly similar, even though these properties are managed by different companies. Coincidence? Maybe not. A lawsuit against Yardi Systems, a property management software company, alleges that its algorithmic pricing system facilitated price-fixing, inflating rents for millions of tenants. On 4 December 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington denied the defendants’ motion to dismiss the ongoing case of alleged algorithmic price collusion, signaling a shift in how courts might view algorithm – not as neutral tools, but as potential conspirators in anti-competitive behavior.

From a legal perspective, this case is a significant forewarning for what’s to come in the legal AI space. Yardi’s software allegedly enabled property managers to share sensitive data and coordinate pricing strategies, driving up rents without explicit communication between competitors. The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission have long warned that shared AI pricing tools could lead to tacit collusion. Now, the judiciary appears ready to entertain this theory, and not only in the realm of real estate.

Read the whole article here

🔍 California AI Anti-Bias Bill to Return in 2025 with Broad Scope (Bloomberg Law)

🔍 Lawsuit: A chatbot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits (NPR)

🔍 Nvidia Hit With China Probe in Global Tech War Escalation (Bloomberg)

🔍 Meta Urges California Attorney General to Stop OpenAI From Becoming For-Profit (The Wall Street Journal)

🔍 Trump’s Silicon Valley advisers have AI ‘censorship’ in their crosshairs (TechCrunch)

Legal Technology

fynk: A Smarter Solution for Legal Teams’ Contract Challenges

fynk enters the contract management arena with a fresh approach tailored for legal professionals who want accuracy, efficiency, and seamless collaboration in one place, at scale. Designed to tackle the common roadblocks in contract management, fynk’s all-in-one platform offers AI-powered analysis, automated reminders, and centralized document storage — all with the precision and security that legal teams demand and their clients expect. Sounds like a pretty supercharged offering, right?

At its core, fynk demonstrates a clear understanding of the demands legal professionals face in managing contracts. Time spent tracking versions, ensuring compliance, and coordinating approvals can quickly add up. fynk’s aim is simple: to take care of these essential but time-consuming tasks, so legal teams can focus on strategic work without worrying about administrative details slipping through the cracks.

For smaller legal teams, it’s a lifeline. For larger ones, it’s a boost in efficiency that’s hard to ignore.

Read the full article here

Legal Technology

SettleIndex: Bringing Precision to Litigation Risk

Litigation has long been an unpredictable arena, where settlement values hinge on more than just legal arguments—they depend on a mathematical understanding of risk, rooted in theories dating back to 1738 with Daniel Bernoulli. For years, calculating the aggregate value of uncertain trial outcomes was practically out of reach for lawyers. With no formal training in risk modeling, few could accurately estimate the Expected Value of a case, essentially rendering them with not much more than an educated guess and a gutfeel. And while tools have become increasingly sophisticated and accurate, there remained a large gap in the world of settlements.

That is, until SettleIndex came along.

Read the full article here

Writer RAG tool: build production-ready RAG apps in minutes

RAG in just a few lines of code? We’ve launched a predefined RAG tool on our developer platform, making it easy to bring your data into a Knowledge Graph and interact with it with AI. With a single API call, writer LLMs will intelligently call the RAG tool to chat with your data.

Integrated into Writer’s full-stack platform, it eliminates the need for complex vendor RAG setups, making it quick to build scalable, highly accurate AI workflows just by passing a graph ID of your data as a parameter to your RAG tool.

Learn more about our production ready RAG tooling here.

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This prompt challenges lawyers to think ahead and develop future-proof strategies that leverage technology and innovation. It’s a creative exercise to inspire forward-thinking and position their firm as a leader in the rapidly evolving legal landscape. Perfect for fostering innovation and long-term growth.

Prompt: Imagine you are an AI assistant advising a law firm on how to stay competitive in the legal industry five years from now. Generate innovative strategies to incorporate AI, emerging technologies, and evolving legal trends into the firm’s practice. Include ideas for improving client service, streamlining workflows, and attracting top talent.

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