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Healthcare institutions urged to address cybersecurity weaknesses

It’s a nightmare scenario for patients and providers—large data breaches exposing sensitive information--increasing identity theft and other risks for clients and creating potential liability for and/or harming the reputation of the institutions.
According to a post in The HIPAA Journal by Editor-in-Chief Steve Alde ... (full story)


What to know about AI and ethical jury selection

Choosing the “right” jurors is one of the keys to winning a case, but doing so is far from an easy task.
As Rochester, New York attorney Nicole Black explains in her recent column in The Daily Record posted on Legal Tech Daily on July 17 (https://www.legaltechdaily.com/2025/07/ethical-jury-selection-in-the-ai-era/), ... (full story)


Georgia judge issues order based on AI-hallucinated case law

It’s an embarrassing scenario that’s becoming more common in the legal profession: Fake case law hallucinated by a generative artificial intelligence tool cited in filings and/or arguments.
As Joe Patrice, a senior editor at Above the Law explains in a July 1 post (https://abovethelaw.com/2025/07/trial-court-decides- ... (full story)


Exploring the use of predictive analytics in litigation

Settle or go to trial? It’s a question that litigators face on a regular basis.
If the case carries risks, legal wisdom often leads lawyers to lean toward settlement. But as attorneys Ashley Hallene and Jeffrey M. Allen discuss in their October 2024 post on the Senior Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association websit ... (full story)


Texas lotttery legal dispute

When it comes to playing the lottery, the odds are definitely against you. But imagine winning more than $80 million and having to go to court to collect the money.
That’s exactly what happened to a woman who won the Lotto Texas jackpot on Feb. 17, 2025.
According to a May 29 story on FindLaw written by Kit Yona and re ... (full story)