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Justice Joel Cohen will consider non-monetary relief, including the appointment of an independent monitor, at the next phase in the case.        

While the Colorado AI Act might be the first of its kind, attorneys note that companies won’t have to start from scratch when it comes to getting their compliance in order.        

Legal tech guru Colin Lachance will be the association’s innovator-in-residence, leading a year-long program to get lawyers to better understand and implement artificial intelligence.        

The competition among Suffolk Law students, who used the VitalLaw research database, is likely to help Wolters Kluwer plan how and where it uses generative AI in its platforms, while giving the students first-hand experience with the novel technology.        

“They want to maintain their reputations for being very aggressive,” law professor Thom Lambert said of the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice agreeing to target top AI firms on antitrust grounds. “My guess is this seals the deal: These companies are going to get sued.”        

Judge Ryan Nelson stated that “out of an abundance of caution, the best course in this specific case (which may not apply in other cases) is to recuse.”        

“The fact that we brought all these people into the loop in October and it never leaked until we made it public on May 31 said to me that it was going to work,” said Bill Lee.        

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom gave Penn Carey the endowed gift for the program in honor of Eric Friedman, a 1989 Penn Carey Law graduate who served as Skadden’s executive partner for 15 years before stepping down in April.        

“This is the first time a university has negotiated with the students who’ve been pushed off campus by extreme protesters,” Jay Edelson said in an email to Law.com. “And the result we got makes clear what our priorities are: safety for students, and actually encouraging a dialogue rather than aimlessly hurling slogans at one another.” […]

While some judges appreciated Judge Kevin Newsom’s transparency in exploring generative AI in legal work, others thought his adventurousness was premature.