Greetings, my name is David Colarusso. I'm the director of Suffolk University Law School's Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) Lab. With one foot in law and the other in tech, I really want the open web to thrive, esp. #LawFedi. So I created a bot, this digest, a podcast , and a newsletter to help folks discover great law-themed content. You can get a look at their algos/workflows here.
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FWIW, here are some law-flavored server suggestions: (1) esq.social (legal general interest); (2) law.builders (legal tech et al.); and (3) mastodon.lawprofs.org (legal academics). Also, here are Some Tricks [For] Making Mastodon Way More Useful.
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AI Summaries / Podcast Transcript †
Welcome to today's headlines! We've got some interesting stories for you. First, the Big Four accounting firms are facing heat for their role in the collapse of several banks and the potential for liability. We'll tell you what to look out for. Next, we'll look at how small firms can decide when to hire new staff. And finally, we'll investigate the rigged world of claw machines and why it's so hard to grab that stuffed animal. So stay tuned to get the scoop!
~ show summaries ~
† Here AI is referencing a large language model (LLM) tasked with summarizing 3 articles from Most-Shared Links and 1 paper from the SSRN Roundup below. Also FWIW, LLMs are well-known bullshitters.
Most-Shared Links
Here are yesterday's most-shared links from #Law/#LawFedi folks I follow.¹
- Big Four Auditors and Consultants Need Liability—And a Divorce (~9 shares)
- In Major Legal Tech Deal, vLex and Fastcase Merge, Creating A Global Legal Research Company, Backed By Oakley Capital and Bain Capital | LawSites (~6 shares)
- 403 Forbidden (~5 shares)
- Small Firms, When to Hire New Staff? – Agile Attorney Consulting (~4 shares)
- Claw machines are rigged — here's why it's so hard to grab that stuffed animal - Vox (~4 shares)
- Exclusive: Trump to be charged Tuesday with 34 felony counts, but spared handcuffs and mug shot (~4 shares)
- Appeals court rejects Trump's bid to block aides from testifying in Jan. 6 probe - POLITICO (~4 shares)
- FDIC: Securities Exchange Act Filings (~3 shares)
- ICO fines TikTok £12.7 million for misusing children’s data | ICO (~3 shares)
- Required Rulemaking on Personal Financial Data Rights | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (~3 shares)
- Feedly launches strikebreaking as a service (~3 shares)
- Reminder: USPTO transitioning to electronic patent grants occurring April 18 (~3 shares)
- Goldman, Morgan Stanley Get Dismissal of Archegos-Related Suits (~3 shares)
- Tues 4/4 - Trump in Court, Apple Watch Lawsuit, BigLaw M&A, and Column Tuesday on Auditor Independence (~3 shares)
¹ Yesterday doesn't include the entire day as this page is created a few hours before mindnight.
SSRN Roundup
I keep an eye out for links to SSRN. Once I collect five, I share them. This is the most-recent bundle.²
- Culpability in Atrocity and the Role of Complicit Observer by Haley S. Anderson
- Rescuing the Invention from the Cult of the Claim by Oskar Liivak
- Red Courts, Blue Courts by Mark A. Lemley
- The Constitutional Limits of Criminal Supervision by Eric S. Fish
- Bail at the Founding by Kellen Funk, Sandra G. Mayson
² Depending on how much folks are sharing, there could be more or less than one bundle per day, this is just the most-recent one.
Traffic
Of course, these insights are all thanks to a community of users, namely the folks I follow over at @icymi_law@esq.social. For fun, here's a look at their posting traffic yesterday. I like trying to create stories about the daily ups and downs. What is that bump? ;)
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