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Member Spotlight
Gregg McConnell
Congratulations Gregg on receiving Buying Legal Council’s Collaboration Award for transforming global contract management.
By uniting Legal Ops, Procurement, IT, and Automation, his team used AI-powered Digital Workers to cut manual entry, reduce risk, and speed up contracts across the enterprise. The initiative delivered measurable results — including a 50% reduction in SLAs, over $167K in savings, and a projected $1.19M annual ROI.
Gregg McConnell
Global Director Legal Operations & Innovation
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Weekly AI News Roundup
1. Legal AI startup Eve hits $1B valuation with major funding
Eve, which builds AI tools for plaintiffs’ law firms (case evaluation, drafting, discovery), raised $103M and now commands a $1B valuation. The milestone signals growing investor confidence in AI’s role in litigation practice. [Reuters]
2. Anthropic cofounder argues for cautious optimism in “Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear”
Anthropic cofounder Jack Clark shared an essay urging a middle ground between AI hype and fear. He describes frontier AI as powerful but unpredictable. His framing reinforces the need for governance that balances innovation with risk, compliance, and liability safeguards. [Import AI]
3. Taiwan Semiconductor rides the AI wave with stellar earnings
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest chip producer, announced record profits alongside an improved revenue forecast, reflecting multiyear demand from AI infrastructure growth that will continue shaping global tech and compliance landscapes. [Barron’s]
4. Zelda Williams demands respect over deepfakes of her father
Robin Williams’ daughter, Zelda, publicly urged people to stop generating AI videos of her late father, calling them disrespectful and deeply distressing. This underscores the urgency around rights of publicity, posthumous likeness laws, and enforcement mechanisms against misuse of identity in AI content. [Guardian]
5. Illinois advances guardrails for AI in mental health
A new Illinois law aims to limit how AI is used in mental health settings, requiring oversight and protections to prevent harm or misdiagnosis. More than 250 bills targeting AI in healthcare have been proposed in state legislatures across the country. Legal teams should pay close attention to regulatory requirements and liability risks when deploying AI in sensitive domains. [Association of Health Care Journalists]
6. OpenAI’s Sora app crosses 1M downloads in under 5 days
The media-generation tool Sora hit 1 million downloads in just days. The rapid adoption shows that consumers are experimenting with AI-generated video at scale. This puts pressure on legal and compliance teams to clarify use rights, consent, and liability before synthetic media becomes ubiquitous. [BBC]
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AI Spotlight
Nick Whitehouse delves into Sora, the new AI technology that can generate video indistinguishable from real people.
While the innovation is groundbreaking, it raises serious ethical questions around identity, likeness, and consent as deepfakes flood social media.
How are you and your organization planning to grapple with these implications? We’d love to hear your perspectives on how this technology could shape trust, communication, and reputational risk.
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This recognition highlights what makes Onit different: AI built by lawyers for lawyers. Our proprietary legal AI is trained, validated, and refined by our in-house team of lawyers to ensure it delivers measurable ROI.
