Robert Ambrogi

Bob Ambrogi

Bob is a lawyer, veteran legal journalist, and award-winning blogger and podcaster. In 2011, he was named to the inaugural Fastcase 50, honoring “the law’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders.” Earlier in his career, he was editor-in-chief of several legal publications, including The National Law Journal, and editorial director of ALM’s Litigation Services Division.

Ahead of June 10 Shareholder Vote, Union Investor Renews Push for Thomson Reuters to Assess Human Rights Impact of Its Products Used By ICE

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Last month, I wrote about the pushback by employees, shareholders and others against Thomson Reuters over its contracts to sell law enforcement data to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), primarily through two products: CLEAR (Consolidated Lead Evaluation and Reporting), which provides personal data from a variety of public and non-public sources, and license…

The Claude-pocalypse Bypassed Legal Aid; LawDroid’s New Plugin Remedies That, with 15 Targeted Skills

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In last week’s Claude-pocalypse, Anthropic, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies, released 12 legal-specific plugins for its Claude AI assistant. It was big news, signalling a frontier AI company’s deeper push into the legal space.

Notably, however, not one of those plugins was designed for legal aid. Rather, they covered legal tasks…