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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

Above the Law - Technology

The year 2008 saw the launches of the first two cloud-based law practice management platforms, Clio and Rocket Matter, followed in 2009 by the launch of MyCase. When the litigation analytics company Gavelytics shut down in 2022, it was a shock to almost everybody but the founder. As of this writing, the lawsuit is ongoing. Gavelytics.

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What If I Don’t Want to Litigate? Law Degree Alternatives: Exploring Unconventional Career Paths

The Barrister

When most people think of a law degree, they envision a career in traditional fields such as litigation,corporate law, or criminal defense. 9 Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) : For those uninterested in litigation, ADR roles such as mediation and arbitration offer opportunities to resolve conflicts outside of court.

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Thomson Reuters’ Message to Law Firms: Adapt to Market Changes or Become the Pan Am of Legal

Above the Law - Technology

Over the past year, it finds, “the rates clients agreed to pay law firms for new matters grew by more than 6%, with every segment of law firms seeing aggressive increases in worked rates on par with the pace seen prior to the Great Financial Crisis of 2008-’11.”

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Don’t Be Late and Ineffective with Litigation Holds

Joshua Gilliland

The City was found to be grossly negligent in issuing and executing its litigation hold for the preservation of email and text messages. The City did not issue a litigation hold until three years AFTER the complaint had been filed. The Court found that the City’s litigation hold was both late and ineffective. 2, 2016) 2016 U.S.

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E-Discovery Company Casepoint Enhances Its CaseAssist Active Learning Technology

LawSites

One of the first companies to offer a cloud-based, end-to-end e-discovery platform when it launched in 2008, Casepoint was granted three patents last October related to its technology assisted review (TAR) technology, including two linked patents specifically tied to its CaseAssist technology.

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Litigator Says Using Clearbrief Cut Cost of Major Appeal by 20%

LawSites

But in precisely that scenario, Amy Falcon , a litigation partner with Porter Hedges in Houston, says she was able to cut the cost of preparing the brief by 20%, and she attributes that savings entirely to the legal technology product, Clearbrief. For the lawyers, it is an enormous amount of work on a tight deadline.

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LexisNexis Bets Big on AI Transforming the Legal Industry: Jeff Pfeifer on the Launch of Lexis+ AI (TGIR Ep. 203)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

He also sees opportunities to use the tools to help pro se litigants and courts. And so it’s I think it’s just a matter of, you know, we started seriously talking about killing the billable hour in 2008. And at the same time, it also creates the opportunity for the pro se litigant to better prepare for their interaction with the court.

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