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After WSJ’s Explosive Exposé on Judges’ Financial Conflicts, Free Law Project Posts the Data For All to See

LawSites

In an explosive exposé last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that 131 federal judges broke the law by hearing cases where they had a financial interest. The files contain the disclosure records for every federal judge, justice and magistrate from 2011 to 2018, with the 2019 disclosures coming soon.

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Ep 268: How Gen AI Can Be A Game-Changer for Discovery and Litigation, with Everlaw CEO AJ Shankar

LawNext podcast

As you’ll hear him say, he makes no bones about calling it a game changer. With a doctorate in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, Shankar founded Everlaw in 2011 as one of the earliest cloud-based e-discovery platforms.

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Richard Susskind + Mark Cohen on Educating + Skills for Legal Professionals

Ron Friedmann

Mark largely agrees with Richard and also hears the same question regularly. Legal Regulations: The UK re-regulated in 2011, allowing private investment and ownership in law firms. The anecdata I hear varies widely.] They won’t win against the systems.) But even they will need to rely on data and technology.

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At A Turning Point for the Law Firm Docketing Profession, A Conversation with Three of its Trailblazers

LawSites

Back in 2011, Chris Gierymski, director of docketing at DLA Piper in Chicago, reached out to a lot of different people through various email distribution groups. Those attorneys, they want to hear what they want to hear. So let’s start at the beginning: How did it get started? OLENICH: It’s an interesting story.

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Software Substitutes for Lawyers

The Law Product Makers blog

Marc Andreessen quipped in 2011: “Software is eating the world”. I often hear lawyers say these solutions are inferior. The idea of software substitutes for lawyers’ work is a radical idea for some lawyers. The legal profession is not immune from this development. Law has a high information component.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

LawSites

In 2009, Autonomy acquired Interwoven for $775 million, and then in 2011 Hewlett Packard purchased Autonomy for $11.1 Beginning in March 2020, Pew found, courts adopted technology at unprecedented speed and scale, initiating online hearings and moving other routine functions online, such as electronic filing.

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Colin Lachance on Jurisage’s MyJr and How He’s Looking at AI to Assist in the Synthesis and Reading of Legal Cases (TGIR Ep. 190)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

We keep about this, you know, a roundabout but a logical way when we will get it historically, I’ve been working in legal information and tech since 2011. We would love to hear from you. If search is the is the first, then then engagement with the content and synthesis and understanding of the content is the second. Thanks again Colin.