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The 2023 Fastcase 50 Announced, Honoring Legal’s Innovators, Visionaries and Leaders

Above the Law - Technology

Since 2011, Fastcase has released an annual list of the Fastcase 50, honoring 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.” I was honored to be in the inaugural Fastcase 50 class in 2011. This year’s list of honorees reflects a year of transformation for legal services.

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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

Above the Law - Technology

ROSS was ahead of its time in striving to use artificial intelligence to empower legal research. But the outlook for ROSS changed almost overnight when it was sued by Thomson Reuters in 2020 on allegations that it surreptitiously stole content from Westlaw to build its own competing legal research product.

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Legal Tech Look-Back: A New Series Highlighting Moments from the Annals of Legal Technology

LawSites

5, 2011, LexisNexis formally launched Lexis Advance , its next-generation legal research platform, which succeeded the research platform formerly called Lexis. ” In 2011, the new Lexis Advance featured a Workplace Carousel of search folders and history. So let’s get started. Lexis Advances.

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Fastcase Names Its 11th Annual Class of Fastcase 50 Innovation Honorees

LawSites

Each year since the inaugural awards in 2011, the Fastcase 50 award has spotlighted the often under-recognized efforts of pioneers and architects of the future of law and legal technology,” Fastcase said in announcing this latest round. Disclosure: I was listed in the inaugural group in 2011.). Congratulations to all!

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The Legal Singularity and the Future of Legal Research – Benjamin Alarie and Abdi Aidid (TGIR Ep. 193)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

He became interested in the future of legal education and how artificial intelligence will affect the profession, which led him to co-found Blue J , a legal technology company in Toronto. On the other hand, Abdi Aidid practiced as a commercial litigator in New York before becoming the Vice President of Legal Research at Blue J.

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My Most-Read Posts of 2021

LawSites

Rather, they were about ransomware attacks, regulatory reform, industry news, and new legal research tools. For somewhat of a time capsule of the past decade in legal technology, see my prior years’ lists of my most-popular posts: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 ).

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Ep 024: Making Legal Research Better, with Judicata Founder Itai Gurari

LawNext podcast

With Judicata , Itai Gurari believes he has built a better legal research platform. A lawyer and computer scientist, his approach to designing a legal research engine was to first “map the legal genome” -- that is, map the law with extreme accuracy and granularity. In 2011, he left Google to start Judicata.