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I Am Deeply Saddened To Report The Death Of Monica Bay: Friend, Mentor and Role Model to So Many in Legal Tech

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As a dear friend, trusted mentor, and inspirational role model to so many in the world of legal tech, Monica stood alone. With Monica at a Thomson Reuters event during LegalTech 2013. For many years at the annual Legal Tech conference in New York, Monica hosted a bloggers’ breakfast.

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How A Startup Evolves: As Casetext Marks 10th Year Anniversary, Here’s Its History Through 50 Blog Posts

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The company it started as in 2013 is not the company it is today. There are 49 that I found, and together they offer an overview of how a legal tech startup evolves into a mature company. 2013 New Legal Research Site Combines Case Law with Crowdsourcing. Turns Out Legal Research Services Vary Widely in Results.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

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As I survey the legal profession broadly, and the world of legal tech and innovation specifically, I see uncertainty and inertia. It is as if we are serving time in a legal tech limbo. After all, it was a good year for the legal tech industry. Overall, the legal tech industry saw unprecedented growth.

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Women of Legal Tech: Cindy Cohn

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The Legal Technology Resource Center ’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. Cohn as one of America’s Top 50 Women in Tech. In 2013, The National Law Journal named Ms. How did you become involved in legal tech?

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A Former Legal Tech Founder Is At the Center of the Musk Affair Allegations

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” As it happens, Shanahan is the former founder of a legal tech company. An attorney, in 2013 she founded ClearAccessIP, a patent management platform that used AI to help creators and owners manage and distribute their IP assets. Shanahan was among the women I featured in a 2017 post, 2017: The Year of Women in Legal Tech.

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The Rumors Were True: Thomson Reuters Acquires Casetext for $650M Cash

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The acquisition unites a long-established giant in legal research with a company that has proven to be a feisty upstart since its founding in 2013. ” Earlier this year, it launched CoCounsel , an AI legal assistant developed in partnership with OpenAI and using the latest version of OpenAI’s GPT large language model.

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My Most-Read Posts of 2021

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Neither ranking includes two static pages that are consistently in the top 15, my list of legal tech startups and my tally of the states that have adopted the duty of technology competence. Longtime Competitors Fastcase and Casemaker Merge, Reshaping the Legal Research Landscape (Jan. 8, 2021).