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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

Above the Law - Technology

It launched in 2017 to great fanfare, promising to “revolutionize legal services” through its dual-entity model of both a law firm and a technology company. It started in 2014 at the University of Toronto as a student-built entrant in a cognitive-computing competition staged by IBM to develop applications for its Watson computer.

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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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In fact, as I described in my very first post about Casetext , its original vision was a crowdsourced case law library that its users would edit and annotate and then have other users upvote or downvote the annotations. Think a marriage of Wikipedia and Digg, but for law. 2014 Two Sites Offer Platforms for Crowdsourced Legal Research.

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ROSS Cofounder Returns To Legal Tech with Startup Using AI To Surface Judges’ Decision-Making Patterns

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” Lawyers tend to use traditional legal analytics products at the front end of a litigation, to help their clients determine whether it is worth investing in going forward with the case, he said. See all my coverage of the Thomson Reuters-ROSS litigation. The Toronto-based company recently closed a $2.1

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On LawNext Podcast: Erika Harold, Executive Director, Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism

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A former litigator, Harold was named executive director in April 2022, to succeed retiring executive director Jayne Reardon , who has also been a guest on this podcast. In 2014, she ran in the Republican primary for Congress to represent Illinois’s 13th congressional district.

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Case Management Company Filevine Raises $108M Series D to Fuel Expansion

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Filevine , a Utah-based case management company founded in 2014 with an initial focus on litigation and personal injury law, has raised $108 million in a Series D funding round that it says will help fuel its expansion more deeply into big law, insurance defense, corporate, governmental, and nonprofit legal counsel teams.

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LawNext Podcast: Filevine CEO Ryan Anderson on His Company’s $108M Raise and the Future of Practice Management

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Founded in 2014 with an original focus on litigation and personal injury law, the company has been steadily expanding its platform into other areas of law practice — including larger firms, insurance defense, corporate legal, and government — and it plans to use this funding to further fuel that expansion.

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Courts Are Rejecting Attempts to Weaponize Laws That Protect Consumer Reviews

Eric Goldman

In 2014, California enacted AB2365 , sometimes called the “Yelp law,” codified at Cal. The law prohibits businesses from suppressing consumer reviews (on Yelp or elsewhere). Thus, more likely, this law is one of thousands of laws that the California legislature passes with some hype but then gets widely ignored.

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