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eDiscovery Assistant, Legal Research Platform for E-Discovery, Adds AI-Generated Case Law Summaries

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eDiscovery Assistant , a legal research platform for e-discovery case law and resources, is today introducing AI-generated case law summaries. Its founder, Twigger, is the principal at ESI Attorneys, a law firm dedicated to e-discovery, and a nationally known e-discovery attorney, author, and speaker.

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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

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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. In 2016, legal tech entrepreneur Derek Bluford was riding high. Let’s revisit five of the most momentous legal tech fails of the last 10 years. QuickLegal. ROSS Intelligence.

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With Goal of Promoting Open Access to Legal Scholarship, Yale Law School Launches Law Archive

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With the goal of making legal scholarship freely available outside of “proprietary and predatory frameworks,” Yale Law School has launched Law Archive , a free and open archive for publishing legal scholarship. Yale Law Librarian Femi Cadmus. Yale Law Librarian Femi Cadmus.

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CLE: Ethics, Law & Technology

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Ethics, Law & Technology Event Information Provider: Alameda County Bar Association Location: Alameda County Bar Association 1000 Broadway, Suite 480 Oakland, CA 94607 Phone: 510-302-2222 Date: 08/23/2017 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM Credits: 0.5 Light lunch provided. A $10 fee will also be assessed for day-of and walk-in registrations.

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SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein faces tax evasion charges–abajournal.com

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Between 2016 and 2022, Goldstein allegedly schemed to evade the assessment of taxes, file false tax returns and fail to pay his tax obligations when they were due, according to the indictment , which was filed in the District of Maryland. Law360 has coverage. He also underreported his gambling winnings by millions of dollars.

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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. The Failure of Crowdsourcing in Law (So Far, At Least).

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The Need for a Data Platform to Improve Law Firm Business + Practice

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I remember seeing their platform with a consulting colleague the first time in 2016. I say shocked because between my blogging and Tweeting and my colleague’s connections to law firms, we could not understand how we were seeing enterprise grade software for the first time — that we had not heard of it previously.

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