2017 Seems Like Last Century
Above the Law - Technology
APRIL 28, 2023
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Trial Technology
JANUARY 17, 2017
2017 GREATEST HITS CUTTING COSTS: Although cost is not the same as quality, it is something that everyone should be concerned about. Expanding the Archive tree may be a little less efficient for searching, but there you can see articles listed in the order they were originally published.
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Upsolve Launches Tool To Help Pro Se Bankruptcy Filers Get Relief from Student Loans
Above the Law - Technology
APRIL 25, 2024
Since 2017, Upsolve’s debt relief tools have helped more than 13,000 individuals erase more than $750 million in debt. According to Upsolve, a nonprofit company whose technology helps low-income individuals file for bankruptcy for free, Americans owe $1.77 trillion in student loan debt — 93% of it to the federal government.
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Attention Legal Tech Startups: Applications Now Open for the 9th Annual Startup Alley and Pitch Competition at ABA TECHSHOW 2025
Above the Law - Technology
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Ever since Startup Alley first launched in 2017, the pitch competition has helped catapult the success of a long list of legal technology startups and become a seminal event of the American Bar Association’s annual TECHSHOW.
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2017 Best of Corporate Counsel
Trial Technology
JUNE 30, 2017
Who is the best TRIAL TECHNOLOGY "HOT SEAT" PROVIDER? Although for the majority of trials we support we are hired by law firms, we are also frequently retained by insurance carriers, government agencies, and occasionally, directly by clients.
The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails
Above the Law - Technology
APRIL 11, 2024
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 2017, Forbes named the three founders to its “30 Under 30.” But one thing for certain is that while some products shut down with a whimper, others go out with a bang.
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Calling All Legal Tech Startups: Applications Are Open for the ABA TECHSHOW 2024 Startup Alley and Pitch Competition
Above the Law - Technology
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Since the very first Startup Alley in 2017, the legal tech pitch competition has helped catapult the success of a long list of startups and become a seminal event of the American Bar Association’s annual TECHSHOW. You were not one of the prior years’ winners selected to present at Startup Alley in 2017-2022. 14-17, 2024.
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2017 Seems Like Last Century
Legal Tech Monitor
APRIL 28, 2023
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Meet Marilyn Mulero, the Innocent Woman Who Was Wrongly Sentenced to the Death Penalty
Legal Talk Network
OCTOBER 2, 2024
Justin Brooks, Co-Founder of the California Innocence Project and Exoneree Marilyn Mulero A 2017 study published by the American Psychological Association found that approximately 90% of people would prefer to not be informed of when and how they will die if a crystal ball or all-knowing source could reveal it.
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Who's YOUR trial tech?
Trial Technology
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Plaintiff was represented by Andy Schwartz and Stan Casper, [link] Wrapping up the year, here are a few of our latest Honors & Awards New York Law Journal Magazine, Best Of 2017 New York Law Journal Magazine September 2017 Best Trial Consultant Best "Hot Seat" Trial Technicians The Recorder Best of 2017 The Recorder August 2017 Best "HOT SEAT" (..)
The Week of Jan. 29 Brings Three Legal Tech Conferences, Spanning BigLaw, SmallLaw and A2J
Above the Law - Technology
JANUARY 16, 2024
Long called Legaltech New York, it was renamed Legalweek in 2017 , and is one of the largest, longest-running and most-anticipated conferences focused on legal technology and the business of law, last year drawing over 6,000 attendees and featuring more than 300 speakers. Legalweek, Jan. 1 Legalweek is the OG of legal tech conferences.
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On LawNext Podcast: Lawmatics Founder Matt Spiegel On Automating CRM for Law Firms
Above the Law - Technology
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
In 2017, he returned to law to start his current company, Lawmatics , a client relationship management (CRM) platform for law firms. He was a criminal defense lawyer in 2009 when he founded MyCase , one of the earliest cloud-based law practice management companies.
Dueling Legal Tech Lawsuits: Turns Out Exec Who Sued Former Company in NY Had Herself Been Sued By them A Week Earlier in Dallas
Above the Law - Technology
MARCH 27, 2024
Both the New York and Texas complaints agree that after Diaz-Roa first started working for Hermes in 2017, she began to pursue a graduate degree at Yale, while continuing to work part time for Hermes. ClaimDeck and Hermes say they paid the cost of her graduate education, in a total amount of some $170,000.
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AOS’s Fuse Incubator Calls For Applications
Artificial Lawyer
JANUARY 14, 2025
The Fuse legal tech / fintech incubator, which is part of A&O Shearman (AOS), is calling for applications to join its latest cohort the ninth since it launched in 2017 in both its London an
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Trademark Docketing Software Company Alt Legal Acquires Customers Of Competitor TM Cloud
Above the Law - Technology
AUGUST 3, 2023
. “They will also be welcomed into the Alt Legal Community, a global network of thousands of trademark professionals eager to share knowledge and resources.” Stevenson will not be joining Alt Legal. The cofounder of TM Cloud, Louis Stevenson , retired earlier this year.
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After WSJ’s Explosive Exposé on Judges’ Financial Conflicts, Free Law Project Posts the Data For All to See
LawSites
OCTOBER 15, 2021
The database is a collection of over 250,000 pages of financial records gathered since 2017 through requests to the federal judiciary, Michael Lissner , executive director and CTO, said in a blog post today. Until 2017, federal judges’ financial disclosures could be obtained only by requesting them individually by fax.
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How A Startup Evolves: As Casetext Marks 10th Year Anniversary, Here’s Its History Through 50 Blog Posts
Above the Law - Technology
JUNE 15, 2023
2017 Legal Research Company Casetext Closes on $12 Million in Funding. 2017: The Year of Women in Legal Tech. Casetext’s Crowdsourced Citator Gains Traction, Passes 67,000 Entries. 2016 Casetext’s New Features Help You More Easily Get to the Essence of A Case. Law Librarians Name Casetext’s CARA as New Product of the Year.
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AI copyright infringement article now available for comment
TechnoLlama
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
I’ve entitled it “A Scanner Darkly: Copyright Infringement in Artificial Intelligence Inputs and Outputs” in part as a companion piece to my 2017 (and […]
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Exclusive: iManage Reveals Details On Its Growth, Lays Out Plans to Further Leverage Gen AI, Partnerships
Above the Law - Technology
MARCH 13, 2024
Within a year, the company launched its native cloud platform, iManage Cloud, and then went on to make several key acquisitions, including of UK artificial intelligence company RAVN Systems in 2017 and of legal transaction management company Closing Folders in 2020.
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StructureFlow appoints new COO and CRO to drive next phase of growth
Legal IT Insiders
APRIL 23, 2023
2017-founded UK data modelling software provider StructureFlow has appointed Gerry McHugh as its new chief operating officer and Fiona McClune as its new chief revenue officer to drive the next … StructureFlow appoints new COO and CRO to drive next phase of growth Read More » The post StructureFlow appoints new COO and CRO to drive next (..)
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With Goal of Promoting Open Access to Legal Scholarship, Yale Law School Launches Law Archive
Above the Law - Technology
APRIL 4, 2024
In 2017, I wrote here about the launch of LawArXiv, a website devoted to preserving open access to legal scholarship. A Successor to LawArXiv This is not the first time an archive was launched to promote open access to legal scholarship.
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Our Justice Gap
Legal Talk Network
MAY 18, 2022
This most recent version builds upon the related 2017 study as well as incorporates new data from COVID-19. In the linked episode below, LSC President Ron Flagg sits down with University of Michigan Football Head Coach Jim Harbaugh and LSC Chairman John Levi to discuss their latest ‘Justice Gap’ Report.
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ACC Annual Meeting 2023: Free (Aussie) Chocolates, A Survival Guide For Lawyers & More
Xakia
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Six years ago, it felt like both a punch to the gut and a direct challenge: “Your product is interesting, but we’ll see if you’re still around in a few years,” commented several attendees as they strolled by Xakia’s little booth at the 2017 Association of Corporate Counsel Annual Meeting. Lawyers sure are a tough bunch to impress. Motivating?
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Allegory Founder Alma Asay Joins Crowell & Moring In Practice Innovation Role
LawSites
JUNE 28, 2021
When Allegory was purchased by Integreon Discovery Solutions in 2017, Asay became its chief innovation officer. I featured her in an essay I wrote, 2017: The Year of Women in Legal Tech. In March 2020, Asay moved to Litera Microsystems, where she was a domain expert and advisor to clients on litigation.
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Two Notable Legal Tech Moves, As Crowell Names Alma Asay Chief Innovation Officer and Relativity Names Laurie Usewicz Chief Partner Officer
Above the Law - Technology
MAY 1, 2023
When Allegory was purchased by Integreon Discovery Solutions in 2017, Asay became its chief innovation officer. Asay had been a lawyer for more than six years at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher when she launched Allegory in 2012 as one of the first cloud-based litigation management platforms.
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Former PCLaw CEO Olivia Mockel Named President and COO of Practice Management Company ZenCase
LawSites
OCTOBER 19, 2023
From 2017 to 2019, Mockel was vice president of customer experience at LEAP, where she was responsible for the strategy and management of the CX and the design and automation teams. From 2015 to 2017, she was a product leader at EY in Dubai, responsible for establishing two new EY startup business services.
Aderant Begins the New Year with a New CEO
LawSites
JANUARY 3, 2022
In 2017, he was promoted to executive vice president, and then named president last July. She was named CEO in 2017. Cartrett has been with Atlanta-based Aderant since 2014, coming to the company from Thomson Reuters, where he had most recently been vice president, sales and account management, for large law firms.
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Legal Tech Startup To Launch AI-Powered Arbitration Service, Promising Reduced Costs and Consistent Outcomes
LawSites
JANUARY 29, 2025
To this day, one of my most popular and viral posts ever involved the 2017 launch of LegalBoard, a keyboard designed for lawyers by lawyer Brian Potts, who is now a partner at Husch Blackwell. Hits to that post went through the roof, far exceeding any post Id ever before published. Now, Potts is back, […]
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ROSS Cofounder Returns To Legal Tech with Startup Using AI To Surface Judges’ Decision-Making Patterns
Above the Law - Technology
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
In 2017, Forbes named the three founders to its “ 30 Under 30.” Denton’s NextLaw Labs made ROSS one of its earliest investments. In 2015, they secured $4.3 million in seed funding and then, two years later, another $8.7 million in Series A funding. My 2019 post detailed my visit to ROSS’s Toronto research and development office.
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No-Code Legal Automation Startup Josef Raises $2.5M
LawSites
MAY 17, 2021
Founded in 2017 by two lawyers, CEO Tom Dreyfus and COO Sam Flynn , and engineer Kirill Kliavin , now CTO, the company — which is named for the protagonist in Kafka’s novel The Trial , Josef K — says its software has so far been used to create over 6,000 bots.
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CLE: Ethics, Law & Technology
Trial Technology
AUGUST 17, 2017
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
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A Former Legal Tech Founder Is At the Center of the Musk Affair Allegations
LawSites
JULY 28, 2022
Shanahan was among the women I featured in a 2017 post, 2017: The Year of Women in Legal Tech. Currently, Shanahan is president of the Bia-Echo Foundation , an organization that invests in reproductive longevity and equality, criminal justice reform, and a healthy and livable planet.
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Law Librarians Name Casetext Compose New Product Of The Year
LawSites
JUNE 7, 2021
In 2017, the award went to CARA , another first-of-its-kind product that analyzes briefs to find relevant cases they omit. Casetext also launched a Compose add-in for Microsoft Word. Second Product Award. This is the second time the AALL has given its annual product award to a Casetext product.
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Lawmatics Becomes First CRM Product to Integrate with the MyCase Practice Management Platform
LawSites
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
In an integration between two law practice products, Lawmatics , the legal CRM product founded by Matt Spiegel in 2017, now integrates with MyCase , the law practice management platform that Spiegel originally founded in 2009 and left in 2015. You can’t go home again, Thomas Wolfe famously wrote.
Litigation Statistics: Settle or Fight?
Trial Technology
FEBRUARY 17, 2018
Compared to recent years where we have seen a lower volume but higher “run” rate (around 80% in 2017), this seems to indicate that the use of technology-driven litigation support services (e.g., Some of these have not yet started trial, but that is a 45% settlement rate, or 55% of our cases have gone or appear to be going to trial.
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Inventing the Dark Web
LLRX
DECEMBER 31, 2022
This paper by Thais Sardá, Simone Natale, and John Downey examines how the deep Web, i.e., Web sites that are not indexed and thus are not accessible through Web search engines, was described and represented in British newspapers.
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MyCase Quietly Makes Two Key Acquisitions Of Legal Tech Companies
LawSites
JULY 6, 2021
Woodpecker, based in Boston and founded in 2017, provides AI-enabled legal document automation software. CASEpeer, founded in 2015 and based in Newport Beach, Calif., is a cloud-based case management platform for plaintiffs’ personal injury lawyers. Gabriela Cubeiro , who cofounded the company, has been its CEO since January 2020.
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Roundup Of Legal Tech News from CLOC Institute: with News From Agiloft, Casepoint, ContractPodAI, Evisort, LinkSquares, LiquidText, Ontra, PERSUIT
Above the Law - Technology
MAY 17, 2023
I first wrote about LiquidText in 2017 , describing it as an app “that may forever change how you read and annotate complex documents.”
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Litigation Analytics Company Gavelytics is Shutting Down Tomorrow
LawSites
JUNE 29, 2022
26, 2017, and later had the opportunity to visit its Los Angeles headquarters and record an interview for my LawNext podcast with founder and CEO Rick Merrill and Justin Brownstone , the company’s former VP of sales and litigation counsel. .” Merrill told me at the time of his 2017 launch.
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How Clio Can Help You Become a Fee Forward Law Firm
Clio
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
In the 2017 Legal Trends Report , lawyers told us that they spent over 20% of their non-billable time on billing and collections. The benefits of being fee forward Why should you care about becoming a fee forward law firm? For one, becoming fee forward can reduce friction in routine tasks, like billing and collections.
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2018 - Something Old, Something New
Trial Technology
JANUARY 1, 2018
Ted Brooks But first, here is the most-popular article of 2017: Ten PowerPoint Tips for the Courtroom The Archive Articles Archive Contents - This is sort of a directory, although not all-inclusive. With that introduction, here are links to the archive, with a few notes on what you can find at each one. I truly hope you appreciate it.
Clio Reconfigures Leadership Team, Naming Four to C-Suite Roles
LawSites
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
Watson, who joined Clio in 2017 as VP of engineering, becomes the company’s first CTO, as he is named to this newly created position. During his time at Clio, he has led the ground-up reengineering of Clio’s practice management software in 2017 and launched Clio’s integrated client intake and CRM platform in 2019.
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Leveraging AI to Enhance Your Legal Blog: How ChatGPT Can Help Lawyers Develop a Business Development Niche
Kevin O'Keefe
JANUARY 25, 2023
According to data from the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, farming and related industries accounted for nearly $112 billion in economic activity in Iowa in 2017. The state is a leading producer of corn, soybeans, pork, and eggs, and is also known for its dairy and beef cattle operations.
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Paradigm, Parent to Three Practice Management Platforms, Acquired By Francisco Partners
LawSites
OCTOBER 13, 2021
It began by acquiring Bill4Time in 2017, followed by PracticePanther in 2018, MerusCase in 2019, and Headnote in 2020. .” Francisco Partners is also the largest shareholder in LegalZoom , which it helped take public earlier this year. Aiming for ‘Paradigm Shift’ Today’s news reflects that trend.
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