Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Traction: We are adding about 25 people a day as registrants, having fully launched in late October 2023, and have begun demos with attorneys. Altumatim Elevator Pitch: Altumatim is the story-based eDiscovery platform that fully automates document review and finds the most important evidence by learning the story the attorney wants to tell.

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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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LawSites

JULY 6, 2021

On March 31, MyCase acquired CASEpeer , a case management platform for plaintiffs’ attorneys. Woodpecker, based in Boston and founded in 2017, provides AI-enabled legal document automation software. Around the same time, MyCase acquired Woodpecker , which provides legal document automation software for solo and small law firms.

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LawSites

JULY 28, 2022

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. ” As it happens, Shanahan is the former founder of a legal tech company.

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Legal Talk Network

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The bottom-line is that attorneys are missing a lot of potential business from clients in need. At the risk of being too editorial, if you want more profits from your legal practice, you should definitely review all editions of the Clio Legal Trends Report (2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019). ClioCloud9 pic.twitter.com/0RCgZ18lPK.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Lawmatics , a company whose platform provides client relationship management (CRM), client intake and marketing automation for attorneys, has closed a $10 million Series A financing round, it is announcing today. ” Managing the Attorney-Client Relationship. The financing follows the San Diego-based company’s raise of a $2.5

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

That, too, won the AALL product of the year award in 2017 and spawned a slew of similar products from other legal technology companies. “We have found attorneys doing legal research on Parallel Search save 11.5 hours a week, conduct 47% fewer searches, and is preferred by 74% of attorneys to pre-AI search methods.”

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lennyesq

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Opposing Priscilla Villarreal’s petition for Supreme Court review, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton portrays basic journalism as “incitement.” ” JACOB SULLUM Next month, the Supreme Court will consider whether to take up Villarreal v.

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Legal Tech Monitor

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Census, more than 23 percent of households in Illinois spoke a language other than English at home between 2017 and 2021. Bilingual attorneys play a critical role in our legal system, serving as a conduit between a client’s culture and the American legal process. Many bilingual attorneys are first-generation U.S.

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LawSites

MARCH 1, 2022

Lawmatics , a company whose product provides client relationship management (CRM), client intake and marketing automation for attorneys, is now adding timekeeping and billing tools, with the goal of offering law firms a comprehensive platform with everything they need to manage their administrative sides. Adding a time entry in Lawmatics.

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lennyesq

MARCH 2, 2024

The problems are interfering with the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s plans for a conservation easement on 300 acres, including the 90-acre campground, which the state has been pursuing since at least 2017.

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LawSites

JULY 29, 2021

Hello Divorce , a California startup whose platform facilitates low-cost do-it-yourself and attorney-assisted divorces, has raised a seed investment of $2 million to help fuel its expansion to all 50 states. Levine, a divorce attorney in Emeryville, Calif., We were already growing at a pretty good clip.”.

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LawSites

JANUARY 31, 2023

“Attorneys are able to scale their practices beyond what they ever would have been able to if they were doing one-to-one services. As I wrote when she launched the company in 2017 , it was originally called HelpSelf Legal and it was an automated platform to help to women obtain domestic violence restraining orders.

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LawSites

JANUARY 31, 2022

Dashboard Legal is a collaboration and project management tool built for attorneys. Since 2017, Immediation has been pioneering improved access to justice via highly secure digital legal environments for dispute resolution, hearings, arbitrations and mediation – saving time and money and leading to greater sustainability. Immediation.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

We apply Natural Language Processing and a semantic knowledge graph to the process that attorneys use to research, analyze and write complex legal documents. Target customer: In-house legal departments and law firm attorneys who serve as outside general counsel. Attorney users $199/mo. Demo video: Video on page: [link].

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Attorney at Work

JULY 31, 2021

AbacusNext — the company that delivers Abacus and Amicus case management — acquired HotDocs in 2017, rebooted it to HotDocs Advance , added a deep Abacus case management integration , and continue to iterate on the product. What follows is a review of the latest feature adds to HotDocs.

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Ron Friedmann

JULY 15, 2020

Excitement and expectations grew when long-established law firm document management software (DMS) provider iManage acquired RAVN in 2017. Our design and deployment efforts began in late 2017 and continued through 2018 into the late summer of 2019 culminating in our broad scale pilot. Why the excitement?

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LawSites

JULY 9, 2021

The Tech Edge JD launched in 2017, inviting law school applicants to apply for a position in the inaugural 2018 incoming cohort. All told, the students explored the career paths of 23 practicing attorneys before designing their own individualized career path and education plan. Nancy Attalla, Tech Edge JD ’21 graduate.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 23, 2023

Personnel note: Fyk’s attorney was Jeffrey L. The court says the issue of standing to challenge 230’s constitutionality was already litigated and decisively resolved in AFDI v. Lynch , affirmed per curiam without a substantive opinion in Am. Freedom Def. Initiative v. Sessions, 697 F. App’x 7 (D.C. Case citation : Fyk v.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 21, 2023

On that front, the plaintiffs’ other key piece of evidence came from a 2017 meeting between YouTube “queer” creators and Google’s Vice President of Product Management, Johanna Wright. There is no basis for assuming that the algorithm in question today is materially similar to the algorithm in question in 2017.

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Lawmatics

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

When researching this article, I quickly encountered many traditional attorney videos that resembled this 2017 SNL Skit " Attorney Ad." A Sampling of Video Titles Real Estate Attorney Breaks Down And Explains All Closing Costs What Does "No Hoa" Really Mean? So how are PI attorneys using this format on Youtube?

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 2, 2021

When the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School explored law firm work allocation in 2017 , longtime partners confirmed that traditional work allocation has an implicit bias toward associates who can easily develop relationships with partners. “An

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LawSites

MAY 25, 2021

As the pandemic took hold last year and trial dates disappeared, Smith became concerned about how younger attorneys in his firm would obtain courtroom experience. I also came across a series of VR videos developed in 2017 by the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service to provide courtroom training for lawyers.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

market last December, today is announcing its expansion into contract drafting with the release of LegalOn Templates, a collection of more than 100 market-standard templates created and kept current by attorneys experienced in the applicable area of law. ” Read more about LegalOn in the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. ” .

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Martindale-Avvo

JUNE 6, 2023

Each episode includes an interview with a highly knowledgeable attorney or legal reporter. You will emerge from each episode feeling shocked at just how much drama is possible in the legal profession — but you will also be more appreciative of all the highly competent and ethical attorneys you encounter in your day-to-day life.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 27, 2023

11, 2023): Time and again we have declared that “prevailing defendants in copyright cases are presumptively entitled (and strongly so) to recover attorney fees.” In 2017, Defendants’ executive assistant sent emails to Steven Sikes from SoFi seeking to schedule a meeting between Mr. Sikes and Mr. Plashkes. 22-1641 (7th Cir.

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Technically Legal

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Ethics attorney Jim Doppke returns to Technically Legal to talk legal ethics and technology. Jim is a former prosecutor for the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission and is now in private practice with Robinson, Stewart, Montgomery and Doppke. Jim says a few things have changed since the tweak to the Rule 1.1:

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

But for firms with between 11 and 29 attorneys, that percentage dropped from 39% to 23%. The average law firm attorney spends just 56% of their time practicing law, down from 58% in 2020. 2017 Survey. Of course, a firm’s evaluation of its success turns on how it measures success. 2019 Survey. 2016 Survey.

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LawSites

JANUARY 31, 2022

Dashboard Legal is a collaboration and project management tool built for attorneys. Since 2017, Immediation has been pioneering improved access to justice via highly secure digital legal environments for dispute resolution, hearings, arbitrations and mediation – saving time and money and leading to greater sustainability. Immediation.

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LawSites

AUGUST 23, 2021

So I had grown up in the household of an attorney and I had gone off to undergrad pretty certain I was going to follow in his footsteps to be a federal prosecutor. But I had grown up in awe of attorneys who were so capable of solving very real-world issues for their clients. Then I went off to the University of Chicago law school.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 29, 2023

This is done by a staff attorney. The picture at issue was taken in 2017, and was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office on July 29, 2017. Pruttton appeared pro se, even though he is an attorney himself. Step Two: The CCB does a compliance review of the filed claim to determine if the claim qualifies for the CCB.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 25, 2022

According to a “South Dakota Law Review” 2014 study, 20% of the country’s residents live in rural areas, but only 2% of attorneys practice in rural areas or small towns. In 2017, low-income Americans will approach LSC-funded legal aid organizations for support with an estimated 1.7 appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 5, 2022

This is the cover notebook I started in 2017 and finished in February this year. The post Cheap Notebooks for Expensive People appeared first on Attorney at Work. Environmental footprint: Unknown. Made in Brazil using sun-dried roadkill and old coffee. I ruin my notebooks and the 33004s embrace my abuse with an uncommon zeal.

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Clio

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

However, for this fee structure to work, attorneys need to identify the resources required to produce a favorable result. According to the 2017 Legal Trends Report , 44% of firms found that clients don’t pay their bills because they lack the funds to pay all at once. Capped fees Capped fees use the traditional hourly billing model.

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Discovery Advocate

MAY 3, 2018

For more than five years we have discussed the need for attorney competence in technology, especially as related to discovery in posts like this one and this one. As Electronically Stored Information (ESI) continues to grow, it is critical for all attorneys to understand ESI and evolving technology. California Formal Opinion No.

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Liquid Litigation Management, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The SCOTUS blog took a look at data from the 2017 term to identify patterns. One element that they looked for was if gender imbalances in oral argument interruptions of previous years continued in 2017. The same holds true in the Supreme Court. In the past, females were more frequently interrupted than males.

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LawSites

APRIL 6, 2023

When UniCourt was founded in 2017 to provide access to court data and analytics, APIs were an afterthought, cofounder Josh Blandi now says. These include analytics on attorneys, law firms, judges, parties and cases. “It’s very tough to build analytics that you can trust and rely on,” Blandi said.

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