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

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“We’re trying to solve a longstanding problem in the legal field, and that is that judges only write judicial opinions for 3% of rulings,” Ovbiagele said. “They tell you what judges have done, but they don’t tell you why judges did what they did. The Toronto-based company recently closed a $2.1

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Calling All Legal Tech Startups: Applications Are Open for the ABA TECHSHOW 2024 Startup Alley and Pitch Competition

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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. From all applications received, a panel of five judges will select 25 finalists. Who Are the Judges? 14-17, 2024.

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After WSJ’s Explosive Exposé on Judges’ Financial Conflicts, Free Law Project Posts the Data For All to See

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In an explosive exposé last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that 131 federal judges broke the law by hearing cases where they had a financial interest. To uncover those violations, reporters reviewed the financial holdings of some 700 federal judges and compared them against tens of thousands of court cases.

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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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2017 Legal Research Company Casetext Closes on $12 Million in Funding. 2017: The Year of Women in Legal Tech. In Survey, Judges Say Lawyers’ Incomplete Research Impacts Case Outcomes. Casetext’s Crowdsourced Citator Gains Traction, Passes 67,000 Entries. Law Librarians Name Casetext’s CARA as New Product of the Year.

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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.

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Law Librarians Name Casetext Compose New Product Of The Year

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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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Litigation Analytics Company Gavelytics is Shutting Down Tomorrow

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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. .” The idea struck me, What if, in advance, I could know detailed information about the judge?”