Trial Technology

JUNE 30, 2017

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. Who is the best TRIAL TECHNOLOGY "HOT SEAT" PROVIDER?

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Clio

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Despite this, only 31% of law firms offer these payment options. Below, we’ll introduce you to the concept of becoming a fee forward law firm, along with the benefits and how Clio supports fee forward firms at all stages of the payments process, from billing and payments to accounting. What is a fee forward law firm?

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LawSites

OCTOBER 15, 2021

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. The data the Journal used was compiled by the Free Law Project , a non-profit that works to provide free and open public access to court data, opinions, filings and other information.

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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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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Vanderbilt Law School recently launched an exciting new initiative called the Vanderbilt AI Legal Lab (VAILL) to explore how artificial intelligence can transform legal services and access to justice. Students will learn both practical uses of AI in law practice as well as broader policy and social implications.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 27, 2024

As I reported yesterday, the plaintiff in the New York case, Silvia Diaz-Roa , filed the lawsuit against Hermes Law , a Texas law firm, and ClaimDeck , a litigation management system for insurers and insurance-defense firms that spun out of Hermes Law.

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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 Light lunch provided. A $10 fee will also be assessed for day-of and walk-in registrations.

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Legal Tech Monitor

APRIL 28, 2023

The post 2017 Seems Like Last Century appeared first on Above the Law. Notes to my (legal) self.

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 15, 2023

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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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 13, 2024

Founded in 1995, its collaborative approach to content management made it popular among among law firms virtually out of the gate, and it was acquired eight years later for $171 million by Interwoven. Among the most enduring yet dramatic success stories in legal tech is that of iManage , the document and email management company.

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LawSites

JUNE 7, 2021

A first-of-its-kind tool introduced last year to automate the drafting of litigation briefs has been named new product of the year for 2021 by the American Association of Law Libraries. It later expanded to add employment law briefs and product liability briefs. Casetext also launched a Compose add-in for Microsoft Word.

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Trial Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Coincidentally, we recently won awards in New York Law Journal for Best Trial Consultant, and Best "Hot Seat" Trial Technicians! We work on both sides of the table, and although our primary market is the California courts, we do cover other areas now and then, including a recent $200M arbitration in New York City.

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Ron Friedmann

AUGUST 4, 2020

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. It seemed to me that law firms could use a deeper dive and explanation too. But, it’s a broad topic.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 4, 2022

Perhaps the most striking statistic is that 25% of the survey’s respondents reported that their law firm had been breached at some time. Clearly, law firms are an attractive target for cybercriminals — with a plethora of data about so many people and businesses, law firms are a one-stop-shop for harvesting a wealth of information.

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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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Ron Friedmann

JUNE 29, 2020

Last week Altman Weil released its 2020 Law Firms in Transition Survey , which reports on large law firm trends as of 2020. ” and “In your opinion, over the last ten years, how much have law firms actually changed compared to the amount of change that was needed?” I also Tweeted about findings, here. [I

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

ROSS’s prototype won the competition, earning them a write-up on the front page of The Globe and Mail – which touted ROSS as the future junior associate at Bay Street law firms – and serving as a springboard for the company’s rapid acceleration. In 2017, Forbes named the three founders to its “ 30 Under 30.” In 2015, they secured $4.3

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 1, 2023

There were two notable moves in the legal tech world announced today, both to newly created positions, as the law f irm Crowell & Moring announced that it has named Alma Asay as its first chief innovation and value officer, and Relativity said that it has named Laurie Usewicz as its first chief partner officer.

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Colin S. Levy

APRIL 30, 2024

On a Saturday morning in 2016, I found myself sitting in a brightly lit auditorium in my role as an advisor for the Campbell Law School Law Review unaware that my life would take an unexpected turn. Now, it seemed, I was making progress.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 17, 2023

Bloomberg Law Launches A Product For Storing, Searching, Drafting and Negotiating Contracts. “Now, Leah will support corporate legal teams and law firms for other legal matters beyond contracts.” Tonkean Says Its New LegalWorks ‘Safely’ Brings Generative AI and No-Code Automation to Inhouse Matter Management.

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LawSites

MARCH 7, 2024

T he Caselaw Access Project , part of Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab , completed its three-year project to digitize all U.S. case law — some 6.4 million pages from 39,796 law books and converted it all into machine-readable text files, creating a collection that included 6.4 Case Law, Covering 360 Years.

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LawSites

APRIL 29, 2021

Eight students in the LawX legal design lab at BYU Law have developed an online resource, called Goodbye Record , that is designed to address flaws in the process for expunging criminal records in Utah and potentially other states as well. The students initially planned to develop an app to help individuals apply for expungement.

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Does your law firm work allocation model leave too many associates behind? Historically, work allocation in law firms has primarily been driven by partner s. In a National Association of Law Placement (NALP) Foundation survey, law firms cited dissatisfaction with work quality as the top reason for associate departures.

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LawSites

JANUARY 3, 2022

The new year begins with news of a new chief executive at Aderant , a global provider of business management software for law firms. 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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LawSites

JUNE 28, 2021

Alma Asay , the former litigator who founded the litigation management platform Allegory Law, has joined the law firm Crowell & Moring as senior director of practice innovation and client value. When Allegory was purchased by Integreon Discovery Solutions in 2017, Asay became its chief innovation officer.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The cloud-based law practice management company ZenCase has named Olivia Mockel , a lawyer and legal technology executive, as its president and chief operating officer. “I am driven to help legal professionals become more efficient through innovative legal technology,” Mockel said in a statement announcing her hire.

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LawSites

JULY 9, 2021

In this guest post, Laura Lee Norris , director of the program, and Mark Michels , lecturer in law, describe the program and how it prepares students for careers as tech lawyers in Silicon Valley. Santa Clara University School of Law graduated its first Tech Edge JD cohort in May 2021.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Seven times since 2016, Thomson Reuters has conducted a survey on the state of small law firms in the U.S., and every time, it found that small firms had made virtually no progress on one of their greatest challenges, which is that they spend too much time on administrative tasks to the exclusion of practicing law.

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Colin S. Levy

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

And if clients refuse to pay for humans to handle routine work, what will that mean to a law firms bottom line? Weve heard all of the fears about GenAIs use in the practice of law. Imagine a world in which a law firm has figured out a way to use GenAI to do simple tasks quickly and well. Isnt that bad for the law firm?

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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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LawSites

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Thomson Reuters is shutting down its Firm Central law practice management software and will discontinue support for the product after Sept. By all accounts, however, Firm Central never gained the market traction of many of its competitors, and TR used it primarily as an add-on benefit to help sell Westlaw to smaller law firms.

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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.

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LawSites

JULY 6, 2021

The law practice management company MyCase has quietly acquired two legal technology companies in recent months, without announcing the acquisitions to the public. Around the same time, MyCase acquired Woodpecker , which provides legal document automation software for solo and small law firms. Its founder and CEO is Alex Melehy.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 18, 2024

My roundup of the top Internet Law developments of 2023: 10) California court bans targeted advertising (?). Facebook , a California appeals court shocked the advertising community by suggesting that using common demographic criteria for ad targeting, such as age or gender, may violate California’s anti-discrimination law.

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Legal Talk Network

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Their backstay of tuned-up educational programming was designed to help practitioners run leaner more profitable law firms. This year’s conference featured five tracks to choose from (Legal Technology, Business of Law, Industry Workshops, Clio University, and Clio University Workshops). Clio Cloud 2019: Legal Trends Retort Game Show!

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LawSites

APRIL 4, 2024

We had been the very first podcast on the Legal Talk Network and the longest continually running podcast in law, at that point having racked up 586 episodes. But, as I explained in a 2018 post , I wanted to start a podcast that focused on innovation in law and legal technology. Don’t see your picture up there?

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Kevin O'Keefe

JANUARY 25, 2023

I imagined I was an Iowa lawyer looking to develop a niche in agricultural law. I asked “What are good ideas for a niche legal blog on agriculture law in Iowa?” Overviews of Iowa’s state laws and regulations related to farming and agriculture, including those pertaining to zoning, land use, and conservation.

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