Above the Law - Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The tag line on the website of Overture Law says, “Unlock hidden revenue in your practice.” To address ethical issues, Overture is set up as a law firm in California , operating as the co-counsel liaison between lawyers who want to refer cases to other attorneys in different states and practice areas, while complying with state ethics laws.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

APRIL 25, 2025

While the CCPAs proposed rules are promising, they still diverge in key respects from the GDPR Europes comprehensive data protection law that has been setting the standard since 2018. The post AI Gets Personal: CCPA vs. GDPR on Automated Decision-Making appeared first on Berkeley Technology Law Journal.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 21, 2023

The investigation determined that an unauthorized third party gained access to the ABA network and may have acquired usernames and salted and hashed passwords to access accounts on a prior version of the ABA website, which was replaced by a new platform in 2018. The passwords were not exposed in plain text.

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Legal IT Professionals

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Leading Caribbean law firm Dentons Delany has chosen 3E ® , the market-leading financial and practice management solution from Elite, as its cloud-based technology foundation for the future.

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Legal IT Insiders

APRIL 17, 2023

2018-founded law firm and professional services experience management platform ikaun has launched a ChatGPT-based tool that will help marketing and BD teams select and complete RFPs, cutting response times, it … ikaun launches generative AI-based RFP lifecycle automation tool Read More » The post ikaun launches generative AI-based RFP lifecycle (..)

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

MAY 3, 2023

There are three rules for growth and success when it comes to large law firms. Brown emphasizes the need for law firms to develop strategies that prioritize clients and build meaningful relationships. And we just we even have more to talk about than than we did back in 2018. Strategy, strategy, and strategy. I’m Marlene Gebauer.

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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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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In its second acquisition in six weeks, law practice management company Clio has acquired Lawyaw , a document automation and assembly platform designed for solo, small and mid-sized law firms. This news follows Clio’s July 28 announcement that it acquired CalendarRules, an automated court calendaring product.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 10, 2024

From 2008 to 2018, he held a series of executive and leadership roles at SAP and SAP Concur. I’m inspired by DISCO’s mission to make the law work better for everyone. Camara, who was also the youngest-ever graduate of Harvard Law School, was on my L awNext podcast in 2021 where he shared his backstory and discussed DISCO’s IPO.

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Technology Law Dispatch

OCTOBER 2, 2023

On 11 September 2023, the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT), published the draft Data Protection (Fundamental Rights and Freedoms) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (DP Regulations), which seek to amend the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018).

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The Barrister

MARCH 11, 2025

When most people think of a law degree, they envision a career in traditional fields such as litigation,corporate law, or criminal defense. However, a law degree offers a versatile skill set that can be applied across various industries and professions. However, only 51% were working in law firms. 2 The ABA reported 7.6%

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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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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

JULY 10, 2023

In what is clearly a major milestone for Milestones , a legal tech company whose product provides law firm clients with automatic updates on their cases, it has closed a $2.1 It primarily served law firms in areas such as personal injury, workers’ compensation and immigration, where cases are linear and have fairly standard milestones.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 4, 2023

It provides access to comprehensive primary and secondary law collections from more than 100 countries. The company told me last year that its collection of case law, legislation, journals and dockets serves over 2 million users across Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, the Caribbean, and the Americas. case law and other materials.

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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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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 13, 2022

That doesn’t mean, however, that law firms and litigation support teams have been quick to embrace them. In the ABA 2020 Legal Tech Survey , 23% of law firms reported not being interested in AI, while 34% said they didn’t know enough about AI to speak to their firms’ interest. The law isn’t unique in its resistance to AI.

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LawSites

MARCH 7, 2024

Back in 2018, something remarkable happened. 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 The project initially received financial support from legal research startup Ravel Law. Case Law, Covering 360 Years.

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Every week, I get to sit down at the mic for my LawNext podcast and have a conversation with the leading “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” The first episode of LawNext was posted on July 16, 2018.) Casetext’s Three Top Execs On CoCounsel, GPT-4 and ‘A New Age in the Practice of Law’.

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Dewey B Strategic

APRIL 3, 2023

Today vLex and Fastcase , two of the fastest-growing legal technology companies, announced that they are merging to form the world’s largest digital law library. The combined company will also have the world’s largest law firm subscriber base and resources containing more than one billion legal documents from more than 100 countries.

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Brett Trout

MARCH 11, 2025

Puma (2018) Another legal battle over Flyknit-type shoe designs. Skechers (2016) Nike took Skechers to court for allegedly infringing eight Nike patents, including patents covering the Flyknit technology. The lawsuit was settled in 2021. Nikes enforcement of its intellectual property is not limited to Flyknit or even just patents.

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LawSites

APRIL 4, 2024

When I started LawNext in 2018, I was no stranger to podcasting. 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. From day one, LawNext has been laser focused on innovation and entrepreneurship in law. Craig Williams.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A broader theme of both Pfeifer and the conference was that of patterns of knowledge and of how enriching legal documents not only makes them easier to find and retrieve, but also enables law firms and legal departments to better see the patterns in their data and use those insights to better serve their clients. Thank You To Our Sponsors.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 22, 2025

Mark Bartholomew (Buffalo Law) Sam Bayard Prof. Law) Nyssa Chopra Prof. Stephen Diamond (Santa Clara Law) Prof. Elizabeth Townsend Gard (Tulane Law) Cary Glynn Prof. Deborah Gerhardt (North Carolina Law) Kyle Graham Franklin Graves Prof. Leah Chan Grinvald (now at UNLV Law) Prof. Lisa Ramsey (USD Law) Prof.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Justia became this blog’s home for eight years, until 2018. During that interim from 2018 to earlier this year, I had moved my blog to LexBlog , which I’d joined in 2018 as publisher and editor-in-chief. Five years ago, I was honored to be invited to become a columnist for Above the Law.

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LawSites

AUGUST 5, 2021

Lightning Law Technologies , a Seattle startup developing software for remote testimony and legal proceedings, has raised a $1 million seed, which the company will use to accelerate development of its platform.

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LLRX

OCTOBER 20, 2023

18, 2018 for the Plainfield Police Department (PD). Aaron Sankin , Investigative Reporter and Surya Mattu , Senior Data Engineer and Investigative Data Journalist examined 23,631 predictions generated by Geolitica between Feb.

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LawSites

JUNE 2, 2021

Existing investor ParkerGale , which acquired a majority stake in the company in 2018, will roll a portion of its stake and maintain minority ownership. Cofounder George Kingston ran it until 2018, when ParkerGale acquired a majority stake. It was started as the sister company to a Cincinnati accounting firm of the same name.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

the blog has received thousands of comments (2,869 since the blog switchover in 2018). since 2018). Thank you for your readership, and a special thank you to longtime readers who have been on this Internet Law journey with me for years. I’ve published another 688 posts at my personal blog (a few of those are guest posts).

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Legal Talk Network

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In fact, this year’s annual meeting marked some major milestones as the CLA fully peeled away from the prior management of the State Bar of California in compliance with SB36 put into place January 1, 2018. . Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of Berkeley Law, discusses his presentation from the Alexander F. Peterson and Anna Liu}.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

ClauseBase launched in 2018 as a contract drafting platform that allows lawyers to turn their clauses into intelligent and reusable clauses and manage them in a clause library. Clause9 is the original document automation software it launched in 2018. It has two core products. said Maarten Truyens, founder and CEO.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

I’m blogging it now as part of my ongoing efforts to highlight the censorial effects of mandatory editorial transparency laws.] ” In 2018, the state claimed Facebook violated the law, and Facebook stipulated to a $200k judgment. Facebook objected to specific details of the law’s disclosure requirements.

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LawSites

JANUARY 3, 2023

LAWCLERK , an online marketplace where attorneys and law firms can hire freelance lawyers and virtual associates, is expanding its hiring options today with the launch of its Hourly Associate program, designed to allow law firms to hire freelancers on a more-flexible hourly basis rather than by a discrete project or longer-term subscription. .

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LawSites

OCTOBER 13, 2021

It began by acquiring Bill4Time in 2017, followed by PracticePanther in 2018, MerusCase in 2019, and Headnote in 2020. Paradigm says it has seen substantial growth in recent years as law firms have moved to cloud-based products, and that it currently serves 11,000 law firms. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

MAY 16, 2023

There is definitely demand for the AI Insider Program with over 3,000 law firms already signed up. Yeah, so it was November of 2018, if you can believe it. Jeff Pfeifer 1:43 Well, it seems ironic that we were talking about that in 2018. Pfeifer emphasizes LexisNexis’ focus on responsible AI. So So Jeff, I looked it up?

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But if you really want Kiwi Farms gone, have you considered using copyright law for its censorial power? As a result, the opinion only discusses common law contributory infringement claims. But does a statutory notice satisfy the common law knowledge requirement? CloudFlare’s block ). ” Ugh.

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