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Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes

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Crime predictions generated for the police department in Plainfield, New Jersey, rarely lined up with reported crimes, an analysis by The Markup has found, adding new context to the debate over the efficacy of crime prediction software. 18, 2018 for the Plainfield Police Department (PD).

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On LawNext Podcast: As He Steps Down As Dean, Gordon Smith Reflects On His Mission To Make BYU Law ‘One Of The Most Innovative Law Schools in the Country’

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In 2018, two years after D. Paradigm , home to the practice management platforms PracticePanther , Bill4Time , MerusCase and LollyLaw ; the e-payments platform Headnote ; and the legal accounting software TrustBooks. Gordon Smith became dean of the J.

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On LawNext Podcast: Lawmatics Founder Matt Spiegel On Automating CRM for Law Firms

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In 2012, he sold MyCase to AppFolio , and then left the company in 2015 to start a software company that helped organizations manage trade shows and events. Spiegel was previously on episode 16 of this podcast in 2018, not long after he founded Lawmatics. In the years since, he has raised $12.5

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Tesla Lawsuit Update: New Evidence Reveals Executive Awareness of Autopilot Risks

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In April, Tesla will be back in court over allegations that the company’s autopilot driver-assist software is defective and led to a fatal 2018 car accident that took the life of a former Apple employee in California.

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BriefCatch Raises A $3.5M Seed Round to Expand Its Legal Editing Software and Add AI-Powered Features

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developer of the BriefCatch legal editing software, has raised $3.5 Way back in 2018, I put BriefCatch and two other legal editing programs to the test of editing four opinions authored by Supreme Court Justice Neil M. LawCatch, Inc., million in an oversubscribed seed round.

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Woman-Led Remote Litigation Startup Raises $1 Million Seed Round

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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. She has two cofounders in the company: Scott Graff , a software engineer, and Dineen Squillante , a stenographer.

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Steno’s Web Deposition Software Now Available As A Zoom App for Easy Exhibit Marking and Sharing

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Ever since its founding in 2018, Steno has been on a mission to disrupt depositions. He took the idea to Greg Hong , an entrepreneur who had previously founded Reserve, a restaurant reservation system, and sold it in 2018 to another restaurant reservation company, Resy , which was later acquired by American Express.

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