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. Demo video: [link] Founded: 10/28/2020, Vancouver, BC, Canada Target customer: Solos, small and medium size firms. In this way attorneys can always be confident in the results of their work.”

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Brett Trout

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging infringement of three patents related to real-time retail technology. According to the lawsuit: Alpha Modus approached Cooler Screens in January 2020 about licensing its patents. Consider a contingent fee attorney arrangement when dealing with infringers having deep pockets.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As awful as was the year 2020 for so many reasons, my year-end report last year found reasons to be optimistic. The silver lining of 2020,” I wrote, “is that we have been forced to consider changes that were long overdue and then given the opportunity to implement those changes.”. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Committee on Unauthorized Practice of Law, Opinion 24-20 (March 23, 2020). Pennsylvania Bar Association Formal Opinion 2020-300 (April 10, 2020). New York County Lawyers Association Formal Opinion 754-2020 (Aug. Issues addressed: Health concerns over appearing in court.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

“So often when attorneys are writing court documents or preparing for oral arguments and they want to know what their judge thinks about different issues in their case, they have very little information to go off of. . federal courts. The company’s roadmap calls for it to eventually expand into state courts as well.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

She founded ClearBrief in 2020 to leverage AI to analyze documents and suggest relevant evidence and citations to streamline drafting. According to Schafer, attorneys now exhibit much greater openness to tailored AI tools that enhance productivity versus disrupting their workflows entirely. Excuse was Sorry, didn’t check it.

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Brett Trout

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Failing to heed emails from your patent attorney regarding payment of these maintenance fees can result in the permanent loss of your patent rights, as demonstrated by the unfortunate case of Robert Taillefer and Sylvain Fredette, inventors of the Froster ice resurfacing machine? But in 2019 and 2020, these critical reminders went unseen.

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LawSites

MAY 25, 2021

Not according to a recent survey by the court reporting company Esquire Deposition Solutions , which found that 78% of attorneys plan to continue conducting up to half their depositions virtually in a post-pandemic world. Attorneys can lock these rooms to ensure they are secure from other participants in the deposition.

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Colin S. Levy

JANUARY 28, 2025

Public opinion of the nations judicial system and courts fell to a record-low in 2024, according to the latest Gallup poll. For example, historically the Supreme Court employed antitrust doctrine to ease competitive barriers and reduce costs for things like real estate title searches and bar exam review courses.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 30, 2023

Its lawyers will not appear in court. The Arizona Supreme Court — which in 2020 eliminated the longstanding ban on nonlawyer ownership of law firms — approved Nextpoint’s application to be licensed as an alternative business structure on April 18, 2023. They were hired to appear in court, take the depositions, and so on.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 20, 2022

the percentage of in-house legal budgets spent on technology is expected to increase threefold by 2025 from 2020 levels as legal departments “increase spending on technology to reduce the dependency on outside counsel, address COVID-19, and satisfy a long-overdue need to modernize, digitize and automate legal work.”.

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LawSites

JUNE 7, 2021

The product, Compose , introduced in February 2020 by legal research company Casetext , helps attorneys automate the creation of the first draft of a litigation brief. Compose launched with the ability to create core federal court procedural and discovery motions. Casetext says it can cut brief-writing time by 76%.

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Martindale-Avvo

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Most attorneys have a range of personal as well as professional goals. One journalist wrote in 2024 that law firms are notorious for pretending that attorneys just dont have a life outside of the office. Non-attorney employees, such as paralegals and legal assistants, might receive even less leave entitlement.

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Legal Talk Network

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

An extension to the New York Legal Tech Community and also held on the backside of Legalweek 2020, the Inspire.Legal un-conference made it through its second year. pic.twitter.com/NcxxqBPnWq — Laurence Colletti (@LaurenceEsq) February 7, 2020. pic.twitter.com/UppqJJTl50 — Laurence Colletti (@LaurenceEsq) February 7, 2020.

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Legal Talk Network

JULY 3, 2019

All in all our convention coverage spanned 15 episode with 26 participants including Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles T Canady, Florida Bar President-Elect Dori Foster-Morales, and return guests like Denis deVlaming and Kevin Johnson. The Florida Supreme Court’s Chief Justice Charles T.

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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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Clio

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

So where does this leave the practice ownership prospects of non-attorneys, including other legal professionals such as paralegals ? Whether or not you are an attorney, running a law firm is a huge challenge, but the right software can help. is that only licensed attorneys can own law firms. Trend in U.S. requirements.

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MatterSuite

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

This can include preparing or handling legal papers and even assisting an attorney in court. Moreover, the American Bar Association (ABA) still only changed the definition of paralegal, which specifies that one cannot use the term legal assistant in 2020. Clients’ communication and handling of the clients and their needs.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Access to Justice (ATJ Commission) recently issued a report documenting the cost and time savings of remote court appearances in southern Illinois’ First Judicial Circuit. Both agreed to provide the ATJ Commission with data on the impact of remote court appearances during the pilot program.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The plaintiff doesn’t indicate whether or not WGNAFM’s photo usage was licensed, but the court seemingly wouldn’t care if it was. Breitbart , the court says that “reposting” on “social media” is enough to find copyright infringement in a default judgment. It no-showed.

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LawSites

JUNE 4, 2021

As law firms begin to reopen offices, a committee of Massachusetts’ highest court today issued a statement recommending that they permanently adopt flexible working options as their standard, rather than as the exception. Executive director of the committee is Heidi S.

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LawSites

MAY 3, 2022

From putting the SEC’s EDGAR database online in 1993 – effectively shaming the SEC into putting it online itself two years later – to his 2020 U.S.

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Colin S. Levy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Superior Court during the 2019-2020 term. Aliza now writes and speaks regularly about judicial accountability, clerkships, and diversity in the courts. Superior Court during the 2019-2020 term because I aspired to be a homicide prosecutor in the D.C. Attorney’s Office (USAO), and I knew that D.C.

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LawSites

AUGUST 4, 2022

state to mandate that attorneys take continuing legal education courses in cybersecurity, privacy and data protection. Under the order, the one-credit cybersecurity requirement does not increase the overall numbers of CLE hours required for New York attorneys, which is 32 hours for new attorneys and 24 for all other attorneys.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Several years ago, I published a piece here on Attorney at Work titled “ Solo Lawyers: Where Is Your Office?” Over time, the taboo surrounding less traditional work setups began to ease, and early in 2020, when COVID-19 hit the world, the stigma had all but disappeared. Working Remotely: Ethics Regulators to the Rescue.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The pandemic caused civil courts in the United States to adopt technology at an unprecedented pace and scale, improving participation in court proceedings and helping users resolve disputes more efficiently. Pew researchers examined pandemic-related emergency orders issued by the supreme courts of all 50 states and Washington, D.C.

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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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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In early 2020, it passed what is known as Resolution 115 , encouraging states to consider regulatory reforms to increase access to justice. Supreme Court. appeared first on Attorney at Work. Where does the American Bar Association stand? More in the “not so much” camp. as they relate to nonlawyer ownership of firms.”.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The state sued Facebook again in 2020. The superior court found that Facebook violated this law and awarded $35M in penalties and attorneys’ fees as well as an injunction. In December 2024, the appeals court affirmed everything. ” To me, this framing of the state’s interest boxes the state in. .”

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 31, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic may have dampened global trade in 2020; however, the World Trade Organization forecast a strong growth recovery in 2021 continuing into 2022. To compound the challenge, corporate attorneys and law firms must now sift through terabytes of electronic data. Subscribe to Attorney at Work.

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Ron Friedmann

JUNE 24, 2020

Sohail Mohammed—electrical engineer, New Jersey Superior Court Judge, court innovator and teacher. Jordan sets the context of all the changes in dispute resolution and courts wrought by the global pandemic. On march 12, the New Jersey Chief Justice announced the courts going all virtual. Virtual may also damage learning.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 12, 2023

In 2020, he performed procedures for four patients, Chesson, Gage, Melton, and Robinson (tragically now deceased). The district court didn’t act on the motions, which acted as a pocket denial. The appeals court reverses, dismisses Hah’s lawsuits, and orders Hah to pay the defendants’ attorneys’ fees.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 27, 2022

As a practicing attorney, I benefit every day from legal software designed to streamline the everyday lives of legal professionals. For example, CASEpeer was designed specifically for the unique requirements of personal injury attorneys. Patent Bots also analyzes USPTO data to help attorneys design better application strategies. (As

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 29, 2021

But 2020 brought us a combination that proved challenging: working from home while also doing live audio and video broadcasts from there. Recently a judge in my state shared that she presided over a video court appearance where an attorney had his image set to horizontal and apparently couldn’t figure out how to change it.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

We’ve blogged some of his cases before ( 1 , 2 ), including the lower court ruling in this case. Philpot sued in 2020 over the 2016 IJR publication, i.e., after the 3 year statute of limitations that no one seems to care about post-Petrella. (In ” The district court granted summary judgment to IJR. Nature of Use.

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Legal Tech Monitor

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The Illinois Supreme Court has officially found that operational challenges in Illinois circuit courts will necessitate remote pretrial hearings to comply with the pretrial release provisions of the SAFE-T Act, according to an Order issued in late August.

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Legal Tech Monitor

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism is pleased to announce that the Illinois Supreme Court has appointed John K. In addition, the Court has reappointed Justice Mary Ellen Coghlan as a Commissioner and appointed two new Commissioners: Amanda J. Johnson serves on the Illinois Appellate Court First District.

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