3 Geeks and a Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

As a former litigator, Schafer experienced firsthand the frustrating scramble to finalize briefs and prepare filings. She founded ClearBrief in 2020 to leverage AI to analyze documents and suggest relevant evidence and citations to streamline drafting. ClearBrief integrates into Microsoft Word to align with lawyers’ existing workflows.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 30, 2023

The law firm, Nextpoint Law Group (NLG), will provide discovery and litigation legal services to other law firms and to corporate legal departments, including trial strategy, early case assessment, document review, discovery drafting, legal research and brief writing. Its lawyers will not appear in court.

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 15, 2023

Well before launching CoCounsel this year, it had already launched the powerful neural net search technology AllSearch and had pioneered products such as Compose , to help lawyers draft litigation briefs, and, in 2016 , CARA, the first product to use AI to analyze briefs, which spawned a generation of copycat products.

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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. See all my coverage of the Thomson Reuters-ROSS litigation. They’re descriptive rather than explanatory.

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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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Legal Talk Network

APRIL 30, 2021

In 2020, the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker verified at least 930 press freedom incidents in 79 cities since May 25, 2020, when Minneapolis police killed George Floyd. On these platforms, Baker breaks down complicated litigation, mainly in the pop culture realm. County deputy district attorney. Coming soon: Litigation Radio.

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LawSites

JUNE 7, 2022

Now, Casetext is formally launching that search tool under a new name, AllSearch , and with a focus on helping litigators search large sets of legal documents, including for e-discovery or to search internal databases and repositories, such as brief banks, litigation records, deposition transcripts, and expert reports. ”

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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. Casetext says it can cut brief-writing time by 76%.

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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

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.”. It is as if we are serving time in a legal tech limbo.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 26, 2021

Contract attorneys have made it possible for legal organizations to level up their teams’ expertise without increasing headcount. . Law firms didn’t let the pandemic get in the way of profitability or performance in 2020. on average in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to Thomson Reuters — and 15% among AmLaw 100 firms.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2021

They supplemented that review with an analysis of court approaches to virtual hearings, e-filing, and digital notarization, focusing on how these tools affected litigants in three of the most common types of civil cases: debt claims, evictions and child support. million remote proceedings (civil and criminal) from March 2020 to February 2021.

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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. AI Hesitation.

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Colin S. Levy

JANUARY 28, 2025

This effort must be coordinated among wide-ranging stakeholders, including attorneys, advocacy groups, bar authorities, courts, law schools, the legal tech industry, legal service providers, legislators, policy makers, regulatory authorities, and research centers. Litigation. Just as the American Bar Association amended Model Rule 1.1

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LawSites

JANUARY 26, 2022

A new product uses historical data, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to value cases and predict outcomes in automobile warranty litigation, with the goal of helping manufacturers resolve Lemon Law and warranty claims more accurately, more quickly, and at lower cost. billion in just the U.S. founder and CEO. founder and CEO.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 31, 2022

For example, cross-border litigation is now widespread as global commerce increases. 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. Subscribe to Attorney at Work. Multilingual E-Discovery .

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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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LawSites

MAY 23, 2023

Steno , a tech-enabled provider of litigation support services, whose flagship product, DelayPay , enables law firms to defer service costs until their case resolves, has closed a Series B funding round of $15 million, bringing its total raise to $38.5 This latest round was led by Left Lane Capital. ” . ” .” ”

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

One result of this activity was Westlaw Today , a premium legal news service launched in July 2020 that is fueled Reuters news and available only to subscribers of Westlaw and Westlaw Edge for an additional cost. They can also drill down into four subcategories: Government, Legal Industry, Litigation and Transactional.

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MatterSuite

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Legal assistants, also called litigation assistants, mainly perform ancillary work and work at the strategic and administrative levels to support the legal profession. This can include preparing or handling legal papers and even assisting an attorney in court. What does a legal assistant do? But they are not the same.

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LawSites

APRIL 1, 2022

I first wrote about Athennian in 2020, when it stepped out of its stealth development mode to announce an $8 million CAD Series A investment, on top of a previously unannounced $2 million CAD seed financing round in 2019. . . Fishman founded Jade in Atlanta in 2020. Justpoint offers tools for both potential clients and attorneys.

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Technically Legal

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Ethics attorney Jim Doppke returns to Technically Legal to talk legal ethics and technology. Jim is a former prosecutor for the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission and is now in private practice with Robinson, Stewart, Montgomery and Doppke. Jim says a few things have changed since the tweak to the Rule 1.1:

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

In 2020, the company introduced a first-of-its-kind product, Compose , that automates the drafting of litigation briefs. “We have found attorneys doing legal research on Parallel Search save 11.5 hours a week, conduct 47% fewer searches, and is preferred by 74% of attorneys to pre-AI search methods.”

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

While TikTok presents a great opportunity for law firms to market their services, many attorneys are unsure of how to use the app or whether it is worth the investment. Several attorneys, however, have found success on TikTok, leveraging it to attract traffic to their website and establish a relationship with potential new clients.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 16, 2021

In a March 2021 survey, “ Remote Proceedings in a Post-Pandemic World ,” 83% of responding attorneys said that they would continue to participate remotely in depositions either occasionally or more often even after the pandemic. 20, 2020)). Increase Your Focus on Security. City of Chicago, Case No. 17 C 5859 (N.D.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MAY 23, 2023

Steno , a tech-enabled provider of litigation support services, whose flagship product, DelayPay , enables law firms to defer service costs until their case resolves, has closed a Series B funding round of $15 million, bringing its total raise to $38.5 This latest round was led by Left Lane Capital.

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CaseFox

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This blog explores different alternative dispute resolution processes and methods, such as mediation, arbitration, and litigation. In some cases, the ADR process is used along with the litigation process. There are a few different types of alternative dispute resolution, such as mediation, arbitration, and litigation.

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CaseFox

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This blog explores different alternative dispute resolution processes and methods, such as mediation, arbitration, and litigation. In some cases, the ADR process is used along with the litigation process. There are a few different types of alternative dispute resolution, such as mediation, arbitration, and litigation.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2020 and 2021, your firm may have had to make quite a lot of changes quickly to meet the new remote normal. She was Co-Chair of the 2020 ABA TECHSHOW Planning Board. For 2022, attorneys and law firms should take a careful look at where they are at on their tech journey, and set a reasonable budget to get to their next level.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Here is the original retweet as it appears now, reflecting some of Twitter’s product “enhancements” since 2020: Thus, this case raises the issue of whether a retweet can constitute copyright infringement. A liberal interpretation of the Copyright Act, therefore, could open the floodgates to endless litigation.

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Legal Talk Network

JULY 3, 2019

Florida Bar President-Elect Dori Foster-Morales joins host Christine Bilbrey for a conversation about her role as president-elect, work-life balance, and goals for her presidency in 2020. Florida Bar Annual Convention 2019: Blockchain and its Role in Litigation Today and Tomorrow. Zachary Catanzaro (Attorney at Law).

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LawSites

JANUARY 26, 2022

A new product uses historical data, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to value cases and predict outcomes in automobile warranty litigation, with the goal of helping manufacturers resolve Lemon Law and warranty claims more accurately, more quickly, and at lower cost. billion in just the U.S. founder and CEO. founder and CEO.

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Clio

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

However, for this fee structure to work, attorneys need to identify the resources required to produce a favorable result. Provide a better client-centered service According to the 2020 Legal Trends Report , 78% of consumers say that lawyers should adopt pricing and payment models to make legal services more affordable. The best part?

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Attorney at Work

JULY 22, 2021

The company launched in 2020, and this March it announced a $1.2M Jackie Schafer: I started out as a litigator at Paul Weiss, but spent most of my career in public service as an assistant attorney general, where I was regularly briefing and arguing cases before the state appellate courts in Alaska and Washington state.

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LawSites

AUGUST 23, 2021

In February 2020, private equity firm TA Associates acquired AffiniPay in an auction. He had started his career as a litigator. So I had grown up in the household of an attorney and I had gone off to undergrad pretty certain I was going to follow in his footsteps to be a federal prosecutor. West left last May.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 25, 2021

Prior to joining LAWPRO, he was a policy lawyer at the Law Society of Ontario and practiced litigation with a focus on professional liability, public law and civil disputes. If you ever wondered what Rome looks like without all the tourists, his 2020 Empty Rome video is a haunting must-see. Be an Attorney at Play.

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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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