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How A Startup Evolves: As Casetext Marks 10th Year Anniversary, Here’s Its History Through 50 Blog Posts

Above the Law - Technology

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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In Major Legal Tech Deal, vLex and Fastcase Merge, Creating A Global Legal Research Company, Backed By Oakley Capital and Bain Capital

Above the Law - Technology

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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Jacqueline Schafer on Writing Briefs at the Speed of AI: How ClearBrief is Transforming Legal Drafting

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

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. As the lawyer you’re just like, oh, no, we’re gonna Lose, he hates us kind of thing.

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Voting Is Open! Pick the 15 Finalists to Compete At Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2024 in February

Above the Law - Technology

The substantial amount of time lawyers spend drafting documents during litigation. It also improves access to justice for society as lawyers can handle more cases, as well as remove some bias from the legal system through fact-first drafting. What problem do you solve? Anything else? Price: Individuals: $39/month or $399/year.

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Alternative Fee Arrangements for Law Firms: 9 Examples

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Because alternative fee arrangements can provide more price clarity upfront, lawyers can set clearer client expectations from the start. By setting clear expectations, lawyers can save time and energy on explaining bills to confused clients. Instead, law firms measure lawyers by the results that they achieve for clients.

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A Legal Tech Side-Story to 9/11

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As shocked as we all were, we also were journalists, scrambling to find out everything we could about the lawyers and law firms who might be among the victims. He also might not have seemed the most obvious choice to send to Ground Zero, as he was a lawyer-turned-journalist who primarily covered case law developments.

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LexisNexis’s New ‘Agreement Analysis’ Uses AI To Help Transactional Lawyers Analyze And Revise Deal Clauses

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When LexisNexis launched its Lexis+ premium legal research service in 2020, the service included Brief Analysis, its answer to a line of products pioneered by legal research company Casetext with its CARA brief analysis tool and followed by companies such as Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg Law.

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