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Following Departure of its Founder, E-Discovery Company DISCO Names New CEO

Above the Law - Technology

The e-discovery company CS Disco today announced that its board of directors has named Eric Friedrichsen as president and chief executive officer, filling the slot vacated when the company’s cofounder Kiwi Camara stepped down as CEO last September in the wake of allegations that he had groped a female employee.

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Exclusive: In A First For E-Discovery, Tech Company Nextpoint Is Launching A ‘Data-Driven’ Law Firm Under Arizona’s Liberalized Ownership Rules

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In a first for an e-discovery technology company, Chicago-based Nextpoint is launching an Arizona law firm June 1 under that state’s liberalized law practice rules that allow non-lawyers to own law practices. Its lawyers will not appear in court. ” Leading the firm as managing partner is Andrew R.

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Top 15 LawNext Podcast Episodes of 2023 and of All Time

Above the Law - Technology

You can also check out the most popular LawNext episodes of 2022 , of 2021 , of 2020 and of 2019. A Special Fireside Chat on the State of the Legal Industry, Recorded Live with Four Innovation Leaders. The State of the E-Discovery Industry, with Doug Austin.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

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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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Exclusive Analysis: The True Story of Legal Tech Funding, 1984-2020

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With the goal of developing a more accurate and comprehensive overview of legal tech funding, he pulled the data from what was possibly the first recorded investment in legal tech — Adobe’s raise of $2.5 million in 1984 — and followed it through by sector to 2020. E-discovery, $1.4 E-sign, $1.2

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How Neural Nets Are Liberating Legal Search from the Keyword Prison

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Virtually all search tools – whether for legal research, e-discovery review, document review, or anything else – are confined to indexes. 2020): “Employees receive no compensation for the time spent waiting for and undergoing exit searches, because they must clock out before undergoing a search.”. Apple Inc. (9th

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Supreme Court Fixes One Problem with the Copyright Statute of Limitations, But Punts Another — Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

In so holding, however, the Court declined to resolve the logically antecedent question of whether the discovery rule applies to the three-year copyright statute of limitations, finding “that issue is not properly presented here, because Warner Chappell never challenged the Eleventh Circuit’s use of the discovery rule below.”

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