LawSites

APRIL 26, 2022

However, the judge did not accept a second antitrust theory asserted by ROSS — that TR had engaged in anticompetitive conduct by pursuing sham litigation. But Judge Stark concluded, “ROSS has failed to plausibly allege that Plaintiffs have engaged in sham litigation.”

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The Barrister

MARCH 11, 2025

When most people think of a law degree, they envision a career in traditional fields such as litigation,corporate law, or criminal defense. 9 Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) : For those uninterested in litigation, ADR roles such as mediation and arbitration offer opportunities to resolve conflicts outside of court.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 27, 2024

As I reported yesterday, the plaintiff in the New York case, Silvia Diaz-Roa , filed the lawsuit against Hermes Law , a Texas law firm, and ClaimDeck , a litigation management system for insurers and insurance-defense firms that spun out of Hermes Law. They say she never sought to exercise the option until after they terminated her.

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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. But you know, as litigators, we are in Word. It’s good to have you here.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 1, 2023

Alma Asay Asay, a former litigator who founded the litigation management platform Allegory Law, first joined Crowell & Moring two years ago as senior director of practice innovation and client value, as I reported at the time. After Asay moved to Litera, it acquired Allegory from Integreon.

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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. We want it to be additive.

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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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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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Brett Trout

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Brett Trout In a high-stakes patent litigation case, Alpha Modus Corp. According to the lawsuit: Alpha Modus approached Cooler Screens in January 2020 about licensing its patents. Alpha Modus wrote to Walgreens in February of 2020 informing Walgreens of Alpha Modus patents, then wrote two more letters. in the U.S.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 13, 2024

billion purchase price and years of litigation that continues even now. Within a year, the company launched its native cloud platform, iManage Cloud, and then went on to make several key acquisitions, including of UK artificial intelligence company RAVN Systems in 2017 and of legal transaction management company Closing Folders in 2020.

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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. Coming soon: Litigation Radio. The birth of an influencer.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

” Lawyers tend to use traditional legal analytics products at the front end of a litigation, to help their clients determine whether it is worth investing in going forward with the case, he said. See all my coverage of the Thomson Reuters-ROSS litigation. They’re descriptive rather than explanatory.

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Debevoise Data Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Judge Colleen McMahon of the Southern District of New York dismissed plaintiffs’ suit in its entirety, holding that plaintiffs had no cognizable claim for damages or injunctive relief because they failed at this stage of litigation to demonstrate that they had been harmed in any way by OpenAI’s actions. 2020); Stevens v. 2022), cert.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

With the improved access to litigation data from numerous vendors in the exploding legal tech ecosystem, solo practitioners, small law firms, and regional and midsize firms can take advantage of insights from data to position themselves as leaders and market movers in their respective practice areas and jurisdictions.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 21, 2021

In this post, we look back at the 2020 European data protection landscape and five trends that help companies understand not only where we are, but where data protection enforcement, litigation, and practice may be headed. Over two years since the GDPR came into force, the full extent of its impact is still developing at pace.

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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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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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LawSites

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Litigation management platform Allegory Law in August 2020. AI contract drafting platform Bestpractix in June 2020. Table-of-authorities generator Best Authority in March 2020. DocsCorp in March 2021 , a document productivity company. Firm intelligence company Foundation Software in January 2021.

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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. .

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Two litigation-focused Canadian legal technology companies, CiteRight and Jurisage , have merged, combining CiteRight’s litigation drafting program with Jurisage’s AI technology to create an integrated legal research and drafting solution.

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LawSites

JUNE 28, 2021

Alma Asay , the former litigator who founded the litigation management platform Allegory Law, has joined the law firm Crowell & Moring as senior director of practice innovation and client value. In March 2020, Asay moved to Litera Microsystems, where she was a domain expert and advisor to clients on litigation.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 27, 2021

For somewhat of a time capsule of the past decade in legal technology, see my prior years’ lists of my most-popular posts: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 ). In Latest Litigation Gambit, ROSS Files Antitrust Claim Against Thomson Reuters, Alleging Research Monopoly (Jan.

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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

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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Ron Friedmann

JULY 27, 2020

Yet few litigators do formal risk analysis. In contrast, risk analysis and decision trees are mainly for litigators and not warranted in all litigation. Investment bank Raymond James ’ report, 2020 2Q European Legal Tech & Services Insight is an excellent read overall. Narrow versus Broad Problems.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In August 2020, InfoTrack acquired a majority stake in the court calendaring company LawToolBox , also based in Denver. In March 2020, it acquired One Legal , a California provider of online litigation support services such as court filing, service of process, and document retrieval.

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Hanzo Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In ediscovery, most of the information collected during litigation involves email and other communication data (e.g. And even more telling, according to the 2020 SaaS Trends Report , enterprises with employees ranging from 100-1000+, used on average 288 different applications within their organization. Slack and MS Teams).

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LawSites

APRIL 14, 2022

Filevine , a Utah-based case management company founded in 2014 with an initial focus on litigation and personal injury law, has raised $108 million in a Series D funding round that it says will help fuel its expansion more deeply into big law, insurance defense, corporate, governmental, and nonprofit legal counsel teams.

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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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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

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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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 26, 2021

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. Some executed successful staffing strategies using contract attorneys in 2020. Data privacy litigation?

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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. Combining Machines and Humans .

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Brett Trout

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

But in 2019 and 2020, these critical reminders went unseen. Their patent agent even emailed them a reminder about the required payment, but the maintenance fee reminders from their patent agent landed in Taillefers junk email folder? When Taillefer failed to pay the maintenance fees, the patent expired.

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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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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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