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ABA TECHSHOW 2020

Legal Talk Network

ABA TECHSHOW 2020 kicked off with its 4th annual Start-Up Pitch Competition on February 26th. The idea is to better track for time while entering and maintaining data. New to ABA TECHSHOW was their ‘Un-Track for Doers’. ABATECHSHOW pic.twitter.com/iwSvvhZJ6s — Legal Talk Network (@LegalTalkNet) February 27, 2020.

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Large Law Firm Trends in 2020 – Part 2 (Efficiency + Value)

Ron Friedmann

The 2020 Law Firms in Transition Survey (June 2020) reports on large law firm trends. This century, firms use a range of professionals who cost less than partner track associates. Contract lawyers, staff lawyers, and part-time lawyers are all in use by more than 70% of responding firms. Alternative Staffing Maturity.

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#OTR Roundup of ‘Technically Together’ ABA Techshow

Legal Talk Network

ABA Techshow was one of the last in-person legal conferences in 2020 and organizers knew that this year’s show would require a new approach. And given a global pandemic, it’s no surprise that for the first time in its 35-year history, ABA Techshow 2021 went fully virtual. ABA Techshow 2021. More LTN Special Reports.

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Survey Reveals The New Face of Law Firm Marketing: Zoom Meetings and Digital Content

LawSites

COVID was not kind to law firm marketing and business development, with two-thirds of firms reporting that business development was more difficult in 2020, and the overwhelming majority of firms pivoting their marketing strategies, turning from live conferences and face-to-face meetings to social media, email alerts and Zoom.

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MyCase Quietly Makes Two Key Acquisitions Of Legal Tech Companies

LawSites

Around the same time, MyCase acquired Woodpecker , which provides legal document automation software for solo and small law firms. However, PitchBook , a service that tracks private equity deals, shows that MyCase acquired 100% of CASEpeer on March 31, 2021, in a deal backed by Apax. Cofounder Darren Fancher was previously CEO.

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Battle Royale: Alpha Modus Sues Walgreens for Patent Infringement

Brett Trout

District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging infringement of three patents related to real-time retail technology. 10,360,571 Covers real-time consumer behavior tracking and targeted marketing in retail environments. Brett Trout In a high-stakes patent litigation case, Alpha Modus Corp. in the U.S.

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Where Did ChatGPT Come From?

Kevin O'Keefe

The breakthrough came when Google researchers invented transformers, a kind of neural network that can track where each word or phrase appears in a sequence. Times changed with GPT-3, released in 2020. Times changed with GPT-3, released in 2020. OpenAI developed GPT-2 in 2019, only months after GPT.