Above the Law - Technology

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Zuva, the company that spun off from AI contract review pioneer Kira when it was acquired by Litera in 2021, today released its own AI contract review tool, Zuva Analyze, which it says will enable in-house legal teams to review contracts 2-3 times faster than reviewing them manually. Developed by the same team that originally […]

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APRIL 10, 2024

Since Camara’s departure, Scott Hill , who had been a member of DISCO’s board since 2021, had served as interim CEO while the board searched for a permanent successor. Hill will take the position of board chair and work with Friedrichsen in transitioning to his new role, the company said.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Winners have been named for the second annual American Legal Technology Awards , a competition launched last year to honor exceptional achievements in legal technology. This year, the competition added the announcement of a runner up and honorable mention in each category.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

Today is the first Legaltech Week of the new year — our weekly roundtable of journalists and bloggers — and we’re marking the occasion with a special program in which our panelists will reveal their picks of the top legal tech story of 2021 and their predictions for legal tech in 2022. The program is live via Zoom at 3 p.m.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 4, 2024

But in 2021, LawArXiv said it would no longer accept new article submissions, effectively shutting down. On top of that, COS had instituted a new hosting fee starting in January 2021. Like this latest archive, that earlier effort was hosted on the OSF Preprints platform.

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AUGUST 8, 2021

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few.

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AUGUST 31, 2021

AALL Gallagher Award recipient Mary Whisner , Public Services Librarian, University of Washington, Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library, has updated her 2008 guide about choosing a career in law librarianship.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 15, 2023

Smith has been on this podcast twice before: BYU Law’s Innovative Dean Gordon Smith On His Next Five Years (March 2021). Last week, I was at the school’s Provo, Utah, campus, and I sat down with Smith in his office to reflect on his nearly seven years as dean. BYU Law Dean Gordon Smith on Law School Innovation (March 2019.

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Above the Law - Technology

AUGUST 15, 2023

Launched in 2021 Clearbrief launched in March 2021 with backing from a notable roster of investors, including Mark Britton , the founder and former CEO of Avvo; Bryan Garner , legal writing expert and editor of Black’s Law Dictionary ; and Bill Neukom , longtime Microsoft general counsel, and subsequently raised a $3.5

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MAY 17, 2021

Recipient of the 2021 Technology, Law and Legal Education Section Award.from the Association of American Law Schools, she has written and spoken about how to design legal technology courses and who should teach them, most recently at the American Bar Association’s 2021 Techshow. Dawson has given a lot of thought to those questions.A

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Above the Law - Technology

AUGUST 18, 2023

In 2021, the private equity firm Abry Partners acquired Best Lawyers. With the acquisition, Best Lawyers will expand the services it offers law firms to include digital marketing strategy, content marketing, social media, search engine optimization and website development.

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Above the Law - Technology

OCTOBER 29, 2023

One of the most telling stories about Monica is her role in ALM’s coverage of 9/11, the full details of which I wrote about in a 2021 post. She discontinued it in 2013, and then revived it in 2016 — with me as her cohost. I was in Manhattan that day, where I was editor-in-chief of The National Law Journal.

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Above the Law - Technology

JULY 25, 2023

Founded in 2001, the company had been bootstrapped until 2021. The firm will provide discovery and litigation legal services to other law firms and to corporate legal departments. Learn more about Nextpoint at the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. For RF, this represents its 12th investment in the software sector.

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Trellis.Law Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

In 2021, California resident Guillermo Mata sued Digital Recognition Network (“DRN”), a Texas-based, privately owned, automatic license plate recognition and data analytics software provider. The complaint alleges DRN violated California’s Automated License Plate Recognition (“ALPR”) statute.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

I list 11, so I’m not sure which one I’m missing: AI contract analysis platform Kira Systems in August 2021. Relationship marketing company Concep in August 2021. Goal-setting software company Objective Manager in July 2021. Clocktimizer in April 2021 , which tracks and analyzes law firm billing data.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 4, 2022

What We Learned in 2021. In December 2021, Dave Ries, a frequent co-presenter with the authors, wrote an excellent summary of the cybersecurity portion of the ABA’s 2021 Legal Technology Survey Report. ABA Formal Opinion 498, “Virtual Practice” (February 2021). Who’s In Charge of Cybersecurity? Ries here.).

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MAY 22, 2023

with funding from a 2021 Legal Services Corporation Technology Initiative Grant , FosterPower is designed to empower the more than 20,000 children in Florida’s child welfare system with information about their rights. Developed by Bay Area Legal Services , a nonprofit law firm in Tampa, Fla.,

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Or, in 2021 parlance, “me-ssential” advice — why and how to prioritize self-care activities (like sleep) and time. Counting Down the Top 20 of 2021. ” For 2021, “vax” or “vaccine” have achieved word of the year status at The Guardian and Mirriam-Webster, respectively. “Diversity in U.S. .

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Hot Off the Presses: Meta AI Chatbot Trained with User Posts and ChatGPT Is Not Limited to September 2021 Data. The post ChatGPT Is a Lot More Valuable to Lawyers Now appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

MerusCase Adds Rules-Based Calendaring Through Integration With CalendarRules (July 20, 2021). PracticePanther Now Has Native E-Signatures (June 3, 2021). LawNext: How One Company Aims to Change the Paradigm for Law Practice Management (May 24, 2021). 22, 2020).

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

25, to submit nominations for The Changing Lawyer Awards 2021 , sponsored by Litera, which will be presented to winners Nov. The deadline is Monday, Oct. 10 as part of the fourth Changing Lawyer Virtual Summit. Other categories are: Law Firm of the Year Award for the law firm that has most successfully reimagined the.

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AUGUST 16, 2024

Its founder and longtime CEO Kiwi Camara had left under a cloud of sexual harassment allegations, and its 2021 public offering […] When Eric Friedrichsen stepped into the role of chief executive officer of e-discovery company DISCO four months ago, he was taking the helm of an enterprise that had faced turbulent waters in recent years.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 11, 2024

Then, in 2021, he was sentenced to seven years in prison on charges related to the fraud and forgeries I’d written about in 2016. In 2020, Bluford published a book in which he claimed to have become an FBI informant assisting in a political corruption investigation into the former mayor of Sacramento, Calif.,

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Pennsylvania Bar Association and Philadelphia Bar Association, Joint Formal Opinion 2021-100 (March 2, 2021). ABA Formal Opinion 498 (March 10, 2021). Florida Advisory Opinion FAO #2019-4 (May 20, 2021). Wisconsin Ethics Opinion EF-21-02 (Jan. Full text. I ssues addressed: Working remotely. Working out of state.

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Artificial Lawyer

APRIL 26, 2024

In 2021/22 CLM funding news garnered multiple headlines. Today the buzz is a little quieter, but contract lifecycle management is arguably more relevant for corporates.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

Geolitica, known as PredPol until a 2021 rebrand, produces software that ingests data from crime incident reports and produces daily predictions on where and when crimes are most likely to occur. 18, 2018 for the Plainfield Police Department (PD).

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DECEMBER 31, 2021

Here is a list of top most-downloaded resources of 2021. Clio 2021 Legal Trends Report. 2021 eBook: Running a Lean Law Firm. It is a library of free downloadable content that includes white papers, webinars, product guides, case studies, industry analysis and more, all provided by experts and vendors within the legal industry.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 3, 2023

Similar to what I wrote about the AALL’s 2021 report and 2019 report , this year’s survey continues to underscore the instrumental role law librarians play in innovation and technology adoption within their organizations. While the report’s coverage is wide-ranging, I tend to jump to the findings related to legal technology.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

ROSS did this, TR alleged, by “intentionally and knowingly” inducing the legal research and writing company LegalEase Solutions to use its Westlaw account to deliver Westlaw data to ROSS en masse. The lawsuit forced ROSS to shut down its operations , which it did effective Jan.

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JANUARY 5, 2022

He said that ALM ran 30 in-person events in 2021 and expects to have a full slate of in-person events during the coming year. Fried said that he expects to have strong attendance and that preregistrations so far were indicating that attendance could exceed the 2020 Legalweek.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

We let ILTA attendees know last night that due to the current travel ban in place for all iManage employees, we will not be sending in-person staff to ILTACON 2021,” iManage spokesperson Anastasia Bullinger told me by email. However, we remain committed to the event and are supporting it virtually.”.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 16, 2023

Real estate attorneys, brokers and title agents are emerging from a roller coaster period that saw home sales skyrocketing throughout 2020 and 2021 before a sharp decline in 2022. Now’s the time to nurture your relationships so you stay top of mind. While we ease […].

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Above the Law - Technology

JULY 10, 2023

The company, founded in 2021, had previously raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding. In what is clearly a major milestone for Milestones , a legal tech company whose product provides law firm clients with automatic updates on their cases, it has closed a $2.1 It completed a Y Combinator batch in March.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

This feature words in tandem with two other features Clio already offered – its built-in rules-based calendaring that came after it acquired CalendarRules in 2021 and its automated preparation of court documents for all 50 states using its document automation product Lawyaw, which it also acquired in 2021.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

The Diversity Snapshot 2021 shows that, from 2019 to 2020, diversity numbers barely crept up, with minorities representing just over 18% of attorneys and 10% of partners, virtually the same as the prior year. This 2021 report is for data collected in 2020.). The numbers of partners and equity partners rose even less, from 8% to 10.8%

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MAY 15, 2023

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AUGUST 22, 2021

In 21 April 2021, the European Commission (EC) proposed the world’s first Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA). Sümeyye Elif Biber is a PhD Candidate in Law and Technology at the Scuola Sant’Anna in Pisa.

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