Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

AltFee Elevator Pitch: AltFee revolutionizes law firm pricing by offering a foundation for alternative fee structures. At the heart of AltFee lies a relentless pursuit of innovation – our platform is built to empower law firms to achieve unprecedented success through non-hourly pricing. What makes you unique or innovative?

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TechLaw Crossroads

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In the Bloomberg Law 2022 Legal Ops and Tech Survey , 86% of the survey participants agreed that legal tech significantly impacts their firm’s ability to meet client demands. These tools offer unparalleled access to extensive databases of legal information, precedents, and case law.

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Legal IT Group

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In that case, you already know about the Schrems II decision, in which the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) indicated that the level of protection of personal data transferred outside the EEA and EU should remain equivalent to that guaranteed in the EU and EEA (but does not necessarily have to be identical).

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Clio

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

But what does this mean for law firmsand how can lawyers use it to their advantage? With the ability to analyze case law, statutes, regulations, and legal commentary, it can generate concise yet comprehensive reports on specific legal issues. Its already turning heads among economists, researchers, and even legal professionals.

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Law Technology Today

MARCH 28, 2023

It’s happening right now, and it’s changing the way you practice law. Legal tech startups are disrupting traditional law firms and offering new ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their services. AI-powered research tools have made it easier and faster to find relevant case laws, statutes, and regulations.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Rigorous security and confidentiality controls provide the trust needed to gain adoption at top law firms. She believes empowering the next generation of legal professionals with AI will modernize law practice to better serve unmet needs. Schafer explains the AI doesn’t hallucinate text from scratch, avoiding ethical pitfalls.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

MAY 30, 2023

In fact, if we don’t start teaching 1Ls and 2Ls in law school immediately, law schools will be doing a disservice for their students for many years to come. And what are the law students get from courses like this? Greg Lambert 5:07 Are you finding that the the administration at law schools are? So what’s next?

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It works like Amazon’s product tags, where a user can search for a specific area of law, such as patent law, and then choose between various services such as advice, registration, transactional, dispute, or bankruptcy services. Am I giving advice for patent law? So think of SALI almost like that, where SALI is a bunch of tags.

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The Barrister

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The ability to effectively navigate insurance law is essential. Whether one likes it or not, insurance law will be the job of many attorneys for decades to come. For those attorneys, The Law of Automobile Insurance in South Carolina is the one stop shop resource. This translates to one traffic collision every 4.3 A4 L39 2015.

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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

APRIL 12, 2024

Bracha-Final This Article examines broad arguments of infringing copyright’s entitlement of the right of derivatives in the context of Generative AI (“GenAI”) systems. Copyright owners make derivatives arguments against various activities in the GenAI supply chain even in the absence of substantially similar output.

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Clio

MARCH 6, 2025

In New York, for example, the Civil Practice Law and Rules (CPLR) outlines three grounds for a change in venue. In your opposition you will have the opportunity to thoroughly examine the legal basis for their motion and prepare case law and arguments for rebuttal.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

JULY 25, 2023

Over the past few months, HyperDraft has received an influx of requests from law firms and legal departments for education and consulting on how to practically apply AI like large language models. Casetext’s acquisition by Thomson Reuters illustrates the present-day limitations of large language models trained primarily on case law.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JULY 24, 2023

But how does AI in law firms work, and how is it changing our profession? Sending emails Automated responses Chatbots and support Automatic reminders Digital dictation Automatic invoice generation One of the best-known examples of AI in law is ChatGPT. To learn more about ChatGPT for lawyers, check out this article. What Is AI?

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

In this episode of The Geek in Review, hosts Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer interview three guests from UK law firm Travers Smith about their work on AI: Chief Technology Officer Oliver Bethel , Director of Legal Technology Sean Curran , and AI Manager Sam Lansley. They co-authored a paper on subtle errors in legal AI.

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TechnoLawyer

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Today's TL NewsWire Hot Product enables you to analyze the historical record of experts and judges to inform your case strategy, including an expert's track record on Daubert challenges and citations your judge prefers (see article below). The Killer Feature Context grew out of Ravel Law , which LexisNexis acquired in 2017.

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Inside Privacy

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The document builds on principles enshrined in the GPDR, national and EU case-law. Lawfulness of processing The “substantial public interest” derogation for the processing of health data (Article 9(2)(g) of GDPR) must be grounded in EU or in specific provisions of national law.

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Law Technology Today

MARCH 1, 2023

LegalEase Citations LegalEase Citations is a web app that helps lawyers, law students, and other legal professionals easily, quickly, and accurately create and format legal citations in legal-specific formats, like The Bluebook, for use in their legal writing. We then use this information to maximize case values.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 13, 2023

by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy Many characterize the law of copyright preemption of contracts as a circuit split. But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. With that, any state or common law claim that is equivalent to copyright must therefore be preempted.

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Legal Tech Innovation Wales

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Transparency in the legal system is achieved by allowing reporters to publish articles on cases, allowing the public into courts to view proceedings, and allowing public access to court judgements and documents. The new ‘transactional licence’ gives permission for computational analysis of these judgments.

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Wisblawg

JULY 31, 2023

Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. 657 (2021) by SUSANNAH CAMIC TAHK , UW Law School We know that pro se litigants often lose. One such circumstance, this Article finds, is when they can take advantage of favorable precedent.

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CaseFox

JULY 2, 2023

This language model has training on the vast amount of data that include articles, blogs, books, internet sources, etc. How ChatGPT For Law Firms & Lawyers Can Be Useful ? Below are some ways in which ChatGPT for attorneys, lawyers and law firms can be a helpful tool.

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LawSites

MARCH 18, 2024

the morning of a critical meeting at Harvard Law School, where I worked. Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain and l were sitting down with Daniel Lewis and Nik Reed , the founders of a legal research startup named Ravel Law, along with lawyers from Harvard’s Office of General Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton and Gundersen Dettmer.

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Legal Tech Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Vincent AI is a significant step forward for AI-powered legal analysis, because it is based on one of the world’s largest online law libraries. vLex contains the law of more than 110 nations, and includes more than 1 billion cases, statutes, regulations, dockets, pleadings and motions in its collection.

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CaseFox

JULY 16, 2023

Fastcase can provide firms and legal professionals online access to various cases, case law, statutes, amendments, rules & regulations. Not just that, it also provides information about court laws, constitutions and law review articles, etc. You can find cases in Justia from various different courts.

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MatterSuite

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

These databases are updated regularly to ensure that professionals have access to the latest legal developments and case law. While traditionally linked to finance, the CFA certification is valuable for legal experts in investment law, securities regulation, and financial litigation.

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Dewey B Strategic

OCTOBER 17, 2023

LexisNexis is testing AI tools with customers and Bloomberg Law has made AI tools available in an Innovation Studio. AI tools are only as good as the data they rely on,” said vLex CEO Lluís Faus, “and the vLex law library is one of the largest collections of structured law on the planet, including leading expert commentary. “AI

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Lawmatics

JANUARY 23, 2024

Legal software utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) helps law firms automate routine tasks like billing and document management, allowing lawyers and staff to focus on strategic tasks (or other areas that require their skills and expertise) and less on repetitive administrative tasks. How is AI Being Used in the Legal Field?

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 1, 2023

It is hornbook law that secondary liability of all kinds requires proof that direct infringement is occurring. The legislative history also expressed an intent to retain existing case law on vicarious liability of a principal for the acts of its agents, including independent contractors. 94-1476 , at 61 (1976). 3d at 593.

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Wisblawg

JANUARY 16, 2024

Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. This Article examines the ongoing shift in board expertise and makes the following three contributions. Unpacking State Legislative Vetoes Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No.

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In the Bloomberg Law 2022 Legal Ops and Tech Survey , 86% of the survey participants agreed that legal tech significantly impacts their firm’s ability to meet client demands. These tools offer unparalleled access to extensive databases of legal information, precedents, and case law.

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NSLT

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

We use artificial intelligence to rapidly identify case law precedents, judicial analytics to better predict how judges will rule on issues, automation and advanced document technology to assemble and check our contracts and other documents, and technology-assisted review to conquer piles of eDiscovery. Read Article

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NSLT

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

We use artificial intelligence to rapidly identify case law precedents, judicial analytics to better predict how judges will rule on issues, automation and advanced document technology to assemble and check our contracts and other documents, and technology-assisted review to conquer piles of eDiscovery. Read Article

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Legal Tech Innovation Wales

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Text summarisation will immensely aid the legal profession as lawyers are always looking for the fine print in case laws, contracts, or any other documents that can make or break their argument in court or during a negotiation. This NLP model is able to write summaries of court cases, write academic articles, and even poetry!

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CaseFox

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

When it comes to law practice, we often think about courtroom drama, client statements, etc. However, we tend to overlook that legal research forms the fundamental basis of practicing law. A lawyer with excellent legal research skills can build a strong case and is usually more successful in the legal world.

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CaseFox

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

When it comes to law practice, we often think about courtroom drama, client statements, etc. However, we tend to overlook that legal research forms the fundamental basis of practicing law. A lawyer with excellent legal research skills can build a strong case and is usually more successful in the legal world.

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Discovery Advocate

APRIL 6, 2018

The recent article “ Court Guideposts for the Path to Technology Assisted Review Adoption ,” published in Computer Science and Information Technology and originally presented as part of the proceedings of the 2017 Georgetown Advanced eDiscovery Institute, addressed exactly that issue.

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LawSites

JUNE 27, 2023

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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