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Jacqueline Schafer on Writing Briefs at the Speed of AI: How ClearBrief is Transforming Legal Drafting

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

Rigorous security and confidentiality controls provide the trust needed to gain adoption at top law firms. Younger associates and paralegals tend to be most enthusiastic about the technology while firm leadership lags. So but I hear we have another Schwartz. So literally in 24 hours. I’m in West Texas.

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What is a Motion Hearing?

Clio

Knowing what a motion hearing is and how to handle it is crucial for any lawyer. These hearings are where attorneys argue specific requests before a judge, and the outcomes can greatly influence a case. In this post, we dive into why these hearings matter and what lawyers need to know to navigate them successfully.

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You Still Need to Put in the Work: Hyperdraft’s Ashley Carlisle and Tony Thai on the AI Hype Cycle (TGIR Ep. 213)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

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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The B r, The Searcher, and The Researcher – Damien Riehl on the Dynamic Shift in How the Legal Profession Will Leverage Standards and Artificial Intelligence

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

And the side benefit of that is then the API calls that, you know, he can open that up to law firms. And then of course, as a law firms were also solving a problem for vendors like us, that each individual law firm might have their own bespoke taxonomy that has their crazy, you know, areas of law that nobody’s ever heard of before.

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Not the Witching Hour, the Billable Hour: Unraveling the Mysteries of Law Firm Billing

Rocket Matter

For firms that use hourly rates, clients are billed for this time by the hour. Billable hours are the basis of most legal fee calculations, and putting in enough billable hours is essential to the profitability of law firms—that’s why they generally seek to maximize the number of billable hours that associates and partners put in.

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The Secret Sauce for Communicating With the Boss as a New Lawyer

Attorney at Work

They too are trying to make billable hours while still trying to have a life outside of work — but they also have to keep current clients happy, find new clients, review associate work and billing, help run a law firm and recruit, teach and mentor young lawyers. How does empathy help in all of this?

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Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges: Tackling Racial Bias in Law with LexisNexis Fellows 2023 (TGIR Ep. 231)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

The law allows, like I said, a person to be removed from the perspective jury, so it’s really hard to want someone or a group of people to follow a kind of undefined law, because the Constitution doesn’t say that, you know, word for word or verbatim, that a jury has to look like the community. But case law tells us that it does.

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