Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 17, 2024

Was it worth the trip? The post A Lawyer Goes To CES2024: The Wrap-Up And 10 Takeaways appeared first on Above the Law.

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Kevin O'Keefe

JANUARY 17, 2024

Actively discussing and advocating for the value of AI, online, I’ve encountered considerable skepticism, particularly from legal professionals. Like technology before it, AI initially faces skepticism but it’s on a path towards eventual widespread acceptance. Look at the technology that was questioned and later widely excepted. Email: When email was first introduced, many lawyers questioned its security, reliability, and appropriateness for professional communication.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2024

Epiq , the global, technology-enabled legal services company, is today launching an antitrust and white-collar compliance product that uses artificial intelligence to help corporate legal departments identify, measure and act on risk within their organizations in real time. The product, Regulatory Risk Insights, uses AI and substantive expertise to identify intelligence about communications that may create legal liability for a company, filtering out false positives through AI-based analysis, an

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 17, 2024

Annette Choti | The legal marketing landscape will be heavily influenced by tech — but not just AI. How will these trends shape your 2024 marketing strategy? The post Top Digital Marketing Trends for Lawyers in 2024 appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Legal IT Professionals

JANUARY 17, 2024

Coming into 2023, who would have thought that generative AI will cause such a frenzy globally. After all, not only has AI been on the horizon for a long time, but it has already been in use, even though it might be invisible to us as end users. And perhaps therein lies the difference between AI and generative AI – the latter uses natural (i.e., human) language processing, making the technology supremely accessible to everyone.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2013, when Florida lawyer TJ Fraser set out to find a law practice management solution for his firm, he tested just about every product on the market, he says, but he could not find one that solved the problems he encountered in his day-to-day practice. So, rather than keep looking, he decided to build the solution himself. A year later, when he moved to his current firm, he did so on the condition that it use the software for all its operations.

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OpenText

JANUARY 17, 2024

Technological, social, and economic events have changed the legal and regulatory landscape. There was a time when in-house legal departments and the general counsel had more clear-cut roles that were well understood by everyone, lawyers, and non-lawyers alike. However, it is not that simple anymore. The new role of the general counsel We have … The post The evolving role of general counsel: Securing a seat at the table appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Relativity

JANUARY 17, 2024

David Meade, who has dedicated his career to understanding what makes humans tick, dazzled the Relativity Fest 2023 crowd with some tips and tricks for making decisions, getting buy-in, and helping your team navigate change.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 17, 2024

Terms like ‘memorization,’ ‘generalization,’ and even the particularly visceral ‘regurgitation,’ have circulated in copyright lawsuits against generative AI developers. These terms will matter when cases go to court.

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Vogel IT Law

JANUARY 17, 2024

Darkreading.com reported that “Rated at a CVSS score of 10, the bug is as bad as it gets, allowing remote cyberattackers unfettered access to corporate environments… A max-critical unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability is impacting Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server, in all versions released before Dec. 5. Unpatched organizations should prepare to defend against everything from ransomware campaigns to cyber-espionage attempts.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 17, 2024

Legaltech News sat down with Lisa Ellis-James, Ogletree Deakins’ former COO and Harbor Global’s first-ever president, to discuss the company’s role in guiding the legal industry on how to integrate generative artificial intelligence into its systems and workflows.

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Legal IT Professionals

JANUARY 17, 2024

Clio, the world’s leading provider of cloud-based legal technology, has announced the addition of two exceptional leaders to its senior leadership team, in business development and product management.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 17, 2024

Companies might face antitrust allegations if they use AI to help set prices, for instance, or they might face allegations of discrimination if they use AI to winnow down candidates for job openings.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 17, 2024

This case revisits the venerable topic of if, and when, cloning-and-revising a legal document can be copyright infringement. The plaintiff gets an expensive lesson in the law of derivative works. * * * UIRC offers bonds using a private placement memorandum (PPM) and an indenture of trust. UIRC initially manufactured those documents by cloning-and-revising documents prepared by the Idaho Housing and Finance Association.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 17, 2024

“These innovative new programs will prepare our students to lead by giving them exposure to cutting-edge developments in technology, entertainment, media, sports and business.

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Legal IT Professionals

JANUARY 17, 2024

Onit, Inc. announced that longtime software executive Michael Farlekas will join the company as Chief Executive Officer, effective March 1, 2024. Onit is the leading provider of legal workflow solutions for enterprise legal management, contract lifecycle management, and business process automation.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 17, 2024

Looking for the top law department workflow? This podcast is for you. The post From Vendor To Strategic Partner: How GCs Can Cultivate The Ideal Outside Counsel Relationship appeared first on Above the Law.

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Clio

JANUARY 17, 2024

Regularly engaging with informative, thought-provoking legal blogs is one of the most effective ways to stay on top of industry news, emerging legal trends, innovations in technology, and more. As a lawyer, you have a lot of choices when it comes to law blogs. What you may not have is a lot of time to find the best ones. We’re here to help. Below, you’ll find the best law blogs to read in 2024, covering multiple practice areas and topics of interest.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2013, when Florida lawyer TJ Fraser set out to find a law practice management solution for his firm, he tested just about every product on the market, he says, but he could not find one that solved the problems he encountered in his day-to-day practice. So, rather than keep looking, he decided to build the solution himself. A year later, when he moved to his current firm, he did so on the condition that it use the software for all its operations.

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Inside Privacy

JANUARY 17, 2024

On January 15, 2024, the European Commission released its report on the first review of the functioning of the existing eleven adequacy decisions adopted under the pre-GDPR framework. The Commission concluded that personal data transferred from the European Economic Area to any of Andorra, Argentina, Canada (for PIPEDA-regulated entities), the Faroe Islands, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Israel, Jersey, New Zealand, Switzerland and Uruguay continue to receive an adequate level of protection.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 17, 2024

From : Blog Entry >> Maureen’s Blog Entry The catchy take-away from the Thomson Reuters “ 2024 Report on the State of the US Legal Market ” is that law firm leaders who don’t respond to the shifts in the legal market in the past 15 years may share a destiny with Pan Am. The US airline, Pan Am, was the largest international carrier in the mid-20th century.

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Trellis.Law Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Yesterday, jury selection got underway in the second trial concerning Trump’s defamatory comments made against writer E. Jean Carroll after she accused him of sexually assaulting her in a 2019 article published in New York Magazine. Trump was already found… Continue reading → The post Legal Battle Escalates: E. Jean Carroll Seeks Millions in Damages Against Trump in Second Defamation Trial first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Reading Time: 8 minutes I have a lot of curiosity about technology. That curiosity rarely collides with practice, though. I recently upgraded our parents’ computer and it gave me a good opportunity to think about my approaches to technology, how to tailor it to the intended use, and how to ignore the technology hype cycle. This means lagging behind the latest technology in order to create a workable budget and refresh cycle.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 17, 2024

Epiq , the global, technology-enabled legal services company, is today launching an antitrust and white-collar compliance product that uses artificial intelligence to help corporate legal departments identify, measure and act on risk within their organizations in real time. The product, Regulatory Risk Insights, uses AI and substantive expertise to identify intelligence about communications that may create legal liability for a company, filtering out false positives through AI-based analysis, an

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 17, 2024

The cloud e-discovery company Casepoint said today that it has signed a multi-year contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA), in a move that includes large-scale migration of ICE’s data from its current e-discovery provider Relativity. In announcing the deal, Casepoint, whose platform is authorized as secure under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program ( FedRAMP ), said, “The contract award further validates Casep

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 17, 2024

The legal industry makes its predictions for what we will see in the areas of emerging technologies, technology costs, the economy, market consolidation and more in 2024.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 17, 2024

2024 promises to be better than 2023, with a steady stream of hiring throughout legal technology, but with more opportunities and accelerated competition at year’s end.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 17, 2024

“If you’re putting the robo adviser’s interest ahead of the broker dealer’s interest ahead of the investor, therein lies a conflict” Gary Gensler said.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

When it comes to emails, pretend you're paying by the word. The post Lawyers Should Keep Emails Short And Sweet appeared first on Above the Law.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 17, 2024

Was it worth the trip? The post A Lawyer Goes To CES2024: The Wrap-Up And 10 Takeaways appeared first on Above the Law.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 17, 2024

Legal industry experts give their predictions for what how we can expect to see the business of law disrupted in 2024.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 17, 2024

The federal appeals court considers whether the social media site could be held liable for a child's death.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 17, 2024

Yesterday, jury selection got underway in the second trial concerning Trump’s defamatory comments made against writer E. Jean Carroll after she accused him of sexually assaulting her in a 2019 article published in New York Magazine. Trump was already found. Continue reading → The post Legal Battle Escalates: E. Jean Carroll Seeks Millions in Damages Against Trump in Second Defamation Trial first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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