Wed.Jul 10, 2024

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UX 101 for Legal: A New Online Course from Theory and Principle Teaches the Basics of UX/UI

Above the Law - Technology

Whether you are a purchaser, designer or user of legal tech in your firm or organization, it is important to understand the basics of user experience and user interface design. Now there is an online course to help you do just that.

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Spellbook Launches Contract ‘Benchmarks’ to Show What’s Market

Artificial Lawyer

Spellbook, an early pioneer in legal genAI applications, has launched Benchmarks, an ‘at-a-glance’ tool that helps lawyers to quickly spot where contracts may be ‘off.

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What Happened to Gonzalez v. Google After the SCOTUS Decision?

Eric Goldman

In the mid-2010s, plaintiffs filed about 20 lawsuits filed around the country seeking to hold social media services liable for allegedly facilitating terrorist attacks. Two of those cases, Gonzalez v. Google and Taamneh v. Twitter, produced Supreme Court rulings last year. In Taamneh, the court held that Twitter could not be liable for aiding-and-abetting because, among other reasons, Twitter did not do anything that specifically facilitated the terrorist attack at issue.

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Beyond Accuracy to Understanding: Leveraging Stanford’s Hallucination Framework

Artificial Lawyer

By Tycho Orton. In the wake of Stanford University’s recent paper on AI-driven legal research tools, debate has erupted over the accuracy of these systems.

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The Tech-Savvy Paralegals Playbook: How To Leverage AI

Speaker: Allison Mears, Adela Wekselblatt, and George Socha

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal industry, and paralegals are at the forefront of this transformation. As AI becomes more integrated into legal workflows, paralegals can streamline their daily tasks, enhance efficiency, and add greater value to their firms and organizations. But what exactly does AI mean for paralegals today—and how can you leverage it to your advantage?

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Three Ways to Speed Up Contract Approval Workflows | Blog

Xakia

Every organization has its own process for contract approval. For some, it is combined with signing; for others, a contract - and specifically contracts of a certain value or type - must pass through a series of approval steps before it can be submitted for signing. In these circumstances, approvals can be manual and cumbersome, causing delay and confusion.

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Harvey Shows It Does MidLaw, As Well As BigLaw

Artificial Lawyer

Harvey made its name from day one by cutting deals with major law firms, but today a medium-size firm from Baltimore – Whiteford – which is outside the AmLaw 200, announced it was embracing the leg…

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Midpage: The New GenAI Legal Research Startup

Artificial Lawyer

In this week’s Product Walk Through, we take a tour of Midpage, a genAI-powered legal research tool that helps litigators perform in-depth case law research.

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Paxton AI Launches AI Citator and Publishes Accuracy Scores

Legal Tech Blog

Legal Tech Startup Paxton AI has launched the Paxton AI Citator, a now patent pending essential tool for legal professionals to check the standing and precedential value of the case. These tools track whether a case has been overruled, affirmed, questioned, or cited by later cases. Traditionally, citators like LexisNexis’s Shepard’s, Thomson Reuters’s KeyCite, and Bloomberg’s BCite have been managed by human editors and reliant on extensive legal databases.

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AI Will Save Lawyers Time – But Does Anyone Want That?

Artificial Lawyer

What if AI saves lawyers time, but it either hurts their profits, or makes no real difference because they still have to bill enough hours to hit their targets?

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Revolutionize your e-discovery process with Aviator Review:  Axcelerate’s new generative AI review tool 

OpenText

In a world where speed is paramount and data volumes and complexity continue to grow exponentially, time is of the essence. Legal professionals looking to cut through vast quantities of data quickly, whether to reduce risk by identifying key evidence for early data-driven decisions, or simply sort responsive from non-responsive data, are constantly looking for ways to streamline their processes and improve efficiency.

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Uncovering The Hidden Connections: A Patent Family Survival Guide

Speaker: Andrew Klein

Are there mysteries lurking in your family tree? 🕵 No, not a long-lost half-brother - I'm talking about a patent family tree! IP paralegals need fast and easy ways to verify and report on essential data about foreign equivalents of US assets. Join us to master the global scope of key assets to support prosecution, portfolio management, litigation, licensing, competitive monitoring and more!

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Financial Services Industry Comments on CISA’s Proposed Reporting Obligations for Critical Infrastructure

Debevoise Data Blog

Debevoise’s Data Strategy and Security group recently assisted four leading trade associations that represent the financial services industry in preparing a joint comment letter in response to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (“CISA”) notice of proposed rulemaking for reporting requirements for critical infrastructure entities that experience covered cybersecurity incidents (the “Proposed Rule”), developed pursuant to the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure

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Start Voting for Your Favorite Apps in the 2024 Relativity Innovation Awards

Relativity

We are thrilled to announce our 2024 Best Innovation nominees, as well as the opening of this year’s Community Choice voting (which takes place from July 9–August 16).

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Zylpha's New In-App Chat Feature: Real-Time Support for Bundling Software Users

Legal IT Professionals

Zylpha has announced the launch of its brand-new chat feature. As a company dedicated to continually enhancing user experience, this latest update aims to bring seamless, real-time communication within the platform. With this innovative addition, users can now connect with the Zylpha team and access support more efficiently than ever before.

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The Most Interesting Supreme Court Rulings of 2024

Legal Talk Network

The most recent Supreme Court term was marked by a sustained challenge to the authority of administrative agencies, significant victories for former President Donald J. Trump, and conflicting signals on issues related to firearms and abortion, leading to a series of impactful decisions. Here are some of the most buzzworthy decisions and their far-reaching effects.

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AI for Paralegals: Everything You Need to Know (and How to Use It Safely)

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Ready to cut through the AI hype and learn exactly how to use these tools in your legal work? Join this webinar to get practical guidance from attorney and AI legal expert, Joe Stephens, who understands what really matters for legal professionals! What You'll Learn: Evaluate AI Tools Like a Pro 🔍 Learn which tools are worth your time and how to spot potential security and ethics risks before they become problems.

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LawNeeds joins the LSSA to expand horizons in legal technology

Legal IT Professionals

The LSSA (Legal Software Suppliers Association) is delighted to welcome LawNeeds as the latest legal technology provider to join the Association. As the industry body for developers and vendors of legal systems, the LSSA maintains standards in technology and manages areas of mutual interest between lawyers and providers of legal software.

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Quiss Technology achieves ISO certifications with zero non-conformances

Legal IT Professionals

Quiss Technology, a leading provider of managed IT services and serving many UK law firms, recently achieved re-certification in two important standards, ISO 9001:2015 the globally recognized standard for quality management and the new ISO 27001:2022 standard, one of the world's leading standards for information security management systems.

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AI Set to Save Professionals 12 Hours Per Week by 2029

Legal IT Professionals

Thomson Reuters, a global content and technology company, today released its 2024 Future of Professionals report, an annual survey of more than 2,200 professionals working across legal, tax, and risk & compliance fields globally. Respondents predicted that artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to save them 12 hours per week in the next five years, or four hours per week over the upcoming year – equating to 200 hours annually.