January, 2023

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The Difference Between ‘Playtime’ + ‘Production’ for AI + Legal Tech

Artificial Lawyer

By Jim Wagner, CEO, Lean Law Labs. As someone who has built multiple AI-powered businesses in the legal community, I know firsthand the exciting potential.

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AI Says Lawyers Should Blog If They Want To Build a Reputation On The Internet

Kevin O'Keefe

I have been playing with Lex.Page , a game web based AI writing tool that helps you generate copy quickly and easily. I asked Lex.Page to complete this sentence, “To build a reputation on the Internet a lawyer should…” To which AI continued with this copy: ….consider blogging. Blogging is an incredibly effective and low cost way for lawyers to gain exposure.

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T??-7 fines of 2022 for violation of the GDPR rules

Legal IT Group

Is 1,000 EUR a lot for a business? What about 100,000 EUR? And 405,000,000 EUR? This is the amount of a fine paid by a well-known company for violating the rules of the European General Data Protection Regulation (the GDPR). In this article, you will learn about the top 7 largest fines of 2022 and the personal data practices that should be avoided in your business.

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Successful Brand Awareness for Legal Professionals – Tips from Stefanie Marrone (TGIR Ep. 188)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

“Whether you like it or not, everybody’s searching for us online. And everybody is looking at your LinkedIn profile, whether you’re on LinkedIn every day, or once a year, so you might as well make it work for you.” – Stefanie Marrone Stefanie Marrone is an Outsource Marketer who advises legal professionals on improving their social media presence. Even legal professionals in large law firms can benefit from a strong social media presence because clients and potential clients relate to the indivi

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Leverage Trellis Court Data To Identify More Investment Opportunities

Finance teams find Trellis to be particularly effective in conducting comprehensive due diligence on both individuals and businesses. With our court data solution, financial experts can access critical litigation insights, making it an invaluable resource for informed decision-making in the financial sector.

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Automating web compliance is much easier than we believe

Global LegalTech Hub

Diego Richards, Chief Operations Officer at Stillio Introduction In the beginning, the Internet was a place to create, share, and communicate. That essence is still present today, but as this phenomena grew and became crucial for companies, it started to turn more professional. In order to standardize and make information more clear, accurate, and accessible to all users, the internet also became subject to regulations.

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Now Available: How to Do More in Less Time: The Complete Guide to Increasing Your Productivity and Improving Your Bottom Line, Second Edition

The Legal Tech Blog

Attorney Daniel J. Siegel ‘s latest book, How to Do More in Less Time: The Complete Guide to Increasing Your Productivity and Improving Your Bottom Line, Second Edition, is now available from the American Bar Association. Written for the busy professional, this book explains how to identify the right activities that need to be accomplished and then how to most efficiently perform those activities.… Read the rest The post Now Available: How to Do More in Less Time: The Complete Guide

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The Ethics of Ghost Blogging in the Legal Profession: Transparency is Key, Says ChatGPT

Kevin O'Keefe

Inspired by Carolyn Elefant’s webinar this afternoon on the use of ChatGPT in the marketing of your legal practice through writing an Ebook, I started playing with ChatGPT a little bit more on the legal blogging front. Specifically, I asked ChatGPT about the ethics of lawyers hiring ghostwriters to write blog posts and then holding out the content the public as something the lawyer wrote.

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AI Act: What the EU thinks about artificial intelligence

Legal IT Group

Artificial intelligence has long been a reality in many areas of human life. Computer systems, such as language translation or customization of recommendations for a specific user, can now perform some tasks that previously required the involvement of human mental resources. With the widespread use of artificial intelligence technologies, legislators in many countries are trying to develop a regulatory framework.

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Experiments with ChatGPT: Don’t Panic, the Robots Are Not Writing Your Students’ Legal Memos

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

[Note: Please welcome guest bloggers Jennifer Wondracek , Director of the Law Library, Professor of Legal Research & Writing at Capital University Law School, and Rebecca Rich , Assistant Dean for the Law Library and Technology Services, and Assistant Teaching Professor at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law. – GL] AI content generation tools, such as ChatGPT, have been in the news a lot lately.

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ChatGPT-while: a very short opinion

CEE Legal Tech

Source: canva.com For anyone watching the news lately, the advancements in AI (notably of OpenAI and its star project ChatGPT) must have caught some attention. In healtcare, for example, AI-powered solutions have been used for some time now in clinical settings and ongoing research. Despite some skepticism, they have been a trustworthy ally for healthcare professionals.

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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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New Podcast: Productivity: Practical Time Management and Technology for Law Firms

The Legal Tech Blog

Productivity. Time Management. There is never enough time in the day, it seems. There are solutions. Listen to a few as lawyer/geek/technologist Daniel J. Siegel of Integrated Technology Services, LLC and the Law Offices of Daniel J. Siegel, LLC offers some productivity tips on the Vandenack Weaver Truhlsen podcast with Mary Vandenack, with this episode entitled “Productivity: Practical Time Management and Technology for Law Firms.” … Read the rest The post New Podcast: Produ

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Finding and Researching Expert Witnesses CLE

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

February 2023 Update: The recording of this Justia Webinar is now available. Become a Justia Connect Pro to unlock access. Go Pro Now>> On January 18, Justia will host our first Justia Webinar of 2023 for Justia Connect members! In this free presentation, Jim Robinson , President of JurisPro Expert Witness Directory, will lead Justia Connect members in exploring best practices for the early stages of expert witness research and usage in legal matters.

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Leveraging AI to Enhance Your Legal Blog: How ChatGPT Can Help Lawyers Develop a Business Development Niche

Kevin O'Keefe

The single biggest impediment to blog success for lawyers is failing to focus on a niche. The tighter the niche the better. Niche blogs become must reads for an audience, enable a lawyer to build a reputation (often where no other lawyer is playing) and enable relationships to flourish, often for work outside the niche. I have been playing with ChatGPT of late, particularly looking at ways AI can be used in writing and in legal blogging.

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New laws of the USA on data protection in 2023

Legal IT Group

Currently, the United States of America (the « US ») does not have a single codified act (except for the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act ) that would establish general rules for all states on how to collect, store, transmit and otherwise process personal data. Therefore, individual states took matters into their own hands and passed local laws to protect the privacy of their residents.

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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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The Secret Weapon: Leveraging Patent Agents to Gain a Competitive Edge – Shayne Phillips (TGIR Ep. 186)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

This week we are joined by Shayne Phillips , Director of Analytics Solutions at Anaqua / Acclaim IP. Shayne talks about the value that Patent Agents bring to the legal industry. She explains how Patent Agents can use data to uncover insights about competitors and potential markets, and how they can go beyond the typical patent search to provide competitive intelligence and business intelligence.

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Choosing the Right AI-Based Contract Management Software for Your Law Firm

Ward Blawg

Paperwork doesn’t intimidate lawyers — until towers of contracts sway and teeter off the edge of their desks. However, balancing multiple clients and their respective contracts calls for impeccable organization. Along with understanding the content of paperwork, law firms must know how to manage it. Filing manually is time-consuming.

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Artificial Lawyer is on Sabbatical

Artificial Lawyer

Artificial Lawyer – and its founder, Richard Tromans – are on sabbatical until 2024. Aside from announcements in relation to the Legal Innovators conferences, taking.

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Can Marketing Make Your Law Firm Vulnerable to Cyberattacks? Absolutely

Attorney at Work

The marketing objective is to get clients. The cybersecurity objective is to keep your data safe. Those two objectives are often at odds with one another. The post Can Marketing Make Your Law Firm Vulnerable to Cyberattacks? Absolutely appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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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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Why Legal Bloggers are Ideal Speakers, Book Authors, and Journalists for Legal Stories

Kevin O'Keefe

Why are legal bloggers uniquely equipped to serve as speakers, book authors, and journalists for stories? If you’re a legal blogger, please share with me how blogging has opened doors to speaking, writing magazine articles or even writing a book. I am speaking in New Orleans later this week to the Association for Continuing Legal Education (ACLEA) and I’d like to have some stories in hand.

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The first GDPR certification in Luxembourg

Legal IT Group

Since the entry into force of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), many companies processing the data of Europeans have faced the task of achieving the much desired GDPR-compliance. However, no one can say exactly what it is and what criteria of this compliance should be achieved to consider themselves “in compliance” Of course, we do not have a clear answer to this question either, because GDPR-compliance is not an end point, but a process that aims to constantly update an

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What a Law Librarian Does with AI Tools like ChatGPT – Organize and Summarize

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

DALL-E drawing of a librarian looking over lots of documents. There is obviously a ton of hype and buzz going on right now with ChatGPT and other AI tools, including this week’s Geek in Review podcast. I wanted to see if there’s something that I could do that was a practical use of GPT in my job as a law librarian. I think I’ve found something that might fit that bill.

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ChatGPT, what are the biggest issues the legal industry faces in the future? [With AI Images via DALL-E]

Ward Blawg

Welcome to this latest blog post, where we explore the future of the legal industry through the eyes of ChatGPT, a state-of-the-art language model developed by OpenAI.

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Case Closed: How to Optimize Your Legal Intake Process for Efficiency

Speaker: Anne Post, CEO North America, Xakia Technologies

Do you know that 40% of U.S. Legal Departments now have a formal legal intake process? With that in mind, where does your legal department stand today? Many legal teams still struggle with a flood of incoming requests, leaving everyone overwhelmed and frustrated. Implementing a formal legal intake process can seem like an obstacle between the business and the legal department, but it doesn’t have to be!

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What’s a Standard? The Bonterms Perspective

Artificial Lawyer

By Todd Smithline, CEO, Bonterms. In the summer of 2021, Bonterms in San Francisco, and oneNDA in London, each released a new type of standard.

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Make Better Decisions by Only Making them Once

Attorney at Work

Jay Harrington | A “one and done” approach can help you make fewer decisions, and therefore make those decisions better. The post Make Better Decisions by Only Making them Once appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Microsoft Invests Ten Billion Dollars in OpenAI’s ChatGPT

Kevin O'Keefe

The Wall Street Journal’s Cade Metz and Karen Weise reported Monday morning that Microsoft is making a ten billion dollar investment in OpenAI, substantially increasing the company’s investment it had already made in the AI driven chatbot, ChatGPT. Microsoft is making this investment as it looks to expand the use of artificial intelligence in all of its products.

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GDPR compliance. What to prepare for in 2023?

Legal IT Group

Those who process personal data of EU residents should comply with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR. Non-compliance with GDPR may result in hefty fines and reputational losses. For example, last year Meta (Instagram) failed to comply with data processing principles and got a fine of €405 million – the second-largest financial penalty ever imposed since GDPR came into force.

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The New Way of Conducting Patent Research: Proven Strategies For Efficient Due Diligence

Speaker: Andrew Klein and Jennifer Vandenplas

Patent due diligence processes take too long. The information you need is publicly available but accessing it is often tedious & inefficient, requiring you to wade through dozens of PTO websites or for-free tools to gather what you need. Plus, it frequently occurs late in the game, leaving professionals under pressure, sifting through chaotic 100-page PDFs, and frustrated with poorly formatted information & patent numbers.

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ChatGPT – If It Sounds Too Good To Be True… – Tony Thai and Ashley Carlisle (TGIR Ep. 185)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

There is a lot of buzz around ChatGPT and GPT 3.5 , but is it really the next Tesla, or is it the next IBM Watson? We talk with HyperDraft’s Tony Thai and Ashley Carlisle about OpenAI’s popular tool and why, lawyers at least, shouldn’t be ready to go all in on this specific technology. While there are great examples of how GPT 3.5 impressively handled things like Bar Exam questions, there are still a lot of unknowns from this resource from a company that started out as Open Source and non-profit

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Is It Equitable to Protect Corporate Leaders From Covid-19 More than Employees and Customers?

LLRX

Augie Ray asks a simple question to encourage you to think more about #COVID19 risks and engage in a discussion about equity in the workplace: If the world's top business leaders recognize and take precautions against COVID during an ongoing pandemic, shouldn't they ensure the same for employees and customers? Shouldn't our companies' commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion suggest equal treatment for everyone?

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Legal Innovator Profiles – Nick Watson, Ruby Datum

Artificial Lawyer

This week’s other Legal Innovator Profile is with Nick Watson, CEO, Ruby Datum. – When did you first hear the term ‘legal tech’ and what.

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5 Ways Real Estate Attorneys Can Get More Business This Year

Attorney at Work

Brokers are the ideal referral partners for real estate attorneys. Now’s the time to nurture your relationships so you stay top of mind. 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. While we ease […]. The post 5 Ways Real Estate Attorneys Can Get More Business This Year appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Trellis Launches Trellis AI to Streamline Trial Court Litigation

Trellis AI leverages the largest repository of state trial court data to help litigators evaluate cases, automate brief drafting, suggest winning strategies, and more. Key components: Draft Arguments — Uses similar/successful motions in the Trellis database to generate arguments/citations for your motions seeking dismissal, summary judgment, etc. Case Assessment — Predict the likely outcomes of a case at any stage to help you decide to accept it, guide motion practice, make settlement offers, an