February, 2025

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Anna Marra about legal project management: “It's not just about methodology, it's a lot about power skills”

Global LegalTech Hub

By Pablo Yannone Sancho , Journalist at GLTH Anna is a lawyer who decided not to be a lawyer. Yes, it is strange, but it happens sometimes. She wanted to become a lawyer, even since she was 12, but she left university and she started to hesitate about it. I thought it was a little bit boring, she claims. I thought what I really wanted to do was maybe not the safest choice, but to help people.

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Beyond the Brief: Streamlining Litigation in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (pub. Beverly Hills Bar Association)

Trellis.Law Blog

As Featured in Beverly Hills Bar Association “Modern Lawyer” February 2025 Civil litigation is flooded with busy work. In 2020, a survey of general counsel published by Juro and Wilson Sonsini found that 67 percent of in-house attorneys at fast-growth companies felt… Continue reading → The post Beyond the Brief: Streamlining Litigation in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (pub.

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A Compendium of Legal Ethics Opinions on Gen AI (As Compiled by – You Guessed It – Gen AI)

LawSites

This week, I have been experimenting with Deep Research, the AI agent OpenAI released on Sunday that it says is capable of completing multi-step research tasks and synthesizing large amounts of online information.

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Can Rural America Reverse the Legal Desert Trend?

Attorney at Work

Roy Ginsburg | While the legal desert persists in rural America, promising steps toward change are being taken. Will they be sufficient? The post Can Rural America Reverse the Legal Desert Trend? appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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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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Responding to Google Reviews: Best Practices for Law Firms

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

Online reviews play a pivotal role in establishing your law firms credibility and attracting and retaining clients. However, simply accumulating reviews isnt enough how you respond to them is even more critical. By thoughtfully engaging with your clients’ feedback, you demonstrate that you value their opinions and are committed to their satisfaction.

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Docusign Launches Notary On-Demand Service

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There are a lot of things you can get on-demand these days, now Docusign is launching a Notary on-Demand service that will hook you up with a professional to sign-off on the more than 1 billion d

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💥Podcast Alert: Making Court Data Actionable with AI — Trellis CEO Shares Insights with Host Bim Dave on Legal Helm Show

Trellis.Law Blog

Catch the latest HELM360 podcast for a fascinating convo w/ Bim Dave & our CEO Nicole Clark on *transforming* legal work through AI tech! You’ll discover how law firms can harness the power of AI and state court data to… Continue reading → The post Podcast Alert: Making Court Data Actionable with AI Trellis CEO Shares Insights with Host Bim Dave on Legal Helm Show first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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In ‘AI Smackdown,’ Law Librarians Compare Legal AI Research Platforms, Finding Distinct Strengths and Limitations

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How do AI-driven legal research platforms specifically those that provide direct answers to legal questions stack up against each other? That was the question at a Feb.

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It Takes Legal Warriors to Advocate for Children in Foster Care

Attorney at Work

Considering a legal career advocating for children? Shari Shink, founder of Rocky Mountain Children's Law Center, explains what it takes. The post It Takes Legal Warriors to Advocate for Children in Foster Care appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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Justia Legal Resources: Social Security and Retirement Planning Legal Center

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

As life spans in the U.S. get longer, planning for retirement becomes even more critical. The loss of income from a job, combined with increased costs in areas like medical care, can pose financial challenges if youre not prepared. Fortunately, benefits provided by the federal Social Security Administration and private retirement plans can make life after work easier.

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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 ‘TACO’ Framework For Understanding AI Agents

Artificial Lawyer

By Swami Chandrasekaran, KPMG. AI agentic systems represent a transformational shift in enterprise AI, moving beyond passive information retrieval to proactive execution and decision-making. Agentic.

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Amanda Leigh Brown about access to justice: “revolves information, empowering and connection”

Global LegalTech Hub

By Pablo Yannone Sancho , Journalist at GLTH Amanda arrived in the legaltech world in a very particular way: law school. There she was introduced to the concept of access to justice , which is, indeed, the area within which she is an Advisor in the GLTH. From the first moment, she felt attracted to legal technology, especially in the U.S. It did not come as a surprise that she finally found an opportunity to be involved in that kind of project, turning from a young lawyer into a legal technologi

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Deep Trellis State Court Capabilities Help Bowman and Brooke Track Trends and Defend Mass Tort Litigation in State Courts (via CIO Applications)

Trellis.Law Blog

Discover how the Bowman and Brooke team continues to stay ahead of the curve by using Trellis to successfully monitor trends and uncover valuable product liability insights that matter to their customers. Read it here: [link] The post DeepTrellis State Court Capabilities Help Bowman and Brooke Track Trends and DefendMass TortLitigation in State Courts (via CIO Applications) first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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Federal Judge Sanctions Morgan & Morgan Attorneys for AI-Generated Fake Cases in Court Filing

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You may have heard the news earlier this month that attorneys at plaintiffs law firm Morgan & Morgan the 42nd largest U.S. law firm by headcount were facing sanctions over their submission of court filings containing fake legal cases generated by artificial intelligence. Now, the Wyoming federal judge presiding over the case, U.S.

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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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Societies of Legal Minds: A Lens on AI

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Marc Lauritsen | We may not welcome artificial minds into our law societies, but they will grace our workplaces. The post Societies of Legal Minds: A Lens on AI appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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Top 20 Best Law Firm Websites in 2025

Clio

Your law firms website is often a potential clients first impression of you. Great law firm websites are well-designed, user-friendly, and clearly state what services the law firm offers, giving clients a taste of what they can expect from that law firm. The best law firm websites use compelling content such as client testimonials and case studies to showcase expertise.

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‘Give Us Legal AI Or We’re Leaving’ – Survey

Artificial Lawyer

A new survey by LexisNexis of lawyers views on legal tech has found that failure to embrace AI could lead to 11% considering leaving, which rose to 19% at larger law firms.

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Another Conflict Between Privacy Laws and Age Authentication–Murphy v. Confirm ID

Eric Goldman

This opinion is a routine ruling over TOS formation and whether disputes must go to arbitration. However, before I dig into that question, I need to note the case’s chilling implications. * * * This case involves the Adult Friend Finder service (AFF), which age-authenticates its users. To do so, AFF required users to upload government ID and a selfie as part of the account formation process.

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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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The end of the student essay? Reasoning AIs are starting to cross into pass territory

TechnoLlama

One of the most challenging aspects of generative AI for legal education has been its potential use in assessment. There have been some polls conducted, and large numbers of students admit to using AI in their assessments.

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Legal Technology Company Gavel Expands Its Document Automation Platform to 60 Languages

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Legal workflow automation provider Gavel announced today that it has expanded its AI-powered document automation tool, Gavel Blueprint, to support a total of 60 languages. Previously, Blueprint support only English-language documents, while the company’s original rules-based platform supported 19 languages and is in use by legal professionals across 23 countries.

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The Truth About AI Marketing Plans: What Law Firms Need to Know Before They Dive In

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Karin Conroy | AI marketing plans offer tremendous potential, but they also come with challenges law firms can't afford to ignore. The post The Truth About AI Marketing Plans: What Law Firms Need to Know Before They Dive In appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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Zero-Based Drafting: Why contract templates are holding you back and how to ditch them to draft better contracts.

Colin S. Levy

Contract templates. Theyre fantastic. They save time! Theyre efficient! Solets ditch them for something different. Lets use Zero-Based Drafting. Templates are Great Lets get the obvious stuff out of the way first. Templates are wonderful and have a ton of benefits: Time and cost efficiency. Contract templates save time, money, and effort. Consistency across agreements.

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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

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Lawpath Bags $10m, Advances Legal AI Solution For SMBs

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Lawpath, the online legal platform, has gained an additional $10m in funding led by Westpac Bank; has hit half a million clients; and is rolling out a more advanced legal AI suite for SMBs which le

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The Best AI Time Tracking Tools for Lawyers

Clio

Accurate time tracking for lawyers is key, not just for billing but also for building client trust, staying compliant, and keeping the firm profitable. Yet, manual tracking can be tough to stay on top of when lawyers are focused on tackling important legal work for their clients. Despite the rise of automated time-tracking tools , research in our most recent Legal Trends Report found that the average lawyer records just 2.9 hours of an eight-hour day for billable workleaving 5.1 hours a day unbi

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What’s going on with AI copyright authorship?

TechnoLlama

It’s been a while since we covered the AI authorship debate here at Llama Towers, despite it being one of the first AI legal questions we discussed here nearly 10 years ago (time flies when you’re having fun, eh?).

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Legal Research Startup Midpage Passes Threshold As It Achieves ‘Full’ Case Coverage and Readies Citator Launch

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Legal research startup Midpage has reached a critical threshold in its commercialization, its founder believes, as it achieves full data coverage of key U.S. case law and prepares to launch its own citator in the coming weeks.

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

Speaker: Andrew Klein

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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How to Be Productive When You’re a Depressed Lawyer

Attorney at Work

The demands of work dont stop when you are depressed. Dan Lukasik, of LawyersWithDepression.com, on the struggle to get things done when you're a depressed lawyer. The post How to Be Productive When You’re a Depressed Lawyer appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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Book Review: Generative AI For Dummies

LLRX

Jerry Lawson's opinion of the new book, Generative AI for Dummies , is that it demystifies the complex world of generative AI for audiences from all walks of life. If youre after a fast, engaging, and practical introduction to AIand maybe even a little chuckle or two along the waythis book delivers.

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Litera Buys Peppermint + CEO Marwaha Interview

Artificial Lawyer

In what is Literas largest acquisition since Kira, the ever-growing legal tech group has bought Peppermint Technology, the well-known Microsoft partner and developer of the.

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Ad-supported Microsoft Office bobs to the surface–theregister.com

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Only a test at the moment, but a sign of things to come R ichard Speed Microsoft is quietly testing the waters with an ad-supported version of its Office suite. On offer are desktop versions Windows-only by the looks of things of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The ad-supported, free version only shows up for a subset of users. Those who are offered the ad-supported versions will notice all three have been pared down; for example, Word lacks features like line spacing and borders, Excel is missin

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Trial Prep: What Attorneys Really Want (And How to Deliver It)

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

Get ready to uncover what attorneys really need from you when it comes to trial prep in this new webinar! Attorney and law professor, Joe Stephens, J.D., will share proven techniques for anticipating attorney needs, organizing critical documents, and transforming complex information into compelling case presentations. Key Learning Objectives: Organization That Makes Sense 🎯 Learn how to structure and organize case materials in ways that align with how attorneys actually work and think.