January, 2024

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Legal Tech Predictions for 2024: Embracing a New Era of Innovation

Hanzo Blog

As we step into 2024, the legal industry continues to be reshaped by technological advancements. This year promises to bring new developments that could revolutionize how legal professionals work and interact with clients.

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How 160 Legal Tech Decision-Makers Are Combating Cybersecurity Threats [Sponsored]

Above the Law - Technology

Do law firms recognize the gravity of the challenges they’re facing? The post How 160 Legal Tech Decision-Makers Are Combating Cybersecurity Threats appeared first on Above the Law.

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Open Source And AI: The Untapped Potential

Above the Law - Technology

For lawyers and technologists, understanding open source is crucial for compliance and harnessing its potential as a strategic business tool. The post Open Source And AI: The Untapped Potential appeared first on Above the Law.

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See You In San Francisco – Legal Innovators California, June 4 + 5

Artificial Lawyer

Now into its third year, the landmark Legal Innovators California conference is back and taking place on June 4 and 5, in San Francisco this year. We will.

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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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Release Alert: New Features for Justia AI Writer

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

Developing high-quality law firm website content is one of the most critical and time-consuming tasks lawyers face when looking to optimize their digital footprint. The recently released Justia AI Writer allowed lawyers to generate content drafts for practice area pages with a user-friendly, guided framework that required attorneys to simply tell the system their target practice area, subtopic, and location.

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AI in 2024: Should We Still Be “Moving Fast and Breaking Things”?

Legal IT Professionals

Where are things headed with AI in the coming year? What trends should legal IT professionals be aware of if they hope to obtain the best results with this technology? From whether it’s wise to continue dabbling with in-house AI experiments, to determining if “move fast and break things” is the best approach for something as complex as artificial intelligence, there’s much for legal IT professionals to pay attention to and be aware of in this ever-evolving environment.

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Chief Justice Roberts Offers a Positive Perspective on AI in the Legal Field

Kevin O'Keefe

Who would have anticipated that Chief Justice John Roberts’ 2023 Year-End Report would affirm the advantages of AI on our legal system? Highlighting issues to date, Roberts emphasizes the importance of cautiously integrating AI into legal practices, ensuring it promotes justice while respecting fundamental human qualities and ethical norms. At the same time, Roberts expresses optimism about AI in the law.

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Federal Court Says First Amendment Protects Engineers Who Offer Expert Testimony Without A License

Above the Law - Technology

From the look-who's-(capable-of)-talking-(without-fear-of-being-fined) dept. The post Federal Court Says First Amendment Protects Engineers Who Offer Expert Testimony Without A License appeared first on Above the Law.

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Legal Innovators California Conference, June 4 + 5

Artificial Lawyer

Whether you are on the chilly East Coast or on the sunny West Coast, here’s a legal innovation event for you: the landmark Legal Innovators California.

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Justia Webinar: Ask Our Experts: SEO Basics To Start Your Year Off Right

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

As important as SEO is to your marketing strategy, it can be equally complex and confusing to understand. Where do you start? What do you need to do? How can you increase your site’s visibility on search engines and what should you prioritize? If you are ready to elevate your online presence, join the upcoming Q&A session with our CEO and members of our Justia SEO Team to get the answers you are looking for.

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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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Ascertus’ Perspective on Legal Tech Trends in 2024

Legal IT Professionals

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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Agiloft launches gen AI redline capability to speed up contract negotiation

Legal IT Insiders

Contract lifecycle management vendor Agiloft today (9 January) announced new generative AI functionality that suggests redline alterations to contract clauses to speed up the negotiation process. Third party clauses that … Agiloft launches gen AI redline capability to speed up contract negotiation Read More » The post Agiloft launches gen AI redline capability to speed up contract negotiation appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Blogging Can Transform Your Legal Career: ChatGPT Explains Why

Kevin O'Keefe

Researching the value of legal blogging for some work I am doing, I went to ChatGPT for ideas on the value of legal blogging. Twenty years in, I know a bit about the subject, but with a lot of things these days, I went to GPT for ideas and asked, ”What is the value of blogging, or as I would call it, networking through the net so as to build a strong name and relationships in a niche for a lawyer?

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Is The Metaverse A Solution For Declining Trial Experience?

Above the Law - Technology

The 'industrial Metaverse' found the spotlight at CES. Here's one way it could apply to lawyers. The post Is The Metaverse A Solution For Declining Trial Experience? appeared first on Above the Law.

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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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Navigating the Future of Legal Tech with Caroline Hill (TGIR Ep. 233)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

This week, Greg Lambert sat down with ⁠ Caroline Hill ⁠ , Editor-in-Chief for Legal IT Insider to discuss the new partnership with NetLaw Media. Hill described the ⁠ new partnership between Legal IT Insider and NetLaw Media ⁠ as a mutually beneficial collaboration with significant synergy between the two organizations. She emphasized the complementarity of their focuses, with Legal IT Insider’s emphasis on impartial coverage and promotion of various conferences in the legal tech sector, and NetL

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Justia’s 2023 Year in Review

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

As 2023 comes to a close, we are looking back at all that Justia has accomplished this year! Guided by our mission to make the law free and accessible for all, our team has concentrated on our free law projects while also working on our state-of-the-art marketing solutions to help lawyers achieve their goals. Our dedicated team spent countless hours working to further our goals this year, from launching new features for our Justia Marketing Solutions to expanding the Justia Legal Portal and more

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DISCO Unveils Cecilia Deposition Summaries

Legal IT Professionals

DISCO, a leader in AI-enabled legal technology, announced today the launch of Cecilia Deposition Summaries, which will be made available for select customers in private access. Depo Summaries is a generative AI-driven solution that is designed to let legal professionals automatically create deposition summaries, easily navigate to key points, and reduce the need for multiple team members to review numerous lengthy deposition transcripts.

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Report: More than half of data breaches at UK legal firms are caused by insiders  

Legal IT Insiders

An analysis of data from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) covering Q3 2022 – Q2 2023 by NetDocuments shows that 60% of identified data breaches in the UK legal sector … Report: More than half of data breaches at UK legal firms are caused by insiders Read More » The post Report: More than half of data breaches at UK legal firms are caused by insiders appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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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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10 Compelling Reasons Why Solo Lawyers Should Embrace Legal Blogging – Including Growing Revenue

Kevin O'Keefe

Solo law firms have experienced only half the revenue growth of larger firms over the last four years, according to the Clio Legal Trends report. This gap doesn’t have to persist; legal blogging is an underutilized strategy for solos. Through enhanced visibility and established expertise, a legal blog becomes more than just a marketing tool; it’s a direct catalyst for business growth and increased revenue.

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Cable Giants Insist That Forcing Them To Make Cancellations Easier Violates Their First Amendment Rights

Above the Law - Technology

Neither the FCC nor FTC has a particularly good track record of standing up to broadband and cable giants when it comes to their longstanding track record of anticompetitive behavior, price gouging, or nickel-and-diming their often captive customers with bogus, hidden fees. Though occasionally one of the two agencies does step in to try make a bare […] The post Cable Giants Insist That Forcing Them To Make Cancellations Easier Violates Their First Amendment Rights appeared first on Above t

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Florida Bar Ethics Opinion OKs Lawyers’ Use Of Generative AI, But With Cautions

LawSites

A new ethics opinion from The Florida Bar says that lawyers may ethically use generative AI technologies, provided they are careful to adhere to their ethical obligations. The opinion also urges lawyers to continue to develop competency in the use of new technologies such as AI and the risks and benefits inherent in those technologies. Approved unanimously by The Florida Bar’s Board of Governors Jan. 19, the non-binding Ethics Advisory Opinion 24-1 was originally drafted by the bar’

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News and Notes From Google Local Services Ads: January 2024

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

Google Local Services Ads (LSAs) allow lawyers to effectively showcase their practices at the top of the Google search engine results page (SERP), even before other paid ads and organic search results. LSAs also offer the opportunity to take advantage of the “Google Screened” designation, which boosts credibility and can create a competitive edge in the legal marketing space.

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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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TRE, the Revolutionary, No Data Entry CRM, Debuts at Legalweek, NY

Legal IT Professionals

TRE, the revolutionary, simple & easy CRM for law firms and professional services, today announces its debut at Legalweek in New York, January 29th – February 1. Built with a proprietary SuccessFirst approach, TRE eliminates the scenarios that cause most CRM implementations to fail.

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Webinar: Leveraging AI in the law – Finding the right implementation journey

Legal IT Insiders

The implementation journey of AI from theory to practise should involve a number of steps, including assessing your firm’s AI readiness; overcoming common hurdles; measuring ROI and understanding what success … Webinar: Leveraging AI in the law – Finding the right implementation journey Read More » The post Webinar: Leveraging AI in the law – Finding the right implementation journey appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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The New York Times lawsuit: the case and its wider implications

TechnoLlama

The New York Times has joined the AI Wars by suing OpenAI and Microsoft (complaint here). The case was filed while I was on my yearly holiday, so I am late to the party. Quite a lot has already been written on the subject by various parties.

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Great Law Firm Cybersecurity Without Breaking The Bank

Above the Law - Technology

Where should you invest your hard-earned dollars? Here are a few suggestions for the best cybersecurity bang for your buck. The post Great Law Firm Cybersecurity Without Breaking The Bank appeared first on Above the Law.

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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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In Its First Acquisition, Paladin Picks Up Pro Bono Net’s Pro Bono Manager, A Platform Used By Large Law Firms

LawSites

In a marriage of pro bono platforms, Paladin , a company whose platform connects lawyers with opportunities to provide free legal help, has acquired Pro Bono Manager , a product developed by Pro Bono Net to enable large law firms to manage and measure their pro bono programs. This is the first acquisition for the nine-year-old Paladin, a company that counts billionaire Shark Tank panelist Mark Cuban among its backers.

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4 New Year’s Resolutions for Your Law Firm Website

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

The new year brings promise for new opportunities. Many people kick off the year by setting resolutions designed to help them achieve their goals, and these New Year’s resolutions don’t have to be limited to your personal growth! The new year is an excellent time to set resolutions designed to help achieve your practice growth and professional goals as well.

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Kili Technology Launches davinci Patent AI Copilot

Legal IT Professionals

Today, successful startup Kili Technology Inc. officially launched davinci, a new artificial intelligence (AI) technology tool which drafts patents and office action answers in a fraction of the time that manual methods require.

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AI eDiscovery startup BeagleTM Secures $3m in Seed Funding

Legal IT Insiders

Washington-founded, AI-native eDiscovery platform BeagleTM has raised $3m in seed funding led by ML Capital and supported by other investors including Davidovs Venture Collective (DVC) fund and Hugging Face’s co-founder […] The post AI eDiscovery startup BeagleTM Secures $3m in Seed Funding appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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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