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Elon Musk Says Advertisers Are Doing The RICO If They Don’t Give Him Money

Above the Law - Technology

Free speech absolutist explains that 'free speech' means 'forcing everyone to give him money.' The post Elon Musk Says Advertisers Are Doing The RICO If They Don’t Give Him Money appeared first on Above the Law.

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From Favorites to Foresight: How Law Firms Harness Judicial Analytics for a Fairer Legal System

Trellis.Law Blog

Trellis article published with the National Law Review – On June 27, 2013, Marriott Resorts Hospitality Corporation filed an action to foreclose liens on multiple residents of separate timeshare estates at Cypress Harbour Condominium in Orlando. Six months later, in January, the… Continue reading → The post From Favorites to Foresight: How Law Firms Harness Judicial Analytics for a Fairer Legal System first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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Texas Supreme Court Preliminarily Approves Delivery of Legal Services by Licensed Paraprofessionals

LawSites

The Supreme Court of Texas this week gave preliminary approval to rules that would allow the delivery of legal services in certain circumstances by licensed legal paraprofessionals and licensed court-access assistants who are not lawyers.

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Product Walk Through: Draftable – Document Comparison

Artificial Lawyer

This week’s Product Walk Through is about Draftable, which provides document comparison and redline capabilities. In the video we cover: Background to Draftable and its.

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How Much Coffee Does It Take to Fuel a Week-Long Legal Tech Conference? ILTACON Spills the Beans

Above the Law - Technology

Ever wonder how much coffee gets consumed at a week-long legal tech conference? Well, with ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, set to convene this weekend in Nashville, organizers plan to serve some 1,500 gallons of the caffeinated brew.

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Lawyers Come Out on Top in Property Transactions Survey

Legal Practice Intelligence

Australians who bought and sold property in the last year have praised lawyers, with 86 per cent rating their experience with their solicitor or conveyancer as excellent or above average.

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New Advertisers Get Up to $1500 Google Ads Credit

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

About the Promotional Offer If you’ve considered Google Ads Pay-Per-Click (PPC) for your law firm advertising, now is a good time to start. New advertisers can receive up to $1500 in Google Ads credit. Google periodically offers incentives for new advertisers. These incentives typically don’t last long, so if it’s something you want to take advantage of, you should act quickly.

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Maybe Don’t Tweet That Destroying Evidence Subject To Lit Hold Is A Good Idea?

Above the Law - Technology

Former Jones Day lawyer offers thoughts on Google opinion and gets a little in over his head. The post Maybe Don’t Tweet That Destroying Evidence Subject To Lit Hold Is A Good Idea? appeared first on Above the Law.

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Law Firm Billing: Ultimate Guide and Best Practices

Clio

Billing is critical to the success of your law firm. And yet law firm billing, including billing clients and chasing down payments, can be one of the most repetitive, dreaded, and time-consuming parts of any lawyer’s day. According to the 2023 Legal Trends Report , lawyers record less than three billable hours per day on average, with the rest of their day going towards various non-billable tasks.

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5 Strategies for Creating a Brand People Love

Martindale-Avvo

Branding for law firms is more than choosing a memorable name, putting up a user-friendly website, and waiting for client reviews to start building your reputation. Using a mix of a handful of marketing strategies gives you the chance to establish your firm’s brand and reputation within your community. Try these research-backed methods to make sure that people are talking about your law firm—and that they have plenty of positive things to say.

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Equall Launches New Legal Specific LLMs – The Way Forward?

Artificial Lawyer

Equall, a Paris-based genAI company, has released its new SaulLM-141B and 54B LLMs, specifically designed for the legal domain. The team claims that they outperform.

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Mapping Progress: How Attorneys Can Prepare To Advise Clients On AI Compliance

Above the Law - Technology

With the passage of the EU AI Act and a deluge of passed and pending legislation in the United States, AI compliance is a given. Kassi Burns shares what attorneys can do now so they are better prepared to advise clients on these issues. The post Mapping Progress: How Attorneys Can Prepare To Advise Clients On AI Compliance appeared first on Above the Law.

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How to Become an Immigration Lawyer

Legal Talk Network

In January 1972, immigration attorney Leon Wildes received a call from an old law school friend asking for his help with a deportation case involving a musician and his wife. Although Wildes didn’t recognize the couple, he knew he wanted to help them. By taking on this life-changing deportation case, Wildes went on to expose corruption in the Nixon administration and forever change the United States immigration process.

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The Best Free Legal Research Tools

Clio

Free legal research tools used to be a dream. High-quality legal research is a necessity for all law firms—after all, finding the right precedent or statute could give you the edge to win your case. In the past, paid research platforms were the only choice. We accepted legal research tools as a costly-but-necessary expense for law firms. Today, however, there are excellent free tools available online.

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Gravity Stack Goes All In On Generative AI

Artificial Lawyer

Gravity Stack, the standalone legal tech and consulting group connected to Reed Smith, is now going all in on generative AI, Managing Director, Bryon Bratcher,

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ILTACON Attendees: Follow The Conference On Above The Law!

Above the Law - Technology

And if you can’t make it to Nashville, we’ll tell you what you’re missing. The post ILTACON Attendees: Follow The Conference On Above The Law! appeared first on Above the Law.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 2, 2024

LLRX

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.

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Quality, accessible legal care is a fundamental right.

Colin S. Levy

Quality, accessible legal care is a fundamental right. Reliable access to quality legal services should be as fundamental a right as reliable access to healthcare, yet this ideal is far from our current reality. The discourse on this matter has predominantly centered on those at the lowest income levels, and for good reason: More than 92% of legal issues faced by low-income Americans did not receive any or enough access to legal services.

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Wexler: The GenAI Fact Intelligence Platform For Disputes

Artificial Lawyer

Wexler is one of a growing cohort of genAI-based legal tech startups that have come to life since last year. Its focus is on establishing facts in any contentious matter.

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Why Law Firms Hate – And Leave – Their Managed Service Providers

Above the Law - Technology

Happy clients don’t leave. And if they are unhappy, we don’t want to compel them to stay. The post Why Law Firms Hate – And Leave – Their Managed Service Providers appeared first on Above the Law.

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David v. Goliath Trial Begins this Month in Case that Challenges Thomson Reuter’s Longstanding Copyrights in Legal Research Materials

LawSites

For decades, one product, Thomson Reuters Westlaw, has dominated the legal research market. A core foundation of that dominance has been Westlaw’s claims of copyright in several elements of its legal research service, particularly its headnotes and Key Number System.

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Want to Get Paid Faster? 5 Ways to Fix Law Firm Invoicing

Attorney at Work

Invoicing is one of the most important processes to get right. The post Want to Get Paid Faster? 5 Ways to Fix Law Firm Invoicing appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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Pinsent Masons Deploys ‘V7 Go’ GenAI Platform

Artificial Lawyer

International law firm Pinsent Masons is to deploy a new genAI automation platform, ‘V7 Go’, created by London-based V7 Labs, which provides AI products and.

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Google Loses Big Antitrust Fight, Which Will Mean What, Exactly?

Above the Law - Technology

From the yeah,-but-now-what? dept The post Google Loses Big Antitrust Fight, Which Will Mean What, Exactly? appeared first on Above the Law.

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Justia Unveils New Chat Feature for the Justia Lawyer Directory

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

Finding a lawyer can be a stressful challenge, especially when a legal issue demands immediate attention. Potential clients may have a long list of questions with no idea where to even begin. Fortunately, Justia Lawyer Directory helps them identify lawyers by practice area and location, and provides them with information to evaluate their experience and credentials.

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At Two Back-to-Back Conferences, Evidence that We’re Moving the Ball Forward On Using AI in Law

LawSites

Within the span of five days recently in Chicago, I attended two somewhat different conferences, and at each, I found evidence that we are moving the ball forward on developing and implementing practical applications for generative AI in law. You may wonder why I even needed evidence.

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ICO “provisionally” decides to fine Advanced £6m for 2022 health sector ransomware attack

Legal IT Insiders

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced today (7 August) that it has provisionally decided to fine Advanced £6.09m, following a healthcare-based ransomware attack in August 2022. However, the ICO statement […] The post ICO “provisionally” decides to fine Advanced £6m for 2022 health sector ransomware attack appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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3 In 4 In-House Legal Teams Want AI For Contract Review. Surprised? We’re Not. [Sponsored]

Above the Law - Technology

The question isn’t whether to embrace AI — it’s how to do so safely and effectively. We’re pleased to share new data on how 150 in-house professionals are approaching this dynamic. The post 3 In 4 In-House Legal Teams Want AI For Contract Review. Surprised? We’re Not. appeared first on Above the Law.

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Section 230 Doesn’t Preempt Utah’s Minor Protection in Social Media Act–NetChoice v. Reyes

Eric Goldman

Utah passed a terrible law claiming to be “for the kids,” which are increasingly prevalent at the state level. The court summarizes some of the law’s obligations: the Act requires covered websites to “implement an age assurance system,” “limit the Utah minor account holder’s ability to share content to only connected accounts,” and imposes data collection and use restrictions on covered entities.

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How It Works: A Demo of the New AI Legal Assistant in Law Practice Management Platform LEAP

LawSites

Law practice management company LEAP recently announced the launch of three major AI features built directly into the platform, including LawY, a new legal AI assistant backed by human verification. In this latest installment in the LawSites video series How It Works, you get to see LEAP’s new AI assistant in action.

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Save Time, Boost Efficiency with Virtual Case Managers Powered by Get Staffed Up

Lawyerist

In the decade or so since virtual legal help came to the forefront, we’ve witnessed tremendous improvements in what we can expect from remote assistance. Virtual Case Managers Powered by Get Staffed Up raises the bar even higher. A Virtual Case Manager (VCM) alleviates many administrative burdens that all too often saddle a personal injury (PI) attorney.

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AL News Digest: ContractPodAI, Litera, Disco + More

Artificial Lawyer

Here’s a digest of legal tech news to keep you up to date.

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UPDATE: Oklahoma schools in revolt over Bible mandate–thehill.com

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BY LEXI LONAS – Walters’s guidance, which follows a June announcement of mandatory biblical curricula for grades five through 12, says that lessons on the Christian text should emphasize its historical context, literary significance and artistic and musical influence. The guidance also says a physical copy of the book should be in every classroom, along with copies of the Ten Commandments, the U.S.

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David Cambria, Known As ‘Godfather of Legal Operations,’ Joins Epiq to Lead Legal Business Advisory Practice

LawSites

When it comes to big names in legal operations and legal innovation, it is hard to think of one bigger than David Cambria, who has long been described as the godfather of legal operations, including for his trailblazing work as COO and head of global operations for Fortune 50 company Archer Daniels Midland and then […]

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New Smokeball AI Suite Set to Transform Legal Workflows

Legal Practice Intelligence

Smokeball, the industry-leading artificial intelligence-powered legal practice management platform, announces the launch of Smokeball AI, a suite of embedded AI solutions boosting its existing productivity powerhouse. The new suite includes.

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Top 10 Legal Influencers to Follow

Martindale-Avvo

Legal influencers provide intelligent and useful insights into the legal world. From constitutional law to the latest legal technology, these influencers offer a blend of opinion, educational content, and recent legal news. Their posts can help shape your understanding of the changing legal landscape and difficult legal concepts. Influencers can also help with networking.

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Stanford’s Codex + Flatiron Launch GenAI M&A Training Simulator

Artificial Lawyer

What if genAI’s main value to lawyers was in supporting legal training?