Sat.May 06, 2023 - Fri.May 12, 2023

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There’s A New Top-Level Domain for Lawyers: ‘.esq’

Above the Law - Technology

Google has announced the release of eight new top-level domains that include one specifically designed for lawyers and law firms, “ esq,” based on the abbreviation of esquire that lawyers use to show they are admitted to practice. Google says the new domain for lawyers is “perfect for showing off your credentials.” It even pointed to two lawyers who already use the domain, Erika.esq , the webiste of attorney and personal finance advisor Erika Kullberg, and Ugo.esq., the w

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Generative AI + The Law (Part 2)

Artificial Lawyer

In this second part of the discussion on generative AI and the legal sector, law professor and legal AI expert, Dan Katz, talks to Artificial Lawyer about.

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Happening This Week: Justia Webinars Presents The Ethics of Online Advertising and Marketing

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

As the legal industry continues to become increasingly competitive, lawyers and law firms are seeking new ways to reach potential clients. The advent of the internet and the growth of digital advertising strategies have opened up a new world of legal marketing opportunities. With this, however, has come a new set of ethical concerns for lawyers who want to take advantage of the latest in marketing strategies without running afoul of the obligations imposed on attorney conduct by the Rules of Pro

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Dykema Enhances Service With Casetext’s CoCounsel

Legal IT Professionals

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced that it is an early adopter of CoCounsel, an AI legal assistant developed by Casetext and powered by OpenAI’s latest and most advanced language model, GPT-4.

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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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Breaking: LexisNexis Announces Preview Launch of Lexis Connect, AI-Powered Matter Management within Microsoft Teams

Above the Law - Technology

LexisNexis today announced the preview launch of Lexis Connect, a legal intake and matter management product that works within Microsoft Teams and uses conversational AI assistants to help deliver answers more quickly. The product is being developed in partnership with Microsoft, and Microsoft’s Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CETA) department has signed on as the first preview customer to test and help further develop the product.

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Legal Innovators California: Kimberly Woodward, Okta

Artificial Lawyer

This week’s Legal Innovators California Profile is with Kimberly Woodward, Senior Director Legal Operations & Chief of Staff at Okta, the pioneering customer and workforce identity provider. Kimberly will.

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Luminance Announces AI-Powered Chatbot 'Ask Lumi'

Legal IT Professionals

Luminance, the world’s most advanced AI for legal process automation, today announced the launch of the latest cutting-edge application of its specialist legal large language model (LLM) – the AI-powered ‘Ask Lumi’ chatbot.

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‘Legal Tech Lists’: 9 Ways Legal Tech Can Help You Have Fun Outside Of Work [Sponsored]

Above the Law - Technology

Use your tech to terrorize your friends and neighbors with this handy guide. The post ‘Legal Tech Lists’: 9 Ways Legal Tech Can Help You Have Fun Outside Of Work appeared first on Above the Law.

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Awesome Speakers at Legal Innovators California, June 7 + 8 (Expanded) !

Artificial Lawyer

A conference is often only as good as its speakers and Legal Innovators California has plenty of great ones! The two-day conference, which takes place on June.

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LexisNexis unveils Microsoft Teams-based corporate legal intake and matter management solution 

Legal IT Insiders

LexisNexis has unveiled a beta Microsoft Teams based legal intake and matter management solution for corporate counsel, created in partnership with Microsoft. Lexis has co-created LEXIS Connect with Microsoft’s corporate legal team, … LexisNexis unveils Microsoft Teams-based corporate legal intake and matter management solution Read More » The post LexisNexis unveils Microsoft Teams-based corporate legal intake and matter management solution appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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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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Kim Announces Go-To-Market Partnership with Ascertus

Legal IT Professionals

Kim , the no-code, SaaS, patent-protected document generation, assembly, and workflow automation platform, today announced that Ascertus , a leading provider of document and information lifecycle management solutions, has become a reseller partner.

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Sixth Circuit Reverses Conviction For Man Talked Into Criminal Acts By Undercover FBI Agents

Above the Law - Technology

From the make-your-own-terrorists,-lose-your-own-convictions dept. The post Sixth Circuit Reverses Conviction For Man Talked Into Criminal Acts By Undercover FBI Agents appeared first on Above the Law.

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Lawyer vs. AI or Lawyers + AI: Embracing the Future of Legal Practice with BriefPoint.ai’s Nathan Walter and Bridget Albiero (TGIR Ep. 202)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

In this riveting episode of our podcast, we delve into the fascinating world of AI in the legal industry with our esteemed guests, Nathan Walter and Bridget Albiero. Walter, a former attorney and founder of BriefPoint.ai , has leveraged his legal expertise and passion for technology to automate the manual processes that often bog down law firms. Bridget Albiero, a User Experience (UX) and User Design (UD) expert, underscores the significance of intuitive design in making these AI tools not just

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Guest post: Maximizing profitability through effective legal project management

Legal IT Insiders

The post-pandemic world has presented numerous challenges for law firms, requiring them to rethink their approach to managing matters and maintaining profitability. Legal project management (LPM) offers solutions to these … Guest post: Maximizing profitability through effective legal project management Read More » The post Guest post: Maximizing profitability through effective legal project management appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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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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Insight Legal launches an enhanced case and practice management platform

Legal IT Professionals

Insight Legal Software, a leading UK practice management, legal accounts and case management specialist, has released the most significant update of its flagship software platform since launching 12 years ago.

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Convert ‘Resting B h Face’ to ‘Neutral Alert’

Attorney at Work

While it is entertaining to explore the links that come up when you Google “RBF,” there is a serious lesson in this for lawyers. The post Convert ‘Resting B h Face’ to ‘Neutral Alert’ appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Casepoint Culture Seems Alive and Well

TechLaw Crossroads

I recently had a chance to catch up with Matt Hamilton , Senior Director of Sales Engineering, and some others at Casepoint. Casepoint is an e-discovery cloud based provider that claims to offer data-based intelligence and full-spectrum eDiscovery. It includes cloud collection, data processing, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence tools. The platform enables review and customizable productions.

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Robin AI launches automated contract drafting tool 

Legal IT Insiders

Robin AI, a generative AI-based contracts platform, has launched automated contract drafting module Draft, which at the point of release will be free to use for small businesses. Using Robin … Robin AI launches automated contract drafting tool Read More » The post Robin AI launches automated contract drafting tool 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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CloudNine Appoints Legal Services Industry Veteran, Chris Haag, as Senior Vice President of Sales

Legal IT Professionals

eDiscovery technology leader CloudNine announced today that Chris Haag joined the firm as Senior Vice President of sales.

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Top 10 Legal Podcasts

Attorney at Work

Results from our survey on the top legal podcasts are in — here are the shows that made the top 10. The post Top 10 Legal Podcasts appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Bloomberg Law Launches A Product For Storing, Searching, Drafting and Negotiating Contracts

LawSites

Does the corporate legal market need yet another contract lifecycle management product? Well, Bloomberg Law thinks it does. Last month, Bloomberg Law released a survey it conducted with legal news and information company ALM that found that nearly 75% of in-house counsel said that their contract workflow technology did not meet their needs, even though contracts-related tasks make up at least half the daily work of 43 percent of corporate counsel.

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Xakia launches legal matter management solution for small in-house legal teams

Legal IT Insiders

Australian-headquartered legal matter management vendor Xakia today (9 May) officially launches a new ‘out-of-the-box’ solution to meet the needs of smaller in-house teams, which has received positive customer testimonial (see … Xakia launches legal matter management solution for small in-house legal teams Read More » The post Xakia launches legal matter management solution for small in-house legal teams appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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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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LawBite and Handepay join forces to help merchants access quality and affordable legal advice

Legal IT Professionals

LawBite and Handepay, part of the PayPoint Group, are delighted to announce a new partnership providing Handepay’s customers with access to LawBite’s legal advice and services, helping them to manage their business and legal needs more effectively.

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Section 230 Immunizes Bing’s Search Results–White v. Microsoft

Eric Goldman

This lawsuit relates to an episode of the TV show Evil Lives Here called “I Invited Him In,” which discusses an NY serial killer named Nathaniel White. A different Nathaniel White claimed that the episode improperly featured his mugshot and thus connected him to the serial killings. Among other defendants, he sued Microsoft for Bing search results linking to the episode.

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Aiming to Simplify Contract Drafting, SpotDraft Partners with Microsoft to Integrate Its CLM Platform with Word

LawSites

Two months after raising $26 million in Series A funding, SpotDraft , a cloud-based contract lifecycle management platform for in-house legal teams, is today launching a deep integration with Microsoft Word that it says will simplify the contract drafting and review process for businesses of all sizes. Developed in partnership with Microsoft, the integration makes Microsoft Word the primary editor on the SpotDraft platform, enabling users to access Word’s full suite of capabilities from directly

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Legal IT Latest: Wins & deals, movers & shakers 

Legal IT Insiders

Catch up on the latest legal tech deals from the UK, North and South America and APAC. We also bring you senior industry appointments in North America and Europe. Wins … Legal IT Latest: Wins & deals, movers & shakers Read More » The post Legal IT Latest: Wins & deals, movers & shakers 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

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Clio named one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies for the sixth consecutive year

Legal IT Professionals

Clio, the world’s leading provider of cloud-based legal technology, is pleased to announce it has qualified once again for Deloitte Canada’s Best Managed Companies Award, Gold Standard, in recognition of its industry-leading performance, global business practices, and sustained growth.

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DMCA 512(c) Safe Harbor Doesn’t Apply to Photo Embedding–Great Bowery v. Best Little Sites

Eric Goldman

This case involves Annie Leibovitz photos, represented by licensing and enforcement agency Trunk Archive. Allegedly, users of comicbookmovie.com (CBM) embedded the Leibovitz photos into the site by linking to the images hosted on third-party sites. Once CBM learned of the links (via the complaint), CBM disabled them. Embedding and the Server Test The Utah federal judge is persuaded by the Perfect 10 v.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 7, 2023

LLRX

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, 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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SYKE partners with Calame to deliver legal tech & ops solutions to the French market 

Legal IT Insiders

Legal technology and operations providers SYKE and Calame will announce today (10 May) an exclusive strategic partnership to enable SYKE to gain a foothold in the French market, while providing … SYKE partners with Calame to deliver legal tech & ops solutions to the French market Read More » The post SYKE partners with Calame to deliver legal tech & ops solutions to the French market appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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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.