3 Geeks and a Law Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This week we have Damien Riehl , VP, Litigation Workflow and Analytics Content at FastCase, and one of the drivers behind SALI (Standards Advancement for for the Legal Industry.) Damien is definitely a “big thinker” when it comes to the benefits of creating and using standards for the legal industry. SALI is a system of tagging legal information to allow for better filtering and analysis.

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Kevin O'Keefe

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

It’s been no overnight success for OpenAI’s ChatGPT. I get that many of you say there’s been no success, at all. Will Douglas Heaven , a senior editor for AI at MIT Technology Review has an informational (if your science skills are sharper than mine) and entertaining read about where ChatGPT came from. ChatGPT’s foundation goes back to the 80’s and 90’s with the development of certain language models required for a neural network (software inspired by the way neurons in animal brains signal one

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LLRX

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

ChatGPT has taken the world by storm. Within two months of its release it reached 100 million active users, making it the fastest-growing consumer application ever launched. Users are attracted to the tool’s advanced capabilities – and concerned by its potential to cause disruption in various sectors. A much less discussed implication is the privacy risks ChatGPT poses to each and every one of us.

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OpenText

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

With the proliferation of electronic data, the vast majority of business communication is now in electronic format. It is not surprising that the use cases for eDiscovery technology have expanded beyond the typical litigation review for production use cases. In the eDiscovery Today 2023 State of the Industry Report, survey respondents reported that the expanded … The post Sometimes in eDiscovery more is better appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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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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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Get to the Point! | Getting diacritical marks right in your legal documents can make or break your case. The post How Many Letters Are in the Alphabet? More Than You Think appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Kevin O'Keefe

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The world changes and we have a choice, writes marketer and author, Seth Godin. Fight hard to keep it the way it was. Notice what happened and then decide to do something with that insight. I’d add a third. Take advavanatge of the changes to develop solutions and companies serving people. Godin was referring to AOL’s paying royalties to content providers.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A website that monitors data breaches and ransomware attacks has reported that the New York City Bar Association was hit with a ransomware attack in December and that the attackers have posted screenshots showing the bar’s file directory, as well as passports of certain individuals. The report by DataBreaches.net says that the attackers used the CLOP ransomware to gain access to the bar’s files.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Bull Garlington | The most important soft skill of them all. The post Soft Skills: How to Hack Your Greatest Superpowers appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Hanzo Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Last year , the FTC announced they were going to “crackdown on harmful commercial surveillance and lax data security,” and have been pursuing a number of lawsuits as a result. Many of these are bold in their approach, which may catch many corporate legal teams off guard.

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LLRX

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Hannah Della Bosca , PhD Candidate and Research Assistant at Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney addresses a distinct form of emerging climate denial. You may have experienced it and not even realised. It’s called implicatory denial, and it happens when you consciously recognise climate change as a serious threat without making significant changes to your everyday behaviour in response.

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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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LawSites

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

With the launch today of its second-generation platform, London-based Legatics is expanding the capabilities it offers customers from its core of legal transaction management into broader legal project management. With some 40 templates, customizable templates, and a new interface designed to be more intuitive, Legatics now supports legal project workflows and deal closures across a range of law firm departments, including banking and finance, litigation, capital markets, real estate, corporate

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As law firms consider how they can better allocate work to associates, one key part of the conversation has to be about skills and skills tracking. How Skills Tracking Improves Bench Strength Skills tracking is already a growing part of law firm talent management. Firms are formalizing their skills libraries and standardizing the skills each […] The post Talent Management: How Skills Tracking Improves Resource Allocation and Associate Satisfaction appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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AXDRAFT

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Got no time to read? Listen to our blog on the go You’ve probably heard about ChatGPT – it’s still one of the hottest topics of today. You ask it to write about a certain topic, and it does. It’s a nice tool for copywriters and journalists, but if you think it won’t help you unless you’re a writer, think again. GPT-3 (which is the tech behind ChatGPT) is a disruptive technology that many industries can benefit from.

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TechLaw Crossroads

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

I recently published a post that discussed client pressures on law firms to take public stands on social issues. These issues are often controversial and can be tricky for law firms. In the process of conceptualizing the post, ChatGBT hit the news. I decided to use it least to get started. The results were interesting and showed both the power and limitations of the tool.

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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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LawSites

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The ballots are closed and the votes are counted: Your votes have determined the 15 legal tech startups that will get to participate as finalists in the seventh-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2023 , taking place March 1-4 in Chicago. The 15 finalists will face off in an opening night pitch competition that will is the opening event of this year’s TECHSHOW, with the conference’s attendees voting to pick the top winner.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

What do the best holiday social media posts have in common? It’s a new year, which means a clean social media calendar and another round of holidays that need fresh content. But before you start brainstorming your post for Lincoln’s Birthday, we are here to liberate you from that burden. Don’t. Law firms — or […] The post Take a Vacation From Your Holiday Social Media Burden With These Two Questions appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Martindale-Avvo

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

An attorney profile can be used to create, manage, and enhance your reputation all while reaching potential clients and growing the business of your practice. Online profiles and directories have become increasingly popular as a resource for consumers seeking legal services, as they offer a convenient way to research and compare lawyers. How does an online profile work for me?

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MatterSuite

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

According to the American Bar Association, roughly 44% of all law practice firms in the U.S. went out of business in 2021. With numerous lawyers closing their law firm practices, it’s no wonder that marketing, communication & excellent client service is becoming crucial everyday. Legal practices that struggle with basic client retention tend to have a negative impact on their entire industry.

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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!

Artificial Lawyer

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The pioneering Legal Innovators California conference is taking place on June 7 + 8 , and we’re very excited already. The agenda-setting legal innovation event, created.

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Relativity

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Stronger data privacy laws have spread across the world, in jurisdictions including Brazil and Singapore. But what about the United States?

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OpenText

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

“Wait! Are you seriously going to fax me that request?” It’s a question echoing across workplaces in industries like healthcare, financial services, and law, especially as Gen Z employees join the ranks. After more than a century of service, many IT professionals wish they could retire the old faithful fax. But there are reasons why … The post Preparing fax for the next era of enterprise communications appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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MatterSuite

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Solo practitioners end up spending about 45% of their time on non-legal tasks , also known as non-billable administrative work. Bringing down the billable hours by a significant decrease. We understand that a solo practitioner fights as a one man army, dealing with all operational tasks alone. As a solo attorney, there are several financial challenges that you may face while practicing in the US.

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Advertiser: Trellis

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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Martindale-Avvo

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

There is always some ebb and flow to the economy, but this season of uncertainty definitely has business leaders worrying. After an unexpectedly robust post-COVID recovery, we’re now seeing the flip side of all that action: more money in the economy has dramatically increased inflation — and accompanying fears are prompting some employers to downsize.

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Debevoise Data Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

ChatGPT is an AI language model developed by OpenAI that was released to the public in November 2022 and already has millions of users. While most people were initially using the publicly available version of ChatGPT for personal tasks ( e.g. , generating recipes, poems, workout routines, etc.), many have started to use it for work-related projects.

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Lawyerist

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

With the recent mass layoffs from the likes of Google, Amazon, and Twitter, it’s easy to imagine a looming (or existing) economic downturn. Some practices are relatively recession-proof. But, all firms would likely benefit from asking what they will do if the demand for legal services decreases. Somewhat counterintuitively, we’ve also seen a decreased appetite for outside investment in legal technology products.

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Simple Legal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In-house legal departments have to continue to do more with less in 2023. As the year starts with a challenging economic climate where resources continue to decrease, legal professionals must remain agile and adapt whenever and wherever needed. We’re sitting down with legal professionals to discuss the impact and their view on the future of legal and legal technology in 2023 and beyond.

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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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ABA TECHSHOW

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The ballots are closed and the votes are counted: Your votes have determined the 15 legal tech startups that will get to participate as finalists in the seventh-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2023 , taking place March 1-4 in Chicago. The 15 finalists will face off in an opening night pitch competition that will is the opening event of this year’s TECHSHOW, with the conference’s attendees voting to pick the top winner.

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Vogel IT Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a press release that the SEC had “charged Payward Ventures, Inc. and Payward Trading Ltd., both commonly known as Kraken, with failing to register the offer and sale of their crypto asset staking-as-a-service program, whereby investors transfer crypto assets to Kraken for staking in exchange for advertised annual investment returns of as much as 21 percent.

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iPhone J.D.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Many of the topics in the latest episode of the In the News podcast address putting new things in historical perspective.  Brett and I discuss the new Apple website and how much it has changed over the decades.  We talk about the new Apple financial report and explain how the iPad can be doing better than ever right now at the same time that it is disappointing many folks who have been following the iPad for a long time.  We talk about the new version of Myst on the iPad and ho

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Relativity

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

How litigation support and technology enthusiasts can enable conversations that meet not-so-tech-savvy coworkers where they are, improve processes, and perfect collaborative relationships for the best possible results.

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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.

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