Colin S. Levy

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Leverage AI agents to automate client intake, document management, and communication, allowing legal teams to focus on what matters most. The legal industry is undergoing a profound transformation, with artificial intelligence (AI) playing a pivotal role in reshaping traditional processes. In a law firm, one of the most time-consuming and resource-intensive tasks is client engagement—gathering client information, obtaining case facts, and organizing supporting documents.

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Above the Law - Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In a coincidence of timing that reflects how legal professionals are wrestling with issues around generative artificial intelligence, the supreme courts of Delaware and Georgia issued orders within a day of each other last week relating to the use of AI in the courts and by legal professionals. On Oct.

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Ward Blawg

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Foreword by our site’s Founder, Gav Ward: In my travels in the legal sector, one of the most underrated legal professionals is the paralegal. I once heard a story when working with one of our clients at MLT Digital that there was a paralegal who did night classes to become a qualified Solicitor and then […] The post THE PATH FROM PARALEGAL TO SOLICITOR first appeared on WardblawG.

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Artificial Lawyer

OCTOBER 31, 2024

By Judie Rahman, Senior Solutions Manager at BigHand. BigHand recently surveyed over 800 legal professionals and found 35% of participating law firms confirmed that reviewing.

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LLRX

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Elizabeth Sweetland reviews: Meredith Broussard, More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech (MIT Press 2023). 248 Pages. Available from MIT Press, Barnes and Noble and Amazon.

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Above the Law - Technology

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Tell me you don't understand this industry without telling me you don't understand this industry. The post ChatGPT Exec Says AI Will Replace $2000/Hr Paralegals… Who Wants To Tell Her? appeared first on Above the Law.

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TechnoLlama

OCTOBER 26, 2024

On the 20th of October 2024, this blog turned 20 years old. I’ve been both dreading and looking forward to this milestone.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government reports, NGO/IGO papers, industry white papers, academic papers and speeches on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and as available, indicate links to alternate free versions.

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Above the Law - Technology

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Ever since Startup Alley first launched in 2017, the pitch competition has helped catapult the success of a long list of legal technology startups and become a seminal event of the American Bar Association’s annual TECHSHOW.

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Clio

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As legal technology advances at an astonishing pace, it’s easy to overlook the most crucial element of its success: people. At the 2024 Clio Cloud Conference , we sat down with Judge Victoria Pratt , a passionate advocate for criminal justice reform. Her message? While technology plays a central role in shaping the future of law, true justice can only be achieved through human connection.

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Artificial Lawyer

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This week’s Product Walk Through is with Steno and its Transcript Genius capability, which leverages genAI to provide a range of court transcript analysis features.

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LLRX

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Artificial Intelligence and Unconscious Bias Risk – Elizabeth Sweetland reviews: Meredith Broussard, More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech (MIT Press 2023). 248 Pages. Available from MIT Press, Barnes and Noble and Amazon 2024. Trump’s Election Lawyers Must Heed Their Ethical Duties – Attorneys Stephen Marcus and Bruce Kuhlik discuss the.

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Above the Law - Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

From the better-be-doing-right-before-you-complain-about-your-rights dept The post 4th Circuit Shoots Down ‘Unite The Right’ Protester’s Attempt To Turn The Consequences Of His Own Actions Into A Constitutional Violation appeared first on Above the Law.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Phoebe Bridgers. Photo from Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0 <[link] via Wikimedia Commons This case involves three people: Chris Nelson, “a well-established music industry entrepreneur.” Emily Bannon, an alleged former girlfriend and victim of Nelson’s behavior. Phoebe Bridgers (photo on the right), “a singer, songwriter, and guitarist” with a large Instagram audience.

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Artificial Lawyer

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

As the song goes, it’s the final countdown… Legal Innovators UK the pioneering legal tech conference is taking place next week on November 6 and.

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LLRX

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government reports, NGO/IGO papers, industry white papers, academic papers and speeches on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and as available, indicate links to alternate free versions.

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Above the Law - Technology

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Generative AI has the potential to transform the legal landscape -- not by replacing lawyers but by enabling them to work more efficiently. The post Will Generative AI Actually Expand Access To Justice? appeared first on Above the Law.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This case involves the following screens: You may need to enlarge the images to see the purported call-to-action. In the top image, it’s purple lettering on a purple background. Serisouly, who does that? The green one is only slightly easier to see. The court (correctly) calls this implementation a “sign-in-wrap” (ugh), but still goes through the standard analysis to identify consumers’ manifestation of assent.

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Artificial Lawyer

OCTOBER 30, 2024

After months of planning and bringing together expert speakers from across law firms, inhouse and legal tech companies, Legal Innovators UK is happening next week.

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LLRX

OCTOBER 31, 2024

CalMatters and The Markup used Facebook’s AI model to count the millions of dollars it makes after violent news events By Colin Lecher and Tomas Apodaca.

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Above the Law - Technology

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Microsoft's CoPilot could become the default AI for business. who will make it work for legal? The post Building CoPilot’s CoPilot (For Lawyers) appeared first on Above the Law.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In this week’s episode of our video series How it Works, I received a demonstration of Casemark, a legal document summarizer intended to improve deposition summaries, trial summaries, and more. In the founders’ words: CaseMark has strived to build the “easy button” for AI-in-legal that won’t get attorneys in trouble.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Gray Robinson | There are many ways to self-motivate, but beating yourself up is not sustainable. The post Becoming the Best Version of Yourself Doesn’t Mean Being Perfect appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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LLRX

OCTOBER 28, 2024

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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Above the Law - Technology

OCTOBER 28, 2024

At the Everlaw Summit in San Francisco last week, the annual customer conference of the e-discovery company Everlaw, founder and CEO AJ Shankar delivered a keynote address in which he announced the general availability of three generative AI features the company first introduced last year and had been developing in beta ever since.

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Legal Practice Intelligence

OCTOBER 27, 2024

At its annual user conference, Inspire, NetDocuments unveiled its vision of “the intelligent document management system” (DMS) of the future, signalling the transformation of the DMS from an essential content management platform to the.

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Artificial Lawyer

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Legal genAI pioneer, Spellbook, is forming a close integration with Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law contract database, allowing users to tap both systems while drafting. The.

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LLRX

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Marcus Hedahl , Professor of Philosophy, United States Naval Academy and Bradley Jay Strawser , Professor of Philosophy, Naval Postgraduate School worry that Trump’s actions while president, and his comments about his plans for a potential second term, may put the military in a tough position. The July 1, 2024, Supreme Court ruling giving the president immunity for official acts – potentially including as commander in chief of the military – would make that tough position even more difficult.

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Martindale-Avvo

OCTOBER 29, 2024

A new trend is developing between couples who are looking to define their respective roles and set boundaries, called relationship contracts. Not to be confused with legally binding contracts between two parties, these “contracts” are not typically legally binding but rather intended to be used to establish mutual understandings between those involved in a romantic relationship.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In an effort to curb mass arbitration, Ticketmaster sought to switch arbitration service providers to New Era ADR, including for past ticket purchases. New Era incorporated some defense-favorable provisions to its mass arbitration provision. The Ninth Circuit holds those provisions go too far and are procedurally and substantively unconscionable. This opinion contains enough criticism to go around, especially with respect to New Era’s policies and practices.

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Legal Practice Intelligence

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Key takeaways from the survey 76% of legal professionals in corporate legal departments use GenAI at least once a week, as do 68% of their counterparts in law firms; over.

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LLRX

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Department of Justice may be on the verge of seeking a break-up of Google in a bid to make it less dominant. ,,,,,strong>Renaud Foucart explains that if the government goes ahead and is successful in the courts, it could mean the company being split into separate entities – a search engine, an advertising company, a video website, a mapping app – which would not be allowed to share data with each other.

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Artificial Lawyer

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Artificial Lawyer and LexisNexis are teaming up to bring you a series of webinars with the best experts and latest insights so you can stay ahead of legal AI.

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CloudNine

OCTOBER 30, 2024

By Jacob K Hesse When it comes to e-Discovery processing and hosting for analysis, review, and production, you need a platform that is intuitive, fast, and that all data and processes are completely contained in one platform. You also need price predictability and the core features and functions that will lead you to successful outcomes, from collection through production.

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Pillsbury Law Internet and Technology blog

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The latest trend in generative AI is the rise of “AI Assistants” or “Chatbots.” These tools are increasingly trained on internal company data to interact directly with consumers and aim to improve customer service by generating responses on behalf of the organization. However, this brings new legal challenges, especially regarding data privacy. Because “biometric” data or information is often broadly defined, compliance with privacy regulations becomes critical when chatbots and AI agents use vo

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LLRX

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Filippo Menczer and his colleagues study influence campaigns and design technical solutions – algorithms – to detect and counter them. State-of-the-art methods developed in our center use several indicators of this type of online activity, which researchers call inauthentic coordinated behavior. They identify clusters of social media accounts that post in a synchronized fashion, amplify the same groups of users, share identical sets of links, images or hashtags, or perform suspiciously similar s

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Legal Practice Intelligence

OCTOBER 27, 2024

LegalSifter, a leader in AI-powered contract operations solutions, has acquired Contract Logix, a Lowell, MA-based data-driven contract management solutions provider. The strategic acquisition expands LegalSifter’s client base, recurring revenues, and.

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