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Transforming Client Engagement: How AI is Revolutionizing Your Law Firm’s Efficiency

Colin S. Levy

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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How Do We Train Junior Lawyers In The Age of AI?

Artificial Lawyer

The questions keep coming up: if genAI will increasingly be able to do process-level work, what happens to the most junior associates? What work will.

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Legal Tech Expert, Veteran Podcaster Dennis Kennedy Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

Legal Talk Network

Photograph taken by Gabr iela Cubeiro Legal Talk Network is thrilled to congratulate Dennis Kennedy, a legal tech consultant, director at Michigan State University’s College of Law and co-host of The Kennedy-Mighell Report , on winning the Lifetime Achievement award at the 2024 American Legal Technology Awards in Austin, Texas. Since 2009, Dennis and fellow technologist Tom Mighell have led engaging conversations about the latest trends in technology on their podcast.

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ChatGPT Exec Says AI Will Replace $2000/Hr Paralegals… Who Wants To Tell Her?

Above the Law - Technology

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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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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How your online world could change if big tech companies like Google are forced to break up

LLRX

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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Why End-to-End Document Creation Is the Next Big Focus

Artificial Lawyer

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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Supreme Courts of Delaware and Georgia Act to Regulate Use of Generative AI in the Courts

Above the Law - Technology

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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Harbor Acquires UK-Based Legal Technology Services Provider Ascertus

Legal IT Professionals

Harbor has announced the acquisition of Ascertus, a prominent UK-based provider of legal technology services specializing in document and content management solutions. Ascertus, a key implementation partner for iManage, supports both corporate law departments and law firms with essential business systems. The acquisition represents a significant milestone for Harbor’s strategic growth, reinforcing its position as a global leader in comprehensive legal technology and operational solutions.

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Legal Innovators UK Is Next Week!

Artificial Lawyer

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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CA Anti-SLAPP Law Applies to #MeToo Instagram Post–Nelson v. Bridgers

Eric Goldman

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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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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The Three Principles of Responsible AI Development, and Other Takeaways from the Everlaw Summit

Above the Law - Technology

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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ProSearch and the Cowen Group Release New Research Paper: “Metaskills for the Future-Ready Team”

Legal IT Professionals

ProSearch, a leading provider of legal data intelligence and comprehensive discovery and compliance solutions to corporate legal departments and law firms, in partnership with the Cowen Group, a legal career development organization committed to elevating and accelerating professional growth through community-building and educational events, announces the launch of a new research paper: “Metaskills for the Future-Ready Team.

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This Is It, Final Ticket Sale: Legal Innovators UK – Nov 6 + 7

Artificial Lawyer

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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AI in Finance and Banking

LLRX

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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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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Attention Legal Tech Startups: Applications Now Open for the 9th Annual Startup Alley and Pitch Competition at ABA TECHSHOW 2025

Above the Law - Technology

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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JPMorgan Chase sues scammers following viral ‘infinite money glitch’–register.com

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ATMs paid customers thousands … and now the bank wants its money back Jessica Lyons JPMorgan Chase has begun suing fraudsters who allegedly stole thousands of dollars from the bank’s ATMs after a check fraud glitch went viral on social media. The so-called “infinite money glitch” exploded on X and TikTok over the summer, after customers abused a technical issue affecting ATMs nationwide that allowed them to deposit fake checks and then withdraw massive sums of money befo

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Product Walk Through: Steno – GenAI Transcript Analysis

Artificial Lawyer

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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How foreign operations are manipulating social media to influence your views

LLRX

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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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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4th Circuit Shoots Down ‘Unite The Right’ Protester’s Attempt To Turn The Consequences Of His Own Actions Into A Constitutional Violation

Above the Law - Technology

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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Ask Attorney Jennifer B.: What are relationship contracts?

Martindale-Avvo

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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Spellbook Taps Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law For Contract Data

Artificial Lawyer

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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Perplexity AI decries News Corp’s ‘simply false’ data scraping claims–theregister.com

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‘They prefer to live in a world where publicly reported facts are owned by corporations’ Iain Thomson Artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI has hit back at a lawsuit claiming that it’s unfairly harvesting data from Dow Jones & Co and the New York Post to feed its AI engine, as well as stealing and mangling content. At the start of the week, News Corp took legal action on behalf of its publications, claiming in court documents [PDF] that Perplexity was posting whole

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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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Will Generative AI Actually Expand Access To Justice?

Above the Law - Technology

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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Does Your AI Chatbot Collect Biometric Data?

Pillsbury Law Internet and Technology blog

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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Webinar: How Will GenAI Change Legal Education + Training?

Artificial Lawyer

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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AI for Contracts: Document Automation Analysis – Revolutionizing Legal Practice

Bigfork Tech

AI for Contracts: Document Automation Analysis – Revolutionizing Legal Practice Document automation and contract analysis are not just buzzwords; they are essential tools transforming how legal professionals operate. This blog post will delve into the significance of document automation in the legal sector, explore the benefits of AI in document creation and review, provide real-world examples of these technologies in action, and discuss the broader impact on legal practice.

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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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Building CoPilot’s CoPilot (For Lawyers)

Above the Law - Technology

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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Everything in One Place with CosmoLex’s New Document Generation and Management

Lawyerist

Firms must invest in a law practice management system (LPMS) with robust document creation and management tools to move from their current chaos to a future of fluid workflows. CosmoLex Knows Documents are a Lawyer’s Lifeblood Nearly everything we do as lawyers and legal professionals gets memorialized in a document. An estate plan results in powers of attorney, wills, healthcare directives, and perhaps trusts.

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Amendment to Public Health Law §267 Menstrual Products in Schools–NYSED

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The New York State Education Department would like to inform schools of an amendment to Public Health Law §267 that went into effect July 1, 2024. It requires all elementary and secondary public and non-public schools serving students in any grade from six through twelve to provide menstrual products at no cost to students in school restrooms. This revised law replaces the term feminine hygiene products with menstrual products.

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NetDocuments sponsors The Say Gap

Legal IT Insiders

NetDocuments has sponsored The Say Gap, the only dedicated DEI conference in the legal sector. The Say Gap is held over two days and will leave attendees with strategies to […] The post NetDocuments sponsors The Say Gap 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.