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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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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OCTOBER 28, 2024

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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!

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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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 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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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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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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lennyesq

OCTOBER 29, 2024

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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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 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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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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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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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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lennyesq

OCTOBER 29, 2024

BY D. GRIFFIN JONES Apple unveiled the radically redesigned Mac mini on Tuesday, with versions powered by the M4 chip and a new M4 Pro chip. The smaller-than-ever desktop computer features a new design with convenient ports on the front and back, faster processing speeds and, for the first time, Thunderbolt 5 connectivity and a carbon neutral guarantee.

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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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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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