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Is Gen AI Creating A Divide Among Law Firms Of Haves and Have Nots?

Above the Law - Technology

On Friday, I spoke to a group of trial lawyers on the use of generative AI in litigation. Many in the room were that increasingly rare breed of lawyer who actually go into court and try cases.

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2024 ABA Women of Legal Tech Highlights Trellis CEO Nicole Clark

Trellis.Law Blog

From the American Bar Association’s site: “One of the American Bar Association’s core values is a commitment to diversity, which the Law Practice Division aims to reinforce in the legal tech sector. From tech founders and CEOs to small business owners,… Continue reading → The post 2024 ABA Women of Legal Tech Highlights Trellis CEO Nicole Clark first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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Trabajar en la abogacía sin ser abogado: Nuevos roles y roles de siempre

Global LegalTech Hub

Beatriz Hernández, Blanca Rodríguez y Nacho Escobar, Líderes del área People & Culture del GLTH. Uno de los cambios más significativos que se está produciendo en el sector legal es la incorporación de nuevos roles dentro de los despachos y el impulso y profesionalización de las áreas de gestión tradicionales (finanzas, rrhh, marketing y comunicación, gestión del conocimiento, etc).

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How to Answer Legal Exam/Assignment Questions – A Guide for Law Students

Ward Blawg

While our mission is to be one of the world’s leading resources on law, digital and legal technology, helping the best law firms and lawyers share the greatest amount of useful legal advice and insights online, we started by sharing useful tips for law students on their path to a legal career. Indeed “How to […] The post How to Answer Legal Exam/Assignment Questions – A Guide for Law Students first appeared on WardblawG.

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Litigation Finance Firm Launches With Over $100 Million In Capital As Market Continues To Boom

Above the Law - Technology

New entry in the booming field of litigation finance. The post Litigation Finance Firm Launches With Over $100 Million In Capital As Market Continues To Boom appeared first on Above the Law.

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We Need To Talk About GenAI Accuracy

Artificial Lawyer

Generative AI is without doubt the most powerful technology to be applied to the legal sector since the arrival of digital tools, yet it has a serious challenge: accuracy.

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Every Lawyer In Texas Now Has Free Access to Smokeball’s Trust Accounting and Billing Software

LawSites

Every lawyer in Texas is now eligible for free access to trust accounting and billing software, thanks to an exclusive partnership announced today between the State Bar of Texas and the law practice management company Smokeball.

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3 Questions For A Legal Tech Founder And Handicapper (Part I)

Above the Law - Technology

Pre/Dicta uses AI and machine learning to forecast outcomes and timelines for case-critical motion practice in civil suits. It is the only commercially available predictive AI for litigation. The post 3 Questions For A Legal Tech Founder And Handicapper (Part I) appeared first on Above the Law.

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DeepJudge, KM-Focused AI Startup Bags $10.7m, Hires Ex-Kira’s Obenski

Artificial Lawyer

DeepJudge, a legal AI startup founded by AI researchers and former Google search engineers, and focused on leveraging law firm and inhouse internal knowledge, has.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 15, 2024

LLRX

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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Justia Webinars: Logic for Lawyers: Crafting Persuasive Legal Arguments

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

Crafting persuasive and logical arguments for complex legal issues may be part of your job, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. There may be days when it just feels like your legal arguments and briefs are falling flat. It’s always a learning process to craft, refine, and perfect your advocacy skills to make your legal arguments and briefs not only compelling, but also captivatingly convincing.

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State Bar Members Have Fewer Excuses To Misappropriate Client Funds

Above the Law - Technology

Smokeball and State Bar partner to deliver free access to trust accounting and billing software. The post State Bar Members Have Fewer Excuses To Misappropriate Client Funds appeared first on Above the Law.

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Reusing Social Media Photos for Ads? Be Careful!–Khachatryan v. 1 Hotel

Eric Goldman

This case involves the following photo posted to the “ @brave_johnson ” Instagram account, which self-describes as the account of a 7-year old and lists 2 URLs for talent agencies: [Note: normally I would think carefully about posting photos of children, but this photo was posted to the public Instagram account depicting someone who claims to be a model and actor.

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Epiq: The Legal Everything Store, From GenAI to On-Demand Lawyers

Artificial Lawyer

‘Epiq is a 3rd generation ALSP,’ explains Roger Pilc, the group’s President and General Manager for Global Legal Solutions, ‘we provide tech, consulting and managed.

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Justia Legal Resources: Medical Malpractice Law Center

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

A patient expects their condition to improve when they visit a doctor for diagnosis or treatment. Unfortunately, sometimes the opposite happens. If an incompetent healthcare provider causes injuries, a patient may have a claim for compensation. Medical malpractice cases may pose more challenges than a typical personal injury lawsuit, though. The Medical Malpractice Law Center at Justia can help patients understand the potential path ahead and some of the pitfalls that may confront them.

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Why Shouldn’t Lawyers Be Scared Of Project Management? [Sponsored]

Above the Law - Technology

Are you afraid of making more money? The post Why Shouldn’t Lawyers Be Scared Of Project Management? appeared first on Above the Law.

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Mortgage Brokers Sent People’s Estimated Credit, Address, and Veteran Status to Facebook

LLRX

When someone applies for a mortgage, they trust a home loan lender or mortgage broker with some of the most sensitive information they have: information about their credit, their home, and the personal details of their lives. Unbeknownst to those prospective homeowners, they may also be sharing that information with Facebook. The Markup tested more than 700 websites that offer loans for people looking to purchase or refinance a home, from major online brokers to lesser-known regional lenders, an

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Inside the Eigen / Sirion Deal: Multi-Modal + Multi-Model

Artificial Lawyer

Why did CLM company Sirion buy Eigen? Was it like Icertis and AI-focused Evisort, or DocuSign and Lexion? The short answer is: no, Sirion was already heavily into AI.

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The Best Fountain Pen Store in Your Town

Attorney at Work

Analog Attorney | Our top-tier list of the best fountain pen stores in five cities. The post The Best Fountain Pen Store in Your Town appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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Adobe faces US federal government lawsuit alleging it hides termination fees to trap subscribers

Legal IT Insiders

The US Department of Justice has today (17 June) begun a lawsuit against Adobe alleging that it has for years harmed consumers by enrolling them in a default subscription plan […] The post Adobe faces US federal government lawsuit alleging it hides termination fees to trap subscribers appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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A Slow Year for Legal Tech Funding? Over $400 Million Invested in the Last 30 Days Suggests Otherwise

LawSites

Investments in legal tech got off to a slow start in 2024. A Crunchbase report just last week said that legal tech startups had raised only $356 million this year, compared to $871 million last year.

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ProSearch Adds Intelligent Voice to Its Arsenal of Industry-leading Tools to Optimize Discovery

Legal IT Professionals

ProSearch, a leading provider of comprehensive data intelligence, discovery, and compliance solutions to corporate legal departments and law firms, announces its addition of Intelligent Voice for processing audio and video files included in discovery data collections.

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The Return of eBrevia – Interview with CEO, Adam Nguyen

Artificial Lawyer

eBrevia Co-Founder twice over, Adam Nguyen, tells Artificial Lawyer: ‘There is no other legal tech company like eBrevia at the moment: founder-buyback, no VC funding,

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AI in Banking and Finance, June 15, 2024

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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On LawNext: Cofounder Jason Tashea on the First Year and Uncertain Future of Georgetown’s First-of-Its-Kind Judicial Innovation Fellowship

LawSites

Eighteen months ago, the first-of-its-kind Judicial Innovation Fellowship launched with the mission of embedding experienced technologists and designers within state, local, and tribal courts to develop technology-based solutions to improve the public’s access to justice.

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Information governance: The challenges of sprawling data

Legal IT Insiders

We discuss with LegalRM founder and CEO Chris Giles some of the biggest challenges that law firms are facing when it comes to information governance, which is a clear priority […] The post Information governance: The challenges of sprawling data appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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How LLMs and Generative AI Can Transform Legal Services

Attorney at Work

LLMs and generative AI are revolutionizing text generation and comprehension, and the legal industry is feeling their impact. The post How LLMs and Generative AI Can Transform Legal Services appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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Tesla’s tight grip on repairs sparks courtroom showdown

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Class action allowed to continue with EV maker’s ‘tying’ practices the focus–The Register Lindsay Clark In a ruling this week in the US Northern District Court of California, district judge Trina Thompson said that the case dating back to March last year could move forward. In a ruling this week [PDF], the judge found the plaintiffs had “plausibly alleged a cause of action for monopolization” relating to one claim – that Tesla’s practices violate Section

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Missed Legaltech Week Last Week? (I Know I Did.) No Worries, Here’s the Recording. Among the Topics: Harvey, DoNotPay, AAA and Musk

LawSites

If you, like me, missed Legaltech Week last Friday, here is the recording. I was away, as were several of our other regulars, but panelists Victor Li, Isha Marathe, Joe Patrice, and Stephanie Wilkins held down the fort. Among the topics they covered: Robot lawyer DoNotPay back in the news. The hype behind Harvey.

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LITI Launches 2024 Legal PMS Software Report

Legal IT Insiders

This extensive and in-depth report, written by industry expert Neil Cameron, will take a look at the practice management systems and enterprise resource planning systems available in the legal technology […] The post LITI Launches 2024 Legal PMS Software Report appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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5 Ways to Create a Productive Workspace

Attorney at Work

Jamie Spannhake | Transform your workspaces — in the office and at home — into hubs of productivity and comfort. The post 5 Ways to Create a Productive Workspace appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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Blood on their hands–Opinion

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ROBERT B. HUBBELL Today’s Edition Newsletter It is merely a matter of time until a “law-abiding citizen” exercising his “Second Amendment rights” uses a Supreme-Court-sanctioned machine gun to inflict mass deaths on schoolchildren and adults. When that happens, there will be a direct line from their opinion in Garland v. Cargill to the dead and mangled bodies killed by a weapon that can fire 800 rounds a minute with a single pull of the trigger.

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CLIENTSFirst Consulting Announces CRM Success Survey

Legal IT Professionals

CLIENTSFirst Consulting, the leading provider of CRM success consulting services for law firms, announces the launch of a first-of-a-kind CRM Success Survey. The Survey intends to explore the challenges law firms have been experiencing for years with CRM technology to help enable a better path to success.

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A Cool New Feature of This Blog, If I May Say So Myself

LawSites

We have just added a new feature to LawSites that enables readers to explore more about the products and product-categories I cover here. Now, when you are reading a post, the sidebar provides direct links to related product listings in the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.

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Building a Stronger Case: The Power of AI in Financial Fraud Investigations

Attorney at Work

With AI-powered verified financial intelligence, lawyers can swiftly obtain comprehensive financial records for fraud investigations. The post Building a Stronger Case: The Power of AI in Financial Fraud Investigations appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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Incident Response Plans Are Now Accounting Controls? SEC Brings First-Ever Settled Cybersecurity Internal Controls Charges

Debevoise Data Blog

In an unprecedented settlement, on June 18, 2024, the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) announced that communications and marketing provider R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (“RRD”) agreed to pay approximately $2.1 million to resolve charges arising out of its response to a 2021 ransomware attack. According to the SEC, RRD’s response to the attack revealed deficiencies in its cybersecurity policies and procedures and related disclosure controls.

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Legal Tech Talent Network Launches Contract Staffing Division

Legal IT Professionals

Legal Tech Talent Network, a leading executive recruiting firm for the legal industry, today announces the launch of its contract staffing division. This new offering will support organizations across the country in finding highly skilled interim professionals for a variety of positions for short-term projects or long-term engagements.