Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Jimoh Ovbiagele , cofounder in 2014 of the now-shuttered AI legal research startup ROSS Intelligence, is returning to legal tech as chief executive officer of a new startup, Bench IQ , that says it is using generative AI to provide comprehensive insights into the decision-making patterns of judges — based not just on their written rulings, but also their rulings from the bench.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Editor’s note: The following guest post is a response to my recent post, The Justice Gap in Legal Tech: A Tale of Two Conferences and the Implications for A2J. It is written by Mark Chandler , former chief legal officer at Cisco Systems from 2001- 2021 and now a lecturer in law at Stanford Law School and a fellow at the Stanford’s Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession , where he helps lead the Filing Fairness Project , and Jess Lu , a third year law student at Stanford and a civi

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Kevin O'Keefe

MARCH 1, 2024

Nicole Black’s Weekly Legatech linkblog on LinkedIn is a jewel. As Niki put it today , “Now that my work travel has settled down for a bit, my weekly “legaltech news roundups” are back! Here’s some news that caught my eye this week.” She then shared, with some brief commentary, five legaltech “news clips.” Readers could share commentary as comments on LinkedIn.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In our third installment of Love and Legal Tech, we talk with Ab Saraswat and Priti Saraswat. Ab and Priti met while training to be barristers in the UK. They were on opposing debate teams, and Ab proposed within a year of meeting Priti. They have been married for almost a decade. Though they didn’t originally intend to work together, they both ended up at legal tech company Litera for several years but in different roles.

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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!

Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

On this episode of LawNext: A conversation about Thomson Reuters’ strategy around generative artificial intelligence with two of the executives most directly responsible for its development and implementation. In a year dominated by discussion of generative AI and its potential impact on the legal profession, Thomson Reuters has played a leading role.

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Trellis.Law Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

A group of artists filed a lawsuit against three tech companies that created chatbots used to turn text prompts into AI-generated images. The lawsuit is one among many that artists have filed in the past year alleging infringement through use… Continue reading → The post Stable Diffusion: Another AI Chatbot Company Entrenched in Legal Battle Over Copyright Infringement first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Employment lawyer Faye Riva Cohen outlines signs your client may be a victim of quiet firing and bullying, along with ways to help. The post Quiet Firing: Signs Your Client’s Job Is at Risk appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Coming up with productivity improvements may need to be measured from the perspective of staying competitive in a changing environment or for helping acquire new clients. The post How Will You Measure Your AI? appeared first on Above the Law.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A common pain point for law firms is failing to track and invoice all reimbursable client expenses, resulting in losses to firm profits. A first-of-its-kind product being unveiled today by AffiniPay , the parent company of LawPay and MyCase , aims to solve that problem for smaller firms by marrying a business credit card for law firms to software that directly channels client-related expenses into the associated matters and invoices within the MyCase law practice management platform.

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Kevin O'Keefe

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

LexBlog is holding a free webinar on Wednesday afternoon, 2 ET / 11AM PT on “How Lawyers Bring in Work from Blogging” Colin O’Keefe will review how everyone has a bit of a different perspective on someone going from blog reader to client—or if that’s a journey one might take. He’ll walk through what business development success looks like – a name, relationships, growing book of business – and discuss the strategies lawyers deploy to achieve it.

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Advertiser: Trellis

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Editing GenAI documents is like eating cotton candy. Here's a quick tip. The post First Rule for Writing With GenAI appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This device is the harbinger of the next stage of computing, especially its user interface. The post Is The Apple Vision Pro Worth The Investment For Lawyers? appeared first on Above the Law.

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LLRX

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The thesis of Kyra Strick's instructive paper promotes a proactive approach to a rapidly increasing online security crisis. Strick states that in the dynamic landscape of cybersecurity, scam baiting has emerged as a captivating and unconventional approach to combating online fraud. Scam baiting is the practice of engaging with scammers to expose their tactics and disrupt their operations.

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Kevin O'Keefe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I saw Carolyn Elefant on TikTok yesterday. Up popped a notification on my screen that said Carolyn just posted a video. I head there as I always do, for her. I’m watching her authentic query why when we drive by a gas station we see the price posted but we have such a hard time knowing the price of a lawyer. Carolyn, who’s been a champion on teaching solo lawyers and running a sophisticated energy law practice, for years, is going to do something about it.

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Law Firm Intelligence by Trellis aggregates state trial court data across the Trellis platform enabling users to: look up a particular metric related to a specific law firm (such as, how many cases a law firm had or has against another law firm), and see the actual dockets and documents supporting the metric. Trellis data is maximized in a revolutionary and unique way to provide users an exclusive look into a law firm litigating in state trial courts.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 1, 2024

Susan Cohodes | Thanks to Henry, I am once again able to feel the sense of satisfaction I experienced when I first started helping clients. The post An Antidote to Ungrateful Clients: Rediscovering the Satisfaction and Joy of Helping Others appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The ethical path respects the unique value of human judgment, empathy, and experience in the legal process. The post The Ethics Of Legal Software: Beyond Compliance appeared first on Above the Law.

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Artificial Lawyer

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The Legal Innovators California conference on June 4 and 5 in San Francisco is delighted to announce speakers from some of the largest and most influential.

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Kevin O'Keefe

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Twenty years ago we certainly didn’t have AI in the sense we do today. We also didn’t have citizen journalism platforms enabling lawyers and law firms to openly publish insight on the implications of matters such as AI. When AI hit last year, law firms started publishing about AI, perhaps like no other subject before. On blogs, on websites, via contributed articles and more.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Bull Garlington | If you’re in your twenties or early thirties, there’s a good chance you are isolated as hell. The post Freemasonry Might Be the Cure for Gen Z Men’s Desperate Loneliness appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 1, 2024

The Constitution would like a word. The post Court: Turning A Minor Parking Violation Into A String Of Rights Violations Is A Great Way To Lose Your Evidence appeared first on Above the Law.

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Legal IT Insiders

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

So, Clifford Chance has set the cat among the pigeons with its announcement that it is rolling out Copilot and Viva Suite to its 7,000+ employees. After a number of law […] The post The Orange Rag Newsletter is Here! appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Martindale-Avvo

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

We’re proud to announce the launch of our Connect Experience , an innovative new marketing platform that seamlessly integrates our marketing services, giving attorneys and law firms a competitive edge. The Connect Experience takes our featured offerings: ProVantage , WebVantage , and AdVantage. This powerful combination of services enables attorneys to effectively establish, grow, and elevate their firms – all while leveraging unparalleled opportunities to expand visibility and reach to c

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Checklists are great for making sure you are completing routine processes in your practice without mistakes. The post Five Checklists to Make Your Law Practice More Efficient and Profitable appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A survey of professionals reveals their expectations and challenges for the future of work. The post How AI Is Transforming The Legal Profession appeared first on Above the Law.

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Relativity

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Read about TCDI's Military Spouse Managed Review program, the people involved, and how it can inspire you to find ways to support military families in your own organization.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

[I blogged the Supreme Court oral arguments in the NetChoice cases yesterday. That decision could have significant implications for this case as well as all other First Amendment challenges of states’ efforts to censor social media.] I previously blogged the TRO. Now, with a little more time to complete its analysis, the court wrote a more thorough and refined opinion preliminarily enjoining Ohio’s law requiring parental consent for children’s usage of social media.

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TechnoLlama

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

A couple of weeks ago I was discussing in class the George Carlin voice clone to produce a comedy special, and subsequent lawsuit by his estate.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Profitsolv's Joyce Brafford shares some foundational practices for law firm technology management. The post Are You Treating Your Law Firm Like A Real Business? appeared first on Above the Law.

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Trellis.Law Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear oral arguments and decide former President Trump’s claim of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election. The lower court’s rejection of Trump’s immunity… Continue reading → The post Update: Supreme Court Set to Rule on Trump’s Presidential Immunity Claim first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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Wisblawg

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Last week in our Advanced Legal Research course at UW Law, we delved into the topic of legislative research including 50 state surveys. Inevitably, there are a few students every year who have been tasked with compiling and comparing laws across states and spent hours searching the laws of each state. Then we show them the various 50 state survey tools and they shake their heads at the amount of time they could have saved if they had known about them. 50 state surveys are tools whereby an expe

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In 2021, Florida and Texas enacted “social media censorship” laws. These laws were never serious policy proposals; instead, the legislatures simply wanted to signal to voters that they hated “Big Tech.” The laws assembled a multitude of disparate policy ideas about how the legislatures could “censor” social media platforms.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Transparency is not about turning every lawyer into a software engineer but about providing enough insight to foster confidence. The post Building Trust In Legal Software: Transparency And User Education appeared first on Above the Law.

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Trellis.Law Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case concerning laws passed in Florida and Texas over whether state governments are allowed to create rules to address social media companies’ alleged censorship of conservative viewpoints on their platforms.… Continue reading → The post Constitutional Clash: Supreme Court’s Review of State Laws Targeting Social Media Platforms and Free Speech first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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