Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 13, 2023

Is Coming for Lawyers.” ” With GPT-4 having passed the bar exam and legal tech companies launching AI-based legal assistants , it sometimes seems that the potential for AI in law is limitless. A few days ago, The New York Times declared, “ A.I. Why is that?

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Above the Law - Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Well, it’s happened again: Generative AI has passed a critical test used to measure candidate’s fitness to be licensed as a lawyer. jurisdictions to measure prospective lawyers’ knowledge of professional conduct rules. jurisdictions to measure prospective lawyers’ knowledge of professional conduct rules.

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 8, 2023

EvenUp , a company that uses AI to turn medical documents and case files into demand packages for personal injury lawyers, has raised $50.5 The same technology that already powers EvenUp’s demand packages, it is being released today as a self-service solution for use by PI lawyers and their staffs.

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Above the Law - Technology

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The competition is limited to startups that meet the following criteria: Your product or service is targeted to lawyers or legal professionals, not to consumers. Your company has never before exhibited at a national legal technology conference. ABA TECHSHOW is one of the world’s pre-eminent legal technology conferences.

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Above the Law - Technology

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A new survey from the legal technology company Clio found that clients tend to be “more optimistic” about the use of generative AI than the lawyers that represent them, according to a write-up of Clio’s findings in the ABA Journal.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

. “Smokeball AI enhances functionality within its existing platform, optimizing workflows to help law firms expedite intake processes, search for legal answers, navigate through matter documents, draft correspondence, and provide tailored descriptions of work directly on invoices,” the company says. But this new AutoTime.ai

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 11, 2024

Just 28 years old, he had won accolades as an entrepreneur, first starting California Legal Pros, a company that marketed various legal services to both consumers and lawyers, then QuickLegal, a service that provided on-demand legal advice to consumers, and then QuickLegal Practice Management, a cloud practice management platform for lawyers.

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 7, 2023

A recent survey of the legal profession confirms what may already be obvious to many, which is that the use of ChatGPT and other large language models by lawyers continues to grow, even as many remain concerned about the rate at which it is being adopted.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 4, 2023

primary law. of more than 1 million lawyers, or more than three-quarters of all lawyers in the United States. ‘End of the Legal Research Duopoly’ In an interview last yesterday, Fastcase CEO Ed Walters called this the most consequential merger in the history of legal technology. Docket Alarm.

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Above the Law - Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Stories are increasingly common of lawyers who leave law practice to start legal technology companies, but few achieve the level of success as an entrepreneur of Matt Spiegel. He was a criminal defense lawyer in 2009 when he founded MyCase , one of the earliest cloud-based law practice management companies.

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

ECFX was founded in 2019 by Dan O’Day , a lawyer and veteran legal tech executive who previously worked for American LegalNet and Thomson Reuters, and Nelson Quintero , a longtime patent attorney. Read more about ECFX on the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.

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Above the Law - Technology

JULY 25, 2023

Nextpoint recently became the first e-discovery company to launch a law firm , launching Nextpoint Law Group in Arizona under that state’s liberalized practice rules that allow non-lawyers to own law practices. Learn more about Nextpoint at the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 21, 2024

Ai.law , a legal technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to generate litigation documents, has added a new module that will draft the complaint to initiate a lawsuit. It should be unnecessary to say, but no lawyer should ever accept this output and file it with a court without first carefully reviewing and revising it.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 13, 2023

Nexl , a no-data-entry CRM platform for lawyers, has raised $4 million in a financing round led by Australian-based B2B venture capital firm EVP with follow-on participation from The Legal Tech Fund , Vulpes and Saniel Ventures. Read more about Nexl in the LawNext Legal Technology directory.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 6, 2024

For solo and small law firms, the current state of legal technology offers both promises and pitfalls. Its sources include Thomson Reuters’ State of US Law Firms Report, Clio’s Legal Trends Report, Wolters Kluwers’ Future Ready Lawyer report, and the American Bar Association’s annual tech report.

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Law Technology Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The Legal Technology Resource Center ’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. Danielle Hall has served as the Executive Director for the Kansas Lawyers Assistance Program since December 2019.

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Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 24, 2024

Going forward, it will expand its use of generative AI within MyCase and also to its other legal technology products, CASEpeer , the case management platform for personal injury practices, LawPay, the online payments platform, and Docketwise , the practice management platform for immigration lawyers. Docketwise.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 30, 2023

In a first for an e-discovery technology company, Chicago-based Nextpoint is launching an Arizona law firm June 1 under that state’s liberalized law practice rules that allow non-lawyers to own law practices. Its lawyers will not appear in court. The firm will officially open its doors on June 1.

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Above the Law - Technology

AUGUST 3, 2023

” Learn more about Alt Legal on the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. This is Alt Legal’s fourth acquisition. Related: On LawNext Podcast, The Unlikely Story of How An Insolvency Lawyer Built A Global Trademarks Company.

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The substantial amount of time lawyers spend drafting documents during litigation. It also improves access to justice for society as lawyers can handle more cases, as well as remove some bias from the legal system through fact-first drafting. What problem do you solve? Anything else? Price: Individuals: $39/month or $399/year.

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 15, 2023

The legal technology company Casetext celebrates its 10th anniversary today. 2013 New Legal Research Site Combines Case Law with Crowdsourcing. Casetext Launches LegalPad, A Writing and Publishing Tool for Lawyers. The Failure of Crowdsourcing in Law (So Far, At Least). 2017: The Year of Women in Legal Tech.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 29, 2024

So many people would come seeking general legal information that the lawyers would not be able to get to all the people who had come specifically for conservatorship help. But the effectiveness of these clinics was sometimes hampered by their congestion.

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Above the Law - Technology

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Both Watson and Kashyapp also share their thoughts on generative AI and its potential impact on legal technology and legal practice. In both of today’s interviews, we talk about those new products and others, as well as the company’s longer-term product roadmap. We appreciate their support and hope you will check them out.

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Trial Technology

JANUARY 1, 2018

Y2K with Brobeck (scary times) Beginning with my time in-house at Brobeck (1998-2002), I have enjoyed writing about Legal Technology for many publications. Courtroom Presentations On The Record Articles Archive 4 - 975 Million Reasons to Stay Tuned to Courtroom Technology, By Daniel R.

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Dennis Kennedy

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Ethical Implications of Generative AI for the Michigan Lawyer: Navigating the Digital Landscape Frequently Asked Questions (December 2023 Version) Dennis Kennedy* Executive Summary How might the evolution of generative AI impact the legal profession in the next 5-10 years? Are there ethical concerns about using AI in legal practice?

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Above the Law - Technology

JULY 10, 2023

Read more about Milestones/Hona in the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. By the way, the original idea for the company came out of Griffiths’ personal experience, after his wife was in a car accident in 2018 and hired a lawyer to seek compensation.

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Above the Law - Technology

JULY 19, 2023

I say “fortunately” because, as I wrote when last year’s list was announced, the Fastcase 50 is probably the best-available roster of those who are leading the charge on innovation in law. Gordan Glover , Founder, Glover Law Firm. Laurent Wiesel , Litigation Knowledge Lawyer, Simpson Thatcher.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 23, 2023

As other legal technology companies have rushed to release products using generative AI, one of the largest, Thomson Reuters, has been unusually silent. A lawyer or legal professional working in Word will be able to draw on TR resources such as Practical Law and Westlaw as they draft.

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Above the Law - Technology

AUGUST 29, 2023

It was one of the first cloud-based e-discovery platforms and, while its customers span law firms of all sizes, government agencies, and corporate legal departments, its automation features have made it popular among lawyers in smaller firms. ” Democratizing e-discovery. ” Global expansion and access.

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Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 25, 2024

Lawyers’ reluctance to embrace AI, coupled with its ever-evolving and unpredictable nature, can leave many vulnerable to a fear-based, reactionary mindset that is untenable in the long term. The post Avoid A Reactionary, Band-Aid Approach To AI In Law appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Although Clio started in 2008 with a “laser focus” on solos, Newton said, it quickly started seeing demand from two-person firms, then multiple-lawyer firms, then 20-30 person firms, and ultimately into midsized firms, which Newton defines as firms of 20-200 people.

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Law Technology Today

APRIL 13, 2023

This article will discuss the impact of the court’s ruling against the broader backdrop of the push to improve online access to court data, as well as the implications it has for the future of the legal profession and lawyers’ ability to better manage their practices and further improve access to justice.

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Law Technology Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As you head into conference-mode to dig into the latest in legal technology at TECHSHOW, our team thought this is the perfect time to share trends and industry insights to give you some food for thought and areas to investigate at the show. Last year, we shared 10 legal tech trends driving success in the legal industry.

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Law Technology Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The Legal Technology Resource Center ’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. In 2013, The National Law Journal named Ms. ” Please give us three points to summarize you and your work in legal technology.

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Law Technology Today

JUNE 13, 2023

In this short video summary of the 2022 TechReport on cloud computing, Dennis Kennedy shares the highlights of the results from the 2022 results from the ABA’s annual technology survey. Cloud usage increased significantly from 60% to 70% and lawyers show an increasing awareness and comfort with cloud services. Watch below!

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Above the Law - Technology

AUGUST 15, 2023

A litigator before founding Clearbrief, Schafer said that assembling a timeline is one of the first things a lawyer has to do when starting a new case. “My philosophy is it is not realistic at this point in time to train lawyers to become prompt engineers and expect them to set up their own ecosystems,” Schafer said.

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 28, 2023

We have just done a really good job of building out capabilities – reliable, professional grade AI in use today by thousands of lawyers to transform their practices. But I’ll say, from my perspective, we are doing this better, we’re doing this best. You’re seeing the exact opposite.

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