Above the Law - Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Legal technologists and industry observers agree that generative AI will significantly enhance legal research capabilities, provided that these breakthrough tools are developed and used responsibly. Why is legal research a primary use case for generative AI?

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Above the Law - Technology

AUGUST 26, 2024

The future of legal research is AI. Read on to get the definitive guide to choosing a Gen AI legal research solution The post How To Choose The Right Legal Research Platform For Your AI Journey appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 22, 2023

A federal district judge has imposed monetary and other sanctions on the two lawyers who filed a brief laden with bogus cases they found when they relied on ChatGPT for legal research. Schwartz, as well as the law firm of Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, to pay a penalty of $5,000.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 15, 2024

Optimal litigation research integrates all relevant sources for efficient results. The post 5 Things Litigators Should Look For In A Legal Research Tool appeared first on Above the Law. Finding all materials for similar cases spanning different systems is difficult, time-consuming, and frustrating.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 28, 2024

Stanford University will augment the study it released last week of generative AI legal research tools from LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters, in which it found that they deliver hallucinated results more often than the companies say, as others have raised questions about the study’s methodology and fairness.

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Above the Law - Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Custom generative AI tools can enhance your legal research capabilities. The post From Books To Bytes: A Legal Research Showdown In The Age Of AI appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above the Law - Technology

JULY 23, 2024

The future of legal research is AI. The post The Definitive Guide To Choosing A Gen AI Legal Research Solution appeared first on Above the Law. Choose a platform that supports you on this journey, with the experience to guide you every step of the way.

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Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 16, 2025

AI-Assisted Research serves as a force multiplier for legal professionals. The post Precision Meets AI: Thomson Reuters’ New Era Of Legal Research appeared first on Above the Law.

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LawSites

JANUARY 30, 2025

Bloomberg Law has launched two new generative AI-powered research tools Bloomberg Law Answers and Bloomberg Law AI Assistant marking the company’s most significant foray into providing its customers with AI-enhanced legal research capabilities.

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Artificial Lawyer

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Bloomberg Law is best known for its legal research and market information offerings, but it’s now embracing genAI to expand what its recently developed contract.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 1, 2024

The post Cheat Code: How Will AI Affect Legal Research & Writing? appeared first on Above the Law. We’ve got all the angles covered in this episode of the Non-Eventcast podcast.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 12, 2024

First up – a summary comparison of five gen AI platforms and their legal research… The post Some GenAI to Help Your New Law Firm appeared first on My Shingle. Here are two resources that won’t take more than ten minutes of your time.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Much of our legal system was developed in the pre-digital era, but in today’s digital society, more and more people are turning to online resources for legal research and information. The presentation will first explore the journey of the law from legislative approval to online accessibility. More Questions?

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It was a bathroom break that inspired Bradley Neal , a 3L at The George Washington University Law School , to develop a product that uses generative AI to help law students better understand and brief cases. Gunnerbot is essentially the fully developed version of the quick query Neal did back in that law school class.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

The National Society for Legal Technology (NSLT) is proud to announce the launch of its new Legal Research Technology Certificate program.

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 4, 2024

Last September, two litigation-focused Canadian legal technology companies, CiteRight and Jurisage, announced their merger, with the promise of combining CiteRight’s litigation drafting program with Jurisage’s AI technology to create an integrated legal research and drafting solution.

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LLRX

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Is better case law data fueling a legal research boom? Recently, Rebecca Fordon noticed a surge of new and innovative legal research tools. Fordon wondered what could be fueling this increase, and set off to find out more.

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Above the Law - Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A federal judge in Delaware has dismissed the claim by now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence that Thomson Reuters violated federal antitrust law by unlawfully tying its search tool to its public law database in order to maintain its dominance in the overall market for legal search platforms.

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Clio

AUGUST 7, 2024

Free legal research tools used to be a dream. High-quality legal research is a necessity for all law firms—after all, finding the right precedent or statute could give you the edge to win your case. In the past, paid research platforms were the only choice. What is a legal research tool?

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Trellis.Law Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

Our CEO Nicole Clark shares her background as a business litigator and labor & employment attorney, who after dealing with the challenging task of accessing state court data, created Trellis Law. Maximum Lawyer Podcast: Streamline Your Legal Research with Nicole Clark first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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LawSites

JULY 12, 2024

Citators — tools that validate whether a case or statute is still good law — have always been an essential component of a full-featured legal research platform. Just two products have long dominated the legal research market as the gold […]

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

In a world where most information is easy to come by, sometimes important and crucial information, such as laws and the legal resources surrounding them, are restricted from those who need it most. Keep watch as Tim guides you through the best sources for free legal research! ET/11:00 a.m. PT on Friday, January 26, 2024.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

SixFifty, a company that helps businesses automate employment law compliance and documentation, today released the first phase of its Employment Law Informatics Project (ELIP), an effort to catalog, summarize, and encode the logic of every employment law in the United States, to enhance both academic legal research and practical business use.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

When the legal research companies vLex and Fastcase announced their merger in April , they promised the deal would fuel new opportunities for the development of generative AI for legal research. “The combined library is the crown jewel of LLMs and the ultimate training data set for legal AI.”

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LLRX

MAY 29, 2024

Law Librarians and tech experts par excellence, Rebecca Fordon , Sean Harrington and Christine Park plan to propose a typology of legal research tasks based on existing computer and information science scholarship and draft corresponding questions using the typology, with rubrics others can use to score the tools they use.

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Kevin O'Keefe

OCTOBER 18, 2023

I had the good fortune to sit down with Ed Walters , Chief Strategy Officer of vLex , earlier in the week to hear about the launch of a generative AI legal research platform by vLex, following its merger with Fastcase. Build an Argument: Constructs memos supporting or refuting a particular legal argument.

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Above the Law - Technology

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It has been a while since I have written about the copyright lawsuit by legal research giant Thomson Reuters against the no-shuttered legal research startup Ross Intelligence, in which TR alleges that Ross stole copyright content from Westlaw to build its own completing legal research product.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It isn't meant for legal research. The post Lawyers Still Haven’t Learned ChatGPT Just Isn’t For Them appeared first on Above the Law.

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Clio

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Legal research is one of the most challenging aspects of the legal profession. In the digital era, it is also a task that cannot be adequately performed without a legal search engine of some kind. The key to effective use of Google Scholar for legal research is knowing its strengths and limitations.

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Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 9, 2024

Above the Law takes a look at the information service giant’s newest AI-powered addition to its suite of legal research tools. The post Inside Lexis+ AI: LexisNexis’ Latest Research Tool appeared first on Above the Law.

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Trellis.Law Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

As a law student, lawyer, or legal professional, legal research is a fundamental skill you need to master. Legal research is the process of finding relevant legal information to support legal arguments, advise clients, or make decisions.

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Above the Law - Technology

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This new tool will change how you conduct legal research, offering a faster, more adaptable approach. The post Lexis+ AI: Generative AI Research That Cites Its Sources appeared first on Above the Law.

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Brett Trout

MARCH 3, 2025

Brett Trout In a significant decision for copyright law and legal technology, Judge Stephanos Bibas granted partial summary judgment in favor of Thomson Reuters, rejecting ROSS Intelligences fair use defense in a closely watched lawsuit over the use of Westlaws legal content.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

JANUARY 24, 2025

Matt Wetherington , a nationally recognized trial attorney, brings a wealth of expertise in navigating complex legal landscapes and integrating cutting-edge technology into legal practice. Register today to learn from Matts expertise and prepare to navigate AIs growing impact on the legal profession! credit hours.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Legal research startup Midpage has reached a critical threshold in its commercialization, its founder believes, as it achieves full data coverage of key U.S. case law and prepares to launch its own citator in the coming weeks.

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LLRX

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

After that case, which resulted in a media frenzy and (somewhat mild) court sanctions, many attorneys are wary of using generative AI for legal research. And some legal tasks are less affected by hallucinations. But vendors are working to limit hallucinations and increase trust.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It started in June, when the company announced its $650 million acquisition of the legal research and AI company Casetext and the CoCounsel generative AI tool Casetext had developed in collaboration with OpenAI. Soon after that, it rolled out generative AI within Practical Law , its legal know-how product.

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