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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

Above the Law - Technology

ROSS was ahead of its time in striving to use artificial intelligence to empower legal research. But the outlook for ROSS changed almost overnight when it was sued by Thomson Reuters in 2020 on allegations that it surreptitiously stole content from Westlaw to build its own competing legal research product.

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2021 Update to Choosing Law Librarianship: Thoughts for People Contemplating a Career Move

LLRX

AALL Gallagher Award recipient Mary Whisner , Public Services Librarian, University of Washington, Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library, has updated her 2008 guide about choosing a career in law librarianship.

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LexisNexis Bets Big on AI Transforming the Legal Industry: Jeff Pfeifer on the Launch of Lexis+ AI (TGIR Ep. 203)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

And so it’s I think it’s just a matter of, you know, we started seriously talking about killing the billable hour in 2008. I would be surprised if this doesn’t, you know, if this isn’t the big change factor that law firms need and the buyers of legal services need to look at how, how they’re paying in selling legal services.

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Josh Blandi

Colin S. Levy

My background as an entrepreneur and in the finance and legal spaces have propelled me to what I’m doing now in legal tech. In 2008, I started my first company, CountryWide Debt Relief. What are some things you think that people get right and get wrong when it comes to understanding technology and the legal world?

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LexisNexis Bets Big on AI Transforming the Legal Industry: Jeff Pfeifer on the Launch of Lexis+ AI (TGIR Ep. 203)

Legal Tech Monitor

And so it’s I think it’s just a matter of, you know, we started seriously talking about killing the billable hour in 2008. I would be surprised if this doesn’t, you know, if this isn’t the big change factor that law firms need and the buyers of legal services need to look at how, how they’re paying in selling legal services.

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Boat Rental Marketplace Defeats Lawsuit Over Offline Boating Accident–In re Chaves

Eric Goldman

MySpace case from 2008 and its progeny (assuming the Doe case is still good law in the Fifth Circuit, which isn’t guaranteed ). .” Nevertheless, the court correctly recognizes that GMB’s involvement in the offline boating accident was limited to enabling the online interactions between the boat owner and renter.

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Physician-Assisted Suicide: Exploring the Legal Landscape

The Barrister

Washington legalized physician-assisted suicide through a voter-approved initiative in 2008. Vermont became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide through legislation rather than a voter initiative.

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