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How A Startup Evolves: As Casetext Marks 10th Year Anniversary, Here’s Its History Through 50 Blog Posts

Above the Law - Technology

In fact, as I described in my very first post about Casetext , its original vision was a crowdsourced case law library that its users would edit and annotate and then have other users upvote or downvote the annotations. Think a marriage of Wikipedia and Digg, but for law. The crowdsourcing concept did not work out.

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Thoughts on Availability Retainers and Subscription Legal Services After ABA Formal Opinion 505

Legal Tech Monitor

Yesterday I did a blog post about that and noted it tracked the opinion of the Oklahoma Supreme Court released in Oklahoma Bar Association v Weigel , 2014 OK 4 (2014). Prepaid legal fees and refundability of those fees was the subject of American Bar Association Formal Opinion 505.

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Why the Avianca ‘Bogus Cases’ News Is Not About Either Generative AI or Lawyers’ Tech Competence

LawSites

In the cases since that have interpreted and applied the duty, lawyers’ claims of ignorance of technology have never helped them avoid sanctions. My poster child for this proposition has long been the 2014 Delaware case of James v. I mean, it’s not like the Internet lacks for free sources of case law.

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How A Startup Evolves: As Casetext Marks 10th Year Anniversary, Here’s Its History Through 50 Blog Posts

Legal Tech Monitor

In fact, as I described in my very first post about Casetext , its original vision was a crowdsourced case law library that its users would edit and annotate and then have other users upvote or downvote the annotations. Think a marriage of Wikipedia and Digg, but for law. The crowdsourcing concept did not work out.

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Launching Today, Tangibly is First Platform to Systematically Manage A Company’s Trade Secrets

LawSites

gross domestic product, according to a 2014 report by the Center for Responsible Enterprise and Trade and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Yet a 2017 study by law firm Baker McKenzie found that less than a third of companies maintain inventories of trade secrets and have action plans for responding to theft.

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Why the Avianca ‘Bogus Cases’ News Is Not About Either Generative AI or Lawyers’ Tech Competence

Legal Tech Monitor

In the cases since that have interpreted and applied the duty, lawyers’ claims of ignorance of technology have never helped them avoid sanctions. My poster child for this proposition has long been the 2014 Delaware case of James v. I mean, it’s not like the Internet lacks for free sources of case law.

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Launching Today, Tangibly is First Platform to Systematically Manage A Company’s Trade Secrets

LawSites

gross domestic product, according to a 2014 report by the Center for Responsible Enterprise and Trade and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Yet a 2017 study by law firm Baker McKenzie found that less than a third of companies maintain inventories of trade secrets and have action plans for responding to theft.