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With $5M Investment, PacerPro Expands Into State Courts, Hires Silicon Valley Veteran As CTO

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Multiple pieces of news today from PacerPro , a company that enables law firms to automate the workflow around distributing and capturing federal court filings. As she steps into this new job, an immediate priority will be directing PacerPro’s expansion into state courts. I first wrote about PacerPro in 2014 for the ABA Journal.

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Illinois Supreme Court Appoints New Chair, Vice-Chair, and Commissioners to Commission on Professionalism

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The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism is pleased to announce that the Illinois Supreme Court has appointed John K. In addition, the Court has reappointed Justice Mary Ellen Coghlan as a Commissioner and appointed two new Commissioners: Amanda J. Johnson serves on the Illinois Appellate Court First District.

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ROSS Cofounder Returns To Legal Tech with Startup Using AI To Surface Judges’ Decision-Making Patterns

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“So often when attorneys are writing court documents or preparing for oral arguments and they want to know what their judge thinks about different issues in their case, they have very little information to go off of. . federal courts. The company’s roadmap calls for it to eventually expand into state courts as well.

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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

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It started in 2014 at the University of Toronto as a student-built entrant in a cognitive-computing competition staged by IBM to develop applications for its Watson computer. (You can find my full series of posts about Bluford here.) ROSS Intelligence. There is, however, a somewhat happy ending to the story of Gavelytics.

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Arizona Licenses First Three Alternative Business Structures for Delivering Legal Services

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The Arizona Supreme Court has approved the first three entities to be licensed as alternative business structures, enabling businesses owned by non-lawyers to deliver legal services under the liberalized licensing rules the court approved last August. Court order approving application.). Court order approving application.).

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Retainers, Advances or Deposits? ABA Ethics Panel Says the Label Doesn’t Matter Because All Must be Held in Trust

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This opinion should not surprise Oklahoma lawyers as it tracks the opinion of the Oklahoma Supreme Court released in Oklahoma Bar Association v Weigel , 2014 OK 4 (2014) which provided clear guidance to Oklahoma lawyers. This includes flat and fixed fees.

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Jane Roberts, who is married to Chief Justice John Roberts, made $10.3 million in commissions from elite law firms, whistleblower documents show–Business Insider

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Mattathias Schwartz Two years after John Roberts’ confirmation as the Supreme Court’s chief justice in 2005, his wife, Jane Sullivan Roberts, made a pivot. ” And life was indeed good for the Robertses, at least for the years 2007 to 2014. . “There are many paths to the good life,” she said.