Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

” Lawyers tend to use traditional legal analytics products at the front end of a litigation, to help their clients determine whether it is worth investing in going forward with the case, he said. Bench IQ allows lawyers to understand their judge in a way no other resource can. They’re descriptive rather than explanatory.

Judge

LawSites

MAY 30, 2023

It was bound to happen sooner or later: Two lawyers face sanctions for filing a brief laden with bogus cases hallucinated by ChatGPT. But is this a story about the failings of AI or is it about the failings of the lawyers? But, to me, the cautionary tale here is not about technology, but about lawyer competence.

Lawyer

Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 15, 2023

Well before launching CoCounsel this year, it had already launched the powerful neural net search technology AllSearch and had pioneered products such as Compose , to help lawyers draft litigation briefs, and, in 2016 , CARA, the first product to use AI to analyze briefs, which spawned a generation of copycat products.

Legal research

Clio

JANUARY 1, 2025

After a year of significant changes, preparing for success in 2025 can feel overwhelming for lawyers. Thankfully, key lawyer statistics can make gearing up for a new year a lot easier. For the most up-to-date lawyer statistics, dont forget to download the latest Legal Trends Report! Which states have the most lawyers?

Lawyer

Attorney at Work

MARCH 4, 2022

Reaction to the first “Get to the Point” National Grammar Day post in 2014 showed that lawyers could really get worked up about grammar. And the original “Get to The Point” grammar column from Grammar Day 2014: “Happy National Grammar Day! The “Get to the Point” Top 10.

Attorney

LawSites

MAY 7, 2021

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. The two principles are Kent Phelps, an Arizona lawyer since 1996, and Jeffery B.

Estate planning

LawSites

AUGUST 17, 2021

More strikingly, in the seven years since 2014, the percentage of minority attorneys in law firms rose just four points, from 14.1% Law360 first reported diversity data in 2015, based on data collected in 2014. The analysis found that 24% of Asian lawyers are partners, compared to 27% of Black attorneys and 30% of Hispanic attorneys.

Law firm

Eric Goldman

MAY 31, 2024

In 2014, Medina sued Microsoft. In 2020, Medina got the disclosures from the 2014 case sealed. The court says that the 2020 ruling didn’t require publishers to depublish the extant versions of the 2014 documents, so this argument had a faulty premise. This case brought to mind the Martin v. Hearst case.

Court

Attorney at Work

MAY 31, 2022

A Tennessee lawyer was suspended and put on probation after failing to file a personal injury case. The firm had filed a voluntary dismissal back in 2014. While the lawyer had every intention of refiling within one year, that date was stored only in his memory.

Court

Clio

MARCH 16, 2023

With this news, lawyers are looking at their own banks. Lawyers need to become familiar with how FDIC insurance works for trust accounts. Making a claim To obtain these amounts, a lawyer must file an insurance claim with the FDIC on behalf of their clients. This unlimited insurance coverage ended in 2014.

Lawyer

LawSites

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It aims to change the return on investment in legal education by providing law students with the essential legal, technology and business skills that will prepare them to hit the ground running as tech lawyers in Silicon Valley. . She was also the first vice president of legal affairs at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation.

e-records

Clio

MAY 22, 2024

As a lawyer, understanding the judicial codes of conduct is not just about ensuring fair trials, but also about safeguarding the profession’s standards and your practice. Lawyers should refer to their jurisdiction’s specific code of conduct to see what duties have been adopted.

Lawyer

lennyesq

APRIL 29, 2023

After a long and distinguished career as a lawyer, she refashioned herself as a legal recruiter, a matchmaker who pairs job-hunting lawyers up with corporations and firms. ” And life was indeed good for the Robertses, at least for the years 2007 to 2014. .”

Law firm

Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Good lawyer-client relations are less about you knowing the answers and much more about knowing the right questions to ask. Lawyer-Client Relations: Socrates Was On to Something. 1 priority to launch what you hope will be a long, productive relationship to achieve the best lawyer-client relations, by learning all you can upfront.

Attorney

Legal Tech Monitor

MARCH 14, 2024

designed to provide a comprehensive updated view of the skills and competencies new lawyers need to succeed and serve clients well in the rapidly evolving legal profession. project represents a major update of IAALS’ original Foundations for Practice project, which launched in 2014. The Foundations 2.0 The Foundations 2.0

Lawyer

Legal Tech Monitor

MAY 24, 2023

The recently released opinion states that under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, a fee paid to a lawyer in advance for services to be rendered in the future must be placed in a client trust account and may be withdrawn only as earned by the performance of the contemplated services. A lawyer may not charge an unreasonable fee.

Lawyer

Clio

MARCH 29, 2023

While commonly used with corporate business clients, it’s valuable for all lawyers to understand the basics of LEDES billing. 2014: Format documentation was revised involving timekeeper classifications in LEDES 98B1. Final thoughts on LEDES billing Every lawyer can benefit from learning about and, of course, adopting LEDES billing.

Lawyer

LawSites

AUGUST 10, 2021

Kira’s CEO, Noah Waisberg , a former corporate lawyer with Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York, and its CTO, Dr. Alexander Hudek , a computer scientist, founded the company in 2011, originally under the name DiligenceEngine (which I reviewed in 2014 ). Waisberg will serve as a strategic advisor to Litera.

Machine learning

LawSites

MAY 23, 2023

Clearview Social , an application for law firms to help their lawyers share content on social media, has launched a new feature, Social Shuffle, powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, that automatically generates variations of a firm’s social media posts to “shuffle” the content the lawyers are posting. ”

Law firm

LawSites

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For tax lawyers and accountants, a major pain point is the time they spend drawing complex entity and relationship diagrams — diagrams that map the major players involved in a client’s tax scenario and the relationships among them. market. .

Machine learning

TechLaw Crossroads

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Facts Malik is an immigration lawyer (surprise, surprise) who often travels outside the US. Not surprisingly, he refused, telling them he was a lawyer and that his phone had privileged and confidential information on it. Never mind that the Malik whose phone was seized was a lawyer who could represent people suspected of a crime.

Immigration lawyer

LawSites

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Noah Waisberg , CEO of Zuva and the original cofounder and CEO of Kira, told me that the development of this classification is the culmination of an effort that began at Kira in 2014. Some firms try to do it manually at the document-creation level, but find it difficult to get lawyers and others to do the tagging.

Document management

LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Here are my prior years’ lists of the most important developments: 2020 , 2018 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013. Do lawyers return to the office or not? Others were blocked out of courts by archaic rules that prevented individuals without lawyers from filing documents electronically. Do courts fully reopen or not?

Legal tech

Legal Tech Monitor

MAY 30, 2023

It was bound to happen sooner or later: Two lawyers face sanctions for filing a brief laden with bogus cases hallucinated by ChatGPT. But is this a story about the failings of AI or is it about the failings of the lawyers? But, to me, the cautionary tale here is not about technology, but about lawyer competence.

Lawyer

Attorney at Work

JUNE 2, 2022

They were merchants, soldiers, teachers — and lawyers. The stoic attitude toward problems is well-summarized by the title of Ryan Holiday’s 2014 bestseller “The Obstacle Is the Way.” But the practice of stoicism occurred in their actual life. Their school of thought was matter-of-fact, to the point and resolute.

Failure-to-appear

Legal Tech Monitor

MAY 23, 2023

Clearview Social , an application for law firms to help their lawyers share content on social media, has launched a new feature, Social Shuffle, powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, that automatically generates variations of a firm’s social media posts to “shuffle” the content the lawyers are posting.

Law firm

LawSites

MARCH 30, 2022

For two decades, Carolyn Elefant has helped solo and small firm lawyers start and build their law practices. She has been listed as an Energy and Environmental Super Lawyer for Washington, D.C. since 2012, and has been named an ABA Legal Rebel (2010), a Fastcase 50 Innovator (2011) and an ABA Woman of Legal Tech honoree (2014). .

Law firm

Legal Tech Monitor

MAY 25, 2023

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). The practice pre-dated many of the modern ethics rules and some aspects of lawyer regulation. I looked at one such service based in Colorado that charged $24.95

Time-tracking

Attorney at Work

MARCH 25, 2022

million lawyers in the United States. Nationwide, there are approximately four lawyers for every 1,000 residents, but the number doesn’t reflect the reality. Most lawyers work in urban areas, while many rural areas of the country have few or no lawyers. have less than one lawyer per 1,000 residents. .”

Legal marketplace

LawSites

MARCH 9, 2023

Passionate about scaling access to justice, Chase is dedicated to empowering lawyers and clients to work together through technology. In March 2013, I had just completed Dan Katz and Renee Knake Jefferson’s Entrepreneurial Lawyering course as a 2L at Michigan State University College of Law. Talking to people face to face?

Law

Lawmatics

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Founded in 2014, Tech Breakthrough creates market intelligence and industry recognition programs for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to early-stage startups in today’s most competitive technology sectors. “As LM[AI] is just one example of the way we’re innovating a new era of legal experience.

Legal CRM

LawSites

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It aims to change the return on investment in legal education by providing law students with the essential legal, technology and business skills that will prepare them to hit the ground running as tech lawyers in Silicon Valley. . She was also the first vice president of legal affairs at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation.

e-records

Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The rarity of … evidence [of actual confusion] makes even a few incidents highly probative of the likelihood of confusion.” * In 2014, Defendants’ executive assistant sent a LinkedIn message seeking to arrange an introduction call to KeyBank, a client of Plaintiffs. Initial interest confusion is actionable in the Third Circuit.

Defendant

Eric Goldman

MAY 21, 2023

These uploads have irritated Athos since 2014. Hollywood’s most expensive lawyers have tried such frontal assaults multiple times with no real successes. Athos owns the copyrights to many classic Mexican films. Users regularly upload its film clips to YouTube. I respect when people march to their own drummers.

Criminal Defense

LawSites

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

” Waisberg, a former corporate lawyer with Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York, and Hudek, a computer scientist, founded Kira in 2011, originally under the name DiligenceEngine (which I reviewed in 2014 ).

Machine learning

LawNext podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It was big news earlier this month when practice management company Clio announced that it had acquired Lexicata , the first cloud-based CRM and client-intake platform for lawyers. A 2013 graduate of Loyola Law School, Chasin also received a master’s degree in business administration from Loyola Marymount University.

Client Intake

LawNext podcast

MARCH 30, 2022

For two decades, Carolyn Elefant has helped solo and small firm lawyers start and build their law practices. She has been listed as an Energy and Environmental Super Lawyer for Washington, D.C.

Law firm