Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 15, 2023

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 Failure of Crowdsourcing in Law (So Far, At Least).

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Ron Friedmann

AUGUST 4, 2020

I remember seeing their platform with a consulting colleague the first time in 2016. I say shocked because between my blogging and Tweeting and my colleague’s connections to law firms, we could not understand how we were seeing enterprise grade software for the first time — that we had not heard of it previously.

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Global LegalTech Hub

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Startups came later, with the definitive step being a cashback application that handled both fiat and cryptocurrencies, which introduced him to the world of crypto regulation; a field that, in 2016, was still largely uncharted in terms of regulatory frameworks. Cai, as an Advisor, encourages you to break the rules and fight the law.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 7, 2025

Robinson alleges that from 2016 to 2022, Robinson’s recording of the song Maple Leaf Rag played on a two-minute loop every time a user sat down at the piano. Roblox invoked the statute of limitations, because the upload occurred in 2016 and Robinson sued in 2024. Binello appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 12, 2023

A batshit crazy concurrence questions “section 230(c)(1)’s constitutionality as applied to state defamation law” because the Constitution’s Commerce Clause power may not convey “the power to nationalize state common law defamation actions… The internet, and related e-commerce, can certainly be interstate in nature.

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Legal Talk Network

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Click here to listen to Law Student Podcast Legal Talk Network, the leading legal podcast network, announces the launch of a new format on the long-running “ ABA Law Student Podcast , ” produced in partnership with the American Bar Association’s Law Student Division since 2016.

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Trial Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Coincidentally, we recently won awards in New York Law Journal for Best Trial Consultant, and Best "Hot Seat" Trial Technicians! We work on both sides of the table, and although our primary market is the California courts, we do cover other areas now and then, including a recent $200M arbitration in New York City.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 1, 2025

” See my deeper dive on this issue from 2016. For example, Florida argued that it didn’t intend to imminently enforce all of the law. I’m not sure that’s a correct characterization of the law, but the court is working without a net here and it shows. Offline data is the opposite of “social.”

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Legal Talk Network

JUNE 4, 2024

“Since then, one of my soap boxes that I try to advocate on all the time is that we need to see more lawyers in senior positions in leadership positions, in these amazing roles like partners and law school deans and professors and judges talking about the struggles they’ve faced and how they’ve gotten through it.”

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Seven times since 2016, Thomson Reuters has conducted a survey on the state of small law firms in the U.S., and every time, it found that small firms had made virtually no progress on one of their greatest challenges, which is that they spend too much time on administrative tasks to the exclusion of practicing law.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 4, 2023

” The court summarizes: “Google has immunity from her state law claims, as it cannot be held liable for search engine results showing a third party’s statement.” 2016); Fakhrian v. 2016 WL 1650705 (Cal. 2016); Despot v. 2016 WL 4148085 (W.D. 2016); Manchanda v. 2016); Mosha v.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In its second acquisition in six weeks, law practice management company Clio has acquired Lawyaw , a document automation and assembly platform designed for solo, small and mid-sized law firms. This news follows Clio’s July 28 announcement that it acquired CalendarRules, an automated court calendaring product.

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Brett Trout

MARCH 11, 2025

Skechers (2016) Nike took Skechers to court for allegedly infringing eight Nike patents, including patents covering the Flyknit technology. The sportswear giant has sued multiple competitors over its Flyknit technology, including: Adidas (2021) Nike accused AdidasPrimeknitshoes of infringing on Flyknit patents. The case was settled in 2022.

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Clio

MARCH 28, 2025

Since 2016, legal experts have turned to Clios annual Legal Trends Report for a thorough examination of trends in the legal field. For lawyers in mid-sized firms, we provide unique insights with our annual Legal Trends for Mid-Sized Law Firms report. Where does the data come from?

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LawSites

OCTOBER 31, 2023

9, during the Clio Cloud Conference in Nashville, the law practice management company Clio released the 2023 edition of its annual Legal Trends Report. Since it was first published in 2016, the report has established itself as a benchmark of the state of law practice and technology adoption among smaller law firms.

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Does your law firm work allocation model leave too many associates behind? Historically, work allocation in law firms has primarily been driven by partner s. In a National Association of Law Placement (NALP) Foundation survey, law firms cited dissatisfaction with work quality as the top reason for associate departures.

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LawSites

MAY 16, 2022

The law practice management company MyCase said today that it has acquired Docketwise , a software platform for immigration attorneys that provides case management, immigration forms, and client-relationship management. another all-in-one practice management platform for immigration law firms.

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Colin S. Levy

APRIL 30, 2024

On a Saturday morning in 2016, I found myself sitting in a brightly lit auditorium in my role as an advisor for the Campbell Law School Law Review unaware that my life would take an unexpected turn. Now, it seemed, I was making progress.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 27, 2022

When discussing legal tech as an industry, we often focus on horizontal solutions — research, document management, case management, practice management — that apply to law firms regardless of practice area. I specialize in Intellectual property law, not employment or personal injury. Field of law: Personal injury. and Canada.

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LawSites

JUNE 3, 2021

A feature launched this week in Westlaw Edge is designed to help legal professionals more easily identify law that is contrary o their opponents’ arguments. The new feature flags cases that may run counter to an opponent’s arguments.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 26, 2023

At issue are two versions of the TOS from 2016 and 2019. The named plaintiff, Jackson, agreed to the 2016 TOS. The 2016 TOS provided an opt-out for the arbitration provision, but Jackson didn’t exercise it. The court shreds this argument: That assertion stands the law’s notice requirement on its head. .'”

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Above the Law - Technology

AUGUST 15, 2023

If you are not familiar with Clearbrief, it is an innovative product designed to strengthen brief writing or other legal writing in Microsoft Word by instantly finding the best evidence or law to support your argument. The first controlled buy took place at that stash house.” million seed round.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 18, 2024

My roundup of the top Internet Law developments of 2023: 10) California court bans targeted advertising (?). Facebook , a California appeals court shocked the advertising community by suggesting that using common demographic criteria for ad targeting, such as age or gender, may violate California’s anti-discrimination law.

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LawSites

MARCH 19, 2024

Already, its products are used every day by lawyers throughout the United States to file court cases, track court dockets, search court records, and arrange service of process, and it integrates with most major law practice management platforms. and then in 2016 to the U.S. InfoTrack in the U.S. InfoTrack expanded first to the U.K.

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Legal Talk Network

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Their backstay of tuned-up educational programming was designed to help practitioners run leaner more profitable law firms. This year’s conference featured five tracks to choose from (Legal Technology, Business of Law, Industry Workshops, Clio University, and Clio University Workshops). Clio Cloud 2019: Legal Trends Retort Game Show!

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LawSites

JUNE 26, 2023

The acquisition of Casetext is another step in our ‘build, partner and buy’ strategy to bring generative AI solutions to our customers,” said Steve Hasker, president and CEO of Thomson Reuters. “We

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The Smokeball-LEAP-InfoTrack Group, which owns a number of legal practice management and legal search technology products, said today that it has acquired Phoenix-based LawLytics , a company that provides website management software for small law firms and solo practitioners. . market and is the future of legal marketing. .

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LawNext podcast

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In this episode of LawNext, host Bob Ambrogi is joined by Petts, now Upsolves CEO, and Ben Jackson , an ex-Uber driver who joined Upsolves founding team after his first year of law school and who is now chief product officer. Thank You To Our Sponsors This episode of LawNext is generously made possible by our sponsors.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Service of process and other documents is an essential function of law practice – one most lawyers deal with on a regular basis. In 2016, he founded Proof , an on-demand process serving platform that provides legal professionals with instant access to experienced process servers and real-time tracking from a phone or laptop.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 2, 2023

In 2016, Congress enacted the Consumer Review Fairness Act (CRFA), which bans businesses from trying to contractually restrict their customers’ reviews. The law reversed that trend and largely (but not completely) wiped away the business practice. Ideal Horizon Benefits appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The company was founded in 2016 with a vision of using AI to help companies mine their contracts for insights and key information by turning those contracts’ unstructured text into structured data. And now Ting is returning to his law school roots. That is exactly the sweet spot into which Evisort falls.

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Clio

JUNE 18, 2024

Since 2016, legal professionals have relied on Clio’s annual Legal Trends Report for an impartial and comprehensive analysis of trends within the legal field. For lawyers in solo and small firms, we offer specialized insights through our annual Legal Trends for Solo and Small Law Firms report.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 11, 2023

Another 3k+ word post about the jurisprudential chaos in online contract formation law. Bleacher Report also argued that it provided users with notice of amendments in 2016, 2020, 2022, and 2023 via interstitial popups onsite. What blows my mind is that the court treats this as a first-principles question of common law.

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LawSites

JUNE 6, 2023

Noella Sudbury became interested in the issue of criminal records expungement soon after law school, while working as a criminal defense lawyer. In 2016, after practicing criminal law in private practice and as a public defender, Sudbury was appointed director of the Salt Lake County, Utah, Criminal Justice Advisory Council.

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LawSites

JANUARY 2, 2023

Kicking off the new year with a bang, two of the best-known companies in the United States providing business coaching and technology consulting to law firms have merged, creating a combined entity of nearly 100 people with expertise across virtually all sectors of law, particularly small- and mid-sized law firms.

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LawNext podcast

JUNE 4, 2025

What happens when a CEO steps away from a legal tech company just before the generative AI revolution explodes, then returns two years later amid a landscape that is being dramatically transformed? For Literas Avaneesh Marwaha , that is exactly what happened.

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

AltFee Elevator Pitch: AltFee revolutionizes law firm pricing by offering a foundation for alternative fee structures. At the heart of AltFee lies a relentless pursuit of innovation – our platform is built to empower law firms to achieve unprecedented success through non-hourly pricing. What makes you unique or innovative?

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