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CLE: Ethics, Law & Technology

Trial Technology

He founded his trial tech company in 2002, and since, Ted and his firm have won many awards over the years, including The Recorder's Best Trial Presentation Provider 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016; and Most Innovative Use of Technology in Trial (2003). All materials Copyright Ted Brooks.

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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

Above the Law - Technology

In 2016, legal tech entrepreneur Derek Bluford was riding high. But that all came crashing down after I reported in 2016 of Bluford’s settlement of a lawsuit charging him with impersonating a lawyer, forging legal documents and fraudulently swindling two clients. QuickLegal. Following my report, QuickLegal quickly shut down.

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eDiscovery Assistant, Legal Research Platform for E-Discovery, Adds AI-Generated Case Law Summaries

Above the Law - Technology

” Founded in 2016, eDiscovery Assistant is a research database of e-discovery case law and resources such as rules, checklists and forms, as well as a learning center to provide practical knowledge about the field.

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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

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.

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With Goal of Promoting Open Access to Legal Scholarship, Yale Law School Launches Law Archive

Above the Law - Technology

That initiative was developed by the Cornell Law Library in collaboration with three law library organizations, at least partly in response to the 2016 acquisition of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) by publisher Elsevier, and concerns among scholars that SSRN’s free access would get locked behind a paywall.

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Exclusive: New AI Features In Clearbrief Create Hyperlinked Timelines And Allow Users To Query Their Documents

Above the Law - Technology

That linked to a document that said: “You heard testimony about the controlled buys involving this methamphetamine from that East Selah Road stash house in December 2015 and in January 2016. The first controlled buy took place at that stash house.”

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The Law Library of Babel: Exploring the Infinite Dimensions of Law and Technology

Colin S. Levy

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. MIT Press, 2016. Shambhala, 2016. Now, it seemed, I was making progress. Information and Computation: 3.

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