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JUNE 26, 2023

Joining Thomson Reuters is an incredible opportunity to advance our mission and the field of generative AI solutions exponentially, not only for lawyers but across professions, ensuring this revolutionary technology can benefit as many people as possible.”

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The flagship law in this area is the Consumer Review Fairness Act, enacted by Congress in 2016. is a good law, but a group of plaintiff lawyers are weaponizing it through overly tendentious readings of the law and various TOSes. That’s a litigation strategy, I guess. My primer on that law.

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LawSites

MAY 23, 2023

Steno , a tech-enabled provider of litigation support services, whose flagship product, DelayPay , enables law firms to defer service costs until their case resolves, has closed a Series B funding round of $15 million, bringing its total raise to $38.5 This latest round was led by Left Lane Capital. ” . ” . ”

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LawSites

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In the early days of the pandemic when the company developed Steno Connect, it did so to provide lawyers with an alternative to Zoom for depositions. Within it, the lawyer can upload exhibits to be marked, either by dragging them to the app or by selecting specific files. The app appears as a panel to the right of the Zoom screen.

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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. She agrees the 2016 TOS applies. see, e.g., its problems in the long-running Nicosia litigation).

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Trial Technology

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The Vanishing Civil Jury Trial - In case you’re the only one who hasn’t noticed, there seems to be a trend toward keeping litigation matters away from the eyes of a jury. If it were, there would be no need to litigate. This means fewer trials in the courts, followed by fewer attorneys with trial experience. In the ongoing Oracle v.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

First, the capital will help Casetext continue to create and improve products that help lawyers search the law and their own documents as well as to efficiently draft legal documents like briefs. In 2020, the company introduced a first-of-its-kind product, Compose , that automates the drafting of litigation briefs.

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LawSites

MARCH 1, 2023

After all, this is the company that had already launched the powerful neural net search technology AllSearch and that 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.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MAY 23, 2023

Steno , a tech-enabled provider of litigation support services, whose flagship product, DelayPay , enables law firms to defer service costs until their case resolves, has closed a Series B funding round of $15 million, bringing its total raise to $38.5 This latest round was led by Left Lane Capital.

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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.

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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? The Autonomy acquisition turned into a fiasco for HP due to alleged accounting improprieties by Autonomy, resulting in both litigation and a write-down of nearly $8.8

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Elevator pitch: Judges are like the umpires of the courtroom, but litigators lack the information they need to understand the parameters of each umpire’s strike zone. We can help lawyers make evidence-based decisions by providing custom-tailored recommendations and analytics, all focused on judges and their philosophies of the law.

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LawSites

JANUARY 26, 2024

Proof provides a litigation services marketplace where law firms and government agencies can access a nationwide network of process servers, electronic court filing services, and remote notarization. He founded the company in 2016, and when we spoke in 2022, he had just raised a $7 million Series A round. CEO Chris Ford.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 28, 2023

After two trips to the 9th Circuit, a remand from the Supreme Court, and nearly six years of motions and posturing, the outcome of the litigation was a permanent injunction against hiQ, a win for LinkedIn, and insolvency for scraper hiQ Labs. That said, few scraping-related cases pursue these issues past the first few stages of litigation.

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LawNext podcast

MARCH 18, 2024

says the company is on a mission to innovate and even revolutionize litigation services and the litigation workflow. and then in 2016 to the U.S. Our guest today, Ed Watts , CEO of InfoTrack in the U.S., InfoTrack expanded first to the U.K.

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LawNext podcast

AUGUST 23, 2018

Pfeifer oversaw the company’s 2016 acquisitions of legal analytics companies Lex Machina and Intelligize and the 2017 acquisition of Ravel Law. Bob talks with Jeff about these acquisitions, the launch of Lexis Analytics, and his vision of the data-driven lawyer. Pfeifer is a 29-year veteran of LexisNexis.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Episodes will be hosted by well-known legal journalists, consultants and lawyers. In addition to me, others who will host episodes are: Joe Borstein , cofounder and CEO of LexFusion. Caroline Hill , editor in chief, Legal IT Insider. Ari Kaplan , principal of Ari Kaplan Advisors. Adriana Linares , founder of Law Tech Partners.

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Ron Friedmann

JULY 15, 2020

At its core, knowledge management is about finding lawyers who or documents or matters that can answer another lawyer’s questions about law, transactions, regulatory matters, judges, investors, clients, or industries. When search works well, it helps lawyers save time and improve outcomes and it helps firms improve business operations.

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Legal Tech Monitor

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.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MARCH 7, 2023

Thinking Like a Client In the past, lawyers could hang their shingles and expect clients to come to them. So how does a lawyer stand out in today’s crowded legal market? “By Design thinking is a tool that helps lawyers do just that. That’s not the case anymore.

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Legal Tech Monitor

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A boom in lawyer productivity While inflation and lending rates have risen over the past few years, so too have lawyer caseloads and the cost of legal services. Hourly rates for lawyers have increased 28% since 2016 (from $256 to $327), according to the Legal Trends Report. The reason?

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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2024

She was named on the second annual list of LTRC’s “Women of Legal Tech” in 2016, and she was an early member of the Fastcase 50, “the smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law.” ” Alma began her career as a successful attorney at an Am Law 10 firm. .”

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Legal Tech Monitor

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In the early days of the pandemic when the company developed Steno Connect, it did so to provide lawyers with an alternative to Zoom for depositions. Within it, the lawyer can upload exhibits to be marked, either by dragging them to the app or by selecting specific files. The app appears as a panel to the right of the Zoom screen.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JANUARY 26, 2024

Proof provides a litigation services marketplace where law firms and government agencies can access a nationwide network of process servers, electronic court filing services, and remote notarization. He founded the company in 2016, and when we spoke in 2022, he had just raised a $7 million Series A round. CEO Chris Ford.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JUNE 26, 2023

Joining Thomson Reuters is an incredible opportunity to advance our mission and the field of generative AI solutions exponentially, not only for lawyers but across professions, ensuring this revolutionary technology can benefit as many people as possible.”

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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2022

A commercial litigation attorney with the firm Meyer Capel P.C. legal system as part of the Lawyers in the Classroom program, coached students in city-wide mock trial competitions and served on the teaching faculty of Harvard Law School’s Trial Advocacy Workshop. Champaign, Ill., She was Miss Illinois 2002 and Miss America 2003.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Bessemer Venture Partners , a VC firm that has already made substantial investments in legal technology companies such as Clio, DISCO and Anaqua, has acquired a majority stake in Litify , a law practice management platform founded in 2016 by a team of people who came out of Morgan & Morgan, the largest plaintiffs’ law firm in the United States.

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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. Lawyers were using tech to tackle legal complexity. MIT Press, 2016. Shambhala, 2016. Information and Computation: 3.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

First, the capital will help Casetext continue to create and improve products that help lawyers search the law and their own documents as well as to efficiently draft legal documents like briefs. In 2020, the company introduced a first-of-its-kind product, Compose , that automates the drafting of litigation briefs.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JULY 31, 2023

Last month, the Colorado Supreme Court issued official guidelines for virtual participation in trial court proceedings , allowing litigants, victims, witnesses, and attorneys to attend virtually. Key to this access was a call to judges to “promote the use of remote audio and video services for case hearings and case management meetings.”

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 18, 2024

Instead, plaintiffs’ lawyers are marshaling legal theories built for an industrial era to cut short those nuanced deliberations. Previous year-in-review lists from 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2008 , 2007 , and 2006. Following the Lemmon v.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JULY 13, 2023

And, while the ruling is specific to college admissions, there is good reason to believe that employers will begin to shift toward less aggressive DEI-related hiring policies to preempt potential litigation. In fact, data from the ABA shows that, among lawyers in the U.S., The legal profession is woefully lacking in diversity.

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Legal Expert Connections

MARCH 20, 2024

Janet Wood Reno (1938-2016): As the first female Attorney General of the United States, Reno had a life filled with “firsts.” Arabella Mansfield : Considered the first female lawyer in the United States, Mansfield passed the Iowa state bar exam in 1869 without formal legal education. Click to read more.

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Joshua Gilliland

JANUARY 30, 2016

22, 2016, Civil Action No. 12-cv-03012-WJM-NYW) 2016 U.S. Judge Wang also made it a point to highlight the Chief Justice’s note that Rule 1 gives both lawyers and the Court an affirmative duty to work together to resolve disputes efficiently. Magistrate Judge Nina Y. Centura Health Corp. LEXIS 7668. Kissing Camels, at *3-4, 7-9.

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Legal Tech Monitor

AUGUST 15, 2023

A litigator before founding Clearbrief, Schafer said that assembling a timeline is one of the first things a lawyer has to do when starting a new case. My philosophy is it is not realistic at this point in time to train lawyers to become prompt engineers and expect them to set up their own ecosystems,” Schafer said. “To

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Clio

OCTOBER 10, 2023

While continuing to support North American lawyers Today, Clio is used in over 100 countries around the world, but we haven’t forgotten our roots in North America. Notably, we’re able to look at the tremendous gains lawyers have made in the past 10 years. Since 2016, Clio users have logged 35% more hours.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Elevator pitch: Judges are like the umpires of the courtroom, but litigators lack the information they need to understand the parameters of each umpire’s strike zone. We can help lawyers make evidence-based decisions by providing custom-tailored recommendations and analytics, all focused on judges and their philosophies of the law.

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