Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 11, 2024

Just 28 years old, he had won accolades as an entrepreneur, first starting California Legal Pros, a company that marketed various legal services to both consumers and lawyers, then QuickLegal, a service that provided on-demand legal advice to consumers, and then QuickLegal Practice Management, a cloud practice management platform for lawyers.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 4, 2023

In 2019, vLex acquired Justis Publishing Ltd. , of more than 1 million lawyers, or more than three-quarters of all lawyers in the United States. ” Fastcase founders Rosenthal and Walters in 2019. It works in both English and Spanish. After Fastcase acquired Casemaker in 2021 , vLex partnered with Fastcase for U.S.

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Brett Trout

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

But in 2019 and 2020, these critical reminders went unseen. Engage a patent lawyer to ensure that critical deadlines are managed properly. And make sure your patent lawyer has your most current email, physical address, and phone number. When Taillefer failed to pay the maintenance fees, the patent expired.

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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.

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Ron Friedmann

JULY 27, 2020

I recently spoke to two lawyers turned legal tech entrepreneurs about their early stage software companies. Solving a Broad Problem: Allocating Lawyers to Matters and Managing Capacity At most large law firms, partners can choose associates to staff their matters. Some lawyers get good work and others do not.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Many lawyers dream of pursuing writing as a side hustle. As these three lawyers show, there’s more than one way to make it work. . Now, law firms and lawyers are moonlighting as business development consultants, app developers, coaches of all kinds, continuing education providers, and fiction and nonfiction authors.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 27, 2022

What does it take to become a successful lawyer in your particular niche? In a series of in-depth interviews for the Estrin Report , Chere Estrin profiles top lawyers from all types of practices. This week, we feature criminal defense lawyer John Tolley , who has tried more than 45 jury trials and handled thousands of cases. .

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 7, 2022

For many lawyers, you may already have technology solutions you need within your existing suite of services, or that are relatively easy and low-cost add-ons. Juda Strawczynski (@JStrawczynski) is Director of practicePRO , Lawyers’ Professional Indemnity Co.’s Existing features. s innovative claims and risk management initiative.

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Legal Expert Connections

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Advertisements have become a powerful tool for plaintiff lawyers specializing in mass litigation, according to a Wall Street Journal article titled “The Latest Ad Boom: Lawyers Seeking Plaintiffs for Mass Litigation” published in January 2024. Notably, spending peaks coincide with specific cases gaining momentum.

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 15, 2022

Catherine Tang (@attorneycat) is a business and trademark lawyer licensed in California and Wisconsin. He is also a sought-after trainer and presenter for lawyers who seek to integrate Macs and iPads into their practice. Related reading: “ Lawyer Tech Tips: Collaboration Tools.”). Time to enhance your productivity.

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Clio

APRIL 15, 2025

As a family lawyer, you likely hear the same questions daily: “How long will the divorce take?” While experience is invaluable, exceptional lawyers also rely on reliable, data-driven insights to guide clients. in 1990 to 36% by 2019. ” “How much will this cost me?” Looking to work smarter?

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Kevin O'Keefe

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The 2023 LMA Tech West Conference, held in Los Angeles this week, marked the return of this Legal Marketing Association event to an in-person format for the first time since 2019. Reduces non-billable time for your lawyers. kevinokeefe) November 14, 2023 AI rocks for drafting lawyer bios.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 14, 2023

This long-running lawsuit started in 2019. You’d think that if that claim is your strongest/only claim, you’d go ahead and give up, but I’m not a litigator so what do I know? and this lawsuit was filed in 2019, so the provisions couldn’t have been breached at the time of filing.

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Legal Talk Network

OCTOBER 10, 2024

A unique case emerged in 2019 when NASA Astronaut Anne McClain was accused of illegally accessing her wife’s bank account during her stay on the International Space Station. The claims eventually turned out to be false, but the situation brought up variety of legal issues and questions about how to litigate a crime committed in space.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Founded: 5/10/2019. 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. Elevator pitch: AppearMe is a suite of apps that help lawyers connect, scale and automate their legal practice. FIND THE BALLOT HERE. .

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2021

They supplemented that review with an analysis of court approaches to virtual hearings, e-filing, and digital notarization, focusing on how these tools affected litigants in three of the most common types of civil cases: debt claims, evictions and child support.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

For 2019, I replaced the year-end list with a decade-end list. Do lawyers return to the office or not? In 2019, KLDiscovery became a public company as the result of a merger. Against that backdrop, here are my picks for the top legal tech trends of 2021. The new normal became the endless uncertainty.

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InsideLegal

JANUARY 29, 2019

‘Pre’ Legalweek New York began Monday with various premium boot camp-style intensives, but for us, Tuesday’s ‘State of the Industry’ general session at 8:30AM (Grand Ballroom East) marked the official kick-off for Legalweek 2019. Is this a focus in 2019? What are you seeing in 2019? Litigation Finance. Enjoy the Q&A.

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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 ). Hg first invested in Litera in 2019.

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FindLaw

MARCH 7, 2023

Many who create deepfakes just do it for fun, but manipulated videos and audio have made their way into litigation. Attorneys in a 2019 custody case in the U.K. If you haven't seen the eerie deepfake video that morphs Bill Hader's face as he imitates Tom Cruise and Seth Rogen, check it out.

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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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LawSites

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Trellis was founded by Nicole Clark , a lawyer who initially began collecting data on judges for her own use while a litigation associate in Los Angeles. Every time someone would go before a new judge, an email would go around the firm asking for information on the judge,” Clark told me in a 2019 interview. .

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 26, 2023

At issue are two versions of the TOS from 2016 and 2019. Amazon updated the TOS in 2019 to make explicit that arbitrability would be decided by an arbitrator, and it emailed the drivers the new TOS. see, e.g., its problems in the long-running Nicosia litigation). ” Amazon claimed its TOS mandated arbitration.

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InsideLegal

JANUARY 23, 2019

The 2019 Legaltech Product Innovation Competition is underway with 7 finalists having been named in early January. Erin Hichman , Senior Analyst with ALM Intelligence, is charged with organizing the 2019 innovation competition. We wanted to learn more. how did this come about? how will the judging work?

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Legal Tech Monitor

JULY 27, 2023

Ninety-seven percent of the Class of 2019 law school graduates are employed and nearly half are “extremely satisfied” with their jobs, according to a recent survey by the National Association for Law Placement Foundation for Law Career Research and Education (NALP Foundation). Lawyers: How Are You, Really?

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Legal Tech Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

Its aim is to deliver market-leading accuracy, searchability and efficiencies around legal information to lawyers, such as those at Slaughter and May. Accuracy remained a big issue, with other commercially available products not coping well with case names, legislation and even patterns of speech that are distinctive to lawyers.

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Technically Legal

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

From disputes with landlords to dust-ups with shady creditors, she represented herself in court a couple times and quickly figured out litigation without a lawyer can be very difficult. A “do-it-yourself” litigation support tool. So, what did she do about it?

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LawSites

APRIL 1, 2022

I first wrote about Athennian in 2020, when it stepped out of its stealth development mode to announce an $8 million CAD Series A investment, on top of a previously unannounced $2 million CAD seed financing round in 2019. . Read about Nexl in the LawNext Legal Tech Directory. Fishman founded Jade in Atlanta in 2020. Justpoint Raises $6.9M.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 29, 2023

In 2019, he had a simple website that included a “Where We Work” page. Screengrabs from October 29, 2019 from the Wayback Machine. By November 21, 2019, the image is no longer included in the Wayback archive of that page. It took 13 steps/documents to complete. Copyright Office on July 29, 2017. Here are some highlights.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The result is that Judge Alsup’s “careful” approach at the motion to dismiss stage enriched the lawyers and disadvantaged everyone else. Still, don’t overlook the key takeaways. It would have been easy to save the list at the end of each day.

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LawSites

JANUARY 23, 2023

Calloquy Platform Elevator Pitch: Calloquy is dedicated to making remote legal proceedings safe, secure, and efficient, both to reduce cost and risk for corporate litigants and to expand access to justice for underserved communities. What makes you unique or innovative? Read this startup’s detailed application.

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Legodesk

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

An effective legal practice data management system can help lawyers to work more efficiently and increase their win rate. These programs can help lawyers to keep track of important information, find relevant documents quickly, and share data with other members of their team.

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Legodesk

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

An effective legal practice data management system can help lawyers to work more efficiently and increase their win rate. These programs can help lawyers to keep track of important information, find relevant documents quickly, and share data with other members of their team.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 18, 2024

If so, as I predicted in 2019 , the UK Online Safety Act will accelerate the end of Web 2.0 Instead, plaintiffs’ lawyers are marshaling legal theories built for an industrial era to cut short those nuanced deliberations. and the transition to a Web 3.0 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward.

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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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LawSites

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Trellis was founded by Nicole Clark , a lawyer who initially began collecting data on judges for her own use while a litigation associate in Los Angeles. Every time someone would go before a new judge, an email would go around the firm asking for information on the judge,” Clark told me in a 2019 interview. .

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Dewey B Strategic

JUNE 21, 2023

ECFX was founded in 2019 by attorneys Dan O’Day and Nelson Quintero. ECFX was founded by Dan O’Day and Nelson Quintero, both lawyers and each with 25+ years of experience in the legal and legal technology industries. Many litigation firms still process notices manually, leading to increased risk and higher costs.

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