Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

My 2019 post detailed my visit to ROSS’s Toronto research and development office. But ROSS’s trajectory changed in 2020, when legal research giant Thomson Reuters filed a lawsuit against ROSS , alleging that it stole content from Westlaw to build its own competing legal research product.

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 15, 2023

2013 New Legal Research Site Combines Case Law with Crowdsourcing. 2014 Two Sites Offer Platforms for Crowdsourced Legal Research. 2017 Legal Research Company Casetext Closes on $12 Million in Funding. Casetext Expands Its CARA Research Assistant, Adding Suggestions Of Relevant Briefs.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 14, 2021

5, 2011, LexisNexis formally launched Lexis Advance , its next-generation legal research platform, which succeeded the research platform formerly called Lexis. But with its formal launch of Lexis Advance, Lexis dropped those various targeted offshoots for a single Lexis Advance designed for legal professionals in any setting.

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LawSites

JUNE 7, 2021

The product, Compose , introduced in February 2020 by legal research company Casetext , helps attorneys automate the creation of the first draft of a litigation brief. CARA has since spawned a generation of similar products from other legal research companies. Casetext says it can cut brief-writing time by 76%.

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LawSites

APRIL 9, 2024

Furthering its expansion beyond legal research and into other products aligned with legal professionals’ day-to-day workflows, Bloomberg Law has acquired Dashboard Legal , a project management and collaboration platform specifically designed for the legal market. ” .” ”

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

The legal research company Casetext has raised $25 million in a Series C funding round, bringing its total amount raised to $64.3 In 2020, the company introduced a first-of-its-kind product, Compose , that automates the drafting of litigation briefs. million since its founding in 2013. ” Track Record of Innovation.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 30, 2023

The law firm, Nextpoint Law Group (NLG), will provide discovery and litigation legal services to other law firms and to corporate legal departments, including trial strategy, early case assessment, document review, discovery drafting, legal research and brief writing. Its lawyers will not appear in court.

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LawSites

JULY 15, 2021

Subscribers to Cheetah for Corporate Counsel, a legal research platform from Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. , Lawgood was a participant in the 2020 ABA Techshow Startup Alle y, for which I serve as organizer.).

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MatterSuite

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Legal assistants may perform tasks such as sorting or filing documents, preparing appointments and calendars, including trail schedules, and contacting clients and all other parties to lawsuits. A legal assistant may also help with legal research , writing legal papers, and more, not whatever is required.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 31, 2024

In 2020, Medina got the disclosures from the 2014 case sealed. The court says Medina has no probability of prevailing against the repository websites due to Section 230: Medina does not dispute that legal research defendants are interactive computer service providers. This case brought to mind the Martin v.

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Legal Tech Monitor

OCTOBER 17, 2023

When the legal research companies vLex and Fastcase announced their merger in April , they promised the deal would fuel new opportunities for the development of generative AI for legal research. The combined library is the crown jewel of LLMs and the ultimate training data set for legal AI.”

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Debevoise Data Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Thomson Reuters offers one of the leading legal search engines on the market, Westlaw, which contains not only copies of cases, statutes, and other legal materials but also content created by Westlaw itself to assist in legal research.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 13, 2022

Despite their benefits, many legal organizations have been hesitant to implement AI tools. In the ABA 2020 Legal Tech Survey , 23% of law firms reported not being interested in AI, while 34% said they didn’t know enough about AI to speak to their firms’ interest. AI Hesitation. Such fears often stem from a lack of education.

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Legal Tech Monitor

APRIL 4, 2023

Unique Global Breadth vLex has been unique among legal research services for its breadth of international coverage. Its platform includes Vincent, an AI-powered legal research assistant that analyzes legal documents that users upload and finds relevant search results. It works in both English and Spanish.

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Martindale-Avvo

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This has continued to prove helpful for many attorneys, who appreciate the ability to tackle everything from legal research to case management from the comfort of home. McBride reminds us that, prior to 2020, “it was uncommon to appear remotely for a hearing within the same state the hearing was to take place.”

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LawSites

APRIL 26, 2022

TR filed its lawsuit in May 2020 , alleging that ROSS stole content from Westlaw to build its own competing legal research product. ” Meanwhile, discovery appears to be continuing apace in the case, with both parties having issued a slew of document requests, interrogatories and deposition subpoenas.

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LawSites

MARCH 7, 2022

When legal research company Fastcase announced its acquisition of Judicata , the innovative California legal research platform, in 2020, it held out the promise of building on Judicata’s innovations through integrations with Docket Alarm , another Fastcase -owned product that mines federal and state court dockets to provide litigation alerts (..)

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LLRX

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

On this episode of The Geek in Review, hosts Marlene Gebauer and Greg Lambert delve into how AI can transform legal writing with ClearBrief founder and CEO Jacqueline Schafer. She founded ClearBrief in 2020 to leverage AI to analyze documents and suggest relevant evidence and citations to streamline drafting.

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LLRX

JANUARY 10, 2021

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few.

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LLRX

JULY 31, 2022

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent at least 29 text messages to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows urging him to help overturn the 2020 election has reignited a long-simmering debate about judicial ethics and the nation’s highest court. Recent evidence showing that Virginia Thomas, wife of U.S.

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Demo video: [link] Founded: 10/28/2020, Vancouver, BC, Canada Target customer: Solos, small and medium size firms. If ever there was an industry ripe for disruption, legal tech, and specifically legal research, is it. caselaw and helps us avoid issues others have run into in trying to use AI for legal research.

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LawSites

JUNE 7, 2022

Now, Casetext is formally launching that search tool under a new name, AllSearch , and with a focus on helping litigators search large sets of legal documents, including for e-discovery or to search internal databases and repositories, such as brief banks, litigation records, deposition transcripts, and expert reports.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Two litigation-focused Canadian legal technology companies, CiteRight and Jurisage , have merged, combining CiteRight’s litigation drafting program with Jurisage’s AI technology to create an integrated legal research and drafting solution. ” The companies expect to complete the merger by year end.

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Ron Friedmann

JUNE 17, 2020

This is a live blog post of Microsoft’s Trusted Advisor Forum on Innovation webinar on 17 June 2020. Microsoft had planned for a live, onsite, in-person event on 4 March 2020. There is a research mission that supports meaningful and predictable outcomes. I post this as the session ends. Make it someone’s job. Empower them.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 14, 2021

5, 2011, LexisNexis formally launched Lexis Advance , its next-generation legal research platform, which succeeded the research platform formerly called Lexis. But with its formal launch of Lexis Advance, Lexis dropped those various targeted offshoots for a single Lexis Advance designed for legal professionals in any setting.

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Clio

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Benefits of chatbots for lawyers The 2020 Legal Trends Report found that 79% of potential new clients expect a response within 24 hours of reaching out. Stand out from the competition When experiencing a legal problem, clients usually reach out to more than one law firm to see which one best meets their needs.

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LawSites

JULY 13, 2021

LexFusion , the company that launched last October as a go-to-market collective of legal technology companies, has added legal research company Casetext to the roster of companies it represents. It launched in October 2020 with seven companies in its collective, and then added another three in April.

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LLRX

JANUARY 31, 2021

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Traction: We have 30+ solo and small law firm subscriptions since coming out of a soft launch in December 2020. We continue to listen to our legal user community to develop future functionalities to add that will further enhance and empower the cybersecurity needs of target users. Founded: 2/20/2020. Founded: 4/1/2020.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Lachance is a long-established leader in legal publishing and legal research whose career has included stints leading North American operations for the global legal research platform vLex and as president and CEO of the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII). Outgrowth of Legal Data Nonprofit.

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LawSites

AUGUST 31, 2022

For all the advances made in the science of legal search, we are – as Pablo Arredondo , cofounder and chief innovation officer of Casetext likes to say – stuck in the keyword prison. Virtually all search tools – whether for legal research, e-discovery review, document review, or anything else – are confined to indexes.

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LLRX

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In buying new technology, lawyers cited among their top needs software for case management, legal research and billing and invoicing. 2020 Survey Exclusive: Small Firms Face Significant Challenges, But Fail To Act On Them, Thomson Reuters Survey Finds. 2017 Survey Exclusive: First Look At New Survey Of Solo And Small Firms.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A great example of how firms can use short-term trends to shore up their practices and prepare for downturns comes from the dramatic decline in bankruptcy cases filed in 2020. Short-Term Trends.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JUNE 15, 2023

2013 New Legal Research Site Combines Case Law with Crowdsourcing. 2014 Two Sites Offer Platforms for Crowdsourced Legal Research. 2017 Legal Research Company Casetext Closes on $12 Million in Funding. Casetext Expands Its CARA Research Assistant, Adding Suggestions Of Relevant Briefs.

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Legal Tech Monitor

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Two litigation-focused Canadian legal technology companies, CiteRight and Jurisage , have merged, combining CiteRight’s litigation drafting program with Jurisage’s AI technology to create an integrated legal research and drafting solution. The companies expect to complete the merger by year end.

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