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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

Above the Law - Technology

While the last few years have brought an abundance of new and innovative legal tech products to market, the fact of the matter is that not every new product will succeed. Let’s revisit five of the most momentous legal tech fails of the last 10 years. In 2016, legal tech entrepreneur Derek Bluford was riding high.

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Dueling Legal Tech Lawsuits: Turns Out Exec Who Sued Former Company in NY Had Herself Been Sued By them A Week Earlier in Dallas

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District Court in Manhattan by a legal tech executive who alleges her former company owes her over $1 million in stock and that her former boss sexually harassed her. ClaimDeck is a d/b/a of the company Syzygy Legal Tech Inc. Yesterday, I reported here on a lawsuit filed March 20 in U.S.

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Above the Law and Legal Talk Network Celebrate Thinking Like A Lawyer’s 10-Year Podcast Anniversary

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While Mystal departed in 2020 to pursue other ventures, Patrice continues to lead the weekly discussions alongside his Above the Law colleagues Kathryn Rubino and Chris Williams. As they look ahead to the next decade, Patrice, Rubino, and Williams are already tracking key legal stories that could shape the industry.

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ROSS Cofounder Returns To Legal Tech with Startup Using AI To Surface Judges’ Decision-Making Patterns

Above the Law - Technology

A Return to Legal Tech Ovbiagele was a 21-year-old computer scientist when he, Arruda, then a practicing lawyer, and another computer scientist, Pargles Dall’Oglio , founded ROSS a decade ago. Although still in somewhat of a beta mode, the product will be generally available in the second half of this year, he said.

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Luminance’s Ex-CEO, Emily Foges, Joins The Barrister Group as COO

Artificial Lawyer

Emily Foges was a well-known figure on the legal tech stage in her role as CEO of the Mike Lynch-backed doc AI company, Luminance. Then in 2020 the high-profile boss made a surprise move to Big Fou…

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In Major Legal Tech Deal, vLex and Fastcase Merge, Creating A Global Legal Research Company, Backed By Oakley Capital and Bain Capital

Above the Law - Technology

Originally a legal research company, Fastcase has diversified in recent years, launching its Full Court Press publishing arm and acquiring Docket Alarm and Law Street Media in 2018, NextChapter in 2019, and the technology and team of Judicata in 2020. This is the beginning of the end of the duopoly in legal research.”

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

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As awful as was the year 2020 for so many reasons, my year-end report last year found reasons to be optimistic. The silver lining of 2020,” I wrote, “is that we have been forced to consider changes that were long overdue and then given the opportunity to implement those changes.”. It is as if we are serving time in a legal tech limbo.