Berkley Technology Law Journal

MAY 2, 2025

Music Industry & Copyright Law To answer the first question, it is essential to understand the two different levels of copyrights for songs: the musical compositions and the sound recordings (or masters). Swift released her first album of Taylors Version in 2021, Fearless (Taylors Version) , followed by Red (Taylors Version).

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

JULY 3, 2023

Justis, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4, was able to have a natural conversation with Greg and provide insightful perspectives on the use of generative AI in the legal industry, specifically in law firms. While many law firm leaders recognize its potential, some are unsure of how it fits into legal work or worry about risks.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The company, which provides AI-driven contract management, is today releasing a year-end report that reveals that it has doubled both its revenue and headcount in 2021. And now Ting is returning to his law school roots. Consider Evisort. It would be naïve to suggest that every legal technology company thrived this year.

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LLRX

AUGUST 31, 2021

AALL Gallagher Award recipient Mary Whisner , Public Services Librarian, University of Washington, Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library, has updated her 2008 guide about choosing a career in law librarianship.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 3, 2023

Whether they work in law firms or corporate legal, academia or government, law librarians play a central role in testing, recommending and deploying legal technology, according to the American Association of Law Libraries’ 2023 State of the Profession report, an exhaustive 252-page survey of the legal information landscape.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 10, 2024

Since Camara’s departure, Scott Hill , who had been a member of DISCO’s board since 2021, had served as interim CEO while the board searched for a permanent successor. I’m inspired by DISCO’s mission to make the law work better for everyone. ” “I am delighted to have been appointed to lead DISCO,” said Friedrichsen.

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LawSites

MAY 17, 2021

There is broad agreement that if law schools are to adequately train students for careers in law, then technology is a critical part of the curriculum. Despite this, many law schools get a failing grade when it comes to teaching tech. So how, exactly, should law schools teach tech? A reminder that we are on Patreon.

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Above the Law - Technology

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Zuva, the company that spun off from AI contract review pioneer Kira when it was acquired by Litera in 2021, today released its own AI contract review tool, Zuva Analyze, which it says will enable in-house legal teams to review contracts 2-3 times faster than reviewing them manually. Developed by the same team that originally […]

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Michele Pistone , professor of law, Villanova University. Law Department (Friday, Nov. Law Firm (Monday, Nov. Lauren Sturdivant , founder, Rising Tide Law. The date for each category’s video is shown in the table below. Award Category. Honorable Mention. Access to Justice (Monday, Nov. Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 4, 2022

What We Learned in 2021. In December 2021, Dave Ries, a frequent co-presenter with the authors, wrote an excellent summary of the cybersecurity portion of the ABA’s 2021 Legal Technology Survey Report. Here’s what else the ABA’s data tells us — and what’s concerning — about law firm cybersecurity trends.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Law practice management company Clio said today that Lawyaw, the document automation software it acquired in 2021, will now be called Clio Draft. The new name reflects a deepened integration of products and services since the acquisition, Clio says.

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LawSites

MAY 9, 2025

Decisis, the legal research service that LexisNexis parent RELX launched in 2021 to compete against Fastcase for a share of the bar association partnership business, has expanded over just the past year from 10 to 20 bar partnerships, including 14 state bar associations.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

Today is the first Legaltech Week of the new year — our weekly roundtable of journalists and bloggers — and we’re marking the occasion with a special program in which our panelists will reveal their picks of the top legal tech story of 2021 and their predictions for legal tech in 2022. Joe Patrice , editor, Above the Law.

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Above the Law - Technology

AUGUST 18, 2023

The lawyer ranking and review company Best Lawyers has acquired Good2bSocial , a digital marketing agency that specializes in serving law firms, legal marketers, lawyers and organizations in the legal industry. In 2021, the private equity firm Abry Partners acquired Best Lawyers.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 22, 2023

Developed by Bay Area Legal Services , a nonprofit law firm in Tampa, Fla., with funding from a 2021 Legal Services Corporation Technology Initiative Grant , FosterPower is designed to empower the more than 20,000 children in Florida’s child welfare system with information about their rights.

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Above the Law - Technology

AUGUST 15, 2023

If you are not familiar with Clearbrief, it is an innovative product designed to strengthen brief writing or other legal writing in Microsoft Word by instantly finding the best evidence or law to support your argument. The Ask Your Docs feature will be available to all Clearbrief users. million seed round.

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Above the Law - Technology

JULY 25, 2023

Nextpoint recently became the first e-discovery company to launch a law firm , launching Nextpoint Law Group in Arizona under that state’s liberalized practice rules that allow non-lawyers to own law practices. Founded in 2001, the company had been bootstrapped until 2021.

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LawSites

JUNE 7, 2021

A first-of-its-kind tool introduced last year to automate the drafting of litigation briefs has been named new product of the year for 2021 by the American Association of Law Libraries. It later expanded to add employment law briefs and product liability briefs. Casetext says it can cut brief-writing time by 76%.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Ticketmaster changed the Terms on its website on July 2, 2021, requiring all website users to agree to arbitration under New Era’s Rules. Under California law, “oppression is even more onerous” when a “clause pegs both the scope and procedure of the arbitration to rules which might change.” I still teach the 2007 Ticketmaster v.

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LLRX

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

data compliance laws; Companies ditching VPNs for zero trust architectures to secure hybrid workplaces; Research finds US adults have context-specific views on biometric technology use; Apple iOS privacy settings to change now; and Mozilla has released a new platform for privacy-focused email communications.

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LLRX

AUGUST 22, 2021

Sümeyye Elif Biber is a PhD Candidate in Law and Technology at the Scuola Sant’Anna in Pisa. In 21 April 2021, the European Commission (EC) proposed the world’s first Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA). With the AIA, the EU has the potential to become the world’s “super-regulator” on AI.

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Brett Trout

MARCH 11, 2025

The sportswear giant has sued multiple competitors over its Flyknit technology, including: Adidas (2021) Nike accused AdidasPrimeknitshoes of infringing on Flyknit patents. The lawsuit was settled in 2021. The case was settled in 2022. Puma (2018) Another legal battle over Flyknit-type shoe designs.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Sooner or later, every lawyer in solo or small firm practice asks themselves whether they should create a law firm website — or how long they can put it off. Given all the unknowns — cost, scope, disruption — they may wonder whether launching a law firm website is really necessary, especially if they already have a robust digital presence.

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Above the Law - Technology

JULY 10, 2023

Since launching to the legal market in 2021, the matter management platform Dashboard Legal has built a loyal following among law firm associates, who find it a superior alternative to updating and circulating checklists in Microsoft Word or Excel, says founder and CEO Mat Rotenberg.

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LawSites

AUGUST 17, 2021

law firms have made little progress towards achieving greater diversity, with only minimal gains over the last seven years, according to a new analysis by Law360 Pulse. More strikingly, in the seven years since 2014, the percentage of minority attorneys in law firms rose just four points, from 14.1% of law firm associates and 10.8%

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LLRX

JANUARY 17, 2022

Rodriguez Assistant Director of the San Francisco Law Library in California, and 2021–22 president of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), where one of her many goals is to advocate for access to legal information that supports access to justice.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Depending on your point of view, there’s either lots new or “not so much” new with law firm ownership. In a nutshell, it says that lawyers must own law firms. New Developments in Law Firm Ownership. Australia and the United Kingdom already permit outside ownership of law firms. The post What’s New in Law Firm Ownership?

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Above the Law - Technology

AUGUST 29, 2023

. “From self-service offerings for smaller cases to enterprise-grade solutions for complex legal challenges, Reveal now stands as the go-to partner for automating the practice of law.” ” These acquisitions follow the 2021 merger of Reveal and Brainspace , backed by a $200 million investment by K1. ”

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Legal Talk Network

JUNE 28, 2022

You can look at] small data, I mean think about it, you’ve got a corpus of information in your law firm through which you can measure your clients and your staff and the activity of those two groups. Smart law firms are motivated to track effectively because if you want to get paid you want to track your financial information.

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LawSites

JUNE 23, 2021

A report out yesterday provides further evidence of a trend I have written about several times in recent years — the increasingly instrumental role law librarians play in innovation and technology adoption. A key finding is that law firm and corporate law librarians are instrumental in innovation. In addition, 79.1

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Legal IT Insiders

JUNE 7, 2023

Kula describes itself the world’s first AI business development associate for law firms, letting attorneys reach the right new clients automatically.

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Smokeball is a law practice management software with document assembly capabilities. Smokeball has an unusual name, to be sure; but, it actually comes from a famous legal case , which just about every substantive law-loving attorney can appreciate. (I When law firms employ passive timekeeping programs, time is truly on their side.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Each year for the past three years, the LexisNexis African Ancestry Network LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation Fellowship has awarded fellowships to promising law students to participate in research projects related to eliminating racism in the legal system. Clarke School of Law.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Small law firms are not immune to this trend. How many law firm services are in the cloud, especially today? Often, they think the evasion of the policy is good for the law firm, that it allows for better solutions. The larger the law firm, the more prevalent shadow policies are. The likely answer is no.

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Clio

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

If there has been one constant about the qualifications to own an American law firm, it has been this–you must be a lawyer. jurisdictions for decades has been that non-lawyers cannot own law firms. Whether or not you are an attorney, running a law firm is a huge challenge, but the right software can help. Once Rule 5.4

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LLRX

AUGUST 28, 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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Clio

APRIL 15, 2025

We’ve analyzed the latest family law statistics to uncover key trends in divorce outcomes, custody arrangements, and court decisions that impact your daily practice. Heres what the data reveals about today’s family law landscapeand how you can use these lawyer statistics to strengthen your practice. Looking to work smarter?

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