LawNext podcast

JULY 21, 2025

If generative AI was the biggest story in legal tech in 2023 and 2024, agentic AI is proving to be the most talked-about topic of 2025. Both joined Thomson Reuters back in 2013 through its acquisition of Practical Law, where they cut their teeth building practice-focused products for lawyers.

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Martindale-Avvo

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Attorneys surveyed by Bloomberg Law took an average of only 5 days off during the first half of 2023. While lawyers in all fields skip vacations, work-life balance may be more accessible in fields with typically more predictable, consistent hours, such as intellectual property, real estate, and trust and estate law.

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Colin S. Levy

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Firms that adapt by preparing junior lawyers for higher-value work will not only improve client outcomes but also accelerate their associates’ career development. As AI adoption grows, departments may need to hire non-lawyer specialists to lead technology initiatives. However, Rule 5.4

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Debevoise Data Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In 2024, the Biggest Legal Risk for Generative AI May Be Hype (January 9, 2024) Since at least 2023, the FTC and SEC have been actively investigating and enforcing against deceptive AI marketing claims, focusing on those that exaggerate AI system abilities, unsupported claims, and misleading comparisons to non-AI alternatives.

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Martindale-Avvo

APRIL 30, 2025

For lawyers, this is an opportunity to provide more complex legal services in 2025. Comprehensive privacy laws had been passed by 12 states by the end of 2023. This can increase the work of lawyers in 2025, as these organizations need legal advice and services. The history of privacy law The roots of privacy law in the U.S.

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Debevoise Data Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

ROSS is a legal research startup that sought to offer a search engine for lawyers that relied on generative AI to produce results. In its first summary judgment ruling, issued on September 25, 2023, the court denied both parties motions for summary judgment on copyright infringement and fair use.

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Clio

JULY 7, 2025

Just consider these statistics: AI adoption among lawyers jumped from 19% to 79% between 2023 and 2024, according to the latest Legal Trends Report. As technology becomes increasingly central to staying competitive, legal engineers are helping firms modernize by empowering lawyers to work smarter and better serve their clients.

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Martindale-Avvo

JUNE 18, 2025

The landscape of mass torts in 2025 builds on the active litigation from the past few years. billion settlement in 2023 with U.S. Litigation over PFAS in various arenas could continue as these chemicals are in products as diverse as packaging and carpets. Here’s just a sampling of some cases to watch as the ear unfolds.

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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 2023, only 29% of young adults ages 25 to 29 were married, compared to 50% in 1993.

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Legal Talk Network

JANUARY 9, 2025

His advice to lawyers is as follows: Use your law license to become part of the solution. Volunteer your time, whether its on the civil side or on the criminal side, to get into the courtroom and make sure that justice prevails in this litigation. Chief Justice Mary R. Russell Supreme Court of Missouri Chief Justice Mary R.

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Brett Trout

JULY 8, 2025

It also fought back with marketing campaigns like 2023’s “dupe swap,” where customers traded knockoffs for the real deal. In the age of hyper-social media, avoiding litigation and all of its potential consumer backlash, is almost always a win. This is not the first time Lululemon has fought copycat claims.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 9, 2025

If you haven’t been watching the litigation tsunami over Meta Pixels, it’s been a sight to behold. Privacy Lawyers May Be Why We Can’t Have Nice Things. A shortened version republished in Marquette Lawyer, Fall 2024 , at 16 Speech Nirvanas on the Internet: An Analysis of the U.S. Pixel Cases. IP & Tech.

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Clio

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Many AI-powered solutions now assist lawyers with a wide range of tasksfrom automating operational workflows to drafting and analyzing legal documents to streamlining e-discovery and beyond. What percentage of lawyers use AI? The level of AI usage for lawyers is rapidly increasing. Book a demo today. Tools like Smith.ai

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Clio

APRIL 2, 2025

In 2023 alone, 62 million Americans sought medical attention for preventable injuries. The numbers below paint a clear picture of both the human toll and economic burden that injuries create nationwide: 62 million peopleabout one in fivesought medical attention for an injury in 2023 ( National Safety Council ). Of the over 1.3

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lennyesq

JUNE 9, 2025

IN EARLY APRIL of this year, after more than a decade of litigation and a $90-million settlement, Mark Zuckerberg sent me forty bucks on Venmo. was my cut of the payout from a class action lawsuit: the “Facebook Internet Tracking Litigation” case (not to be confused with the “Facebook, Inc. To be clear, it wasn’t Zuck personally.

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Martindale-Avvo

JUNE 25, 2025

But a close look at the numbers shows the perception is indeed reality: at least when it comes to LGBTQ+ lawyers, the industry lags in terms of representation and elimination of bias. The data: How many lawyers are LGBTQ+? of lawyers at 785 firms surveyed were LGBTQ+. Let’s start with those numbers. That’s up from 2.2%

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

He’s a Biden appointee from 2023). The joinder problems should be obvious even without any past litigation experience, but at least the judge is now preemptively asking the right questions. I’ll restart my normal blogging, but I’m having trouble focusing.] This is a design patent SAD Scheme case before Judge Jeremy C.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

As part of our mission to make the law free and accessible for all, Justia helps consumers connect with legal information directly from lawyers through Justia Ask A Lawyer, our free question-and-answer forum. Justia Ask A Lawyer offers 75+ practice areas for categorizing user inquiries. Which States Submit the Most Questions?

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

JUNE 26, 2023

Justia Ask A Lawyer is a free question-and-answer forum that connects people with real legal questions to basic answers from real lawyers. Lawyers can offer preliminary information and guidance that can help users better understand the law and the next steps. Justia Ask A Lawyer receives questions in each of the fifty U.S.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Justia Ask A Lawyer is our free forum where consumers can seek real answers to basic legal questions directly from licensed attorneys! The platform connects individuals with legal questions to knowledgeable lawyers. Then, lawyers in our directory can provide a basic answer that helps the user better understand the law.

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Above the Law - Technology

JULY 19, 2023

Fortunately, even though Fastcase merged earlier this year with vLex , that tradition continues, as Fastcase has now announced the 2023 honorees. The Fastcase 50 class of 2023 is also the most international group of honorees in our history, which reflects the growing scale of vLex and Fastcase.” Congratulations to all!

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

29, 2023, AT 11:45 P.M. VoiceScript Ai.Law Elevator Pitch: Provides AI-generated litigation documents, from pleadings to discovery. We are the first AI-driven platform to focus specifically on drafting litigation documents. The substantial amount of time lawyers spend drafting documents during litigation.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In 2023, the justice tech ecosystem continued to grow rapidly, with a significant increase in solutions addressing access to justice-related challenges for consumers. featured in ABA Journal , Pulse 2.0 , Bob Ambrogi’s LawNext podcast , and Accelerator Insider , and its executive director, Maya Markovich, was named to the 2023 Fastcase 50.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 30, 2023

In a first for an e-discovery technology company, Chicago-based Nextpoint is launching an Arizona law firm June 1 under that state’s liberalized law practice rules that allow non-lawyers to own law practices. Its lawyers will not appear in court. ” Leading the firm as managing partner is Andrew R.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

As a former litigator, Schafer experienced firsthand the frustrating scramble to finalize briefs and prepare filings. ClearBrief integrates into Microsoft Word to align with lawyers’ existing workflows. Looking ahead, Schafer expects to expand ClearBrief’s features to assist paralegals along with corporate attorneys beyond litigation.

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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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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

MAY 4, 2023

The evolution of generative AI (artificial intelligence) has captured the attention of many Americans during the first few months of 2023. In early 2023, both Dr. Thaler and the Copyright Office asked the District Court for summary judgment. As exciting as generative AI can be, it raises certain questions involving copyright law.

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TechLaw Crossroads

MARCH 8, 2023

TECHSHOW is geared more toward smaller firms and solo lawyers. Unlike other shows, this one is geared toward those who need it the most: lawyers and legal professionals who need hands-on information. And TECHSHOW 2023 has mirrored the rise and, hopefully, the last gasp of the covid pandemic. But TECHSHOW 2023?

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 18, 2024

My roundup of the top Internet Law developments of 2023: 10) California court bans targeted advertising (?). On July 4, 2023, a federal judge declared FREEDOM from government censorship of Internet services. In 2023, the EU launched its Digital Services Act. Then, in Liapes v. Following the Lemmon v.

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LawSites

JANUARY 31, 2024

TermScout , an AI contract review company, has launched a first-of-its-kind AI marketplace where lawyers and other contracting experts can build and sell their own contract review AIs, developed based on their unique expertise. Lawyers who develop screens can decide whether to sell them or offer them free.

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TechLaw Crossroads

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Ediscovery is one of the few areas in which lawyers have embraced technology out of necessity. This familiarity and adoption of technology by clients and lawyers could pave the way for similar adoption of technology in areas beyond ediscovery. That’s because ediscovery is much more time driven than other areas.

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LawSites

JANUARY 26, 2023

So the publicity stunt of the robot lawyer sneaking into court is no more, as Joshua Browder , founder and CEO of the self-help legal site DoNotPay , yesterday pulled the plug on the prank, saying he had received threats from bar officials of prosecution and even imprisonment. Wish us luck! Good morning!

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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. a national law firm marketing agency.

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LawSites

JANUARY 31, 2023

But, when using any of these services, as you browse docket entries, there is no quick way to know what a litigation filing is about without having to download, open and read the underlying PDF document. All litigation filings on Docket Alarm (e.g., “It is not like a magical robot lawyer,” Walters said.

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Law Technology Today

MARCH 1, 2023

KEYNOTE: WELCOME TO TECHSHOW & LEGALTECH VISIONARIES PANEL Kick off TECHSHOW 2023 with this opening session! Meet the TECHSHOW Board, honor the 2023 recipient of the James I. This year, TECHSHOW is hosting TWO Keynote Address ‘ Check them out below.

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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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LawSites

JANUARY 23, 2023

Help pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the seventh-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2023. 3, 2023, AT 11:45 P.M. Our all-in-one virtual litigation platform streamlines and professionalizes the process of conducting and managing remote and hybrid litigation. Case Chronology is trial tested.

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