Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 14, 2024

District Court for the Middle District of Florida suspended attorney Thomas Grant Neusom from practicing in that court for one year, after which he will be eligible to apply for reinstatement. District Judge John E. ” On March 8, the U.S. Based on the committee’s recommendations, Senior U.S.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

“We’re trying to solve a longstanding problem in the legal field, and that is that judges only write judicial opinions for 3% of rulings,” Ovbiagele said. “They tell you what judges have done, but they don’t tell you why judges did what they did.

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Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 3, 2024

From all the entries we received, a panel of judges narrowed the applications down to 25, which we posted on Dec. BriefCatch BriefCatch empowers lawyers and judges to edit legal documents to the highest standards while helping their clients win, boosting their writing skills, and enjoying expert explanations, models, and examples.

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LawSites

MARCH 3, 2025

In yet another case involving the use and misuse of generative AI in legal research, a federal district court judge has declined to impose sanctions on an experienced attorney who submitted a brief containing miscited and misquoted cases generated by artificial intelligence. Although the attorney, Thad M.

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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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TechLaw Crossroads

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Innovative Advancements: How Plaintiff Attorneys Use Technology and Work Processes Differently The use of technology in the legal industry has become increasingly important. This is especially true for plaintiff attorneys who represent individuals or groups of individuals wronged by another party.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

It is shared across an entire team Evernote is used by a number of attorneys, particularly for capturing information for legal research, productivity tasks and even case management. There are, of course, other tools that help attorneys integrate the details of each project into the day-to-day operations of their legal practice.

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Legal Talk Network

JUNE 26, 2019

Topics included everything from opinion vs. fact based journalism and the ethics of using contract attorneys to freedom of speech and the national debt. They discuss working with large companies, disruption across industries, and why organizations like Keller Williams seek attorneys who can keep up with the fast pace of innovation.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

He became interested in the future of legal education and how artificial intelligence will affect the profession, which led him to co-found Blue J , a legal technology company in Toronto. On the other hand, Abdi Aidid practiced as a commercial litigator in New York before becoming the Vice President of Legal Research at Blue J.

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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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Attorney at Work

JULY 14, 2021

In the first article of this three-part series, “ How Attorneys Can Use Legal Data for Business Development and Intelligence ,” we covered how attorneys who want to start using legal data for business development should begin with what they know best: their clients. What judges have they appeared in front of?

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Avianca , and in the wake of all the publicity those cases have received, you would think most lawyers would have gotten the message not to rely on ChatGPT for legal research, at least not without checking the results. Karlen Jonathan Karlen, who is not an attorney, filed a pro se appeal in the Missouri Court of Appeals.

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Above the Law - Technology

JULY 19, 2023

Over the years, the list has included a diverse selection of lawyers, legal technologists, policymakers, judges, law librarians, bar association executives, and people from all walks of life who are innovating in the legal profession. (I Linda Kruschke , Director of Legal Publications, Oregon State Bar.

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Below are summaries of the semifinalists, who have been selected by a panel of judges from all applications submitted. Traction: We are adding about 25 people a day as registrants, having fully launched in late October 2023, and have begun demos with attorneys. In this way attorneys can always be confident in the results of their work.”

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The path of every single lawsuit is filled with multiple inflection points, moments where attorneys have to make decisions about how the future is likely to unfold. In the past, attorneys navigated these twists and turns by relying on intuition, experience and anecdotal evidence. It all starts with a judge dashboard.

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LawSites

MAY 30, 2023

We may know more after June 8, the date on which the judge in the case, Mata v. Avianca , has scheduled a hearing to allow the lawyers to show cause for why they should not be sanctioned for what the judge called “an unprecedented circumstance” of a brief “replete with citations to non-existent cases.”

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TechLaw Crossroads

JUNE 15, 2023

I would guess that he wouldn’t have read cases supplied by online legal research. He wouldn’t have read the cases found by manual legal research and cited by his associates in a memorandum. But a bigger problem than the blame being heaped on ChatGPT instead of the lazy lawyer is the knee-jerk reaction by some judges.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JUNE 22, 2023

A federal district judge has imposed monetary and other sanctions on the two lawyers who filed a brief laden with bogus cases they found when they relied on ChatGPT for legal research. The judge ordered the lawyers, Peter LoDuca and Steven A. District Judge P.

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CaseFox

MARCH 19, 2023

Offering an in-depth understanding of AI in legal tech, we will discuss a few pointers where AI is performing stars assisting the legal professionals. God Level Legal Professionals – Lawyers and Attorneys Even when lawyers are not tech savvy, Artificial Intelligence has made things easy for the legal professionals to utilize AI.

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LawSites

JANUARY 25, 2023

Unlike LawDroid’s other product, Builder , a no-code development platform law firms can use to build chat bots, Copilot is an attorney-facing tool that can assist lawyers in performing a variety of tasks. Currently, it is able to perform eight types of functions: Research a legal issue. Legal research.

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 28, 2023

Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Michael Boudin and as an associate at law firm Ropes & Gray. On one hand, we know that providing West’s and Thomson Reuters’ world-class content database behind our legal research capability is going to make that dramatically better, including when CoCounsel does legal research activities for you.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

According to Schafer, attorneys now exhibit much greater openness to tailored AI tools that enhance productivity versus disrupting their workflows entirely. Looking ahead, Schafer expects to expand ClearBrief’s features to assist paralegals along with corporate attorneys beyond litigation. Excuse was Sorry, didn’t check it.

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LLRX

AUGUST 27, 2024

David Colarusso founded and co-directs the Suffolk University Law School's Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) Lab. By training he is an attorney and science educator. In addition to serving as an attorney—taking a case from trial through appeal—you will have the chance to act as a judge, jury, legislator, and legislative advisor.

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TechnoLawyer

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Today's TL NewsWire Hot Product enables you to analyze the historical record of experts and judges to inform your case strategy, including an expert's track record on Daubert challenges and citations your judge prefers (see article below). But it's not a good idea when it comes to the expert witnesses and the judges in your cases.

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lennyesq

JULY 20, 2023

CourtListener.com — Our fully-searchable and accessible archive of court data including growing repositories of opinions, oral arguments, judges, judicial financial records, and federal filings. Bots.law — A collection of bots that help attorneys, journalists and the public keep up with court cases. Read More…

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Legal Tech Monitor

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Our Commissioner Spotlight series highlights the judges, lawyers, and educators from across Illinois who serve as our Commissioners. This Commissioner Spotlight highlights Judge Bonita Coleman , a judge in the First Judicial Subcircuit of Cook County. Why do civility and professionalism matter for attorneys?

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Innovative Advancements: How Plaintiff Attorneys Use Technology and Work Processes Differently The use of technology in the legal industry has become increasingly important. This is especially true for plaintiff attorneys who represent individuals or groups of individuals wronged by another party.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 23, 2022

“You would walk down the hall and talk to the person with the most gray hair and find out what their experience was with a particular judge,” begins Jeffrey Dailey , a former partner at Akin Gump. “Or This modus operandi favored larger firms, tipping the playing field toward legal outfits with access to the largest sample pool of “anecdata.”.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

We’re trying to solve a longstanding problem in the legal field, and that is that judges only write judicial opinions for 3% of rulings,” Ovbiagele said. “So He distinguished Bench IQ from legal analytics companies such as Lex Machina or Pre/Dicta. What we offer are explanatory insights into judges’ rulings.”

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LawSites

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The integration is between Docket Alarm , a Fastcase -owned product that mines federal and state court dockets to provide litigation alerts and case-prediction analytics, and Courtroom Insight , a knowledge management platform that captures key information about expert witnesses, arbitrators, judges and attorneys. ”

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MatterSuite

MAY 24, 2023

The legal profession can be complex, and the terminology used to describe various legal professionals often leads to confusion. In this blog, we will delve into the distinctions between a lawyer, attorney, and litigator. Lawyers possess a wide range of skills, including legal research, negotiation, and drafting legal documents.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MARCH 14, 2024

District Court for the Middle District of Florida suspended attorney Thomas Grant Neusom from practicing in that court for one year, after which he will be eligible to apply for reinstatement. District Judge John E. On March 8, the U.S. Based on the committee’s recommendations, Senior U.S.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Lawyers and legal professionals using the AI-powered document drafting tool Clearbrief to create a legal brief or document will now be able to seamlessly view any case law they cite thanks to a partnership with the legal research and intelligence company Fastcase , the companies announced today.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JUNE 15, 2023

I would guess that he wouldn’t have read cases supplied by online legal research. He wouldn’t have read the cases found by manual legal research and cited by his associates in a memorandum. But a bigger problem than the blame being heaped on ChatGPT instead of the lazy lawyer is the knee-jerk reaction by some judges.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 3, 2022

While recent years have brought a number of products to market for analyzing judges and their rulings, little is available for analyzing private arbitrators, and particularly arbitrators in labor and employment matters. A new tool introduced today takes a major step towards remedying that.

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Dewey B Strategic

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The conversion of legal research from print to online moved though law firms like slow rolling train. Lexis, the first commercial online legal research product launched in 1970. Analytics in legal research provided dramatic new insights into the behavior of judges, courts, attorneys and clients.

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Clio

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A law clerk is a legal professional who supports attorneys, judges, or legal departments by conducting legal research, analyzing cases, and preparing legal documents. Law clerks often carry varying degrees of responsibility based on the court, judge, law firm, or company they work for.

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