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LexisNexis Acquires Case Law Analytics

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LexisNexis announced the acquisition of Case Law Analytics , a French legaltech company specializing in the modeling of legal risk using artificial intelligence. The solution makes it possible to simulate the possible outcomes of litigation proceedings in more than twenty legal areas covering civil law, business law, social law.

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New York Court of Appeals Confirms Attorney-Client Privilege Can Apply Without Anticipated/Pending Litigation or Client’s Affirmative Request for Legal Advice

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Key Takeaway: Under New York law, the attorney-client privilege applies to advice from counsel regarding general legal subjects, even when unsolicited and there is no anticipated litigation or pending action. The documents also include guidance on drafting parole decisions that accord with the law.

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With Launch of ‘AllSearch,’ Casetext Unleashes Powerful Neural Net Search Technology on Litigation Documents

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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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How A Startup Evolves: As Casetext Marks 10th Year Anniversary, Here’s Its History Through 50 Blog Posts

Above the Law - Technology

In fact, as I described in my very first post about Casetext , its original vision was a crowdsourced case law library that its users would edit and annotate and then have other users upvote or downvote the annotations. Think a marriage of Wikipedia and Digg, but for law. Top Law Firm Invests $8.2M

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New Opinion by Washington Court of Appeals Identifies Limits on When Sanctions for Spoliation May Be Applied Under Washington Case Law

K&L Gates e-Discovery Analysis & Technology Group

Therefore, attorneys, e-discovery practitioners, and parties in litigation must keep in mind the distinctions among different […] Courts throughout the United States have different perspectives on the actions that constitute spoliation of evidence and the situations in which these actions should be sanctioned.

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New Opinion by Washington Court of Appeals Identifies Limits on When Sanctions for Spoliation May Be Applied Under Washington Case Law

K&L Gates e-Discovery Analysis & Technology Group

Therefore, attorneys, e-discovery practitioners, and parties in litigation must keep in mind the distinctions among different […] Courts throughout the United States have different perspectives on the actions that constitute spoliation of evidence and the situations in which these actions should be sanctioned.

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DISCO Licenses vLex Library In Move To Combine Legal Analysis with Factual Analysis within Its Platform

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The company said it will incorporate the legal research data into its core platform to create a marriage of factual development and legal analysis, allowing litigators to analyze fact patterns against the relevant law. “We