3 Geeks and a Law Blog

JULY 3, 2023

This time, we’re talking to the AI. I have, shall we say, an auxilary browsing feature which allows me to access real time web data. Roughly 25% are unsure about its suitability for legal work, and 21% question its relevance beyond approximately 40% of law firms are considering its integration. So everyone, please meet Justis.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 17, 2023

The CLOC Global Institute , the conference of legal operations professionals now underway now in Las Vegas, has become a leading venue for legal technology companies to announce product news — particularly when that news relates to products that serve corporate legal departments and legal ops.

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Lineal Services

APRIL 22, 2025

Document review has historically been seen as a necessary but costly component of litigation and investigationsa task that consumes time, budgets, and resources with little long-term return. What if the time and expertise invested in one case could reduce the burden of the next?

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Clio

JUNE 5, 2025

A trial preparation checklist can help you and your litigation team stay on track. You will also need to keep track of your available peremptory challenges and object to their improper use by the other side, such as making challenges based on race or gender. Track deadlines and procedural rules. Draft supporting documents.

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Percipient

APRIL 15, 2025

Handling contracts manually is a headachelost documents, endless email threads, and approvals that take way too long. If your team is stuck chasing signatures and fixing errors, its time to rethink your process and apply contract workflow automation. Are teams using templates, or does contract creation start from scratch every time?

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

We discussed Clio’s greater focus on midsized law firms, its impending launch of generative AI, its roll-out of features for legal aid providers, and its rebranding of its Lawyaw document automation software. Learn more about Clio Manage and Clio Grow at the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.

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Lineal Services

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

By shifting to RelativityOne , legal teams empower themselves to focus on strategic tasks rather than IT challenges, creating more time for impactful, data-driven decisions. RelativityOne facilitates seamless collaboration, allowing teams to work together in real-time. Why the Shift? Here’s what to expect: 1.

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Simple Legal

MAY 31, 2023

The difference between legal document management and document storage is the difference between your team functioning like a well-oiled machine or constantly stalling and breaking down. Document storage is just that: saving files in computer folders or on a cloud-based program like Google Drive.

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LawSites

JULY 6, 2021

The law practice management company MyCase has quietly acquired two legal technology companies in recent months, without announcing the acquisitions to the public. Around the same time, MyCase acquired Woodpecker , which provides legal document automation software for solo and small law firms.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

With multiple teams reviewing the same document, tracking changes manually leads to confusion, delays, and way too many email threads. These tools highlight changes automatically, flag potential risks, and keep negotiations on track. It was easy to lose track of edits, and negotiations could drag on for weeks.

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Clio

APRIL 15, 2025

As a legal professional, your time is one of your most valuable assets. Yet, too often, you likely find your time being eaten up by routine tasks. With Clio Manage you can track case progress visually, spot bottlenecks fast, and automate routine tasks as matters move through each stagesaving time every step of the way.

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JUNE 13, 2025

And if you’re wondering just how common this is, here’s a number worth noting: Fortune 2000 companies manage between 20,000 and 40,000 active contracts at any given time. Everyone ends up rewriting the same contract from scratch or waiting on legal for every small deal. Once you’ve got a solid template in place, use it every time.

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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 All such captured time is pending until the user manually finalizes it.

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Rocket Matter

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For example, the Rocket Matter legal customer relationship management (CRM) platform offers robust analytics tools that help you track client interactions and performance metrics. For example, automating a redundant task could leave your team with more time to answer questions, respond to emails, or schedule consultations.

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 23, 2021

A document management system (DMS) isn’t just where firms store and organize documents — it’s where work happens. Replace Inflexible, Generic Document Management Tools With a Best-in-Class, Cloud-Based Solution That Inspires Your Best Work. Multiply Your Time With NetDocuments ORGANIZE. That’s Work Inspired.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Designed to be optimized for docket-driven litigation practices, Clarra is a full-featured case management platform that simplifies the management of matters, events, tasks, deadlines, documents, timekeeping, and reports. “We Read more about Clarra in the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.

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Rocket Matter

MARCH 11, 2025

Learn how big tech has changed the legal industry Free Guide The Small Firms Guide to Big Tech While any change in how you operate your law office can feel overwhelming, theres never been a better time to start migrating your office structures online. However, building (or reshaping) your public perception will take time.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Attorneys spend a lot of valuable time redlining and negotiating contracts. According to a recent poll , 91% of contract negotiators (myself included) use MS Word Track Changes to redline contracts. For example, here are three workarounds for redlining contracts using MS Word Track Changes. Open a new blank document in Word.

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Percipient

JANUARY 31, 2025

For businesses handling a lot of contracts, these tools are a practical way to save time, improve accuracy, and avoid costly mistakes. It scans documents to identify important details, flag risks, and suggest changes to improve clarity or compliance. What is Contract Review Software?

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Lineal Services

APRIL 14, 2025

Often, this approach resulted in overcollection, inflated costs, and a time-consuming review processnot to mention the risk of inadvertently preserving a companys entire inbox. The volume, variety, and velocity of datacombined with evolving legal and regulatory complexitieshave rendered traditional ECA methods inefficient and outdated.

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Rocket Matter

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Learn how big tech has changed the legal industry Free Guide The Small Firms Guide to Big Tech While any change in how you operate your law office can feel overwhelming, theres never been a better time to start migrating your office structures online. What Is Legal Digital Transformation ?

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Rocket Matter

APRIL 15, 2025

Learn how big tech has changed the legal industry Free Guide The Small Firms Guide to Big Tech While any change in how you operate your law office can feel overwhelming, theres never been a better time to start migrating your office structures online. Thats where legal case management software becomes a game-changer.

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Percipient

MARCH 18, 2025

Thats a slow, tedious process that eats up valuable time and leaves plenty of room for mistakes. Miss a key clause, and you could be dealing with legal headaches down the road. AI scans agreements, flags risks, and suggests edits, so legal teams spend less time reviewing documents and more time closing deals.

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Lineal Services

APRIL 22, 2025

But many investigative processes still rely on outdated methods: over-collect data, sift manually through thousands of files, and hope the answers emerge in time. By embedding predictive analytics at the front of the processnot midway through document reviewlegal teams can turn that fog into focus. Its not just inefficientits risky.

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MatterSuite

JUNE 2, 2025

Your legal team spends 300+ hours a month manually reviewing contracts. Critical deadlines get missed because someone forgot to track a signature. While legal operations tools exist to fix these problems, most teams either: Buy the wrong software (and waste a lot of money on features they don’t even use).

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Clio

MARCH 17, 2025

Its a question youve likely been grappling with more and more lately as you hear about your peers adopting AI: Where does your firm stand on legal AI adoption? AI is rapidly transforming legal work, with new AI solutions emerging to assist with everything from streamlining document review to optimizing caseload distribution and beyond.

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Lineal Services

APRIL 1, 2025

Missing a deadline, overlooking a document, or making a redaction error can quickly escalate into legal consequences, regulatory fines, and reputational damage. Costs spiral when outside counsel and internal teams spend billable hours reviewing documents. Turnaround times drag because data is scattered across multiple platforms.

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LawSites

JANUARY 31, 2022

Readers have been voting to select the 15 legal technology startups that will get to participate in the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2022 , taking place March 2-5, 2022. Dashboard Legal. Dashboard Legal is a collaboration and project management tool built for attorneys. Immediation. and 30% from the U.K.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 20, 2022

The Lincoln Legal Papers Project identified over 5,600 cases and nearly 100,000 documents related to Lincoln’s law practice. If he were with us today, it’s likely that Lincoln would not have the time or knowledge to pursue such a broad range of legal cases and clients. Commoditization of Legal Documents.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

On this episode of How It Works : PracticePanther , a leading cloud-based law practice management software solution that serves tens of thousands of legal professionals in 170 countries. Building document templates. Adding e-signatures to document templates. Workflow automations. Taking payments internally.

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MatterSuite

JULY 29, 2023

Leveraging legal technology has become essential for enterprise legal departments seeking to enhance efficiency in today’s digital age. By automating routine tasks and ensuring compliance, legal technology empowers legal professionals to focus on high-value work.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 11, 2022

‘Tis the season for legal technology predictions, which are entertaining but seldom useful. Chosen by the subscribers of our flagship TechnoLawyer newsletter , these awards serve as a buyer’s guide and also reflect important trends in legal technology. Legal Research Tools That Find the Previously Unfindable.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Learn more tips like this in Affinity Consulting Group ’s “ Adobe Acrobat for Legal Professionals.”. Adobe Sign lets you digitally sign documents and collect digital signatures from others — most often your clients. You can track whether documents are signed and send reminders to people who haven’t yet signed them.

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MatterSuite

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

At the heart of this technological revolution lies the cloud—the driving force behind a multitude of transformative legal solutions. Cloud-based legal technology empowers law firms with unparalleled flexibility, scalability, and accessibility, redefining the way legal professionals work, collaborate, and serve their clients.

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MatterSuite

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

At the heart of this technological revolution lies the cloud—the driving force behind a multitude of transformative legal solutions. Cloud-based legal technology empowers law firms with unparalleled flexibility, scalability, and accessibility, redefining the way legal professionals work, collaborate, and serve their clients.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

McElroy at Procter & Gamble circulated a memo that envisioned an employee who would be responsible for every facet of brand development — everything from tracking sales to advertising, promotion and product development. They can customize each board with columns so that staff members can track or manage the development of a case.

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Lawmatics

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Most lawyers recognize the productivity and efficiency gains brought about by legal technology. To successfully practice law today, they need practical lawyering skills and technological savvy. Is Legal Technology the Future? What Technology Do Lawyers Use?

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