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Harvey AI Raises $21M In A Series A Round Led By Sequoia

Above the Law - Technology

The generative AI legal tech startup Harvey has raised $21 million in a Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital. When I first wrote about Harvey in November , the previously stealth startup had just emerged with news that it had raised $5 million in funding led by the startup fund of OpenAI, the company that is the developer of the GPT AI technology.

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Revolutionizing Legal Practice: The Impact of CaseText’s CoCounsel on Law and Technology with Pablo Arredondo, Evan Shenkman, and Darth Vaughn (TGIR Ep. 199)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

In this episode of “The Geek in Review,” hosts Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer engage in a fascinating conversation with legal technology experts ⁠ Pablo Arredondo ⁠ , ⁠ Evan Shenkman ⁠ , and ⁠ Darth Vaughn ⁠. They discuss their proactive approach to incorporating AI technology, specifically ⁠ CaseText’s CoCounsel ⁠ , into their legal practice and business operations.

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Lex Machina Expands The Power Of Legal Analytics To Litigation In State Courts [Sponsored]

Above the Law - Technology

Lex Machina expands its powerful machine learning, trained and reviewed by attorneys, to help legal practitioners make data-driven decisions in state courts as well as federal courts. The post Lex Machina Expands The Power Of Legal Analytics To Litigation In State Courts appeared first on Above the Law.

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Legal Innovators: Andrew Moffett, Legal Tech Product Lead, Wayfair

Artificial Lawyer

This week’s Legal Innovators California Profile is with Andrew Moffett, Product Lead for Legal Technology at Wayfair, one of the world’s largest home retailers, with over 14,000 employees in.

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Visibility Into the Strategy & Supporting Documents of Major US Law Firms

Law Firm Intelligence by Trellis aggregates state trial court data across the Trellis platform enabling users to: look up a particular metric related to a specific law firm (such as, how many cases a law firm had or has against another law firm), and see the actual dockets and documents supporting the metric. Trellis data is maximized in a revolutionary and unique way to provide users an exclusive look into a law firm litigating in state trial courts.

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Leveraging Emails To Engage Existing and New Legal Clients

Martindale-Avvo

Email is one of the most effective tools for growing your practice. You use it every day, but are you using it to its full advantage? The Benefits of Email Marketing for Lawyers The National Law Review recommends email marketing as an effective strategy for firms of all sizes. Email builds relationships. When you provide consistent value to current, former, and prospective clients, they feel a stronger connection to your practice.

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Mifepristone is under scrutiny in the courts, but it has been used safely and effectively around the world for decades

LLRX

A flurry of court rulings in April 2023 has left the future of the abortion pill mifepristone in question. For now, a U.S. Supreme Court decision on April 21 allows the drug to remain accessible without additional restrictions as the merits of the case are weighed in lower court proceedings. Depending on the outcome, the pill could face a ban or tightened restrictions on its usage, a possibility that has many health care providers concerned.

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8 Web Design Best Practices for Law Firms in the Second Half of 2023

Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

As we enter the spring and summer months, you may be considering refreshing your law firm website for the second half of the year. A well-designed website is undoubtedly crucial for lawyers in the 2023 digital age. Your website is often the first point of contact between your law firm and new clients, the general public, and even other lawyers! Plus, your law firm’s website can significantly influence a client’s decision to choose your law firm over another.

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Amazon Screws Up Its TOS Amendments (Again)–Jackson v. Amazon

Eric Goldman

This case involves “Amazon Flex” drivers. Allegedly, “Amazon monitored and wiretapped the drivers’ conversations when they communicated during off hours in closed Facebook groups.” Amazon claimed its TOS mandated arbitration. The Ninth Circuit disagrees. At issue are two versions of the TOS from 2016 and 2019. The named plaintiff, Jackson, agreed to the 2016 TOS.

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Washington Enacts Update to State Telemarketing Law

Inside Privacy

On April 20, Governor Jay Inslee signed into law the Robocall Scam Protection Act, which will take effect on July 23, 2023. As we discuss here , the bill makes a number of updates to the state’s telemarketing law. Notably, the bill prohibits commercial solicitations using an “automatic dialing and announcing device.” It also prohibits “assisting in the transmission” of commercial solicitations made with such devices.

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Why Your Firm Needs a Bookkeeper

Law Technology Today

Every law firm needs a bookkeeper. Now for a period of time, that bookkeeper might be you but at some point, you really should consider hiring someone else to be your bookkeeper and here are 5 reasons why. 1) a bookkeeper can help you keep your finances organized, 2) you didn’t go to law school to practice bookkeeping, 3) every hour that you spend on bookkeeping is an hour that is not making you any money, 4) a good bookkeeper can help you avoid surprise tax bills, 5) hiring a bookkeeper is a ve

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Stay On Top of Newly Filed State & Federal Litigation: Curated Just for You!

With Daily Filings Report by Trellis you will receive an email and csv file daily with all new cases filed in the jurisdictions you're tracking. Each new case will include all case metadata like judge, parties, counsel, practice area, and even direct links to the full docket and complaint. Trellis Daily Filings Reports provide direct access to newly filed state and federal litigation curated just for you.

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Search Acumen and Avail partner to support lawyer productivity

Legal IT Professionals

Two market-leading proptech firms, Search Acumen and Avail, announce details of their new partnership, designed to bring together their specialisms to further their joint goal of digitalising the real estate sector.

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Coming Out Of Stealth, Dori Is A Generative AI Platform for Venture Capital Transactions

LawSites

With AI-driven tools for founders, attorneys and investors, a company called Dori is today launching out of stealth, offering a generative AI platform for private market transactions. The company is also announcing $2 million in seed funding, which it closed last year, with participation from Counterpart Ventures, Correlation Ventures, Service Provider Capital, and a number of what it describes as “prominent” corporate attorneys.

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Relativity recognized as a Microsoft Security Excellence Awards winner for Security Software Innovator

Legal IT Professionals

Relativity , a global legal technology company, today announced it won the Security Software Innovator award in the Microsoft Security Excellence Awards 2023.

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4 Ways to Ensure IP Protections for AI-Generated Content

Legal Tech Monitor

While there is no straightforward way to protect an AI-generated output, a Mayer Brown panel examined various avenues that do exist to safeguard intellectual property of an AI work.

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Unlocking the Meaning and Importance of Law Day: Celebrating Our Commitment to Justice

MatterSuite

Law Day is celebrated annually on May 1st in the United States. It is a day set aside to recognize and appreciate the importance of law and the justice system in our society. This day was first celebrated in 1958 and was established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The purpose of this day is to promote public understanding of the role of law and the legal system in our society.

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Celebrate Law Day 2023 with These Events

Legal Tech Monitor

Lawyers across the country will celebrate Law Day 2023 on May 1 with celebrations and informative events beginning this week and continuing through next week. Law Day was first recognized by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958 to mark the nation’s commitment to the rule of law. Since then, every president has issued an honorary Law Day proclamation.

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NYC Artificial Intelligence Rule to Take Effect July 5, 2023: New York City Issues Final Rule Regulating the Use of AI Tools by Employers

Inside Privacy

The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (“DCWP”) recently issued a Notice of Adoption of Final Rule (“Final Rule”) relating to the implementation of New York City’s law regulating the use of automated employment decision tools (“AEDT”) by NYC employers and employment agencies. NYC’s Local Law 144 now takes effect on July 5, 2023.

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IS RFID THE SOLUTION FOR MANAGING ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS IN A LAW FIRM?

Legal Tech Monitor

From : Blog Entry >> Denise’s Blog Entry If your law firm is undergoing a digital transformation, you’ll have learned that not everything can be digitized and put into electronic storage. All firms have a repository of original documents that need to be retained. The vast majority of these will be “wet ink signature” – typically relating to real estate, wills, trust funds, patents, copyright and trademark.

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Announcing the Winners of the First LawNext Authors’ Giveaway and the Start of Our Second Giveaway During May

LawSites

In February, as a way to provide a gamified incentive for authors to contribute articles to the resources library on the LawNext Legal Technology Directory , we announced an opportunity for authors to win gift cards for the articles that got the most views. Now, we are announcing the winners of that first round — and we are also kicking off a second round for May, with new opportunities for authors to contribute articles and win gift cards.

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Coming Out Of Stealth, Dori Is A Generative AI Platform for Venture Capital Transactions

Legal Tech Monitor

With AI-driven tools for founders, attorneys and investors, a company called Dori is today launching out of stealth, offering a generative AI platform for private market transactions. The company is also announcing $2 million in seed funding, which it closed last year, with participation from Counterpart Ventures, Correlation Ventures, Service Provider Capital, and a number of what it describes as “prominent” corporate attorneys.

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Watch Out Ransomware Now Targeted at Apple macOS!

Vogel IT Law

Darkreading.com reported that “The infamous LockBit ransomware gang has developed a version of their malware for macOS devices — the first ever foray into Apple’s territory by a major ransomware group.” The April 18, 2023 article entitled “Researchers Discover First-Ever Major Ransomware Targeting macOS” ( [link] ) included these comments from Patrick Wardle (founder of the Objective-See Foundation): The pandemic and the work from home really spurred that,… A lot of people have Mac computers.

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Project Validation for TAR: Part 2

Legal Tech Monitor

From : Blog Entry >> Brian’s Blog Entry Please enjoy this blog posted on behalf of the author, Jonathan Kiang, Senior Electronic Discovery Consultant, Epiq. At the end of a long and tedious document review, the last thing any attorney wants to be told is that more documents need to be reviewed. Maybe the recent relevancy rates for documents selected based on the TAR model had reached near zero.

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What Is an IOLTA Account? A Complete Guide

Clio

As a trusted legal professional, it’s important to understand Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts (IOLTA) accounts and how they work. Law firms need to follow very specific rules on how client funds are handled, and maintaining an IOLTA account ensures you are compliant with ethical and legal obligations. Understanding what IOLTA is and how it works ensures you are maintaining compliance.

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Introducing eDiscovery Concepts to Newbies (For Those New to the Area – Even if Experienced in Other Areas): Technical Side

Legal Tech Monitor

From : Blog Entry >> Brian’s Blog Entry Please enjoy this blog posted on behalf of the author, Ravi Sharma, Consultant, Sky Discovery. The eDiscovery industry is a fast-paced, dynamic area of legal technology. As a result, there are often a lot of concepts to navigate in a short space of time, particularly if you are from a non-legal background.

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How RFID will change the way your law firm manages documents

Legal IT Professionals

A while back, some law firms flirted with the idea of using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to keep track of physical documents, but soon abandoned the idea as too expensive and unwieldy. In this article Chris Giles outlines how RFID has changed, and explains how it can now be a gamechanger for how paper is managed.

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ESG Enablement Through Technology, Law Firm: Munger, Tolles & Olsen, LLP

Legal Tech Monitor

“One aspect of legal innovation important to the firm involves bringing diverse viewpoints and backgrounds to new challenges, broadening the collective set of experiences to tackle new problems, which is exemplified by the firm’s team approach to this and other matters,” says Ron Best, e-discovery counsel at Munger, Tolles & Olsen, LLP.

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Kim joins iManage Technology Partner Program

Legal IT Professionals

Kim , the no-code, SaaS, patent-protected document generation, assembly, and workflow automation platform, today announced that it has joined the iManage Technology Partner Program.

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Innovating for Innocence Part 1: GPT-4, CoCounsel and the California Innocence Project

Legal Tech Monitor

The California Innocence Project is utilizing CoCounsel, the GPT-4-powered AI legal assistant from Casetext, to help level the access to justice playing field on the back end by streamlining the process for exonerating the wrongfully convicted.

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Kim joins the iManage Technology Partner Program 

Legal IT Insiders

No-code document generation and workflow automation tool Kim has joined the iManage Technology Partner Program, meaning the pair will be working far more closely together going forward. As an … Kim joins the iManage Technology Partner Program Read More » The post Kim joins the iManage Technology Partner Program appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Harvey AI Raises $21M In A Series A Round Led By Sequoia

Legal Tech Monitor

The generative AI legal tech startup Harvey has raised $21 million in a Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital. When I first wrote about Harvey in November , the previously stealth startup had just emerged with news that it had raised $5 million in funding led by the startup fund of OpenAI, the company that is the developer of the GPT AI technology.

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Maurice Turnor Gardner live on NetDocuments

Legal IT Insiders

Boutique private client law firm Maurice Turnor Gardner has been live on NetDocuments for around four months following an implementation that they say took three months led by Accesspoint Legal … Maurice Turnor Gardner live on NetDocuments Read More » The post Maurice Turnor Gardner live on NetDocuments appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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Announcing the Winners of the First LawNext Authors’ Giveaway and the Start of Our Second Giveaway During May

Legal Tech Monitor

In February, as a way to provide a gamified incentive for authors to contribute articles to the resources library on the LawNext Legal Technology Directory , we announced an opportunity for authors to win gift cards for the articles that got the most views. Now, we are announcing the winners of that first round — and we are also kicking off a second round for May, with new opportunities for authors to contribute articles and win gift cards.

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Recent UW Law Faculty Scholarship: The Anatomy of Cancel Culture; The First French BIT; Taxpayers’ Tax Election Regrets; The International Law Origins of Compact Theory: A Critique of Bellia & Clark on Federalism; and Transparency, Accountability, and Influence in the International Investment Law System

Wisblawg

Here is the latest faculty scholarship appearing in the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. The Anatomy of Cancel Culture 2 Journal of Free Speech Law 205 (2022) by FRANCISKA COLEMAN , UW Law School In this paper, I undertake a qualitative exploration of how social regulation of speech works in practice on university campuses, and of the extent to which social regulation in practice affirms or undermines the stereotypes and caricatures that ch

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Revolutionizing Legal Practice: The Impact of CaseText’s CoCounsel on Law and Technology with Pablo Arredondo, Evan Shenkman, and Darth Vaughn (TGIR Ep. 199)

Legal Tech Monitor

In this episode of “The Geek in Review,” hosts Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer engage in a fascinating conversation with legal technology experts ⁠ Pablo Arredondo ⁠ , ⁠ Evan Shenkman ⁠ , and ⁠ Darth Vaughn ⁠. They discuss their proactive approach to incorporating AI technology, specifically ⁠ CaseText’s CoCounsel ⁠ , into their legal practice and business operations.

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Kim joins the iManage Technology Partner Program 

Legal Tech Monitor

No-code document generation and workflow automation tool Kim has joined the iManage Technology Partner Program, meaning the pair will be working far more closely together going forward. As an. Kim joins the iManage Technology Partner Program Read More » The post Kim joins the iManage Technology Partner Program appeared first on Legal IT Insider.

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