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Transforming Client Engagement: How AI is Revolutionizing Your Law Firm’s Efficiency

Colin S. Levy

Leverage AI agents to automate client intake, document management, and communication, allowing legal teams to focus on what matters most. The legal industry is undergoing a profound transformation, with artificial intelligence (AI) playing a pivotal role in reshaping traditional processes. In a law firm, one of the most time-consuming and resource-intensive tasks is client engagement—gathering client information, obtaining case facts, and organizing supporting documents.

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ChatGPT Exec Says AI Will Replace $2000/Hr Paralegals… Who Wants To Tell Her?

Above the Law - Technology

Tell me you don't understand this industry without telling me you don't understand this industry. The post ChatGPT Exec Says AI Will Replace $2000/Hr Paralegals… Who Wants To Tell Her? appeared first on Above the Law.

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THE PATH FROM PARALEGAL TO SOLICITOR

Ward Blawg

Foreword by our site’s Founder, Gav Ward: In my travels in the legal sector, one of the most underrated legal professionals is the paralegal. I once heard a story when working with one of our clients at MLT Digital that there was a paralegal who did night classes to become a qualified Solicitor and then […] The post THE PATH FROM PARALEGAL TO SOLICITOR first appeared on WardblawG.

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How Do We Train Junior Lawyers In The Age of AI?

Artificial Lawyer

The questions keep coming up: if genAI will increasingly be able to do process-level work, what happens to the most junior associates? What work will.

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Trellis Launches Trellis AI to Streamline Trial Court Litigation

Trellis AI leverages the largest repository of state trial court data to help litigators evaluate cases, automate brief drafting, suggest winning strategies, and more. Key components: Draft Arguments — Uses similar/successful motions in the Trellis database to generate arguments/citations for your motions seeking dismissal, summary judgment, etc. Case Assessment — Predict the likely outcomes of a case at any stage to help you decide to accept it, guide motion practice, make settlement offers, an

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Artificial Intelligence and Unconscious Bias Risk

LLRX

Elizabeth Sweetland reviews: Meredith Broussard, More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech (MIT Press 2023). 248 Pages. Available from MIT Press, Barnes and Noble and Amazon.

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Supreme Courts of Delaware and Georgia Act to Regulate Use of Generative AI in the Courts

Above the Law - Technology

In a coincidence of timing that reflects how legal professionals are wrestling with issues around generative artificial intelligence, the supreme courts of Delaware and Georgia issued orders within a day of each other last week relating to the use of AI in the courts and by legal professionals. On Oct.

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Why End-to-End Document Creation Is the Next Big Focus

Artificial Lawyer

By Judie Rahman, Senior Solutions Manager at BigHand. BigHand recently surveyed over 800 legal professionals and found 35% of participating law firms confirmed that reviewing.

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20 years of TechnoLlama

TechnoLlama

On the 20th of October 2024, this blog turned 20 years old. I’ve been both dreading and looking forward to this milestone.

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Attention Legal Tech Startups: Applications Now Open for the 9th Annual Startup Alley and Pitch Competition at ABA TECHSHOW 2025

Above the Law - Technology

Ever since Startup Alley first launched in 2017, the pitch competition has helped catapult the success of a long list of legal technology startups and become a seminal event of the American Bar Association’s annual TECHSHOW.

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AI in Finance and Banking, October 31, 2024

LLRX

This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government reports, NGO/IGO papers, industry white papers, academic papers and speeches on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and as available, indicate links to alternate free versions.

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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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Product Walk Through: Steno – GenAI Transcript Analysis

Artificial Lawyer

This week’s Product Walk Through is with Steno and its Transcript Genius capability, which leverages genAI to provide a range of court transcript analysis features.

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Virtual Casino’s “Sign-in-Wrap” Formation Fails–Kuhk v. Playstudio

Eric Goldman

This case involves the following screens: You may need to enlarge the images to see the purported call-to-action. In the top image, it’s purple lettering on a purple background. Serisouly, who does that? The green one is only slightly easier to see. The court (correctly) calls this implementation a “sign-in-wrap” (ugh), but still goes through the standard analysis to identify consumers’ manifestation of assent.

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4th Circuit Shoots Down ‘Unite The Right’ Protester’s Attempt To Turn The Consequences Of His Own Actions Into A Constitutional Violation

Above the Law - Technology

From the better-be-doing-right-before-you-complain-about-your-rights dept The post 4th Circuit Shoots Down ‘Unite The Right’ Protester’s Attempt To Turn The Consequences Of His Own Actions Into A Constitutional Violation appeared first on Above the Law.

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AI in Finance and Banking

LLRX

This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government reports, NGO/IGO papers, industry white papers, academic papers and speeches on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and as available, indicate links to alternate free versions.

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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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This Is It, Final Ticket Sale: Legal Innovators UK – Nov 6 + 7

Artificial Lawyer

As the song goes, it’s the final countdown… Legal Innovators UK the pioneering legal tech conference is taking place next week on November 6 and.

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Ticketmaster’s Attempt to Game Arbitration Services Fails–Heckman v. Live Nation

Eric Goldman

In an effort to curb mass arbitration, Ticketmaster sought to switch arbitration service providers to New Era ADR, including for past ticket purchases. New Era incorporated some defense-favorable provisions to its mass arbitration provision. The Ninth Circuit holds those provisions go too far and are procedurally and substantively unconscionable. This opinion contains enough criticism to go around, especially with respect to New Era’s policies and practices.

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Will Generative AI Actually Expand Access To Justice?

Above the Law - Technology

Generative AI has the potential to transform the legal landscape -- not by replacing lawyers but by enabling them to work more efficiently. The post Will Generative AI Actually Expand Access To Justice? appeared first on Above the Law.

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LLRX October 2024 Issue

LLRX

Artificial Intelligence and Unconscious Bias Risk – Elizabeth Sweetland reviews: Meredith Broussard, More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech (MIT Press 2023). 248 Pages. Available from MIT Press, Barnes and Noble and Amazon 2024. Trump’s Election Lawyers Must Heed Their Ethical Duties – Attorneys Stephen Marcus and Bruce Kuhlik discuss the.

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Legal Innovators UK Is Next Week!

Artificial Lawyer

After months of planning and bringing together expert speakers from across law firms, inhouse and legal tech companies, Legal Innovators UK is happening next week.

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Humanizing Legal Tech: A Chat With Judge Victoria Pratt

Clio

As legal technology advances at an astonishing pace, it’s easy to overlook the most crucial element of its success: people. At the 2024 Clio Cloud Conference , we sat down with Judge Victoria Pratt , a passionate advocate for criminal justice reform. Her message? While technology plays a central role in shaping the future of law, true justice can only be achieved through human connection.

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Building CoPilot’s CoPilot (For Lawyers)

Above the Law - Technology

Microsoft's CoPilot could become the default AI for business. who will make it work for legal? The post Building CoPilot’s CoPilot (For Lawyers) appeared first on Above the Law.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 26, 2024

LLRX

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.

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How It Works: Demo of CaseMark’s AI-Powered Legal Document Summary Generator

LawSites

In this week’s episode of our video series How it Works, I received a demonstration of Casemark, a legal document summarizer intended to improve deposition summaries, trial summaries, and more. In the founders’ words: CaseMark has strived to build the “easy button” for AI-in-legal that won’t get attorneys in trouble.

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Becoming the Best Version of Yourself Doesn’t Mean Being Perfect

Attorney at Work

Gray Robinson | There are many ways to self-motivate, but beating yourself up is not sustainable. The post Becoming the Best Version of Yourself Doesn’t Mean Being Perfect appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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The Three Principles of Responsible AI Development, and Other Takeaways from the Everlaw Summit

Above the Law - Technology

At the Everlaw Summit in San Francisco last week, the annual customer conference of the e-discovery company Everlaw, founder and CEO AJ Shankar delivered a keynote address in which he announced the general availability of three generative AI features the company first introduced last year and had been developing in beta ever since.

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How Meta Brings in Millions Off Political Violence

LLRX

CalMatters and The Markup used Facebook’s AI model to count the millions of dollars it makes after violent news events By Colin Lecher and Tomas Apodaca.

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Spellbook Taps Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law For Contract Data

Artificial Lawyer

Legal genAI pioneer, Spellbook, is forming a close integration with Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law contract database, allowing users to tap both systems while drafting. The.

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NetDocuments Envisions a Smarter Future for Legal Teams

Legal Practice Intelligence

At its annual user conference, Inspire, NetDocuments unveiled its vision of “the intelligent document management system” (DMS) of the future, signalling the transformation of the DMS from an essential content management platform to the.

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Ask Attorney Jennifer B.: What are relationship contracts?

Martindale-Avvo

A new trend is developing between couples who are looking to define their respective roles and set boundaries, called relationship contracts. Not to be confused with legally binding contracts between two parties, these “contracts” are not typically legally binding but rather intended to be used to establish mutual understandings between those involved in a romantic relationship.

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Threatening ‘the enemy within’ with force: Military ethicists explain the danger to important American traditions

LLRX

Marcus Hedahl , Professor of Philosophy, United States Naval Academy and Bradley Jay Strawser , Professor of Philosophy, Naval Postgraduate School worry that Trump’s actions while president, and his comments about his plans for a potential second term, may put the military in a tough position. The July 1, 2024, Supreme Court ruling giving the president immunity for official acts – potentially including as commander in chief of the military – would make that tough position even more difficult.

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Webinar: How Will GenAI Change Legal Education + Training?

Artificial Lawyer

Artificial Lawyer and LexisNexis are teaming up to bring you a series of webinars with the best experts and latest insights so you can stay ahead of legal AI.

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Wolters Kluwer: 2024 Future Ready Lawyer Survey

Legal Practice Intelligence

Key takeaways from the survey 76% of legal professionals in corporate legal departments use GenAI at least once a week, as do 68% of their counterparts in law firms; over.

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Lower Your E-Discovery Costs with CloudNine Review

CloudNine

By Jacob K Hesse When it comes to e-Discovery processing and hosting for analysis, review, and production, you need a platform that is intuitive, fast, and that all data and processes are completely contained in one platform. You also need price predictability and the core features and functions that will lead you to successful outcomes, from collection through production.

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How your online world could change if big tech companies like Google are forced to break up

LLRX

The Department of Justice may be on the verge of seeking a break-up of Google in a bid to make it less dominant. ,,,,,strong>Renaud Foucart explains that if the government goes ahead and is successful in the courts, it could mean the company being split into separate entities – a search engine, an advertising company, a video website, a mapping app – which would not be allowed to share data with each other.

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