Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

million pre-seed funding round led by two venture capital firms, Maple , which invests in companies with Canadian roots, and Haystack , which invests in early-stage companies. The lawsuit forced ROSS to shut down its operations , which it did effective Jan. See all my coverage of the Thomson Reuters-ROSS litigation.

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Martindale-Avvo

JUNE 18, 2025

The landscape of mass torts in 2025 builds on the active litigation from the past few years. Litigation over PFAS in various arenas could continue as these chemicals are in products as diverse as packaging and carpets. Despite the settling of about two-thirds of lawsuits , there are more than 54,000 cases still pending.

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Brett Trout

MARCH 5, 2025

Ayala does not appear to have learned that the cases were non-existent until the court identified the questionable cases and issued an order to show cause demanding the attorneys and law firms involved produce the cited cases or face sanctions.

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Lineal Services

AUGUST 11, 2023

A Guide for Law Firms: Optimizing Legal Outcomes with Advanced eDiscovery Techniques In the continuously changing world of law, being up to speed on the newest technology is not only useful but necessary. Law firms must wrangle an increasingly complex web of electronic data as the digital frontier grows.

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Legal Expert Connections

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Advertisements have become a powerful tool for plaintiff lawyers specializing in mass litigation, according to a Wall Street Journal article titled “The Latest Ad Boom: Lawyers Seeking Plaintiffs for Mass Litigation” published in January 2024. a national law firm marketing agency.

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Legal Tech Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Pre/Dicta , claiming itself the only litigation analytics platform that makes predictions about the outcome of federal lawsuits, announced the acquisition of Gavelytics, a pioneering judicial analytics platform for state court cases. This deal is a major milestone for Pre/Dicta and the entire field of predictive litigation analytics.

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Colin S. Levy

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Innovations in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI (GenAI), cloud computing, and data analytics, present both challenges and opportunities for law firms and in-house legal departments. For law firms, prioritizing these areas preserves billable hours while improving operational efficiency.

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MatterSuite

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Because of their effective organizational skills and knowledge of law, they affect the dynamics of the ever-dynamic legal world. Legal assistants, also called litigation assistants, mainly perform ancillary work and work at the strategic and administrative levels to support the legal profession. What does a legal assistant do?

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LawSites

JANUARY 26, 2022

A new product uses historical data, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to value cases and predict outcomes in automobile warranty litigation, with the goal of helping manufacturers resolve Lemon Law and warranty claims more accurately, more quickly, and at lower cost.

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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Understanding Litigation Finance Litigation finance is when a third-party invests in a lawsuit in hopes of sharing in the profits of a successful verdict. litigation finance companies exist. This survey, conducted over the course of one calendar year, found that these firms invested $2.33

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LawSites

MARCH 26, 2024

In a lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Manhattan, the former chief operating office of a legal technology company claims she was fired after attempting to exercise stock options valued at over $1 million. The defendants have not yet filed an answer in the lawsuit.

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CaseFox

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The legal proceedings can be broadly categorised into civil and criminal litigation, each governed by distinct laws and procedures. Understanding the key differences between these two types of lawsuits could be extremely helpful if you ever find yourself in a difficult circumstance.

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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2023

In 2020, ALM , publisher of legal news sites including Law.com, The American Lawyer and New York Law Journal, launched Law.com Radar , a service that delivers custom-tailored news drawn from court dockets, with a unique twist — its news summaries are generated algorithmically, then quickly reviewed by human editors.

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The pace of litigation is dizzying. 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. Case outcomes.

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Legal Tech Monitor

MARCH 22, 2023

In 2020, ALM , publisher of legal news sites including Law.com, The American Lawyer and New York Law Journal, launched Law.com Radar , a service that delivers custom-tailored news drawn from court dockets, with a unique twist — its news summaries are generated algorithmically, then quickly reviewed by human editors.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Target customer: In-house legal departments and law firm attorneys who serve as outside general counsel. Target customer: Law departments in 2022 and expanding into law firms in 2023. Target customer: Solo to small firms, legal departments. Demo video: Video on page: [link]. Business users $49/mo.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A 25-person legal technology company in California is fighting back against one of the world’s largest law firms in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea. Attorneys at Akin Gump declined to discuss the lawsuit. Series of Meetings.

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Percipient

APRIL 22, 2023

If the subpoena issued is in federal litigation, your company is likely responsible for the cost of compliance, especially if it has a connection to the litigation. The law firm produced the documents but sought reimbursement for over $44,000 spent complying with the subpoena. Who covers the expense in responding to it?

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Percipient

JANUARY 20, 2025

For instance, machine learning can predict litigation risks based on similar cases, identify trends that might impact a client, or flag unusual clauses in contracts that might need extra attention. Its a lifesaver for law firms or teams dealing with tons of paperwork. Are Law Firms Keeping Up With AI Technology?

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LawSites

JANUARY 26, 2022

A new product uses historical data, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to value cases and predict outcomes in automobile warranty litigation, with the goal of helping manufacturers resolve Lemon Law and warranty claims more accurately, more quickly, and at lower cost.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has lost its bid to dismiss four of five counterclaims filed by the legal technology company Xcential Legislative Technologies in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

If a law firm is unable even to decide whether its staff should return to the office, or when that return should happen, or how to structure that return, then how can that firm implement lasting and innovative changes in its technology infrastructure and systems? This is not to say that 2021 was without innovation.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 21, 2023

This is one of several ideologically motivated lawsuits against YouTube for allegedly engaging in “discriminatory” content moderation. The initial cohort of plaintiffs were conservatives (Prager); but then as a purported “gotcha,” the law firm added LGBTQ (Divino) and people of color (Newman) plaintiff cohorts.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 21, 2023

The opinion indicates that, with the help (and maybe the recommendation) of the law firm Gibney Anthony & Flaherty, Athos chose the former. This does make me wonder about Athos’ choice to double-down on the old-fashioned takedown notices, costing lots of time and money, to preserve the lawsuit option.

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Social Media for Law Firms

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

One of the most common pieces of legal advice a client will receive from lawyers during litigation is also the simplest: stay offline. There are a number of reasons — and even law firms have been responsible for breaking these laws. This can result in additional litigation unless those claims can be proved true.

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In what it described as a case pitting “real lawyers against a robot lawyer,” a federal court in Illinois has dismissed a law firm’s suit against the self-help legal service DoNotPay. Another lawsuit alleging unauthorized practice of law by DoNotPay, Faridian v. A second California lawsuit, Lee v.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Fearing overseas defendants will abscond with ill-gotten gains if served with a lawsuit, plaintiffs seek an ex parte temporary restraining order (“TRO”) to freeze funds held by online merchants, then follow up with a request for a preliminary injunction. For a fuller description of the litigation genre and its problems, see my paper.

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Law Technology Today

APRIL 13, 2023

Fast forwarding to January 2023, the NAACP and ACLU scored a critical victory and a first step in their lawsuit, when Judge Mary Geiger Lewis denied a motion to dismiss brought by South Carolina, ruling that litigation to lift the categorical ban on automated data collection of online court records can proceed.

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Lineal Services

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This strategic move enhances Lineal’s ability to deliver industry-leading legal technology services, strengthening support for internal and regulatory investigations, class action lawsuits, IP litigation, offshore litigation, and antitrust investigations—services that are increasingly critical for legal teams across the APAC region.

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Martindale-Avvo

APRIL 18, 2023

The latter category might include class action litigation or car accident lawsuits with seriously injured people. You may want higher volume, low revenue clients – such as middle-income people looking for help with estate planning – or just a few high-paying clients. Once you know your goals, you can develop your plan around them.

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Clio

JUNE 13, 2024

In law, e-discovery refers to the process in which electronically stored information relevant to a legal case is identified, collected, preserved, reviewed and produced. It is a crucial part of modern litigation because so much information is now stored digitally and this information can be vital to the outcome of a case.

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MatterSuite

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

In-house teams are unique from external law firms, which act for many clients, in that these teams are exclusive to the organization. Coordinate with external law firms. General skills as a lawyer having knowledge of the different areas of law. Manage employee disputes and litigation.

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MatterSuite

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

In-house teams are unique from external law firms, which act for many clients, in that these teams are exclusive to the organization. Coordinate with external law firms. General skills as a lawyer having knowledge of the different areas of law. Manage employee disputes and litigation.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

million pre-seed funding round led by two venture capital firms, Maple , which invests in companies with Canadian roots, and Haystack , which invests in early-stage companies. The lawsuit forced ROSS to shut down its operations , which it did effective Jan. See all my coverage of the Thomson Reuters-ROSS litigation.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The Delaware court system is recognized throughout the legal profession as a leading forum for the litigation of business and commercial disputes. Farnan told me the service has already proven to save staff time and resources at his firm, particularly in cases in which he is working with out-of-state counsel in a litigation matter. .

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LawSites

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The Delaware court system is recognized throughout the legal profession as a leading forum for the litigation of business and commercial disputes. Farnan told me the service has already proven to save staff time and resources at his firm, particularly in cases in which he is working with out-of-state counsel in a litigation matter. .

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 14, 2021

District Court for the District of Columbia granted plaintiff Guo Wengui’s motion to compel production of a report (the “Report”)—and related materials—prepared by forensic vendor Duff & Phelps in Guo’s lawsuit against the law firm that formerly represented him, Clark Hill, PLC (the “Firm”). Breach Litig. ,

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