Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 4, 2024

For visitors to the site, they can search for papers using keywords or by browse papers by their subject. With the goal of making legal scholarship freely available outside of “proprietary and predatory frameworks,” Yale Law School has launched Law Archive , a free and open archive for publishing legal scholarship.

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MARCH 4, 2024

At LegalWeek and TechShow, the clear message was that Gen AI will disrupt legal as nothing before and that lawyers and law firms are rushing to adopt and use the technology like nothing ever before. Most of them were genuinely frightened about using Gen AI Boy, I was in for a dose of reality. Or so I thought.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The merchant’s Amazon product listing: I use a nearly identical example in my SAD Scheme paper : an Amazon listing description using the word “emoji” to describe a poop emoji displayed on a mug. This is a SAD Scheme case from one of my least-favorite rightsowners, Emojico. (I One defendant fought back.

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LawSites

MARCH 9, 2023

Zuva , the company that spun off from Kira Systems after Kira was acquired by Litera in 2021, is offering a completely free version of its AI-powered contract review technology, which can be used by anyone just by uploading contracts to Zuva’s website. This is free.” You can access the tool directly from the Zuva home page.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The screens all use an if-then statement predicated on a user’s click (by submitting your order, you agree to the TOS) and place the call-to-action near the “order” button, albeit in different places (above, below, to the side). NOTE: The Meyer case enforced a TOS linked using a blue font that was underlined.

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Above the Law - Technology

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In both of today’s interviews, we talk about those new products and others, as well as the company’s longer-term product roadmap. Even though I interviewed Watson and Kashyap separately, their roles at Clio are intertwined. Thank You To Our Sponsors This episode of LawNext is generously made possible by our sponsors.

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Legal Tech Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It has the abilities to check defined terms, locate critical clauses, draft revisions, and summarize a contract in seconds. Users can ask any questions about their contract – including its amendments and exhibits – and get answers on legal and business terms instantly. Contracts are confidential and must remain so.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Our projects in 2023 included a brand-new dictionary with thousands of legal and business terms, as well as numerous 50-state surveys on topics extending from family law, personal injury, and criminal law to employment law and consumer protection. Understanding these terms can empower someone facing a dispute or engaging in a transaction.

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Kevin O'Keefe

MARCH 12, 2024

I searched under the term, Artificial Intelligence, versus AI. It only makes sense that we make effective use of the insight that law firms are publishing on AI. I was not trying to exclude other law firms, large or small, I was looking to get an idea of the amount of publishing on AI being done by law firms. Verticals other than AI.

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Kevin O'Keefe

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Did we have coverage for possible claims arising out of the use of AI? The lawyers are not using Lou to write for them, but as an assistant. Finally, their are LexBlog’s Terms of Service which provide protection for each LexBlog and users. Tech, products, sales and support had their on list.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

The named plaintiff created a WSBTV account by opting to log in using Facebook. That choice led the plaintiff to this screen: If plaintiff had clicked on the “Terms” link at the bottom right, it would have led to CMG’s “Visitor Agreement” that included an arbitration clause.

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Inside Privacy

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

While the EU Directive on Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts prohibits certain clauses in standard ( i.e. , unilaterally imposed) contracts between businesses and consumers, some recently enacted EU laws restrict the use of certain clauses in standard contracts between businesses (“B2B”). As such, it has a potentially very wide scope.

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Clio

APRIL 15, 2024

With over one in five lawyers already using AI in their practices according to the Legal Trends Report , it’s safe to say that AI is here to stay. More than a year after signing on, many law firms became aware of a term of use stating that Microsoft was entitled to retain and manually review certain user prompts.

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Dewey B Strategic

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

LegalOn Technologies, has launched LegalOn Assistant , which can answer contract questions, draft clauses, summarize contract terms, and more. According to US CEO Daniel Lewis, “LegalOn Assistant is an extension of your legal team. It saves you time, handles mundane tasks, and is easy to use in day-to-day work.”

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Dennis Kennedy

AUGUST 17, 2023

The Michigan State Law Review Forum has published my article titled “ Displaying and Evidencing Contract Terms in a Post-Visual Era.” In this article, I explore the challenges that come with the increasing use of non-visual transactions, interfaces, and devices in today’s contracting landscape.

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Legal Tech Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

It creates structured data points on the fly, so one can track precisely the terms an organization cares about and make informed, strategic business decisions on the go. It can extract terms of any level of granularity – dates, monetary amounts, entities, legal “terms of art,” and more.

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TechnoLlama

JUNE 21, 2023

If you have been around tech circles, you may have heard the use of the term Web3 (or Web 3.0). was the read-only web, static websites, while Web 2.0 was the read-write Internet characterised by interactive websites, social media, the cloud, and user-generated content. Web3 is the read-write-own […]

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Martindale-Avvo

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Whether they’re involved in long term marriages (27 years like Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness) or short marriages (14 months like Britney Spears and Sam Ashgari), celebrities, like average couples, sometimes find themselves in the unfortunate situation where a marriage does not work out. As they can see, these terms do, in fact, matter.

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lennyesq

MARCH 23, 2024

3d 1581 (4th Dept 11/17/23), that the petitioner’s use of her property as a short-term vacation rental was not per se prohibited under the town’s single-family zoning. The Fourth Department held in Matter of Friedman v. Town of Dunkirk , 221 A.D.3d This was not the correct interpretation.

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Kevin O'Keefe

JUNE 1, 2023

But I’d guess a quarter of existing legal tech companies are working on product offerings using A.I. The New York Times’ Yiren Lu reports that A.I. has exploded in the eyes of company founders and venture capitalists alike. Not referring to legal tech specifically, Lu shares, “One appeal of generative A.I. company or an A.I. Of course not.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

Key takeaways: We got anonymized and summarized data for 10 corporate legal departments from LexisNexis CounselLink The data showed that almost 40% of time entries, representing 47% of billings, could potentially use Generative AI. These are quite vague and wide open to interpretation.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

LegalOn Technologies, has launched LegalOn Assistant , which can answer contract questions, draft clauses, summarize contract terms, and more. According to US CEO Daniel Lewis, “LegalOn Assistant is an extension of your legal team. It saves you time, handles mundane tasks, and is easy to use in day-to-day work.”

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Inside Privacy

MARCH 21, 2023

Sensitive data is defined as racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, mental or physical health diagnosis, sexual orientation, or citizenship or immigration status, except to the extent such data is used to avoid discrimination; genetic or biometric data; personal data collected from a known child; and precise geolocation data (i.e.,

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Martindale-Avvo

MAY 7, 2024

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) create deep fakes using advanced algorithms that manipulate large datasets of videos, images, and sounds to create new, fake content that appears genuine. While the term might be new, there’s nothing novel about the manipulation of data. What Is a Deep Fake?

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Martindale-Avvo

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Learn how your firm can use strategic business planning to embrace emerging technology and stay ahead of the curve. As you set your objectives, diversify your short- and long-term strategies to ensure your business plan meets your needs today and in the future. This evolution holds as true for law firms as any other business.

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The court summarizes: “Meta claims that it raised issues with Plaintiffs, including “nominative fair use,” “commentary,” and “the un-likelihood of confusion based on the appearance of the marks in the actual marketplace, as they will be encountered by consumers.””

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Martindale-Avvo

MARCH 28, 2023

When you use SEO best practices, you increase the chances that your target audience will find you when they use a search engine like Google to search for keywords related to your law firm’s services. By using PPC, you can attract potential clients already looking for legal services who are ready to hire. What is SEO?

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Using legal data for strategic law firm planning is no longer reserved for BigLaw. For law firms, it’s critical to gather intelligence about real-time trends that are creating sharp and sudden changes as well as longer-term trends affecting the overall health of your markets. Short-Term Trends.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The contract review company LegalOn Technologies today released LegalOn Assistant , a generative AI chat interface that can answer questions about your contracts, draft clauses, summarize contract terms, and more. You can ask the assistant to draft clauses and revisions that fit the rest of your contract and match existing defined terms.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The contract review company LegalOn Technologies today released LegalOn Assistant , a generative AI chat interface that can answer questions about your contracts, draft clauses, summarize contract terms, and more. You can ask the assistant to draft clauses and revisions that fit the rest of your contract and match existing defined terms.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 24, 2023

But the question of who can access and use that data, and for what purposes, is a tricky legal question, which gets trickier the deeper you dig. And while their terms of use provide the social media companies a license to use that user-generated content, it is their users who typically have a copyright interest in their content.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Data scientists and engineers unpacked some of the key terms used by legal technology vendors to describe their approach to generative AI, whether it be “customizing” models, “training” them or “fine-tuning.” Though they’re often used interchangeably, these strategies can vary significantly.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

APRIL 19, 2024

Harry Brignull coined the term to refer to “tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you did not mean to, like buying or signing up for something.” However, these forms of consent have proven ineffective since consumers are neither aware of the actual terms nor the exploitation of the data collected.

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LawSites

AUGUST 16, 2023

One of the challenges of using artificial intelligence software for contract review is training the AI to conform to a company’s unique preferences regarding clauses and key terms. Creating Models To use AI Trainer, a user starts by creating a training project for a particular clause to be extracted.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The court ruled that websites’ hyperlinking to the companies’ terms of use section was sufficient notice of the arbitration provision in underlying litigation group of consumers filed six class actions

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Legal IT Professionals

JANUARY 31, 2024

The newly released study found that general counsel are placing more emphasis on developing technical acuity and embracing innovation than in previous years, and 75% expect to use generative artificial intelligence in the legal function in the near term. FTI Consulting, Inc.

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Eric Goldman

APRIL 26, 2023

“Amazon claimed Jackson accepted [the 2019 TOS] by continuing to make deliveries after being emailed a copy of the new terms… Amazon, however, did not produce a copy of the 2019 email notifying drivers of the new TOS, nor did it provide any evidence that Jackson received such an email.” The Ninth Circuit disagrees.

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