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Access to Justice Requires Access to Law. So Why Aren’t the Advocates of Each More Closely Aligned?

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legal system. The Legal Services Corporation estimates that 92% of the civil legal problems of the roughly 50 million low-income Americans receive no or insufficient legal help. Two travesties persist in tainting access by all to the U.S. One is the gaping lack of access to justice.

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How is AI Used in Legal Technology?

Lawmatics

Document Review AI-powered algorithms can quickly review and analyze large volumes of legal documents, contracts, and case law to obtain pertinent information, identify patterns, and flag potential issues. However, it will also require ongoing adaptation, training, and careful consideration of ethical and regulatory issues.

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How Harvey’s AI Technology is Disrupting the Legal Industry and Garnering Investments from OpenAI

CaseFox

Its flagship product is an AI-powered legal research assistant that can understand legal language and retrieve relevant case law and statutes in real time. By doing so, Harvey aims to save lawyers time and money and help them provide better legal services to their clients.

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Block Billing: Why To Avoid It + Tips To Bill More Efficiently

MyCase

Block billing is a legal billing practice in which multiple tasks are grouped together under a single time entry instead of itemizing each task individually. For example, instead of listing separate times for reviewing case law, drafting a motion, and attending a client deposition, they are all combined into one block of hours.

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Leaving Your Firm? Aim for a Joint Notice to Clients

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For example, you should not urge them to pack up their business; rather, you should let diligence in their matters steer your willingness and ability to continue providing legal services in their direction. It must be clear that the client has the ultimate right to decide who will complete or continue their business.

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Project Management Tools for Attorneys

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Those predictions have fallen flat across the legal sector. Instead, in the past decade, the popularity of legal project management has grown exponentially. Offering a legal service is, of course, quite different from developing a new disinfectant, or building a software application or a material object.

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Everything You Should Know About AI Legal Tech

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It can also help with legal research, finding relevant case laws or statutes quickly without endless hours of manual searching. Natural Language Processing (NLP) Natural language processing is what helps AI tools make sense of human language, even the complex and technical terms often used in legal documents.