Law Sites

MARCH 6, 2024

Hotshot , a learning platform for legal professionals, today released the first five courses in a planned series designed to teach lawyers and other legal professionals about artificial intelligence and its impact on law practice. The overall set of AI videos is designed to teach lawyers about the technology, its use cases for law practice, its risks and ethical considerations, its impact on different practice areas, and more.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 5, 2024

Three tips to improve your law firm call-answer process, because the phone remains the tool of choice for people searching for a lawyer. The post New Client Onboarding: 5 Tips to Win Over New Clients appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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InHouseBlog

MARCH 8, 2024

Research before your in-house interview – of course you should! It is universally understood that you should research the company with which you are interviewing. Know the key players of the company, the origins of the company, its mission statement, and any other details that you can glean from the company’s website. Take some time to Google the company; get up-to-speed about the directors of the company, learn whether the company has undergone any new changes such as restructuring, acqui

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2024

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Thursday, March 7, vacated a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that had held unpatentable certain claims to CoolIT Systems, Inc.’s patent. U.S. Patent 9,057,567 is titled “Fluid Heat Exchange Systems” and is directed to a system for fluid heat transfer to cool electronic devices.

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Advertiser: Trellis

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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Law Sites

MARCH 7, 2024

Back in 2018, something remarkable happened. T he Caselaw Access Project , part of Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab , completed its three-year project to digitize all U.S. case law — some 6.4 million cases dating all the way back to 1658, a span of 360 years. It was a massive project that scanned 38.6 million pages from 39,796 law books and converted it all into machine-readable text files, creating a collection that included 6.4 million published cases (and which has continued to

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 7, 2024

Jay Harrington | Constraints can inhibit your success or be a catalyst for high performance. The post Embrace Constraints to Build Your Legal Practice appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2024

This week in Other Barks and Bites: Amazon and Huawei resolve their patent dispute by closing a global patent agreement; the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) arrests a Chinese citizen accused of stealing proprietary information from Google, and the Bank of America announces patent growth with focus on AI.

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Law Sites

MARCH 6, 2024

For solo and small law firms, the current state of legal technology offers both promises and pitfalls. Technology such as generative AI poses traps for the unwary, but for those who understand and embrace technology, there are opportunities to run more profitable and efficient practices, provide better customer experiences, and improve work-life balance.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 6, 2024

Law firms’ ability to leverage state trial court data brings their business and competitive intelligence capabilities to a new level. The post Primer on Using State Court Trial Data for Business and Competitive Intelligence appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

In this episode of “The Geek in Review,” co-hosts Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer engage with Dan Lear , VP of Partnerships at InfoTrack, capturing insights from the latest LegalWeek 2024 conference. Lear shares his observations on the evolving landscape of legal technology, noting the increased diversity of technologies present at the conference compared to previous years.

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Advertiser: Trellis

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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IP Watchdog

MARCH 7, 2024

This week was an above-average one for patent filings in both the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and in district courts. The PTAB had two new post grant review (PGR) petitions and 39 new inter partes review (IPR) petitions, for a total of 41 new filings. And the district court also had heightened activity with 75 new filings.

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Law Sites

MARCH 5, 2024

By Ari Kaplan, Ari Kaplan Advisors [Sponsored Post] In collaboration with Affinity Consulting , iManage , and SurePoint Technologies , I was fortunate to interview 18 chief operating officers, 10 executive directors, one chief executive officer, and one chief administrative officer at law firms, with a median of 140 professionals and 73 lawyers, between February 21, 2023, and March 15, 2023, to better understand the most promising areas for growth, best practices for change management, and h

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 8, 2024

Danielle DavisRoe | Here's how lawyers can use Microsoft's new AI tool. The post Microsoft Copilot for Lawyers: Is It Worth the Money? appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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Ethicking

MARCH 8, 2024

My latest column, “ The Story of Stuff ,” is out in the latest Wisconsin Lawyer magazine. It’s a little less snarky than usual, but I still got to reference George Carlin, mainframe punch cards, and the entropy-in-action that is my desk. (My own office rarely gets to the level of the free stock photo illustrating this blog entry, and we can be thankful for small favors.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2024

Panelists on day one of IPWatchdog’s Artificial Intelligence Masters 2024 program painted a sometimes-grim picture of the current state of generative AI (GAI) tools and the ways in which they are currently being deployed in the United States, but seemed convinced overall that the kinks would be worked out once lawmakers and courts catch up, as they have done with past disruptive technologies.

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Law Sites

MARCH 6, 2024

Henchman , a legal tech startup that provides legal teams with quick access to their previously written contract clauses and definitions directly within Microsoft Word, today released what it says is a first-of-its-kind integration with Microsoft Copilot through which Copilot users will be able to surface clauses and precedents from their document management systems that had been processed by Henchman. “This pioneering collaboration empowers legal professionals to harness the power of coll

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The Cloud Court Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

Cloud Court is happy to announce a new member of our team, Misti Okerlund. As Cloud Court's Litigation Project Manager, Misti manages client projects and supports production and customer experience. She is an experienced attorney who has exceptional attention to detail and she is a litigator who has managed many complex cases. Most importantly, Misti has walked in our customers’ shoes and understands the complexities and rhythms of civil litigation from multiple perspectives.

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Planet Depos

MARCH 5, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a game changer across various sectors, and intellectual property (IP) law is no exception. As AI technologies continue to evolve at a rapid pace, legal professionals will see a surge in IP litigation, ranging from patent infringement cases to copyright issues surrounding AI-generated content. One of the primary hurdles of […] The post Navigating the Intersection of AI and Intellectual Property Law appeared first on Planet Depos.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 7, 2024

As of today, the world’s major platforms—Apple, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and ByteDance—must be in full compliance with the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), an EU regulation intended to level the playing field in the digital marketplace. Signed into law in September 2022, the DMA imposed a complex regulatory framework upon the major Internet services platforms that are deemed to be “gatekeepers” (i.e. have a market capitalization of at least €75 billion [$83 billion USD]) due

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Law Sites

MARCH 5, 2024

Two years ago, Clio , the law practice management company, made an offer that some law firms might have found difficult to refuse. It offered to buy them out of up to six months of their contracts with competing practice management platforms if they switched to Clio’s platform. Now Clio is reviving that offer, which it calls its Break Free Program , targeting what it describes as outdated systems and “the shackles of long-term contracts.” “From now until April 30, 2024, law f

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Legally Speaking

MARCH 3, 2024

In this special edition of the Legally Speaking Podcast, we take you on a journey through the highlights and defining moments of our seventh season. Host Rob Hanna revisits the top five episodes that resonated most with our audience, showcasing the diversity, innovation, and influential insights that have defined our series.

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Ethicking

MARCH 3, 2024

Last week, CNN reported that Wisconsin native and fake elector lawyer Ken Chesebro not only had an anonymous Twitter/X account, “@BadgerPundit,” but denied its existence to Michigan investigators. The account was actually created back when then-Governor Scott Walker dropped the Act 10 bomb, incidentally right around the same time I created my own, very much not anonymous Twitter account (it’s @EthickingStacie now, naturally, but was something else then).

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2024

On March 5, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential decision in Pfizer Inc. v. Sanofi Pasteur Inc. affirming lower rulings by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that invalidated Pfizer’s patent claims and denied motions to amend (MTA). Although the Federal Circuit vacated the PTAB’s MTA denials with respect to two patent claims, the ruling adds new contours to the appellate court’s case law on obviousness in ways that could affect companies that are p

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Law Sites

MARCH 8, 2024

Launched just four months ago by engineers who previously worked for Uber, Google and Amazon, Traact , a SaaS platform that integrates a range of corporate functions in an all-in-one platform, today said it has entered into a strategic partnership with Klea , a Belgium-based provider of AI-enabled legal entity management. The partnership will enable the companies to more effectively serve corporate legal departments and law firm clients on a global scale, they say, benefitting clients in North a

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The Marshall Project

MARCH 5, 2024

What voters need to know about the judicial candidates on the Nov. 5 general election ballot.

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Lawmatics

MARCH 6, 2024

As the foreign-born population surpassed 46 million in 2022, immigration lawyers have an expanding potential client base. Concurrently, the immigration system is straining under an enormous backlog–with over 2 million pending cases as of October 2023, triple the amount from 2017. This backlog decelerates case resolutions and imposes considerable challenges on law firms, including extended case durations and increased client uncertainty.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2024

IPWatchdog’s Artificial Intelligence Masters™ wrapped up today with panels exploring how to get AI patents past Sections 101 and 112 at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and, ultimately, granted, as well as Ethics and AI. But yesterday’s day-long program also included an award for the latest IPWatchdog Masters™ Hall of Famer, James Pooley, who IPWatchdog CEO and founder Gene Quinn called “the leading expert on trade secrets in the world.

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Law Sites

MARCH 5, 2024

One of the most talked-about legal technologies of the last few years is contract lifecycle management software. But a survey released today finds that the majority of companies do not use CLM software at all, and of those that do have a dedicated CLM system, most use it only on a limited basis. Instead of CLM systems, most companies are using document management systems to store and manage their contracts — systems such as SharePoint, Google Drive, local drives, or commercial DMS products.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

In the fourth round of interviews of “The Geek in Review” podcast’s mini-series “Love & Legal Tech,” hosts Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer chat with Chris Ford and Nikki Shaver , the dynamic couple behind the Legal Technology Hub. Their project, conceived out of necessity and frustration with the lack of a single source of truth for legal technology solutions, has grown into a thriving business that categorizes and reviews over 2000 legal tech products, aiding law firms and corporate legal

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 5, 2024

On March 4, the European Commission announced that it had levied a fine of more than €1.8 billion ($1.95 billion USD) against American consumer tech giant Apple over app restrictions employed by Apple’s App Store. The massive fine, which the Commission increased to ensure it was sufficiently deterrent to Apple’s anti-competitive practices, is the latest in a series of legal actions within the European Union (EU) to target dominant Internet platforms under competition law.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 5, 2024

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) in a precedential decision today mostly upheld a district court ruling that found Chewy, Inc. did not infringe several claims of one IBM web advertising patent and that granted summary judgment of patent ineligibility on certain claims of another. However, the decision, authored by Chief Judge Kimberly Moore, reversed the district court’s finding of noninfringement on one of the five asserted claims of one patent, remanding the case for fu

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2024

A large number of businesses trade through online platforms and marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay. Consumers may believe that because goods are listed on a well-known trusted platform, they are authentic, and the sellers have been approved in some way by the service provider. Unfortunately, as too many business owners are aware, e-commerce platforms offer counterfeiters and infringers a relatively easy way of offering their infringing goods for sale.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2024

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential decision today reversing the Western District of Texas district court’s indefiniteness analysis and explaining that it improperly found a contradiction between two claim limitations to arrive at its indefiniteness holding. Amperex Technology Limited filed an action seeking declaratory judgment of noninfringement and challenged the validity of certain claims of Maxell, Ltd.’s U.S.

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Law Sites

MARCH 6, 2024

Can AI help law firms stem revenue leakage and more efficiently turn their invoices into collected cash? That is the premise behind Oddr , a legal tech startup that recently launched what it says is the legal industry’s first AI-powered invoice to cash platform, centralizing law firm billing, collections, payments and reconciliation in a single product.

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Law Sites

MARCH 4, 2024

One of the challenges of e-discovery for smaller law firms is that so many of the e-discovery products on the market are designed for large cases handled by large law firms, putting them out of range for smaller firms in both price and complexity. For smaller law firms, the leading guide to e-discovery practices and technology has long been, eDiscovery for the Rest of Us , written by e-discovery expert Tom O’Connor , cofounder of the Gulf Coast Legal Technology Center.

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