Law Sites

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Editor’s note: The following guest post is a response to my recent post, The Justice Gap in Legal Tech: A Tale of Two Conferences and the Implications for A2J. It is written by Mark Chandler , former chief legal officer at Cisco Systems from 2001- 2021 and now a lecturer in law at Stanford Law School and a fellow at the Stanford’s Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession , where he helps lead the Filing Fairness Project , and Jess Lu , a third year law student at Stanford and a civi

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Bull Garlington | If you’re in your twenties or early thirties, there’s a good chance you are isolated as hell. The post Freemasonry Might Be the Cure for Gen Z Men’s Desperate Loneliness appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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Lawmatics

MARCH 1, 2024

In the world of estate planning, where every detail is pivotal and time is of the essence, mastering your workflows can be the linchpin to unparalleled success and client satisfaction. In our recent Deep Dive Webinar, we dove into the heart of estate planning workflows within Lawmatics, offering a treasure trove of insights on automation, customization, and client engagement.

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Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

There are some fundamental legal concepts about damages that should be incorporated in most personal injury damage cases. Some of the more important ones include a factual introduction followed by a clear overview of the law of damages. It is important the jury understands there is only one trial to cover the past, present and the future of damages.

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Law Sites

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Jimoh Ovbiagele , cofounder in 2014 of the now-shuttered AI legal research startup ROSS Intelligence, is returning to legal tech as chief executive officer of a new startup, Bench IQ , that says it is using generative AI to provide comprehensive insights into the decision-making patterns of judges — based not just on their written rulings, but also their rulings from the bench.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Editing GenAI documents is like eating cotton candy. Here's a quick tip. The post First Rule for Writing With GenAI appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

On February 20, 2024, a Brazilian congress member, Antônio Luiz Rodrigues Mano Júnior (known as Júnior Mano), introduced a bill to amend the national IP Statute (Law #9,279/96) and regulate the ownership of inventions generated by artificial intelligence systems. Bill #303/2024 proposes the addition of a paragraph to Article 6 of the IP Statute, which regulates ownership of inventions, with the following wording: “in the case of inventions autonomously generated by artificial intelligence system

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Law Sites

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

On this episode of LawNext: A conversation about Thomson Reuters’ strategy around generative artificial intelligence with two of the executives most directly responsible for its development and implementation. In a year dominated by discussion of generative AI and its potential impact on the legal profession, Thomson Reuters has played a leading role.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 1, 2024

Susan Cohodes | Thanks to Henry, I am once again able to feel the sense of satisfaction I experienced when I first started helping clients. The post An Antidote to Ungrateful Clients: Rediscovering the Satisfaction and Joy of Helping Others appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In this episode of “The Geek in Review,” hosts Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer celebrate the one-year anniversary of CoCounsel , the pioneering Generative AI Legal Research Tool launched by CaseText. They are joined by Pablo Arredondo , Vice President of CoCounsel at Thomson Reuters and co-founder of CaseText, to discuss the significant strides and challenges faced in developing and implementing generative AI in legal research.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

There are many views on the significance of In re Chestek, No. 2022-1843 (February 14, 2024) to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) rulemaking process. One question I have asked myself is what I would do differently after Chestek if I were still involved in rulemaking at the USPTO. The simple answer is almost nothing: I would cite Chestek instead of the other decisions in the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) section of a proposed or final rule.

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Law Sites

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

If you read my review last October of the inaugural Knowledge Management & Innovation for Legal Conference (or KM&I for short), you will understand why I look forward to returning to New York City for the 2024 edition on Oct. 17 and 18. Conference organizer Patrick DiDomenico , president and founder of InspireKM Consulting and former head of innovation and knowledge management at multiple law firms, says this year’s conference will be bigger and better, with a larger venue, more

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Checklists are great for making sure you are completing routine processes in your practice without mistakes. The post Five Checklists to Make Your Law Practice More Efficient and Profitable appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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Valdosta Law Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

There are many different kinds of crashes that range in severity from minor inconveniences to life-altering tragedies. A pedestrian crash could very easily fall into that second category. Pedestrians do not have the structure of a vehicle to protect them from the force of impact and are therefore more vulnerable when a crash occurs. A pedestrian can very easily suffer debilitating or deadly injuries even when a collision occurs at lower speeds.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2024

This week in Other Barks and Bites: a California district court rules a Chinese chipmaker was not guilty of stealing trade secrets; multiple news organizations sue OpenAI for using copyrighted material to train ChatGPT; and a writer accuses Amazon Studios of copyright infringement and using AI to work around the actor’s strike.

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Law Sites

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. The assistant is available directly within LegalOn’s in-browser contract editing interface and it is available immediately to all customers at no extra cost.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Employment lawyer Faye Riva Cohen outlines signs your client may be a victim of quiet firing and bullying, along with ways to help. The post Quiet Firing: Signs Your Client’s Job Is at Risk appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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Next Generation E-Discovery Law & Tech Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

By John Patzakis and Chas Meier eDiscovery can be an expensive and time-consuming process when traditional data collection methods are employed. With legacy processes, it can take weeks for electronically stored information (ESI) collections to finally end up in review. Time is money, and utilizing dated processes can dramatically increase costs as well as risk.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As an update to my previous posts from 2017, 2019, 2020, March 2021, August 2021, 2022, and 2023, it has now been almost a decade since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2014 Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank decision. Yet the debate still rages over when a software (or computer-implemented) claim is patentable versus being simply an abstract idea “free to all men and reserved exclusively to none” (as eloquently phrased 76 years ago by then-Supreme Court Justice Douglas in Funk Bros.

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Law Sites

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I was greatly honored to be interviewed by Luke Campbell , CEO of VXT , the New Zealand-based VoIP system for lawyers, for his podcast File Notes. It was a lot of fun, and Luke — a great interviewer, by the way — dug deep into my entire career, and how both journalism and tech have evolved. Watch or listen via the File Notes episode page. Here’s his description: In this episode, Luke sits down with Bob Ambrogi, a notable figure bridging law, journalism, and legal tech.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Here's how to identify law firm bullying — with dos and don'ts for confronting it. The post Are You Being Bullied at Your Law Firm? appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In our third installment of Love and Legal Tech, we talk with Ab Saraswat and Priti Saraswat. Ab and Priti met while training to be barristers in the UK. They were on opposing debate teams, and Ab proposed within a year of meeting Priti. They have been married for almost a decade. Though they didn’t originally intend to work together, they both ended up at legal tech company Litera for several years but in different roles.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Today, Judge Pauline Newman celebrates 40 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). Newman was appointed to the court on January 30, 1984, by then-President Ronald Reagan and officially assumed office on February 28, 1984. Newman was the first judge to be appointed directly to the Federal Circuit; all of the standing judges at that time attained their position through the merger of the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and the appellate division of the United States Co

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Law Sites

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Does page speed matter to the search engine ranking of your law firm website? Turns out it does. Page speed is an important ranking factor for Google and other search engines. It can make the difference between a ranking on page one of Google or somewhere lower. But many law firm websites are more focused on appearance than speed, to the detriment of their ranking.

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Ethicking

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

My high school alumni association’s social media page alerted me to an online auction and raffle supporting “under-resourced students and families n our community.” I decided to check out the auction items—most of them are the usual restaurant and attraction gift certificates. The raffle included a prime parking spot for a rising senior and several Stanley tumblers.

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Legally Speaking

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

In a special episode of The Legally Speaking Podcast, we’re joined by the dynamic duo behind Kids Law, Alma-Constance Denis-Smith & Lucinda Acland. Together, they’re on a mission to demystify the legal world for children and their families, one episode at a time.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

On February 26, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision in Freshub, Ltd. v. Amazon.com, Inc., affirming a ruling by U.S. District Judge Alan Albright of the Western District of Texas in the face of appeals from both parties to the case. The Federal Circuit left the lower ruling intact after finding that the record developed at trial did not establish clear error with regards either to Freshub’s patent infringement allegations or Amazon’s inequitable condu

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Law Sites

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A common pain point for law firms is failing to track and invoice all reimbursable client expenses, resulting in losses to firm profits. A first-of-its-kind product being unveiled today by AffiniPay , the parent company of LawPay and MyCase , aims to solve that problem for smaller firms by marrying a business credit card for law firms to software that directly channels client-related expenses into the associated matters and invoices within the MyCase law practice management platform.

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Lawmatics

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Get ready to fall in love with the latest Lawmatics updates in our February release! Cupid may have his arrows, but our quiver is loaded with features to optimize scheduling, supercharge your document generation, and simplify your data management. Balance your intake team’s calendars with Round-Robin pools Struggling with uneven staff schedules? Too many appointments on one calendar and too few on another?

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MyCase

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

MyCase is excited to introduce MyCase Smart Spend, a groundbreaking legal spend management solution tailored specifically for the legal sector. What is MyCase Smarat Spend? MyCase Smart Spend is an integrated financial solution that gives you complete visibility over where your firm’s money goes every month. With this new solution, you can effortlessly pay, track, and manage both firm and client expenses using a credit card that integrates with MyCase.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2024

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today published a Federal Register Notice (FRN) announcing a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would make permanent certain aspects of the Motion to Amend (MTA) Pilot program and revise rules around the burden of persuasion governing MTAs. The MTA pilot program for America Invents Act (AIA) proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) stems back to March 2019, when the Office published a notice of pilot program in the Federal Regist

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Temple University Beasley School of Law - Advocacy

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The report announcing that no criminal charges would be brought against Joseph Biden for mishandling classified materials brought an unsurprising response from Donald Trump – this was “selective prosecution.” As he stated in a speech to the NRA, “It was just announced that Joe Biden’s Department of Injustice will bring zero charges against crooked Joe despite the fact he willfully retained undisclosed droves of ultra-classified national security documents.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

On February 27, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a notice in the Federal Register providing updated guidance for agency decision-makers on making proper determinations of obviousness under the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2007 ruling in KSR International Co. V. Teleflex Inc. While the USPTO’s examiner guidance doesn’t constitute substantive rulemaking, it traces 15 years of case law from the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

When the Biden Administration unleashed its proposed march-in guidelines last December, it claimed they would be a powerful tool for lowering drug prices by allowing the government to “march in” to license copiers under the authorities of the Bayh-Dole Act. It did so despite previously joining every other Administration denying price control petitions as not authorized under the law.

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