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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The post To Master New Legal Technology, Adjust Your Training Methods to Different Learning Styles appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers. Here’s a quick guide to four core learning styles and how you can apply them to better master legal tech.

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MAY 9, 2024

When the American Bar Association’s ethics panel finally got around to issuing an opinion on lawyer blogging in 2018 — a full two decades after lawyers had started blogging — it conjured for me the image of Rip Van Winkle, who fell asleep in 1769 and awoke 20 years later, having slept through the Revolution. […]

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APRIL 22, 2024

The post Sustainable Legal Technology: Why It’s Important for Lawyers — and a Guide to Purchasing appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers. What should you look for when considering new software? Here are questions to ask — along with tips on how to spot "greenwashing."

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Finalists have been named for the 2024 American Legal Technology Awards, which honor exceptional achievement in various aspects of legal technology, and this year, there is a twist for me: I’m honored to say I’m one of them.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In the first two posts in this series, I have talked about the consolidation of ownership that has occurred in recent years for law practice management technology. Whereas this market was once characterized by a variety of competing companies, virtually all of the major products are now owned by one of six ownership groups. Part […]

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Since 2019, LexLab, an innovation lab at UC Law San Francisco, has run an annual legal tech startup accelerator program, but last year, the program shifted gears slightly to focus on justice tech — startups that are developing technologies that positively impact individuals and communities affected by the justice system and the gap in access […] (..)

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AUGUST 7, 2024

But while technology-assisted review (TAR) has traditionally been driven by AI in the form of supervised machine learning, some vendors and e-discovery professionals are starting to experiment with the […]

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

On todays LawNext: we hand over the podcast to NotebookLM to discuss the state of law practice management technology. If you havent heard of NotebookLM, it is a generative AI tool from Google that turns your documents into engaging audio discussions. Its output sounds a whole lot like, well, a podcast, with two hosts chatting […]

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 20, 2022

In response, they are investing more in automation, advanced analytics and other technologies that will help them manage the workload. This trend toward the increasing technology in law is echoed by industry analysts. Must law firms keep pace with their clients’ technology efforts? According to Gartner Inc.,

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JUNE 4, 2024

Last September, two litigation-focused Canadian legal technology companies, CiteRight and Jurisage, announced their merger, with the promise of combining CiteRight’s litigation drafting program with Jurisage’s AI technology to create an integrated legal research and drafting solution.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

“You can’t tell the players without a scorecard,” yelled the hawkers of olden days at major league baseball stadiums. In the modern days of law practice management, that may still be true.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

LexCheck, a legal technology company specializing in contract review, is launching a new AI-powered contract analysis tool that aims to solve two persistent challenges in contract technology: the ability to handle complex agreements beyond routine contracts such as NDAs, and the creation and maintenance of contract playbooks.

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JANUARY 14, 2025

The contract lifecycle management company Agiloft today said it has acquired Screens, developer of a generative AI contract review and redlining product that uses expert-created and auto-generated playbooks to “screen” and redline contracts.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

In December 2021, Dave Ries, a frequent co-presenter with the authors, wrote an excellent summary of the cybersecurity portion of the ABA’s 2021 Legal Technology Survey Report. He and Sharon provide legal technology, cybersecurity and digital forensics services from their Fairfax, Virginia, firm. What We Learned in 2021. Ries here.).

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APRIL 10, 2024

a provider of marketing automation technology and a subsidiary of Adobe Inc. Read more about DISCO in the LawNext Legal Technology Directory. “He is a seasoned technology veteran with a track record of scaling businesses, building best-in-class products and customer experiences, and developing and inspiring teams.”

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In his keynote speech opening LEX Summit in Salt Lake City, Filevine founder and CEO Ryan Anderson emphasized platforms as the future of technology for law firms, criticizing the legal technology landscape as a fragmented and inefficient array of point solutions, and promising that Filevine will deliver firms a better way by bringing together everything (..)

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JANUARY 3, 2025

What were the most important stories of 2024 for legal technology and innovation? In a special edition of Legaltech Week today, our panel of journalists and bloggers will share their picks of the trends and developments that mattered most. The show is live today at 3 p.m. It is free to attend, but you […]

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JUNE 24, 2024

A new legal ethics opinion on the use of generative AI in law practice makes one point very clear: lawyers are required to maintain competence across all technological means relevant to their practices, and that includes the use of generative AI.

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MAY 21, 2024

Solo and small firm lawyers intend to adopt artificial intelligence at a much faster pace than their larger-firm counterparts, but their clients are even more enthusiastic about the technology, believing it can result in more affordable and higher quality services from their lawyers.

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APRIL 18, 2024

a company that develops knowledge management technology for the legal industry, KLapper was developed to enable users to easily design, train […] Developed by KLoBot Inc.,

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APRIL 25, 2024

According to Upsolve, a nonprofit company whose technology helps low-income individuals file for bankruptcy for free, Americans owe $1.77 trillion in student loan debt — 93% of it to the federal government. Since 2017, Upsolve’s debt relief tools have helped more than 13,000 individuals erase more than $750 million in debt.

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MAY 22, 2024

Since 2010, the nonprofit Free Law Project has been working to make the legal ecosystem more equitable and competitive using technology, data and advocacy.

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APRIL 15, 2024

Thomson Reuters has launched a global Developer Portal giving access to over 100 APIs, providing tax, legal, risk and fraud professionals with tools to more easily integrate their workflows with the company’s technology, data, content and insights.

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MARCH 6, 2024

For solo and small law firms, the current state of legal technology offers both promises and pitfalls. By using the right legal tech, firms are optimizing their profitability and business processes. Competition will eat firms that do not have a strong online presence.

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MARCH 6, 2024

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. Daniel Lewis, CEO, LegalOn Technologies. Megan Ma, Assistant Director, CodeX and Law, Science, Technology Program, Stanford Law School.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

Ever since Startup Alley first launched in 2017, the pitch competition has helped catapult the success of a long list of legal technology startups and become a seminal event of the American Bar Association’s annual TECHSHOW.

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JULY 10, 2024

The legal technology design and development company Theory and Principle has produced a […] Whether you are a purchaser, designer or user of legal tech in your firm or organization, it is important to understand the basics of user experience and user interface design. Now there is an online course to help you do just that.

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AUGUST 5, 2024

Well, with ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, set to convene this weekend in Nashville, organizers plan to serve some 1,500 gallons of the caffeinated brew. Ever wonder how much coffee gets consumed at a week-long legal tech conference?

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MARCH 5, 2024

And in legal, they need to deftly honor tradition and strive for change without disrupting an inherently delicate balance between technological progress, generational shifts, and complex business dynamics. And the results are consistent with that view: 90% explained that legal technology helps their firms increase revenue.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

In what it says is the first AI agent for law, the legal technology company Spellbook just released Spellbook Associate, an application that can plan and execute complex, multi-step workflows in transactional matters, much as an associate would.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

When Avaneesh Marwaha stepped down as CEO of legal tech company Litera in 2022, becoming chairman of the company’s board of directors, it was a surprise to many in the legal technology community.

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JUNE 5, 2024

This has been a notable year for BriefCatch, a legal technology company devoted to helping legal professionals improve their legal writing. It started nine months ago, with the company’s raise of a $3.5 million seed round, continued with its roll outs of new products and features, and then to its formation of a legal writing […]

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In a move that marries a massive database of state litigation data with the generative capabilities of artificial intelligence, Trellis, a legal technology company known for its analytics tools and extensive collection of state trial court records, today released Trellis AI, a new set of generative AI tools aimed at simplifying litigation tasks.

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MAY 14, 2024

In recent months, Epiq, a global company providing technology-enabled legal services, has announced new artificial intelligence and analytics features built using the AI capabilities of Amazon Web Services.

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MAY 30, 2024

Legal editing software company BriefCatch has expanded its management team with the hiring of three legal technology veterans to key positions. The hires follow the company’s raise last year of $3.5 million in an oversubscribed seed round.

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MARCH 29, 2024

In the belief that technology could help them more effectively meet the needs of self-represented individuals in conservatorship matters, Bet Tzedek partnered with the legal technology design and development firm Theory and Principle to create an online alternative to its in-person clinics. .”

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