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How to Become a Virtual Legal Assistant

The Estrin Report

Let’s start with the fascinating discovery of Virtual Assistant jobs that are available through employers. This up and coming brand new avenue to positions is rapidly becoming a new career path for legal assistants. Virtual Typist Legal Transcriptionist. Paid Legal Intern. Virtual Law Enforcement Transcriber.

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LegalTech’s AI Race: A Sign of What’s to Come

LLRX

Black notes the milestone of Thomson Reuters announcement that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Casetext, a legal research software company, for $650 million. For the past decade, Casetext has provided a legal research platform grounded in AI technology.

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The $650M Casetext Story: Coloring Book Edition

LawSites

Once upon a time, in a magical city called San Francisco, three former lawyers came together to develop an innovative legal research platform, as an alternative to traditional legal research services such as Thomson Reuters Westlaw and LexisNexis. They called their new company Casetext.

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Casetext Launches Co-Counsel, Its OpenAI-Based ‘Legal Assistant’ To Help Lawyers Search Data, Review Documents, Draft Memos, Analyze Contracts and More

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Our AI legal assistant is the first of its kind,” said Jake Heller, cofounder and CEO of Casetext. “It It creates a momentous opportunity for attorneys to delegate tasks like legal research, document review, and contract analysis to an AI, freeing them to focus on the most impactful aspects of their practice.”

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Major Thomson Reuters News: Westlaw Gets Generative AI Research Plus Integration with Casetext CoCounsel; Gen AI Coming Soon to Practical Law

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Thomson Reuters today delivered on its promise to integrate generative AI within its flagship legal research platform, introducing AI Assisted Research in Westlaw Precision, available immediately to all U.S. The quality of the process, TR says, comes from Westlaw’s proven and long-established legal research platform.

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Will AI Replace Paralegals and Legal Assistants?

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ChatGPT and related AI tools can write, edit, and research—three tasks that weigh heavily on the daily agendas for paralegals and legal assistants. Let’s explore the merits of AI in the legal field and how they could affect the work paralegals and legal assistants do today.

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How A Startup Evolves: As Casetext Marks 10th Year Anniversary, Here’s Its History Through 50 Blog Posts

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In fact, with its recent launch of CoCounsel , an AI legal assistant developed in partnership with OpenAI and using the latest version of OpenAI’s GPT large language model, it has become the generative AI company to beat in the legal market. 2013 New Legal Research Site Combines Case Law with Crowdsourcing.