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Akin Gump Loses Bid To Dismiss Legal Tech Company’s Counterclaims In Suit Over Ownership Of Bill-Drafting Software

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The law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has lost its bid to dismiss four of five counterclaims filed by the legal technology company Xcential Legislative Technologies in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea.

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Small Tech Company Takes On Major Law Firm Over Ownership of Bill-Drafting Software

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A 25-person legal technology company in California is fighting back against one of the world’s largest law firms in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea. Attorneys at Akin Gump declined to discuss the lawsuit.

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Westlaw Precision: Next-Generation Legal Research With a Human Touch

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While Westlaw Edge introduced artificial intelligence technology to Westlaw, this new version harnesses the human touch, deploying hundreds of newly hired Westlaw attorney editors over the past two years to manually review and tag a staggering amount of data. Then, you can export the outline when you are ready to to begin drafting a brief.

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Plagiarism Police come for Winston & Strawn

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I believe that Winston & Strawn will eventually prevail based upon a fair use defense, but it is still an embarrassing situation for the firm and attorneys involved. The role of attribution is also receiving increasing focus as attorneys begin to rely more heavily on AI outputs for their legal documents.

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Guest Post: David the Inventor vs. the Biglaw Goliath – What Drives A Goliath To Take On A David?

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As I reported here in November , the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has sued Xcential for misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, and other causes of action. This Goliath has stepped forward and filed multiple actions against us, first at the U.S. This is Stodder’s perspective on the lawsuit.

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Thomson Reuters Unveils Next Generation of Westlaw, Aiming to Make Legal Research Results More Precise

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It means search results that better match not just the legal issue, but also the outcome, fact pattern, cause of action, motion type and outcome, party type, and area of law. “Now we are also classifying cases by issue outcome, fact pattern, motion type, motion outcome, cause of action, and party type. .

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Introducing the Trade Secret Case Management Judicial Guide

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Using the PCMJG as a template—with chapters organized in the stages of litigation and guided by an early case management checklist—we have worked through countless drafts over the past three years in developing the Trade Secret Case Management Judicial Guide.