LawSites

MARCH 1, 2023

After all, this is the company that had already launched the powerful neural net search technology AllSearch and that had pioneered products such as Compose , to help lawyers draft litigation briefs, and, in 2016 , CARA, the first product to use AI to analyze briefs. Successive governors have long claimed they are not.)

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LawSites

JUNE 7, 2022

Now, Casetext is formally launching that search tool under a new name, AllSearch , and with a focus on helping litigators search large sets of legal documents, including for e-discovery or to search internal databases and repositories, such as brief banks, litigation records, deposition transcripts, and expert reports.

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LawSites

AUGUST 18, 2021

An international working group of academics, vendors, lawyers and other legal professionals is today releasing the legal industry’s first comprehensive guide to best practices and workflows for creating effective legal documents in Microsoft Word. Seven Stages of Drafting. Research, support, analysis, and argument. On-screen review.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 16, 2023

These skills helped me conduct comprehensive legal research, understand the legal language, simplify complex information, and draft convincing legal documents/arguments with accuracy and clarity. Understanding Legal Procedures I was exposed to multiple areas of law such as Civil Litigation, Criminal Law, Business law, etc.,

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 25, 2022

As society shifts and the need for lawyers to work faster and smarter grows, it becomes increasingly important that lawyers are able to nurture partnerships with freelance paralegals and legal assistants. For one, legal assistants focus solely on administrative work, clearing up time for lawyers to focus on other tasks.

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The Estrin Report

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Lawyers must be able to be strong advocates for themselves, as well as their clients. Lawyers are often smart, ambitious, and highly educated. That being said, what does it take to stand out and become a “Top Lawyer” in your specific field of law? As I mentioned above, I started as a litigator in a law firm.

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LexForti

MARCH 16, 2022

In this article, we get to understand the key areas while drafting an Artist agreement between the producer and an artist; engaging the artist for his services for a film or music. When drafting a written agreement between an artist and a producer for the artist’s services for a film, key areas include Ownership and Use of Work.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

AUGUST 25, 2021

When you’re starting a new career as a litigation paralegal, these case management tips will help you if you’re feeling a little overwhelmed. Tip for new paralegals: Ask one of the more experienced litigation paralegals in your office how they organize their files and why they use that particular methodology. Prioritize Your Cases.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 23, 2022

Written by Adrian Cordina , PhD researcher at Erasmus School of Law, project member of the Vici project ‘Affordable Access to Justice ’ which deals with costs and funding of civil litigation, financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). 1) Conference ‘ The Future Regulation of Third-Party Funding in Europe ’.

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Knackly

APRIL 26, 2023

In this blog, we’d like to address you—the attorneys of the world—and lay out exactly how Knackly revolutionizes the way you approach litigation. It simplifies the process of drafting, filling out, and filing forms by providing users with a user-friendly interface that allows for easy customization and organization.

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LawTechnologyToday

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Like everything else, the legal practice is wired in and integrating technology into every aspect of litigation. 2) Drafting Documents. 2) Drafting Documents. Microsoft Word is the top program for attorneys to draft documents. Attorneys can keep informed of the political trends that can shape litigation.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Many lawyers dream of pursuing writing as a side hustle. As these three lawyers show, there’s more than one way to make it work. . Now, law firms and lawyers are moonlighting as business development consultants, app developers, coaches of all kinds, continuing education providers, and fiction and nonfiction authors.

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LawSites

JUNE 15, 2023

Well before launching CoCounsel this year, it had already launched the powerful neural net search technology AllSearch and had pioneered products such as Compose , to help lawyers draft litigation briefs, and, in 2016 , CARA, the first product to use AI to analyze briefs, which spawned a generation of copycat products.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But what do you do when your first day starts with 60 active pre-litigation files assigned to you? Even if you’re in a different practice area, some of these will also apply to you, whether in personal injury, real estate, or commercial litigation. . It can also save a lawyer time, which makes you invaluable to the lawyer.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp Are you still waiting for on-the-job training that takes you through each phase of a litigation case and shows you what you can do to support your attorneys? NALA also states that “the terms legal assistant and paralegal are used interchangeably, much like the terms attorney and lawyer.”

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LawSites

AUGUST 30, 2022

Out of that voluminous record, you need to find the evidence that supports your arguments, then draft your brief citing to that evidence, and then double-check and mark your citations against the record and build a table of authorities. For the lawyers, it is an enormous amount of work on a tight deadline. Finding the Best Evidence.

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LawSites

JANUARY 29, 2024

The AI-driven legal drafting tool Clearbrief has entered into a partnership with legal research company LexisNexis Legal & Professional that provides its customers who are also Lexis subscribers with access to legal content and citations on Lexis while drafting documents within the Clearbrief add-in for Microsoft Word.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Lawyers are professional communicators, constantly exchanging emails with clients, opposing counsel and other contacts. My litigation partner will read the draft of an email out loud three or four times before sending it. Crafting Effective Emails: Nancy’s Harhut’s Advice for Lawyers. How can we do this more effectively?

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LawSites

JUNE 27, 2023

While those document analysis tools have been focused on the litigation side of legal practice, LexisNexis is today unveiling a document analysis tool designed for transactional attorneys, to help them research, negotiate and close transactional agreements.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 9, 2022

They are responsible for: Drafting documents/agreements Corresponding with clients Meeting with clients for the signing of documents Legal Research Using eDiscovery software Representing individuals in small matters Administrative duties. This included handling administrative tasks for lawyers, as well as the company’s corporate department.

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CARET Legal

APRIL 8, 2024

The relentless pursuit of billable hours in the legal profession often leads to overwork and burnout, undermining lawyers’ well-being and job satisfaction. On one hand, it’s a measure of a lawyer’s productivity and a key revenue driver for law firms.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

For all the discussion of how generative AI will impact the legal profession, maybe one answer is that it will weed out the lazy and incompetent lawyers. By now, in the wake of several cases in which lawyers have found themselves in hot water by citing hallucinated cases generated by ChatGPT, most notoriously Mata v. XYZ Corporation.

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MyCase

AUGUST 10, 2022

Many people study to become a lawyer because they covet a high salary—but where does that money come from? Those outside the legal field (or new to it) may not be familiar with how lawyers get paid or know that not all payments are created equal. How Do Lawyers Bill Clients?

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LawSites

DECEMBER 27, 2022

But this year, they seem to span the gamut of topics I cover, from analytics to artificial intelligence, from legal ethics to legal research, from new companies starting up to established companies shutting down, from products designed for litigation to products embroiled in litigation. The Best Commencement Speeches by Lawyers.

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 16, 2021

While legal professionals have been slower to embrace this technology, AI for lawyers is a growing field. Here are five legal fields where AI can bring considerable benefits to lawyers and their clients. AI in sentencing is an area of contention for many, but criminal lawyers can use AI in other, less controversial areas.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

With the sheer volume of business information everyone (both potential clients and referral sources) is exposed to everyday, lawyers must keep a consistent flow of content outgoing from their law firms, if they hope to compete in content marketing.

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LDA PRO

JANUARY 18, 2022

Paralegals are the first partners before proceeding with a case against anything, you have to share everything to draft you with the best document you could present to the court and the one against you. Marital Litigation. They will draft you the way you will describe the situation. It’s discussed in this blog. Allegation.

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CARET Legal

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Change of ownership notices: Automatically draft and send out change of ownership notices 1 day after closing. Draft petition: Automatically draft probate petitions one day before the court hearing. Draft final notice: Automatically draft the final notice for petition of probate 1 day after hearing.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 4, 2021

At the Association of Legal Administrators annual conference today in Austin, Texas, NetDocuments is unveiling a powerful knowledge management product to automatically add legal research intelligence to litigation documents, through a partnership with LexisNexis. Enhancing Litigation Documents.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 11, 2023

4 Pro Tips for Drafting Billable Time Entries How much do you love drafting billable time entries? In today’s blog, I’m going to give you four quick tips to help you draft better time entries. Think about some of those questions when you’re drafting your time entry. We spent four hours. Or worse yet, you spent.1

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Paralegal Bootcamp

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp The only online program of its kind that combines an on-demand course and live coaching calls to give you everything you need to accelerate your litigation paralegal career. Looking at the Litigation Boot Camp as an example, let’s pick Module 4 on the sales page. It is what it is. It’s up to you.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 6, 2022

She received her paralegal certificate from the ABA-Approved Roosevelt University’s Lawyer Assistant Program. Throughout her 30-year career, she has worked in litigation, from the private law firm to the governmental sector, civil and criminal. ARE YOU NEW TO LITIGATION? Paralegal Career Choice.

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 7, 2021

And for law firms, remote work opens the door to alternative hiring options, including outsourcing substantive legal work to freelance lawyers. Screening Freelance Lawyers to Find the Right Fit. Writing samples are extremely important when hiring freelance lawyers. What experience do you have? I prefer to work autonomously.”.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 24, 2023

Training for Litigation Paralegals Are you new to litigation and struggling to get the on-the-job training to be successful? The Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp is the only online program of its kind that combines an on-demand course and live coaching calls to give you everything you need to accelerate your litigation paralegal career.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 24, 2023

Training for Litigation Paralegals Are you new to litigation and struggling to get the on-the-job training to be successful? The Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp is the only online program of its kind that combines an on-demand course and live coaching calls to give you everything you need to accelerate your litigation paralegal career.

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LawSites

JUNE 26, 2023

Joining Thomson Reuters is an incredible opportunity to advance our mission and the field of generative AI solutions exponentially, not only for lawyers but across professions, ensuring this revolutionary technology can benefit as many people as possible.”

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The Crime Report

JUNE 15, 2021

Johnny Lorenzo Bolton’s relatives and their lawyers wanted to try to get information about the shooting from law enforcement before drawing attention to his killing, but later were forced to threaten litigation if Cobb County officials didn’t provide more information and address accountability and compensation for Bolton’s death.

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