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AI Contract Drafting Startup Henchman Unveils Microsoft Copilot Integration, Calling It First of Its Kind

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“Leveraging advanced algorithms and metadata, this synergy facilitates more accurate answers and boosts drafting efficiency, all while tapping into a legal team’s wealth of collective knowledge,” the company says.

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

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Just four years after launching Westlaw Edge as its next-generation legal research platform, Thomson Reuters today unveiled the next-next generation. ” Advance testing of Westlaw Precision among 101 lawyers found that a research task that previously would have taken 4.75 Tackling Tedious and Imprecise Research.

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LexisNexis’s New ‘Agreement Analysis’ Uses AI To Help Transactional Lawyers Analyze And Revise Deal Clauses

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When LexisNexis launched its Lexis+ premium legal research service in 2020, the service included Brief Analysis, its answer to a line of products pioneered by legal research company Casetext with its CARA brief analysis tool and followed by companies such as Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg Law.

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Top 7 Tips for Litigation Paralegals in 2024

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Start by reviewing all of the motions, briefs, discovery responses, and pleadings. Extract any dates that you come across during that review and put them into a chronology. As you’re doing your review, create a master to-do list for that case where you can keep notes about the things that you come across.

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Next-Gen Bar Exam That Truly Tests Daily Practice Skills Must Include Technology

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“Professed technological incompetence is not an excuse for discovery misconduct” is not a court holding you want to see (James v. Basic technology tasks that fall under these categories include “draft initial report for client,” “draft resolutions, written consents, and/or meeting minutes,” and “draft engagement letter.”

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Despite All the Hype Over CLM Software, Most Companies Don’t Use It to Manage their Contracts, Survey Finds

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” “We found in our research that a lot of companies who aren’t using a CLM or aren’t using a CLM enterprise-wide feel badly about the state their contract management is in,” Zuva explained. The top ones they identified were: Difficulty tracking contract obligations, due to limitations in CLM metadata extraction capabilities.

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Women of Legal Tech: Dyane O’Leary

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Topics such as security, mobile lawyering, document metadata, electronically stored information, legal research analytics, and automation aren’t merely “nice to know” topics as they might have been decades or even years ago. The legal research and writing teacher in me has to go with analytics on this one.

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