LawSites

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

eDiscovery Assistant , a legal research platform for e-discovery case law and resources, is today introducing AI-generated case law summaries. The feature uses ChatGPT to deliver one-paragraph summaries of court decisions, with the goal of enabling legal professionals to more quickly gauge the relevance and implications of a decision.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 23, 2023

In order to meet the problems of escalating workflow and productivity demands on a constrained budget, law firms are eager to invest in legal technology services. According to the Future Ready Lawyer 2021 report , 84% of legal departments have increased their technology budgets in the last year.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 17, 2023

When the legal research companies vLex and Fastcase announced their merger in April , they promised the deal would fuel new opportunities for the development of generative AI for legal research. “The combined library is the crown jewel of LLMs and the ultimate training data set for legal AI.”

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LLRX

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

While these resources make the law more accessible to the general public, they also help aspiring lawyers just beginning their journeys into the profession and ease the early stages of legal research for practicing attorneys looking for quick access to relevant laws. law schools and the law school admissions process.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Thomson Reuters has launched Westlaw Precision, its most dramatic update to the Westlaw research platform since Westlaw Edge in 2018. For this new version, Westlaw tackled the underlying issues that slow down legal research — namely lack of precision in search results, which leads to extra hours reviewing cases that aren’t relevant.

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LawSites

MAY 30, 2023

It was bound to happen sooner or later: Two lawyers face sanctions for filing a brief laden with bogus cases hallucinated by ChatGPT. But is this a story about the failings of AI or is it about the failings of the lawyers? But, to me, the cautionary tale here is not about technology, but about lawyer competence.

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LLRX

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Every lawyer in the United States is licensed to practice in some state, but very few lawyers are licensed to practice in every state. As a result, the question often arises -- is attorney X licensed to practice in state Y?

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LawSites

JULY 19, 2022

Recently, I reported here on the “quiet” launch of a new legal research service, Decisis , targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms. With the acquisition, Fastcase became the sole legal research provider for the bar associations of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S.

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MyCase

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In a few of my recent posts I shared data on lawyer demographics, diversity , stressors, and future plans obtained from the recently released ABA Profile of the Profession 2021. The Report also includes a lot of interesting data about lawyers’ use of technology. Online legal resources.

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Above The Law

JUNE 7, 2023

The post Free Speech Hypocrisy, Hot Bench Troubles, And ChatGPT Legal Research appeared first on Above the Law. Maybe the woman who called the cops on a Black birdwatcher should try using ChatGPT to make up some fake caselaw for her appeal because the real ones aren't helping.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

The legal research company Casetext has raised $25 million in a Series C funding round, bringing its total amount raised to $64.3 First, the capital will help Casetext continue to create and improve products that help lawyers search the law and their own documents as well as to efficiently draft legal documents like briefs.

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LLRX

MAY 24, 2023

In the next few years, legally trained generative AI will replace lawyer labour on a scale we’ve never seen before. An enormous amount of lawyer activity consists of researching, analyzing, writing, developing arguments, critiquing counter-claims, and drafting responses.

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Above The Law

JULY 14, 2021

Why spend all that money on fancy legal research tools?

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Just four years after launching Westlaw Edge as its next-generation legal research platform, Thomson Reuters today unveiled the next-next generation. 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.

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MyCase

MAY 9, 2023

The legal sector is no exception. For lawyers, it’s crucial to understand these technologies, their benefits, applications, and risks when considering whether to use them in your practice. Key advantages provided by AI-powered tools include efficiency, improved legal writing, enhanced workflows, and cost-effectiveness.

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MyCase

JANUARY 26, 2021

The good news is that a great resource available for small law firm lawyers seeking to invest in new technologies from ABA Publishing: The 2020 Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology Guide , written by Sharon D. Internet Legal Research On A Budget. Are lawyers in your firm using LinkedIn effectively as they could be?

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InHouseBlog

JANUARY 23, 2023

series,” has made waves in a short amount of time for how responsive, sophisticated and realistic it is… ChatGPT could be an upgrade over existing tools used by pro se litigants…It could also do work currently performed by lawyers, such as conducting legal research and writing briefs. at Legal Rebels

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The Researching Paralegal

APRIL 26, 2020

Legal Research Demystified, by Eric Voight, Professor of Legal Research and Writing, Faulkner University. I have a new favorite legal research textbook and reference guide for law and paralegal students — Legal Research Demystified. link] (table of contents and a sample chapter).

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Above The Law

MAY 8, 2024

Hey, as long as Columbia grads understand how to perform basic legal research they're still a leg up on the judges themselves. American Lawyer ] * The history of the ahistorical. explaining the rise of originalism. Bloomberg Law News ] The post Morning Docket: 05.08.24 appeared first on Above the Law.

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ALPS

JUNE 8, 2023

Jon Choi, professor of law at the University of Minnesota, said that ChatGPT struggled with things like spotting complex legal issues and applying specific areas of law to specific facts, but he admitted a “hunch” that AI would sooner than later serve a useful function as a research and writing assistant for attorneys.

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LegalTalkNetwork

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Practice tips: How negotiation steers healthy relationships & how to save $$ on legal research. Alexandra Carter, a negotiation trainer and clinical law professor, tells Lawyerist Podcast host Sarah Briggs how to best frame negotiation and how for lawyers to use to improve and develop professional relationships.

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MyCase

AUGUST 10, 2022

There are even reports that this sentient system may have requested legal representation. . How lawyers can use legal AI . The best legal tools. Can Lawyers Use AI? Becoming an AI lawyer simplifies and streamlines daily tasks and job processes. Attorneys need to follow ethical standards when using legal AI.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

The legal research company Casetext has raised $25 million in a Series C funding round, bringing its total amount raised to $64.3 First, the capital will help Casetext continue to create and improve products that help lawyers search the law and their own documents as well as to efficiently draft legal documents like briefs.

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MyCase

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Every year I write a post that highlights the mobile lawyering statistics from the latest ABA Legal Technology Survey Report. Not surprisingly, the number of lawyers working remotely has increased year over year as attorneys became more comfortable using the technologies that permitted them to work from anywhere.

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Cenza

JANUARY 27, 2021

In this article, we unpack how AI, when combined with lawyers in the loop, is altering the foundations of legal practice and delivery while addressing the looming challenges that firms encounter while implementing this technology. Top 3 challenges of implementing AI in legal firms. Current application of AI in legal services.

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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. Legal research memo. Review documents. Review documents.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

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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ALPS

AUGUST 2, 2023

A lot of lawyers thought they had discovered a golden ticket when they discovered ChatGPT. They were enthused about how fast it was and how they could utilize it for legal research, drafting legal documents, case analysis, legal compliance, composing client communications and the list goes on.

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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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LawSites

JUNE 27, 2023

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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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Lewis, who was previously cofounder and CEO of the legal research and analytics platform Ravel Law, which LexisNexis acquired in 2017 , said that the same team of lawyers who developed that expert guidance and suggested clauses was the basis for expanding that expertise into the creation of contract templates. ”

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MyCase

APRIL 24, 2024

According to the Legal Industry Report 2024 , nearly one-quarter (24%) of law firms have adopted legal-specific generative artificial intelligence (GAI) tools. Still, the efficiency benefits of AI software for lawyers are compelling. GAI can free lawyers from repetitive tasks so they can focus on higher-level legal strategy.

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LawSites

JANUARY 25, 2023

to serve as a lawyer’s virtual legal assistant, able to help with researching legal issues, drafting emails and letters, summarizing documents, brainstorming blog ideas, and even just conversational chatting. Currently, it is able to perform eight types of functions: Research a legal issue.

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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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LawTechnologyToday

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The 2021 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report is now available for purchase! The ABA Legal Technology Survey Report is the most comprehensive study available of lawyers’ actual technology use, spanning a vast range of topics from security and basic office software to technology budgets, marketing tools, and much more.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The e-discovery company DISCO said today it has entered into a long-term license with the international legal research company vLex to obtain access to its U.S. legal research materials. primary law library of cases, statutes, regulations, court rules and constitutions.

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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.

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