Above The Law

JUNE 22, 2023

The post Do NOT, I Repeat, Do NOT Use ChatGPT For Legal Research appeared first on Above the Law. These chatbots are bald-faced liars that pull facts out of thin air.

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Above The Law

MARCH 1, 2024

The post Cheat Code: How Will AI Affect Legal Research & Writing? We’ve got all the angles covered in this episode of the Non-Eventcast podcast. appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Custom generative AI tools can enhance your legal research capabilities. The post From Books To Bytes: A Legal Research Showdown In The Age Of AI appeared first on Above the Law.

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C|M|LAW Library

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Want to practice your legal research skills and learn some new ones? If you answered yes, consider Lexis Legal Research Certification. The certification is an excellent way to prove you can perform online legal research efficiently and effectively to potential employers.

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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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OneLegal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Legal research serves as the cornerstone of informed legal practice, offering the means to navigate a constantly evolving legal landscape. Use this guide to help you with your research. The post A paralegal’s guide on how to do legal research appeared first on One Legal.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 11, 2023

The post Law School Dean Wants ChatGPT Taught In Legal Research & Writing Classes appeared first on Above the Law. It's the way of the future for lawyers.

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LLRX

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

After that case, which resulted in a media frenzy and (somewhat mild) court sanctions, many attorneys are wary of using generative AI for legal research. And some legal tasks are less affected by hallucinations. But vendors are working to limit hallucinations and increase trust.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

APRIL 1, 2020

Legal research options abound, more so than ever before. But, with legal research, the challenge of finding the right products at the right rate structure is particularly important, because legal research is still a high - number budget line item for law firms. If you want to talk legal research, we’re down.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Read on for a strong addition to your research trail — while learning what a 'research trail' is. The post The Legal Tech-To-English Dictionary: Legal Research appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Before that, researching was much different. The post The Beginnings Of Modern Legal Research appeared first on Above the Law.

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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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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The post Streamline Legal Research And Focus On Decision Making appeared first on Above the Law. LexisNexis’ Fact & Issue Finder combines AI and human-assisted search to provide digestible, thorough results.

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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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C|M|LAW Library

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The C|M|Law Library provides numerous Legal Research Seminars to help you get up to speed. Our Legal Research Seminars are available online as a “Course” on the Westlaw TWEN platform. C|M|Law students may also complete the quiz accompanying each Legal Research Seminar to earn points.

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LLRX

MAY 23, 2021

Jerry Lawson highly recommends Ann Walsh Long’s new book, A Short & Happy Guide to Advanced Legal Research. Long's book offers good ideas about balancing quality, speed and expense, as well as a wealth of other insights on improving online legal research.

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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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Above The Law

JULY 14, 2021

Why spend all that money on fancy legal research tools?

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Oakley Capital, a major European private equity investor, has acquired majority ownership of vLex , the international legal research platform. vLex is unique among legal research services for its breadth of international coverage. See: Vincent Joins CARA, EVA and Clerk as the Latest AI-Driven Research Assistant. .

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LawSites

JUNE 22, 2023

A federal district judge has imposed monetary and other sanctions on the two lawyers who filed a brief laden with bogus cases they found when they relied on ChatGPT for legal research. The judge ordered the lawyers, Peter LoDuca and Steven A.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Crutchfield discusses the ins and outs of VitalLaw and how it’s helping lawyers change the way they approach legal research. The post How VitalLaw Is Transforming Legal Research: An Interview With VP Ken Crutchfield Of Wolters Kluwer appeared first on Above the Law.

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LLRX

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Coding with ChatGPT: A Journey to Create A Dynamic Legal Research Aid

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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 “We have found attorneys doing legal research on Parallel Search save 11.5 Related: LawNext: Casetext’s Founders on their Quest to Make Legal Research Affordable.

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ABA Journal

MARCH 25, 2024

A little over a year ago, ChatGPT-4 was released, and in that short time, the functionality of generative artificial intelligence has been added to many…

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It took a lot for modern legal research to develop. The post What It Takes To Build An Online Legal Research Tool appeared first on Above the Law.

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The Researching Paralegal

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Basic Legal Research – Terms and Connectors Searching, by Northern Illinois University College of Law, David C. When you do online legal research, do you have the luxury of time to poke around or do you have to get in, find what you need, and get out as fast as you can? Shapiro Memorial Law Library.

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C|M|LAW Library

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Want to practice your legal research skills and learn some new ones? Well if you answered yes, you should get a Lexis Legal Research Certification. The certification is an excellent way to prove you can perform online legal research efficiently and effectively to potential employers.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 5, 2021

Fastcase and Casemaker, two competing legal research companies that have previously faced off in litigation, announced Tuesday that they have merged. The companies have also…

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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. Tackling Tedious and Imprecise Research. Or is, as Dahn suggested, all this editorial work simply laying the groundwork for a new wave of AI in legal research?

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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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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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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Call for Papers for the European Central Bank Legal Research Programme (LRP) scholarship 2024 , which can be found on the ECB website via this link: [link].

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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 “We have found attorneys doing legal research on Parallel Search save 11.5 Related: LawNext: Casetext’s Founders on their Quest to Make Legal Research Affordable.

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LegalTalkNetwork

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Practice tips: How negotiation steers healthy relationships & how to save $$ on legal research. At a time when lawyers and everyone else is paying attention to the bottom line, authors experts Carole Levitt and Judy Davis share when it’s best to use free legal research databases over expensive paid options.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The news is that Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory is rebranding its flagship Cheetah legal research platform on Monday as VitalLaw, a name that Ken Crutchfield , vice president and general manager of legal markets, told me better reflects the mission of the platform and better resonate with with customers. .

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LLRX

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Stephanie Farne , Legal Information Librarian and Lecturer in Law at Boston College Law School, raises increasingly important issues respective to the bias inherent in artificial intelligence powered search algorithms, both on the Internet and in commercial databases.

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