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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

According to the 2025 In-House Legal Budgeting Report from Axiom and Wakefield Research, 96% of general councils said they expect “AI will meaningfully reduce costs within their legal department.” In 2025, these technologies will revolutionize legal research, document review, and case predictions.

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Above The Law

MAY 26, 2023

Notes to my (legal) self. The post Legal Research And Writing appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above The Law

APRIL 21, 2025

In Season 10, Episode 8 of “ Notes to My (Legal) Self,” I sat down with Tom Martin, founder and CEO of LawDroid, to discuss how AI legal assistants are changing the game for law firms. AI legal assistants free them to focus on what really matters — delivering value to their clients.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

How speed and accuracy benchmarks misrepresent the real value of legal AI Welcome to the era of the AI superlative. For benchmarks to be valuable, they must test real-world problems that legal professionals face and measure what customers care about. For instance, which legal research system would you prefer?

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Above The Law

JANUARY 12, 2024

Notes to my (legal) self. The post ChatGPT Is NOT A Legal Research Tool appeared first on Above the Law.

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LawSites

JULY 12, 2024

Citators — tools that validate whether a case or statute is still good law — have always been an essential component of a full-featured legal research platform. Just two products have long dominated the legal research market as the gold […]

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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

AUGUST 26, 2024

The future of legal research is AI. Read on to get the definitive guide to choosing a Gen AI legal research solution The post How To Choose The Right Legal Research Platform For Your AI Journey appeared first on Above the Law.

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LawSites

MAY 28, 2024

Stanford University will augment the study it released last week of generative AI legal research tools from LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters, in which it found that they deliver hallucinated results more often than the companies say, as others have raised questions about the study’s methodology and fairness.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 16, 2025

AI-Assisted Research serves as a force multiplier for legal professionals. The post Precision Meets AI: Thomson Reuters’ New Era Of Legal Research 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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Above The Law

JULY 23, 2024

The future of legal research is AI. The post The Definitive Guide To Choosing A Gen AI Legal Research Solution appeared first on Above the Law. Choose a platform that supports you on this journey, with the experience to guide you every step of the way.

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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

MAY 29, 2024

Law Librarians and tech experts par excellence, Rebecca Fordon , Sean Harrington and Christine Park plan to propose a typology of legal research tasks based on existing computer and information science scholarship and draft corresponding questions using the typology, with rubrics others can use to score the tools they use.

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LLRX

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Is better case law data fueling a legal research boom? Recently, Rebecca Fordon noticed a surge of new and innovative legal research tools. Fordon wondered what could be fueling this increase, and set off to find out more.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Using legal data for strategic law firm planning is no longer reserved for BigLaw. As covered in Part 1 in this series, one of the easiest ways to begin using legal data to boost business development is to look more intently at the firm’s clients. But what’s even more important for law firms is to see this happening in real-time.

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OneLegal

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

By understanding the risks and benefits of generative AI, you can minimize unintended consequences that have troubled legal professionals. The post Generative AI in legal research: Opportunities, risks, and mitigation strategies appeared first on One Legal.

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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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LawSites

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Legal research startup Midpage has reached a critical threshold in its commercialization, its founder believes, as it achieves full data coverage of key U.S. case law and prepares to launch its own citator in the coming weeks.

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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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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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Attorney at Work

JULY 14, 2021

Legal recruiting is an important business development tool for law firms looking to expand their client roster, build up their practice areas, and open offices in new locations. In this second article, let’s discuss how firms can use litigation data to make their legal recruiting a more successful and profitable endeavor.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

By embracing legal tech, firms are stepping into the future and preserving the integrity and success of their practices. forcing at-home work to extend even further, the legal industry continues to feel the disruption. The good news is that legal tech programs can prove valuable in helping you manage and protect your law practice.

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Above The Law

MARCH 25, 2025

This is how many commercial offerings including some legal research services incorporate GenAI. Similarly, many professionals may find Deep Research to be a friend or an eventual enemy. Implications For Legal Professionals Let me suggest that its just a matter of time before Microsoft Copilot will have Deep Research integration.

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Above The Law

APRIL 15, 2024

Optimal litigation research integrates all relevant sources for efficient results. The post 5 Things Litigators Should Look For In A Legal Research Tool appeared first on Above the Law. Finding all materials for similar cases spanning different systems is difficult, time-consuming, and frustrating.

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LawSites

AUGUST 7, 2024

For decades, one product, Thomson Reuters Westlaw, has dominated the legal research market. A core foundation of that dominance has been Westlaw’s claims of copyright in several elements of its legal research service, particularly its headnotes and Key Number System.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 22, 2023

Nicole Clark | Legal analytics technologies push attorneys to look at litigation practice in entirely new ways. The post Going With the Flow of Civil Litigation: How to Stay Current With Legal Analytics appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 23, 2022

Keeping up on the litigation landscape with AI-powered legal analytics can help cultivate productive and meaningful client relationships. “As The business of the law requires a certain set of skills, as legal markets are generally soft, filled with more sellers than buyers. The statement is as bold as it is obvious. Ping to Pitch.

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JANUARY 29, 2025

Paxton, an artificial intelligence platform serving the legal industry, has raised $22 million in Series A funding, bringing its total funding to $28 million, it said today. The Oregon-based company offers AI-powered legal assistant tools for legal research, document […]

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 13, 2022

Artificial intelligence tools have become prevalent in legal practice, particularly in eDiscovery. Despite their benefits, many legal organizations have been hesitant to implement AI tools. That doesn’t mean, however, that law firms and litigation support teams have been quick to embrace them. AI Hesitation.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

SixFifty, a company that helps businesses automate employment law compliance and documentation, today released the first phase of its Employment Law Informatics Project (ELIP), an effort to catalog, summarize, and encode the logic of every employment law in the United States, to enhance both academic legal research and practical business use.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 16, 2025

Government agencies have a different pace than in-house corporate legal departments. Attorneys are already carrying the legal responsibility and pressure of the case. ” The statistics don’t lie – AI usage by legal professionals has skyrocketed from 19% to 79% in just one year.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

Legal Research and Writing In my first year of studying Paralegal Studies, my school provided us with Westlaw/LexisNexis (legal research software) that we used for legal research purposes. which provided me with a comprehensive understanding of the legal system and procedures. GET ACCESS 3.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

How do AI-driven legal research platforms specifically those that provide direct answers to legal questions stack up against each other? That was the question at a Feb.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Elon Musk’s aimless cost-cutting escapades turn to the SEC where DOGE slashed their Westlaw access because no one over there is smart enough to know how legal research works. Apparently now is an opportune time to start committing securities fraud!

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In a year dominated by discussion of generative AI and its potential impact on the legal profession, Thomson Reuters has played a leading role. Then, in November, Thomson Reuters made good on its promise to integrate generative AI within its flagship legal research platform, introducing AI Assisted Research in Westlaw Precision.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

From The Guardian : An Australian lawyer has been referred to a state legal complaints commission, after it was discovered he had used ChatGPT to write court filings in an immigration case and the artificial intelligence platform generated case citations that did not exist.

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