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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

For all the money being poured into legal technology development these days, woefully little gets spent on technology designed to enhance access to justice for low-income Americans. Here is the complete list of 2021 TIG grants: Alaska . California.

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LawSites

JANUARY 16, 2024

If you are hungry to learn more about the latest trends and developments in legal tech, then keep the last week of January open on your calendar, as there are three separate legal tech conferences worthy of your time. 1 Legalweek is the OG of legal tech conferences. Legalweek, Jan. This year, it runs Jan. 29 to Feb.

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ABA Journal

MARCH 22, 2024

Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Jamie Berry, the president of Evolver Legal Services, an e-discovery and litigation support services company. They discussed how client service…

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LawSites

AUGUST 5, 2021

Lightning Law Technologies , a Seattle startup developing software for remote testimony and legal proceedings, has raised a $1 million seed, which the company will use to accelerate development of its platform. The company describes its mission as “to facilitate online justice.”. CEO Alisa Brodkowitz.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In the blur of activity that was last week, I attended two legal tech conferences, plus an adjacent legal technology summit. We talk often of the justice gap in this country — of the fact that the roughly 50 million low-income Americans receive no or insufficient legal help for 92% of their civil legal problems.

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LawSites

AUGUST 8, 2022

Should the legal industry have a common set of data standards for classifying the work we do? The SALI Alliance – short for Standards Advancement for the Legal Industry – believes we should, and it recently released version 2.0 of its Legal Matter Standard Specification, which sets out an ontology of some 10,000 tags. .

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Discover 2024's legal sector evolution with AI, ESG litigation, and new billing models, as analyzed by top industry experts. The post 2024 Legal Industry Outlook: Strategic Transformations And Emerging Opportunities appeared first on Above the Law.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Winners have been named for the second annual American Legal Technology Awards , a competition launched last year to honor exceptional achievements in legal technology. Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico. Ben Carter , senior litigation and advocacy counsel, Kentucky Equal Justice Center. Priori Legal. Startup Legal Garage.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 25, 2023

Candidate | Università degli Studi di Verona] The Summer School on Transnational Litigation has been organized since 2019 within the Ravenna Program on Cross-Border Disputes by the University of Bologna, Department of Juridical Sciences – Ravenna Campus (Italy), under the direction of Prof. [This post has been prepared by Ms.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 16, 2021

Even under the best of circumstances, clients working with lawyers on a contingency basis may not be have to pay fees upfront, but also may not be able to pay their bills while they wait for their case to make its way through the legal system. Luckily, changes in litigation finance may be changing the terms of engagement. What changed?

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Five nonprofit legal service organizations sued the presiding judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday, seeking to prevent the court system from compelling in-person court appearances for traffic and unlawful detainer hearings.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Using legal data for strategic law firm planning is no longer reserved for BigLaw. We’ll also discuss how to combine insights from litigation trends with lessons learned from previous articles to determine where to focus your marketing efforts for the greatest return. Uncovering Opportunities and Diagnosing Weaknesses in Your Markets.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The LegalVIEW Insights report by Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions is based on data gathered through its LegalVIEW BillAnalyzer product, which the company says is the world’s largest body of legal performance data. As a result, changes in total legal spend tend to be driven by megamatters more than by lower-cost matters. litigation.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Avi Stadler at Esquire Deposition Solutions discusses the practice areas that are expanding most aggressively during the COVID-19 era of increased litigation and technology needs, and offers recommendations for how law firms can attract and retain the expertise they need to thrive in today's competitive market for legal services.

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LawTechnologyToday

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The Legal Technology Resource Center ’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. a LegalTech education company that delivers legal innovation education through practical experience opportunities and online training events.

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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2024

A bit late with this, as it was announced earlier this week, but the International Legal Technology Association, in celebration of Women’s History Month, has named five women as its 2024 Influential Women in Legal Tech. Over the course of her legal career, Alma has earned numerous recognitions relating to her innovation work.

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 27, 2021

Even under the best of circumstances, clients working with lawyers on a contingency basis may not be have to pay fees upfront, but also may not be able to pay their bills while they wait for their case to make its way through the legal system. Luckily, changes in litigation finance may be changing the terms of engagement. What changed?

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 3, 2021

The Legal Technology Resource Center ’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. People Clerk has been part of the Duke Law Tech Lab, the LexisNexis Legal Tech Accelerator, and, most recently, Lex Lab at UC Hastings. What we saw was shocking.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In an interview Tuesday, Ovbiagele said the idea for the company originated from Jeffrey Gettleman , a former partner at Kirkland & Ellis who is now Bench IQ’s cofounder and vice president of legal services. ” He distinguished Bench IQ from legal analytics companies such as Lex Machina or Pre/Dicta.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As I survey the legal profession broadly, and the world of legal tech and innovation specifically, I see uncertainty and inertia. It is as if we are serving time in a legal tech limbo. After all, it was a good year for the legal tech industry. Overall, the legal tech industry saw unprecedented growth.

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LawSites

AUGUST 21, 2023

A survey out today of trends in litigation and e-discovery finds that 40% of legal professionals are already using generative AI tools or are planning to do so in the near future. across law firms, corporate legal departments, government agencies, and legal service providers. An additional 21% remain undecided.

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LawTechnologyToday

AUGUST 22, 2022

The Legal Technology Resource Center ’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. Three points to summarize you and your work in legal tech. How did you become involved in legal tech? What projects have you been focused on recently?

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LawSites

JULY 21, 2022

For 28 years, John Mayer has been executive director of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction , or CALI, a non-profit consortium of some 200 law schools that describes itself as “the innovative force pushing legal education toward change for the better.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

His work at the Sabin Center will include the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative , the Climate Attribution Database , the Climate Reregulation Tracker, the New York State and City Climate Law Trackers , as well as submitting comment letters on administrative proceedings. He holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago.

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LawSites

MAY 12, 2021

Two non-profit pilot programs won approval this week under Utah’s regulatory sandbox to provide non-lawyer legal assistance to individuals with medical debt. Both programs were approved May 7 by the Utah Supreme Court’s Office of Legal Innovation , which oversees the sandbox and reviews and approves applicants.

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 13, 2023

Public access to court data through automated collection of online court records is a fundamental First Amendment right and it is critical to meaningful access to the United States legal system. Soon after this ruling, Courthouse News Service filed an appeal in October with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals , where the case is now pending.

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LawTechnologyToday

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In recent years, new technology, specialization, client demand, and the pandemic forced the legal industry to adopt more efficient practices, including embracing the use of virtual legal services. Enter Alternative Legal Service Providers (ALSPs). So, what exactly is an ALSP and why do you need one?

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LawSites

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A group of us were in the hotel bar, stridently debating whether an alternative business structure, licensed under Arizona’s liberalized legal regulatory scheme, could deliver legal services in other states. Dan Katz and Damien Riehl discuss generative AI in legal. Sure, but could they do it again?

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LawSites

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The LegalVIEW Insights report by Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions is based on data gathered through its LegalVIEW BillAnalyzer product, which the company says is the world’s largest body of legal performance data. As a result, changes in total legal spend tend to be driven by megamatters more than by lower-cost matters. litigation.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 31, 2022

A recent study based on more than 240 interviews with top legal decision-makers reveals these tailwinds include: Record levels of workloads for the second year in a row. The biggest legal spenders lead the list of companies increasing spending on outside counsel. The 10 Industries Showing the Most Growth in Legal Spending.

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Cenza

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The evolution of legal tech was seeded when LexisNexis introduced the red “UBIQ” terminal in 1976 to help lawyers simplify the task of searching case law. This invention set the stage for a technology revolution in the legal space. Early-aughts witnessed a new era in legal technology when pioneering solutions emerged in the market.

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Cenza

MARCH 30, 2022

During the COVID-19 pandemic, corporate legal departments and law firms around the world struggled to meet the new normal’s demands. Organizational restructuring and changing legislation have resulted in increased legal spending. What is Legal Process Outsourcing? Why Does LPO Matter? The market size says it all.

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LawSites

JANUARY 9, 2024

The Thomson Reuters Institute, in its 2024 Report on the State of the US Legal Market , released today in partnership with the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at Georgetown Law ( whose URL returns a page not found), uses Pan Am’s story to drive home a simple point for U.S. law firms: Innovate or die.

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Open Law Lab

JANUARY 8, 2021

We can break down two main research questions about measuring the quality of justice in different types of court formats: Do litigants in virtual vs. in-person hearings have more Procedural Justice? They didn’t make as full use of the law or legal services to protect themselves. Find the article here: [link].

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LawTechnologyToday

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The Legal Technology Resource Center ’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. Rebecca Hernandez Benavides is the Director of Legal Business and Strategy at Microsoft. How did you become involved in legal tech? Optimistic.

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MyCase

AUGUST 18, 2023

Enter legal matter management, a strategic approach that empowers law firms to stay on top of their never-ending workload—all from one centralized location. What Is Legal Matter Management? Legal matter management is the comprehensive process of handling all aspects related to a legal matter within a law firm.

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LawTechnologyToday

JULY 28, 2021

As you know, legal services are typically document intensive and often, the service rendered is the document itself (estate planning documents, purchase contracts, leases, etc.). Even in practice areas where the document is not the final product (such as litigation), most of the work still involves creating documents.

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