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 In 2020, the company introduced a first-of-its-kind product, Compose , that automates the drafting of litigation briefs. million since its founding in 2013. ” Track Record of Innovation.

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LawSites

JUNE 7, 2021

The product, Compose , introduced in February 2020 by legal research company Casetext , helps attorneys automate the creation of the first draft of a litigation brief. CARA has since spawned a generation of similar products from other legal research companies. Casetext says it can cut brief-writing time by 76%.

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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

JUNE 15, 2023

2013 New Legal Research Site Combines Case Law with Crowdsourcing. 2014 Two Sites Offer Platforms for Crowdsourced Legal Research. 2017 Legal Research Company Casetext Closes on $12 Million in Funding. Casetext Expands Its CARA Research Assistant, Adding Suggestions Of Relevant Briefs.

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LegalTalkNetwork

MARCH 4, 2020

ABA TECHSHOW 2020 kicked off with its 4th annual Start-Up Pitch Competition on February 26th. Below is the complete catalog of our 12 episode podcast coverage from ABA TECHSHOW 2020 including a list of its 35 participants: Judy Perry Martinez. Apps Apps Everywhere–Tablet and Mobile Legal Practice.

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LawSites

JULY 15, 2021

Subscribers to Cheetah for Corporate Counsel, a legal research platform from Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. , Lawgood was a participant in the 2020 ABA Techshow Startup Alle y, for which I serve as organizer.).

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MyCase

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Online legal resources. The legal research statistics from this year’s Report are particularly interesting, in part because legal research was one of the first law firm processes to be impacted by technology. Lawyers also obtain most of their daily legal news online from a variety of different sources.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

My 2019 post detailed my visit to ROSS’s Toronto research and development office. But ROSS’s trajectory changed in 2020, when legal research giant Thomson Reuters filed a lawsuit against ROSS , alleging that it stole content from Westlaw to build its own competing legal research product.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 7, 2021

Are you a litigation paralegal who loves to do legal research and writing more than interacting with clients? Then a job in a library or a research company would probably get you more research assignments than being a paralegal at a large law firm that already has dozens of associates doing most of the research.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A great example of how firms can use short-term trends to shore up their practices and prepare for downturns comes from the dramatic decline in bankruptcy cases filed in 2020. Short-Term Trends.

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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. Make LinkedIn Work For You In 2020. Nelson, John W.

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LawSites

APRIL 26, 2022

TR filed its lawsuit in May 2020 , alleging that ROSS stole content from Westlaw to build its own competing legal research product. ” Meanwhile, discovery appears to be continuing apace in the case, with both parties having issued a slew of document requests, interrogatories and deposition subpoenas.

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LawSites

APRIL 11, 2024

In 2020, Bluford published a book in which he claimed to have become an FBI informant assisting in a political corruption investigation into the former mayor of Sacramento, Calif., ROSS was ahead of its time in striving to use artificial intelligence to empower legal research. After I wrote about that company, it too shut down.

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LawSites

MARCH 7, 2022

When legal research company Fastcase announced its acquisition of Judicata , the innovative California legal research platform, in 2020, it held out the promise of building on Judicata’s innovations through integrations with Docket Alarm , another Fastcase -owned product that mines federal and state court dockets to provide litigation alerts (..)

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 11, 2022

Legal Research Tools That Find the Previously Unfindable. Legal research tasks used to fall into one of three groups with time as the limiting factor — doable by any law firm, doable only by large firms such as 50 state surveys, and impossible.

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LLRX

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 15, 2022

In litigation, for example, in a large firm, as a litigation paralegal , you may perform only discovery tasks whereas, in a small firm, you may be handling case intakes, case management, writing demands, filing lawsuits, performing discovery, legal research, motion practice, and trial practice. Incomes rise as experience grows.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The National Security Law was imposed by Beijing in June 2020 after a controversial extradition bill fueled the 2019 Hong Kong protests. The report also stated that courts in Hong Kong uphold the rule of law and that Hong Kong protects the freedoms of the press and expressions of its residents.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 9, 2022

While both Concordance and Summation were the marquee names of document review in the mid-90’s and early 2000’s, Concordance was acquired by CloudNine from Lexis in 2018 , and Summation Pro is no longer a current offering since Exterro acquired AccessData in late 2020.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Two litigation-focused Canadian legal technology companies, CiteRight and Jurisage , have merged, combining CiteRight’s litigation drafting program with Jurisage’s AI technology to create an integrated legal research and drafting solution. ” The companies expect to complete the merger by year end.

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LawSites

JUNE 7, 2022

Now, Casetext is formally launching that search tool under a new name, AllSearch , and with a focus on helping litigators search large sets of legal documents, including for e-discovery or to search internal databases and repositories, such as brief banks, litigation records, deposition transcripts, and expert reports.

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LLRX

JANUARY 10, 2021

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 14, 2021

5, 2011, LexisNexis formally launched Lexis Advance , its next-generation legal research platform, which succeeded the research platform formerly called Lexis. But with its formal launch of Lexis Advance, Lexis dropped those various targeted offshoots for a single Lexis Advance designed for legal professionals in any setting.

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LawSites

JULY 13, 2021

LexFusion , the company that launched last October as a go-to-market collective of legal technology companies, has added legal research company Casetext to the roster of companies it represents. It launched in October 2020 with seven companies in its collective, and then added another three in April.

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MyCase

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The events of 2020 only served to accelerate that trend. Although the most recent Report was released at the end of 2020, it contains data obtained from lawyers through the early months of 2020. According to the ABA Report, 90% of lawyers sometimes use laptops to conduct legal research while away from the office.

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LLRX

JULY 31, 2022

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent at least 29 text messages to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows urging him to help overturn the 2020 election has reignited a long-simmering debate about judicial ethics and the nation’s highest court. Recent evidence showing that Virginia Thomas, wife of U.S.

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Cenza

JULY 1, 2021

Business model innovations are firms building captive ALSPs, creating consulting and software lines of business, and creating client client-facing portals and chatbots to automate self-service delivery of legal expertise.

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The Researching Paralegal

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

December 2020 US Law Webinars: These Are a Few of My Favorite Things, by Margaret Wood, In Custodia Legis , Law Librarians of Congress. A CLE honeypot for those who need CLE credits to maintain bar requirements or professional paralegal designations or who simply want to improve their legal research skills.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Lachance is a long-established leader in legal publishing and legal research whose career has included stints leading North American operations for the global legal research platform vLex and as president and CEO of the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII). Outgrowth of Legal Data Nonprofit.

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LLRX

JANUARY 31, 2021

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few.

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MyCase

DECEMBER 9, 2020

First, there’s “ A Short & Happy Guide to Advanced Legal Research, ” authored by Ann Walsh Long. This book is exactly what the title suggests: A “how to” of legal research that provides an overview of the vast array of legal research tools available to litigators at each stage of a case.

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LLRX

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few.

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LawSites

AUGUST 31, 2022

For all the advances made in the science of legal search, we are – as Pablo Arredondo , cofounder and chief innovation officer of Casetext likes to say – stuck in the keyword prison. Virtually all search tools – whether for legal research, e-discovery review, document review, or anything else – are confined to indexes.

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SimplyLawJobs

MAY 24, 2021

You’ll be learning about finding a job as a lawyer, starting a legal startup, being a trainee, and insight into specific laws. It’s a great resource and inspiration for doing legal research, writing a paper, or applying for a job. Simply Law Jobs releases its 2020 year in review. Final thoughts.

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LawTechnologyToday

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Last year, only 47% of respondents reported their laptop being their primary device, compared to 49% of respondents in 2020 responding that a desktop computer was their primary device. In 2020, 41% of solo law firms reported laptops being their primary device as opposed to 35% in 2021. This increase is not an outlier.

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Ross was a legal research AI startup. (I I say “was” because Ross AI closed down as an operating company in 2020 – Ross says it was due to the Thomson Reuters lawsuit – but its insurance coverage has allowed it to continue to defend the Thomson Reuters lawsuit). These are the basic facts underlying this lawsuit.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 16, 2022

According to the report, “84% of respondents report personally using remote access software for law-related tasks (compared with 76% in 2021, 75% in 2020, and 73% in 2019). Use of this software rose substantially except among solo lawyers. Client Portals to Share Information. Data helps shorten the time between observation and insight.

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