Attorney at Work

MAY 20, 2022

Law specialization has become increasingly common — almost a necessity. . Abraham Lincoln, licensed to practice law in 1837 in Illinois, may be the archetypal general practice attorney. The Lincoln Legal Papers Project identified over 5,600 cases and nearly 100,000 documents related to Lincoln’s law practice. Ways Clients Win.

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LawSites

MAY 9, 2023

Does the corporate legal market need yet another contract lifecycle management product? Well, Bloomberg Law thinks it does. Bloomberg Law says it is because existing contract solutions are difficult to deploy, difficult to use, and not designed for attorney workflows. Why is this?

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Knackly

APRIL 14, 2025

In todays fast-paced, tech-driven world, doing everything manually just doesnt cut it anymoreespecially when it comes to drafting documents. Whether youre in a law firm, a corporate legal department, or any business that produces contracts regularly, a document drafting system can be a game-changer.

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LawSites

JULY 15, 2021

now have direct access to Lawgood , a practice tool for drafting contracts and clauses using market standards. Wolters Kluwer says this provides “another important component to our comprehensive solution as it allows legal departments to create and update their contracts in-house effectively.”. Click image for animation.)

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

While law firms struggle to keep a lid on AI security threats and otherwise control lawyers using AI out of turn , Linklaters has a forward-thinking solution that more firms should embrace. Linklaters makes AI sit law exams [RollOnFriday] Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

When Professor Daniel Schwarcz talks about AI in law, its clear youre hearing from someone deeply passionate and incredibly informed. A leading voice at the University of Minnesota Law School, Schwarcz bridges the academic and practical worlds of AI, insurance law, and legal technology. The results? and start trying it out.

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Above The Law

JUNE 4, 2024

The post LexisNexis Purchases Contract Drafting Tool, Brazilian Butt Lift appeared first on Above the Law. LexisNexis bought Henchman for the technology. the sense of humor came free.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In our forthcoming Spring 2025 publication, Fighting the Hypothetical: Why Law Firms Should Rethink the Billable Hour in the Generative AI Era, [1] we hypothesize that Generative AI (GenAI) technology will change forever how legal services are delivered and will force law firms to re-engineer their legacy economic model.

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Above The Law

JULY 22, 2024

Drafting contracts has been simplified in CobbleStone through the power of several native AI tools. CobbleStone Contract Insight leverages VISDOM, its powerful AI engine backed by machine learning (ML) that streamlines data insertion, extraction, evaluation, and risk identification.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 11, 2020

While a world free of lawyers will most likely never come to fruition (to many parties’ chagrin), new technology in the form of smart contracts is changing how legal matters are drafted. This data then informs the automated terms of a contract by posting results and accompanying proof to the blocks.

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LawSites

JUNE 3, 2024

LexisNexis Legal & Professional said today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Henchman, a Belgium-based contract drafting legal technology company. LexisNexis said it is acquiring the company for its document management system that enable faster document drafting.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 29, 2023

An interesting law firm use case for AI. The post Less Sexy Than Generative AI Drafting Contracts, But Bringing AI Into Cybersecurity Is Pretty Important appeared first on Above the Law.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Gone are the days when a law firm might only have a secondary income from a related business, such as a title company. Now, law firms and lawyers are moonlighting as business development consultants, app developers, coaches of all kinds, continuing education providers, and fiction and nonfiction authors.

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LawSites

JUNE 11, 2024

LexIQ, an early-stage startup focused on using artificial intelligence to draft and review contracts in Microsoft Word, is today launching its waitlist for corporate legal departments and law firms interested in joining is beta program.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 28, 2022

So, what are the things we do that get YOU thinking this could be the best career decision you make as a Criminal Law Paralegal? Caveat – there is so much information about what Criminal Law Paralegals do, I wish I could relay to you everything Perhaps I could share more in-depth details at another time. Communicate with Clients.

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CARET Legal

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Effective law firm contract management can simplify workflows, enhance compliance, and improve client service. Managing contracts manually is a time-consuming task for many law firms. The high volume of contracts, combined with the need to maintain accuracy and ensure compliance, creates a significant challenge.

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CARET Legal

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

As we step into 2025, we’ll continue to experience technological evolution at an unprecedented pace that will reshape how law firms operate. For law firms looking to stay ahead of the curve, embracing simplified legal tech solutions is no longer optional—it’s essential.

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JURIST

MARCH 9, 2023

Law Students for Climate Accountability (LSCA), a non-profit coalition of law students advocating for climate justice, Thursday released a report criticizing top US law schools with a disproportionate amount of graduates entering corporate fossil fuel legal positions.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Imagine drafting a contract and, instead of starting from scratch, a tool like ChatGPT generates a well-structured template in seconds. Generative AI might generate a flawed contract template or plagiarize a snippet of code, and accountability is typically straightforward. Agentic AI, on the other hand, raises thornier issues.

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Knackly

MARCH 25, 2025

Ever since Lawyaw became Clio Draft, things havent been the same. If youre considering Clio Draft but have heard mixed reviews, or youre already using it and running into frustrations, youre not alone. Luckily, there are plenty of Clio Draft alternatives that dont come with the restrictions of its Clio Draft transition.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

International Judicial Cooperation (IJC) and advanced technologies redefine Private International Law (PIL) in a globalized world. Keywords: private international law, international judicial cooperation, new technologies, videoconferencing, direct judicial communications, Smart contracts, and Blockchain. ” (art.

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Above The Law

APRIL 3, 2025

Thomson Reuters employs more than 650 attorney-editors at Practical Law all of whom have 10 or more years of experience in law firms or corporate law departments. The Dynamic Tool Set features in Thomson Reuters Practical Law demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach. And here is the result for the query.

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CARET Legal

JANUARY 10, 2025

By enabling faster transactions, reducing errors, enhancing client satisfaction, and ensuring greater compliance, automated document management optimizes real estate law practices for success in a fast-paced market. Real estate law involves a variety of document types, each with its own requirements.

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The Estrin Report

DECEMBER 26, 2024

About the Author Chere Estrin has over 20 years of experience in the staffing arena, including executive positions in law firms, litigation support companies, and the legal staffing divisions of a $5billion publicly held corporation. She is CEO of Estrin Legal Staffing , a nationwide staffing organization.

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Above The Law

MARCH 6, 2025

If you decide now is the time, how do you ensure ethical implementation in your law firm? The challenge then becomes staying abreast of rapid changes without getting left behind and successfully implementing AI in your law firm when the time is right. Should you adopt it soon or wait until it matures? More often than not, it can.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

LegalOn , a company that was already one of Japan’s largest providers of AI contract review technology when it launched into the U.S. Even for companies that already have their own collections of contract templates, LegalOn’s templates address nuances that their own may not, Lewis said. ”

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 30, 2022

A surprisingly large number of lawyers, judged from my anecdotal experience, are interested in teaching a law school class. I just wrapped up my whirlwind of a first semester as an adjunct law professor teaching Contract Drafting at the University of Richmond School of Law. But not money — more about that below.).

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LDA PRO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

With their expertise and commitment, LDA Pro helps owners navigate the intricacies of eviction law. Their team of professional paralegals is well-versed in California eviction laws, assuring that your privileges are protected. They will evaluate your claim, review the lease contract, and recommend the best course of action.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Belgium document automation company ClauseBase has launched a major expansion of its product to add new capabilities for clause extraction, AI-powered document review, and automated proofreading, all with the goal of providing an all-in-one platform, within Microsoft Word, for contract drafting, reviewing and negotiating.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This post was written by Luana Matoso , a PhD candidate and research associate at Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany. Brazil has changed its law on international forum selection clauses. On June 4, 2024, the Brazilian National Congress passed a law amending Art.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 20, 2022

Law firms of all sizes are feeling pressure to meet client demand for both tailored services and greater efficiencies in this rapidly changing industry. This trend toward the increasing technology in law is echoed by industry analysts. Must law firms keep pace with their clients’ technology efforts? According to Gartner Inc.,

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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. Contract policy compliance. Extract data from contracts.

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LawSites

JANUARY 24, 2024

In November, when Thomson Reuters announced the integration of generative AI within its flagship legal research platform Westlaw Precision, it also announced the beta version of a generative AI integration within Practical Law. Ask Practical Law AI provides users with a chat interface to access Practical Law content.

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LawSites

MAY 15, 2023

A new company coming out of stealth today, The Contract Network , aims to “radically accelerate the time for contract negotiations” by providing an AI-powered collaboration platform that can be used by all parties to a transaction to more quickly “get to the point” in their negotiations. ” The redline rut.

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Above The Law

JUNE 14, 2023

The post Artificial Intelligence Already Being Used In Transactional Drafting: An Interview With The CEO Of Spellbook appeared first on Above the Law. Spellbook recently announced $10.9 million in new funding from several major venture capital firms.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

With its recent launch of CounselLink+ , LexisNexis has provided a highly comprehensive tool to streamline your law departments entire workflow. Perhaps the biggest + of the new additions, however, is the full integration of Lexis contract lifecycle management system into CounselLinks Enterprise Legal Management solution.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

A recent study by the Law Commission of England and Wales has resulted in proposed amendments to the Arbitration Act 1996 that include a default rule that an arbitration agreement will be governed by the law of England and Wales if the arbitration is seated in that territory. The article is available here.

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