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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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 29, 2021

Some terms, concepts, products, and services make sense to us instantly. If your profession includes anything related to litigation (paralegal, attorney, support staff, technology person, project manager, etc.), What is Ediscovery? This happens before we ever even truly use or experience them. Ediscovery is Constantly Changing.

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LawTechnologyToday

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Legal document review is often viewed as the most expensive part of eDiscovery, and many attorneys believe that there’s no way around it. If you hold that belief too, then I have good news for you: Document review doesn’t have to come with such a high price tag.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JUNE 17, 2021

Litigation Software as a New Litigation Paralegal. As a new litigation paralegal, it is not expected that you will have mastered all of these technologies. However, it is a good idea for you to be familiar with what the different technologies can do at various stages of a litigation case. Discovery/Litigation Software.

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InHouseBlog

MAY 1, 2023

Whether you’re in-house or work at a law firm, if you have any experience with e-discovery, you know the most expensive part of the process is document review. It typically consumes around three-quarters of e-discovery budgets, so if you’re looking to save money, reducing review costs is the key to reducing e-discovery spend.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 9, 2022

“Slowly but surely” may be an apt phrase to describe the results from the 2022 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report covering Litigation Technology & E-Discovery. Many Years and Much Litigation. The results of the survey thus skew slightly more towards mid-size and smaller law firms. Software for Litigation & E-Discovery.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 31, 2022

For example, cross-border litigation is now widespread as global commerce increases. Consequently, as more corporations operate in more countries, the potential of litigation over patent infringements, copyright violations, and product liability rises. They help legal teams identify which foreign languages are used in documents.

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The Estrin Report

MAY 12, 2023

I am an academic and experienced professional with an extensive twenty-year background in leading business, process automation, and technological innovations within global law firms , non-profit organizations, and Fortune 100 corporations. By leveraging AI technology, tools such as BriefPoint.ai Donald Billings.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 24, 2023

However, it’s essential to understand that the kind of litigation paralegal role you choose will influence your job satisfaction. This is because some paralegals might prefer a corporate setting as an in-house paralegal, while others might thrive in a law firm setting working in civil litigation or other commercial litigation.

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Above The Law

MARCH 28, 2025

Across briefings, it became clear that legaltech vendors are no longer just layering AI onto existing products — theyre embedding it deeply into their platforms to surface meaningful insights from the data they already manage. The tool is designed to automate over 80% of review processes and complete them up to 90% faster than TAR.

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LawTechnologyToday

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Each trend has its roots in the now well-established field of litigation-support technology. Litigation technology was born out of a need to manage the high volume of potentially responsive documents because of the shift from paper to electronic documents and communication. Document Review Tools.

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LawSites

JANUARY 3, 2024

BriefCatch BriefCatch empowers lawyers and judges to edit legal documents to the highest standards while helping their clients win, boosting their writing skills, and enjoying expert explanations, models, and examples. Ai.Law Ai.Law provides AI-generated litigation documents, from pleadings to discovery.

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Cenza

JANUARY 27, 2023

The practice of outsourcing certain aspects of legal work by law firms, in-house counsels, and individual attorneys existed for decades. It took years to shape into a formal industry and to be christened Alternative Legal Service Providers. Despite the not-so-clear path it traversed, the ALSP industry has evolved into a $15.8

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 7, 2021

Litigation Support Analyst. Conflicts Specialist for a law firm. Maybe you’ve been a litigation paralegal for several years (or corporate paralegal, real estate paralegal…fill in any practice area here) and you’re looking for a career change. Business Development/Sales for legal support vendor.

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Knackly

MARCH 18, 2025

And if your firm deals with high-volume or highly specialized documents, you might be looking for a tool that gives you more control. Gavel is a legal document automation platform designed to help law firms, financial institutions, and businesses streamline how they create, manage, and share legal documents.

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LawTechnologyToday

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Traditionally ephemeral communication such as telephone calls and in-person meetings can now be recorded and preserved in short message formats like text messages, chats, and video conferencing tools. There are tools available that help follow the threads of communication and give additional context to conversations.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 13, 2023

He wrote that on my annual performance review: He wrote, “Ann knows what I need before I even know that I need it.” I read every single thing that came in on his litigation cases. I give a really good example of what a litigation paralegal can do what that information in my 3 Steps to Better Case Management. They own it.

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LawSites

MAY 30, 2023

In a first for an e-discovery technology company, Chicago-based Nextpoint is launching an Arizona law firm June 1 under that state’s liberalized law practice rules that allow non-lawyers to own law practices. ” Leading the firm as managing partner is Andrew R. The firm will officially open its doors on June 1.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The Problem with Staying in Your Lane A perfect example of this is a litigation paralegal who I interviewed for a position at the firm. At her firm, they had paralegals pigeon-holed into a specific phase of a litigation case. The paralegal I was interviewing had only ever worked on large-scale document productions.

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CARET Legal

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Keeping a close eye on expenses isn’t just good business—it’s essential for success in insurance defense law, where profit margins are notoriously tight. Controlling and tracking litigation costs, from depositions to expert witness fees, needs careful oversight to keep client budgets intact and to ensure profitability.

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Cenza

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The acquisition will strengthen KLDiscovery’s Managed Document Review and enhance the Company’s contract lifecycle management offering. Christopher Weiler, CEO of KLDiscovery, welcomes Aditya Mirza, CEO of Cenza, into the KLDiscovery family. KLDiscovery Inc. (“KLD”),

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MyCase

JUNE 5, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the way law firms operate. Legal AI tools are making it easier for lawyers and legal professionals to streamline processes, automate tasks, and increase efficiency and productivity. According to recent reports, law firms are well on their way to adopting and implementing AI technology.

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Cenza

AUGUST 25, 2021

Therefore, legal service providers have been contending to streamline their processes and systems with the aid of technology. An effort to maximize the value delivered by technology and enable business growth has resulted in the genesis of Alternative Legal Service Providers (ALSPs). Tracing the ALSPs’ growth path.

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LawVu

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

In this article, we’ll explain what is meant by a legal matter, why this can be such a useful lens for managing legal work, and how the right matter management system can be a game-changer for in-house counsel. What is a legal matter? However, the reality of in-house legal work is that it routinely extends beyond these parameters.

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CARET Legal

AUGUST 30, 2024

Trends in Complex Dispute Resolution Recent trends in high-stakes litigation have significantly impacted the dispute resolution landscape. Multi-jurisdictional cases have become increasingly common, requiring legal teams to navigate complex international laws and regulations. Traditional methods of case management are falling short.

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LawTechnologyToday

AUGUST 1, 2023

In an evolving legal environment with market competition at an all-time high, the technical competence of law firms and legal departments of large organizations have to be top notch. These tools bring in process and times efficiencies, and result in both short-term and long-term productivity enhancements.

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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. The legal industry is no exception to this prevailing trend, with law firms worldwide embracing Artificial Intelligence to add efficiency and gain a competitive advantage.

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LawTechnologyToday

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Artificial intelligence is a useful tool becoming more widely used in real-world applications that learn to complete tasks ordinarily done by humans. For example, a London law firm used data on the outcomes of 600 cases over 12 months to create a model for the viability of personal injury cases. The Current State of AI Technology.

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 29, 2021

These rapidly growing platforms present new ESI challenges in discovery as they contain potential evidence in litigation, internal investigations and compliance matters. Each chat, collaboration and/or archiving tool differs from the next. Organizations have in large part avoided producing collaborative data to date.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 27, 2023

Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp Are you still waiting for on-the-job training that takes you through each phase of a litigation case and shows you what you can do to support your attorneys? Another option might be to add on some software tools that speed up the review using AI. This is what you’ve been looking for!

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 11, 2023

For more than 10 years, ACEDS has trained lawyers, paralegals and other legal support professionals at law firms, corporate legal departments, the government, and in academia. He also operates a successful consulting practice that provides guidance to corporate legal departments and law firms. We all met in Miami for weeks on end.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 17, 2021

We are using litigation as an example, but the same reasoning applies to transactional practices.). Example: Developing a litigation defense strategy. Tip: This is a fantastic motivational tool.). Quadrant B: Delegating by Low Complexity and High Importance. proofreading motions prior to filing. Do you want any progress reports?

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 3, 2023

AP: At first glance, the tool seems incredibly competent. Much like a good litigator, it was able to take either position on an issue and put together coherent arguments for that position. You can judge for yourself what you think of the quality of those responses, but the tool was very easy to use. these days.

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LawTechnologyToday

JULY 1, 2021

Second requests—the discovery procedures regulators use to determine whether potential antitrust issues might arise from proposed M&A activity—come with a host of attendant challenges and costs for corporations, their counsel, and legal service providers. and GDPR privacy law during production. Maintain project structure.

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LawSites

AUGUST 15, 2022

Last January, the law firm Redgrave LLP , which specializes in e-discovery and information law, formed the company Redgrave Strategic Data Solutions LLC to provide “i nnovative services and solutions centered at the intersection of the law, technology, and science.” for advanced client data solutions?at

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The Relativity Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

These tips and tricks for AI prompt creation are tailored to using AI tools, specifically Relativity aiR for Review, to assist with litigation, document review, and deposition or trial preparation.

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CARET Legal

JULY 3, 2024

In law firms, AI has been particularly impactful by making document management and analysis processes more efficient. Artificial Intelligence (AI), at its core, is about creating intelligent systems that perform and/or expedite tasks that are traditionally manual and time-intensive. How much more productive could law firms be?

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