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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It was a bathroom break that inspired Bradley Neal , a 3L at The George Washington University Law School , to develop a product that uses generative AI to help law students better understand and brief cases. Returning to class after a visit to the bathroom, he had lost the thread of the case the professor was discussing.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

David Colarusso founded and co-directs the Suffolk University Law School's Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) Lab. By training he is an attorney and science educator. LLRX is pleased to share what Colarusso states is not a traditional syllabus, because this class he is teaching is not a traditional class.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Justia’s mission is to make the law and legal resources free for all. In keeping with this mission, the Justia Portal offers free access to statutes from all 50 states, cases from federal courts and the highest state courts, legal guides, and more! law schools and the law school admissions process.

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Above The Law

MAY 8, 2024

CNN ] * Columbia Law School still feels good about its graduates despite clerkship boycott from 13 conservative judges. Hey, as long as Columbia grads understand how to perform basic legal research they're still a leg up on the judges themselves. Bloomberg Law News ] The post Morning Docket: 05.08.24

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Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 16, 2023

How School Helped Me Build a Strong Foundation 1. 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. Get tips on improving your paralegal writing skills.

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

Chloe Field joined the Sabin Center as a Legal Fellow to contribute to the Center’s work addressing climate risk and resilience in the financial sector. Working with the Initiative on Climate Risk and Resilience Law she will focus on federal and state regulatory efforts to address climate-related financial risks. She received her J.D.

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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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C|M|LAW Library

MARCH 22, 2022

The Legal History and Rare Books Special Interest Section (LHRB) of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), in cooperation with Gale , a Cengage Company, is conducting its annual Morris L. Essays may be on any topic related to legal history, rare law books, or legal archives.

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C|M|LAW Library

MARCH 7, 2023

The Legal History and Rare Books Special Interest Section (LHRB) of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), in cooperation with Gale , a Cengage Company, is conducting its annual Morris L. Essays may be on any topic related to legal history, rare law books, or legal archives.

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LawSites

JULY 19, 2023

I say “fortunately” because, as I wrote when last year’s list was announced, the Fastcase 50 is probably the best-available roster of those who are leading the charge on innovation in law. Ben Alarie , Professor & Osler Chair in Business Law, University of Toronto Faculty of Law; Founder & CEO, Blue J Legal.

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LawTechnologyToday

JANUARY 13, 2021

Lucy Bassli | ( @lucybassli ) | Founder and Principal at InnoLaw Group, PLLC ; Law Department Management Consultant at NextLaw In-House Solutions ; and Legal Strategy Advisor at LawGeex. Rebecca Benavides | Director Legal Business and Strategy at Microsoft.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 23, 2022

We are thrilled to welcome Matthew Eisenson to the Sabin Center, where his work will focus on leading and expanding the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative (RELDI), which uses legal research and engagement to support siting utility- and community-scale renewable energy facilities and associated transmission and storage equipment.

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LawSites

AUGUST 9, 2023

As the American Association of Law Libraries wrapped up its annual conference in Boston last month, I checked out of my hotel and made my way through the Prudential Center shopping mall that connects the Hynes Convention Center to the various hotels that hosted the conference’s attendees.

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LawSites

JULY 12, 2021

If you are wondering where the innovators are in law, look no farther than the Fastcase 50, the annual award doled out by the legal intelligence company Fastcase that honors 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.”. Ben Crump, Founder , Ben Crump Law, PLLC.

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LawSites

MARCH 26, 2024

Called the Caselaw Access Project , it came about, starting in 2015, through an unusual partnership between Harvard Law School and a Silicon Valley-based legal research startup called Ravel Law. What does this data mean for the future of access to law, particularly in the face of generative AI?

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LawTechnologyToday

AUGUST 3, 2022

Dyane O’Leary is the Associate Professor of Legal Writing; Director Legal Innovation & Technology Concentration at Suffolk University Law School. Three points to summarize you and your work in legal tech. How did you become involved in legal tech? How did you become involved in legal tech?

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 3, 2024

Those who met him in person were certainly overwhelmed by his humour and humanity, by his talent to approach people and engage them into conversations about the law, art and culture. Everyone in the CoL and PIL world is familiar with and is probably admiring his outstanding and often path-breaking work as a global scholar.

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LexForti

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, is one of the premier National Law Schools in India, which has contributed towards transforming legal education into professional excellence ever since its establishment in 2003. TGLR is open for academicians, practitioners, research scholars, and postgraduate students.

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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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SimplyLawJobs

JULY 7, 2021

Russell Sandberg is a Professor of Law at Cardiff University, we recently caught up with Russell who kindly shared with us an insight into his average day as a professor of law and advice for those looking to pursue a legal career. Why did you choose to pursue a legal career? And I haven’t stopped since!

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Legal Research is Easy

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

T he other day as I was doing my Librarian thing, I happened to stop and talk with a student here at the law school. Unofficially, AmJur Trials is was awesome - simply one of the best resources a legal practitioner can use to prepare for trial. Seems she was freezing. Except that laying right next to her was a jacket.

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Patently O

JANUARY 4, 2024

Hsuanyeh Law Group v. 2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. In American Institute of Physics v.

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LLRX

JANUARY 18, 2024

Duke Law School Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Director Jennifer Jenkins heralds that on January 1, 2024 thousands of copyrighted works from 1928 entered the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1923. How is trademark law involved? They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Crises, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, are often a methodological opportunity for socio-legal research. We hope to explore the ways Covid-19 restrictions affect cross-border families, and the role of the law, in different countries, in shaping this impact and in challenging it. Yuko Nishitani, Kyoto Univiertys Law School.

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The Estrin Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Let me give you an example: A couple of months ago, my client, one of the biggest law firms in the world, called me and told me they wanted a “Professional Development Innovative Specialist.” I had no idea what this was, who hires, what industry it was in much less why it belonged in a law firm. Starting next week??? Seriously??

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Avianca , and in the wake of all the publicity those cases have received, you would think most lawyers would have gotten the message not to rely on ChatGPT for legal research, at least not without checking the results. Farwell , the lawyer filed three separate legal memoranda that cited and relied on fictitious cases.

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CARET Legal

APRIL 12, 2024

The answer lies in law firm management software. Running a law firm is no small feat. Amidst all these responsibilities, it’s important to remember that your attorneys are there to do what they do best – provide exceptional legal advice, represent clients, and win cases.

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LawSites

JANUARY 2, 2024

Their decisions often turn on whether a lower court has abused its discretion or on questions about how the law should develop. It was not until 1989, he notes, that the judicial branch finally provided PCs to secretaries in judges’ chambers and ensured there was at least one PC available to be shared by each judge’s law clerks.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 17, 2021

Every Monday and Wednesday, we will be featuring a woman from our class of 2021. Jennifer Wondracek is the Director of the Law Library, Professor of Legal Research and Writing at Capital University Law School. As my career progressed, I accepted more and more challenges and opportunities in legal tech.

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LawTechnologyToday

JANUARY 14, 2021

As a new generation of lawyers is about to enter the workforce, they bring new ideas, perspectives and ways of working that are bound to influence how law will be practiced in the future. Gen Z practitioners will undoubtedly have a significant impact on the profession. Perspectives on career: A job is more than just a salary.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

That would also help you figure out whether you want to use your paralegal certificate working in a law firm or look at alternative options for paralegal careers. You will likely make a higher salary if you go to work for a larger law firm, but the problem is that it’s harder to get that job at a larger law firm.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Representative of the interest in generative AI this year were the two stories that made my list about the law firm Gunderson Dettmer’s development of its own “homegrown” generative AI, ChatGD. New GPT-Based Chat App from LawDroid Is A Lawyer’s ‘Copilot’ for Research, Drafting, Brainstorming and More (Jan.

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InHouseBlog

JANUARY 23, 2023

The potential for disruption and disintermediation of the practice of law is already evident, but so are the powerful use cases that many are already trying to implement. at Legal Rebels Released Nov. 30, ChatGPT, a chatbot created by OpenAI and “is fine-tuned from a model in the GPT-3.5 So should lawyers welcome this technology?

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Yesterday, Allen & Overy , one of the world’s largest law firms, announced that it had integrated the legal artificial intelligence product Harvey into its global practice, where it will by used by more than 3,500 lawyers across 43 offices operating in multiple languages. And that’s kind of the point.

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How To Become A Paralegal

APRIL 30, 2018

In this post, you’re going to learn a little bit about what you can expect to learn in your paralegal studies classes. . This may also be called a civil law class. In this class, you’re going to learn the basics of the civil law system. Criminal Law. Criminal law always excites paralegal students.

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LexForti

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

The Journal Committee (“Committee”) at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow (“RMLNLU”), in collaboration with Khaitan & Co, is organising the 9th edition of the RMLNLU International Legal Essay Competition and Conference on Labour Laws (“RILEC”). About the Event. About the Journal Committee.

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 28, 2022

Attorney at Work’s “Women in Law” series focuses on successful women lawyers who have carved a path for themselves in the legal industry and beyond. Associate Regional Chief Legal Officer. Stetson University College of Law, J.D. It was this experience that first ignited my passion for the law. Meet Elena Kohn.

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