Above The Law

MAY 26, 2023

Notes to my (legal) self. The post Legal Research And Writing appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 11, 2023

The post Law School Dean Wants ChatGPT Taught In Legal Research & Writing Classes appeared first on Above the Law. It's the way of the future for lawyers.

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Above The Law

APRIL 15, 2024

Optimal litigation research integrates all relevant sources for efficient results. The post 5 Things Litigators Should Look For In A Legal Research Tool appeared first on Above the Law. Finding all materials for similar cases spanning different systems is difficult, time-consuming, and frustrating.

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Above The Law

JUNE 22, 2023

The post Do NOT, I Repeat, Do NOT Use ChatGPT For Legal Research appeared first on Above the Law. These chatbots are bald-faced liars that pull facts out of thin air.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

eDiscovery Assistant , a legal research platform for e-discovery case law and resources, is today introducing AI-generated case law summaries. Its founder, Twigger, is the principal at ESI Attorneys, a law firm dedicated to e-discovery, and a nationally known e-discovery attorney, author, and speaker.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Custom generative AI tools can enhance your legal research capabilities. The post From Books To Bytes: A Legal Research Showdown In The Age Of AI appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Read on for a strong addition to your research trail — while learning what a 'research trail' is. The post The Legal Tech-To-English Dictionary: Legal Research appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above The Law

MARCH 1, 2024

The post Cheat Code: How Will AI Affect Legal Research & Writing? appeared first on Above the Law. We’ve got all the angles covered in this episode of the Non-Eventcast podcast.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 17, 2023

When the legal research companies vLex and Fastcase announced their merger in April , they promised the deal would fuel new opportunities for the development of generative AI for legal research. “The combined library is the crown jewel of LLMs and the ultimate training data set for legal AI.”

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C|M|LAW Library

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The Fall semester is in full swing, and many of you may be grappling with significant research projects for the first time. The C|M|Law Library provides numerous Legal Research Seminars to help you get up to speed. Our Legal Research Seminars are available online as a “Course” on the Westlaw TWEN platform.

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The Researching Paralegal

JUNE 30, 2024

Custodia Legis, the Law Librarians of Congress , offers webinars on legal research issues as part of its Orientation of Law Library Collections. For those interested in Oklahoma law, the Orientation to the Law Library Collections will be presented by the Oklahoma State Law Library staff.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

APRIL 1, 2020

Legal research options abound, more so than ever before. This is in line with the general proliferation of law firm technology, buoyed by the rapid advancement of cloud technology for use in business. But, no law firm has an unlimited budget. If you want to talk legal research, we’re down.

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C|M|LAW Library

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Want to practice your legal research skills and learn some new ones? If you answered yes, consider Lexis Legal Research Certification. The certification is an excellent way to prove you can perform online legal research efficiently and effectively to potential employers.

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LLRX

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

After that case, which resulted in a media frenzy and (somewhat mild) court sanctions, many attorneys are wary of using generative AI for legal research. And some legal tasks are less affected by hallucinations. But vendors are working to limit hallucinations and increase trust.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Before that, researching was much different. The post The Beginnings Of Modern Legal Research appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The post Streamline Legal Research And Focus On Decision Making appeared first on Above the Law. LexisNexis’ Fact & Issue Finder combines AI and human-assisted search to provide digestible, thorough results.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Thomson Reuters has launched Westlaw Precision, its most dramatic update to the Westlaw research platform since Westlaw Edge in 2018. For this new version, Westlaw tackled the underlying issues that slow down legal research — namely lack of precision in search results, which leads to extra hours reviewing cases that aren’t relevant.

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Above The Law

JUNE 7, 2023

The post Free Speech Hypocrisy, Hot Bench Troubles, And ChatGPT Legal Research appeared first on Above the Law. Maybe the woman who called the cops on a Black birdwatcher should try using ChatGPT to make up some fake caselaw for her appeal because the real ones aren't helping.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Oakley Capital, a major European private equity investor, has acquired majority ownership of vLex , the international legal research platform. vLex is unique among legal research services for its breadth of international coverage. ” In 2019, vLex acquired Justis Publishing Ltd. ,

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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 First, the capital will help Casetext continue to create and improve products that help lawyers search the law and their own documents as well as to efficiently draft legal documents like briefs.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Crutchfield discusses the ins and outs of VitalLaw and how it’s helping lawyers change the way they approach legal research. The post How VitalLaw Is Transforming Legal Research: An Interview With VP Ken Crutchfield Of Wolters Kluwer appeared first on Above the Law.

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LawSites

JUNE 22, 2023

A federal district judge has imposed monetary and other sanctions on the two lawyers who filed a brief laden with bogus cases they found when they relied on ChatGPT for legal research. Schwartz, as well as the law firm of Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, to pay a penalty of $5,000.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It took a lot for modern legal research to develop. The post What It Takes To Build An Online Legal Research Tool appeared first on Above the Law.

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The Researching Paralegal

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Basic Legal Research – Terms and Connectors Searching, by Northern Illinois University College of Law, David C. Shapiro Memorial Law Library. When you do online legal research, do you have the luxury of time to poke around or do you have to get in, find what you need, and get out as fast as you can?

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C|M|LAW Library

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Want to practice your legal research skills and learn some new ones? Well if you answered yes, you should get a Lexis Legal Research Certification. The certification is an excellent way to prove you can perform online legal research efficiently and effectively to potential employers.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Just four years after launching Westlaw Edge as its next-generation legal research platform, Thomson Reuters today unveiled the next-next generation. It means search results that better match not just the legal issue, but also the outcome, fact pattern, cause of action, motion type and outcome, party type, and area of law.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Call for Papers for the European Central Bank Legal Research Programme (LRP) scholarship 2024 , which can be found on the ECB website via this link: [link]. The Call for Papers is open until 18 February 2024.

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LawSites

JULY 19, 2022

Recently, I reported here on the “quiet” launch of a new legal research service, Decisis , targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms. as well as president of the company that created Decisis, Legal InQuery Solutions. Pfeifer , who is chief product officer for LexisNexis in Canada, the U.K. and the U.S.,

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The Researching Paralegal

APRIL 26, 2020

Legal Research Demystified, by Eric Voight, Professor of Legal Research and Writing, Faulkner University. I have a new favorite legal research textbook and reference guide for law and paralegal students — Legal Research Demystified. link] (table of contents and a sample chapter).

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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 First, the capital will help Casetext continue to create and improve products that help lawyers search the law and their own documents as well as to efficiently draft legal documents like briefs.

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LegalTalkNetwork

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Practice tips and insights from the day’s headlines are nestled in the latest podcast episodes on Legal Talk Network. Practice tips: How negotiation steers healthy relationships & how to save $$ on legal research. Listen for their top three legal research options. How steering a kayak is like negotiation.

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LLRX

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Stephanie Farne , Legal Information Librarian and Lecturer in Law at Boston College Law School, raises increasingly important issues respective to the bias inherent in artificial intelligence powered search algorithms, both on the Internet and in commercial databases.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In a year dominated by discussion of generative AI and its potential impact on the legal profession, Thomson Reuters has played a leading role. Then, in November, Thomson Reuters made good on its promise to integrate generative AI within its flagship legal research platform, introducing AI Assisted Research in Westlaw Precision.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The news is that Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory is rebranding its flagship Cheetah legal research platform on Monday as VitalLaw, a name that Ken Crutchfield , vice president and general manager of legal markets, told me better reflects the mission of the platform and better resonate with with customers. .

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LawSites

JUNE 4, 2024

Last September, two litigation-focused Canadian legal technology companies, CiteRight and Jurisage, announced their merger, with the promise of combining CiteRight’s litigation drafting program with Jurisage’s AI technology to create an integrated legal research and drafting solution.

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CARET Legal

MAY 1, 2024

By streamlining complex processes and enhancing accuracy, AI is not only optimizing how legal professionals work but also redefining outcomes. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the legal world, transforming key practices including case reviews, legal research, contract analysis, and predictive analytics.

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My Shingle

APRIL 12, 2024

First up – a summary comparison of five gen AI platforms and their legal research… The post Some GenAI to Help Your New Law Firm appeared first on My Shingle. Here are two resources that won’t take more than ten minutes of your time.

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