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Forensic Data Collection: A Bridge Between Digital Forensics, eDiscovery, And Artificial Intelligence   

Above The Law

In the summer of 1956, when John McCarthy gathered researchers at Dartmouth College, he did not just coin the term “artificial intelligence” he sparked a digital revolution that would span generations. The emphasis on data quality is why data collection from a legal and investigative perspective is crucial for moving forward.

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SXSW Privacy Discussion: The Rising Risks Lawyers Can’t Ignore

Above The Law

Whittaker argued that the world today is more surveilled than ever before, with a handful of corporations and governments wielding unprecedented access to our personal data. Her comments highlighted the risks that everyone but especially lawyers, given our duty of confidentiality need to take seriously.

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The GenAI-Powered Contract Management System You Didn’t Know You Needed

Above The Law

As every lawyer knows, time is money. Still, countless billable hours are spent on tedious tasks like data entry during intake. Then associates or paralegals spend hours reading 30, 40, 50 pages to review new contracts according to the most basic criteria. It then populates all that information into fields within the system.

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Scrub Your Document With Microsoft Word Document Inspector

Attorney at Work

If you don’t already have a third-party metadata cleaner installed on your PC, Microsoft Word has a Document Inspector that can clean out any potentially compromising data. Before you use Document Inspector, though, you’ll want to do two things first: Review any tracked changes.

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Contract Metadata Extraction – the whys and hows answered!

Cenza

Before we learn the need for contract metadata and how an expert in the extraction process ensures the effectiveness, let’s take a glance at the basics. Metadata, in general, describes the digital content of varied types to facilitate its management, use, and, most importantly, discovery. The answer is simple.

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Top Technology Trends for Transactional Lawyers

LawTechnologyToday

Electronically Stored Information (ESI) renders a 3D image of a document by introducing metadata, or data about data. A document repository that contains not only the content of a document but the metadata, along with memorializing attorney analysis on each document, is an important element to the litigator’s toolbox.

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Thomson Reuters Unveils Next Generation of Westlaw, Aiming to Make Legal Research Results More Precise

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Just four years after launching Westlaw Edge as its next-generation legal research platform, Thomson Reuters today unveiled the next-next generation. ” Advance testing of Westlaw Precision among 101 lawyers found that a research task that previously would have taken 4.75 Tackling Tedious and Imprecise Research.