Above The Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

There’s a lot of buzz surrounding AI legal assistants. But they will streamline tedious elements of legal work and free up your time for strategy and counseling clients. Are they coming for your job?

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 20, 2024

So youre really good at drafting discovery, doing legal research, managing document productions, etc. If you work for a lawyer, this applies to you, regardless of your title. In it they said that a lawyer has a duty to understand the benefits AND THE RISKS associated with the technology used to deliver legal services.

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Blackstone Career Institute

JANUARY 24, 2025

Blackstone Career Institute offers a clear pathway for people looking to become certified paralegals through the online Legal Assistant/Paralegal Program and NALA Certification Bundle available for purchase. Paralegals, also called legal assistants, help lawyers do their jobs by preparing for trials, hearings, and proceedings.

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MyCase

APRIL 30, 2024

ChatGPT and related AI tools can write, edit, and research—three tasks that weigh heavily on the daily agendas for paralegals and legal assistants. Let’s explore the merits of AI in the legal field and how they could affect the work paralegals and legal assistants do today.

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MyCase

AUGUST 7, 2023

A lawyer’s day-to-day tasks outside of case work, from billing and invoicing to managing payments, are often time-consuming. As a result, many law firms seek out legal assistants to keep everything running smoothly and boost their productivity. What is a Legal Assistant?

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 20, 2021

They don’t all have to do with the legal profession because paralegal career development doesn’t just mean gaining more knowledge and skills about your particular practice area. The World’s First AI Legal Assistant. And what’s really cool is ROSS AI gives this tool to legal aid lawyers for free!

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The Estrin Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

I read the job description further: Develops and implements learning solutions to address identified gaps or challenges to assist lawyers with learning about and adopting innovation tools. . Clearly, this was a job for an instructional trainer with a specialization in legal research. Support Assistant (Legal Assistant ).

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LawSites

JUNE 15, 2023

In fact, with its recent launch of CoCounsel , an AI legal assistant developed in partnership with OpenAI and using the latest version of OpenAI’s GPT large language model, it has become the generative AI company to beat in the legal market. 2013 New Legal Research Site Combines Case Law with Crowdsourcing.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 28, 2022

The issue is when operators do not provide adequate notice for tenants to research options and make an educated decision about new office space. Typically, lawyers who take an office with another law firm will do so because the cost is cheaper than a professional co-working operator and they do not need to sign a lease.

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The Estrin Report

JULY 10, 2024

This linguistic relic perpetuates a caste system within legal support roles, unjustly positioning certain professionals as secondary and less important to the omnipotent “lawyer.” By prefixing roles with “non,” we implicitly suggest that the lawyer is the only significant figure in the legal landscape.

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LawSites

MARCH 14, 2023

Lawyers can use it to search a database, review documents, summarize documents, and review contracts for policy compliance. They can also use it to extract data from contracts, draft a legal research memo, and prepare for a deposition. Watch for LawNext interview next week with Casetext about this latest news.

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MyCase

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

While your time in law school gave you a strong legal foundation, chances are you didnt learn much about the numerous lawyer tools that can simplify your job. But in the crowded legal market, you see the utilityespecially for small firm lawyers whose livelihoods depend on client generation.

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LawSites

JUNE 26, 2023

The acquisition unites a long-established giant in legal research with a company that has proven to be a feisty upstart since its founding in 2013. ” Earlier this year, it launched CoCounsel , an AI legal assistant developed in partnership with OpenAI and using the latest version of OpenAI’s GPT large language model.

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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. Recital works in Word and email, for fast adoption without changing how lawyers work.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 3, 2023

I asked ChatGPT if lawyers were required to be competent with their technology and it replied (initially) that lawyers had no duty of technical competence under U.S. Several days later, it seemed to have learned about legal ethics and I got a different (and correct) answer citing legal ethics rules.

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LawSites

JANUARY 25, 2023

to serve as a lawyer’s virtual legal assistant, able to help with researching legal issues, drafting emails and letters, summarizing documents, brainstorming blog ideas, and even just conversational chatting. Currently, it is able to perform eight types of functions: Research a legal issue.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

[link] The Minnesota courts have a detailed page on their Self-Help Centers that provide not only location information but also tools and resources, law, rules & legal research, and how to find legal advice clinics. From there is a link to their courthelp web page ( [link] ) that "can help you when you don't have a lawyer".

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 18, 2022

Legal Soft Solution has assisted numerous law firms hire virtual assistants to aid in customer service, legal data entry, social media management, appointment setup, legal research, technical assistance, and more! All candidates are thoroughly screened by Legal Soft’s in-house legal recruitment team.

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Paralegal-Edu.Org

APRIL 26, 2024

In the following detailed discussion, the central functions of paralegals are brought to the limelight which relate to their roles, responsibilities, and the profound input they make in the legal field. Research and Investigation Among the main roles of a paralegal is to perform in-depth legal research and investigation.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

When I was starting out, many people told me that I will need a few years of experience being a legal assistant/secretary and/or a paralegal degree before landing a paralegal position. You only learn how to be a professional and a very basic understanding of legal research and some drafting. Let them talk.

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CARET Legal

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

For many lawyers, this scenario is all too common. Automated time tracking tools is a business-changing law firm case management software feature, that can capture billable time with unprecedented accuracy Your Digital Legal Assistant Deadlines, court dates, client meetings – the legal profession is a juggling act.

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Paralegal-Edu.Org

MARCH 12, 2025

Legal Research : Reading Between the Lines Lets set the scene: you have piles of documents, references to case law, and statutory codes scattered around. You dont merely want to gather facts; you want to figure out how they fit the big-picture argument your legal team is building.

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How To Become A Paralegal

JUNE 30, 2018

Yet, it’s not easy to learn to write well (particularly in the legal industry where getting your exact message across is important). Most paralegals (and lawyers) proudly display their ability to research and write a convincing argument. There are so many other tips that I could give you to help you improve your legal writing.

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MyCase

JUNE 5, 2024

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. What Are Legal AI Tools?

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LawSites

DECEMBER 27, 2023

A related story on the most popular list was about the sanctions imposed on lawyers in New York who cited “bogus” cases in their brief. The merger of legal research companies vLex and Fastcase, which, arguably, is an AI-adjacent story, in that the combination of their databases creates a huge learning model for training legal AI.

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How To Become A Paralegal

JULY 30, 2018

By and large, these programs cover substantive law and include legal research and writing. Take a look at some paralegal or legal assistant postings from Indeed.com. You also don’t have to worry about the added stress of making a mistake that could cause a serious problem for your supervising lawyer or a client.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Ashley is a Sessional Instructor for the Paralegal Studies and Office Assistant Programs at McEwen University, and she has over 16 years of experience in the legal industry. My background is primarily working in criminal law, and I typically work in a very small firm, and your lawyer is always off at court. All right, Dennis.

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MyCase

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Lawyers must learn how to write as effectively as they prosecute and defend. While you may have graduated from law school to perform duties in court, day-to-day tasks will also include drafting, reviewing, and editing legal documents. The execution of each of these documents requires legal knowledge as well as writing skills.

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LexBlog

JULY 26, 2019

A paralegal is not a legal assistant or legal secretary. The difference between the two is that a paralegal has either a certificate or associate degree providing them with the title of a paralegal whereas legal secretaries or assistants do not. What is the difference between a lawyer and a paralegal?

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Blackstone Career Institute

JUNE 20, 2024

Legal Assistant/Paralegal Blackstone’s Legal Assistant/Paralegal Program can be completed within 6-12 months on average. Upon completion of the program, Blackstone covers the cost to sit for the Certified Paralegal (CP®) exam given by the National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA).

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LawSites

JANUARY 23, 2023

With one click, lawyers can securely send files to a shared exhibit portal where all participants are updated instantly. This helps avoid mistakes and delays in the deposition and by speeding up the process, effectively gives lawyers more time on the record to ask questions. Case Chronology is trial tested.

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MyCase

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Nearly 90% of 2,000 surveyed legal professionals claim to be using cloud computing software to help run their firm. For example, a litigation firm would greatly benefit from a legal research tool to support their arguments in court. Lawyers often rely on DropBox, Google Drive, OneDrive, or a case management solution. .

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MyCase

JUNE 25, 2024

To learn about the average hourly rates for lawyers and how lawyer fees can differ by practice area and geographic location, check out the statistics here. Legal Research Fees Your firm may want to pass on the client’s share of costs for using online legal research databases or other research services.

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LexBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

in legal technology include using A.I. to automate the process of document review, the analysis of legal contracts and to perform due diligence checks in contract review, for example, electronic discovery and other areas of legal research. in the legal industry. appeared first on The Legal Assistant.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 23, 2023

In order to meet the problems of escalating workflow and productivity demands on a constrained budget, law firms are eager to invest in legal technology services. According to the Future Ready Lawyer 2021 report , 84% of legal departments have increased their technology budgets in the last year.

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LawSites

MARCH 18, 2024

Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain and l were sitting down with Daniel Lewis and Nik Reed , the founders of a legal research startup named Ravel Law, along with lawyers from Harvard’s Office of General Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton and Gundersen Dettmer. About the Author Adam Ziegler is a lawyer and software builder.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The substantial amount of time lawyers spend drafting documents during litigation. It also improves access to justice for society as lawyers can handle more cases, as well as remove some bias from the legal system through fact-first drafting. solves a few problems that current legal search engines do not. Anything else?

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