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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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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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

eDiscovery Assistant , a legal research platform for e-discovery case law and resources, is today introducing AI-generated case law summaries. The feature uses ChatGPT to deliver one-paragraph summaries of court decisions, with the goal of enabling legal professionals to more quickly gauge the relevance and implications of a decision.

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Above The Law

MARCH 25, 2025

They create fear in professionals as well as nightmares involving the lawyer that used ChatGPT and filed a fictitious case with a judge. This is how many commercial offerings including some legal research services incorporate GenAI. But What About Legal Research Providers? There are Boolean searchers.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 26, 2021

Some of the most interesting statistics in this year's report relate to legal research, social media use, and the hardware and software choices of lawyers.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 13, 2022

In fact, most lawyers already use AI daily in both their personal lives — via tools like Google and smartphone Face ID — and in their professional lives for tasks like legal research. In the process, lawyers receive a better foundation for making the critical judgment calls that only humans can make.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The latest installment of “Lawyers Royally Bungling with AI” features an Australian attorney who apparently decided that verifying case citations was just too 2024. A reminder that every time you think this story has been hyped enough that lawyers won’t do it again… they go ahead and do it again.

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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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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It isn't meant for legal research. The post Lawyers Still Haven’t Learned ChatGPT Just Isn’t For Them appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

While law firms struggle to keep a lid on AI security threats and otherwise control lawyers using AI out of turn , Linklaters has a forward-thinking solution that more firms should embrace. out of 10 and bet-the-company lawyering doesn’t grade on a curve. It’s not like Linklaters is alone on this.

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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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LLRX

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

While these resources make the law more accessible to the general public, they also help aspiring lawyers just beginning their journeys into the profession and ease the early stages of legal research for practicing attorneys looking for quick access to relevant laws. law schools and the law school admissions process.

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Above The Law

APRIL 2, 2025

However, tracking time manually presents some major challenges, such as: Missed billable time: When lawyers are focused on client work, its easy to forget to record time for quick tasks like responding to emails or reviewing case files. In a firm with 10 lawyers, that adds up to $187,500 annually.

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LawSites

JANUARY 18, 2022

The international legal research service vLex said today it has partnered with some of the world’s leading news publishers to launch a new Global News product on its platform. . vLex is unique among legal research services for its breadth of international coverage.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In this new white paper, our friends at Thomson Reuters provide a detailed look at how legal AI assistants are providing a competitive advantage to lawyers who adopt them.

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LawSites

APRIL 9, 2024

Furthering its expansion beyond legal research and into other products aligned with legal professionals’ day-to-day workflows, Bloomberg Law has acquired Dashboard Legal , a project management and collaboration platform specifically designed for the legal market. ” .” ”

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LawSites

MAY 30, 2023

It was bound to happen sooner or later: Two lawyers face sanctions for filing a brief laden with bogus cases hallucinated by ChatGPT. But is this a story about the failings of AI or is it about the failings of the lawyers? But, to me, the cautionary tale here is not about technology, but about lawyer competence.

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MyCase

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In a few of my recent posts I shared data on lawyer demographics, diversity , stressors, and future plans obtained from the recently released ABA Profile of the Profession 2021. The Report also includes a lot of interesting data about lawyers’ use of technology. Online legal resources.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 16, 2023

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. which provided me with a comprehensive understanding of the legal system and procedures.

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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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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Elon Musk’s aimless cost-cutting escapades turn to the SEC where DOGE slashed their Westlaw access because no one over there is smart enough to know how legal research works. Apparently now is an opportune time to start committing securities fraud!

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MyCase

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Whether you’re brand new to practicing law or a seasoned pro, effective legal research is one of the cornerstones of being a successful lawyer. Throughout your career, legal research skills can help you stay abreast of evolving precedent. What is Legal Research?

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MyCase

JANUARY 26, 2021

The good news is that a great resource available for small law firm lawyers seeking to invest in new technologies from ABA Publishing: The 2020 Solo and Small Firm Legal Technology Guide , written by Sharon D. Internet Legal Research On A Budget. Are lawyers in your firm using LinkedIn effectively as they could be?

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LLRX

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Lawson states that the Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility took a significant step in the right direction by legitimizing the idea that it is appropriate for lawyers to use AI. Equally important, it suggests guardrails necessary for the safe use of artificial intelligence.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 25, 2022

As society shifts and the need for lawyers to work faster and smarter grows, it becomes increasingly important that lawyers are able to nurture partnerships with freelance paralegals and legal assistants. For one, legal assistants focus solely on administrative work, clearing up time for lawyers to focus on other tasks.

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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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LawSites

MARCH 3, 2025

In yet another case involving the use and misuse of generative AI in legal research, a federal district court judge has declined to impose sanctions on an experienced attorney who submitted a brief containing miscited and misquoted cases generated by artificial intelligence. Although the attorney, Thad M.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 22, 2022

That changed as larger firms adopted standard-size offices, open floor plans and clustered workstations, and a growing cadre of lawyers — particularly solo practitioners — moved to shared offices. Prior to the pandemic, demand swelled for co-working spaces — including office centers designed specifically for the legal community.

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LegalTalkNetwork

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Practice tips: How negotiation steers healthy relationships & how to save $$ on legal research. Alexandra Carter, a negotiation trainer and clinical law professor, tells Lawyerist Podcast host Sarah Briggs how to best frame negotiation and how for lawyers to use to improve and develop professional relationships.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Once upon a time, in a magical city called San Francisco, three former lawyers came together to develop an innovative legal research platform, as an alternative to traditional legal research services such as Thomson Reuters Westlaw and LexisNexis. They called their new company Casetext.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 23, 2022

With an alert system in place, legal analytics platforms offer a bird’s-eye view of the litigation landscape. A lawyer can watch events unfold in real-time, following players on both sides of the bench. How, exactly, can a lawyer convince a prospective client that their law firm is the best law firm? Ping to Pitch.

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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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Attorney at Work

MARCH 14, 2022

As a newbie to the topic, computer legal research can present too large a universe. These are the books with step-by-step instructions on exactly how to do the thing that lawyers are called upon to do and the forms to make it happen. You won’t be the only lawyer attending. Go to Industry Conferences.

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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 15, 2023

Well before launching CoCounsel this year, it had already launched the powerful neural net search technology AllSearch and had pioneered products such as Compose , to help lawyers draft litigation briefs, and, in 2016 , CARA, the first product to use AI to analyze briefs, which spawned a generation of copycat products.

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LLRX

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Every lawyer in the United States is licensed to practice in some state, but very few lawyers are licensed to practice in every state. As a result, the question often arises -- is attorney X licensed to practice in state Y?

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