Above The Law

JANUARY 12, 2024

Notes to my (legal) self. The post ChatGPT Is NOT A Legal Research Tool appeared first on Above the Law.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 16, 2025

Embrace Technology as Your Competitive Edge This one comes from anonymous. Whatever technology is applicable to your practice area, know it better than anyone else on your team. It’s from Stuart Brand: “Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.”

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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

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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Above The Law

AUGUST 26, 2024

The future of legal research is AI. Read on to get the definitive guide to choosing a Gen AI legal research solution The post How To Choose The Right Legal Research Platform For Your AI Journey 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

JULY 23, 2024

The future of legal research is AI. The post The Definitive Guide To Choosing A Gen AI Legal Research Solution appeared first on Above the Law. Choose a platform that supports you on this journey, with the experience to guide you every step of the way.

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Above The Law

MARCH 25, 2025

This is how many commercial offerings including some legal research services incorporate GenAI. Well that explains OpenAI’s Deep Research service that was announced earlier this year. There will still be review required and some augmentation with traditional research and human input, but the process will be accelerated.

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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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LLRX

MAY 29, 2024

Law Librarians and tech experts par excellence, Rebecca Fordon , Sean Harrington and Christine Park plan to propose a typology of legal research tasks based on existing computer and information science scholarship and draft corresponding questions using the typology, with rubrics others can use to score the tools they use.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 16, 2025

AI-Assisted Research serves as a force multiplier for legal professionals. The post Precision Meets AI: Thomson Reuters’ New Era Of Legal Research appeared first on Above the Law.

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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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LawSites

APRIL 4, 2023

Unique Global Breadth vLex has been unique among legal research services for its breadth of international coverage. Its platform includes Vincent, an AI-powered legal research assistant that analyzes legal documents that users upload and finds relevant search results. It works in both English and Spanish.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Legal technologists and industry observers agree that generative AI will significantly enhance legal research capabilities, provided that these breakthrough tools are developed and used responsibly. Why is legal research a primary use case for generative AI?

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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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OneLegal

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

By understanding the risks and benefits of generative AI, you can minimize unintended consequences that have troubled legal professionals. The post Generative AI in legal research: Opportunities, risks, and mitigation strategies appeared first on One Legal.

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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

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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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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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 11, 2022

‘Tis the season for legal technology predictions, which are entertaining but seldom useful. Chosen by the subscribers of our flagship TechnoLawyer newsletter , these awards serve as a buyer’s guide and also reflect important trends in legal technology. Legal Research Tools That Find the Previously Unfindable.

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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

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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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In a ruling by the federal circuit and family court on Friday, Justice Rania Skaros referred the lawyer, who had his name redacted from the ruling, to the Office of the NSW Legal Services Commissioner (OLSC) for consideration. Presumably the judge said, “That’s not a case… this is a case.”

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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. Technology leaders have had to reassure users across all sectors that AI is here to help them, not replace them.

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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. Tackling Tedious and Imprecise Research. The other relies on technology that cannot be fully explained, but that can be employed on a more nimble and agile basis.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

For example, rather than sorting through mountains of paperwork with the risk of something being misplaced or missed, legal tech solutions can automate all sorts of lower-end, repetitive tasks. Notably, firms that fully leverage technology may actually see an increase in profitability at much higher rates than others since the pandemic began.

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The Estrin Report

MAY 12, 2023

I sat down with Dr. Don Billings , a long-time colleague, who knows just about anything one needs to know about legal technology and beyond. As those of you who have been in the field for awhile know first-hand, lawyers are always the last to get on the bandwagon with changes, let alone technology changes. Not going to happen.

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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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LLRX

JULY 7, 2023

Black notes the milestone of Thomson Reuters announcement that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Casetext, a legal research software company, for $650 million. For the past decade, Casetext has provided a legal research platform grounded in AI technology.

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LLRX

DECEMBER 31, 2024

It should not be surprising that the ABA would face challenges regulating a complex new technology. It also provides valuable guidance on other related topics, with client confidentiality significant. Unfortunately, Formal Opinion 512 misfires on the issue of attorney fees.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In our forthcoming Spring 2025 publication, Fighting the Hypothetical: Why Law Firms Should Rethink the Billable Hour in the Generative AI Era, [1] we hypothesize that Generative AI (GenAI) technology will change forever how legal services are delivered and will force law firms to re-engineer their legacy economic model.

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LLRX

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Yet, the Department of Justice has been funding the crime surveillance and analysis technology for years and continues to do so despite criticism from researchers, privacy advocates and members of Congress.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 22, 2023

Nicole Clark | Legal analytics technologies push attorneys to look at litigation practice in entirely new ways. The post Going With the Flow of Civil Litigation: How to Stay Current With Legal Analytics appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Download it below to learn: A detailed explanation of legal AI assistants The benefits a legal AI assistant can bring to your practice Specific use cases for litigation and transactions The importance of data security and privacy protections The post Gen AI: Your Legal Research Assistant, Not Your Replacement appeared first on Above the Law.

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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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LLRX

AUGUST 31, 2023

Articles and Columns for August 2023 The Case For Large Language Model Optimism in Legal Research From A Law & Technology Librarian – The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) in legal research signifies a transformative shift.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 20, 2024

So youre really good at drafting discovery, doing legal research, managing document productions, etc. Just like 15-20 years ago, the legal professionals who didnt embrace the technology that could allow them to more efficiently review 20 GB of records. in 2012 known as the technology amendments. Yes, thats you.

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