Above The Law

MARCH 5, 2025

SXSWor as some call it, South Byis a sprawling, nine-day event (13 if you include the education-focused portion) that blends technology, music, film, media, and culture into an immersive experience. Over the years, it has morphed into a global event that brings together emerging technology, digital media, and internet culture.

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Above The Law

APRIL 29, 2025

Understanding and aligning with lawyers needs, the necessity of tailored coaching and business development (BD) strategies, and the increasing role of qualitative and quantitative data and technology in demonstrating value of investment (VOI). Leverage technology to scale BD impact.

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Above The Law

MAY 5, 2025

When you talk to Cat Casey, you quickly realize shes not just an expert in AI and legal technology — shes a force of nature. Its a vivid reminder that while technology can be a lawyers greatest ally, it requires skill, strategy, and a touch of bravery to wield effectively. Use AI to amplify those strengths, not replace them.

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LawSites

JUNE 18, 2025

Ever since 2012, when the American Bar Association first adopted a duty of technology competence for lawyers as part of its Model Rules of Professional Conduct, its approach has been the template for state adoption of the duty. That approach was to incorporate the duty in a comment (Comment 8) to Model Rule 1.1, which […]

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Legal workflow automation provider Gavel announced today that it has expanded its AI-powered document automation tool, Gavel Blueprint, to support a total of 60 languages.

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The Volokh Conspiracy

JUNE 29, 2025

They represent a small sample of an emerging public techlash that could derail AI development before the technology delivers on its most significant promises to revolutionize everything from education to health care. These aren't isolated incidents. The Cooperation Problem Dismissing AI entirely would be a costly mistake.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

According to the lawsuit, Target uses surveillance cameras with facial recognition technology to monitor shoplifting. The suit also claimed that Amazon failed to publish retention and destruction policies and profited by selling the technology to other retailers.

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Above The Law

MARCH 11, 2025

Friday morning at SXSW , Niall Firth , the Executive Editor of the Newsroom at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), reviewed MITs annual list of 10 breakthrough technologies for 2025. The Top Ten Breakthrough Technologies for 2025 Here are the ten technologies that made this years list: Vera C. Dont think so).

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LawSites

JUNE 30, 2025

The companies say that the acquisition will “establish a new category of intelligent legal technology at the […]

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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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JURIST

MAY 7, 2025

A California jury ordered NSO Group Technologies to pay WhatsApp $444,719 in compensatory damages and $167,254,000 in punitive damages on Tuesday. In its motion to dismiss , NSO argued that its Pegasus technology is used exclusively by government agencies for “prevention and investigation of terrorism and criminal activity.”

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JURIST

JANUARY 10, 2025

The list of sanctioned Russian individuals includes several corporate directors, such as Vladimir Artyakov, First Deputy General Director of Rostec State Corporation, Sergei Petrov, CEO and owner of PSV Technologies LLC, Pavel Marinychev, CEO of the diamond mining company Alrosa, and Ruslan Bulatov, General Director of LLC Testkomplekt.

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LawSites

JANUARY 16, 2025

LexCheck, a legal technology company specializing in contract review, is launching a new AI-powered contract analysis tool that aims to solve two persistent challenges in contract technology: the ability to handle complex agreements beyond routine contracts such as NDAs, and the creation and maintenance of contract playbooks.

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Above The Law

MAY 1, 2025

Some technology manages to strike a chord with attorneys and gets inserted into the workflow, but many products fail to break through with the masses to the frustration of tech professionals. According to the research, there is a gap between the capabilities legal users deem important and their actual technology usage.

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Patently O

OCTOBER 19, 2024

A Central District of California jury has awarded SPEX Technologies nearly $316 million in damages against Western Digital for infringement of a patent related to hardware encryption technology.

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JURIST

MARCH 1, 2025

In Nepal, Indigenous women activists highlighted a stark gender disparity in access to technology. Sparse internet access, limited or non-existent technological resources, and costly mobile data plans placed Indigenous students at a severe disadvantage when classes shifted online or to radio and television programming.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Regulation could attract investment in blockchain technologies, foster financial inclusion, and provide a structured environment for adopting digital finance. By establishing a regulated framework, Morocco aims to address long-standing concerns about digital currencies while opening the door to potential benefits.

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Above The Law

APRIL 30, 2025

Our friends at MyCase recently surveyed over 2,800 legal professionals and covered a wide range of technologies that impact law firms, including artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI. The results are detailed in their 2025 Legal Industry Report, which details the technology journeys of thousands of respondents.

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JURIST

JANUARY 13, 2025

In a report in December of 2024, Amnesty International documented how Serbian authorities are misusing surveillance technology and digital repression tactics against civil society and dissent groups in the country. The article drew broad international attention, with Vui calling it an orchestration by the CIA.

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Above The Law

MAY 1, 2025

The faster technology advances, the harder it becomes to track both incremental and significant changes in legal professionals adoption rates. The good news is that many options are available if youre seeking current statistics about legal technology. Have you made that leap yet?

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LawSites

JUNE 12, 2025

Paladin, a legal technology company whose platform is used by law firms, in-house legal teams, and legal services organizations to match lawyers with pro bono opportunities and manage pro bono engagement, is today launching a pro bono platform designed specifically for law schools and law students.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Amnesty International revealed on Thursday that the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are using United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) armoured carriers, incorporated with French military technology on the battlefield.

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LawSites

JUNE 19, 2025

I wrote yesterday about the Puerto Rico Supreme Court’s adoption of the duty of technology competence, done as part of its promulgation of new rules of professional conduct to replace a code of ethics that had governed lawyers’ professional conduct in Puerto Rico since 1970.

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Above The Law

JULY 2, 2025

The reality, of course, is, as with most every other disruptive technology, the fears ignore that new work will be generated by the technology; work that doesn’t exist now or can’t be done. ATMs The classic example of the more likely impact of technology on work is ATM machines. So it goes for litigators.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Litera, fresh off its November acquisition of UK-based document automation company Office & Dragons, said today that it has acquired another UK-based company, Peppermint Technology, a provider of modular, cloud-based technology for law firms, built on and closely integrated with Microsoft cloud technology.

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Above The Law

JULY 3, 2025

Legal technology has a way of missing the vast middle of the legal market. Small law jumps into technology to keep themselves competitive. But like Jan Brady, the midsize firms are often in an awkward position : big enough not to need technology to sink or swim, but not big enough to dump resources into a cutting edge infrastructure.

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ABA Journal

JUNE 12, 2025

What kind of lawyering skills will be needed as artificial intelligence and new technologies change the profession? That is one question that may be answered…

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The move followed Amnesty International’s allegations that the technology was being misused against journalists and activists. The report says this use of technology violates free speech and human rights. Amnesty International welcomed on Wednesday the discontinuation of digital forensic equipment for some customers in Serbia.

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JURIST

JUNE 19, 2025

One proposed response to address these growing challenges is to create special regulations that enable effective governance of AI without impeding technological innovation. The post UN says use of artificial intelligence must comply with international human rights appeared first on JURIST - News.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

AI is an assistive technology for attorneys, not a replacement technology at least, not yet so, dont treat it as such. If you want to learn more about how to use AI effectively in your law practice, just reach out!

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