The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled oral arguments Aug. 17 in Atlanta on the dispute between Fastcase and Casemaker over the latter’s claims of copyright in Georgia administrative regulations.
Fastcase sued Casemaker in federal court in Atlanta in 2016 after Casemaker served it a written notice demanding that it…
Join me tomorrow as I moderate the free webinar, An Emerging Trend in Legal Technology: Bridging the Law Firm Experience Gap.
Sponsored by the Association of Legal Technologists, the panel will feature the presidents of three major organizations of legal professionals. They will be discussing how law firms can better capture and make…
Most judges in a survey say that they see lawyers miss relevant precedent in their legal research and that those missing cases have impacted the outcome of a motion or proceeding.
The legal research company Casetext surveyed 66 federal and 43 state judges to learn whether missing precedent over affects the outcome of a…
This past month, we’ve made a few improvements to help you accomplish your daily tasks as efficiently as possible. We’re proud to bring you key updates to the way you view contacts in Clio, and to Clio’s Outlook Add-in for Office 365.
We’ve also got two new app integration partners to…
The Mississippi Bar today announced that it is switching the research service it offers as a free benefit to its members from Casemaker to Fastcase. The switch will take effect for its more than 9,000 members on June 1.
“This new partnership allows us to support our members by providing free access…
When last we wrote about judicial analytics company Gavelytics on March 13, it was announcing a $3.2 million funding round to support development of new features and expansion into additional jurisdictions. Today, the first two of these new features roll out — a rulings database and an arbitrator archive.
As I…
The jury of popular opinion is divided on the writing style of the newest justice on the Supreme Court. Slate pronounced Neil M. Gorsuch a terrible writer. But a forthcoming quantitative study of his published opinions concludes that he “does exceedingly well according to the standards of good writing that legal writing authorities…
A first-of-its kind study of legaltech companies and their founders finds that women and people of color are significantly underrepresented among legaltech founders, accounting for just 13.6 percent and 26.5 percent respectively. Black and Latinx founders account for a staggeringly low proportion of legaltech entrepreneurs, at just 2.3 percent and 3.1 percent respectively,…
Casetext today is rolling out three major updates to its legal research platform. One is an updated design and architecture to make the site faster, cleaner and easier to use. But it is the other two updates that I want to focus on, because, in combination, they dramatically enhance the results you receive when…
At the annual meeting of the American Bankruptcy Institute on April 20, I moderated a plenary panel, “Artificial Intelligence: Why It Matters To Your Future Bankruptcy Practice.” In advance of the panel, the ABI recorded a series of video interviews I conducted with some of the panelists. Here is…
At the annual meeting of the American Bankruptcy Institute on April 20, I moderated a plenary panel, “Artificial Intelligence: Why It Matters To Your Future Bankruptcy Practice.” In advance of the panel, the ABI recorded a series of video interviews I conducted with some of the panelists. Here is…
In recent months, the cloud-based practice management platform MyCase has introduced a variety of enhancements that share a single theme – they were all inspired by listening to customers.
That is what Kim Coalson, senior vice president for MyCase at AppFolio, its parent company, told me when I sat down with her…
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