Cite Wikipedia in an argument to a judge, and you are likely to get a disapproving glare in response. “Give me solid precedent,” the judge is likely to say, “cases and statutes and respected authorities.”
But a team of scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Maynooth University,…
For 28 years, John Mayer has been executive director of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, or CALI, a non-profit consortium of some 200 law schools that describes itself as “the innovative force pushing legal education toward change for the better.” Along the way, CALI’s mission expanded to include addressing access…
If you are looking for a scorecard naming those who are leading the charge on innovation in law, you can do no better than the Fastcase 50, the annual listing by the legal intelligence company Fastcase that honors 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.”
Today, Fastcase is…
I am a big fan of litigation analytics, even once suggesting that it could be malpractice for a litigator not to use the technology.
There are a number of litigation analytics products on the market, and what they all have in common is that they extract data from court dockets and apply analytics to…
North Carolina-based TCDI, a company that provides e-discovery and cybersecurity software and services, has completed its acquisition of the e-discovery practice of London-based global professional services firm Aon.
The acquisition expands the range of advisory services TCDI offers while also expanding its e-discovery capabilities and geographic reach into the U.K., TCDI says.
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Every Friday at 3 E.T., the Legaltech Week panel of legal tech journalists and bloggers convenes live to unpack the week’s top stories in tech and innovation.
Here are the stories we plan to discuss today (but others can always come up):…
In the latest installment in our continuing video series How It Works, we get a demonstration of ImageRights for Law Firms, a recently launched technology that enables attorneys to directly track use of their own clients’ copyrighted works and then compile and assess any resulting infringement claims through the ImageRights’ cloud-based platform.
With automated evidence…
If ever there was a process ripe for disruption, notarization would seem to be it. A function that may date back to Ancient Egypt, it has changed little for centuries – still typically done in person, on hard-copy paper, using physical seals, and recorded in written ledgers.
Pat Kinsel, founder and CEO of Notarize,…
Aiming to raise awareness and understanding of the legal and regulatory issues related to blockchain, several legal professionals, legal service providers, academics, technologists and business executives have come together to form the Blockchain + Legal Industry Group, and today the group is releasing the first in a planned series of white papers produced to…
In a notable expansion upward in the judicial hierarchy, the legal analytics platform Lex Machina, which is owned by LexisNexis, has launched Appellate Analytics — legal analytics for federal courts of appeals — giving users an end-to-end overview of what happens during litigation, from trial all the way through appeal, and enabling legal professionals to…
Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. today relaunched Manual IP, a key compliance source within Kluwer IP Law that explains the procedures and laws involved in filing intellectual property applications in 238 jurisdictions, with what it describes as a more user-centric and innovative design.
Manual IP is a nearly 100-year-old publication, originally…
It has been a year since I have reported on a state adopting the duty of technology competence for lawyers, but now there is another: Hawaiʻi, bringing the total number of states that have adopted the duty to 40.
Effective Jan. 1, 2022, the state’s Rules of Professional Conduct were amended to revise…
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