In Los Angeles, the legal services organization Bet Tzedek has long run regular in-person legal clinics designed to help self-represented individuals better understand and navigate the sometimes complex process of conservatorship, by which a court appoints a person to manage the personal and financial affairs of someone who cannot make decisions for themself because…
Last Day to Register: CLE Webinar Tomorrow on the State of Legal Tech in Law Practice
I am speaking tomorrow on a CLE webinar on the state of legal technology, but the last day to register is today at 3 p.m. ET.
In a program presented by the Massachusetts Bar Association, I am joining Damian Turco, MBA president and former chair of the MBA’s Law Practice Management Section, to discuss…
Dueling Legal Tech Lawsuits: Turns Out Exec Who Sued Former Company in NY Had Herself Been Sued By them A Week Earlier in Dallas
Yesterday, I reported here on a lawsuit filed March 20 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan by a legal tech executive who alleges her former company owes her over $1 million in stock and that her former boss sexually harassed her.
As it turns out, just a week before she filed her lawsuit, her…
Lawsuit By Former Legal Tech Exec Says She is Owed Over $1M In Stock and Was Sexually Harassed
In a lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Manhattan, the former chief operating office of a legal technology company claims she was fired after attempting to exercise…
Getting a Tech LLM: Is It Worth It?
As technology continues to transform our economy and culture, businesses need a new breed of lawyers who understand the legal and commercial aspects of technology. There is a specific need for lawyers skilled in bringing new products and new companies to market.
Cornell Tech’s Master of Laws (LLM) in Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship is…
Here Are Some of the Stories We’ll Discuss on Legaltech Week Live Today at 3; Join Us!
Join us live today at 3 p.m. E.T. for the weekly Legaltech Week roundtable panel, where we discuss — irreverently at times — the tops stories in legal tech and innovation.
If you haven’t already, you can sign up free here to attend. Register once and you are signed up for all future sessions. You…
ILTA Honors Five Influential Women of Legal Tech
A bit late with this, as it was announced earlier this week, but the International Legal Technology Association, in celebration of Women’s History Month, has named five women as its 2024 Influential Women in Legal Tech.
The list recognizes outstanding women leaders in the global legal technology community based on their mentorship history and level of…
Legal Tech Startup Ai.law Can Now Draft the Complaint for Your Lawsuit
Ai.law, a legal technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to generate litigation documents, has added a new module that will draft the complaint to initiate a lawsuit.
While Ai.law already had modules for litigation tasks such as answering a lawsuit, responding to discovery, and pulling summaries from medical records, this new module allows a…
On LawNext: InfoTrack’s Mission to Revolutionize Litigation Services Such as E-filing and Process Serving, with CEO Ed Watts
InfoTrack may be one of the fastest growing yet least known legal technology companies in the United States. You may know it more through its brands, including ServeNow for finding process servers, One Legal for California court filing, LawToolBox for court calendaring, and the Legal Talk Network group of…
Aiming to Be the Stripe of Corporate Compliance Filing, SingleFile Raises $6.5M, For Total Funding of $15.1M
SingleFile, a company that aims to automate outdated corporate compliance filing processes by leveraging AI technology, has raised $6.5 million, on top of three previous funding rounds totaling $8.6 million, bringing its total funding to date to $15.1 million.
Led by the VC firm Foundry Group, this round, an extension of the company’s…
Guest Post: The Caselaw Access Project — Then, Now, Tomorrow
On my left: the edge of the off-ramp, a modest guardrail, and a fifty-foot drop. On my right, inching closer: a tractor-trailer determined to occupy my lane. I hit the brakes. The truck kept rolling. Its wheels pressed into my car as it wedged me against the curb and carved a tail-to-nose dent in my…
Federal Court Suspends Florida Attorney Over Filing Fabricated Cases Hallucinated by AI
Just a few weeks ago, I wrote about two more cases of AI-hallucinated citations in court filings leading to sanctions, and now comes the case of a Florida lawyer suspended from practice after filing cases that were “completely fabricated.”
On March 8, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida suspended attorney…