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ABA Antitrust Content Now Available on vLex (And We Have An Exclusive Demo of How It Works)
The legal research company vLex and the American Bar Association are today announcing a partnership to offer access to a collection of more than 60 titles from the ABA’s Antitrust Law Section on vLex’s AI-powered research platform. The collection of competition and consumer protection content covers essential areas of antitrust law such as monopolization, intellectual...
Bob Ambrogi
3/29/2023
Law.com's Legaltech News
MyJr From Canadian Startup Jurisage Lets Researchers 'Chat' With Case Law
Jurisage’s MyJr was designed to help lawyers make sense of case law “without the waste and frustration that comes with chasing every lead.”
Law.com's Legal Tech News
2/23/2023
Above the Law Tech News
ChatGPT Is Scarily Good At Answering Legal Questions
Advances in artificial intelligence might be able to make lawyers even more efficient in their jobs. The post ChatGPT Is Scarily Good At Answering Legal Questions appeared first on Above the Law.
Jordan Rothman
2/16/2023
Law.com's Legaltech News
Legal Research Startup Alexsei Integrates GPT-3.5: It’s Just One Part of Legal’s AI ‘Brain’
Alexsei CEO and founder Mark Doble believes that large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3.5 may be soon reach their limits, though he sees much potential in combining LLMs with more legal-specific AI models.
Law.com's Legal Tech News
2/15/2023
3 Geeks and A Law Blog
Colin Lachance on Jurisage’s MyJr and How He’s Looking at AI to Assist in the Synthesis and Reading of Legal Cases (TGIR Ep. 190)
It is pretty apparent that we are in a super Hype Cycle when it comes to AI tools like ChatGPT, but for many of us in the legal profession, we’re not used to reaching this point of the cycle at the same time as the rest of the world. Because things are happening so fast,...
Greg Lambert
2/15/2023
Fastcase News
State Bar of Texas Announces Case Law Alert Partnership with Fastcase
All Bar Members Gain Free Access to Texas Case Law Alert Collection by Fastcase AUSTIN, TX and WASHINGTON, DC (January 18, 2023) – Fastcase and the State Bar of Texas are extending their partnership to provide all active State Bar members with free access to Fastcase case law alerts in thirteen practice areas. Since 2014, State Bar of...
Jennifer Brand
1/18/2023
LawSites
Practical Law’s Publication, The Journal, Moves From Print to Online, Increases Frequency
Practical Law The Journal, long a quarterly magazine published in print by the Practical Law division of Thomson Reuters, has moved online as of today, where it will now be published monthly as part of Reuters legal news. At its new web location within the website of Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson...
Bob Ambrogi
1/5/2023
Dewey B Strategic
Bloomberg Law is Doubling Down on Legal News– Starts Hiring Spree to Bulk Up Legal Coverage
I was recently provided with an internal Bloomberg communication from Cesca Antonelli, Editor-in-Chief at Bloomberg Industry Group*. Antonelli  scoped out Bloomberg’s plans: “ ... as we move into 2023, we will substantially grow the size of our newsroom. You read that right. At a time when it seems like our entire industry is shrinking and...
Jean O'Grady
1/4/2023
Fastcase News
Fastcase Teams with Cassidy Cataloguing to Provide MARC Records for Titles Offered by Full Court Press Imprint
Improving Search Options for Law Libraries and Library Organizations with Fully Searchable MARC Records Washington, DC (December 6, 2022) –  Full Court Press, the publishing arm of Fastcase, today announced it is providing MARC catalog records through a partnership with Cassidy Cataloguing Services. The partnership is ongoing and the libraries that subscribe to Cassidy will receive...
Jennifer Brand
12/6/2022
LawSites
When Researching Case Law, How Do You Know When It’s Safe to Stop?
We’ve all been there or heard the stories: You’re a junior associate working on a make-or-break case. Partners are breathing down your neck to meet deadlines. The entire case rests on your shoulders so you have to get it right – even if it means pulling a fourth all-nighter – because if you miss a...
Bob Ambrogi
12/1/2022
Dewey B Strategic
Post-Pandemic Legal Research Procurement Survey – What’s Hot and What’s Not?
On September 15th I presented the results of my “2022 Dewey B Strategic Start Stop Survey” at an HBR-sponsored LINKS program. I co-presented the results with HBR Managing Director Kris Martin.  The Dewey B Strategic “Start Stop Survey” was launched in 2013 but was suspended during the pandemic. The 2022 survey was intended to gather...
Jean O'Grady
10/28/2022
Dewey B Strategic
Fastcase 2023 Roadmap Includes New Citator Called “Cert”
This week  Fastcase  is announcing three new projects for 2023 which will become the foundation of additional state initiatives across the country in the future. Dockets with the State Bar of Texas State Bar of Texas has given its members access to  DocketAlarm brief, pleading and motion documents in Fastcase. The Texas bar will also...
Jean O'Grady
10/26/2022
Dewey B Strategic
Wolters Kluwer Launches Securities Enforcement Analyzer
Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. is  announcing the launch of the Securities Enforcement Analyzer, a new research and data visualization tool. Although the legal analytics market has exploded. Regulatory analytics have lagged behind. Wolters Kluwer Securities Enforcement Analyzer is filling an important gap for securities practitioners. The new product provides visualizations and data on...
Jean O'Grady
10/24/2022
Dewey B Strategic
Wolters Kluwer Launches ESG Daily – Expands Environmental, Social, and Governance Content on VitalLaw with ESG Daily  
Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. today announced the addition of ESG Daily to its daily reporting suite on VitalLaw.  The ESG Daily will provide  updates on on rapidly evolving ESG regulations, legislation, and standards across key practice areas.  The newsletter will focus on breakings news and expert analysis in energy, sustainability, andgovernance (ESG) affecting...
Jean O'Grady
10/10/2022
Dewey B Strategic
Power Tools for Budget Planning – TRG Releases Optimize Insights for Research Monitor
TRG Screen has released a powerful new enhancement to their Research Monitor product. The new Optimize Insights platform provides visual analytics for proactive management of digital resources. Law libraries were already reducing their print resources before the 2020 pandemic. The sudden and long term shift to remote work resulted in a dramatic conversion to digital...
Jean O'Grady
10/6/2022
Dewey B Strategic
Wolters Kluwer Launches Labor Arbitrator and Awards Analyzer on VItalLaw
Today Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S.  is launching a powerful new tool for employment lawyers: the Labor Arbitrator and Awards Analyzer. The Analyzer is a research and data visualization tool  which delivers key insights on labor arbitrators and labor arbitration awards, trends, and outcomes. The tool is accessible from the Labor Arbitration section on...
Jean O'Grady
10/3/2022
LawSites
You Can Now Research and Analyze Labor Arbitrators and their Awards with New Tool from Wolters Kluwer
While recent years have brought a number of products to market for analyzing judges and their rulings, little is available for analyzing private arbitrators, and particularly arbitrators in labor and employment matters. A new tool introduced today takes a major step towards remedying that. Called Labor Arbitrator and Awards Analyzer, it is part of the...
Bob Ambrogi
10/3/2022
Dewey B Strategic
Practical Applications of Neural Nets in the Practice of Law
One of the most exciting panels at the 2022 ILTA Conference (What is Natural Language Processing and How can I Use It?) showcased dramatic breakthroughs in neural net technology to natural language processing (NLP). Pablo Arredondo, Co-Founder / Chief Innovation Officer, Casetext provided an intensely passionate tutorial on the history of AI through the centuries. The...
Jean O'Grady
9/23/2022
Law.com's Legaltech News
Thomson Reuters Launches Westlaw Precision, Bolstering Editorial Research Capabilities
The updated tool has added research capabilities based on increased editorial capabilities, while the artificial intelligence technology behind the software has largely remained the same.
9/14/2022
Law.com's Legaltech News
Legal Tech Knowledge Lags Despite Outside Counsel's Growing Expectations
A new report found that a broad majority of legal professionals expect what was described as “transformational technologies,” such as blockchain, machine learning or artificial intelligence, to impact their organizations within the next three years, but only about 35% or fewer actually understand any of them very well.
9/14/2022
LawSites
Thomson Reuters Unveils Next Generation of Westlaw, Aiming to Make Legal Research Results More Precise
Just four years after launching Westlaw Edge as its next-generation legal research platform, Thomson Reuters today unveiled the next-next generation. It is called Westlaw Precision and, as the name suggests, its focus is on delivering research results that are more precise than ever before, and delivering them with greater speed than ever before. What does...
Bob Ambrogi
9/14/2022
LawSites
2022 ‘Future Ready Lawyer’ Survey Finds that Complexity of Information and Clients’ Expectations Are Driving Greater Reliance on Tech
Legal professionals face greater pressure than ever before, driven by the “VUCA” environment of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, but firms that are well-equipped for the future are those that are optimizing their people, processes and technology through a path of continuous improvement. So says the 2022 edition of The Wolters Kluwer Future Ready Lawyer,...
Bob Ambrogi
9/14/2022
Dewey B Strategic
Westlaw Precision Launches With Promise to Cut Lawyer Research Time in Half
Today Thomson Reuters is announcing the release of a new platform Westlaw Precision which promises to dramatically cut research time and improve the quality of research results. Westlaw Precision will be sold as an upgrade to Westlaw Edge. Westlaw Precision is tackling the gnarly and perennial problem of language ambiguity by doubling down on taxonomy....
Jean O'Grady
9/14/2022
LawSites
LawNext Podcast: vLex Managing Director Masoud Gerami on the Company’s Acquisition and Plans for Growth of its International Legal Research Platform
Last week, Oakley Capital, a major European private equity investor, said that it had acquired majority ownership of vLex, the international legal research platform that lays claim to having the largest collection of legal information on a single service.  On this episode of LawNext, host Bob Ambrogi is joined from London by Masoud Gerami, managing...
Bob Ambrogi
9/13/2022
LawSites
In Partnership with vLex, Free Law Project to Build Complete Case Law Database
A new partnership between Free Law Project, a nonprofit devoted to making legal information publicly and freely available, and vLex, the international legal research platform, will enable Free Law Project to complete its goal of collecting every precedential court decision from the federal courts and state appellate courts and making them available to the public...
Bob Ambrogi
9/12/2022
LawSites
Private Equity Firm Acquires Majority Interest in Global Legal Research Platform vLex
Oakley Capital, a major European private equity investor, has acquired majority ownership of vLex, the international legal research platform. The investment means that vLex will now have more resources available to drive its growth, including in the United States, and potentially to make acquisitions of other companies that will further that growth, a company spokesperson...
Bob Ambrogi
9/5/2022
Dewey B Strategic
The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Publishes Guide to US Primary Law Online
The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL)  has published a new legal research resource for information professionals—law librarians, legal information professionals, and public librarians. The new resource, Online Legal Information Resources (OLIR)  provides links to primary resources  for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, the U.S. Federal Government, and Canada. The resource...
Jean O'Grady
9/1/2022
LawSites
How Neural Nets Are Liberating Legal Search from the Keyword Prison
For all the advances made in the science of legal search, we are – as Pablo Arredondo, cofounder and chief innovation officer of Casetext likes to say – stuck in the keyword prison. Virtually all search tools – whether for legal research, e-discovery review, document review, or anything else – are confined to indexes. Every...
Bob Ambrogi
8/31/2022
Dewey B Strategic
Fastcase and Casemaker Merge to Create the Largest Legal Research Platform by Subscriber Count
Legal publishers Casemaker and Fastcase are announcing a merger of their two companies. According to the press release ” The two companies will combine their teams and technologies to innovate research, analytics, and workflow offerings that empower lawyers with powerful digital solutions for their clients.” I spoke with Ed Walters CEO of Fastcase yesterday. He...
Jean O'Grady
1/5/2021
Fastcase News
Casemaker and Fastcase Merge to Become the Leader in Legal Research and Analytics
Leading state bar benefit providers create a powerful alternative for legal information Washington, DC and Charlottesville, VA (January 5, 2021) – Legal publishers Casemaker and Fastcase today announce their merger and joint building out of legal research and analytics, news, data, and workflow solutions. The two companies will combine their teams and technologies to innovate...
Hannah Holmes
1/5/2021
LawSites
Longtime Competitors Fastcase and Casemaker Merge, Reshaping the Legal Research Landscape
In news akin to a wedding announcement jointly issued by the Hatfields and the McCoys, two longtime competitors in the legal research market, Casemaker and Fastcase, have merged, creating a single company under the Fastcase brand that has an estimated subscriber base of more than three quarters of all lawyers in the United States. Just...
Bob Ambrogi
1/5/2021
LawSites
Fastcase Acquires Technology and Staff of Innovative Legal Research Platform Judicata
In a move that could dramatically reshape the legal research market going forward, legal research and publishing company Fastcase has acquired the technology and employees of the California legal research platform Judicata, promising to take its unique technology to all 50 states. One of the most innovative legal research platforms in the U.S., Judicata came...
Bob Ambrogi
9/3/2020