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Brazil AI Co. Enter Raises $5.5M In Sequoia-Led Round
Brazilian artificial intelligence startup Enter, which produces software to help companies with legal defenses, closed a $5.5 million funding round led by investment firm Sequoia Capital on Monday, according to an announcement by the company.
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4 Tips For Women On How To Advance Their Legal Careers
Contract management platform LinkSquares held a virtual event this week where women attorneys discussed their legal careers and challenges they have encountered. Here are four tips they shared for how women lawyers can excel in their careers.
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Arizona Supreme Court Embraces AI To Deliver Court News
Arizona's Supreme Court has announced the launch of an internal news and case information service generated using artificial intelligence.
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Lit Funder Mustang Bets On Predictive AI To Boost Profits
Mustang Litigation Funding has told Law360 Pulse exclusively it is deploying predictive artificial intelligence into its operations, launching an ongoing double-blind test of the technology in its underwriting process to evaluate risk and profitability.
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GenAI Has Benefits But Proceed With Caution, Ga. Attys Told
Some concerns surrounding the use of generative AI by law firms are outdated, and configuring it to lawyers' individual needs require an upfront time commitment, according to a Tuesday panel organized by a division of the State Bar of Georgia. But attorneys should still proceed with caution when using the technology, it said.
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Estate Planning Company Trust & Will Raises $25M In Series C
San Diego-based Trust & Will, a digital estate planning platform, announced Tuesday the close of a $25 million Series C funding round to expand its software platform, further incorporate artificial intelligence into its platform and drive strategic partnerships.
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As Law Firms Remain AI Cautious, Some Attys Jump In
Legal professionals are using artificial intelligence more often than last year, even as their law firms take a more measured approach, according to a new survey released on Tuesday.
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Norm Ai Gets $48M Investment, Hires Ex-SEC Commissioner
The legal and compliance platform Norm Ai secured a $48 million investment on Tuesday, bringing its total funding to date to $87 million.
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2 Firms Sued After Cyber Thief Steals $442K From Estate
Law firms SutterWilliams LLC and Allender & Allender PA were hit with a negligence and malpractice suit after a cybercriminal allegedly used spoofed email accounts to trick an attorney at the latter firm into handing over $442,600 from the sale of a late Pennsylvania sheriff's deputy's house in Florida.
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Cloudficient Rebrands E-Discovery Suite As CaseFusion
Information governance and data management solutions provider Cloudficient announced Monday that it has rebranded its e-discovery product suite to CaseFusion and will soon add two new modules to the software.
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5 Key Takeaways From The ABA's Latest Legal Tech Survey
Last week, the American Bar Association released its 2024 legal technology survey report, which covers a wide range of topics including artificial intelligence use, courtroom technology training and law firm data breaches. Here are five key takeaways from the report.
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Newer AI Chatbots May Improve Law Student Performance
Newer artificial intelligence programs such as OpenAI o1 and vLex's Vincent AI accelerated the completion of legal work and provided satisfactory, if not perfect, results in litigation-oriented tasks, according to a recently published report.
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Dropbox CLO Exiting After 13 Years, New Legal Chief Named
The chief legal officer of Dropbox Inc. is resigning after 13 years with the company, and will be replaced by the current vice president of product counseling and privacy, according to a filing Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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California Bar Orders Investigation Of Flawed Exam
The State Bar of California is bringing on an independent investigator to look into the problem-plagued administration of the February bar exam, which left scores of test-takers feeling cheated.
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Legal Tech Roundup: Jusfy, Consilio
A new investment for a growing Brazil-based legal technology company tops this roundup of recent industry news.
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Legal Jobs Down As Gov't Work Dries Up Under Trump
Following modest gains at the beginning of the year, the U.S. legal sector lost 3,300 jobs in February, according to preliminary data released Friday from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal sector started March with a downpour of big industry news, including leadership shuffles, office closures and group lateral moves. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Startup Caddi Gets $5M To Help Automate Routine Work Tasks
Caddi, a startup that developed a platform to help professional service firms automate repetitive and routine tasks, secured a $5 million seed round on Wednesday.
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Addleshaw Goddard Latest Firm To Adopt Legora AI Platform
Addleshaw Goddard LLP has joined the growing list of prominent law firms adding artificial intelligence platform Legora to its arsenal, in a move the firm said on Thursday will enhance its ability to manage large-scale document reviews.
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Venable Hires Ex-NSC Cybersecurity Expert
Venable LLP has announced the firm further boosted its cybersecurity services by hiring a former member of the National Security Council as a senior director.
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4 Things To Watch As KPMG Enters The US Legal Market
Last week, the Arizona Supreme Court approved accounting giant KPMG’s application to operate a U.S. law firm, making it the first of the Big Four accounting firms to enter the American legal market. Here are four things to monitor following this development.
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Ex-DLA Piper Data Head Launches AI-Focused Law Firm
A former partner and chief data scientist at DLA Piper has started his own artificial intelligence-focused law firm called Clarion AI Partners in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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FTI Consulting Adds Ex-Ankura Advisers In NY, DC
Washington, D.C.-based international business advisory firm FTI Consulting Inc. announced on Tuesday the hiring of two former advisers at consulting group Ankura as senior managing directors within its forensic and litigation consulting segment.
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Why Attys Choose ChatGPT Over Specialized Legal AI Tools
Legal professionals are using OpenAI's ChatGPT for work more often than generative artificial intelligence tools from legal vendors, fulfilling a long-held pattern of consumer-grade tools gaining a foothold before robust enterprise counterparts.
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Morae And ActiveNav Partner To Tackle Unstructured Data
Legal business solutions provider Morae Global Corp. and data governance software provider ActiveNav are partnering to help in-house legal departments and law firms address unstructured data, the companies said Wednesday.
Expert Analysis
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Tips For Evaluating Machine Learning For Contracts Review
Law firms considering machine learning and natural language processing to aid in contract reviews should keep several best practices in mind when procuring and deploying this nascent technology, starting with identifying their organization's needs and key requirements, says Ned Gannon at eBrevia.
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Collaborative Tech Will Dictate Future Law Firm Success
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Law firms need to shift their focus from solving the needs of their lawyers with siloed solutions to implementing collaboration technology, thereby enabling more seamless workflows and team experiences amid widespread embrace of hybrid and remote work models, says Kate Jasaitis at HBR Consulting.
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How Dynamic Project Management Can Help Law Firms
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Law firms looking to streamline matter management should consider tools that offer both employees and clients real-time access to documents, action items, task assignee information and more, overcoming many of the limitations of project communications via email, says Stephen Weyer at Stites & Harbison.
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How Firms Can Benefit From Creating Their Own ALSPs
As more law firms develop their own legal services centers to serve as both a source of flexible personnel and technological innovation, they can further enhance the effectiveness by fostering a consistent and cohesive team and allowing for experimentation with new technologies from an established baseline, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.
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Keys To Digitizing Inefficient Contract Management Processes
Neville Eisenberg and Mark Grayson at BCLP explain how they sped up contract execution for one client by replacing email with a centralized, digital tool for negotiations and review, and how the principles they adhered to can be helpful for other law firms looking to improve poorly managed contract management processes.
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Law Firm Tips For Evaluating AI And Machine Learning Tools
Many legal technology vendors now sell artificial intelligence and machine learning tools at a premium price tag, but law firms must take the time to properly evaluate them as not all offerings generate process efficiencies or even use the technologies advertised, says Steven Magnuson at Ballard Spahr.
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Learning How To Code Can Unleash New Potential In Lawyers
Every lawyer can begin incorporating aspects of software development in their day-to-day practice with little to no changes in their existing tools or workflow, and legal organizations that take steps to encourage this exploration of programming can transform into tech incubators, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.