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Midlevel Associates Frustrated By Firms' Lack of Tech-Savviness
In this year's Midlevel Associate Tech Survey, a number of associates at top firms once again said they were frustrated by their firms' lack of tech savviness and willingness to upgrade equipment. This echoes complaints from last year, and it should be noted that the survey regularly elicits similar criticisms about some of the world's richest law firms' technology.
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How the Results of the 9th Annual E-Discovery Unfiltered Report Can Help Your Legal Team Plan for 2024
Along with offering key impressions of leading providers in the sector, the "9th annual E-Discovery Unfiltered: A Survey of Current Trends and Candid Perspectives" report identifies the market shifts, pricing patterns, artificial intelligence developments, and data management practices that are driving the transformation of e-discovery.
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New Report: The Expanding Influence of Legal Operations
Ari Kaplan interviewed 50 legal operations professionals to better understand how they are adapting to today's legal, business, and operations landscapes, including examining the effect of contract lifecycle management tools and the rise of analytics and artificial intelligence on their law departments.
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U.S. Law Firm Leasing At Record Highs
After a slump during the pandemic, U.S. law firm leasing activity hit a record level in 2022, and activity boomed during the first quarter of 2023 with leasing volume higher than in any previously recorded Q1, a new report finds.
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ROSS Intelligence Claims Thomson Reuters Uses 'Tying Scheme' to Thwart Westlaw Competition
ROSS Intelligence is alleging that Thomson Reuters uses anticompetitive behavior to maintain Westlaw's dominance in the legal research space, according to a complaint filed in late January.
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Higher Industry Growth Forecast for 2017
The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation has released its Q3 update to the 2017 Equipment Leasing & Finance U.S. Economic Outlook, which increased its yearly equipment and software investment forecast to 3.6%, up from 2.8% growth forecast in its 2017 Annual Outlook released in April.
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AI and the Law: The Paradigm Shift Hits the Fan
In its astonishing "Free the Law" project, Harvard has teamed up with a California start-up called Ravel Law to digitize every state, federal, territorial and tribal judicial decision since colonial times by feeding over 40 million pages physically cut from the books shelved in the Harvard Law Library into a high-speed digital scanner.
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AI and the Law
<b><i>The Paradigm Shift Hits the Fan</b></i><p><p>AI — artificial intelligence — and its relatives: digital research engines, “bots” and other automatons, have made their beachhead in the legal profession, and it really looks like this is gonna change everything.
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