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Wolters Kluwer Expands Post-COVID “Back to Work” Smart Charts, Litigation Tracking and Alerts

By Jean O'Grady

June 7, 2021

Today Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. is announcing an expanded version of its COVID-19 State & Federal Compare Smart Chart™ which is focused on “return to work” issues. New areas of coverage focus on a wide range of back to office content and caselaw related to the pandemic, accessible for all Cheetah™ and Cheetah™ for Corporate Counsel subscribers. The new back to office content compares corporate and local health policies on topics such …

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In The Brief Checking Wars Thomson Reuters Ups the Ante with New “Contrary Authority” Feature

By Jean O'Grady

June 4, 2021

New feature identifies cases which are contrary to an opponent’s arguments This week Thomson Reuters released another feature to Quick Check. How much easier can cite checking get? Quick Check Contrary Authority helps lawyers zero in on vulnerabilities of an opponents brief. Quick Check Contrary Authority identifies uncited cases that oppose the arguments in an opponent’s brief. Quick Check Thomson Reuters brief checking tool was released as part of Westlaw…

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American LegalNet Launches Integrated Cloud Platform for Efilings, Forms, Smart Dockets, Alerts and Court Rules Management

By Jean O'Grady

June 2, 2021

American LegalNet,Inc (ALN) was founded in 1996 as a platform to provide law firms access to State, Federal, Court, and Agency U.S. court forms. I was already familiar with the exhaustive catalog of federal and state litigation and administrative forms which ALN provides in their Forms Workflow product. I recently had the opportunity to meet with ALN founder Erez Bustan and got a full tour of how ALN has transformed into a robust litigation workflow…

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Thomson Reuters Launches AI-Powered HighQ Contract Analysis

By Jean O'Grady

June 1, 2021

Today Thomson Reuters announced the launch of HighQ Contract Analysis. The produce speeds contract review and analysis with machine learning technology. to answer the specific questions legal professionals want to address – in an easy-to-read report. According to the press release, HighQ Contract Analysis leverages machine learning and pre-trained models “to help attorneys increase efficiency, reduce risk, and accelerate the contract-review process for transaction due…

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Rinne, Lat and Leung To Address AALL Private Law Librarians Summit Focused on “Chaos and Change”

By Jean O'Grady

May 27, 2021

PLLIP has announced an appropriate theme for the 2021 Virtual Summit: Hindsight is 2021: Responding to Chaos and Change.. The PLLIP Summit has a track record of providing valuable strategic content as well as an extraordinary netowrking opportunities for the research and knowledge professionals who oversee private law firm and corporate law libraries and knowledge services. The Summit will be held July 16, 2021, via Zoom, and will begin at 11:30amEastern/8:30am Pacific. More details about the…

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Wolters Kluwer Relaunches Corporate Counsel Profiler with More Content, Analytics and Powerful Visualizations

By Jean O'Grady

May 13, 2021

Today Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. announced the relaunch of Corporate Counsel Profiler The new version is powered by analytics and enables lawyers, researchers, marketers and competitive intelligence specialists to uncover custom insights into in houses Counsel Department. Granular information on corporate in-house counsel departments is a critical component of the marketing, pitch and competitive intelligence process. AND it is surprisingly difficult to find. Current users of Corporate Counsel Profiler will immediately…

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What’s New at Casetext? Parallel Search and “Do it Yourself Neural Networks”

By Jean O'Grady

May 10, 2021

Bringing Neural Nets to the Law Casetext opened 2020 with the launch of a revolutionary new motion-drafting tool called Compose. Compose dramatically reduces the amount of time it takes lawyers to draft a motion or brief by serving up the arguments and standards appropriate to the motion type in a specific jurisdiction. Compose also included a powerful new search functionality called “Parallel Search,” which was the first legal research tool to leverage breakthrough technology called…

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Law Librarian, Visionary, Provocateur Sarah Glassmeyer Joins Reynen Court in Strategic Legal Tech Curator Role

By Jean O'Grady

May 6, 2021

Today Reynen Court – an innovative software company supported by a consortium of 20 global law firms announced that they had hired law librarian, legal technologist and innovation provocateur Sarah Glassmeyer for the role of Legal Tech Curator. The press release describes this as ” a lynchpin role in generating contact and strategy for the Solution Store which is at the heart of the Reynen Court Platform.” Reyen Court allows participating law firms to test…

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The Dewey B Strategic 2020-21 Hits and Misses Survey – The Product Most Likely to be Cancelled is — Lex Machina

By Jean O'Grady

April 26, 2021

In a prior post I reported survey results on products to be purchased in 2020 and 2021… which included a fairly broad spectrum of products. Major vendors Lexis, Westlaw, Bloomberg and Wolters Kluwer were evenly represented at the top of the list. There were dozens of additional products identified by one or two responders. Today I am reporting on responses to the survey results on cancellations which presents a dramatic contrast. One product stood alone …

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Lex Machina Expands California State Court Coverage with Seven Major Counties

By Jean O'Grady

April 20, 2021

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Lex Machina and LexisNexis is announcing the release of the seventh California county: Orange County Superior Court. Los Angeles County Superior Court, Sacramento County Superior Court, San Diego County Superior Court, Riverside County Superior Court, San Bernardino County Superior Court, Alameda County Superior Court. These counties are key courts for civil cases involving contracts, torts, employment, and other civil matters, and serve more than 24 million citizens. Like other Lex Machina products, the California modules…

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Risk, value, strategy, innovation, knowledge and the legal profession.

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Wolters Kluwer Expands Post-COVID “Back to Work” Smart Charts, Litigation Tracking and Alerts

In The Brief Checking Wars Thomson Reuters Ups the Ante with New “Contrary Authority” Feature

American LegalNet Launches Integrated Cloud Platform for Efilings, Forms, Smart Dockets, Alerts and Court Rules Management

Thomson Reuters Launches AI-Powered HighQ Contract Analysis

Rinne, Lat and Leung To Address AALL Private Law Librarians Summit Focused on “Chaos and Change”

Wolters Kluwer Relaunches Corporate Counsel Profiler with More Content, Analytics and Powerful Visualizations

What’s New at Casetext? Parallel Search and “Do it Yourself Neural Networks”

Law Librarian, Visionary, Provocateur Sarah Glassmeyer Joins Reynen Court in Strategic Legal Tech Curator Role

The Dewey B Strategic 2020-21 Hits and Misses Survey – The Product Most Likely to be Cancelled is — Lex Machina

Lex Machina Expands California State Court Coverage with Seven Major Counties

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