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Gavelytics Launches New Legal Business Intelligence Tool Leveraging State Court Analytics
Gavelytics is starting the New Year with the launch of a new AI enabled platform for business intelligence. Gavelytics which is a pioneer in state court analytics offering has announced the launch a business center which will provide competitive insights into the litigation history of competing firms and opposing counsel for pitches and identifying business development opportunities. The press release reprinted below described the new feature as merging judicial and motion practice technologies with trial…
The Most Popular Dewey B Strategic Posts of 2019
Looking back on 2019. It was a year of product launches, re-brands and realignments. Here are the most popular posts of 2019 followed by a list of the most read posts from earlier years.
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LexisNexis Announces Relaunch of State Net Celebrating 50 Years With Analytics and Forecasting Features
By my recollection State Net is one of the oldest surviving legal research and legislative tracking systems. State Net collected and coded and normalized data about the activities of 50 state legislatures back in the dial up days of modems with acoustic couplers. They thrived long enough to be acquired by Lexis Nexis in 2010.
Over the years the system expanded to cover regulations from all 50 states. The latest challenge is addressing the growth…
Gavelytics Granted a Patent for Court Analytics Platform
Gavelytics a high tech legal analytics company focused on state court analytics announced today that their analytics platform had been granted a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office. Patent no. 10,452,734 for “Data Visualization Platform for Use in a Network Environment” covers Gavelytics’ invention of a unique way to parse, visualize and display data surrounding reassignment motions and similar filings, to compare such motions among a number of judges, and to predict which…
Join Me For ILTA “Snackable” Webinar On Using Analytics for Budget Management
Thanks to the International Legal Technology Association for inviting me to present a webinar on the use of analytics to manage licenses and spending.Digital Resources Analytics: Determining the Right Mix of Resources for Your Firm
Date : Thursday, December 12th from 11:00am-11:30am ET.
Format: 30 minute webinar.
Description: Thanks to high renewal costs, licensing models that require firms to buy more seats than they need, and the growing number of specialty databases and newsletters that do that one…
In Paradigm Shift Legal Research Innovators Fastcast and Ross Intelligence Form Development Alliance
Today Fastcase and Ross Intelligence are announcing a content, research and development partnership which the founders expect to drive innovation for both companies. Fastcase which is celebrating its 20th anniversary has excently expanded beyond its primary law focus into analytics, legal news and secondary source publishing and alliances. Ross which made headlines with its A.I. search engine for legal research has recently launched its law school program and begun building alliances with bar associations and…
Gavelytics Launches State Litigation Analytics New York Judges–Posts Analytics Webinar Recording
Gavelytics has just expanded their judges analytics product to include the 4 of the 5 state counties within the boundaries of New York City (Bronx, Kings, Queens, and New York). The expanded judge product also includes the ability to view the dockets underlying any of the product’s metrics. A user can, for example, quickly identify every case in which a judge presided over a motion for summary judgment in a tort case and view…
It’s Budget Time! 12 Timely Tips to Help Manage Law Firm Costs
One of the few silver linings of the 2008 financial crisis was that many lawyers were shocked into budget consciousness. Seemingly overnight, lawyers became willing to reassess old assumptions. Maybe they could live without personal copies of treatises. Maybe they would try online resources that they had resisted. The crisis has passed but the changed legal market place remains. Law firms that want to invest in new technologies must subsidize those investments with lean budget…
ALA Publishes: Law Librarianship in the Age of AI
Ellyssa Kroski, the Director of Information Technology at the New York Law Institute assembled a group of law library and technology thought leaders to contribute to her new book “Law Librarianship in the Age of AI” which was released last week by the American Library Association.
I was honored to have the opportunity to write the introduction to the book.
“The 2018 Altman & Weil Law Firms in Transition Survey reported that only 38% of law…