Respond to the 2020-21 What’s Hot and What’s Not Survey here. Although the world was shut down by the pandemic, our friends in
legal tech continued their pursuit of innovation and market share. Most of us had a sense of whiplash and disbelief when the world came to a virtual halt in March 2020. Law librarians who had built digital libraries over the years offered their attorneys a fairly seamless transition to their work from home desktop. Within weeks most legal publishers had developed a special COVID offering. These ranged from free alerts, to primary sources and workflow toolkits. Despite all of these efforts law librarians and knowledge managers faced a gap in COVID coverage. Almost overnight a “gray literature” emerged which major legal publishers were not
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Hits and Misses Survey Part 3: Best Analytics Product and Best Analytics Documentation
Westlaw Edge Analytics was voted best new analytics product in the 2018-2019 Dewey B Strategic Hits and Misses survey of DBS readers. Runners Up Included Lexis Context 2nd, Bloomberg Law Attorney Analytics 3rd, Fastcase Docket Alarm 4th and Lex Machina Contracts module 5th place respectively. Gavelytics deserves honorable mention as the product receiving the most
Lexis Prepares to Launch a Research Bot – And a CourtLink Makeover
Two years ago Lexis launched Lexis Answers which leverages AI to deliver responses to natural language research
queries with a declarative statement of law with supporting citations. Since that time there have been intriguing references in the legal tech press to the development of Lexis chatbots. Lexis pulled back the curtain on their new chatbox “Lexis Research Assistant” at a press event held during LegalWeek in New York last month.
What If Alexa Went to Law School?
Serena Wellen who works at Lexis Labs introduced her demo of the bot with the question: “What if legal research was
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Lex Machina Launches “Trade Secrets” Litigation Analytics – Outsmarting the Pacer NOS Codes for the Second Time –Webinar May 31st
Today Lex Machina is announcing the release of a unique litigation analytics module on trade secrets. This is the second time in a year that Lex Machina has used machine learning to identify a unique and valuable subset of cases for with there is no “Nature of Suite” code in the Pacer 
system. Owen Byrd
Start Stop Survey Results AALL’s — “The Know it AALL” Is Voted Best New Product and Bloomberg Law’s “Docket Key” Best New Feature
The results of the 2017 Start Stop Survey are in. Thanks to everyone who participated in the survey. My apologies for 
the delay in compiling the results – let me blame a series of unexpected events starting in December and continuing through the spring.
Can it Be? The Best New Legal Information Product is FREE! Although AALL’s daily newsletter launched in late 2016 it really gained traction in 2017. I am also a daily reader. Know It AALL aggregates legal knowledge and technology stories from around the web ranging from academic publications to popular blogs and news sites. It is like a fresh cup of news serendipity to drink in along with your morning coffee. (Full disclosure: I am currently on the Board of the American Association of Law Libraries which publishes the newsletter..) The Know it AALL is available for free to anyone who wishes to subscribe at this link.
What is the best NEW PRODUCT you became aware of in 2017?
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Analytics and Insights: It’s All About Asking the Right Questions
“The age of analytics and algorithms is upon us. A new and important role is emerging f
or information professionals. They will help lawyers ask new questions and gain new insights using analytics. ”
Read my analysis of this trend in the November/December 2017 issue of AALL Spectrum. Click here to read Analytics and Insights:
Lex Machina Launches Bankruptcy Appeals Analytics Module
Today Lex Machina is releasing a new module which covers district court bankruptcy appeals. Until now all prior Lex Machina modules have focused on federal trials. The Bankruptcy product covers 18,000 bankruptcy appeals filed since 2009. This is Lex Machina’s first foray into appellate analytics.
The Lex Machina CTO, Karl Harris is quoted in
Upcoming Webcast: Getting What You Want for Your Legal Tech Budget
ALL President, Greg Lambert ( CKO, Jackson Walker) and Josh Becker, CEO, Lex Machina and I will be speaking at an upcoming webcast panel sponsored by Lex Machina. We will exploring budgeting strategies, tools and techniques.
Date: Thursday October 5th, 12 pm (EST)/9 am PST.
Here is the program Description:
We all know how budgets
AALL Exhibit Hall Preview: Themes, Prizes and New Product Showcases from LexisNexis and Bloomberg Law/BloombergBNA
Yesterday I highlighted the AALL Exhibit Hall Offerings of Thomson Reuters and Wolters Kluwer. Today I am highlighting the products, themes, giveaways and games of LexisNexis and Bloomberg Law/BloombergBNA which were provided by representatives of each company.
LexisNexis: “Harnessing Next Generation Technologies”
LexisNexis is excited to spend time with AALL members in Austin. Readers of
Lex Machina Launches Employment Analytics
Lex Machina is launching the third new module in the past twelve months, following the release of Securities and Commercial Law products.The new employment litigation module includes over 70,000 discrimination, retaliation, and harassment cases pending in federal court since 2009. According to Lex Machina Chief Evangelist, Owen Byrd they plan to add Americans with Disabilities Act and labor union cases in the fall.
Employment Law analytics includes the standard Lex Machina data and trend analysis for case timing, resolutions, damages, remedies, and findings, as well as insights into opposing counsel, law firms, parties, judges, venues which can be used for pitches and litigation strategy.
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