The major takeaway from the 2018-19 Dewey B Strategic Hits and Misses Survey is that consumers of legal information regard 2018 as “a miss.” The problem wasn’t so much the products—although products play an important role in triggering the discontent. The major problem is the 
behavior of legal publishers. Legal publishing is a mature
Lights, Cameras, Robots — Amazed and Amused at SCALL Institute On Artificial Intelligence — Lively Video Montages
It is now a given that what we think of as “AI” is simply software which has not yet become so pervasive that it is baked into our everyday experience.. Yet AI retains a whiff of mystery which begs to be explored and illustrated through artistic and scientific videos which can range from absurdist to
Thomson Reuters Panoramic: New Platform Integrates the Practice and Business of Law
Today Thomson Reuters is announcing the release of a major new workflow and pricing solution called Panoramic. The product merges features of Practical Law their knowledge management platform with their cloud based accounting solution 3E.
Several years ago I had an opportunity to see an early version of Panoramic when it was known as Project
Casetext CARA Adds Intelligent Filters To Enhance Research Precision
We are all on the path to research Nirvana. Along the way we meet the true believers — many of them are my fellow librarians others are 
legal tech entrepreneurs. I recently had a chat with Pablo Arredondo, Co-Founder and Chief Legal Research Officer at Casetext – an intrepid fellow traveler and legal research thought leader. Arredondo is passionate about citations, algorithms and optimizing the legal research experience. Casetext has recently enhanced their algorithms to identify valuable new caselaw features and elements including: motions, causes of actions and party type which can be used as filters to narrow and focus a search.
Arredondo provided insights into the importance of these new features: “Optimal legal research systems must enable attorneys to navigate the common law along dimensions that matter. Motion at
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AI in Legal Research – Does Casetext’s “Document As Query” Search Improve Efficiency and Results?
Today Casetext released a study it commissioned which by attorneys at the National Legal Research Group Inc.Study is titled “The Real Impact of Using Artificial Intelligence in Legal Research.” But is that really what the study is measuring? I think not. While some of the conclusions may be valid – I have a
ALM Releases Report on Artificial Intelligence in Law Firms: Where is Your Firm on the AI Adoption Spectrum
American Lawyer Media just released a new report which highlights the importance of AI in providing firms with the opportunity for market advantage. The re
port which is entitled Law Firms Need Intelligence to Stay in the game.” provides a general overview of AI in law. The report costs $299 and can be ordered
The Law Librarians Revolt: AALL Accuses LexisNexis of Engaging in Unfair Business Practices – Possible Antitrust Violations
For the past few years LexisNexis has been taking an increasingly combative stance in contract negotiations with their customers by tying a growing number of products together. It is a rather sad 
commentary that Lexis appears to view their flagship legal research product Lexis Advance as a sinking ship which must be held afloat by
Surprise -Your Expert Witness Has a Rapsheet – New Survey Examines the Sorry State of Expert Research Workflow in Law Firms
Today Courtroom Insight, Daubert Tracker and Expert Witness Profiler are releasing the results of a new survey which was “developed to better understand commonly used expert witness research and retention techniques among litigation professionals.” Every law firm with a litigation practice is aware of the pain points associated with identifying, researching and validating experts.
The nationwide survey was conducted by email in late 2017 and early 2018. Thousands of litigation professionals, including attorneys, law librarians and paralegals, were invited to complete the survey, with 580 actual respondents. Although advanced technology solutions have been developed for legal research, ediscovery and case management; expert witness research is still a feral and largely untamed workflow. There is no shortage of vendors hawking a “magic bullet” solution – but the survey below indicates that the market is
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CARA AI: Did Casetext Just “Drop Kick” Keywords Out of the Legal Research Process?
Today Casetext is launching CARA AI which offers significant changes to both the CARA and Casetext research experience. Today CARA is being transformed from a citation analysis tool into a full fledged legal research engine.
I had a chance to talk to Casetext co-founders Jake Heller and Pablo Arredondo about the launch . Heller, the CEO of Casetext describes these enhancements as “helping attorneys at any phase of their research find better authorities faster.” Arredondo, who is the Chief Legal Research Officer described CARA AI as offering a solution like Google, Apple and Amazon Prime — “CARA AI gives you only what you need.”
Key features include:
- Seamless integration of CARA AI contextual search into the traditional research workflow.
- The ability to execute searches by loading briefs, motions, complaints and answers.
- An enhanced user interface, upgraded algorithm and increased speed.
Speed The press release states that these enhancements make Casetext the “fastest research platform.” They did not provide any data to back this statement up, but the demo I saw showed the new platform delivering near immediate search results and document retrievals. I have to agree –CARA AI is lightening fast.
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Your Workflow Product Costs Half a Million Dollars — Now How Do I Measure My ROI? Where is the Quickview and PowerInvoice for Practical Law and Lexis Practice Advisor?
For years I have been heaping praise on Thomson Reuters for producing one of the first marketing pieces that took a 
crack at quantifying the time savings delivered by one of their workflow products. The chart offers a simple comparison of several tasks and shows the time it takes to perform each task and with and without the use of the Practical Law Resources. See Illustration below.
It is probably five years since I saw that first chart and I recently began investigating whether Thomson Reuters has moved from producing a marketing piece to delivering a real tool that could actually help a customer determine or even estimate the time savings or efficiency delivered by Practical Law. I am picking on Thomson Reuters but the truth is that none of the large legal information publishers ( LexisNexis, Wolters Kluwer or Bloomberg Law) which have enhanced their research products with workflow solutions are offering any resource to measuring the ROI of their products. For
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