Legaltech Week

This week's top stories: 4:32 - Dating App for Lawyers (Selected by Joe Patrice) 7:22 - SCOTUS Opinion on Fair Use of Coding in Google vs. Oracle (Selected by Joe Patrice) 10:22 - Rocket Lawyer's $223m investment (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 18:51 - 25:32 - Dangers of Policing Using Predictive Data (Selected by Niki Black) 45:43 - Europe Proposes Strict Rules Governing AI (Selected by Victor Li)

7:06 - Neuralink implant enables monkey to play Pong without touching anything. Tests in humans next. (Selected by Molly McDonough) 15:22 - Litera buys another company. What is its strategy and how will avoid chaos in implementing so many acquisitions? Why should you care? (Selected by Caroline Hill) 21:26 - Digression about British expressions 23:06 - Orrick Spin-Off Joinder Launches ‘System-of-Record’ for Corporate Legal Departments (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 38:46 - SALI announced a universal legal tech API, will it catch on? (Selected by Victoria Hudgins) 48:09 - Judicial Analytics in New York: Looking Back To See the Future (Selected by Niki Black)

Note: this episode take place at a virtual conference, and may be best viewed on YouTube 4:09 - Panelist's opinions on the virtual conference 21:29 - No plans by Facebook to notify users of data breach 25:34 - Notre Dame over-enrollment chaos 28:06 - Future Trials Working Group's Report and Recommendations 35:07 - NJ ethics opinion on reply all emails and client confidentiality issues 39:57 - Casey Flaherty Leaves Baker McKenzie To Join Legal Tech Collective LexFusion 43:40 - Tour of virtual conference.

Top stories in legal tech this week include: 6:13 - Biglaw firms toying with ending the 5-day office work week. 11:06 - Law firms pulling out the stops for lateral associates. 13:12 - Legal Tech Company IPOs Are Rare, but That Could Soon Change 18:10 - Report maps growing 'Justice Tech' market; urges VCs to invest. 22:20 - Florida Bar's best practices for remote proceedings. 28:28 - Weed is legal in NYC, and Cuomo gets a night off from the spotlight. 30:14 - Can a non-lawyer (business person) run a law firm? 46:25 - Witnesses who want to testify remotely may need to prove they haven't been vaccinated.

Weekly updates from the world of Legaltech.

The Week's Topics Include: 5:23 - ILTA announces live conference this summer 12:28 - Ropes & Gray summons all staff back to the office, but video conferencing may be sticking around. 31:38 - Juries in online trials tend to be younger and more diverse 42:48 - NY ethics opinion on lawyer-client matching sites 45:40 - Theory & Principle's conference on Forms 48:12 - ABA Tech Show 52:24 - Accomplishments for diversity in legal tech 55:53 - Clubhouse privacy concerns

Stories This Week: 3:36 - Launch Factory seeks legal tech founders 8:58 - Thompson Reuters ALSP report 12:38 - Lawyer referral services 23:22 - Digitizing state courts to increase access to justice. 30:10 - Drunk Cylon? 30:49 - Legal tech M&A study 35:44 - iManage's ROI study & the nature of industry polling 47:38 - Matt Homann and the Virtual Conference Manifesto 54:05 - Vendor commercials & conferences 56:38 - Rant & Raves: Jones Day gets hacked   Our panelists this week are: Stephen Embry, publisher, TechLaw Crossroads; Victoria Hudgins, reporter for Legaltech News; Victor Li, assistant managing editor of the ABA Journal; Joe Patrice, editor, Above the Law; Bob Ambrogi of LawSites blog and LawNext podcast; and Caroline Hill, editor in chief, Legal IT Insider. Molly McDonough, media consultant, former publisher and editor-in-chief of the ABA Journal, moderates.

This week saw the first virtual version of Legalweek, typically one of the largest legal tech and legal industry conferences. How well did the physical conference translate to the virtual world? Our panelists share their thoughts.  Stories this week include: 4:07 - Legal Week(year) 15:20 - Collaboration between legal tech companies and law firms 24:00 - Judicial ethics and Reality TV 30:40 - Troutman’s hire of a “remote” partner 41:20 - 23andMe going public 47:32 - A new company that rates Saas vendors’ contracts 51:17 - Box acquires an e-signature company 52:38 - Panelists’ rants & raves   Our panelists this week are: Nicole Black, legal technology columnist and legaltech evangelist at MyCase; Victoria Hudgins, reporter for Legaltech News; Victor Li, assistant managing editor of the ABA Journal; Molly McDonough, media consultant, former publisher and editor-in-chief of the ABA Journal; Joe Patrice, editor, Above the Law;and  Zach Warren, editor in chief of Legaltech News. Bob Ambrogi of LawSites blog and LawNext podcast moderates. 

We introduce a new segment this week: panelists’ rants and raves, a lightning round of what made us mad or glad this week. Other stories we discuss include: a look-ahead to virtual Legalweek, an ABA ethics opinion on responding to negative online criticism, ROSS’s litigation gambit calling Thomson Reuters a monopoly, whether virtual firms are here to stay, and ODR comes to Manhattan small claims court.  Our panelists this week are: Nicole Black, legal technology columnist and legaltech evangelist at MyCase; Stephen Embry, publisher, TechLaw Crossroads; Victoria Hudgins, reporter for Legaltech News; Victor Li, assistant managing editor of the ABA Journal; Molly McDonough, media consultant, former publisher and editor-in-chief of the ABA Journal; Joe Patrice, editor, Above the Law;and  Zach Warren, editor in chief of Legaltech News. Bob Ambrogi of LawSites blog and LawNext podcast moderates.