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“Chain of custody” is a familiar concept for anyone working in law enforcement, legal practice, or investigations. It’s a foundational part of proving that evidence presented in court is authentic, unaltered, and admissible....more
Introduction: The Urgency and Promise of Generative AI in Law - The unprecedented rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence (AI) worldwide presents the legal profession with a pivotal opportunity for...more
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During a panel on trial practice at the recent Masters’ Conference in Los Angeles, moderated by Professor Shannon Bales, panelists emphasized the critical role of consistency—blending humor, real-world anecdotes, and...more
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In our recent articles exploring how generative AI can transform trial preparation, we demonstrated how Large Language Models (LLMs) could analyze complex trial materials to generate sophisticated closing arguments. Our first...more
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The Executive Committee of the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section of the New York State Bar Association hosted a very special guest speaker at its final meeting of 2024: The Honorable Timothy S. Driscoll from the...more
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eDiscovery has seen substantial transformation recently, characterized by the introduction of complex and continuously evolving data types. This shift has been primarily driven by rapid innovations in technology and the...more
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Last week on eDiscovery Today, I covered Andrew Haslam’s annual eDisclosure Systems Buyers Guide, which was published last week on Rob Robinson’s ComplexDiscovery site here. As you can imagine, it’s difficult to cover a...more
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9/1/2020: FedRAMP 3PAOs - Make sure that your CSP is evaluated by a third party assessment organization approved by FedRAMP. 9/2/2020: Courtroom Technology in the District of Minnesota - The ELMO should have a ‘freeze’...more
AJ Shankar is the chief executive officer of Everlaw. Prior to founding Everlaw, AJ graduated from Harvard with an A.B. in Mathematics and Computer Science, and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of...more
5/1/2020: (California Styling) - The California style is distinguished by enclosing citations in parentheses and putting the venue and year between the case name and reporter cite. 5/2/2020: Predicting the number of top...more
In part one of this three-part series, I gave an overview of presentation technology for legal advocacy. Part two covered the essential elements of software, equipment and people. The final installment highlights three of the...more
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9/25/2019: more on searching text files with powershell - Case sensitive search for multiple strings: Select-String -Path C:\FooFolder\txt\*.txt -pattern Art,Beauty,Law -CaseSensitive - 9/26/2019: more helpful...more
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