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The legal job market is surging, with special litigation and government work

There has been a major legal job surge, with total employment in the U.S. legal sector hitting an all-time historic high.     8 June 2026 (New York, NY) – The legal sector saw 1,200 more

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FROM LEGALWEEK 2024 : A chat with Isha Marathe of ALM Media

      14 February 2024  – As a writer and journalist and card-carrying member of the Foreign Press Association, I often like to see how my fellows cover news events and industries

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Hewlett Packard and Autonomy: search … and $4 Billion later

13 February 2024  –  More than a decade ago, Hewlett-Packard acquired Autonomy plc. Then it blew up as Hewlett-Packard announced that it was taking an $8.8 billion accounting charge after claiming

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FROM LEGALWEEK 2024 : A chat with Ron Friedmann of Gartner

Generative AI : what corporate in-house is doing versus what BigLaw is doing, how you need to adopt the right motivations and frameworks for lawyers to truly embrace this new tech … and lots more   13

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Notes from LEGALWEEK 2024  “Better Call GPT” – comparing Large Language Models against lawyers and legaltech providers

  12 February 2024 — As we noted in our first post-event analysis, AI dominated LEGALWEEK 2024. But, as we also noted there was one good thing: the “AI hype buzz” was muted, at least

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Notes from LEGALWEEK 2024 and the Berlin symposiums: “Prompt Engineering” – the monster emerging from the cybersecurity attack den

10 February 2024 — Last week we split the media team to cover events in two places: the cybersecurity symposiums and military intelligence conference in Berlin, Germany and LEGALWEEK 2024 in New

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FROM LEGALWEEK 2024 – A chat with Ryan Costello of ProSearch: eDiscovery in the EU, the advance of AI, and more

ProSearch : a partner that brings efficiency to the legal process and spend   9 February 2024  – After I had semi-retired from my legal career and media producer career in the digital media industry,

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ON THE ROAD TO LEGALTECH NYC 2024 : The AI benchmarks are changing

What the legal industry really needs are specific legal-orientated assessments carried out in the specific context in which the AI system would be deployed. That just might arrive in 2024/2025.     29

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Why Americans want part-time jobs again

3 JUNE 2023 – – Interesting piece in Time magazine this week: At first, getting laid off from her job at a marketing tech firm in June of 2022 was shocking and depressing for Sam Popp, 33,

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For the eDiscovery practitioner community, a love story

“Love means never hiding your assets”    22 MAY 2023 – Move aside, Swiss bank accounts, there’s a new (more traceable) kid in town: crypto! A husband hid $500,000 in bitcoin

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