Month: December 2019

A Quick Walk Through Docassemble Matthew Pennington* I recently built my first tool using docassemble, a free open source system, which at its core offers guided interviews and automated document assembly. As I learned, however, it is capable of doing much more than this. You can use docassemble to push/pull data from other systems – …

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James McKenna, President of ILTA and CIO at Fenwick & West joined Zach Warren, editor-in-chief of Legaltech News on LegalSpeak, to talk about top legal trends for 2020. In this not to be missed, episode, McKenna says the public cloud is not only viable for legal but also an exciting option to which many are …

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The Merlin Legal Open Source Foundation is pleased to welcome Josh Blandi to our Advisory Board. Josh is the CEO and Co-Founder of UniCourt Inc. UniCourt is a SaaS offering using machine learning to disrupt the way court records and other public records are organized, accessed, and used. UniCourt connects attorneys, businesses, and consumers to …

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The latest TAR Talk is Out. Catch Episode 12: Did you say Two Faced or Two Phased Review? Join John Tredennick and his compatriot Tom Gricks for the latest edition of TAR Talk. Episode Twelve: Did you say Two Faced or Two Phased Review? Sure, TAR will be more efficient than a linear review — …

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We are pleased to announce that the Merlin Legal Open Source Foundation has be recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt charitable organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Donations made to the Foundation are exempt from U.S. federal taxes. The recognition applies retroactively to all donations made to the Foundation …

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UniCourt is a nationwide case research, tracking, management, and analytics platform that integrates court data from federal (PACER) and state courts into a single, cloud-based application. The UniCourt solution allows organizations to reduce costs, increase productivity, make data-driven decisions, and identify marketing opportunities. By leveraging big data methodologies to acquire, analyze, and correlate disparate legal …

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