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SEC Allows General Solicitation, Effective Today: What Changed And What To Watch Out For
Today, the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission's final rules allowing general solicitation went into effect. In the fundraising context, general solicitation means publicly advertising the fact that y
YC-Backed Casetext Takes a New Angle on Value Added Legal Research With Wikipedia-Style User Annotations
Why do law firms spend, collectively, billions of dollars on commercial legal research databases, when what they are looking up is law — which is in the public domain? How are these databases able t
YC-Backed SimpleLegal Reduces Legal Bills With Machine Learning
SimpleLegal’s system ingests invoices and parses each line item into its database. Natural language processing systems figure out who billed what and for how long — and then that data is run throu
Judicata Raises $5.8M Second Round to Build Out Advanced Legal Research Systems; Keith Rabois Joins Board
Judicata, a legal research startup based in San Francisco, has closed its second round of financing, a $5.8M round led by Khosla Ventures. Keith Rabois, a former PayPal and Square executive who recent
The Constitution And The 3D Printed Plastic Pistol
By now, you have probably heard about the Liberator, a 3D printed plastic gun designed, assembled, and test-fired by Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed. Is it legal?
Modus Is Trying to Shake Up the Fat eDiscovery Industry
It’s no secret that most lawyers are not on the cutting edge of technology. And while the internet has been great for many businesses, it’s buried lawyers in an avalanche of digital data they are
Aaron’s Law Takes Shape
Digital activist Aaron Swartz took his own life on January 11. Swartz was facing federal hacking charges after being arrested for downloading millions of articles from JSTOR from MIT’s network in ex
Goatse Security’s Auernheimer Convicted In iPad Website Hacking Case
Tuesday afternoon in federal court in Newark, NJ, a jury convicted Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer for his role in a 2010 exploit that caused an AT&T account maintenance website to leak 114,000 emai