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September 14, 2021
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6 Factors for Drafting High-Quality Contracts
Contract drafters often get caught up in legalese that frankly make documents less clear and less approachable. Here are five factors to keep in mind when drafting easy to read, well made agreements. We put together a short helpful guide that should help you write better to read agreements that will make you clients happy!…
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August 16, 2021
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7 Best Practices Using Contract Definitions
Defined terms and definitions should only be used to make reading a contract easier. If you are making it more complicated, don’t use them. Here are some helpful rules for using defined terms. Rule 1. Don’t Introduce Ambiguity When You Don’t Need To! This should be your lodestar rule when contract drafting and using…
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August 06, 2021
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The Tech Tip You Need For Every Contract Negotiation
How To Scrub Meta-data From Your Word Documents One of the worst nightmares a lawyer can face is inadvertently disclosing confidential client information. By doing so, you put your client at risk as well as face sanction from your local bar. Yet, many attorneys do this every day when they send documents to opposing counsel…
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July 08, 2021
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Will Robots Spell the Doom of Junior Associates?
If you just read the sensational headlines (Like the header above), you might get the impression that legal tech will leave junior associates out of work – like work horses put to pasture by the combustion engine and the industrial revolution. Images come to mind of a post-apocalyptic sci-fi world, like Terminator or Blade Runner,…
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March 29, 2021
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In Bad Form: 10 E-Filing Mistakes to Avoid
E-filing legal documents has become a part of attorneys’ daily life. All 50 states have established e-filing technology and portals for their court systems. Some, including California and New York, mandate that all case documents (with a few exceptions) must be filed and shared electronically. It’s tempting to view e-filing as an easy, convenient process….
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February 25, 2021
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Motionize Named a Finalist in the ABA Startup Alley Competition
Much like our company’s name suggests, Motionize is on its way. We are proud to announce that based on votes we are one of the 15 finalists competing in the fifth edition of the American Bar Association’s Startup Alley, to be held virtually in 2021 as part of ABA TECHSHOW 2021 the week of March…
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February 01, 2021
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Motionize On A Mission: The Five Legal Industry Dragons We Will Slay
When Luke Waltman and I started Motionize, all we knew was that we wanted to build a solution that made the law work better. After a circuitous route and early naiveté, we have begun our hero’s quest. No longer in the Shire, we are off slaying the dragons that have plagued the legal industry. These…
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January 12, 2021
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Announcing Motionize – Launching Our Revolutionary Document Automation Platform
AiLanthus Corp., a company developing the next generation of technology tools for attorneys, today announced the launch of Motionize, a simple, cloud-based document automation and management solution for busy law firms that require efficiency and productivity. Motionize uses proprietary machine-learning technology that reads existing legal documents and automatically turns them into reusable templates. Attorneys and paralegals…
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December 10, 2020
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Legal Tech Companies We Love
We at Motionize would like to share a short list of companies in the Legal Tech sector compiled by PainWorth. Athena helps users collect back child support in less time and for less money. Clause Logic automates Microsoft Word workflows for legal professionals Docket helps in-house counsel to centralize matter intake, manage departmental collaboration, and…
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December 07, 2020
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The Culture of Productivity: 5 Ways Document Automation Gets You Where You Need to Be
Hanging a shingle and establishing a high-volume legal practice takes ambition. High volume also requires high levels of organization to accompany a stream of clients, cases, settlements and awards. In other words, an attorney who pursues high-volume work must also embrace productivity. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has created a season for such productivity. Personal injury,…
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December 07, 2020
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Is Tesla Avoiding Liability for California Lemon Laws?
Last week I wrote about how my accident spurred me to become a legal tech founder. This week I want to write about a particularly interesting phenomenon I found going on in the Lemon Law and car world at large. Why is Tesla Mislabelling Warranty Repairs? Earlier this year, a story went viral when one Tesla owner,…
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December 07, 2020
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Discrimination in Autonomous Vehicles? AI Ignores Black Lives
These past few weeks, I have been stationed at home in St Paul watching the protests in my proverbial backyard. George Floyd’s murder represents just another instance in which the power of the state systematically devalues Black life. As Ta-Nehisi Coates, in his book Between the World and Me, states “Here is what I would like…
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December 07, 2020
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Why Is There No Good Way to Manage Litigation Documents?
Finding the right sample document stinks! As lawyers we are inundated with reams of paper. But nothing is worse than not having the right starting document. Countless friends have spun yarns of woe when they had to go searching in their firm’s knowledge management system just to find the right starting document. Often after hours…
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December 07, 2020
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Computer Says No to Bad Patents: How Artificial Intelligence Can Find Alice Claims
It’s not been a “wonderland” for attorneys navigating the post-Alice world. 64% of patents have not survived after an Alice assertion. NPEs are feeling the sting as the federal courts continually strike down bad patents. At AiLanthus, we wondered whether there was a better way to review patents for § 101 claims. We started with our hypothesis: bad patents likely have similar…
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December 07, 2020
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How Getting Hit By a Bus Made Me a Legal Tech Founder
Last September, I was riding my bike down 14th street in Washington, D.C., my preferred mode of transportation to law school, carefully observing the rules about staying strictly within the bike lane. At Thomas Circle, I stopped for a red light. Next to me a Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) bus lumbered to a stop….
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