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For those interested in understanding the underlying case law that AB5 codifies (a decision called Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court), my company, Judicata, published…

Although I have no experience in immigration law, as a former lawyer and software engineer (and the CEO and co-founder of a legal tech startup), I'd caution against moving into law…

A lot of the errors you'll see in lawyer work product is not just from being overworked, but also comes from poor quality control mechanisms and insufficient use of technology in l…

> Software developers build abstractions, write tests, refactor and simplify older code, yet no such trend seems to be occurring for law. Why not? Actually, the Common Law[1] (whic…

That is also not true (except that it is an up-hill battle -- I agree with that). A "Tameny Claim" is an exception to at-will employment, and the rules around discrimination, haras…

That is simply not true (in California). If the underlying lawsuit is based on employment Discrimination or Harassment under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, firing …

Datanyze ( https://www.datanyze.com/ ) has built a nice business doing this. You can learn a lot from understanding what software a company is using on their website. It's especial…

Getting free or low cost access to a plain text searchable database is no longer a problem for lawyers. It was 8-10 years ago, but since the entry of Google Scholar (and Casetext, …

The premise of this blog post is a little off base. (Though I think Open Law Library is doing good work.) The difficulty in building a high quality legal search engine is not in pa…

Ben doesn't share that backstory, but it's irrelevant to his point. He is suggesting that he might have gone to jail by association with her and having done something illegal at hi…

One possibility is that this is because you're working/programming late at night, basically up until the time you're going to bed (or within an hour or two of it). I've found over …

Judicata - Software Engineer - San Francisco Judicata is building the most advanced legal research, analytics and artificial intelligence tools in the world. Ours is a highly colla…

That's certainly a reasonable perspective, and one I take very seriously. (And to be clear, I didn't mean to suggest that services should be based on a la carte pricing instead of …

Your quoted comment came from me (I'm the author of the above comment as well), the CEO of Judicata.

> So I’m now seeing that NLP (Natural Language Processing) as confirmed by Quora, is hard, meaning that Westlaw and Lexis Nexis is actually pretty decent?! NLP and search are hard …

Nope, alive and doing well.

Judicata is very much alive. We're tackling a hard problem, with little margin for error, and focused on doing it right. It's a very different model than most startups, but then ag…