The mass tort industry, with its reliance on millions of pieces of documents and thousands of plaintiffs per case, is better positioned for an AI transformation than most of the legal world.

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Have you ever wondered how lawyers manage to bankroll mass toxic tort cases, which are notoriously expensive to finance? Spoiler alert: it's not magic; it's money from private equity firms trading in ...

The data involve cases brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act, plus lawsuits over medical malpractice, motor vehicle accidents and premises liability. The uptick contrasts with LexMachina’s 2023 ...

Allentown, Pennsylvania--(Newsfile Corp. - October 5, 2023) - Fake leads in mass torts cases pose a significant threat to the integrity of the legal system and can cause severe harm to innocent ...

Toxic tort cases involve claims of injuries, usually cancer, arising years or decades after the date of exposure to chemicals. Under New York law, when the statute of limitations may have run is often ...

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In law school I always suspected that one way to differentiate people who belong there from people—like myself—just there because of the Grisham books, was by asking fellow first-year students to ...

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