August, 2022

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Five Ways to Get Back to You

Attorney at Work

Reconnecting with yourself is a critical course correction for a frenzied lawyer; the job can get ahead of you. Here’s how to come back. Sometimes we get busy in life — with work, family, building our business, taking care of others, and on and on. When this happens, we can start going through the motions without even realizing it. Until we wake up one day and think: Who am I?

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 27, 2022

LLRX

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.

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New York Becomes First State to Mandate CLE in Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection

LawSites

New York has become the first U.S. state to mandate that attorneys take continuing legal education courses in cybersecurity, privacy and data protection. Under the new requirement, all attorneys must complete one hour of training every two years in either the ethical obligations surrounding cybersecurity, privacy and data protection, or in the technological and practice-related aspects of protecting data and client communications.

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Mark Thorley comments on the importance of technology in courts

Ward Blawg

Mark Thorley, Scottish qualified solicitor and Director of leading Edinburgh legal aid law firm Thorley Stephenson, comments on the importance of technology in courts in Scotland and indeed across the world:- As a consequence of the pandemic, and in order for court business to continue, technology requires to be embraced.

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The Tech-Savvy Paralegals Playbook: How To Leverage AI

Speaker: Allison Mears, Adela Wekselblatt, and George Socha

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal industry, and paralegals are at the forefront of this transformation. As AI becomes more integrated into legal workflows, paralegals can streamline their daily tasks, enhance efficiency, and add greater value to their firms and organizations. But what exactly does AI mean for paralegals today—and how can you leverage it to your advantage?

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7 Hidden Costs of On-Premise Software

CloudNine

The well-documented benefits of moving to the Cloud include speed, security, and scale, but none may impact your business more than cost recovery. To help you analyze how you can enhance your bottom line, we’ve compiled this list of the hidden costs of on-premise software. Infrastructure – When an organization wants to run a platform within its own environment, there are infrastructure costs that the organization will incur up front, and some will continue over time.

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Vote for the Relativity Apps in the Running for the 2022 Innovation Awards

Relativity

In the spirit of community, who better to help determine this year’s winners for the tech categories of the Relativity Innovation Awards than … you? Read up on our submissions—you have an important job to do!

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Data Mining Resources 2022

LLRX

Data mining and knowledge discovery is a quickly evolving field that is part of the portfolio of CI, BI and KM professionals, law librarians, research analysts, infopros, data scientists, data journalists and students in college and graduate programs. This expansive bibliography by Marcus P. Zillman comprises a wealth of information, resources, tools, techniques and applications, as well as links to many open datasets.

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How Neural Nets Are Liberating Legal Search from the Keyword Prison

LawSites

For all the advances made in the science of legal search, we are – as Pablo Arredondo , cofounder and chief innovation officer of Casetext likes to say – stuck in the keyword prison. Virtually all search tools – whether for legal research, e-discovery review, document review, or anything else – are confined to indexes. Every word in every case or contract or email or whatever is fed into an index, and the search tool looks for that word or some combination of indexed words.

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Becoming a Robot

Above and Beyond KM

Your employer has a secret fantasy: they wish you were a robot. But what if a robot can’t do your job right now? Then expect your employer to use software tools and techniques to prod you to behave more like a robot and less like a human. Your employer has a secret fantasy: they wish you were a robot. Why? Because robots are reliable employees.

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How to Reduce Costs Without Losing Productivity

Rocket Matter

When operating a law firm, you want to reduce the ever-present yet unavoidable overhead costs. This includes items and services you need to run your law firm but don’t generate income, such as phones, internet, office supplies, and salaries of employees who aren’t lawyers—and, unsurprisingly, it’s pretty easy to shoot past your budget. However, you have options when it comes to reducing overhead costs.

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Uncovering The Hidden Connections: A Patent Family Survival Guide

Speaker: Andrew Klein

Are there mysteries lurking in your family tree? 🕵 No, not a long-lost half-brother - I'm talking about a patent family tree! IP paralegals need fast and easy ways to verify and report on essential data about foreign equivalents of US assets. Join us to master the global scope of key assets to support prosecution, portfolio management, litigation, licensing, competitive monitoring and more!

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Celebrate, Connect, and Vote for the 2022 Innovation Award Finalists

Relativity

Meet our finalists for this year’s individual Innovation Awards, and join us in congratulating and thanking all the nominees who continue to innovate and connect within our community.

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Eloquence Makes Every Word Important

Attorney at Work

Eloquent speakers understand that in every setting, every minute should be informing, perhaps delighting, your audience. Every lawyer needs to speak with colleagues, clients and prospects. Litigators need to address the court and sometimes jurors. Some lawyers give formal presentations. To develop eloquence for these situations, understand what eloquence is.

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Pitching the Difficult Case: Working With Prosecutors

LLRX

This article by Jerry Lawson provides ideas and examples showing how investigators can successfully pitch difficult cases—ones that look unattractive on the surface. It emphasizes more advanced techniques than the similarly-themed introductory article The Art of the Referral (Bruce Sackman, Kelly Sisario and Jerry Lawson). Lawson approaches the topic from his perspective as a former federal prosecutor and counsel to federal criminal investigators, but most of the ideas apply just as well to stat

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Finalists Named for 2022 American Legal Technology Awards; Winner to Be Named at Nashville Gala

LawSites

Back in April, I wrote about the kick-off of the third-annual round of nominations for the American Legal Technology Awards — one notable for the fact that it will be the first time the awards will be presented in-person since its inception. . The purpose of the awards is to honor those making a difference and to highlight examples of excellence in creative innovation and technology in the legal industry for the purposes of (1) expanding our understanding of what is possible, (2) encouraging a

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AI for Paralegals: Everything You Need to Know (and How to Use It Safely)

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Ready to cut through the AI hype and learn exactly how to use these tools in your legal work? Join this webinar to get practical guidance from attorney and AI legal expert, Joe Stephens, who understands what really matters for legal professionals! What You'll Learn: Evaluate AI Tools Like a Pro 🔍 Learn which tools are worth your time and how to spot potential security and ethics risks before they become problems.

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The FTC’s Proposed Rulemaking Part 3 — Key Data Security Takeaways

Debevoise Data Blog

As we noted in previous posts, on August 11, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“ANPR”) seeking public comment on 95 questions focused on harms stemming from “commercial surveillance and lax data security practices” and whether new trade regulation rules under section 18 of the FTC Act are needed to protect people’s privacy and information.

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Legal Hackathon Wales – Team 1 Challenge: AiRent?

Legal Tech Innovation Wales

Accessibility of legislation and access to justice has always been at the forefront of the Lab’s priorities. This year alone, we have organised and/or participated in a number of relevant projects: such as the RPF2 Access to Justice project and Innovation challenge hosted by the Solicitor’s Regulation Authority (SRA) and the University of West of England (UWE), the Global Legal Hackathon in Manchester, with our team focusing on the Access to Justice challenge and now, co-hosted with Welsh Govern

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Heretik and Relativity: Purpose-Built Contract Review and Intelligence Capabilities in RelativityOne

Relativity

We’re excited to share that Relativity has acquired Heretik and their technology, which combines machine learning and advanced analysis to help organizations gain immediate insight into contract data.

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Run Your Practice More Mindfully on a Legal Pad

Attorney at Work

Sam Walton turned a five-and-dime into the Walmart empire using little more than business savvy and a legal pad. His reliance on yellow legal pads is well-documented. His desk at the Walmart Museum has a stack of the ubiquitous pads still covered in Walton’s exhaustive notes. If Walton used those cheap yellow pads to become a billionaire, you might find them useful in running a law firm.

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Case Closed: How to Optimize Your Legal Intake Process for Efficiency

Speaker: Anne Post, CEO North America, Xakia Technologies

Do you know that 40% of U.S. Legal Departments now have a formal legal intake process? With that in mind, where does your legal department stand today? Many legal teams still struggle with a flood of incoming requests, leaving everyone overwhelmed and frustrated. Implementing a formal legal intake process can seem like an obstacle between the business and the legal department, but it doesn’t have to be!

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 13, 2022

LLRX

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.

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Relativity Acquires Contract Review Company Heretik

LawSites

Relativity , the global e-discovery and compliance technology company, said today that it has acquired Heretik , an AI contract review company whose product was built on the Relativity platform and whose staff is half composed of former Relativity employees. . Moving forward, Heretik’s end-to-end contract review product will be known as Relativity Contracts.

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Unpacking the FTC’s 95 Questions for Commercial Surveillance and Data Security Rulemaking (Part 1)

Debevoise Data Blog

On August 11, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“ANPR”) seeking public comment on 95 questions focused on purported harms stemming from “commercial surveillance and lax data security practices.” The ANPR also invites views as to whether new trade regulation rules under Section 18 of the FTC Act, or other regulatory alternatives, are needed to protect consumers’ privacy and information.

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Law Firm Profitability Checklist

Rocket Matter

If you run a legal practice, you want it to be profitable. And it’s not just because bringing in an impressive revenue sounds, well, impressive. It’s because profitability allows your practice to thrive. With greater profitability, you’re able to give your attorneys and legal staff the tools they need to deliver standout client service, attract exceptional talent, and scale your practice.

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Trellis Launches Trellis AI to Streamline Trial Court Litigation

Trellis AI leverages the largest repository of state trial court data to help litigators evaluate cases, automate brief drafting, suggest winning strategies, and more. Key components: Draft Arguments — Uses similar/successful motions in the Trellis database to generate arguments/citations for your motions seeking dismissal, summary judgment, etc. Case Assessment — Predict the likely outcomes of a case at any stage to help you decide to accept it, guide motion practice, make settlement offers, an

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Announcing a New RelativityOne Subscription Plan

Relativity

We are implementing a new subscription plan that eliminates separate user fees for RelativityOne. The new plan makes it easier to unlock innovation in the platform.

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Building a Solid Relationship With Clients Throughout the Client Journey

Attorney at Work

You can prepare a dynamite brief or brilliant estate plan, but if the client journey is difficult, your client still may not be happy. After 15 months in progress, our new custom home was completed recently. As one might expect, between COVID-19, supply chain issues and labor shortages, all did not go smoothly. I’m no house-building novice — this is the eighth home we’ve built — so I understand that things don’t always go as planned and I know it’s not always the contractor’s fault.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 20, 2022

LLRX

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.

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Exclusive: LegalEase Acquires CLM Gurus to Expand Its Services, Capabilities and Capacity

LawSites

LegalEase Solutions , a company that provides customized legal solutions for corporations, in-house legal departments and law firms, has acquired the contract lifecycle management (CLM) consulting firm CLM Gurus , along with key executives and staff. LegalEase says that the acquisition adds senior talent and experience for its end-to-end CLM implementation offerings , which encompass selection, requirement scoping, migration, abstraction, technology integration and change management.

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The New Way of Conducting Patent Research: Proven Strategies For Efficient Due Diligence

Speaker: Andrew Klein

Patent due diligence processes take too long. The information you need is publicly available but accessing it is often tedious & inefficient, requiring you to wade through dozens of PTO websites or for-free tools to gather what you need. Plus, it frequently occurs late in the game, leaving professionals under pressure, sifting through chaotic 100-page PDFs, and frustrated with poorly formatted information & patent numbers.

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Legal Hackathon Wales - Team 2 Challenge

Legal Tech Innovation Wales

It’s been a busy few months at the LILW, and the time finally came for our long anticipated event, Legal Hackathon Wales, which was hosted by the LILW and the Welsh Government. We’re always up for a good challenge, and luckily the hackathon which made up the second half of the week provided us with 5 challenges we could sink our teeth into. To get started, all the participants were split into two teams, so we had time to introduce ourselves and our skillsets before discussing which challenge our

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WANT TO IMPLEMENT CONTRACT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT (CLM)? START BY SETTING YOUR NORTH STAR

SYKE

ALISTAIR MAIDEN It’s a question I get asked frequently. “How do I get started with CLM?” Knowing how to get to a goal is not easy, especially when it’s in an area where you are not an expert, like tech. I know how this feels. When I was starting my very first CLM project,… The post WANT TO IMPLEMENT CONTRACT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT (CLM)? START BY SETTING YOUR NORTH STAR appeared first on SYKE.

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How to Stay on Top of Tech Trends if You're Not a Technologist

Relativity

How does a non-technologist working in a technical industry balance her responsibilities with the need to stay ahead of emerging technology?

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Don’t Be Afraid to Raise Your Legal Fees

Attorney at Work

Some lawyers always seem fearful of increasing legal fees — recession or no recession, crisis or no crisis. If you are wondering whether to raise your hourly rates or fixed fees, my advice — with very limited exceptions — is to go for it. Clients are never as price-sensitive as you think. The Two Biggest Reasons Lawyers Are Afraid to Raise Legal Fees.

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Trial Prep: What Attorneys Really Want (And How to Deliver It)

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Get ready to uncover what attorneys really need from you when it comes to trial prep in this new webinar! Attorney and law professor, Joe Stephens, J.D., will share proven techniques for anticipating attorney needs, organizing critical documents, and transforming complex information into compelling case presentations. Key Learning Objectives: Organization That Makes Sense 🎯 Learn how to structure and organize case materials in ways that align with how attorneys actually work and think.