Attorney at Work
AUGUST 19, 2022
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?
Ward Blawg
AUGUST 1, 2022
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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LawSites
AUGUST 4, 2022
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.
LLRX
AUGUST 27, 2022
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.
CloudNine
AUGUST 16, 2022
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.
Relativity
AUGUST 31, 2022
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!
Attorney at Work
AUGUST 31, 2022
Attorney Noble McIntyre shares best practices for rolling out the welcome mat for new clients. First, tips for law firm telephone etiquette. Once someone contacts your law firm, everything — from the receptionist’s demeanor to the conference room decor — can affect whether that person will sign on as a client. So does your practice project a welcoming image or are you sending a different message to prospective clients?
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LawSites
AUGUST 31, 2022
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.
LLRX
AUGUST 26, 2022
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.
Rocket Matter
AUGUST 30, 2022
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.
Relativity
AUGUST 30, 2022
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.
Attorney at Work
AUGUST 15, 2022
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.
Debevoise Data Blog
AUGUST 29, 2022
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.
LawSites
AUGUST 31, 2022
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
LLRX
AUGUST 28, 2022
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.
Legal Tech Innovation Wales
AUGUST 25, 2022
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
Relativity
AUGUST 29, 2022
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.
Attorney at Work
AUGUST 11, 2022
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.
Debevoise Data Blog
AUGUST 25, 2022
On 18 July 2022, the UK government published the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (the “Bill”), which proposes reforms to the UK’s data protection and e-privacy landscape in-line with the National Data Strategy. All companies that conduct business in the UK – whether on the ground or remotely – could be affected by the changes given the regime’s extraterritorial effect.
LawSites
AUGUST 29, 2022
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.
LLRX
AUGUST 13, 2022
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.
Rocket Matter
AUGUST 22, 2022
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.
Relativity
AUGUST 18, 2022
When your iPhone becomes an appealing target for opposing parties in civil litigation—where constitutional protections are not as robust—how do the law and technology of texts play a role?
Attorney at Work
AUGUST 16, 2022
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.
Debevoise Data Blog
AUGUST 22, 2022
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.
LawSites
AUGUST 22, 2022
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.
LLRX
AUGUST 19, 2022
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
Legal Tech Innovation Wales
AUGUST 16, 2022
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
Relativity
AUGUST 16, 2022
What does it take to make the leap into a new industry? First, it takes courage. Once you’ve got that, these skills will pave the way into a successful and fulfilling career in a new field.
Attorney at Work
AUGUST 7, 2022
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.
Debevoise Data Blog
AUGUST 15, 2022
On Wednesday, August 17, 2022, at 11:00 AM Eastern, Debevoise’s Avi Gesser and Anna Gressel joined Nicolette Nowak from Beamery to discuss New York City’s Automated Employment Decision Tool Law (“AEDT”), other similar laws and regulations, and what AI application providers can do to best assist their customers’ compliance efforts. More information on Beamery’s webcast, “Impending AI Regulatory Changes in HR,” can be found below.
LawSites
AUGUST 9, 2022
As states seek to find innovative ways to address the access-to-justice crisis, a key component has been eliminating or loosening the prohibition on non-lawyer ownership of law firms. Two years ago, Arizona became the first state to completely eliminate the prohibition. Just two weeks earlier, Utah had approved sweeping changes in legal services regulation that that allowed non-traditional legal services providers.
LLRX
AUGUST 22, 2022
Patrick J. McKenna is a highly respected lecturer, strategist and advisor to law firms. McKenna's experience has taught him that the best performing teams have discovered to operate effectively they need to formalize what they should specifically be able to expect of each other as members. He calls these expectations the group’s ‘Rules of Engagement’, and in this article he articulates that to be effective, these rules of engagement must be clear, consistent, agreed to and followed.
SYKE
AUGUST 12, 2022
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.
Rocket Matter
AUGUST 12, 2022
If your only legal calendar is the giant paper one on your desk that’s full of scratched-out dates and phone call doodles in the margins, it’s time to do yourself a favor and upgrade to a better process. Cloud-based calendar software allows you to update your calendar from anywhere with any device and help your remote employees stay in the loop for every important update.
Attorney at Work
AUGUST 23, 2022
A brainstorming session is a valuable and creative tool law firm marketing teams can use to foster their brands, communicate their messages, and deliver real impact in their law firm branding, marketing and public relations. Elements of an Effective Brainstorming Session. Here are 10 brainstorming guidelines for today’s law firm marketing teams that will help make your meeting — and outcomes — more effective. 1.
Lineal Services
AUGUST 11, 2022
Morgan Lewis selects Amplify to power their Relativity offering improving their chat capabilities, privilege document identification, image classification, threading analysis, workflow tracking and defensibility, and enhancing their development team with Amplify’s rapid solution development suite. Dallas, TX – August 9, 2022 – The Morgan Lewis eData group, the industry’s leading law firm supplier of advanced discovery solutions, has selected Lineal Amplify to drive greater efficiencies for thei
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