May, 2022

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The Benefits of Consultancy Work as a Freelance Solicitor 

Ward Blawg

New insights on the benefits of consultancy work as a freelance Solicitor from Scott-Moncrieff & Associates, one of the UK’s leading ‘virtual law firms‘ If you are thinking about making a change to your working life, you may have considered going freelance and working as a consultant solicitor.

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Legal Pricing: Good Lawyers Talk Money With Their Clients

Attorney at Work

If you were to believe everything being written about legal services today, you might think lawyer-client relationships have boiled down to one thing: legal pricing. Yet in my conversations with clients, fees rarely are the first thing mentioned or the most important factor used to evaluate relationships with outside counsel. Don’t get me wrong. All clients are cost-conscious, particularly these days.

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13 Ways Overturning Roe v. Wade Affects You (even if you think it doesn’t)

LLRX

Kathy Biehl is a lawyer licensed in two states, as well as a prolific multidisciplinary author and writer. Roe v. Wade has been settled law during her entire career. In this article Biehl succinctly and expertly identifies how the upcoming Supreme Court decision in Dobbs V. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a draft of which was "leaked" on May 2, 2022, will impact many facets of our society as well as our democracy.

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Honored To Be Interviewed on Seyfarth’s ‘Pioneers and Pathfinders’ Podcast

LawSites

Pioneers and Pathfinders · Bob Ambrogi. I always prefer to be the interviewer, not the interviewee. Even so, I was honored to be the guest on this week’s Pioneers and Pathfinders podcast, hosted by Steve Poor , partner and chair emeritus at Seyfarth. From the show description: “In today’s conversation, we talk about Bob’s journey as a journalist, his views on the current state of mainstream media, the potential of regulatory reform to further disrupt the industry, and the

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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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ABA Litigation Section’s Annual Conference

Legal Talk Network

The American Bar Association’s Litigation Section hosts its Section Annual Conference once a year and like so many gatherings, it was on hold during COVID-19. So, it’s not surprising that this year’s meeting in Miami was the first conference many attendees had been to since the pandemic shutdowns. For those not familiar, the Section Annual is a premier gathering for litigators featuring elite professionals discussing trial work, strategies, and the latest innovations.

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Batch Billing: How to Make More Money in Less Time

Rocket Matter

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. When Charles Dickens wrote that line to open his classic A Tale of Two Cities, he was using it to contrast the prosperity of 18th century London with the chaos of Paris during the French Revolution. But he also could have been talking… Read More » Batch Billing: How to Make More Money in Less Time.

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Building a Law Firm That Pays You First

Attorney at Work

When you started your law firm, it was probably just you — and maybe a paralegal or assistant. Then more business came in and you were working crazy hours, so you hired. You didn’t really care what you paid in salaries; you just needed the help. When somebody said they needed something, you usually said fine, “Order it!” Because in the beginning, you were making really good money.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 8, 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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Why Legal Tech Fans Should Attend AALL in July

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After two years of virtual conferences, the American Association of Law Libraries is returning to in-person programming for its annual meeting and conference , which takes place July 16-19 in Denver. Often, when I hear people rattle off the names of the leading legal technology conferences in the United States, this one is not even on their radar. That is a huge mistake.

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Airbnb’s Work Anywhere Policy

Above and Beyond KM

Airbnb is leading the charge to enable digital nomads in their organization and yours. Their work anywhere policy provides one road map. Are you ready to follow their lead? Airbnb recently announced that it wants to embrace remote working as the norm. In fairness, to fail to do so would have been the height of hypocrisy given that so much of its recent financial good fortune is due to remote workers (from other companies) who used Airbnb to find pleasant locations from which to work.

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Visibility Into the Strategy & Supporting Documents of Major US Law Firms

Law Firm Intelligence by Trellis aggregates state trial court data across the Trellis platform enabling users to: look up a particular metric related to a specific law firm (such as, how many cases a law firm had or has against another law firm), and see the actual dockets and documents supporting the metric. Trellis data is maximized in a revolutionary and unique way to provide users an exclusive look into a law firm litigating in state trial courts.

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Why Forbes Advisor Thinks Rocket Matter Is the Best (and Why You Will Too)

Rocket Matter

“He is a good man, and I am content at night knowing he watches me sleep.” —Online review of a Danny DeVito cardboard cutout “I don’t know if this is a scam or if mine was broken, but it doesn’t work and I am still getting abducted by UFOs on a regular basis.” —Online review… Read More » Why Forbes Advisor Thinks Rocket Matter Is the Best (and Why You Will Too).

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How to Connect Real World Contracts to Blockchain Technology (Aaron Powers, CEO Hunit)

Technically Legal

Aaron Powers, CEO and co-founder of Hunit, talks SLCs or, Smart Legal Contracts, that are natural language contracts but utilize blockchain technology to record certain aspects of contractual relationships. Hunit enables users to create text based contracts in Microsoft Word, but tie the document to a blockchain creating an immutable record of certain contract components, like successful performance and the fact that a contract even exists between two parties.

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Five Ways to Make Meetings Matter

Attorney at Work

Making meetings effective and productive is no easy feat — especially in the age of Zoom. To be effective, meetings need to engage the talents of the people involved, work to achieve the group’s specific goals for the moment — and do so in a way that’s contextually sensitive to the world around it. Many leaders fall back on arbitrary blanket rules that no one really follows — like the leader who declared all meetings in the company could last no more than 20 minutes.

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Disability vs The Working Place: Which One Is The Disability?

LLRX

“This is a profound insight from this super-powerful TEDx talk by Lesa Bradley on discrimination in the workplace: Your workers don’t actually have a disability until you place them in a context that disables them. This talk speaks about inclusivity of people with a disability in the workplace. Lesa talks about why we are struggling.

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Stay On Top of Newly Filed State & Federal Litigation: Curated Just for You!

With Daily Filings Report by Trellis you will receive an email and csv file daily with all new cases filed in the jurisdictions you're tracking. Each new case will include all case metadata like judge, parties, counsel, practice area, and even direct links to the full docket and complaint. Trellis Daily Filings Reports provide direct access to newly filed state and federal litigation curated just for you.

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First Amendment Protects Non-Lawyers in Providing Legal Advice in Debt Cases, Federal Court Rules

LawSites

Non-lawyers will be allowed to provide legal advice to low-income New Yorkers who face debt collection actions, under a preliminary injunction ordered yesterday by a federal judge in New York. In a case brought by Upsolve , a company that uses technology to help low-income consumers in bankruptcy and debt matters, seeking to block New York’s attorney general from enforcing unauthorized practice of law rules against non-lawyers who help debtors fill out forms, the judge concluded that the F

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Webcast: AI Readiness – Practical Steps to Prepare for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Incidents

Debevoise Data Blog

On Wednesday, May 25, 2022, Avi Gesser and Anna Gressel of Debevoise’s Data Strategy & Security Group joined Luke Tenery and Michael Costa of StoneTurn’s Cybersecurity and Incident Response Group for an engaging discussion on Artificial Intelligence Incident Response hosted by the Cybersecurity Docket. The panel discussed: Current legal, compliance, and risks relating to AI that are likely to lead to AI incidents; Practical steps companies can take to prepare for and mitigate AI incid

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Signed, Sealed, Delivered 10 Questions to Ask When Choosing E-Signature and Secure File Sharing Platforms

Rocket Matter

E-signature and secure file sharing have made it much easier for attorneys to do their jobs. They make it easier and faster to get documents signed, reduce the risk of mistakes, and offer an efficient way to reduce your paper use and green up your operations. With a multitude of e-signature products on the market, the team at Rocket Matter has created this guide to help you find the platform that works for you.

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Our Justice Gap

Legal Talk Network

Did you know that 74% of low income American households had at least one civil legal problem last year? For too many, such legal problems like eviction, domestic violence, access to healthcare, sustenance, shelter, and safety persist without any help. In fact, this happens 92% of the time for our fellow Americans on the lower side of the income scale.

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The Clock is Ticking: How to Miss Fewer Court Deadlines

Attorney at Work

Managing an increasing volume of cases and court deadlines– sometimes in multiple jurisdictions – is one of the biggest time management challenges for law firms. . A Tennessee lawyer was suspended and put on probation after failing to file a personal injury case. The firm had filed a voluntary dismissal back in 2014. While the lawyer had every intention of refiling within one year, that date was stored only in his memory.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 21, 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. – Four highlights from this week : How Often Do Ads Share Your Data Every Day?

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LawNext Podcast: Notarize Founder and CEO Pat Kinsel on Disrupting A Centuries-Old Process

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If ever there was a process ripe for disruption, notarization would seem to be it. A function that may date back to Ancient Egypt, it has changed little for centuries – still typically done in person, on hard-copy paper, using physical seals, and recorded in written ledgers. . Pat Kinsel , founder and CEO of Notarize , believes society has grappled for too long with how to scale this simple process of authenticating signatures.

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Research & Innovation Awards 2022

Legal Tech Innovation Wales

Freya Michaud our Project Coordinator representing the Lab collecting our award. We are so thrilled to have won the award for Outstanding Research and Innovation Collaboration in Humanities and Social Sciences at the Swansea University Research & Innovation Awards 2022! We are honoured to be part of such a dedicated team at Legal Innovation Lab Wales.

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Why Forbes Advisor Thinks Rocket Matter Is the Best (and Why You Will Too)

Rocket Matter

“He is a good man, and I am content at night knowing he watches me sleep.”. — Online review of a Danny DeVito cardboard cutout. “I don’t know if this is a scam or if mine was broken, but it doesn’t work and I am still getting abducted by UFOs on a regular basis.”. — Online review of “UFO Detector”. Online reviews can be overwhelmingly positive or extremely negative.

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Webcast – Artificial Intelligence and Discrimination in the Insurance Industry Part III

Debevoise Data Blog

On Friday, May 20, 2022, Avi Gesser and Anna Gressel of Debevoise’s Data Strategy & Security Group and Eric Dinallo and Marshal Bozzo of Debevoise’s Insurance Regulatory practice had an engaging discussion on Artificial Intelligence and Discrimination in the Insurance Industry (Part III in this series). Topics included: Regulatory developments since Part II of our discussion on Artificial Intelligence and Discrimination (e.g., the Connecticut Insurance Department’s new certification re

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Silencing Email Read Receipts: Why You Don’t Always Get What You Want

Attorney at Work

Back in the day when I was a young and naive pup, I didn’t pay much attention to how my email was set up. I’d sometimes be surprised by a little pop-up that accompanied an email I’d just opened in Microsoft Outlook, asking me to please confirm receiving and reading that email: aka a “read receipt.” I may have been naive in those days, but I was also (and still am) private and paranoid.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 30, 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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LawNext Podcast: Is the End in Site for State Limits on Law Practice? With APRL President Brian Faughnan

LawSites

Lawyers are largely limited to practicing law in the states in which they are licensed. But now, calling that rule anachronistic, the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers has asked the American Bar Association to amend the model rules that govern law practice to allow lawyers admitted in any U.S. jurisdiction to practice law and provide legal advice to clients anywhere in the country.

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Pinball, International Conferences and Access to Justice

Law, Technology and Access to Justice

The International Access to Justice Online Forum has been like ‘pinball with flashing lights and ringing bells’ said a reflective Lynne Haultain, executive director of Victoria Law Foundation that organised it jointly with the University of California Civil Justice Research Initiative. The videos of discussion over three days have recently gone online.

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Slack’s Cyndi Wheeler & Mark Pike on Automating Legal Workflows And (Not) Using Email (2020)

Technically Legal

Do you want to spend less time dealing with email? Are you interested in automating repetitive work tasks? Cyndi Wheeler and Mark Pike offer some tips on how to do just that in this episode from 2020. Cyndi and Mark are both in-house lawyers at collaboration software company Slack. Cyndi and Mark discuss how they moved almost all of their communications with outside counsel away from email and into Slack channels and how that has increased the productivity and the effectiveness of their lega

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Webcast – AI Oversight Obligations for Directors

Debevoise Data Blog

On Tuesday, May 24, at 11:00am ET, please join Anna Gressel and Avi Gesser from our Data Strategy and Security Group and William D. Regner , the Deputy Chair of our Corporate Department, for a timely discussion on AI oversight considerations and best practices for corporate boards, following up on our blog post “ AI Oversight Is Becoming a Board Issue “ This webinar will address: The increased board focus on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues, including the ESG risks p

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Building a Better Law Practice: 7 Reasons to Specialize

Attorney at Work

Law specialization has become increasingly common — almost a necessity. . Abraham Lincoln, licensed to practice law in 1837 in Illinois, may be the archetypal general practice attorney. The Lincoln Legal Papers Project identified over 5,600 cases and nearly 100,000 documents related to Lincoln’s law practice. The paper trail revealed scores of cases involving debt collection, business partnerships, estate settlements, divorce and real estate litigation.

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The Practice of People Law

LLRX

Jim Calloway is the Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Management Assistance Program. He informs us about the range of legal services delivered by what have been designated as “primary-care lawyers.” From Calloway's perspective, there is people law, and there is business/corporate law. Over the years, there has been a greater divergence in these two types of law practice focuses.

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Clio Offers to Buy Lawyers Out Of Up to Six Months of Competitors’ Contracts

LawSites

The law practice management company Clio today introduced an offer to buy lawyers out of their contracts with competing practice management platforms if they switch to Clio’s platform. Clio said it will help cover the remaining cost of the contract with the competitor by providing a credit of up to six months of free Clio software. It is also offering free data migration.

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Daniel Katz — Jones Day Visiting Professor of Law at Singapore Management University

Computational Legal Studies

It took 2+ years but I finally made it to Singapore for my official visit as the Jones Day Visiting Professor of Law at Singapore Management University! It has been an amazing first full week here. Thanks to everyone at SMU for hosting me and welcoming me — Yihan Goh, Jerrold Soh, How Khang Lim, Wei Zhang, Alvin See, Maartje de Visser, Man Yip, Meng Weng Wong and many others !

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