Global LegalTech Hub

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Pablo Viedma, Tech & Privacy manager at Aktion Legal We have heard countless times about what blockchain technology is, what it can do and the uses we can put it to, but have we ever wondered in which fields of legal business this technology could be most interesting? Approach and introduction to Blockchain. First of all, let's define blockchain in a simple way, it is a technology that consists in its less developed or complex state, in a sort of digital ledger, decentralized and immutable l

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LawSites

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In an explosive exposé last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that 131 federal judges broke the law by hearing cases where they had a financial interest. To uncover those violations, reporters reviewed the financial holdings of some 700 federal judges and compared them against tens of thousands of court cases. The data the Journal used was compiled by the Free Law Project , a non-profit that works to provide free and open public access to court data, opinions, filings and other information.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 25, 2021

A large part of practicing law is persuading someone to believe, act or agree with your client’s position, whether in a courtroom or boardroom or at a negotiation or dinner table. We seek to persuade juries, judges, colleagues, friends, family or the media that we are right, and others are not. Following these six principles will help you be a more persuasive lawyer.

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LLRX

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Enterprise reporter Alfred Ng and Investigative Data Journalist Maddy Varner detail how many non profit organizations that often deal in sensitive issues, like mental health, addiction, and reproductive rights—are feeding data about website visitors to corporations.

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Debevoise Data Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

On Wednesday, November 3, 2021, Anna Gressel and Avi Gesser from our Data Strategy and Security Group joined guests Liz Grennan, Doug McElhaney and Alex Singla of McKinsey, for a special installment of our Data Security Webcast on managing AI risks in the insurance sector. While artificial intelligence (AI) helps companies generate value, it also produces a variety of risks and ethical issues.

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Technically Legal

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The ransomware episode. October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, so how couldn't we do this episode? Our guests are Kelly Geary, National Practice Leader of Executive Risk & Cyber/Professional Services Claims for EPIC Insurance Brokers, and Rich Gatz, Claims Counsel for Coalition, a Silicon Valley cyber insurance company. While both Kelly and Rich have law degrees, they have worked in insurance for a long time.

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The Law Product Makers blog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

You have an idea – maybe already implemented – for an interactive software application that helps someone accomplish a legal task. You’d like to make it available to others. Which platform should be used for delivery? What’s the best way to deliver the application to the target market? Maybe you’re a public-interest-oriented sort who wants to help folks who can’t afford lawyers deal with legal issues.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Virtual law firm status has worked out so well for some firms, they’re making the switch permanent. Should you? Amid the coronavirus pandemic, office workers everywhere have shown that to be productive, all you need is a laptop, a reliable internet connection and a desk. This begs the question: Do people really need to be inside an office all day?

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LLRX

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Articles and Columns for October 2021 Is Remote Work a Thing Now? – Heather Grey-Grant is a business strategist, marketing expert and executive coach who works primarily with small to medium sized law firms. In her article she shares lessons learned on how to effectively manage remote working by law firm attorneys and staff along.

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Debevoise Data Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This is Part 2 in a two-part series of articles about facial recognition laws in the United States. In Part 1 , we discussed how current legislation addresses facial recognition. In this part, we assess where the law seems to be heading and offer some practical risk reduction strategies. I. Proposed U.S. Federal and State Legislation There is currently no federal law that specifically regulates biometric privacy.

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Apps in Law

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The reviews are finally in for the new Apple Watch Series 7 and Jeff Richardson and I discuss all the best reviews so far, helping YOU to decide if you need to buy a new Apple Watch. We also talk about a fascinating story involving a stolen car and an AirTag, and a nifty story that Jeff found about how to use the new “Live Text” feature in iOS 15 to help you copy someone else’s class notes.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Facebook Pinterest Print Email In this short article we talk with Nomio about Data Capture – how to efficiently aggregate dense document data and manage it like a piece of software. What is meant by Data Capture? A legal document can be thought of as having some implicit structure to it. In using the word structure, we are talking specifically about the data-points within the document and their relation to one another.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Are scanners a technology whose days are numbered? As our use of paper recedes, will scanners, like fax machines before them, eventually become obsolete? I pondered that question as I considered the new Fujitsu ScanSnap iX1300 , which is being released to the market today. Perhaps the day will come when legal professionals will no longer need scanners, but for now, we most certainly still do, and in this age of working from home, this may well be the perfect one to get.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 1, 2021

These Zoom tools improve your Zoomiverse by streamlining call scheduling, automating video enhancement, and transcribing meetings. When the pandemic closed offices and forced working from home, we were instantly turned into “Zoomers” without little to no instruction. The technology let us connect and kept businesses afloat — but often while looking and sounding bad in less-than-productive meetings.

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LLRX

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Privacy and security 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 security, often without our situational awareness.

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Debevoise Data Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Part 1: The Current Patchwork Two huge crosscurrents are sweeping the world of facial recognition—and moving head-on into each other. Companies are eagerly adopting facial recognition tools to better serve their customers, reduce their fraud risks, and manage their workforces. Meanwhile, legislatures and privacy advocates are pushing back hard. They challenge facial recognition as inherently overreaching, invasive of privacy, and prone to error and bias.

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Apps in Law

OCTOBER 14, 2021

A brief video on how to add “Live Video” to your Keynote presentations on the iPad and the scenarios where it can be useful. On September 28, 2021 Apple released some interesting updates for Keynote on the iPad including the ability to add “Live Video” directly to a slide in your Keynote presentation. In this video, I walk you through how to do this on the iPad and then discuss three scenarios where I feel it could work to enhance your presentation skills.

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Technically Legal

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Blockchain. Crypto mining. Proof of stake. Smart contracts. Non Fungible Tokens (NFT). DAOs. Crypto regulation. We talk about all of the above and more with Lewis Cohen of the blockchain focused law firm of DLx Law. Lewis breaks down what a blockchain network is and how transactions are recorded and verified on the network. He also talks about the legal and intellectual property implications of NFTs and decentralized autonomous organizations.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The plot thickens in the ongoing copyright lawsuit by Thomson Reuters against ROSS Intelligence, as lawyers for TR have now subpoenaed documents from two companies not previously mentioned in the case, Fastcase, the legal research and publishing company, and Morae Global Corporation, a company that provides legal and compliance solutions to legal departments and law firms.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Last week I served on a panel about attorney burnout for a bar association club for attorneys in their first 10 years of practice. The panelists had lots of helpful guidance and information to share. The last question asked by an attendee, however, perfectly exemplified the real problem with burnout, and the way I answered repeated the same problem pattern.

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LLRX

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Privacy and security 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 security, often without our situational awareness.

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Debevoise Data Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

On September 7, 2021, the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (“IOSCO”) issued a final report entitled “The Use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning by Market Intermediaries and Asset Managers” (the “Report”), which aims to assist IOSCO members in supervising their regulated entities over the use of AI and ML.

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Rocket Matter

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Law firm billing, especially involving LEDES, is the bane of many a billing administrator’s existence, especially for those working with insurance carriers. If that’s your pain, we feel you. Insurance carriers change their byzantine legal billing rules on an annual basis, making it hard for the law firms that represent them to keep up. The… Read More » Law Firm Billing: Custom Rules to Avoid Painful LEDES Invoice Rejection.

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CEE Legal Tech

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Current State of Legal Tech in Turkey Ongoing digitalisation trends in every other sector also push the legal sector to become faster, more agile and user-oriented. Changes coming from different places have a strong impact on legal systems to change. Turkish legal professionals have also been feeling this trend and pressures as well. However, the legal tech market is still immature and slowly developing in Turkey.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The Clio Cloud Conference is always the occasion for the law practice management company to announce new and enhanced products, and today’s kick-off of this year’s event was no different, with CEO Jack Newton unveiling what he described to me as the most important product release since Clio’s debut 13 years ago. That product is Clio Payments, a native e-payments technology built into the Clio Manage law practice management platform, allowing lawyers to offer clients secure and

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 13, 2021

As much as we like to believe that if we do everything well, our clients will always love us, it’s just not true. Here are 10 steps to soothe an angry client. You know the scenario. It’s the end of the day. The phone rings and you pick it up, knowing you really shouldn’t. You should just let it go to voicemail, pack up your laptop, and go home. “What the bleep is this?

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LLRX

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Privacy and security 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 security, often without our situational awareness.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

On October 13, the annual Securities and Exchange Commission Speaks seminar concluded with presentations from the Examination, Enforcement, and Investment Management divisions. As SEC regulated entities (including publicly traded companies, investment advisers, and broker-dealers) look to 2022, they should keep the following key cybersecurity takeaways in mind: Continued Focus on Corporate Governance.

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LexCloud.ca

OCTOBER 5, 2021

From submissions to deeds to contracts, the PDF is the prevailing document format for law firms around the world. With more firms working in a more distributed way, access, mobility and security of PDFs becomes critically important to maintaining productivity.

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The Law Product Makers blog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Estate Planning, traditionally the domain of the legal profession, is about to be disrupted by another new entrant, Vanilla. The company seeks to enable financial planners to offer estate planning services and documents to their clients through a network of attorneys. To be clear, by “disrupted”, I mean the offering of a comprehensive estate planning service, that includes estate planning documents, at a price that is substantially less than the fees charged by estate planning lawyers.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The deadline is Monday, Oct. 25, to submit nominations for The Changing Lawyer Awards 2021 , sponsored by Litera, which will be presented to winners Nov. 10 as part of the fourth Changing Lawyer Virtual Summit. The awards recognize individuals, firms, and companies in the legal industry for their role in both embracing and driving change through new technology, service models, or behavior.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Keeping clients when your firm is changing is a tricky business and involves a lot of reassurance — not just for them, but for you. I vividly remember interviewing a client about his relationship with his law firm, my client. While he was very satisfied with the firm’s work and the people doing it, he moved quickly on to his top concern. Unbeknown to me but known by him, the senior partner who served as the primary point of contact was dying of cancer.

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LLRX

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Jennifer L. Selin Professor of Constitutional Democracy, reviews how this battle between the two branches of government over access to presidential information raises questions about the constitutional authority of Congress and how lawmakers acquire the information needed to hold the executive branch accountable in the U.S. system of separation of powers.

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Debevoise Data Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2021

European Data Protection Roundup – September 2021 Key takeaways this September include: Transparency : The importance of providing individuals sufficient information to enable them to understand how their personal data is used and shared, following the Irish Data Protection Commission’s (“DPC”) €225 million fine against WhatsApp and the Hamburg DPA’s nearly €1 million penalty against an energy company for alleged transparency failures; Data transfer : The need to ensure the lawful cross-border t

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LexCloud.ca

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Managing tasks in MS Teams is a whole lot easier with the recently integrated Tasks by Planner and To Do feature.

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NSLT

OCTOBER 29, 2021

How Records Searches Help You Vet Clients Building and maintaining a successful legal practice requires attracting and acquiring new clients. However, not all prospects are worth representing. One best practice is to have a well-defined intake process using thorough due diligence to vet clients. Doing so can eliminate surprises that would otherwise delay or derail a case.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Paradigm — the parent company to practice management platforms PracticePanther , Bill4Time and MerusCase and payments platform Headnote — is being acquired by Francisco Partners , a major investment firm that specializes in investments in technology businesses. A Reuters report valued the deal at $400 million, citing “people familiar with the matter.” Francisco Partners is also the largest shareholder in LegalZoom , which it helped take public earlier this year.

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