Attorney at Work

MARCH 1, 2022

We’ve all seen the terrifying Zoom fails of pantslessness, live-feed bathroom trips, and unmuted fetid rants about the host. We’re not those people. We’d never show up naked or allow our untethered howling spawn to step into the frame. We’re professionals here. But even professionals make mistakes. While you are strictly a pants-on Zoomer, holding the audience’s attention during a presentation is a toughly competitive business.

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Ward Blawg

MARCH 15, 2022

In a post-pandemic world, there’s little doubt we will rely more heavily on technology to meet the demands of clients, who are expecting a quicker and more transparent experience.

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Rocket Matter

MARCH 28, 2022

Online payment processing options can streamline your firm’s billing, help you collect payments faster (and more consistently), and keep your clients happy—but lots of law firms are still avoiding accepting online payments or payment by card. There used to be good reasons for that. Attorneys were respectable, professional, and polished, and getting your law practice… Read More » Why Online Legal Payment Processing Is an Absolute Necessity.

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LLRX

MARCH 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.

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LawSites

MARCH 31, 2022

As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, many Ukrainians who are currently in the United States have two options for extending their stays: apply for either Temporary Protected Status or asylum. For either, however, the applications they must complete are complicated to fill out and available only in English. To help Ukrainians living in the U.S. extend their stays, the technology company SixFifty today launched a free, automated tool, available in both English and Ukrainian, to help them co

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Legal Talk Network

MARCH 8, 2022

After nearly two years apart, ABA TechShow 2022 marked a ‘re-introduction’ into the real world as lawyers, legal professionals and legal tech leaders once again gathered together. For many attendees, this year’s legal tech gathering was their first in-person industry conference since before the COVID pandemic began. And while this year’s TechShow presented some of the best in diverse session topics, notable guest speakers and good exhibitor attendance, perhaps the greatest takeaway for everyone

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 21, 2022

I’m part of the 57.6% of Arizona attorneys who feel stressed out practicing law and the 70.3% of Arizona attorneys for whom work stress carries over to their personal life. Part of this is related to the fact that there is no separation between my professional and personal lives, but also because I tend to be a workaholic. I hit a metaphorical wall last November.

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Rocket Matter

MARCH 9, 2022

Trying to grow your law firm without the right knowledge and insight is like trying to steer a ship across the Atlantic—only you have no map, no rudder, no sail, and no destination in mind. Sure, you could end up in a charming beach town, soaking up the sun and making friendly conversation with the… Read More » How to Expand Your Law Firm by Using Business Intelligence.

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LLRX

MARCH 28, 2022

What use are we in helping to solve difficult global challenges if we’re so depressed and cognitively depleted that we can’t think of the best actions to take? Ukraine doomscrolling can harm your cognition as well as your mood. Professors Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian , Christelle Langley , Chun Shen and Jianfeng Feng describe their research findings on what to do about it.

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LawSites

MARCH 24, 2022

It has been a year since I have reported on a state adopting the duty of technology competence for lawyers , but now there is another: Hawai?i, bringing the total number of states that have adopted the duty to 40. Effective Jan. 1, 2022, the state’s Rules of Professional Conduct were amended to revise Comment 6 to Rule 1.1 , pertaining to competence, to add the duty of technology competence.

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Technically Legal

MARCH 31, 2022

“You’re marrying a firefighter. That’s all I’ll ever be. I’m never going to finish college.” That’s what Bill Henderson told his soon to be wife many years ago, but thankfully that was not true. Fast forward to today and Bill is now Professor William Henderson, the Stephen F. Burns Chair on the Legal Profession at Indiana University and he has been a law professor for nearly 20 years.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 3, 2022

I’ve been thinking about what it means to lead a company through crises and how each crisis affects law firm leaders. A few years ago, I believed I had handled just about every type of crisis conceivable. How wrong I was. In recent years, we have dealt with a global pandemic, a divided political nation and civil unrest. We all learned how to pivot and maneuver through a pandemic.

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Legal Talk Network

MARCH 30, 2022

Miriam Ingber (Dean of Admissions at Yale Law School) and Kristi Jobson (Dean of Admissions at Harvard Law School) discuss the admissions process and tips to getting into law school in its newest episode series “Life of a Lawyer, Start to Finish” on the Lawyer 2 Lawyer podcast. In its newest series “Life of a Lawyer, Start to Finish” , the Lawyer 2 Lawyer podcast explores the experience of becoming and being an attorney.

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Rocket Matter

MARCH 20, 2022

It’s time to talk about every attorney’s favorite part of the workday: analyzing in-depth financial reports to optimize collection practices! Okay, fine. Maybe the thought of picking through your law firm’s financial reporting and collections data doesn’t make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. But you know what does feel good? Getting paid in… Read More » Use Reporting and Analytics for Better Law Firm Collections.

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LLRX

MARCH 12, 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.

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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2022

The Business Intelligence Group, an organization founded to recognize “true talent and superior performance in the business world,” today announced the winners of its Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards , an awards program designed to honor organizations, products and people who bring artificial intelligence to life and apply it to solve real problems.

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lawtomated

MARCH 30, 2022

Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Facebook Pinterest Print Email Guest post by Jessica Hirst Is mobile the future of legal tech? The world is amid change, in this increasingly interconnected world, how do law firms navigate the maze of technologies and utilise these tools to evolve with society’s demands. Law firms are becoming increasingly reliant on automating legal processes and implementing the right tools which are easy to integrate, scale and adapt to future needs.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 10, 2022

Social media opportunities are endless for lawyers. With the right strategy, you can build your brand authority while establishing relationships with potential clients and other legal professionals. Since implementing a successful social media strategy can take some trial and error, here are some basic social media tips for law firms. First, Why Is Social Media Important for Law Firms?

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Debevoise Data Blog

MARCH 30, 2022

On December 7, 2021, Anna Gressel and Jim Pastore from Debevoise’s Data Strategy and Security and Commercial Litigation Groups participated in the third edition of the “ The Athens Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law ,” the premier international, multi-stakeholder gathering on artificial intelligence, legal systems, and functions, regulatory compliance, and the rule of law.

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Percipient

MARCH 24, 2022

Alternative legal service providers (ALSPs for short, “law companies”, or “New Law”) are fast becoming anything but ‘alternative.’ A recent report estimates that ALSPs have raked in over $14 billion in market share globally and are growing at an impressive 15% rate annually. Not only are more in-house teams leveraging legal service providers to maximize efficiency and save costs , but innovative law firms understand that working with ALSPs can also create productive relat

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LLRX

MARCH 31, 2022

Articles and Columns for March 2022 Libraries and the Contested Terrain of “Neutrality” – Rick Anderson is University Librarian at Brigham Young University. His commentary addresses timely, divisive and critical conversations and actions that involve censorship, book banning, library ethics, and professional responsibility across our professional communities.

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MARCH 30, 2022

Although the majority of U.S. in-house lawyers prefer not to return full-time to their offices, nearly half have done so, in part because their organizations have failed to effectively adopt new technologies that would facilitate hybrid work arrangements. This is among the findings of a new survey of in-house lawyers commissioned by the contract management company ContractWorks and conducted by the U.K.

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Computational Legal Studies

MARCH 24, 2022

Here is the video from our keynote at the Computational Legal Studies at Singapore Management University. Underlying Slides (with fewer typos) available here. Link to the Full Agenda from the Conference is here.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 14, 2022

Are you happy in your practice area? Maybe you’ve read posts about fast-growing practice areas that would be more to your liking. Seven Steps to Switch Your Niche. You can switch practice area. You’re smart. You can do this. It just takes some work. Ask a Law Librarian. A visit to a law library is an ideal way to start. As a newbie to the topic, computer legal research can present too large a universe.

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LexCloud.ca

MARCH 22, 2022

Overview LexCloud is pleased to announce availability of our new LSO Accredited “Cyber Security Training for Law Firms”. This session is focused on fortifying the human element in your cyber defences to avoid compromising vital firm information and to help ensure firms don’t come up short in client audits and when applying for cyber insurance. The session is eligible for 1 hour and 20 minutes of CPD Professional Hours and includes an optional on-line assessment and Certificate of Completion.

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Legal Talk Network

MARCH 22, 2022

It is no secret that being a lawyer is stressful. Lawyers face multiple stressors every day. From long hours, managing challenging client personalities, overwhelming caseloads, and constant industry pressures, being a lawyer is not easy. “Lawyers also deal with a lot of negative perspectives on their career and profession.” According to wellness coach and instructor, Dawn Kulongowski, DDS , lawyers not only have to deal with the day-to-day pressures of the job, but they must also deal with the n

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LLRX

MARCH 6, 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.

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LawSites

MARCH 23, 2022

PandaDoc , a San Francisco company whose platform automates document creation and workflows, said today that it has acquired the e-notary platform LiveNotary and and leveraged its technology to launch PandaDoc Notary, its own platform enabling customers to legally sign and notarize documents online. PandaDoc Notary’s Remote Online Notarization (RON) is an all-in-one product that enables users to legally sign, collect and manage electronically signed and notarized documents within minutes, the co

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ELTA

MARCH 22, 2022

With the nomination of Zsolt Ződi representing Hungary, the European Legal Technology Association was able to further consolidate its Ambassador network. Zsolt graduated as a lawyer in 1991. He then taught legal theory till 1995, when he left academia, and joined Wolters Kluwer. He worked there for 15 years in different positions, as an editor, publisher and publishing director, and participated in different publishing initiatives including numerous legal technology projects.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 23, 2022

What does it take to become a successful lawyer in your particular niche or practice area? In a series of in-depth interviews for the Estrin Report , Chere Estrin profiles top lawyers from all types of practices. In this column, we zero in on their top tips. This week, we feature “protector of athletes” Sivonnia DeBarros. Sivonnia DeBarros.

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Computational Legal Studies

MARCH 22, 2022

Our LexGLUE paper was Accepted in the ACL Main Conference. Happy to continue to push forward with further updates to the project in the months and years to come. As an academic and technical field, we need to continue to marry general NLP techniques to the intrinsic Complexity of Legal Language — obviously we still have great distance to cover but we are moving in the right direction !

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Technically Legal

MARCH 17, 2022

SCENE: Afternoon. Early 2000s. Because the first internet bubble is popping, two tech lawyers find themselves with not much to do so they go to a matinee showing of Black Hawk Down. Those two attorneys are James Fisher and Kevin Broyles. That particular afternoon was not the only slow one for them. Work for them had dried up and colleagues at their law firm were getting laid off left and right.

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LLRX

MARCH 20, 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.

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LawSites

MARCH 18, 2022

I had the great honor this week to record a conversation with Yevgen Poltenko , executive director of the Legal Development Network , an association of community-based non-governmental organizations that promotes people-centered justice in Ukraine, for the LexBlog podcast This Week in Legal Blogging. . We discussed his organization’s efforts to assist Ukrainians with legal and humanitarian issues amid the Russian invasion of their country.

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MARCH 14, 2022

Last year regulators in the EU devoted a lot of attention to cookie files and other tracking technologies used on websites. This interest was generated among other sources by numerous complaints filed by NOYB—European Center for Digital Rights in the last year with data protection authorities, and has resulted in guidance and several decisions issued by regulators in recent months (e.g. in Austria, Belgium and France).

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 29, 2022

With in-person conferences, tradeshows and other large gatherings happening again, your skills may be rusty. Here are ways to get back into your best face-to-face form. As I write this, I am in Las Vegas with over 830 others at the Legal Marketing Association Annual Meeting, my first association conference since before the pandemic. Leading up to this, my emotions have ranged from excitement (“I can’t wait to see so many people who will be there!

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Debevoise Data Blog

MARCH 11, 2022

On March 9, 2022, the SEC released its newest series of proposed cybersecurity rules , this time for all public companies. Consistent with the proposed rules issued last month for investment advisers and funds, which we discussed here , the SEC continues to prioritize cybersecurity disclosures to the marketplace, placing particular emphasis on timely and detailed disclosures of material cybersecurity incidents, as well as on periodic disclosures about cybersecurity risk management and governance

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