Global LegalTech Hub

MAY 25, 2021

Iván Jiménez, Innovation and transformation manager at MUTUALIDAD DE LA ABOGACÍA I propose to take a trip in time, just for a few moments, before dissecting the world of algorithms. Take a moment to think about what the legal sector was like before the disruptive new technologies came along. As one of the oldest professions, dating back to ancient Greek civilization, it has inherently maintained its artisan, intellectual essence.

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MAY 17, 2021

Josef , an Australia-based, no-code software platform that enables legal professionals to automate common tasks, has raised $2.5 million. The funding round was led by Australian venture firm Carthona Capital , with participation from U.S. investors, including The LegalTech Fund. Added to the startup’s $1 million seed round in 2019, this brings its total funding to $3.5 million.

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Internet for Lawyers

MAY 20, 2021

Practice management software vendor Clio has posted a handy overview of some of the ways lawyers can work remotely. For lawyers looking for more detailed information, we are&n.

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LLRX

MAY 20, 2021

This is Jerry Lawson's interview of Carole Levitt, one of the country’s premier experts on Internet research, both legal and investigative. Her most recent book, coauthored with Judy Davis, is the second edition of her treatise Internet Legal Research on a Budget.

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CEE Legal Tech

MAY 31, 2021

Alban Krasniqi As part of our exploration of the Central and Eastern European legal tech and innovation scene, we are heading to the Balkans. Today, we have the pleasure of introducing you to Alban Krasniqi from Pristina, Kosovo. Alban is a lawyer specialised in constitutional law and human rights who has worked extensively with the main Kosovan rule of law stakeholders since 2015.

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Legal Talk Network

MAY 21, 2021

If you sensed that hacking and ransomware attacks spiked during the pandemic, your suspicions were accurate. A perfect storm of lapses in security, a rise in scripted attacks, and increased professionalized hacking have led to some of the most debilitating and embarrassing cyber attacks to date. The high-profile Colonial Pipeline debacle led to gasoline hoarding, price-gouging and shortages.

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InsideLegal

MAY 20, 2021

InsideLegal first started asking law firms and legal IT professionals about the cloud and if/when/how their firms would consider cloud computing well over 15 years ago as part of our annual ILTA/InsideLegal Technology Purchasing Surveys. Thanks to new cloud innovations and legal cloud-specific applications, law firms with a well-defined 'cloud first' strategy, and oh yeah, a pandemic that has accelerated remote working and reliance on cloud architecture, and we can finally exhale and confidently

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Debevoise Data Blog

MAY 7, 2021

The key development from April must be the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) approving the draft UK adequacy decisions from the European Commission (the “Commission”). Companies will be relieved that they are one step closer towards maintaining the seamless flow of data between the EU and the UK. Other notable developments this month include the publication of the Commission’s highly anticipated draft AI regulation, and the launch of a class action in the UK against TikTok.

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LLRX

MAY 23, 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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CEE Legal Tech

MAY 20, 2021

Image source: Pixabay Legal professionals are usually more conservative and don’t like changes. There is a reasonable explanation for this – they need something that works 100% of the time and don’t want to take any chances. Legal consulting is highly responsible, and even the smallest mistakes can cause significant damages. But things have changed.

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Legal Talk Network

MAY 14, 2021

When exploring different ways to improve a practice, work habits, whatever really, a common piece of advice is to look at the data. But what does that mean? Which data points? What metrics matter? Legal marketing experts Gyi Tsakalakis and Conrad Saam narrow the field for lawyers who are either hands-on marketers or working with teams and vendors. Their latest Lunch Hour Legal Marketing episode covers the top 5 (really 10) metrics that matter most and least.

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LexCloud.ca

MAY 20, 2021

LexCloud.ca has been invited to join the exclusive 2021 Citrix Partner Technical Expert Council (PTEC).

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LawSites

MAY 10, 2021

Last August, Arizona became the first state to eliminate the ban on non-lawyer ownership of law firms. In ordering that change, as well as a package of additional reforms, the Arizona Supreme Court acted on the recommendations of a task force that had called for fundamental changes in the regulation of legal services, all with the goal of enhancing access to justice.

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Debevoise Data Blog

MAY 6, 2021

Our three previous articles in this series on the future of AI regulation have discussed the RFI on AI issued by U.S. banking regulators, the draft EU AI regulation , and the FTC’s recent guidance on AI bias and fairness. In this fourth post, we have taken those important developments in AI regulation, along with some other recently issued guidance, and prepared a list of 24 measures that companies can adopt now to prepare for the coming AI regulatory landscape, which is an update to a post we w

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LLRX

MAY 20, 2021

As vaccinations and relaxed health guidelines make returning to the office a reality for more companies, there seems to be a disconnect between managers and their workers over remote work. A good example of this is a recent op-ed written by the CEO of a Washington, D.C., magazine that suggested workers could lose benefits like health care if they insist on continuing to work remotely as the COVID-19 pandemic recedes.

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NSLT

MAY 10, 2021

DIY eDiscovery: Taking Control & Saving Money You can’t do ediscovery if you don’t have some basic tools for reviewing, tagging, collecting, and producing electronic evidence.

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Legal Talk Network

MAY 7, 2021

Over the past year, there’s been much discussion, debate, and suspicion about holding the most sacrosanct court proceedings via video. A growing consensus is that the pandemic caused the judicial branch to advance technologically for the better. And there’s little debate that many of the emergency and stopgap measures put in place during shutdowns will continue, at least in some form.

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ELTA

MAY 25, 2021

You are invited to the first #webinar hosted by AdvoPass! At this webinar three distinguished guests Ebru Metin, LL.M, Ambassador of European Legal Technology Association, Oğuzhan Aygören PhD, Director of Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship Center and Yüksel Tolun, who is both a lawyer and a Google Developer Expert, will be discussing the disruptive effect of technology on law, and Burak Özdemir, CEO of AdvoPass will be the moderator of this session.

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LawSites

MAY 13, 2021

Ninety-two percent of law firms worldwide say they were completely or somewhat prepared for full-scale remote work at the pandemic’s onset, a survey released this morning finds. Even so, most firms plan to increase their budgets for technology and process software and adopt more cloud-based technologies, the survey reports. Published for the fourth consecutive year by Aderant , a global provider of business management software for law firms, the Business of Law and Legal Technology Survey

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LawNext podcast

MAY 24, 2021

One of the most dynamic areas of legal tech right now is practice management, which has seen a surge of investments and acquisitions over the past year. And one of the companies that best represents that trend is Paradigm, which was founded two years ago as ASG LegalTech and rebranded this year as Paradigm, to represent its goal of bringing about a paradigm shift for legal technology.

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LLRX

MAY 23, 2021

Jerry Lawson highly recommends Ann Walsh Long’s new book, A Short & Happy Guide to Advanced Legal Research. Long's book offers good ideas about balancing quality, speed and expense, as well as a wealth of other insights on improving online legal research.

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NSLT

MAY 10, 2021

DIY eDiscovery: Taking Control & Saving Money You can’t do ediscovery if you don’t have some basic tools for reviewing, tagging, collecting, and producing electronic evidence.

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Legal Talk Network

MAY 6, 2021

Young Lawyer Rising may be a new podcast, but the hosts sound like radio vets out of the gate. There’s a reason why Sonia Russo and Mathew Kerbis come across as practiced broadcast professionals. YLR host Sonia Russo. For the show, Russo is tapping into her experience as an FM radio reporter and producer. And Kerbis is a litigator experienced with speaking to different audiences.

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Technically Legal

MAY 19, 2021

"The fundamental tool of lawyers is language" explains Serena Wellen in this episode. Serena is a Senior Director for LexisNexis and works on the Context legal analytics platform. Context leverages machine learning and natural language processing from Ravel, a company LexisNexis acquired in 2017. Using Ravel's analytics engine, Context sits atop many of the LexisNexis databases and analyzes information about judges, lawyers, expert witnesses and companies compiled in "entity authorities.

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LawSites

MAY 7, 2021

The Arizona Supreme Court has approved the first three entities to be licensed as alternative business structures, enabling businesses owned by non-lawyers to deliver legal services under the liberalized licensing rules the court approved last August. On March 17, 2021, the court entered orders approving two ABS entities: Trajan Estate, LLC , a legal service provider focused on estate planning.

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LawNext podcast

MAY 17, 2021

There is broad agreement that if law schools are to adequately train students for careers in law, then technology is a critical part of the curriculum. Despite this, many law schools get a failing grade when it comes to teaching tech. So how, exactly, should law schools teach tech? And what topics should such teaching cover? April G. Dawson has given a lot of thought to those questions.A former computer programmer and litigator, she is now associate dean of technology and innovation and profess

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LLRX

MAY 8, 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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NSLT

MAY 3, 2021

Inserting Multiple Photos into PowerPoint If you have several photographs that you want to insert into PowerPoint, using a “Photo Album” is the simplest way to accomplish this.

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MAY 17, 2021

A Michigan judge chastised a defendant who appeared in court (via Zoom) displaying an anal-sex-related screen name. View the video reording of the judge chastising the defendant in Zoom court.

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Legal Talk Network

MAY 28, 2021

As noted recently by Digital Detectives , ransomware and cyber breaches spiked during the pandemic. There are some understandable reasons for the increase in hacking. One is that data security protocols took a back seat in the scramble to get workers up and running at home. So did routine security patches and updates. More than a year into the pandemic, a hybrid work environment looks to be staying put, at least for now.

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LawSites

MAY 27, 2021

COVID was not kind to law firm marketing and business development, with two-thirds of firms reporting that business development was more difficult in 2020, and the overwhelming majority of firms pivoting their marketing strategies, turning from live conferences and face-to-face meetings to social media, email alerts and Zoom. These are among the findings of the 2021 InterAction Marketing & Business Development Survey published this week by LexisNexis InterAction. “Even law firms that g

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LawNext podcast

MAY 10, 2021

Last August, Arizona became the first state to eliminate the ban on non-lawyer ownership of law firms. In ordering that change, as well as a package of additional reforms, the Arizona Supreme Court acted on the recommendations of a task force that had called for fundamental changes in the regulation of legal services, all with the goal of enhancing access to justice, On today’s episode of LawNext, we are joined by Arizona Supreme Court Vice Chief Justice Ann A.

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LLRX

MAY 31, 2021

Articles and Columns for May 2021 Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide – Updated May 2021 – This guide on competitive intelligence resources on the web was first published in 2005, and Sabrina I. Pacifici has continued to edit, revise and update it over the course of 16 years. Her objective is to provide.

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MAY 3, 2021

Inserting Multiple Photos into PowerPoint If you have several photographs that you want to insert into PowerPoint, using a “Photo Album” is the simplest way to accomplish this.

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LawSites

MAY 25, 2021

“Ok, we are on the record. Please proceed. Counsel?”. The balding, stern-faced judge stares down at me from his bench, framed by flags to either side of him, a judicial seal on the wall behind him. I look to my left and see the jury box, filled with six jurors, all men, one Black, some motionless, others appearing to nod or fidget. The courtroom feels cavernous.

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LawSites

MAY 11, 2021

The pandemic has made it more essential than ever before for law firms to accept electronic payments. Clients who now pay everything else online have no appetite for lawyers who require paper payments. Plus, law firms that accept e-payments get paid faster and increase their collections, studies suggest. Against this backdrop, the practice management platform Bill4Time is today unveiling built-in electronic payments, enabling a law firm’s clients to view invoices online and make full or pa

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LawSites

MAY 12, 2021

Two non-profit pilot programs won approval this week under Utah’s regulatory sandbox to provide non-lawyer legal assistance to individuals with medical debt. These are only the second and third non-profit projects to be approved to participate in the sandbox and the first in the nation to empower non-lawyers go give limited-scope legal advice about medical debt, according to Stacy Butler , director of the Innovation for Justice Program at the University of Arizona James E.

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