August, 2020

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Large Law Firm Trends in 2020 – Part 2 (Efficiency + Value)

Ron Friedmann

Large law firms have faced growing pressure since 2010 to deliver more value to clients, creating pressure for efficiency and lower rates. The 2020 Law Firms in Transition Survey (June 2020) reports on large law firm trends. In my Part 1 post , I covered survey results around long term changes, innovation, and the rise of senior strategic professionals.

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PowerPoint Tips and Tricks

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Turn your PPT presentation into a video When you make a recording of a presentation, all its elements (narration, animation, pointer movements, timings, and so on) are saved in the presentation itself. In essence, the presentation becomes a video that your audience can watch in PowerPoint.

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Ep 086: His UnitedLex Disrupted Legal Services, Now Ajay Agrawal Aims to Disrupt Contracts

LawNext podcast

In 2006, inspired by the success of business process outsourcing company Office Tiger, which RR Donnelley acquired that year for $250 million, Ajay Agrawal and Daniel Reed founded UnitedLex, one of the earliest legal process outsourcing companies. Within months, it was providing legal services to clients such as HP, IBM and Microsoft. Within four years, the company had achieved a valuation of $100 million.

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Real Talk About Cross Border Data Transfers & Schrems II With Data Privacy Attorney Christian Auty

Technically Legal

Bryan Cave data privacy attorney Christian Auty returns for Episode 36 to talk about the real world implications of the Schrems II opinion from the European Court of Justice. What is Schrems II? It is shorthand for Case C-311/18 Data Protection Commissioner v. Facebook Ireland Limited and Maximillian Schrems. In it, the Court of Justice reaffirmed that generally, transfers of personal data from the EU to non-EU countries are prohibited unless sufficient measures are taken to protect it.

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The Need for a Data Platform to Improve Law Firm Business + Practice

Ron Friedmann

A Briefing written for Foundation Software Group I have long been a fan of Foundation Software Group. I remember seeing their platform with a consulting colleague the first time in 2016. One of our clients showed it to us. We were not only impressed by the functionality and design, we were shocked. I say shocked because between my blogging and Tweeting and my colleague’s connections to law firms, we could not understand how we were seeing enterprise grade software for the first time — that

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PowerPoint Tips and Tricks

NSLT

Turn your PPT presentation into a video When you make a recording of a presentation, all its elements (narration, animation, pointer movements, timings, and so on) are saved in the presentation itself. In essence, the presentation becomes a video that your audience can watch in PowerPoint.

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Law Practice Management Software

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How to Scan Documents with Notes with iOS 11 Now, thanks to iOS 11 and the Notes app (and a bit of help from the camera), you don’t need a document scanner anymore. The ability to scan any document with your mobile is an everyday need, invaluable if you want to go paperless to save receipts, index business cards, or just take quick screenshots of book covers for the record.

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Ep 085: How Kimberly Bennett Ditched the Billable Hour and Built A Successful Virtual Firm

LawNext podcast

Kimberly Y. Bennett describes herself as an innovator, entrepreneur, legal industry disruptor, and business coach who happens to be a lawyer. Nowhere are all those facets more evident than in the way she has structured her law practice, K Bennett Law , where she focuses on brand protection and growth strategy. Soon after starting her own practice, which is entirely virtual, she decided there had to be a better way to charge legal fees, one that would provide predictable pricing for her business

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Ep 084: The Story Behind Erin Levine’s DIY Platform ‘Hello Divorce’

LawNext podcast

It should have come as no surprise when California attorney Erin Levine recently announced her plan to go nationwide with her do-it-yourself divorce platform Hello Divorce. After all, the site has been seeing rapid growth and has earned Levine broad accolades, including the 2020 James I. Keane Memorial Award for Excellence in eLawyering from the American Bar Association and the 2019 Reisman Award for legal innovation from practice management company Clio.

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PDF Basics

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The best Chrome extensions to view, edit and save PDF files online Chrome offers various extensions that simplify dealing with PDF documents. These tools directly add PDF documents to the Cloud and use GViewer to display PDF forms so that you don’t have to download and view them. Other extensions allow you to save a webpage in PDF format after editing, while a third category of extensions allows direct online PDF form filling.

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PDF Basics

NSLT

The best Chrome extensions to view, edit and save PDF files online Chrome offers various extensions that simplify dealing with PDF documents. These tools directly add PDF documents to the Cloud and use GViewer to display PDF forms so that you don’t have to download and view them. Other extensions allow you to save a webpage in PDF format after editing, while a third category of extensions allows direct online PDF form filling.

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eDiscovery Basics

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Electronic Discovery – Keyword Searches After electronic discovery has been “ processed ” and “ indexed “, the legal team can then perform “keyword searches”. Although there is much debate in our industry about the proficiency and accuracy of performing keyword searches to isolate subsets of data to be reviewed and analyzed, prior to production, the legal team performs numerous keyword searches, throughout a litigation matter, in an effort to locate specific documents related to the case.

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eDiscovery Basics

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Electronic Discovery – Keyword Searches After electronic discovery has been “ processed ” and “ indexed “, the legal team can then perform “keyword searches”. Although there is much debate in our industry about the proficiency and accuracy of performing keyword searches to isolate subsets of data to be reviewed and analyzed, prior to production, the legal team performs numerous keyword searches, throughout a litigation matter, in an effort to locate specific documents related to the case.

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Microsoft Excel Tips and Tricks

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Switch Excel Data From Columns to Rows This fast tip demonstrates how to use the Transpose feature in Excel.

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Microsoft Excel Tips and Tricks

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Switch Excel Data From Columns to Rows This fast tip demonstrates how to use the Transpose feature in Excel.

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