April, 2020

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ELTA contributes to latest study of ECLA “Legal Departments in a Digital Era”

ELTA

Legal Departments In a Digital Era: a pan-European study on building the modern, digitised legal department, is a joint effort by European Company Lawyers Association (ECLA) and Wolters Kluwer to provide a detailed look into the digital status of corporate legal departments across Europe. It highlights the priorities of in-house teams in the digital realm and showcases, how far along the digital journey legal departments in Europe are.ELTA’s Board and Ambassadors contributed with their exp

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Episode 31: Dennis Garcia & Jason Barnwell on Legal Teams Innovating, Transforming And Working Remotely

Technically Legal

Microsoft attorneys Dennis Garcia and Jason Barnwell discuss how legal teams can successfully and productively work remotely. They also discuss how recent work from home orders may speed up innovation and transformation in legal departments and law firms. Dennis is an Assistant General Counsel at Microsoft and a prior Technically Legal guest. We talked to him on Episode 4 about Automation, Cybersecurity and the Cloud.

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Replacing Legal Market Trends with Real World Realities

InsideLegal

Welcome to the 'new (ab)normal'! When is the last time you were glued to the TV, social. pick your media to figure out what's next, not only in your own life but with the economy, your own businesses and anything and everything you care about? Oh yeah and there's the working from home 'thing', 24/7, with or without a proper place or space to call your office.

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PDF Tips and Tricks

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Create PDF from a mobile device Learn how to snap a photo of a paper document with your mobile device and share it with others as a PDF file.

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Case Closed: How to Optimize Your Legal Intake Process for Efficiency

Speaker: Anne Post, CEO North America, Xakia Technologies

Do you know that 40% of U.S. Legal Departments now have a formal legal intake process? With that in mind, where does your legal department stand today? Many legal teams still struggle with a flood of incoming requests, leaving everyone overwhelmed and frustrated. Implementing a formal legal intake process can seem like an obstacle between the business and the legal department, but it doesn’t have to be!

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Ep 073: How One Tech-Savvy Judge Jury-Rigged an Online Court

LawNext podcast

As chair of the Specialty Treatment Courts in Jefferson Parish, La., Judge Scott U. Schlegel manages what may be one of the most advanced courts in the country for delivering justice online, and he does it almost entirely with off-the-shelf software he cobbled together himself. Even before the coronavirus crisis caused courts to shut down, Judge Schlegel was conducting hearings via Zoom, scheduling sessions via Calendly, and communicating with staff and counsel via Slack.

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5 Tips To Prevent Your Zoom Meeting From Being Hijacked

Accellis Technology Group

5 Tips To Prevent Your Zoom Meeting From Being Hijacked During the current COVID-19 pandemic, Zoom has become the preferred method videoconferencing. With the influx of users, means more bad actors looking for vulnerabilities and other ways to exploit the app. Here are five simple tips hosts can do to prevent Zoom meetings from being Zoom-bombed. 1.

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Episode 32: Keith Maziarek & Justin Ergler on the Legal Value Network (and on Community and Collaboration in Legal)

Technically Legal

Legal Value Network Founding Board Members Keith Maziarek and Justin Ergler visit Technically Legal for Episode 32. Keith, a second time guest (Episode 15 – legal service pricing ) and Justin talk about the genesis of LVN (an evolution from the P3 conference ) and the group’s mission of “designing, building and implementing the foundations of a more contemporary and commercially-sound model of legal service delivery.

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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”. Here are some techniques you can research to learn more. I suggest running test searches in any database you have access to, including Google.

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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”. Here are some techniques you can research to learn more. I suggest running test searches in any database you have access to, including Google.

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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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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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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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Microsoft Outlook Tips and Tricks

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Outlook Calendar How to send email to all accepted meeting attendees in Outlook. For some reason, you need to send email to all accepted meeting attendees in Outlook.

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Microsoft Outlook Tips and Tricks

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Outlook Calendar How to send email to all accepted meeting attendees in Outlook. For some reason, you need to send email to all accepted meeting attendees in Outlook.

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PDF Tips and Tricks

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How to print a PDF with comments There are actually two primary ways of printing a document with comments. Neither one of them is very obvious.

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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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PDF Tips and Tricks

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How to print a PDF with comments There are actually two primary ways of printing a document with comments. Neither one of them is very obvious.

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Office Technology

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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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Office Technology

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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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Excel Tips and Tricks

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Switch Excel Data From Columns to Rows T his fast tip demonstrates how to use the Transpose featur e in Excel.

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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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Excel Tips and Tricks

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Switch Excel Data From Columns to Rows T his fast tip demonstrates how to use the Transpose featur e in Excel.

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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

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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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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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Ep 072: Managing Legal Matters with Microsoft Teams

LawNext podcast

As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced legal professionals to work remotely, many are scrambling to find the best tools and technology to help them manage their legal matters and continue to closely collaborate with their colleagues. While many law firms already use Microsoft Office 365 , fewer are as familiar with its core collaboration tool, Microsoft Teams.

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Excel Tips and Tricks

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Create Folders From List in Excel When we collect and process electronic data from a number of custodians, we usually create a folder for each custodian to store their data. This fast tip will share a shortcut for creating those folders that can save us a bunch of time.

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Excel Tips and Tricks

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Create Folders From List in Excel When we collect and process electronic data from a number of custodians, we usually create a folder for each custodian to store their data. This fast tip will share a shortcut for creating those folders that can save us a bunch of time.

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Law Practice Management Software

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See the Next Generation of AbacusLaw. AbacusLaw has been enhanced to provide strategic, analytical and operational tools for legal professionals to help ease pressures of the ever-changing digital world.

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Law Practice Management Software

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See the Next Generation of AbacusLaw. AbacusLaw has been enhanced to provide strategic, analytical and operational tools for legal professionals to help ease pressures of the ever-changing digital world.

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Law Practice Management

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7 Everyday Apps Attorneys Can Use to Streamline Their Practices Keep your firm up-to-date and running with these apps for lawyers. Although designers did not create them specifically for attorneys, they can improve your efficiency, reduce your firm’s overhead, help you communicate faster, and make better use of your free time.

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Law Practice Management

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7 Everyday Apps Attorneys Can Use to Streamline Their Practices Keep your firm up-to-date and running with these apps for lawyers. Although designers did not create them specifically for attorneys, they can improve your efficiency, reduce your firm’s overhead, help you communicate faster, and make better use of your free time.

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PDF Basics

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A Comprehensive Guide to PDF Converter Ultimate In this article you will have the chance to find out more about a new mobile PDF converter that might suit the needs of some and the wishes of many! You will also find a lovely app that just might help you convert PDF to text files with little to no hassle!

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PDF Basics

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A Comprehensive Guide to PDF Converter Ultimate In this article you will have the chance to find out more about a new mobile PDF converter that might suit the needs of some and the wishes of many! You will also find a lovely app that just might help you convert PDF to text files with little to no hassle!

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Microsoft Word Tips and Tricks

NSLT

Top tips for working in Word Online Here are the top tips to help you get the most out of Word Online. Learn how to get started, save your work to OneDrive, add and review comments, edit, and print. We'll even show you how to move documents between Word Online and your desktop Word.

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