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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Microsoft Word Tips and Tricks

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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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Ep 071: Legal Futurist Richard Susskind on Coronavirus, Courts and the Legal Profession

LawNext podcast

Ever since the publication of his seminal 1996 book, The Future of Law , Richard Susskind has remained the world’s most-recognized and most-respected speaker and author on the future of legal services. But even he could not have foreseen the sudden relevance of his latest book, Online Courts and the Future of Justice. On this episode of LawNext, Susskind joins host Bob Ambrogi for a conversation about the legal profession and the judicial system in a time of global pandemic.

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PowerPoint Tips and Tricks

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How to Add Music to your Slideshow in PowerPoint There are lots of ways to make your PowerPoint slideshow pop out of the screen. You can use fancy transitions, customize the size of your slides, add personalized media clips, and a whole lot more. You can also add music to your show. You can use one song or multiple songs, depending on the effect you want to achieve.

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PowerPoint Tips and Tricks

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How to Add Music to your Slideshow in PowerPoint There are lots of ways to make your PowerPoint slideshow pop out of the screen. You can use fancy transitions, customize the size of your slides, add personalized media clips, and a whole lot more. You can also add music to your show. You can use one song or multiple songs, depending on the effect you want to achieve.

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Ep 070: David Lat on His Brink-of-Death Battle with COVID-19

LawNext podcast

David Lat defied the popular conception of who should be hit with a serious case of COVID-19. Just 44 years old, a two-time marathoner, with a young family and a successful career as a legal recruiter and journalist, and best known as the founder of the blog Above the Law , he did not fit the mold of a person at high risk. But what started early in March as fever and chills eventually led to 17 days in a New York City hospital, six of them spent intubated and on a respirator in ICU.

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Law Practice Management

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3 Ways Apps for Lawyers Can Fix Common Management Problems Working on cases with pen, paper, and Word documents is time and labor intensive–the old-fashioned way of practicing law. Today, attorneys have access to many affordable and efficient tech tools in the digital world to make case management easier.

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Law Practice Management

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3 Ways Apps for Lawyers Can Fix Common Management Problems Working on cases with pen, paper, and Word documents is time and labor intensive–the old-fashioned way of practicing law. Today, attorneys have access to many affordable and efficient tech tools in the digital world to make case management easier.

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PDF Basics

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Save time by editing the same word across multiple pdf files all at once. In this tutorial, learn how you can edit PDF by searching for a word and replacing it with another across several PDF files on your computer or network folder. This feature is available in both Acrobat DC and Acrobat XI.

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PDF Basics

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Save time by editing the same word across multiple pdf files all at once. In this tutorial, learn how you can edit PDF by searching for a word and replacing it with another across several PDF files on your computer or network folder. This feature is available in both Acrobat DC and Acrobat XI.

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Law Practice Management Software

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FreshBooks vs. Wave FreshBooks and Wave are two programs that both aim at helping people with no clue on how to do their own books with their daily accounting through a clean, simple interface and other user-friendly features. Both come with a fairly manageable learning curve and are ideal for novice bookkeepers.

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Law Practice Management Software

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FreshBooks vs. Wave FreshBooks and Wave are two programs that both aim at helping people with no clue on how to do their own books with their daily accounting through a clean, simple interface and other user-friendly features. Both come with a fairly manageable learning curve and are ideal for novice bookkeepers.

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Ep 069: Using Tech to Manage COVID-19 Legal Issues in Australia

LawNext podcast

In Australia, as elsewhere, COVID-19 is creating a surge in the demand for legal help, especially among low-income individuals, as people face job losses, evictions, bankruptcy, domestic violence, and end-of-life issues. Further complicating the situation there is that parts of the country are still recovering from the bush fires that only recently were extinguished.