May, 2020

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Adapting E-Discovery Workflows to a Remote Work Environment

Discovery Advocate

As courts and litigants adapt to the new normal by instituting social distancing measures through remote hearings and depositions, how we preserve, collect and produce documents should not be an afterthought. While the practice of e-discovery may already be well suited to remote work given the advanced evolution of technologies available to address challenges, below are five key areas to address in the current COVID-19 environment. 1.

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Marketing Your Firm During the COVID-19 Shutdown

ABA TECHSHOW

New from Legal Talk Today | Legal marketing expert Gyi Tsakalakis offers advice about what law firms should be doing right now to market and grow their practices. Legal marketing expert, founder of Attorney Sync, and host of Lunch Hour Legal Marketing Gyi Tsakalakis offers advice about what law firms should be doing right now to market and grow their businesses during the COVID-19 shutdowns.

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Law Office Technology

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Download Web Pages Using HTTrack Website Copier This fast tip demonstrates how to download pages from a website, in case you need to get a “snapshot in time” of a website for a litigation matter, using free software called HTTrack Website Copier.

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Episode 33: Using AI in Litigation – Thomas Suh (LegalMation Co-Founder)

Technically Legal

LegalMation Co-Founder Thomas Suh is our guest in Episode 33. LegalMation is a suite of artificial intelligence tools that helps attorneys and legal professionals automate routine litigation tasks like drafting pleadings and written discovery responses. Thomas and his Co-Founder James Lee came up with the idea for LegalMation while working at a litigation boutique.

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Ep 077: A Coronavirus Success Story: How A State Bar and Two Legaltech Companies Partnered to Help the Unemployed

LawNext podcast

Today on LawNext: A coronavirus success story – how a state bar, anticipating a tidal wave of unemployment claims, partnered with two legaltech companies to launch a pro bono portal in barely more than a week. On April 27, 2020, the New York State Bar Association launched a website devoted to helping those who need unemployment assistance due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Key COVID-19 Considerations for U.S. Discovery and Information Governance

Discovery Advocate

Many businesses have remote work and bring-your-own-device policies that cover access to company systems and information from personal devices. These policies may also state expectations or requirements for the management and security of company information. But these policies likely do not account for the rapid transition to virtual offices and remote work hastened by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Adapting E-Discovery Workflows to a Remote Work Environment

Discovery Advocate

As courts and litigants adapt to the new normal by instituting social distancing measures through remote hearings and depositions, how we preserve, collect and produce documents should not be an afterthought. While the practice of e-discovery may already be well suited to remote work given the advanced evolution of technologies available to address challenges, below are five key areas to address in the current COVID-19 environment. 1.

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Key COVID-19 Considerations for U.S. Discovery and Information Governance

Discovery Advocate

Many businesses have remote work and bring-your-own-device policies that cover access to company systems and information from personal devices. These policies may also state expectations or requirements for the management and security of company information. But these policies likely do not account for the rapid transition to virtual offices and remote work hastened by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Law Office Technology

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Download Web Pages Using HTTrack Website Copier This fast tip demonstrates how to download pages from a website, in case you need to get a “snapshot in time” of a website for a litigation matter, using free software called HTTrack Website Copier.

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PDF Tips and Tricks

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OS X Tips : How to sign any PDF File/Document in Mail Did you know Mac allows to sign any PDF file or document right in Mail? It’s easy and quick. You need to follow these steps to sign PDF file on Mac before sending email.

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PDF Tips and Tricks

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OS X Tips : How to sign any PDF File/Document in Mail Did you know Mac allows to sign any PDF file or document right in Mail? It’s easy and quick. You need to follow these steps to sign PDF file on Mac before sending email.

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PowerPoint Tips and Tricks

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PowerPoint Tip - Adding a Whiteboard to your Presentation PowerPoint 2010 has a white board feature that allows you to insert notes into a live presentation. This feature allows you to transcribe audience ideas or feedback in real time. This tool makes interactive presentations more efficient and makes the transition from presenting a slide to notating ideas seamless.

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PowerPoint Tips and Tricks

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PowerPoint Tip - Adding a Whiteboard to your Presentation PowerPoint 2010 has a white board feature that allows you to insert notes into a live presentation. This feature allows you to transcribe audience ideas or feedback in real time. This tool makes interactive presentations more efficient and makes the transition from presenting a slide to notating ideas seamless.

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eDiscovery Basics

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Electronic Discovery – E-mail Chains There are many terms that we use when working with electronic discovery. This term relates to the e-mail data. A conversation that takes place within an e-mail application is referred to as an “e-mail chain” or an “e-mail string” or an “e-mail thread”.

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eDiscovery Basics

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Electronic Discovery – E-mail Chains There are many terms that we use when working with electronic discovery. This term relates to the e-mail data. A conversation that takes place within an e-mail application is referred to as an “e-mail chain” or an “e-mail string” or an “e-mail thread”.

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Law Practice Management Software

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Clio Law Practice Management Software Clio is probably the most popular cloud-based practice management software. As good as Clio already is, it keeps getting better. The web and mobile apps are beautiful and a pleasure to use, while Clio’s long list of integrations means you can use it with a lot of the other software you may already be using in your law practice (like Dropbox, QuickBooks Online, Xero, and Google Apps, to name just a few).

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Law Practice Management Software

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Clio Law Practice Management Software Clio is probably the most popular cloud-based practice management software. As good as Clio already is, it keeps getting better. The web and mobile apps are beautiful and a pleasure to use, while Clio’s long list of integrations means you can use it with a lot of the other software you may already be using in your law practice (like Dropbox, QuickBooks Online, Xero, and Google Apps, to name just a few).

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COVID-19 and U.S. Statutes of Limitation

Discovery Advocate

At the federal and state levels, there have been calls to suspend statutes of limitations during the COVID-19 outbreak. A number of states have already acted, but state approaches vary and are open to future changes as the challenges of the pandemic play out at the national, state and local levels. This uncertainty affects businesses considering when they must file actions and those assessing whether a risk of anticipated litigation has been extinguished.

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Microsoft Excel Tips and Tricks

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43 Handy Excel Shortcuts You Can't Live Without Here is a list of 43 keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Excel. Although you can do all of these maneuvers manually, knowing these tricks will help save you time so you can focus on the stuff that really matters. All of these shortcuts can be accessed on PC and Mac, so the list includes both types where applicable.

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Microsoft Excel Tips and Tricks

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43 Handy Excel Shortcuts You Can't Live Without Here is a list of 43 keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Excel. Although you can do all of these maneuvers manually, knowing these tricks will help save you time so you can focus on the stuff that really matters. All of these shortcuts can be accessed on PC and Mac, so the list includes both types where applicable.

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Law Practice Management

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Harvest–Tips and Tricks Add Expense Reports to Invoices, Automatically We know you aren’t tracking time for the fun of it. You want critical insight into your projects and the ability to invoice your clients. That’s why Harvest makes it easy to pull the time you track into professional online invoices. But when it comes to invoicing, time is only half the equation.

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Law Practice Management

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Harvest–Tips and Tricks Add Expense Reports to Invoices, Automatically We know you aren’t tracking time for the fun of it. You want critical insight into your projects and the ability to invoice your clients. That’s why Harvest makes it easy to pull the time you track into professional online invoices. But when it comes to invoicing, time is only half the equation.

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Microsoft Outlook Tips and Tricks

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10 Microsoft Outlook Features Lawyers Should Use If you’re one of the many lawyers relying on MS Outlook for email, calendaring, and maybe more – you need to utilize these features.

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Microsoft Outlook Tips and Tricks

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10 Microsoft Outlook Features Lawyers Should Use If you’re one of the many lawyers relying on MS Outlook for email, calendaring, and maybe more – you need to utilize these features.

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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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Law Practice Management

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How to Use Evernote: The Unofficial Manual In its early days, Evernote was a simple note-taking app. Since then, it’s turned into a productivity powerhouse that can help you capture, organize, recall, and work with your information. All that power is great — but it doesn’t make for an easy learning experience. Learning how to use Evernote on your own takes a long time, which is why we’ve put together this tutorial that will show you how to take full advantage of the most important Evernote featu

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Law Practice Management

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How to Use Evernote: The Unofficial Manual In its early days, Evernote was a simple note-taking app. Since then, it’s turned into a productivity powerhouse that can help you capture, organize, recall, and work with your information. All that power is great — but it doesn’t make for an easy learning experience. Learning how to use Evernote on your own takes a long time, which is why we’ve put together this tutorial that will show you how to take full advantage of the most important Evernote featu

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Writing and Editing Tools

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6 Automatic Editing Tools That Will Make Your Writing Super Clean What you want your editing tool to do will influence which one(s) you choose. No one tool can do it all — nor can one of these tools wave away the work and critical thinking necessary for a well-edited book. An automatic editing tool doesn’t replace a human editor. Because language rules and elements of a good story can be so flexible, human eyes will always be superior to the rigidity of automatic tools.

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Writing and Editing Tools

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6 Automatic Editing Tools That Will Make Your Writing Super Clean What you want your editing tool to do will influence which one(s) you choose. No one tool can do it all — nor can one of these tools wave away the work and critical thinking necessary for a well-edited book. An automatic editing tool doesn’t replace a human editor. Because language rules and elements of a good story can be so flexible, human eyes will always be superior to the rigidity of automatic tools.

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Microsoft Excel Tips and Tricks

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Convert PDF to Excel online A free service like this one could be a real lifesaver. One of the tools that allows professionals to spend less time wrangling lengthy PDF files is Investintech’s PDF to Excel tool. This tool efficiently converts non-editable PDF documents into fully editable Excel (xls) files, allowing users to reuse table layouts or the information inside them.

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Microsoft Excel Tips and Tricks

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Convert PDF to Excel online A free service like this one could be a real lifesaver. One of the tools that allows professionals to spend less time wrangling lengthy PDF files is Investintech’s PDF to Excel tool. This tool efficiently converts non-editable PDF documents into fully editable Excel (xls) files, allowing users to reuse table layouts or the information inside them.

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eDiscovery Basics

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Electronic Discovery–Indexing The term “processing” encompasses many steps, which can make it one of the most difficult topics to teach in litigation support. Indexing is another step in the “processing” stage and it is one of the steps that can take some time to complete, depending on the volume of data that needs to be indexed. In simple terms, the indexing process will go grab every word in every document and then generate a list of those words, sorted in alphanumeric order.

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eDiscovery Basics

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Electronic Discovery–Indexing The term “processing” encompasses many steps, which can make it one of the most difficult topics to teach in litigation support. Indexing is another step in the “processing” stage and it is one of the steps that can take some time to complete, depending on the volume of data that needs to be indexed. In simple terms, the indexing process will go grab every word in every document and then generate a list of those words, sorted in alphanumeric order.

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Nuance Tips and Tricks

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Search and Redact Using Nuance Power PDF This fast tip demonstrates how to use Nuance Power PDF Advanced to import a search term list, perform searches across multiple PDF files, and mark all of the terms for redaction.

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Nuance Tips and Tricks

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Search and Redact Using Nuance Power PDF This fast tip demonstrates how to use Nuance Power PDF Advanced to import a search term list, perform searches across multiple PDF files, and mark all of the terms for redaction.

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Ep 075: The Innovation Advantage: A Panel Discussion with Leading Experts in Law Firm Innovation

LawNext podcast

Virtually overnight, COVID-19 changed the landscape for law firms and how they serve clients. While some firms were caught unprepared – struggling to adapt to a remote work environment and lacking the technologies and procedures to ensure seamless client service and team performance – other firms made the pivot quickly. What gave these successful firms the edge?