LawSites

JANUARY 5, 2022

The Legalweek conference scheduled to convene in New York City later this month has been moved to March due to the surge in coronavirus cases resulting from the Omicron variant. Originally scheduled for Jan. 31-Feb. 3, the conference is now scheduled for March 8-11, still at the New York Hilton Midtown. Mark Fried , CFO and president of events at ALM , the company that produces Legalweek, told me that the conference schedule will remain exactly the same, except that the Monday-Thursday schedu

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 4, 2022

What We Learned in 2021. In December 2021, Dave Ries, a frequent co-presenter with the authors, wrote an excellent summary of the cybersecurity portion of the ABA’s 2021 Legal Technology Survey Report. Perhaps the most striking statistic is that 25% of the survey’s respondents reported that their law firm had been breached at some time. Clearly, law firms are an attractive target for cybercriminals — with a plethora of data about so many people and businesses, law firms are a one-stop-shop for h

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LLRX

JANUARY 9, 2022

Marshall Voizard is a law firm reference supervisor. He shares significant insights into the profession in the time of COVID. Voizard states that the past 18 months have accelerated positive changes, illustrating to all that the library is no longer primarily a physical place, but rather an entire ecosystem of electronic legal information resources.

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Rocket Matter

JANUARY 7, 2022

We get it. It is extremely difficult to stay focused at work, especially if you have awesome co-workers you actually like and want to socialize with. You’ve got to catch up on gossip, discuss the latest episode of whatever you’re binge-watching these days, talk about the headlines of the day, and go over a play-by-play of the weekend’s sports… Read More » How to Stay Focused at Work: 8 Productivity Tips for Lawyers.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 31, 2022

In September 2020, we wrote about the risks of credential stuffing attacks following the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) settlement with Dunkin’ Donuts. Since then, these attacks have continued, and regulators’ expectations of companies’ efforts to reduce the risk of credential stuffing attacks for their customers’ online accounts have increased.

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Apps in Law

JANUARY 25, 2022

One of the most common questions I get asked today from an e-discovery standpoint is how to collect and preserve text messages from mobile devices. I usually recommend another process for capturing text message conversations using the iMazing software or even a forensic image but there are times when simple screenshots will suffice … just don’t stop with the screenshots, use the Stitch It!

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LawSites

JANUARY 18, 2022

It was barely more than a year ago that Ironclad raised a $100 million Series D round at a valuation of nearly $1 billion, and now the San Francisco-based company has raised a $150 million Series E at a $3.2 billion valuation. That brings total investment in the company, whose product is a digital contracting platform for corporate legal departments, to $333 million.

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LLRX

JANUARY 2, 2022

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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Rocket Matter

JANUARY 14, 2022

Lawyers work in one of the highest-stressed professions in the world. Between demanding schedules, extremely heavy workloads, and problematic clients, there are many daily triggers that can bring about stress and burnout. But how can you overcome these overwhelming feelings? The answer may lie in mindfulness and meditation. You’ve more than likely heard that mindfulness… Read More » How Lawyers Can Use Mindfulness and Meditation to Reduce Stress.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

On January 24, 2022, SEC Chair Gary Gensler gave a speech on cybersecurity rulemaking to the Annual Securities Regulation Institute, outlining a number of key points he expects the SEC will consider in 2022 and emphasizing the SEC’s “key role” on the federal government’s “Team Cyber.” A number of these proposed changes – including broadening the scope of existing SEC regulations, enhancing SEC requirements for cyber hygiene, and increasing attention to public company disclosures – were among th

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Apps in Law

JANUARY 24, 2022

Jeff’s In the News blog post for January 21, 2022: [link] Jeff and I cover some interesting stories about tracking AirTags and life-saving AirPods, and then we go into a discussion about green and blue bubbles in text messages on iPhones. We also dive into the recent headlines about cellular carriers rolling out their 5G networks. Finally we offer some nifty tips around reading paper books and e-magazines.

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LawSites

JANUARY 18, 2022

Marking its 14th acquisition since 2019 and its eighth in just the last 12 months, l egal technology company Litera has entered into an agreement to acquire Prosperoware , a company that develops software for the legal industry for the adoption and governance of collaboration systems. Haley Altman , global head of corporate development at Litera, told me that the company views this deal as a strategic acquisition for Litera and powerful for customers. “With Prosperoware, we can deliver Li

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 5, 2022

Attorney at Work’s new “You at Work Spotlight” series focuses on the crucial role business professionals play in law firms of all sizes — including newly emerging career options in the legal industry. In our first interview, we focus on the role of the chief operating officer and the demands the pandemic has placed on legal operations. Heather J. Oden is the Chief Operating Officer at Ball Janik, LLP , based in Portland, Oregon, where she oversees the whole gamut of the firm’s business operation

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LLRX

JANUARY 30, 2022

Articles and Columns for January 2022 A bit about PURLs – Ed Summers, librarian, metadata expert, teacher, and computational expert, delivers an insighful lesson on the Persistent Uniform Resource Locator. PURLs were developed to make URLs more resilient and persistent over time. You could put a PURL into a catalog record and if the URL.

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Rocket Matter

JANUARY 24, 2022

Cloud-based legal practice management has come a long way since its inception in 2007. Technology has evolved, and it’s imperative that law firms stay on top of these advancements to stay competitive in this ever-evolving industry. Whether you’re looking to understand your firm on a deeper level or just looking to give your clients the… Read More » 7 Legal Practice Management Features That Will Take Your Firm to the Next Level.

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Brett Trout

JANUARY 22, 2022

Brett J. Trout As of January 1, 2022 Winnie the Pooh entered the public domain. But what does that mean? Can you write a book about Winnie the Pooh and Tigger too? No. Can you sell Winnie the Pooh branded socks? No. Can you start a Winnie the Pooh comic strip? Probably not. But why? The answer is that although the original copyright in Winnie the Pooh has moved into the public domain, the copyrights in all of his friends and all of the books published after 1926 are still in force.

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Technically Legal

JANUARY 20, 2022

Casey Flaherty, Chief Strategy Officer for Lex Fusion, makes his second appearance on Technically Legal. This time around, Casey discusses his thesis that organizations often turn to technology as an avoidance mechanism for addressing issues with process and culture. Casey has deep experience with legal process from all angles, he started his career as a commercial litigator before moving in house at Kia Motors.

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LawSites

JANUARY 11, 2022

In its largest deal so far in a recent string of acquisitions, Onit , the Houston company that provides enterprise workflow products for corporations and corporate legal departments, has acquired SecureDocs , a Santa Barbara, Calif., software company with products for contract management, virtual deal rooms and electronic signatures. Onit says the acquisition strengthens its position as a leading, modern contract lifecycle management (CLM) provider, expanding its product portfolio from enterpris

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 20, 2022

Law firms of all sizes are feeling pressure to meet client demand for both tailored services and greater efficiencies in this rapidly changing industry. Legal teams are being pressed to control costs and better respond to changing regulatory and risk management obligations. In response, they are investing more in automation, advanced analytics and other technologies that will help them manage the workload.

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LLRX

JANUARY 17, 2022

Librarians, researchers, journalists, teachers and students are continually confronted with what can be described as a kind of information miasma when using online sites, databases, resources, images and social media. No sector or discipline is immune to misinformation, disinformation, hoaxes, lack of data quality, and biased research. This guide by Marcus Zillman highlights actionable resources to evaluate and identify online malfeasance, as well as sources to verify information and data qualit

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CEE Legal Tech

JANUARY 19, 2022

Created with Canva – Sponsored Content – Knowing the law is no longer enough for modern lawyers, especially those starting their own law firm business. The world is changing rapidly, and you can either move with it or be left behind.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

The Value of Cybersecurity Incident Response Plans As cyberattacks continue to plague U.S. companies, cybersecurity remains a core risk, even for businesses that have invested heavily in technical measures to protect their systems. As a result, cybersecurity best practices have evolved to include not only preventative measures, but also robust preparations for responding to cyber incidents, so that companies can improve their resilience, decrease the time it takes to detect and effectively resp

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Legodesk

JANUARY 18, 2022

As a lawyer, your role is to give advice, explain your client’s rights, and then represent them in court, ensuring that their cases have the best possible outcome. Doesn’t it seem to be simple and clear? However, as you are aware, it may be so much more. A lawyer’s day is filled with tight deadlines, considerable research, and a never-ending stream of stressed-out clients desperate to see results on their cases.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

The legal research company Casetext has raised $25 million in a Series C funding round, bringing its total amount raised to $64.3 million since its founding in 2013. Although the company has not publicly announced the funding, it filed a notification with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Jan. 7, 2022, documenting the raise of $25 million in equity financing.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 12, 2022

Is your hyper-responsiveness creating email overload and more stress? Finding focused time to get important work done requires defining “responsiveness” on your terms. Early in my legal career, I assumed that “being responsive” meant that I needed to respond immediately to emails from clients and colleagues. As a result, I spent a significant amount of my normal working hours in my inbox playing digital ping pong.

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LLRX

JANUARY 17, 2022

Diane M. Rodriguez Assistant Director of the San Francisco Law Library in California, and 2021–22 president of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), where one of her many goals is to advocate for access to legal information that supports access to justice. She expertly articulates the work, and the role of law librarians, that comprise this mission.

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CEE Legal Tech

JANUARY 18, 2022

What is ESG? You may already be familiar with the term “ESG”, yet in case not just yet – let’s start with deciphering what stands behind the E, S and G in this acronym. ESG is a term used for an organization’s environmental (E), social (S) and governance (G) performance. A related term is “ESG investing”, where investors invest in companies based on their ESG performance.

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Social Media for Law Firms

JANUARY 17, 2022

While social media platforms are extraordinarily useful for growing businesses, there are a number of pitfalls almost impossible to avoid. In this age of misinformation — and outright lies — fake ratings and reviews are more common than ever. Many people even accuse big businesses of stymieing the growth of smaller businesses by paying for reviewers to leave bad ratings.

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Percipient

JANUARY 12, 2022

As we welcome the new year, we took an internal poll of our team and asked them about legal trends they saw in 2021 and what they predicted for 2022. Here is what they had to say: Even More Precise ESI Collections Vaish Palavalli , Percipient’s Head of Forensics, predicts that in 2022 the trend of more targeted ESI (electronically stored information) collections will continue.

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LawSites

JANUARY 31, 2022

It says something about a product when, even before it officially hits the market, it wins a major legal technology award. That is the case with a product being unveiled today, Infodash. It is the platform on which the law firm Ogletree Deakins built its ODConnect 2.0 intranet, which last week was named Transformative Project of the Year in the International Legal Technology Association’s 2021 Distinguished Peer Awards.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 31, 2022

Machine translation is fast and cheap, but a hybrid approach of man and machine is the most effective strategy. Professional human translators have always been the go-to way of translating documents for legal proceedings. They have the linguistic expertise, a better understanding of cultural context and the ability to make judgment calls on what and how to translate.

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LLRX

JANUARY 29, 2022

Privacy and cybersecurity 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 online security, often without our situational awareness.

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Apps in Law

JANUARY 10, 2022

Jeff’s In the News blog post for January 7, 2022: [link] Jeff and I start off by appreciating what Apple has done with the PRODUCT(RED) line of products, and then discuss some of the non-Apple products that are integrating Apple’s Find My technology into their products. We briefly talk about the recent study finding 87% of US teenagers own an iPhone, and end with a nifty update from Readdle that their PDF Expert app can now export PDF files to Microsoft Word documents !

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Legodesk

JANUARY 10, 2022

Law firm automation does not eliminate human effort. Instead, lawyers will be able to devote more time to tasks that require their expertise rather than to repetitive tasks that can be automated. If you want your law firm to focus on what is most important (your cases), there are several ways to do so. It is difficult for small firms and solo practitioners to deal with this heavy stress and get stuck in a tornado of “I don’t have time to do that.” I’m already very busy!

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 7, 2022

Be prepared for increasing scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and other regulators regarding the Log4j vulnerability. The attention of the cybersecurity community has been captured by the recently disclosed critical vulnerability in the widely used, open-source Java logging package, Log4j (CVE-2021-44228), and other subsequently announced related vulnerabilities, which is reportedly being “widely exploited” by attackers and “poses a severe risk,” according to the Cybersecurity &#

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LawSites

JANUARY 6, 2022

As a litigator in Los Angeles, Nicole Clark saw that state court data could be a secret weapon for winning, but she also saw how difficult it was for her and other lawyers to access that data. That inspired Clark to found Trellis in 2018, to collect and provide access to that data so that other litigators would not have to operate blind. . Recently, Trellis raised $14.1 million in a Series A funding round that Clark plans to use to expand the company’s coverage into additional states

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 17, 2022

Whether you manage your firm’s digital marketing strategy yourself or outsource your marketing, lawyers — especially small law firm owners — need to stay on top of the latest digital marketing advancements to ensure their websites continue to drive potential clients their way. As we round out the month of January, let us take a look at the top digital marketing trends for 2022.

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