Ron Friedmann

JULY 30, 2020

This is a live blog post of a 90-minutes video discussion with Richard Susskind and Mark Cohen about “Digital transformation and the legal function” and “The future of legal technology”. It is hosted by Legal Geek and sponsored by Thomson Reuters, UnitedLex, and iManage. This is the fourth of a four-part discussion, The Uncertain Decade, “Richard Susskind and Mark Cohen debate the future of the legal industry”.

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ELTA

JULY 29, 2020

La Justicia, como todos los servicios públicos, se ha visto superada en todos los países europeos por la pandemia. La COVID-19 ha cogido a las administraciones públicas, insuficientemente preparadas para ofrecer el servicio requerido por la ciudadanía. El volumen habitual de litigios ha aumentado de forma exponencial y se espera que siga haciéndolo en los próximos meses como consecuencia de circunstancias imprevistas como la paralización de las actividades económicas, el obligado aislamiento soc

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JULY 27, 2020

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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Technically Legal

JULY 22, 2020

You don't have to "boil the ocean" to implement innovation and change in a law firm or legal department. That's what we learn in Episode 35 from Anna McGrane, PacerPro COO, and Joshua Fireman, President of Fireman & Company. PacerPro is an app that streamlines and automates the distribution and capture of data from federal court filings. Fireman & Company is a legal industry-focused management consulting firm.

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LawNext podcast

JULY 20, 2020

Touting it as the next phase in its global expansion to transform the business of law, Big Four professional services firm Deloitte has launched its Legal Business Services practice in the United States, which it describes as “a comprehensive suite of legal management consulting and technologically-enabled legal managed services for corporate legal departments designed to accelerate the transformation of the business of law.

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ABA TECHSHOW

JULY 16, 2020

We are excited to announce that we are bringing the best legal technology conference right to you. ABA TECHSHOW 2021 is going virtual! Whether you’ve attended and loved TECHSHOW before, or have always wanted to come but just couldn’t swing it, TECHSHOW 2021 is for you. Now you will be able to experience the same great sessions, CLE programs, and speakers, delivering the latest in legal tech, practice management, and more, all from the comfort of your home or office.

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Ron Friedmann

JULY 27, 2020

I recently spoke to two lawyers turned legal tech entrepreneurs about their early stage software companies. I start with a discussion of the problem each sets out to solve, then turn to observations of and implications for the legal tech market more broadly. Solving a Broad Problem: Allocating Lawyers to Matters and Managing Capacity At most large law firms, partners can choose associates to staff their matters.

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JULY 27, 2020

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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Ron Friedmann

JULY 22, 2020

This is a live blog post of a Legal Value Network virtual webinar, A Look at Client-Side AI-Powered Legal Spend Analytics Tools. As with all of my live blog post, I publish as a session finishes, so please forgive typos and misunderstandings of meaning. Panelists: Brad Blickstein, Principal at Blickstein Group and Partner and Co-Head, NewLaw Practice Group at Baretz+Brunelle [Moderator] Arun Mistry, Vice President, Legal Operations at Providence St.

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Ron Friedmann

JULY 15, 2020

At its core, knowledge management is about finding lawyers who or documents or matters that can answer another lawyer’s questions about law, transactions, regulatory matters, judges, investors, clients, or industries. With finding so central to KM, software that searches collections of documents and other data sources has long been central to most large US law firm KM initiatives.

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JULY 24, 2020

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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JULY 24, 2020

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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JULY 23, 2020

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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JULY 23, 2020

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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JULY 22, 2020

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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JULY 22, 2020

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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JULY 21, 2020

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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JULY 21, 2020

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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JULY 17, 2020

S ave 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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JULY 17, 2020

S ave 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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JULY 16, 2020

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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JULY 16, 2020

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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JULY 15, 2020

Lost and stolen data and the recovery tips Losing data doesn’t always mean that your data is stolen, it happens due to various reasons. This article contains a visual guide (created by Secure Data Recovery) about the lost and stolen data, and the recovery tips along with some undeniable facts.

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JULY 15, 2020

Lost and stolen data and the recovery tips Losing data doesn’t always mean that your data is stolen, it happens due to various reasons. This article contains a visual guide (created by Secure Data Recovery) about the lost and stolen data, and the recovery tips along with some undeniable facts.

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JULY 14, 2020

Change footnote text size with Styles in Microsoft Word Does your court require your brief's footnotes to be the same size as the brief's main text? (By default, they're usually 2 points smaller.) Here's the quickest, most foolproof way to ensure that every footnote--present and future--meets the requirement.

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JULY 14, 2020

Change footnote text size with Styles in Microsoft Word Does your court require your brief's footnotes to be the same size as the brief's main text? (By default, they're usually 2 points smaller.) Here's the quickest, most foolproof way to ensure that every footnote--present and future--meets the requirement.

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JULY 13, 2020

How to Make a Histogram in Excel A histogram is a type of Excel graph used to analyze data by frequency of use. Histograms show how often one data element is used or mentioned within specific range. People who work with data and especially data analysis, should know how to make a histogram in Excel. It is particularly common when presenting demography of product users.

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JULY 13, 2020

How to Make a Histogram in Excel A histogram is a type of Excel graph used to analyze data by frequency of use. Histograms show how often one data element is used or mentioned within specific range. People who work with data and especially data analysis, should know how to make a histogram in Excel. It is particularly common when presenting demography of product users.

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LawNext podcast

JULY 13, 2020

Here’s one that gets a bit meta. Back in November 2017, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi spoke at BYU Law School about a lawyer’s ethical duty to be technologically competent. The talk prompted the school to explore ways it could help students improve their technological abilities. What resulted was the school’s Legal Technology Initiative, a multi-pronged program to provide law students with technology training and assessment.

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JULY 10, 2020

5 Reasons to convert Word doc to PDF MS Word is one of the most popular word processors around. However, even its most loyal users take advantage of online file converters to create PDF (Portable Document Format) versions when sending certain information like bills or handouts. This is because word documents can be altered whereas PDF ones can’t. If you want more reasons to convert word to PDF, here are five.

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JULY 10, 2020

5 Reasons to convert Word doc to PDF MS Word is one of the most popular word processors around. However, even its most loyal users take advantage of online file converters to create PDF (Portable Document Format) versions when sending certain information like bills or handouts. This is because word documents can be altered whereas PDF ones can’t. If you want more reasons to convert word to PDF, here are five.

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JULY 8, 2020

The Beginner’s Guide to Gmail Whether you already have a Gmail account, or you’re thinking about signing up for one, this guide will have everything you need to make the most use of that shiny new Gmail account.

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JULY 8, 2020

The Beginner’s Guide to Gmail Whether you already have a Gmail account, or you’re thinking about signing up for one, this guide will have everything you need to make the most use of that shiny new Gmail account.

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JULY 7, 2020

‘Contract Tools’ Is A Toolkit for Reviewing Complex Contracts in Word Any job is made easier by having the right tools. That’s the idea behind Contract Tools, a Microsoft Word for Windows add-in designed to provide attorneys with the right tools to analyze, navigate, search, proofread and edit contracts. While it can be used with any length document, its real value is most apparent with longer documents that contain multiple provisions, defined terms and cross-references.

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JULY 7, 2020

‘Contract Tools’ Is A Toolkit for Reviewing Complex Contracts in Word Any job is made easier by having the right tools. That’s the idea behind Contract Tools, a Microsoft Word for Windows add-in designed to provide attorneys with the right tools to analyze, navigate, search, proofread and edit contracts. While it can be used with any length document, its real value is most apparent with longer documents that contain multiple provisions, defined terms and cross-references.

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JULY 6, 2020

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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JULY 6, 2020

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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