Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 21, 2022
There is nothing inherently wrong with wanting more. The problem comes when your happiness depends on having more. I recently posted on LinkedIn that we seem to be always striving for more. More money. More time. More enjoyable work. More. One of my friend’s comments on that post really got me thinking. She said she found this constant striving a “fascinating cultural phenomenon.
Ward Blawg
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Running a successful law firm and being a good lawyer shouldn’t be incongruous, but to achieve these goals you need to identify – and implement – the best tools at your disposal.
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LLRX
OCTOBER 30, 2022
The fundamental concept of privacy has changed dramatically as more individuals have shifted most of their data to online platforms. There are however a wide range of personal, professional, corporate and legal issues that present significant barriers to the goal of maintaining privacy on the internet. Online privacy is not a right or even a choice when you use email, browsers and search engines, social media, ecommerce sites, online subscriptions.the list goes on and on.
Internet for Lawyers
OCTOBER 3, 2022
By Mark Rosch A defense attorney in Florida is believed to be the first to use artificial intelligence-based facial recognition software to exonerate a client. The New York Times is reporting that Patrick Bailey of Ft. Meyers, FL succesfully requested access.
Speaker: Allison Mears, Adela Wekselblatt, and George Socha
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal industry, and paralegals are at the forefront of this transformation. As AI becomes more integrated into legal workflows, paralegals can streamline their daily tasks, enhance efficiency, and add greater value to their firms and organizations. But what exactly does AI mean for paralegals today—and how can you leverage it to your advantage?
LawSites
OCTOBER 28, 2022
At the 2022 Clio Cloud Conference held recently in Nashville, I sat down for a series of in-person interviews with Clio executives. In this episode, I speak with Shubham Datta , vice president of corporate development at Clio. Datta has one of the best jobs in legal tech. He oversees the development and execution of Clio’s strategic growth strategy through acquisitions and investments.
Rocket Matter
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Let’s say you’re in the middle of drafting a brief, and your phone rings. The ringing catches you off guard, and you try to decide what to do. You could simply not pick up your phone, but it might be a potential client who would be the perfect fit for your firm. On the other hand, you’re slammed with work and could use those precious minutes to finally make some progress.
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Legal Talk Network
OCTOBER 13, 2022
After a long slumber in the doldrums of virtual gatherings, the Clio Cloud Conference returned to real life in Nashville, Tennessee. Needless to say, this legal tech community was long overdue to catch up and collaborate with dear friends and colleagues. So much had changed since the last in-person conference in San Diego during 2019. Despite the multi-year Covid-pause, new attendance records were reached with 2,000 participants on-location and 1,000 tuning in from the virtual world.
LLRX
OCTOBER 1, 2022
Articles and Columns for September 2022 Fenced-off culture, the privatized Internet, and why book publishers lean on a 30-year-old doctrine – The Internet Archive (IA) “is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 624 billion archived web pages.” The IA offers users unrestricted access to its.
Legal Tech Blog
OCTOBER 31, 2022
The European Legal Tech Association (ELTA) Annual Legal Tech Conference will take place in Tel Aviv this year. Join ELTA for the main event on November 29, 2022, for a day of legal tech, networking and fun. Following the day of the conference, there will be an optional start-up nation tour of companies in Tel Aviv. With over 500 members, ELTA encourages a dialogue between legal technology users and developers.
LawSites
OCTOBER 31, 2022
In a pilot program announced today, Legal Aid Chicago , the largest legal services organization in the Chicago area, is launching an integration pilot program between LegalServer , a case management system for civil legal aid and public defender organizations, and Paladin , the pro bono management program. F unded by a Legal Services Corporation Technology Initiative Grant (TIG), this is the first integration between LegalServer and Paladin.
Speaker: Andrew Klein
Are there mysteries lurking in your family tree? 🕵 No, not a long-lost half-brother - I'm talking about a patent family tree! IP paralegals need fast and easy ways to verify and report on essential data about foreign equivalents of US assets. Join us to master the global scope of key assets to support prosecution, portfolio management, litigation, licensing, competitive monitoring and more!
Rocket Matter
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Efficiency isn’t just about hopping onto a buzzword bandwagon. It’s about helping your employees focus on the tasks at hand to make the most of their time. This is a serious issue: on average, employees are interrupted every three minutes and five seconds. Once interrupted, it can take as long as 23 minutes to get back to the task at hand. . When you have a workday full of interruptions, it has an impact on profitability, but that’s not all.
Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Think Again About the Cybersecurity Risks of Small Law Firms. It is astonishing how often small law firms tell us that they are too small to be at serious risk for cyberattacks. Anecdotally, we can tell them of many successful attacks on small law firms, though our knowledge is derived from successful attacks where we’ve been called in to investigate or remediate the damage, so we cannot identify the law firms.
Above and Beyond KM
OCTOBER 31, 2022
In-person ideation is not always better than virtual ideation. There are other factors that matter as much, if not more, than location. When research is published in a premier peer-reviewed journal like Nature , I sit up and pay attention. And, when the research relates to collaboration and innovation, I really pay attention. After all, so much of our work as knowledge management professionals is to enable better collaboration and innovation.
LLRX
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Articles and Columns for October 2022 Presenter’s Guide Series Part III: The Many Benefits of Question Forms – In the third in his series on presentations, Jerry Lawson recommends a simple yet powerful tool that presenters can use to improve presentation quality, especially in some special situations: Requiring audience members to submit all questions in.
Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor
Ready to cut through the AI hype and learn exactly how to use these tools in your legal work? Join this webinar to get practical guidance from attorney and AI legal expert, Joe Stephens, who understands what really matters for legal professionals! What You'll Learn: Evaluate AI Tools Like a Pro 🔍 Learn which tools are worth your time and how to spot potential security and ethics risks before they become problems.
Legal Tech Blog
OCTOBER 30, 2022
Manchester-based contract lifecycle management platform provider Summize has secured £5m Series A investment from YFM Equity Partners (YFM) and Maven Capital Partners (Maven), as it looks to build its presence in the US and further develop its intelligent SaaS legal technology. Founded in 2018, Summize has experienced rapid growth by taking a disruptive approach to a traditional sector.
LawSites
OCTOBER 20, 2022
In a unique partnership between a law firm and a legal technology company, the immigration firm Siskind Susser and its technology affiliate Visalaw.Ai have entered into a collaboration agreement with the legal technology and publishing company Fastcase to develop what they say will be a state-of-the-art immigration case management and document automation platform.
Rocket Matter
OCTOBER 13, 2022
Halloween may be the biggest holiday in October, but something even spookier threatens to scare people this holiday season: hackers. October is cybersecurity month, which means it’s time to take an inventory of the systems your law firm uses to protect its data. Every firm should take cybersecurity seriously. Nearly 60% of ethical hackers say it takes them five hours or less to break into a corporate environment once they identify a weak point.
Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 7, 2022
What’s the best law office organization system? Easy. It’s the one you will use. If you want to control the chaos in your office, you can’t wait for the perfect system to come along. So let’s start. Organize the CHAOS of Your Office Once and For All. What do I mean by CHAOS — and what’s with the caps? If you have read any of my past articles here at Attorney at Work, you know I have a thing for creating acronyms: D-A-F-T, SAD, Ctrl Journal, BYOB.
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!
Relativity
OCTOBER 28, 2022
In today’s episode, Security Sandbox heads across the globe for a conversation on the intricacies of modern-day penetration testing and how you can elevate the everyday skills of your cybersecurity team.
LLRX
OCTOBER 30, 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.
Nextpoint
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Brett Burney, Nextpoint’s eLaw Evangelist, shares his thoughts after attending ClioCon 2022 with the Nextpoint team. Law firms that refuse to adopt cloud-based tools may struggle to maintain continuity in the post-pandemic world. That was the strong, overarching message from the impactful Clio Cloud Conference held October 10-11, 2022 in Nashville, TN (affectionately known as […] The post Reports From ClioCon: The Secret to More Satisfied Clients, Happier Employees, and Stronger Reve
LawSites
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Hello Divorce , a startup whose platform facilitates low-cost do-it-yourself and attorney-assisted divorces, has raised $3.25 million in an oversubscribed seed round to enable it to develop a broader range of tools and services to cover the entire divorce lifecycle, including the financial and other issues that arise in the wake of a divorce. The investment was led by The Artemis Fund , which invests in female founders who are modernizing and diversifying wealth.
Advertiser: Trellis
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
Debevoise Data Blog
OCTOBER 27, 2022
On 24 October 2022, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) fined Interserve Group Limited £4.4 million for failing to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to safeguard 113,000 individuals’ personal data in company HR databases. Here we outline what went wrong and lessons for businesses about how to manage the risk of similar incidents and regulatory enforcement action.
Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 16, 2022
As more states are allowing law firms to use trade names instead of maintaining the outdated requirement that firms be named after current or former partners, you may be considering rebranding your firm. I’m in the process of rebranding my firm (more on that in a future post), and I want to share the 10 steps I went through to change my law firm name in Arizona.
Relativity
OCTOBER 27, 2022
During the opening keynote at Relativity Fest 2022, we covered how the community is helping to activate our mission—to organize data, discover the truth, and act on it—in the real world, and what's on our product roadmap.
LLRX
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Professors Dam Hee Kim , Anjana Susarla and Scott Shackelford are experts on social media. They were asked to grade how ready Facebook, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube are to handle the task of misinformation and disinformation in the upcoming election cycles. Social media companies have announced plans to deal with misinformation in the 2022 midterm elections, but the companies vary in their approaches and effectiveness and the result promises to be another jarring challenge to democracy in America
Speaker: Andrew Klein
Patent due diligence processes take too long. The information you need is publicly available but accessing it is often tedious & inefficient, requiring you to wade through dozens of PTO websites or for-free tools to gather what you need. Plus, it frequently occurs late in the game, leaving professionals under pressure, sifting through chaotic 100-page PDFs, and frustrated with poorly formatted information & patent numbers.
Bigfork Tech
OCTOBER 24, 2022
What is contract lifecycle management? Contract lifecycle management (CLM) automates and streamlines contract processes during key stages. These stages include intake, authoring, process and workflow, negotiation and approval, repositories, execution, ongoing management and compliance, and contract renewal. A great clm will work for you and not the other way around.
LawSites
OCTOBER 14, 2022
It has been a busy week in legal tech, including the 10th annual Clio Cloud Conference and the first-ever American Legal Technology Awards gala. We’ll recap those stories and more with our usual Friday panel of legal tech journalists and bloggers today at 3 p.m. ET. A ttendance is free, but, if you have not already done so, you need to register, which you can do here.
Debevoise Data Blog
OCTOBER 24, 2022
On September 28, 2022, the European Commission released a proposal to change the legal landscape for companies developing and implementing artificial intelligence in EU Member States. This AI Liability Directive would require Member States to implement rules that would significantly lower evidentiary hurdles for victims injured by AI-related products or services to bring civil liability claims.
Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 18, 2022
What’s in and what’s out for client gifts this year? Holiday gift-giving to clients and referral sources was already perilous before the pandemic. With so many people working remotely and many offices maintaining COVID-19 restrictions, even a simple gesture like bringing or sending a tray of Christmas cookies is often impossible. Watch Out for Rules When Presenting Client Gifts.
Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor
Get ready to uncover what attorneys really need from you when it comes to trial prep in this new webinar! Attorney and law professor, Joe Stephens, J.D., will share proven techniques for anticipating attorney needs, organizing critical documents, and transforming complex information into compelling case presentations. Key Learning Objectives: Organization That Makes Sense 🎯 Learn how to structure and organize case materials in ways that align with how attorneys actually work and think.
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