November, 2020

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 22, 2020

LLRX

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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Editor’s Picks: Gifts for lawyers | Mayflower Compact 400 years later | How ‘Profit-First’ can help grow a practice

Legal Talk Network

Looking for the perfect gift for a tech-loving lawyer? Want some legal history trivia fodder to share with family and friends? These latest episodes have you covered. Plus, learn how to play to win a guest spot on Legal Toolkit. Gifts for Lawyers: 20 gadgets to consider for holiday shopping. Ever the listener-favorite, The Digital Edg e hosts Jim Calloway and Sharon Nelson review the latest tech gadgets for legal professionals in their annual gifts episode, ‘Tech Toys for the Holidays!

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For Companies Subject to the GDPR: Five Cybersecurity Takeaways from the ICO’s Ticketmaster Fine

Debevoise Data Blog

EU authorities have understandably declined to put forward a single list of mandatory data security controls that apply to all companies subject to the GDPR. As a result, each new enforcement action by EU data protection authorities provides guidance as to what the GDPR requires for “appropriate technical or organisational measures” to safeguard personal data.

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Board Election – Call for Applications end 5 November 2020

ELTA

The annual general members meeting of the European Legal Technology Association will take place on 27 November 2020 at 12 noon. The invitation will be sent out 2 weeks in advance with all relevant information. Every two years the election of the board is due and we would like to inform you with this email about the election procedure and announce the possibility to apply for a board position.

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The Pros & Cons and Dos & Don’ts of Virtual Court Hearings With Federal Judge Tony Leung (Minnesota) Episode 39

Technically Legal

Virtual court hearings are the subject of Episode 38. We talked to Magistrate Judge Tony Leung via Zoom about using Zoom videoconferences for court. Judge Leung sits on the bench for the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota and has a pretty impressive background. He emigrated from Hong Kong to the United States at the age of 6, was valedictorian of his high school class and then headed to Yale for college.

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Ep 099: John Tredennick On His New Company Merlin and the Magic of Open Source

LawNext podcast

After Catalyst, the pioneering cloud-based e-discovery company he founded and spent 19 years building, sold last year to OpenText for $75 million, John Tredennick was not ready to sit back and rest on his laurels. Instead, he launched two separate but related undertakings — Merlin Digital Magic , a company developing AI-powered software for investigations, discovery and regulatory compliance, and the Merlin Legal Open Source Foundation , a nonprofit devoted to the use of open source software to

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Managing Metadata: An Examination of Successful Approaches

LLRX

If Google can deliver results across the entire internet in seconds, why do I have so much trouble finding things in my organization?” asked Jonathan Adams , Research Director at Infogix, at the DATAVERSITY® DGVision Conference, December 2019. In a presentation titled, “I Never Metadata I did Not Like” Adams outlined successful approaches to understanding and managing metadata - as reported by Amber Lee Dennis.

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Debevoise London Lawyer Robert Maddox Featured in Cybersecurity Law Report’s “Comparing U.S. and E.U. Approaches to Incident Response”

Debevoise Data Blog

On November 4, 2020, Vincent Pitaro of the Cybersecurity Law Report published: Comparing U.S. and E.U. Approaches to Incident Response and Breach Notification. The article summarises a panel discussion at the European Incident Response Forum 2020 which featured Robert Maddox from Debevoise & Plimpton’s London office. The panel compared the U.S. and E.U. approaches to incident response across a variety of key issues including: breach notification regimes and fragmentation in the E.U. landscap

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How to Master Searching in NetDocuments

NSLT

How to Master Searching in NetDocuments Do you regularly find yourself needing to fine-tune your search result in NetDocuments? You’re not alone. Here are a few tips for searching NetDocuments like a pro.

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Why Hackers Like Law Firms & Legal Departments (and Cyber Security 101) with Matthew Holland, CEO Field Effect Software

Technically Legal

Episode 40 is a great conversation with Matthew Holland, CEO of Field Effect Software, a cyber security company providing tools and managed detect and response (MDR) services to protect against cyber attacks. Field Effect is Matthew’s second company. In 2007 he founded Linchpin Labs, a company that offered ethical privatized intelligence to governments and companies.

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The Innovation in Law Studies Alliance, ILSA, is founded with the mission to foster innovation in Law and Technology faculties all over the world

ELTA

The alliance is open to all universities from around the world and its aim is to support them in transforming their curricula, relying on technology and becoming more global. It will develop activities to prepare universities and their teachers to train their students in the competences and skills that the future demands. The Instituto de Innovación Legal has launched Innovation in Law Studies Alliance (ILSA) , an alliance of law and technology faculties whose mission is to support their transfo

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How the well-connected Panorama Project could help give us a national library endowment

LLRX

David H. Rothman advocates on behalf of the Panorama Project which he says is not just an effort of librarians even though it’s benefiting from the input of Alan S. Inouye, the ALA’s director of public policy. Among the others involved have been people from the Book Industry Study Group, independent booksellers, Penguin Random House, and OverDrive, the largest supplier of books for libraries and schools.

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New Formats Highlight Tactical Advice for Evolving Practices

Legal Talk Network

Two popular podcasts featuring practical, actionable tips for growing and marketing a law practice have revealed format changes complete with games and Spotify playlists. Lunch Hour Legal Marketing is tinkering with format changes in real-time, using the podcast as a live case study to demonstrate branding, marketing techniques, and other strategies for drawing in and engaging a target audience.

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European Data Protection Roundup – October 2020

Debevoise Data Blog

October was a particularly busy month, with headline-grabbing stories such as the long-awaited finalisation of the fines against British Airways and Marriott, which may well be the last penalties the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (the “ICO”) issues as a GDPR Lead Supervisory Authority. Having already covered both fines ( here and here ), and the French CNIL’s latest cookies guidance , below is the “best of the rest” from October.

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How to Master Searching in NetDocuments

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How to Master Searching in NetDocuments Do you regularly find yourself needing to fine-tune your search result in NetDocuments? You’re not alone. Here are a few tips for searching NetDocuments like a pro.

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Ep 098: Stevie Ghiassi on Legaler, Legaler Aid and the Global Legal Tech Report

LawNext podcast

To say that Stevie Ghiassi is a busy man is an understatement. In addition to founding Legaler , a secure video meeting platform for lawyers, the Australia-born entrepreneur is the founder of the recently launched Legaler Aid , a charity to support social justice legal cases worldwide, and founder of the Global Legal Tech Report , which will release its final report in December after nearly a year of surveying legal tech around the world.

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Election Challenges, Dangerous Speech, & Carrying the Nuclear Football

Legal Talk Network

Legal Talk Network hosts put the day’s news into context with the most recent episodes covering promised election challenges, inflammatory speech, and the Cold War-era process for nuclear launch codes. Snowfall at the White House photo by the White House is marked with CC PDM 1.0. Wait, is there an election this week? On Legal Talk Today , Ohio State Law Prof.

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2020 in review: Legal software for working remotely

LLRX

Attorney and legal technology expert Nicole L. Black has written throughout 2020 about cloud-based legal technology tools and their relevance to legal practices. Whether your law firm has already begun the shift to a cloud-based law practice or is planning to do so in the new year, you’ll undoubtedly find some or all of the software Black has covered over the past year to be useful.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 28, 2020

LLRX

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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Looking on the Bright Side: Four Ways Zoom Makes Legal Research Instruction Better

LLRX

As many of you have surely experienced this semester, teaching legal research virtually poses a number of challenges, but Matthew Flyntz found that it also provides a few benefits over traditional in-person instruction. In a world of negativity, Flyntz looks on the bright side and focus on those positives in this article.

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Microsoft Word Hotkeys: Handy Keyboard Tricks

NSLT

Microsoft Word Hotkeys: Handy Keyboard Tricks One sure way to save time in Microsoft Word (in addition to letting Word fix your typos) is to keep your hands off the mouse as much as possible. To do that, though, you need to know a few handy Microsoft Word hotkeys. Hotkeys — aka shortcut keys — are keyboard combinations you can use to invoke Word commands, insert special characters or even run macros.

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Microsoft Word Hotkeys: Handy Keyboard Tricks

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Microsoft Word Hotkeys: Handy Keyboard Tricks One sure way to save time in Microsoft Word (in addition to letting Word fix your typos) is to keep your hands off the mouse as much as possible. To do that, though, you need to know a few handy Microsoft Word hotkeys. Hotkeys — aka shortcut keys — are keyboard combinations you can use to invoke Word commands, insert special characters or even run macros.

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Beware the Four Most Dangerous Outlook Features

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Beware the Four Most Dangerous Outlook Features Of all the Microsoft Office applications in law offices, Outlook is hands-down the most frequently used. After all, who doesn’t need to handle email every day? Here are four features that trip up even seasoned Microsoft Outlook users.

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Beware the Four Most Dangerous Outlook Features

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Beware the Four Most Dangerous Outlook Features Of all the Microsoft Office applications in law offices, Outlook is hands-down the most frequently used. After all, who doesn’t need to handle email every day? Here are four features that trip up even seasoned Microsoft Outlook users.

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Cloud Computing in the Age of Corona

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Cloud Computing in the Age of Corona: Is Your Law Firm Ready? As the coronavirus pandemic continues to restrict our movements, attorneys across the United States have quickly learned how to adapt to the vagaries of remote work. What happens, though, to the day-to-day activities of a law firm when its employees can no longer visit their offices, archives or libraries?

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Cloud Computing in the Age of Corona

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Cloud Computing in the Age of Corona: Is Your Law Firm Ready? As the coronavirus pandemic continues to restrict our movements, attorneys across the United States have quickly learned how to adapt to the vagaries of remote work. What happens, though, to the day-to-day activities of a law firm when its employees can no longer visit their offices, archives or libraries?

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Short Cut: Documate

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Short Cut: Documate Offers an Easier and More Powerful Rendition of Document Automation Software Documate is a modern, cloud-based document automation software with easy-to-use features for complex template building, client intake and data management.

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Short Cut: Documate

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Short Cut: Documate Offers an Easier and More Powerful Rendition of Document Automation Software Documate is a modern, cloud-based document automation software with easy-to-use features for complex template building, client intake and data management.

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Footnote Tips

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Footnote Tips Changing Footnote Numbering; Word allows you to specify both a starting footnote number and whether the numbering is continuous or starts over with each new section or new page in a document.

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Footnote Tips

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Footnote Tips Changing Footnote Numbering; Word allows you to specify both a starting footnote number and whether the numbering is continuous or starts over with each new section or new page in a document.

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Ep 097: Lauren Sudeall on Legal Deserts and Other Obstacles to Access to Justice

LawNext podcast

A recent report from the American Bar Association portrayed the nation’s legal deserts – large swaths of the country in which there are few or no lawyers. That report followed from a 2018 paper published in the Harvard Law & Policy Review that documented these legal deserts and rural America’s increasingly dire access-to-justice crisis. Our guest this week is one of the authors of that paper, Lauren Sudeall , associate professor of law and founding faculty director of the Center for Access

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FreshBooks vs. Wave

NSLT

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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FreshBooks vs. Wave

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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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How To Configure Microsoft Outlook For Lawyers

NSLT

How To Configure Microsoft Outlook For Lawyers Outlook is probably the second most important tool for lawyers after Microsoft Word. It’s a one-stop shop for email, calendar, and task lists. Although it’s a great tool, here are some tweaks to make it even better.

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How To Configure Microsoft Outlook For Lawyers

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How To Configure Microsoft Outlook For Lawyers Outlook is probably the second most important tool for lawyers after Microsoft Word. It’s a one-stop shop for email, calendar, and task lists. Although it’s a great tool, here are some tweaks to make it even better.

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Client Development During the Pandemic

NSLT

Client Development During the Pandemic The new normal under the plague has put pressure on law firms to simply operate, as well as thrive. However, law firms have a unique opportunity during the COVID-19 outbreak to capture new files and business. Now is the time to use a personal touch and double down on digital marketing.

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Client Development During the Pandemic

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Client Development During the Pandemic The new normal under the plague has put pressure on law firms to simply operate, as well as thrive. However, law firms have a unique opportunity during the COVID-19 outbreak to capture new files and business. Now is the time to use a personal touch and double down on digital marketing.