Liquid Litigation Management, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

While it is common to hear about large corporate defendants being sanctioned in huge products liability cases for not properly disclosing information, an individual plaintiff being sanctioned for the same offense is far less common. However, a recent Order issued In re: Taxotere Products Liability Litigation sanctioned a bellwether plaintiff for withholding information about her medical history and not producing documents.

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Technically Legal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

In Episode 14 we talk to Barry Solomon, lawyer, former BigLaw CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) and current President of Foundation Software Group. Foundation develops experience management software for law firms. Barry distinguishes marketing from business development and explains how the two should work together. Barry says the key to good business development is to really listen to clients about their needs.

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Legal Expert Connections

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

A law firm website is its most important marketing tool, particularly for insurance defense or AmLaw 100-200 law firms that do not typically run online advertising campaigns. Once a prospect learns about your law firm, they often visit your attorney bio pages and practice area pages to learn more about your services. Recent Internet industry efforts to increase online security standards include the upgrade from “HTTP” to “HTTPS” protocols.

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Discovery Advocate

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The practice of e-discovery has always incorporated considerations of new and emerging technologies as well as related attorney competence. With the advent of cloud services and significant use by clients, e-discovery practitioners incorporated knowledge of those new platforms and offerings into their preservation strategies and requests for production, appropriately considering a variety of client and party uses of the cloud , especially for heavily used services such as email, customer relatio

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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!

NSLT

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Power User Tips for PowerPoint PowerPoint is a powerful presentation tool when used well. Here are some of the best lessons this author learned in years of doing presentations for trial, arbitration, technical tutorials, class action certifications, Markman hearings, and all kinds of legal proceedings.

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LawNext podcast

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Earlier this year, Mark Britton left Avvo , the often-controversial company he founded in 2006 and led as CEO, after selling it to web behemoth Internet Brands. Explaining his departure in a memo to his staff , he wrote, “It’s time for me to go.” In this episode of LawNext, Britton reflects on his 12 years at Avvo. In a face-to-face interview with host Bob Ambrogi, he recounts why he started the company and explains why he left.

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Legal Expert Connections

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The American Bar Association has amended Model Rule 7 of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, which regulates attorney advertising. The Supreme Court allowed attorney advertising in Bates v. State Bar of Arizona in 1977, and states have regulated attorney advertising in a large variety of ways for four decades. The newly amended Model Rule 7 was tweaked over the course of two years in the hope of unifying attorney advertising rules across the country, according to Lucian Pera, chair of t

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Liquid Litigation Management, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Knock, knock Who’s there? Interrupting cow Interrupting cow– Moo!! Anyone who has sat through any oral argument knows that interruptions can just be a part of the game, whether those interruptions are by judge or opposing counsel. The same holds true in the Supreme Court. The SCOTUS blog took a look at data from the 2017 term to identify patterns. One element that they looked for was if gender imbalances in oral argument interruptions of previous years continued in 2017.

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NSLT

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Power User Tips for PowerPoint PowerPoint is a powerful presentation tool when used well. Here are some of the best lessons this author learned in years of doing presentations for trial, arbitration, technical tutorials, class action certifications, Markman hearings, and all kinds of legal proceedings.

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NSLT

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

8 Essential Attorney Tech Tools for Trial Presentation Effective trial attorneys know how storytelling aids can play a major role in supporting an argument in the courtroom. Recent technology has made these tools more convenient, portable and affordable.

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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

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

8 Essential Attorney Tech Tools for Trial Presentation Effective trial attorneys know how storytelling aids can play a major role in supporting an argument in the courtroom. Recent technology has made these tools more convenient, portable and affordable.

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LawNext podcast

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In July, Thomson Reuters unveiled Westlaw Edge, the next generation of its legal research platform that uses artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to help legal professionals find answers and perform research more efficiently. The engineering of the AI that went into that was spearheaded by Dr. Khalid Al-Kofahi, vice president of research and development at Thomson Reuters and head of the company’s Center for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing in Toronto.

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LawNext podcast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

Should legal ethics rules be changed to allow non-lawyer ownership of legal services providers? So controversial is the question that it was major news in July when the State Bar of California voted to appoint a task force to study and make recommendations on the issue. What spurred the bar to take this action was the Legal Market Landscape Report it commissioned from William D.

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NSLT

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

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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Advertiser: Trellis

Law Firm Intelligence by Trellis aggregates state trial court data across the Trellis platform enabling users to: look up a particular metric related to a specific law firm (such as, how many cases a law firm had or has against another law firm), and see the actual dockets and documents supporting the metric. Trellis data is maximized in a revolutionary and unique way to provide users an exclusive look into a law firm litigating in state trial courts.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

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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LawNext podcast

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

In September 2017, venerable Magic Circle law firm Allen & Overy launched Fuse , setting aside a portion of its London office for a collaborative innovation space to develop and test new legal technologies, and it named lawyer Shruti Ajitsaria to head the project. On this episode of LawNext, Ajitsaria joins host Bob Ambrogi to discuss why Allen & Overy started Fuse, explain what it does, and describe its work to date.

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