January, 2019

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Inside Legalweek 2019: Battle Tested Tips for Conference Survival

InsideLegal

If you are looking for basic tradeshow tips such as "wear comfortable shoes", "plot out who you want to meet ahead of time" and "bring business cards", etc. this isn't the post for you. This is a post based on 19 years of attending Legaltech New York and most all other legal events and conferences. We make the joke annually that it's no coincidence that Legaltech is always within a few days of Groundhog Day.

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Is This the Most Robust Practice Management System of Them All?

TechnoLawyer

Today's TL NewsWire Hot Product is a cloud practice platform that eliminates the need for QuickBooks and other third-party products thanks to its expansive suite of features (see article below). In addition, you'll find links to many previous TL NewsWire Hot Products, including an Android and iPhone app for capturing billable time on the go, including multiple timers, voice-to-speech, and other shortcuts.

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Episode 17: Stephen Kane on Online Dispute Resolution

Technically Legal

In Episode 17 we talk about online dispute resolution with Stephen Kane, the founder of Fairclaims , a platform that helps people resolve legal claims online. ODR has been around since the 1990s, but really took off when companies like Ebay and Amazon started to use it to resolve customer complaints and disputes. As Stephen explains, many types of disputes are amenable to ODR and courts across the globe are starting to use it.

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Law Firm Marketing Blahs

Legal Expert Connections

Prospective clients looking for a new law firm want to know answers to obvious questions like, “Who are you and what can you do for me?” Law firms often respond with “Blah, blah, blah …” Here are a few real life examples of law firm descriptions, as posted on the websites of various firms around the country: Our firm prides itself on providing exceptional legal counsel and personal service.

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Ep 026: Mark Cohen’s Strategies for the Global Legal Marketplace

LawNext podcast

Mark A. Cohen has long been ahead of the curve. After 25 years as an accomplished trial lawyer, he founded one of the first legal process outsourcing companies and then cofounded Clearspire, the groundbreaking two-company law firm and service provider that became the blueprint for a new generation of innovative legal services providers. Now, Cohen puts his experience to work as a legal business consultant, providing services and training to law firms, legal departments and other organizations th

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Microsoft Word - Tips and Tricks

NSLT

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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Inside Legalweek 2019: Legaltech Agenda Word Cloud - Nine Years and Counting

InsideLegal

Starting next week, we will join thousands at what will be our 20th edition of Legaltech New York (LTNY). 2019 will mark the third year that LTNY is part of an expanded Legalweek format, with almost four full days of exhibitions, networking and legal sessions. If you've attended LTNY before, you may be familiar with our annual Legaltech NY Agenda Word Clouds that provide a visual display of the words/themes from the Legaltech event's educational agenda and session lineup.

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Inside Legalweek 2019: State of the Legal Industry

InsideLegal

‘Pre’ Legalweek New York began Monday with various premium boot camp-style intensives, but for us, Tuesday’s ‘State of the Industry’ general session at 8:30AM (Grand Ballroom East) marked the official kick-off for Legalweek 2019. Nicholas Bruch and Erin Hichman , both senior analysts with ALM Intelligence, took some time out of their busy schedules to provide us with some insight into their ‘state of the union’ keynote.

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Inside Legalweek 2019: Rewarding Legal Technology Innovation

InsideLegal

In July, 2015, ALM’s Legaltech News last unveiled the winners of the LTN Innovation Awards, an annual recognition of the best legal technology leaders, products and projects in the legal community. Three and a half years have passed and now it's time to once again recognize industry leaders in legal technology innovation. The 2019 Legaltech Product Innovation Competition is underway with 7 finalists having been named in early January.

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Microsoft Word - Tips and Tricks

NSLT

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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Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat

NSLT

4 Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat Whether or not you are paperless in your office, you are probably dealing with PDFs. If you are dealing with a lot of them, you need PDF-editing software.

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Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat

NSLT

4 Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat Whether or not you are paperless in your office, you are probably dealing with PDFs. If you are dealing with a lot of them, you need PDF-editing software.

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Inside Legalweek 2019: Q&A with Mark Fried, ALM Events President

InsideLegal

Legalweek 2019 is less than two weeks away. This will be our 20th year heading to the big apple for a legal tech, legal business, legal operations submersion. This will be Mark Fried's first as President at ALM Events (he's also company CFO), a position he assumed last February. With 11 months to learn the ropes and get a lay of the legal land, what's Mark's vision for not only Legalweek but all ALM events?

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Snipping Tool

NSLT

Snipping Tool - Capture a Screen Shot of your Desktop Microsoft Windows provides a Snipping Tool application that captures a screen shot of anything on your desktop, such as a dialog box or a section of webpage. After you capture a snip, it`s automatically copied to the Clipboard as well as a mark-up window. From the mark-up window, you can annotate, save, or share the snip via e-mail.

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Snipping Tool

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Snipping Tool - Capture a Screen Shot of your Desktop Microsoft Windows provides a Snipping Tool application that captures a screen shot of anything on your desktop, such as a dialog box or a section of webpage. After you capture a snip, it`s automatically copied to the Clipboard as well as a mark-up window. From the mark-up window, you can annotate, save, or share the snip via e-mail.

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Ep 025: Using AI to Enhance Virtual Receptionists, with Smith.ai

LawNext podcast

What do you get if you combine a virtual receptionist service with artificial intelligence? Spoiler alert: The answer is not robots answering the phone. Rather, the folks at Smith.ai say the combination results in a superior receptionist service for both live calls and website chat. By incorporating AI, they say, their service continually gets smarter as it comes to know your practice and your clients.

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Working With PDF Documents

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PDF Unlocker or Password Remover to unlock any PDF file PDF Unlocker or Password Remover is not a hacking tool, but it makes things simple for you. There are various PDF files that you get from Banks, Insurance Companies etc., and those are password protected. They lock it with Password, because your personal as well as confidential information are there.

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Working With PDF Documents

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PDF Unlocker or Password Remover to unlock any PDF file PDF Unlocker or Password Remover is not a hacking tool, but it makes things simple for you. There are various PDF files that you get from Banks, Insurance Companies etc., and those are password protected. They lock it with Password, because your personal as well as confidential information are there.

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Ep 024: Making Legal Research Better, with Judicata Founder Itai Gurari

LawNext podcast

With Judicata , Itai Gurari believes he has built a better legal research platform. A lawyer and computer scientist, his approach to designing a legal research engine was to first “map the legal genome” -- that is, map the law with extreme accuracy and granularity. The result is a research engine that returns the best results the fastest, he says. Gurari and his company also built Clerk , a tool that analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of legal briefs -- like moneyball for motions, he says.