LLRX

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Nicole L. Black discusses the wide ranging effects on the legal technology space from the pandemic across all corners of the legal technology world. The shift to remote work had a dramatic impact on both the practice of law and the business of law, resulting in the rapid—and singularly remarkable—adoption of technology at rates never before seen. In some cases, the transition was a smooth one, and in others, it was a spectacular disaster.

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Legal Talk Network

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Large Thanksgiving gatherings may have been fewer in number, but one thing is certain, the focus remained on food. Lots of it, whether families substituted turkey with lobster or the ham with tasty takeout. . Now that the gorging is over, you may be exploring ways to fit more comfortably in your clothes. Not quite ready to do the exercise? No worries.

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Debevoise Data Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Tough Cookie: French CNIL Hits Google and Amazon with a Total of €135 million in Fines On December 7, 2020, the French data protection authority, the CNIL (“Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés”), fined first Google LLC and Google Ireland Ltd €100 million, and then Amazon Europe Core €35 million for violations of the French Data Protection Act (“French DPA”).

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ELTA

DECEMBER 3, 2020

On November 27, 2020, the members of the European Legal Technology Association (ELTA) elected a new board, the governing body of ELTA. The new board consists of Holger Zscheyge (Russia) as next President of ELTA, Helena Hallgarn (Sweden) and Jeroen Zweers (The Netherlands) as Vice Presidents, Grégoire Miot (France), as Treasurer, Marisa Monteiro (Portugal), as well as Orsolya Görgényi (Hungary) and former President Tobias Heining (Germany) as co-opted board members.

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NSLT

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Web Presence: Why Online Marketing Is Much More Than Your Law Firm Website When law firms come looking for help using digital marketing strategies to build sales, most start by saying they need a new website or that their website isn’t driving enough leads. But there is too much of a singular focus on a law firm’s website.

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LawNext podcast

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Twenty-five years ago, in the still-fledgling days of the web, the husband-and-wife team of Tim Stanley and Stacy Stern founded FindLaw and quickly developed it into the most highly trafficked legal site on the internet. In 2001, they sold FindLaw to the West Group, and two years later, they founded Justia , repeating their earlier success and then some with what is now one of the most popular legal sites in the world.

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LLRX

DECEMBER 12, 2020

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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DECEMBER 18, 2020

On December 10, 2020, California’s Attorney General formally announced a fourth round of proposed modifications to the AG’s regulations regarding the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). These modifications include the long-awaited proposal for a universal form of “opt-out” button for businesses to use on their websites – shown below without further ado: The proposal responds to a mandate, in the text of CCPA, that the AG’s regulations must address “the development and use of a recognizable

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ABA TECHSHOW

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Attention legal technology startups: Here is your chance to compete to be featured as a presenter and exhibitor in the fifth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW , the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference, to be held virtually on March 8-12, 2021. Today officially kicks off the call for entries for Startup Alley, in which 15 startups will be selected to participate in a virtual pitch competition that will be the opening event of this year’s TECHSHOW.

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NSLT

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Web Presence: Why Online Marketing Is Much More Than Your Law Firm Website When law firms come looking for help using digital marketing strategies to build sales, most start by saying they need a new website or that their website isn’t driving enough leads. But there is too much of a singular focus on a law firm’s website.

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LawNext podcast

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Jules Miller knows what it is to be a legal tech entrepreneur. She is a three-time founder, twice of legal tech companies: Hire an Esquire in 2012 and Evolve Law in 2015. Now a partner in venture capital firm Mindset Ventures , she is leading her firm’s expansion into legal tech investing, most recently with the Series A financing of legal marketplace Priori Legal.

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LLRX

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Research Attorney Caren Zentner Luckie discusses the many aspects of competitive intelligence and business development, importantly stating that it takes time to perform the work, and it takes even more time to learn which sources to use to find the information. She notes that CI also takes money to deliver comprehensive and accurate work product. Using a range of public and private sources, expert techniques, and a thorough understanding of the specific client requirements is critical to CI res

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Legal Talk Network

DECEMBER 30, 2020

In a year that felt like a decade, some of the biggest legal news seems years away at this point. On Thinking Like a Lawyer , hosts Joe Patrice and Kathryn Rubino discuss top stories covered by Above the Law, from bar exams and bar privilege to lawyers – celebrated and notorious – making headlines. . On Legal Talk Today , host Laurence Colletti speaks with Legaltech News Editor Zach Warren to also highlight top law-related stories.

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Debevoise Data Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2020

We have recently written about the persistence of the four most common varieties of cyberattacks: Ransomware , Phishing , Business Email Compromises , and Credential Stuffing , as well as the increased regulatory scrutiny that companies face when they fall victim to these attacks. Over the last few months, we have observed an increase in another form of cybersecurity threat: DDoS ransom attacks, where cybercriminals demand a large payment from a company in exchange for not launching a distrib

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Technically Legal

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Workflow automation for lawyers and legal teams is the topic of Episode 41. Our guest is Scott Kelly, one of the founders of Community.Lawyer , which is “no-code” workflow automation software with an app builder designed with attorneys in mind. Community.Lawyer is a way for law firms, corporate legal departments and legal aid organizations to automate common and repeatable tasks to save time and resources.

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NSLT

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Scrub Your Document With Microsoft Word Document Inspector Microsoft Word’s Document Inspector is a built-in feature that can check for and clean out document metadata such as comments, embedded revisions, document information (such as any editors’ names), and other invisible content and hidden text.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Dan Broderick believes businesses waste billions in repetitive work reviewing and negotiating semantically similar contracts. As a former lawyer, he saw the problem first-hand. It led him to found BlackBoiler , whose AI-based technology automates the review and mark-up of inbound contracts right in Word’s Track Changes. This week, BlackBoiler announced two new U.S. patents for its contract review software, bringing its total to seven.

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LLRX

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Professor Martha Ackelsberg is political theorist - she studies how communities are organized, how power is exercised and how people relate to one another in and between communities. Through talking to friends, and thinking about the protests against COVID-19-related restrictions that have taken place around the country – she concluded that many people do not understand that individual rights and state power are not really opposites.

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Legal Talk Network

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Show hosts spent the last days of 2020 reviewing a year that was deadly, tumultuous, and at the same time threaded with bursts of innovation and layers of human kindness. And an extra special guest appeared to focus on the latter two. First, the news… Firms gave bonuses. One U.S. senator moves to block legislation that would increase physical and data privacy protections for federal judges.

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Debevoise Data Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2020

At many companies, employees are increasingly using non-business communication applications (“apps”) such as iMessage, WhatsApp and WeChat for business-related communications. This trend has likely accelerated in the COVID era, as work-from-home arrangements blur traditional lines between “business” and “personal” time, and many conversations that were normally held in person are now done virtually.

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Technically Legal

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Workflow automation for lawyers and legal teams is the topic of Episode 41. Our guest is Scott Kelly, one of the founders of Community.Lawyer , which is “no-code” workflow automation software with an app builder designed with attorneys in mind. Community.Lawyer is a way for law firms, corporate legal departments and legal aid organizations to automate common and repeatable tasks to save time and resources.

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NSLT

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Scrub Your Document With Microsoft Word Document Inspector Microsoft Word’s Document Inspector is a built-in feature that can check for and clean out document metadata such as comments, embedded revisions, document information (such as any editors’ names), and other invisible content and hidden text.

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LawNext podcast

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Andrew Perlman is one of the nation’s leading forces helping to establish the future of legal education and legal practice. As a professor and now dean at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, he has helped drive the creation and development of programs for teaching about legal innovation and technology. He was founding director of Suffolk’s Institute on Legal Innovation and Technology and its related legal technology and innovation concentration for law students.

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LLRX

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Marcus P. Zillman's new guide comprises a list of actionable financial resources from the U.S. and abroad, organized by four subject areas: Corporate Conference Calls Resources, Financial Sources, Financial Sources Search Engines, and Venture Capital Sources. Content includes: sources for news and updates on business, corporations and marketplaces; sources from the NGO/IGO sectors; data, databases and charts; search applications; resources for investors and money management; and market analysis

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Legal Talk Network

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As we close out a, um, memorable 2020, there’s no shortage of wishes for a happier and healthier New Year. Helping us look ahead is legal industry analyst Ari Kaplan. He reviews some of his recent legal research projects and provides professional growth tips for lawyers with On Balance Podcast hosts JoAnn Hathaway and Tish Vincent. Kaplan, who celebrates his 200th #VirtualLunch on Dec. 21, shares how legal professionals can build community with teams and peers even when in-person interaction is

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Debevoise Data Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The big news this November was the European Data Protection Board (the “EDPB”) issuing its highly anticipated post- Schrems II data transfer guidance, followed just a day later by the European Commission’s draft updated Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) (see our blog post here ). In case you missed them while trying to solve the data transfer conundrum, here are ten more enforcement and policy developments you should know about.

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Debevoise Data Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

On December 17, 2020 at 12:00pm ET, Luke Dembosky and Anna Gressel from Debevoise’s Data Strategy and Security Group will be joined by William Roberts, Acquisitions Chief for the U.S. Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, and Matti Neustadt Storie, Director of Privacy and Data Security for NetApp, for an insightful panel on “ Artificial Intelligence and Government Contracting – Emerging Issues and Considerations ,” hosted by the American Bar Association Section of Public

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Debevoise Data Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

On November 16-17, 2020, Anna Gressel and Avi Gesser from Debevoise’s Data Strategy and Security Group joined AI thought leaders from around the globe at “The Athens Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law.” During the Roundtable, Avi and Anna were joined by Edward Stroz of Stroz Friedberg for an insightful panel on “ Supervising AI: The Role of Corporate Boards ,” which focused on how shareholders and regulators are looking to corporate boards to take a pr

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LLRX

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Catherine Reach has run the latest version of Microsoft Edge through its paces, and identifies the browser's useful features (including security and privacy) and collaborative tools that make it worthy of your review and perhaps - switching from Chrome.

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LLRX

DECEMBER 6, 2020

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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LLRX

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Articles and Columns for December 2020 Masks and mandates: How individual rights and government regulation are both necessary for a free society – Professor Martha Ackelsberg is political theorist – she studies how communities are organized, how power is exercised and how people relate to one another in and between communities.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

Articles and Columns for November 2020 Managing Metadata: An Examination of Successful Approaches – 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.

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DECEMBER 27, 2020

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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DECEMBER 20, 2020

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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DECEMBER 16, 2020

Six Steps to Efficient Document Automation Efficient legal document automation eliminates firm workflow bottlenecks, less time spent chasing information, and more secure collaboration.

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NSLT

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Six Steps to Efficient Document Automation Efficient legal document automation eliminates firm workflow bottlenecks, less time spent chasing information, and more secure collaboration.

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NSLT

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Six Quick Tips to Get Your Law Practice Organized With so many different options for organizing your work and life — GTD, Kanban, BuJo, SMART, Agile — it’s easy to get stuck and let things continue as they are. Here’s the thing to remember: The perfect system is the one you use. If you want to eliminate the chaos from your life, you can’t wait for the perfect system to come along.

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