Trial Technology
JULY 20, 2021
Now that the courts are beginning to get back to business, will we continue to have remote witnesses and juries? That's a great question, and we'd have a completely different answer had it not been for COVID-19. What we've just experienced is one of the fastest implementations of technology by the legal professions ever. Technology, when used properly, can make you more effective and efficient in trial.
Attorney at Work
JULY 16, 2021
While much of the world stopped last year, depositions didn’t. Cases forged ahead and lawyers scrambled to establish new ways of taking depositions and handling proceedings that, for decades, had been routine. As we emerge out of the pandemic, many of the pivots intended as bandages for uncertain times will become permanent changes to the way we conduct and prepare for depositions.
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LawSites
JULY 12, 2021
If you are wondering where the innovators are in law, look no farther than the Fastcase 50, the annual award doled out by the legal intelligence company Fastcase that honors 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.”. Fastcase today announced its 11th annual Fastcase 50 honorees, which adds up to 550 innovative leaders in law over the lifetime of the awards.
LLRX
JULY 18, 2021
Good-faith disagreements are a normal part of society and building strong relationships. Yet it’s difficult to engage in good-faith disagreements on the internet, and people reach less common ground online compared with face-to-face disagreements. There’s no shortage of research about the psychology of arguing online, from text versus voice to how anyone can become a troll and advice about how to argue well.
Legal Talk Network
JULY 2, 2021
Rankings of all sorts can be controversial, especially for those being ranked when their numbers never materialize or slip. Yet, they continue to be incredibly important for the marketing of law schools, law firms, etc. As long as consumers and clients care about rankings, they will exist. On Thinking Like a Lawyer , Joe Patrice, Kathryn Rubino, and Chris Williams review Above the Law’s law school rankings.
lawtomated
JULY 27, 2021
Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Facebook Pinterest Print Email Sharan Kaur has a 360-degree view of the legaltech market. Sharan has worked as a lawyer in both private practice and in-house, as a tech buyer and vendor and as a consultant advising start-ups as well as legal teams regarding legaltech and process optimisation. On the vendor side, Sharan has worked at behemoths like Thomson Reuters Contract Express as well as fast growth start-ups such as Bryter.
Debevoise Data Blog
JULY 27, 2021
Earlier this year, we wrote about the SEC’s cybersecurity priorities. Since then, the SEC announced a settlement with First American Title Insurance and Services (“First American”) for violating Rule 13a-15(a) of the Exchange Act, and issued a voluntary request for information to a number of companies in connection with the SolarWinds cyber attack (“Voluntary Request”).
Legal Tech Connection brings together the best content for legal and legal tech professionals from the widest variety of thought leaders.
LawSites
JULY 1, 2021
The Chicago-based legal technology company Litera has acquired Objective Manager , a UK company that provides a SaaS platform for law firms to use in strategic planning, performance measurement and talent engagement. The purpose of the platform is to enable firms to accelerate their strategic and performance agendas by aligning their people to the firm’s strategic objectives.
LLRX
JULY 25, 2021
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.
Technically Legal
JULY 27, 2021
Cyber incident response. Cyber attacks. Unfortunately, we hear these terms daily nowadays. But what really goes on behind the scenes in a cyber incident? To answer that question, we asked Luke Green, a Breach Response Services Manager for cyber insurer Beazley Group and Josh Sudbury, Managing Principal of Forensic Investigations at Lodestone, a leading cyber defense and incident response company, to come on the show.
lawtomated
JULY 19, 2021
Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Facebook Pinterest Print Email Guest post by Amy Flippant from Della. When I moved to Spain at the age of 21, I thought my GCSE-level knowledge of grammar rules and structures would help me get by. What I later learned was that hearing Spanish, in real-life scenarios, was the best way to expand my vocabulary and develop my linguistic skills.
Debevoise Data Blog
JULY 21, 2021
Companies face increasing risk to their operations resulting from a cyber breach of a critical vendor. We have recently written about creating a sensible cybersecurity and AI risk framework for critical vendors , and regulators have issued both formal and informal guidance addressing vendor cybersecurity risk management: The SEC , the New York’s Department of Financial Services , the FTC , FINRA , the CFTC/NFA and U.S. federal banking agencies have all issued guidance on vendor cybersecurity due
Attorney at Work
JULY 23, 2021
Many of us struggled with balancing our work responsibilities and personal lives even before the pandemic destroyed our regular routines and norms. With technology allowing 24/7 work-from-everywhere access, setting boundaries was a challenge. During the pandemic, however, boundaries seemed to disappear as we worked alongside our families or housemates at home, and all professional, educational and personal activities happened in the same timeframe and physical space.
LawSites
JULY 12, 2021
Subscribers to Lexis+. the premium legal research platform that LexisNexis launched last year , will now have access to breaking legal news headlines across 76 practice areas with the introduction today of the Legal News Hub. The Legal News Hub provides subscribers with access to headlines and summaries of current news stories from the LexisNexis-owned Law360 and Law360 Pulse news services.
LLRX
JULY 18, 2021
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.
LexCloud.ca
JULY 27, 2021
The whole legal profession is now online and video conference platforms like Zoom are regularly used for everything from client meetings to virtual trials.
NSLT
JULY 30, 2021
Inserting Multiple Photos into PowerPoint If you have several photographs that you want to insert into PowerPoint, using a “Photo Album” is the simplest way to accomplish this.
Debevoise Data Blog
JULY 20, 2021
The big news in June were the EU Standard Contractual Clauses for cross-border data transfers to non-EEA countries. There were also significant developments for companies engaging in employee surveillance, ad tech, data scraping and the use of AI. Here are our highlights: European Commission adopts new Standard Contractual Clauses What happened : As reported in our blog post , the European Commission adopted its new Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) for the cross-border transfer of persona
Attorney at Work
JULY 9, 2021
Even though business is opening up again, certain pandemic workplace changes are here to stay. At least for a while. To one degree or another, every person on Earth has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The same is true for every business, professional services firm and other organization. While many people in the United States have been vaccinated, herd immunity is still months, if not years, away.
LawSites
JULY 6, 2021
The law practice management company MyCase has quietly acquired two legal technology companies in recent months, without announcing the acquisitions to the public. On March 31, MyCase acquired CASEpeer , a case management platform for plaintiffs’ attorneys. Around the same time, MyCase acquired Woodpecker , which provides legal document automation software for solo and small law firms.
LLRX
JULY 11, 2021
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.
LawNext podcast
JULY 25, 2021
Sixteen months after UpCounsel announced it would shut down, it is not only alive and well, but showing double-digit revenue growth, consistent profitability, and accelerating demand for legal services through its lawyer marketplace. Now it is launching a crowdfunding campaign with the mission of bringing legal to the people. [The crowdfunding campaign opens to the public July 28, but listeners of this podcast can access the private friends and family campaign , with early investor benefits i
NSLT
JULY 30, 2021
Inserting Multiple Photos into PowerPoint If you have several photographs that you want to insert into PowerPoint, using a “Photo Album” is the simplest way to accomplish this.
Debevoise Data Blog
JULY 26, 2021
On July 19, 2021, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced his first-year enforcement update on the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), and unveiled a tool to help the Attorney General’s office (“CAAG”)—the primary enforcer of the CCPA until the California Privacy Protection Agency takes over —identify CCPA violations.
Attorney at Work
JULY 29, 2021
At this stage of your career, you might think reading documents is a baseline skill you’ve mastered just fine, thanks. But, whether you realize it or not, you probably spend more time reading documents in Microsoft Word than actually drafting them — especially if you have gone paperless. Since all that onscreen reading can exhaust your body and your brain, it’s worth checking out a few Office 365 features that make reading easier.
LawSites
JULY 30, 2021
I recently had the great honor to be interviewed by Ivy B. Grey , vice president, strategy & business development, at WordRake , about lessons learned in journalism that can be applied in law. The interview is now posted at WordRake, where we discuss what journalism can teach legal professionals about effective writing, interviewing, working with editors, and meeting deadlines, among other topics.
LLRX
JULY 4, 2021
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.
LawNext podcast
JULY 20, 2021
With his contract-management company having just raised $40 million in Series B funding, Linksquares cofounder and CEO Vishal Sunak is aiming for some big goals, including “to build legal tech solutions that simply weren’t possible before.” In announcing the raise, which brings the company’s total funding to $61.4 million, Sunak vowed that the company will develop its AI technology to “offer functionality no one has seen before,” and that it will soon introduce “a first-of-its-kind product that
NSLT
JULY 28, 2021
Four Reasons You Need Legal Files Software Legal Files Software enables you–the non-technical person with no programming ability–to create your own fields, make your own menus and windows, as well as standardize and speed up data entry using your own drop-down lists. You can even customize for different departments or different locations.
Debevoise Data Blog
JULY 13, 2021
This is Part 2 of a two-part article on the recent U.S. Supreme Court TransUnion decision. In Part 1 , we discussed the implications of the decision for standing in cyber cases. On June 25, 2021, the Supreme Court issued a significant opinion on standing in the context of consumer class actions in TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez. The Supreme Court affirmed that certain members of a class action lacked standing—and therefore could not be members of the class.
Attorney at Work
JULY 8, 2021
Your solo or small law firm is busier than ever and you desperately need another warm body to complete the work. Resist the knee-jerk reaction to hire another lawyer. Instead, assess whether hiring a paralegal can fill the need. You’ll find that in most practice areas it can. Reasons Why It’s Better to Hire Paralegals Than Lawyers. 1. Less Money.
LawSites
JULY 22, 2021
Lou Andreozzi , the former chairman of Bloomberg Law and CEO of LexisNexis North American Legal Markets, has been appointed to the board of directors of global managed services provider Integreon , the company said today. The news comes a month after Integreon was acquired by the private equity firm EagleTree Capital. Integreon said that Andreozzi will serve on the board in a non-executive capacity, consulting with Integreon CEO Bob Rowe and other senior Integreon managers, as well as with the E
Technically Legal
JULY 7, 2021
Data analytics maturity models (and legal operations maturity models in general) are the topic of discussion with Peter Eilhauer, Managing Director for Legal Spend Solutions at Epiq. Peter knows his stuff about legal spend management–he’s been working in and around it for 16 years. He started as a consultant helping law firms manage costs and then jumped ship to help corporate legal departments manage their legal spend.
LawNext podcast
JULY 12, 2021
Mary Shen O’Carroll pioneered the field of legal operations during her 13 years as director of operations, technology and strategy at Google. She was also instrumental in forming the influential organization CLOC – the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium – and was elected its president in 2019. In April, she walked away from both of those roles, leaving Google and stepping down as CLOC president, to join the contract lifecycle management company Ironclad as chief community officer, where she
NSLT
JULY 28, 2021
Four Reasons You Need Legal Files Software Legal Files Software enables you–the non-technical person with no programming ability–to create your own fields, make your own menus and windows, as well as standardize and speed up data entry using your own drop-down lists. You can even customize for different departments or different locations.
Debevoise Data Blog
JULY 7, 2021
What’s happened? The European Commission has finalised its new standard contractual clauses (“SCCs”) for the transfer of personal data from EEA member states to the many “third countries” – most notably the U.S. – that have not been granted an “adequacy decision” that would permit such transfers in the ordinary course. Companies will only be able to enter into new agreements containing the old SCCs until 26 September 2021, and all contracts using the old SCCs concluded before then will need the
Attorney at Work
JULY 12, 2021
Successful lawyers are successful at lifelong learning. No lawyer should assume their education is over at any point in their career — and certainly not upon graduation from law school. That’s when the real education about what it takes to be a successful lawyer truly begins. Successful lawyers, like successful people in all walks of life, are lifelong learners who never stop growing.
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