Ward Blawg
APRIL 3, 2022
An unlikely source of inspiration for improving efficiencies and overall performance for your firm can be found in the British Cycling team. With their success routed in continuous optimisation and a focus on improving every aspect of their team by just 1%, the team became champions.
Attorney at Work
APRIL 22, 2022
I recently took a two-week vacation: 11 days in Hawaii. It was amazing. It was the perfect balance of activity, relaxation and adventure. What struck me most, though, was when I returned home. On the night before returning to work and clients, I thought: “I am so excited to go to work tomorrow, to meet with clients!” It made me realize that it had been a really long time since I felt excited about going to work the next day.
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Rocket Matter
APRIL 10, 2022
Today, we’re here to shed some light on an organizational tool that can help your law firm: Streamline matter workflows Foster better team collaboration Swiftly respond to bottlenecks and other issues as they occur In short, it can help your firm master matter management, all from within the convenience of your practice management software. It’s… Read More » Four Key Benefits of Kanban Boards for Law Firms.
LLRX
APRIL 30, 2022
Articles and Columns for April 2022 Web Guide for the New Economy 2022 – Accurate and actionable data on the economy is critical to many aspects of our research and scholarship. This guide by research expert Marcus P. Zillman provides researchers with links to information on a range of sources focused on new economy data and.
LawSites
APRIL 25, 2022
When the originators of the American Legal Technology Awards first came up with the idea early in 2020, their plan was to cap off the competition with a grand formal gala celebrating legal technology. Unfortunately, COVID came along and put the kibosh on the gala, but the awards went ahead virtually, announcing the first crop of winners in September 2020 , and then repeating the round in 2021, with winners named last November.
Computational Legal Studies
APRIL 30, 2022
Get Ready for our Summer Program Legal Technology and Operations 2022! On July 4 -22 — we are back *ON CAMPUS** for our Intense IN-PERSON program at Bucerius_Law School in Hamburg Apply NOW to Join Us !
Debevoise Data Blog
APRIL 29, 2022
On March 24, 2022, Utah enacted a comprehensive consumer privacy law, the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (“UCPA”). The UCPA, effective on December 31, 2023, is largely consistent with other comprehensive state privacy laws, but includes several key differences. The UCPA is set to be reviewed by the attorney general who must submit a report to the legislature by July 1, 2025.
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Rocket Matter
APRIL 29, 2022
Remember when you and your childhood friends used complex knocks, passwords, and handshakes to govern entrance into your backyard treehouse club? No matter how much older neighborhood kids teased or younger siblings begged for access, you and your friends protected your secret society with a vigor befitting an amateur spy ring. Even as children, we… Read More » Getting Past the Portal: Five Reasons Your Firm Should Invest in a Secure File Sharing Platform.
LLRX
APRIL 9, 2022
Privacy and cybersecurity 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 online security, often without our situational awareness.
LawSites
APRIL 22, 2022
It was a surprise to many in the legal technology community when the legal tech company Litera announced this week that Avaneesh Marwaha was stepping down as CEO and into a new role as chairman of the company’s board of directors. Replacing Marwaha as CEO is Sheryl Hoskins , a veteran technology executive who spent the first decade of her career at General Electric and McKesson Corp, where she held domestic and international leadership roles, and who was most recently CEO of Upserve, a provider
Technically Legal
APRIL 28, 2022
Victor Bornstein tells us how Justpoint, the company he co-founded and now heads, is taking advantage of changes to Rules of Professional Conduct to build artificial intelligence that matches personal injury clients to the best attorney for their case. Specifically, the company is taking advantage of changes to Rule 5.4 in Arizona that now permits people other than lawyers to have an ownership stake in law firms and legal services companies.
Legal Tech Innovation Wales
APRIL 27, 2022
We’ve put together a guide to some of the most common pitfalls you’ll face when reading about AI online – in whitepapers, product pages, and journalism. Choosing an Artificial Intelligence solution when you’re not comfortable talking technology is like browsing a Parisian bookstore when you failed your GCSE French. You can tell when the cover looks good, and you recognise some of the words (even if you’re not too sure what it means when you put them together), but when you flip a book open, you’
Attorney at Work
APRIL 18, 2022
Did you know that how you feel — all of your emotions — affect how you communicate with clients, colleagues and everyone else? An example most people are familiar with is email: Have you ever sent an email when you were angry or upset? Did it contain lots of strong language, BLOCK CAPS and exclamation points? Did you notice that when you read the email later, after calming down, it seemed like a different person wrote it?
Rocket Matter
APRIL 24, 2022
In 2002, the Oakland A’s had less money for player salaries than almost any other team in Major League Baseball, but in a big market with a successful team competing for fans just over the bridge, General Manager Billy Beane had to figure out a new way to compete. And sabermetrics (known to most Americans… Read More » Five Ways Your Law Firm Should Be Using Business Intelligence Reports.
LLRX
APRIL 23, 2022
Privacy and cybersecurity 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 online security, often without our situational awareness.
LawSites
APRIL 18, 2022
A national association of professional responsibility lawyers is calling on the American Bar Association to amend the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to allow lawyers admitted in any U.S. jurisdiction to practice law and represent clients anywhere in the country. The Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers is urging the ABA to adopt a new version of Model Rule 5.5 that would eliminate the traditional state-based limitation on law practice, by which lawyers can practice only in the
Debevoise Data Blog
APRIL 27, 2022
Today, it is widely accepted that most large organizations benefit from maintaining a written cybersecurity incident response plan (“CIRP”) to guide their responses to cyberattacks. For businesses that have invested heavily in artificial intelligence (“AI”), the risks of AI-related incidents and the value of implementing an AI incident response plan (“AIRP”) to help mitigate the impact of AI incidents are often underestimated.
Legal Tech Innovation Wales
APRIL 21, 2022
Whether it’s to share a work event with colleagues, keep up to date with current affairs, or to like your sister’s holiday snaps, the vast majority of us use technology pretty regularly. But if you had a special key that would allow you to unlock and delve into what was going on behind the scenes of some of this technology, you may make some unpleasant discoveries.
Attorney at Work
APRIL 27, 2022
Writing for business is an awful thing. You don’t have time for it. Everything is on fire. Your inbox looks like a subreddit on stonks. You’re in the weeds all day, every day and you can’t catch a break. Then some idiot wants a mission statement. Sure. Why not? Stop everything to write about how your firm strives to guide separated couples through the processes of ending their marriages.
Rocket Matter
APRIL 27, 2022
The story behind John Hancock’s huge, flamboyant signature across the bottom of the Declaration of Independence is one of the most well-known tales of the American Revolution. According to legend, Hancock placed his gigantic signature dead center at the bottom of the document while exclaiming that everyone from governmental ministers to King George himself would… Read More » Just Sign Here—Or Anywhere, Really: Why E-Signatures Are a Game Changer for Law Firms.
LLRX
APRIL 30, 2022
Privacy and cybersecurity 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 online security, often without our situational awareness.
LawSites
APRIL 14, 2022
Filevine , a Utah-based case management company founded in 2014 with an initial focus on litigation and personal injury law, has raised $108 million in a Series D funding round that it says will help fuel its expansion more deeply into big law, insurance defense, corporate, governmental, and nonprofit legal counsel teams. The funding was led by StepStone Group, with additional funding from Golub Capital.
Legal Talk Network
APRIL 20, 2022
If you are trying to grow your law firm, then taking advantage of Google Business Profile for lawyers (formerly “Google My Business”) is a must. A quality Google Business Profile is one of the most effective ways that lawyers can market their business online. When done right, this helpful tool can boost your business’ visibility in local searches, reach top spots in Google’s organic search results, and establish trust with potential clients and referrers.
Social Media for Law Firms
APRIL 19, 2022
Social media is a complex system. It’s important to remember that this system is still new. What do all new inventions have in common? The laws governing what they can and cannot do are young and subject to change. That’s something to keep in mind as you use social media to build your own network — especially when that network will include friends and family, prospective and new clients, and even adversaries.
Attorney at Work
APRIL 12, 2022
Crisis consultant Bruce Hemmes says when pricing legal services, consider adding rush rates for off-hours. I sympathized with Ruth Carter when reading “ Adding Rush Rates for Legal Services.” Our firm specializes in crisis work, so we’re frequently dealing with clients seeking immediate help for a breaking issue, just as Ruth is. But we solved our problem of dealing with “urgent” assignments in a different way than Ruth: We instituted a premium for helping clients outside normal work hours.
Rocket Matter
APRIL 3, 2022
If you’ve worked in the legal field over the past decade or so, you may have heard the term Agile law tossed around at conferences and networking events. But what exactly does this buzziest of legal buzzwords actually mean—and how do you go about building an agile law firm? Agile law doesn’t mean you need… Read More » Three Steps for a More Agile Law Firm (While Also Saving Money and Time!).
LLRX
APRIL 23, 2022
Cybersecurity scholar Scott Shackelford discusses how the FBI has the authority right now to access privately owned computers without their owners’ knowledge or consent, and to delete software. It’s part of a government effort to contain the continuing attacks on corporate networks running Microsoft Exchange software, and it’s an unprecedented intrusion that’s raising legal questions about just how far the government can go.
LawSites
APRIL 14, 2022
A U.S. justice tech company and a Ukrainian legal aid organization have joined forces to launch a first-of-its-kind European pro bono portal to assist with relief efforts for Ukrainians affected by the war. The portal is being launched today by the Legal Development Network , a group of Ukrainian community-based organizations that promotes people-centered justice through legal aid, legal education, strategic advocacy, and other empowerment tools, and Paladin , a U.S.
lawtomated
APRIL 13, 2022
Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Facebook Pinterest Print Email The Event Future Lawyer Week UK is an interactive legal innovation conference designed to combine current and future knowledge and tech trends created to push thought provoking conversations for the legal in-house counsels and private practice law firms. Previous iterations The previous edition of the event showed overwhelming success and positive feedback from the speakers, sponsors and attendees – so Cosmonauts is bringing the confer
Legal Tech Innovation Wales
APRIL 8, 2022
When stepping into uncharted territories, there are always challenges, however, the experience one gains through the journey makes it worthwhile. That was the case for the participants of the Global Legal Hackathon 2022 - at least the one hosted in Manchester University - where we put our agile development and team-working skills to the test over the weekend of the 25th of March.
Attorney at Work
APRIL 15, 2022
Which apps and connectivity tools do you use to stay productive and focused — and are they working? Having entered the second quarter of 2022, more than a few of us are wondering whether to upgrade our productivity toolbox. So we asked our experts: What’s your favorite app or service for staying connected, productive and on target to meet your goals in 2022?
Rocket Matter
APRIL 29, 2022
Remember when you and your childhood friends used complex knocks, passwords, and handshakes to govern entrance into your backyard treehouse club? No matter how much older neighborhood kids teased or younger siblings begged for access, you and your friends protected your secret society with a vigor befitting an amateur spy ring. Even as children, we… Read More » Getting Past the Portal: Five Reasons Your Firm Should Invest in a Secure File Sharing Platform.
LLRX
APRIL 30, 2022
As a researcher of social media platforms, Anjana Susarla , the Omura-Saxena Professorship in Responsible AI at the Broad College of Business, finds that Musk’s ownership of Twitter and his stated reasons for buying the company raise important issues. Those issues stem from the nature of the social media platform and what sets it apart from others.
LawSites
APRIL 13, 2022
[The following guest post is written by Inna Ptitsyna , head of communications at Lawrina and ambassador at the Legal Hackers international community.]. Lawrina started in 2020 with a small team in Ukraine and two people working abroad who had a big idea — to change the experience of law. To build a living ecosystem with free and simple access to essential legal information in the U.S.
Debevoise Data Blog
APRIL 6, 2022
As more businesses adopt artificial intelligence (AI), directors on many corporate boards are starting to consider their oversight obligations. Part of this interest is related to directors’ increasing focus on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues. There is a growing recognition that, for all its promise, AI can present serious risks to society, including invasion of privacy, carbon emissions and perpetuation of discrimination.
Law, Technology and Access to Justice
APRIL 4, 2022
Pretty well all legal service organisations will have made use of video communication over the Covid period. Some have used it for community outreach work as well as internal communication between staff and external with clients.
Attorney at Work
APRIL 26, 2022
A legal recruiter explains why cultivating interests outside the office is essential for sustaining a long, satisfying and successful career. It’s not intentional. Few even notice that it’s happening. Slowly but surely, many lawyers give up their outside interests as they become singularly focused on work. That’s not surprising — being a lawyer is a demanding job.
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