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 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.
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
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 !
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Attorney at Work
APRIL 11, 2022
Were you put in charge of leading your law firm’s new website? Do you have a team, an assistant, or you’re “it”? Law firm web design is scary. Have you even figured out how to start tackling this Herculean undertaking? Relax. Take a deep breath. Everyone who contributed to this post — well, this is not their first rodeo. And we’re here to help you make critical decisions about getting started on your new site.
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
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 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
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.
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 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 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.
Advertiser: Trellis
With Daily Filings Report by Trellis you will receive an email and csv file daily with all new cases filed in the jurisdictions you're tracking. Each new case will include all case metadata like judge, parties, counsel, practice area, and even direct links to the full docket and complaint. Trellis Daily Filings Reports provide direct access to newly filed state and federal litigation curated just for you.
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 21, 2022
Ransomware has been a curse for quite a while. Law firms are one-stop shopping for cybercriminals, alluring because they hold the data of many people and businesses. More than 80% of attacks today exfiltrate or take your data. That means you have a data breach – and potentially a number of legally required notifications. Attackers will try for two ransoms, one for the decryption key to restore your data and – if you’ve been lucky enough to be able to restore your data with known good backups tha
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 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 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 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.
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.
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