June, 2022

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Lawyers: Why Is It So Hard to Ask for Help?

Attorney at Work

Asking for help is crucial to your success, both personally and professionally. Here are five ways to get better at asking for it and accepting it. Lawyers are expected to always know the answers, handle the pressure and not make mistakes. Wow! No wonder our jobs can cause us so much stress! Even when we are meeting these unrealistic expectations, we can benefit from letting others help us.

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The Online Courtroom: Hybrid and Remote Trial Considerations -- PART 1

Trial Technology

Order "The Online Courtroom" NOTE: This series will cover what happened, how we've adjusted, where we are now, and where we're headed. We will also offer numerous tips, tricks, and best practices for hybrid and remote trials. Looking back at our trial calendar, I added a note on March 9, 2020: COVID-19 BUSINESS STOP. I was at home in Southern California's South Bay (I also have a home office in the East Bay Area in Northern California), and the next important note I see is on March 27, 2020: BEA

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5 Tips for Better Law Firm Collaboration

Rocket Matter

Some lawyers may be tempted to go full Perry Mason and try to save the day on their own, but that doesn’t usually end like the TV show. In fact, your law firm suffers if people refuse to work together. To keep your clients coming back again and again, the members of your firm need… Read More » 5 Tips for Better Law Firm Collaboration.

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2022 Link Guide to Healthcare Resources

LLRX

The pandemic and long COVID health issues have created heightened awareness and a growing need for factual online health information. This guide by Marcus P. Zillman identifies sources providing access to vetted health related research, tools for tracking and monitoring emerging issues and treatments, expert analysis, search engines and bots, and alternative and complementary therapies.

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The Tech-Savvy Paralegals Playbook: How To Leverage AI

Speaker: Allison Mears, Adela Wekselblatt, and George Socha

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal industry, and paralegals are at the forefront of this transformation. As AI becomes more integrated into legal workflows, paralegals can streamline their daily tasks, enhance efficiency, and add greater value to their firms and organizations. But what exactly does AI mean for paralegals today—and how can you leverage it to your advantage?

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Optimizing Your Infrastructure for LAW & Explore eDiscovery

CloudNine

By: Joshua Tucker. It’s safe to say Microsoft isn’t going out of business anytime soon. Last year alone they grew 18 percent, reaching 168 billion dollars*. They are continuously making updates to their software, improving their products and functionality, and purchasing emerging software. They want to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more*, but the power you obtain from the software is up to you.

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Law Firm Pricing – What Will People Pay For?

Legal Talk Network

Law firm pricing is one of the most important aspects of running a legal practice, and is one of the most important factors to potential clients. So why don’t lawyers address this in their marketing? Pricing not only affects how your clients view the value they receive from your services, but it also affects whether or not clients will hire your firm at all.

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Litigation Analytics Company Gavelytics is Shutting Down Tomorrow

LawSites

The hardest stories I have to report are the ones about legal tech startups that are forced to shut down. Today brings news that Gavelytics , a seven-year-old litigation analytics company, is closing its doors effective tomorrow. I first wrote about Gavelytics on the day that its product publicly launched , Sept. 26, 2017, and later had the opportunity to visit its Los Angeles headquarters and record an interview for my LawNext podcast with founder and CEO Rick Merrill and Justin Brownstone , th

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6 Reasons Your Law Firm Should Go Paperless

Rocket Matter

The average adult spends ten minutes a day looking for something they lost. So it makes sense for any business, especially one with lots of paperwork like a law firm, to organize their documents in the clearest, most accessible way possible. Paper documents are easy to misplace if someone forgets to file them in the… Read More » 6 Reasons Your Law Firm Should Go Paperless.

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LLRX June 2022 Issue

LLRX

Articles and Columns for June 2022 2022 Link Guide to Healthcare Resources – The pandemic and long COVID health issues have created heightened awareness and a growing need for factual online health information. This guide by Marcus P. Zillman identifies sources providing access to vetted health related research, tools for tracking and monitoring emerging issues.

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Who Holds the Legal Professional Accountable for Innovation? AI Visionary Kelly Clay

Relativity

Kelly Clay advocates for the use of AI as an important way for lawyers to act on their obligations to find ethical, expedient ways of working in a quickly evolving business world.

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Uncovering The Hidden Connections: A Patent Family Survival Guide

Speaker: Andrew Klein

Are there mysteries lurking in your family tree? 🕵 No, not a long-lost half-brother - I'm talking about a patent family tree! IP paralegals need fast and easy ways to verify and report on essential data about foreign equivalents of US assets. Join us to master the global scope of key assets to support prosecution, portfolio management, litigation, licensing, competitive monitoring and more!

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Counsel Cast

Legal Talk Network

If you want to make more money in legal, we’ve got a podcast for you! Counsel Cast is a show dedicated to excellence and law firm profitability. Hosted by marketing guru Karin Conroy , this podcast breaks down key strategies to earn new clients and provide top notch customer service. Each episode features notable guest experts who share the latest tips and tricks for taking your firm to the next level.

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LinkedIn Profile Update: How to Stand Out in 4 Simple, Achievable Steps

Attorney at Work

Here’s how to conduct a thorough LinkedIn profile update — because when your business is running on virtual connections, a stale profile isn’t going to cut it. Dismissing LinkedIn as the “boring” social media network, many professionals are content to slap an outdated photo on their profiles, dash out a nondescriptive tagline, and call it a day (then, promptly forget about the platform for another 16 months).

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In Bid to Disrupt PI, Legal Tech Company Pivots, Launches Legal Service to Compete with the Very Firms It Has Long Served

LawSites

For the last seven years, Mighty has been a legal technology company operating a portal that helps personal injury law firms interface more seamlessly with the lienholders, such as medical providers, who have claims against their clients’ recoveries. But as of today, Mighty is making a mighty big pivot, directly competing against those personal injury law firms with a dual-entity business in which Mighty helps deliver clients to its newly launched partner law firm, Mighty Law, and supports that

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Legal Practice Management Software: 5 Time-Saving Integrations to Look For

Rocket Matter

If managing legal matters sometimes makes you feel that you’re running around like a chicken with its head cut off, it’s time to think about how to save time in your work day. One easy change you can make today is to integrate the software you use every day with your legal practice management software.… Read More » Legal Practice Management Software: 5 Time-Saving Integrations to Look For.

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AI for Paralegals: Everything You Need to Know (and How to Use It Safely)

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Ready to cut through the AI hype and learn exactly how to use these tools in your legal work? Join this webinar to get practical guidance from attorney and AI legal expert, Joe Stephens, who understands what really matters for legal professionals! What You'll Learn: Evaluate AI Tools Like a Pro 🔍 Learn which tools are worth your time and how to spot potential security and ethics risks before they become problems.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 4, 2022

LLRX

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.

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Stellar Women: Bishu Solomon Girma on Steadiness Amidst Steady Change

Relativity

In this episode of Stellar Women, learn about flexible leadership styles, making space for diversity, and setting realistic goals with Bishu Solomon Girma of Access Legal.

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Clio’s Legal Trends Report Minute

Legal Talk Network

If you can spare a minute, you can immediately make more money practicing law. If that sounds too good to be true, allow me a moment to curry favor… Inspired by their annual Legal Trends Report , we’ve partnered up with Clio to produce short podcast segments chock-full of digestible bites designed to turbo-charge your law practice instantly. In a minute or less, we delve into what factors separate profitable practices from those struggling to survive.

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Retirement and the Unexpected Return to the Office

Attorney at Work

Retirees returning to work is a rising trend in the workplace. Camille Stell interviews attorney Will Graebe on his unexpected return to work and lessons learned. Millions of Americans left the workforce during the pandemic, 4.2 million people between March 2020 and July 2021. According to U.S. Labor Department data, 2.4 million of those were older workers.

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Case Closed: How to Optimize Your Legal Intake Process for Efficiency

Speaker: Anne Post, CEO North America, Xakia Technologies

Do you know that 40% of U.S. Legal Departments now have a formal legal intake process? With that in mind, where does your legal department stand today? Many legal teams still struggle with a flood of incoming requests, leaving everyone overwhelmed and frustrated. Implementing a formal legal intake process can seem like an obstacle between the business and the legal department, but it doesn’t have to be!

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LawNext Podcast: LawVu CEO Sam Kidd Explains Why He Believes His Company Is Revolutionizing Corporate Legal Operations

LawSites

?. LawVu is a New Zealand company that says it is revolutionizing legal operations by waging war on a multiplicity of point solutions and providing in-house legal teams with the first truly connected platform for matter, contract and spend management. . LawVu recently conducted a survey of in-house lawyers and legal operations professionals and found that 77% of them spend more than an hour a day just jumping between systems in order to get a complete view of their work.

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Tired of the Tabs? Why Your Firm Needs a Software That Does It All

Rocket Matter

While some people wear working with 227 tabs open as a badge of honor, it’s not great for anyone’s productivity. Switching between tabs means you often lose your place while you’re working, or accidentally close a document that you hadn’t saved yet. Or worse, you go from one software to another and lose some important… Read More » Tired of the Tabs?

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Genetic paparazzi are right around the corner, and courts aren’t ready to confront the legal quagmire of DNA theft

LLRX

Liza Vertinsky and Yaniv Heled are law professors who study how emerging technologies like genetic sequencing are regulated. They believe that growing public interest in genetics has increased the likelihood that genetic paparazzi with DNA collection kits may soon become as ubiquitous as ones with cameras. While courts have for the most part managed to evade dealing with the complexities of surreptitious DNA collection and testing of public figures, they won’t be able to avoid dealing with it fo

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Data Law Update: Can Software Engage in the Unauthorized Practice of Law?

Relativity

Artificial intelligence plays a big role in the law—so much so that a federal bankruptcy court has joined others facing the question: Can software engage in the unauthorized practice of law?

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Trellis Launches Trellis AI to Streamline Trial Court Litigation

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

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How to Recession-Proof Your Law Firm

Legal Talk Network

After two years of riding high on a post-pandemic wave of stunning financial growth, some in the legal industry are now bracing for a recession. And while a recession might be a worrying prospect, it also presents some great opportunities for law firms and their business. Making good decisions ahead of time and taking actions now can help ensure that your law firm not only survives during tough economic times, but thrives.

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Searing Lessons From a State Bar Complaint: A Lawyer’s Story

Attorney at Work

Being on the receiving end of a state bar complaint and sanction is awful. It’s painful, it’s public and, frankly, it’s humiliating. Unfortunately, that’s something I know from personal experience. An Ethics Sanction Needn’t Be a Professional Death Sentence. That is, not if you don’t allow it to become one. Understandably, few attorneys want to talk about their experience with the disciplinary process, even though it’s not as rare as some might think.

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The LegalTech Fund Raises $28.5M, Exceeding Its Goal for Money to Invest in Legal Tech Startups

LawSites

Nearly a year ago on my LawNext podcast , I interviewed Zach Posner , who cofounded The Legaltech Fund in 2020 as the first venture capital firm laser-focused on law and legal technology. At that point, the fund was still in the process of raising money from partners to invest, even as it had already begun investing in legal tech startups. . Now comes news that the fund has closed at $28.5 million, which exceeds its goal of $25 million.

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5 Tips for Better Law Firm Collaboration

Rocket Matter

Some lawyers may be tempted to go full Perry Mason and try to save the day on their own, but that doesn’t usually end like the TV show. In fact, your law firm suffers if people refuse to work together. To keep your clients coming back again and again, the members of your firm need to collaborate efficiently. But that can be easier said than done.

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The New Way of Conducting Patent Research: Proven Strategies For Efficient Due Diligence

Speaker: Andrew Klein

Patent due diligence processes take too long. The information you need is publicly available but accessing it is often tedious & inefficient, requiring you to wade through dozens of PTO websites or for-free tools to gather what you need. Plus, it frequently occurs late in the game, leaving professionals under pressure, sifting through chaotic 100-page PDFs, and frustrated with poorly formatted information & patent numbers.

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The OCLC v Clarivate Dilemma

LLRX

Librarian and tech expert Karen Coyle provides insight into the evolving conflict that caused OCLC to file suit against the company Clarivate which owns Proquest and ExLibris. The suit focuses on a metadata service proposed by Ex Libris called "MetaDoor." MetaDoor isn't a bibliographic database à la WorldCat, it is a peer-to-peer service that allows its users to find quality records in the catalog systems of other libraries.

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No Win Too Small: Crowell's John Davis on Leveraging AI Across Legal

Relativity

There is room for artificial intelligence to help lawyers in many practice areas distinguish themselves from the pack, according to AI Visionary John Davis.

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A Mindset Shift on Law Firm Metrics Could Grow Your Firm

Legal Talk Network

Give Yourself Permission to Be Geeky. “Data seems overwhelming.” Jared Correia, host of Legal Toolkit , acknowledged in the December 22, 2020 episode. It can be really hard for lawyers, who are not trained in numerical analysis, to embrace data. But, like the efficiencies revealed in the book and movie Moneyball , he encourages lawyers to be more analytical.

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Depression in Lawyers: Bad News and Good News

Attorney at Work

When lawyers start talking about stress and depression, they are usually talking about the effect their law practice has on their sense of well-being, self-value and self-esteem. In a recent ALM Mental Health and Substance Abuse Survey , 31.2% of lawyers surveyed felt they were depressed — that is four times the depression rate of the general population.

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Trial Prep: What Attorneys Really Want (And How to Deliver It)

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Get ready to uncover what attorneys really need from you when it comes to trial prep in this new webinar! Attorney and law professor, Joe Stephens, J.D., will share proven techniques for anticipating attorney needs, organizing critical documents, and transforming complex information into compelling case presentations. Key Learning Objectives: Organization That Makes Sense 🎯 Learn how to structure and organize case materials in ways that align with how attorneys actually work and think.