Trial Technology

JUNE 27, 2022

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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Attorney at Work

JUNE 17, 2022

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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Rocket Matter

JUNE 27, 2022

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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CloudNine

JUNE 29, 2022

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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Legal Talk Network

JUNE 28, 2022

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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LLRX

JUNE 4, 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.

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LawSites

JUNE 29, 2022

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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Rocket Matter

JUNE 10, 2022

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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Relativity

JUNE 7, 2022

A former GC at Apple and Oracle, Dan Cooperman has spent his career advocating for AI as the best and brightest way to improve outcomes, reduce costs, and shorten turnaround times.

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Legal Talk Network

JUNE 24, 2022

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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LLRX

JUNE 30, 2022

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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LawSites

JUNE 24, 2022

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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Attorney at Work

JUNE 3, 2022

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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Rocket Matter

JUNE 17, 2022

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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Relativity

JUNE 28, 2022

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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Legal Talk Network

JUNE 30, 2022

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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LLRX

JUNE 15, 2022

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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LawSites

JUNE 21, 2022

?. 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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Attorney at Work

JUNE 9, 2022

Asking for business is awkward at best. I’ve finally figured out why so many lawyers want to know, “But how do I ask for the work?” It’s because the picture they have in their minds is a pretty scary one. It goes something like this: You and a former colleague are sitting together over coffee or lunch. You share stories about your kids’ accomplishments and talk about your summer vacations — then you blurt out, “So … got any work you can give to me?”.

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Rocket Matter

JUNE 16, 2022

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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Debevoise Data Blog

JUNE 25, 2022

With the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and other complex algorithms across industries, many business decisions that used to be made by humans are now being made (either solely or primarily) by algorithms or models. Examples of automated decision-making (“ADM”) include determining: Who gets an interview, a job, a promotion, or employment discipline; Which ads get displayed for a user on a website or a social media feed; Whether someone’s credit application should be appro

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Legal Talk Network

JUNE 29, 2022

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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LLRX

JUNE 30, 2022

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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LawSites

JUNE 14, 2022

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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Attorney at Work

JUNE 16, 2022

As a sports fan, I always like reading about “coaching trees.” Coaching trees are like family trees but they show how one coach produced other successful coaches who went on to other teams. While there is some disagreement about who has generated the greatest tree, many will point to Bill Walsh, one of whose early “branches” was Mike Holgren, whose own branches produced Andy Reid and Jon Gruden.

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Rocket Matter

JUNE 28, 2022

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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Relativity

JUNE 23, 2022

At Reed Smith, AI Visionary Selina Coleman and her colleagues focus on how client relationships and collaboration make the implementation of new technology more effective, efficient, and insightful.

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Legal Talk Network

JUNE 28, 2022

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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LLRX

JUNE 30, 2022

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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LawSites

JUNE 13, 2022

ImageRights International , a company whose technology has helped visual artists protect their copyrights since 2009, is now entering the legal tech market with its launch today of ImageRights for Law Firms , a platform designed to help law firms and corporate legal departments directly protect their clients’ copyrighted photographs, illustrations, digital art and other visual works.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 6, 2022

How have law firms supported their clients during the COVID-19 pandemic? A dozen business development professionals talk about the innovative ways their firms have strengthened relationships and created deeper ties. Businesses around the world continue to feel the pandemic’s impact in countless ways. Most in-house legal departments still grapple with the challenges of working remotely, making do with leaner budgets and resources, and managing virtual teams — all during an unprecedented era acros

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Percipient

JUNE 23, 2022

We are often asked if we incorporate artificial intelligence (“AI”) into our legal workflows and electronic discovery processes. This question is not surprising given the efficiencies and cost savings associated with AI. Typically, these questions are followed by inquiries into how the AI tools work and their defensibility. That is, how the use of AI can be defended if its use is challenged by a judge or opposing party.

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Relativity

JUNE 23, 2022

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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Legal Talk Network

JUNE 28, 2022

Choosing which legal software systems to use in your law practice is a big decision. New innovations in legal tech have become the great equalizer for many law firms, helping them output that’s competitive with other, larger law firms. To make sure that you’re investing in technology that drives your law firm forward, start by answering a few questions about your practice: What are your firm’s overall strategy and business objectives?

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LLRX

JUNE 11, 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.

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LawSites

JUNE 9, 2022

In a deal that is sure to shake-up the already hyperactive market for law practice management software, AffiniPay , the parent company of the electronic payments platform LawPay , has acquired the law practice management company MyCase. Not only are LawPay and MyCase among the most widely used products in their respective sectors of e-payments and practice management, but MyCase has also acquired four other practice management products over the last year or so: CasePeer for personal injury firms

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 2, 2022

The Stoic Marcus Aurelius kept a daily journal. He reviewed his day each evening through short, terse, simple paragraphs. He began each day reviewing the previous evening’s notes. Aurelius felt journaling ordered his thoughts, helping him live a more productive life. His “Meditations” collected these private thoughts. They’ve guided business and political leaders since 180 A.D.

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