Ward Blawg
MAY 25, 2022
New insights on the benefits of consultancy work as a freelance Solicitor from Scott-Moncrieff & Associates, one of the UK’s leading ‘virtual law firms‘ If you are thinking about making a change to your working life, you may have considered going freelance and working as a consultant solicitor.
Attorney at Work
MAY 24, 2022
Back in the day when I was a young and naive pup, I didn’t pay much attention to how my email was set up. I’d sometimes be surprised by a little pop-up that accompanied an email I’d just opened in Microsoft Outlook, asking me to please confirm receiving and reading that email: aka a “read receipt.” I may have been naive in those days, but I was also (and still am) private and paranoid.
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LawSites
MAY 26, 2022
Pioneers and Pathfinders · Bob Ambrogi. I always prefer to be the interviewer, not the interviewee. Even so, I was honored to be the guest on this week’s Pioneers and Pathfinders podcast, hosted by Steve Poor , partner and chair emeritus at Seyfarth. From the show description: “In today’s conversation, we talk about Bob’s journey as a journalist, his views on the current state of mainstream media, the potential of regulatory reform to further disrupt the industry, and the
Rocket Matter
MAY 23, 2022
“He is a good man, and I am content at night knowing he watches me sleep.” —Online review of a Danny DeVito cardboard cutout “I don’t know if this is a scam or if mine was broken, but it doesn’t work and I am still getting abducted by UFOs on a regular basis.” —Online review… Read More » Why Forbes Advisor Thinks Rocket Matter Is the Best (and Why You Will Too).
LLRX
MAY 25, 2022
“This is a profound insight from this super-powerful TEDx talk by Lesa Bradley on discrimination in the workplace: Your workers don’t actually have a disability until you place them in a context that disables them. This talk speaks about inclusivity of people with a disability in the workplace. Lesa talks about why we are struggling.
Attorney at Work
MAY 24, 2022
If you were to believe everything being written about legal services today, you might think lawyer-client relationships have boiled down to one thing: legal pricing. Yet in my conversations with clients, fees rarely are the first thing mentioned or the most important factor used to evaluate relationships with outside counsel. Don’t get me wrong. All clients are cost-conscious, particularly these days.
LawSites
MAY 26, 2022
After two years of virtual conferences, the American Association of Law Libraries is returning to in-person programming for its annual meeting and conference , which takes place July 16-19 in Denver. Often, when I hear people rattle off the names of the leading legal technology conferences in the United States, this one is not even on their radar. That is a huge mistake.
Legal Tech Connection brings together the best content for legal and legal tech professionals from the widest variety of thought leaders.
LLRX
MAY 21, 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. – Four highlights from this week : How Often Do Ads Share Your Data Every Day?
Attorney at Work
MAY 23, 2022
When you are a first-year associate in a big law firm the way is fraught with booby-traps. 17 ways to stay out of trouble. A family friend will be graduating from law school this spring and starting his career at a large law firm next fall. Asked to provide some advice, I started compiling tips and recommendations — things to do and not to do. As I considered my own experiences as a first-year associate at a big firm, and subsequent experiences as a more senior attorney, I quickly formulated a l
LawSites
MAY 25, 2022
Non-lawyers will be allowed to provide legal advice to low-income New Yorkers who face debt collection actions, under a preliminary injunction ordered yesterday by a federal judge in New York. In a case brought by Upsolve , a company that uses technology to help low-income consumers in bankruptcy and debt matters, seeking to block New York’s attorney general from enforcing unauthorized practice of law rules against non-lawyers who help debtors fill out forms, the judge concluded that the F
Rocket Matter
MAY 25, 2022
E-signature and secure file sharing have made it much easier for attorneys to do their jobs. They make it easier and faster to get documents signed, reduce the risk of mistakes, and offer an efficient way to reduce your paper use and green up your operations. With a multitude of e-signature products on the market, the team at Rocket Matter has created this guide to help you find the platform that works for you.
LLRX
MAY 25, 2022
Jim Calloway is the Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Management Assistance Program. He informs us about the range of legal services delivered by what have been designated as “primary-care lawyers.” From Calloway's perspective, there is people law, and there is business/corporate law. Over the years, there has been a greater divergence in these two types of law practice focuses.
Attorney at Work
MAY 24, 2022
When you face situations you don’t enjoy or problems you can’t readily solve, it is helpful to shift your perspective. Shifting your perspective can allow you to focus on the good, elevate your mood and bring you to new creative solutions. You shift perspective by thinking or doing something differently to change yourself, your situation or others. Here are five ways. 1.
LawSites
MAY 24, 2022
If ever there was a process ripe for disruption, notarization would seem to be it. A function that may date back to Ancient Egypt, it has changed little for centuries – still typically done in person, on hard-copy paper, using physical seals, and recorded in written ledgers. . Pat Kinsel , founder and CEO of Notarize , believes society has grappled for too long with how to scale this simple process of authenticating signatures.
Debevoise Data Blog
MAY 23, 2022
On Wednesday, May 25, 2022, Avi Gesser and Anna Gressel of Debevoise’s Data Strategy & Security Group joined Luke Tenery and Michael Costa of StoneTurn’s Cybersecurity and Incident Response Group for an engaging discussion on Artificial Intelligence Incident Response hosted by the Cybersecurity Docket. The panel discussed: Current legal, compliance, and risks relating to AI that are likely to lead to AI incidents; Practical steps companies can take to prepare for and mitigate AI incid
LLRX
MAY 25, 2022
Ahmed Al-Rawi , Assistant Professor, News, Social Media, and Public Communication, Simon Fraser University - identifies and explains how features of search engine autocomplete functions enables users to find fast answers to their questions or queries. However, autocomplete search functions are based on ambiguous algorithms that have been widely criticized because they often provide biased and racist results.
Attorney at Work
MAY 26, 2022
Five Things to Consider Before You Sublet Office Space. As lawyers embrace remote work and resist returning to the office full time, many law firms wonder what to do with their empty offices. As of early April 2022, the average office population in major U.S. metropolitan areas remained at 43%. While that’s up from an all-time low of 14.6% at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, it still leaves quite a bit of vacancy.
LawSites
MAY 25, 2022
The American Bar Association’s Center for Innovation has launched a website, Justice System Metrics , that catalogues the key metrics and performance indicators that can be used to evaluate progress and innovation in the justice sector, and that also provides real-world examples of how these metrics are being used to understand and drive progress in the justice system.
Rocket Matter
MAY 23, 2022
“He is a good man, and I am content at night knowing he watches me sleep.”. — Online review of a Danny DeVito cardboard cutout. “I don’t know if this is a scam or if mine was broken, but it doesn’t work and I am still getting abducted by UFOs on a regular basis.”. — Online review of “UFO Detector”. Online reviews can be overwhelmingly positive or extremely negative.
NSLT
MAY 27, 2022
Excel: Work with Macros You want to automate a repetitive task in Excel so that you can do the task again with a single click. The best way to do that? Record a macro. And the macro recorder is the easiest way to create a new macro in Excel.
Attorney at Work
MAY 23, 2022
Dean Whalen, Chief Legal Officer of Readback, a new AI-assisted deposition court reporting platform, explains how AI-assisted court reporting addresses the stenographer talent crunch — with added benefits. For over a decade, Blockbuster was the undisputed leader in video rentals. By 2010, however, the video rental giant would accrue over $1 billion in losses and file for bankruptcy.
LawSites
MAY 27, 2022
As more and more legaltech companies add their product listings to the LawNext Legal Technology Directory , which we launched in February , I am periodically featuring the latest listings. Here are this week’s 10 most recent additions: DeedPro Plotter. “Quickly and easily plot deeds, tracts and legal descriptions by entering metes and bounds descriptions.
lawtomated
MAY 23, 2022
Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Facebook Pinterest Print Email After an incredible show in London in 2021, Artificial Lawyer , a leading Legal Tech news site and Cosmonauts , a first in service B2B conference producer, are proud to present Legal Innovators California- bringing you the best in Legal Tech on the East Coast! Where? Innovators California will take place on 9th June 2022 at the stunning Bespoke Venues at Westfield, San Francisco.
Debevoise Data Blog
MAY 23, 2022
Connecticut’s Governor signed the state’s comprehensive privacy law into effect on May 10, 2022, adding yet another category of state privacy law. The Connecticut legislature largely drew upon provisions found in existing comprehensive U.S. state privacy laws in California, Virginia, Colorado, and Utah to draft “An Act Concerning Protection of Consumer Data Privacy and Online Monitoring” (the “Connecticut Privacy Act” or “CTPA”).
Attorney at Work
MAY 24, 2022
? ?word document inspector. Watch the video to learn how to easily scrub your document with Microsoft Word document inspector. You spent a lot of time getting that pleading or contract together, and now you’re ready to send it out. The last thing you want to do is inadvertently expose your prior edits or others’ comments to prying eyes. If you don’t already have a third-party metadata cleaner installed on your PC, Microsoft Word has a Document Inspector that can clean out any potentially comprom
LawSites
MAY 25, 2022
The law practice management platform PracticePanther is today beginning a limited-time “ SwitchScription ” offer by which it will buy out law firms from up to seven months of their current practice management contracts if they switch to PracticePanther. “At PracticePanther, we believe that every law firm should be able to choose the solution that best serves the current needs of their firm – regardless of what may have worked for them in the past,” said Mayowa Oyebadejo ,
LawNext podcast
MAY 23, 2022
If ever there was a process ripe for disruption, notarization would seem to be it. A function that may date back to Ancient Egypt, it has changed little for centuries – still typically done in person, on hard-copy paper, using physical seals, and recorded in written ledgers. Pat Kinsel , founder and CEO of Notarize , believes society has grappled for too long with how to scale this simple process of authenticating signatures.
Attorney at Work
MAY 24, 2022
One quality is more important than any other in having the life you want: confidence. Confidence is ultimately more important than resilience, talent or even intelligence for having the life you want. Why? Without confidence, it is almost impossible to complete tasks well, make decisions, define your career, be a leader or have a fulfilling life outside of work.
Attorney at Work
MAY 22, 2022
In the past, law firms were known for sprawling offices, where even the most junior associates had their own private workspace. That changed as larger firms adopted standard-size offices, open floor plans and clustered workstations, and a growing cadre of lawyers — particularly solo practitioners — moved to shared offices. Prior to the pandemic, demand swelled for co-working spaces — including office centers designed specifically for the legal community.
Attorney at Work
MAY 23, 2022
Keeping up on the litigation landscape with AI-powered legal analytics can help cultivate productive and meaningful client relationships. “As someone who had his own law firm, I learned very early on that without clients, you had no business,” says Cole Silver , Chief Client Officer at Blank Rome. The statement is as bold as it is obvious. Still, it bears repeating.
Attorney at Work
MAY 27, 2022
Takeaways from the 10th Annual LMA Silicon Valley In-House Counsel Summit. After the pandemic ushered in remote work, lawyers who serve as outside counsel to Silicon Valley tech companies quickly forged new ways of working with their in-house counterparts. But now that economic headwinds have arrived, it’s more important than ever for outside counsel to nurture those relationships and provide top service.
Attorney at Work
MAY 24, 2022
What types of tools can enhance attorney productivity? Attorney at Work authors offer some ideas. One thing we’ve definitely learned over the past year is that working remotely takes focus and resolve. (OK, and that to-go taco kits were the thing we’d been missing in our lives.) Now, with new year’s transition hiccups (mostly) behind us, we have no more excuses: It is time to get serious about productivity and efficiency!
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