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Fenced-off culture, the privatized Internet, and why book publishers lean on a 30-year-old doctrine

LLRX

The Internet Archive (IA) "is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 624 billion archived web pages." The IA offers users unrestricted access to its expansive ecosystem of knowledge and educational resources from the public domain. Andy Oram , prolific author, editor, publisher, and technical expert on all aspects of computing, undertook an extensive examination of a game changing case, Hachette v.

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Reynen Court Names Two to Executive Roles, Including Christian Lang As President

LawSites

Reynen Court , the so-called app store for legal technology, has promoted two of its key executives to new roles. Christian Lang , formerly head of strategy, is now president and chief operating officer. Lodewijk Bonebakker , formerly head of operations and security, is now chief compliance and security officer. . Both will continue to report to founder and CEO Andrew D.

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How to Motivate Remote Workers: 7 Secret Hacks You’ll Love

Attorney at Work

How to motivate your remote workers may be a thing that’s keeping you up at night. Used to be, you’d drop by their cubicle with a cup of coffee in your hands and tell them you really need those TPS reports. It was like magic. But now, they’re a stamp-sized square staring at you, hoping you won’t say anything about the cat walking across the screen.

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9 Reasons Why Businesses are Switching to the Cloud (as told by a business consultant)

CloudNine

By guest blogger, Arnold Rogers As an experienced business consultant, Arnold Rogers has advised businesses across many industries in areas of lead generation, customer experience, service development, and small business cash flow and financial management. He has experience in handling diverse industries, from fast-moving consumer goods to business-to-business hardware retailers.

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After the Ivory Tower Falls: A Book Review

LLRX

Among the main strengths of this important, highly readable book, says David H. Rothman , is its history of how we got into the mess in the first place. We blew our chance by not making higher education more of a tax-supported public good with academic values prevailing over commercial ones. The GI Bill and other measures helped, but what if the aid had been even more extensive with far less reliance on the marketplace?

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On LawNext Podcast: Courtroom5 CEO Sonja Ebron on Arming Pro Se Litigants to Succeed in Court

LawSites

For those who have to go to court without a lawyer, navigating the justice system can be daunting. Courtroom5 is a unique justice tech company that addresses that problem by providing pro se litigants with the training, tools, documents and support they need to represent themselves. For litigants who need extra help, it also offers access to à la carte lawyer services.

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Do You Fit Cybercriminals’ Ideal Victim Profile?

Attorney at Work

Law firm data breaches aren’t random, happy accidents for cyberthieves. The time and effort some bad actors devote to laying the groundwork for a single cyberattack is mind-boggling. Oh, wait. You thought data breaches and other forms of cyberattack were purely the results of luck? On the contrary. Quite often, attempts to breach a law office’s confidential data are the product of meticulous research and preparation.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 24, 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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Comprehensive Study of Regulatory Reform Finds It Is Driving ‘Substantial Innovation’ In Legal Services Delivery with No Harm to Consumers

LawSites

A Stanford Law School study published today of regulatory reforms in Utah and Arizona finds that they are “spurring substantial innovation,” that they are critical to serving lower-income populations, and that they do not pose any substantial risk of consumer harm. “The evidence gathered in this report shows that rule reforms can spur significant innovation, both in the ownership structure of legal services providers and in the delivery models used to serve clients,” the

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Marina Shepelsky: How to Be a Top Lawyer in Your Niche

Attorney at Work

What does it take to become a successful lawyer? In a series of in-depth interviews for the Estrin Report , Chere Estrin profiles top lawyers from all types of practices, and we’re highlighting their top five tips here. This week, the spotlight is on immigration and divorce lawyer — and social media star — Marina Shepelsky. . Marina Shepelsky Founder, CEO Shepelsky Law Brooklyn, NY Fordham Law School, 2002.

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FTC Proposed Rulemaking Part 4 — Reducing Risks Associated with Artificial Intelligence

Debevoise Data Blog

As we wrote in previous posts, on August 11, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) announced its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “ANPR”) seeking public comment on 95 questions focused on harms stemming from “commercial surveillance and lax data security practices” and whether new trade regulation rules under section 18 of the FTC Act are needed to protect people’s privacy and information.

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Using an Infographic to Encourage Deep Reading

LLRX

Prof. Cindy Guyer , Senior Law Librarian and Adjunct Assistant Professor Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, has been experimenting with incorporating infographics in her teaching to present information and knowledge visually, using graphs, flowcharts, timelines, and diagrams, which are components of instructional design.

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New Tool from Helm360 Automates Firms’ Testing of Elite 3E Implementations to Save Time and Cost

LawSites

The folks at Helm360 have been putting their knowledge as a full-service IT company to another use of late, developing products that build on their experience implementing technology solutions for legal and professional services firms. . I wrote about one of these products in May, Termi , an AI-enabled chatbot that aims to solve the problems of slow tech adoption and platform fatigue by allowing attorneys and staff to simply ask it natural-language questions or request tasks that they might o

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Planning a Strong Fourth Quarter for Your Law Practice

Attorney at Work

Here are end-of-year marketing plays you can make to finish strong — and set yourself up for a win next year. I love football. High school, college, pro — it doesn’t matter. While football teams need a strong performance for the entire 60 minutes, I know that games are often won or lost in the fourth quarter. “Winning isn’t imperative, but getting tougher in the fourth quarter is.” — Bear Bryant.

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The Complete Guide to Drafting Legal Document Review Protocols

Percipient

When lawyers prepare for litigation, depositions, mediations, or even internal investigations, they conduct a document review to find all the documents related to the project. If the document review is large enough, they may enlist the help of others, like document review attorneys. If other team members lend a hand with the document review, Lawyers will typically develop a document review protocol to ensure that all relevant documents are identified and outline what documents are important to t

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What is proof-of-stake? A computer scientist explains a new way to make cryptocurrencies, NFTs and metaverse transactions

LLRX

Prof. Scott Ruoti briefs us on yet another new component in Digital Ledger Technology. Proof-of-stake is a mechanism for achieving consensus on a blockchain. Blockchain is a technology that records transactions that can’t be deleted or altered. It’s a decentralized database, or ledger, that is under no one person or organization’s control. Since no one controls the database, consensus mechanisms, such as proof-of-stake, are needed to coordinate the operation of blockchain-based systems.

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A Special Guest Joins Us for the Legaltech Week Panel Tomorrow: Joshua Lenon, As He Marks 10 Years at Clio

LawSites

Our usual Friday panel of legal tech journalists and bloggers will be joined this week by a special guest panelist: Joshua Lenon , who is marking his 10th anniversary as lawyer in residence at the law practice management company Clio. We will chat a bit with Joshua and then have him join us as we dissect the week’s top stories in legal tech and legal innovation.

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Bruce’s Beach: A Case Study for Judicial Analytics Best Practices

Attorney at Work

By following its details closely, we can begin to unravel the strategic importance of judicial research and analytics for civil litigation at the state trial court level. There’s a narrow strip of land nestled in the South Bay of Los Angeles. The three-acre parcel overlooks the Pacific Ocean, sitting as the last remaining remnant of Bruce’s Lodge, the first African American beach resort on the West Coast.

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Building a Litigation Finance Program at BigLaw Based on Project Management Principles (Angela Floessel, MoFo)

Technically Legal

Angela Floessel, Global Director of Pricing and Legal Project Management at Morrison Foerster, discusses the litigation finance program she helped set up permitting MoFo to take good cases it might not otherwise take, secure good results for clients it might not otherwise help and help grow the firm’s bottom line while doing it. Before moving to legal, Angela spent most of her career in finance.

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Moving Faster, Securely: Adding Security to Your DevOps Program [Security Sandbox Podcast]

Relativity

What is DevOps? Why should you care? That’s the topic of discussion for this episode of Security Sandbox, as Relativity CSO Amanda Fennell chats with Marcin Swiety and Raphael Theberge about their DevOps adventure.

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WiST Webinar Put Yourself Out There: Networking 101

Legal Tech Innovation Wales

Nowadays, working in my slippers from a makeshift office, it can be difficult to remember the days when proper networking was commonplace. Messy hair? Camera off. Sticking the kettle on? Mute mic. But now that we’re entering the post-pandemic era, it’s important that we remember to network - why we do it, what we gain from it, and how to do it effectively.

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New York Releases Proposed Rules for Its AI Employment Law

Debevoise Data Blog

In July, we wrote about New York City’s Automated Employment Decision Tool Law (the “AEDT Law” or the “Law”), which requires employers to conduct an independent bias audit of their AI employment tools by January 1, 2023. On September 23, 2022, New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (“DCWP”) released proposed rules (the “Proposed Rules”) that would implement the Law, and which clear up some, but not all, of the Law’s ambiguities.

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Four Shortcuts to Managing Your Law Firm Projects

Rocket Matter

No one ever heard Perry Mason say “Wow, this billing system is top-notch.” Law & Order’s Jack McCoy never waxed rhapsodic about the thrill of a well-organized court calendar. And the cast of Suits was far too busy conniving and canoodling to sing the praises of their e-signature platform. Setting up effective time capture and billing processes, utilizing your team’s experience while still providing professional development, meeting court deadlines, and running business intelligence reports a

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What is the Data Explosion and Why Should Lawyers Care?

Relativity

Information governance policies are not created only for your IT and information security departments. They offer benefits for your entire organization and should be relied upon by your legal department.

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What is Legal Technology?

NSLT

Advancements in technology have changed every part of our lives, from how we socialize to how we work and even how we obtain information. Gone are the days of paper-based files and in-person meetings, now replaced with the option for digital signatures and virtual calls.

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The Comfort Delusion

Above and Beyond KM

Your comfort delusion may be getting in the way of creating a healthier, happier, and more productive workplace. Comfort is a powerful draw. We long for it. We go to great lengths to arrange our lives for it. For some, achieving it is the primary focus of life. But here’s the catch: Comfort is rarely more than a temporary state. As soon as we reach it, our minds push us to want more.

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Ep 176: Courtroom5 CEO Sonja Ebron on Arming Pro Se Litigants to Succeed in Court

LawNext podcast

For those who have to go to court without a lawyer, navigating the justice system can be daunting. Courtroom5 is a unique justice tech company that addresses that problem by providing pro se litigants with the training, tools, documents and support they need to represent themselves. For litigants who need extra help, it also offers access to à la carte lawyer services.

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LOD + SYKE open full-service US Office

SYKE

The post LOD + SYKE open full-service US Office appeared first on SYKE.

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The Vital Role of Managing E-Discovery

NSLT

E-Discovery is a critical process that begins at the onset of litigated matters and involves the exchange of information between parties involved in a lawsuit or other legal action.