Attorney at Work

JANUARY 13, 2022

Artificial intelligence tools have become prevalent in legal practice, particularly in eDiscovery. That doesn’t mean, however, that law firms and litigation support teams have been quick to embrace them. Despite their benefits, many legal organizations have been hesitant to implement AI tools. AI Hesitation. In the ABA 2020 Legal Tech Survey , 23% of law firms reported not being interested in AI, while 34% said they didn’t know enough about AI to speak to their firms’ interest.

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LLRX

JANUARY 9, 2022

Marshall Voizard is a law firm reference supervisor. He shares significant insights into the profession in the time of COVID. Voizard states that the past 18 months have accelerated positive changes, illustrating to all that the library is no longer primarily a physical place, but rather an entire ecosystem of electronic legal information resources.

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LawSites

JANUARY 11, 2022

In its largest deal so far in a recent string of acquisitions, Onit , the Houston company that provides enterprise workflow products for corporations and corporate legal departments, has acquired SecureDocs , a Santa Barbara, Calif., software company with products for contract management, virtual deal rooms and electronic signatures. Onit says the acquisition strengthens its position as a leading, modern contract lifecycle management (CLM) provider, expanding its product portfolio from enterpris

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Rocket Matter

JANUARY 14, 2022

Lawyers work in one of the highest-stressed professions in the world. Between demanding schedules, extremely heavy workloads, and problematic clients, there are many daily triggers that can bring about stress and burnout. But how can you overcome these overwhelming feelings? The answer may lie in mindfulness and meditation. You’ve more than likely heard that mindfulness… Read More » How Lawyers Can Use Mindfulness and Meditation to Reduce Stress.

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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!

Attorney at Work

JANUARY 12, 2022

Is your hyper-responsiveness creating email overload and more stress? Finding focused time to get important work done requires defining “responsiveness” on your terms. Early in my legal career, I assumed that “being responsive” meant that I needed to respond immediately to emails from clients and colleagues. As a result, I spent a significant amount of my normal working hours in my inbox playing digital ping pong.

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LLRX

JANUARY 9, 2022

Privacy and security 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 security, often without our situational awareness.

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Percipient

JANUARY 12, 2022

As we welcome the new year, we took an internal poll of our team and asked them about legal trends they saw in 2021 and what they predicted for 2022. Here is what they had to say: Even More Precise ESI Collections Vaish Palavalli , Percipient’s Head of Forensics, predicts that in 2022 the trend of more targeted ESI (electronically stored information) collections will continue.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 14, 2022

The Adobe Acrobat DC interface brought about significant interface changes when it was released. As they continue to release updates, finding commands quickly can still be a challenge. These tips, adapted from Affinity Consulting Group ’s “ Adobe Acrobat for Legal Professionals ,” show how making a few simple interface customizations will enable you to work more efficiently and effortlessly find commands.

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Computational Legal Studies

JANUARY 11, 2022

For those who might be interested – a very comprehensive review of ‘ Social Physics ‘ is now released in Physics Reports !

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LawSites

JANUARY 11, 2022

The legal technology company Litera has acquired Lynch Marks LLC, a California company that is the developer of PS/Ship , a provider of software for management of shipping and invoicing for law firms and professional services firms. Litera says the acquisition adds another piece to its platform for law firms looking to solve more problems facing their legal teams through a single technology partner integrating with their broader systems.

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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

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Apps in Law

JANUARY 10, 2022

Jeff’s In the News blog post for January 7, 2022: [link] Jeff and I start off by appreciating what Apple has done with the PRODUCT(RED) line of products, and then discuss some of the non-Apple products that are integrating Apple’s Find My technology into their products. We briefly talk about the recent study finding 87% of US teenagers own an iPhone, and end with a nifty update from Readdle that their PDF Expert app can now export PDF files to Microsoft Word documents !

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 10, 2022

Are you ready to make business and client development a habit? Use these tips. 1. Automate It! Do so by scheduling an auto-recurring client development meeting with yourself in your automated calendar or schedule auto-recurring reminders to regularly follow up with your key clients, referral sources, prospective clients and other valuable contacts. In your customer relationship management system (CRM) if you have one, or in your Outlook, Google or Apple calendar, create a meeting with yourself e

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Legodesk

JANUARY 10, 2022

Law firm automation does not eliminate human effort. Instead, lawyers will be able to devote more time to tasks that require their expertise rather than to repetitive tasks that can be automated. If you want your law firm to focus on what is most important (your cases), there are several ways to do so. It is difficult for small firms and solo practitioners to deal with this heavy stress and get stuck in a tornado of “I don’t have time to do that.” I’m already very busy!

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LawSites

JANUARY 12, 2022

In June 2020, I reported on the launch by LinkSquares of LinkSquares Finalize, a pre-signature contract drafting and review product to complement its original product, LinkSquares Analyze, an AI-based, post-signature contract management and analysis platform, creating an end-to-end offering of products for drafting, reviewing and managing corporate contracts.

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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.

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NSLT

JANUARY 14, 2022

Smart Tools to Increase Your Law Firm’s Productivity Whether you are a lawyer, working as the position of legal technology operations director, or performing any other role, the ultimate goal of your law firm is to help your clients and your business succeed. When everyone in your law office learns how to manage their time efficiently, it will be easier to manage a high volume of work and improve productivity across your company.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 11, 2022

TechnoLawyer publisher Neil Squillante has takeaways from the latest TechnoLawyer Top Products Awards. ‘Tis the season for legal technology predictions, which are entertaining but seldom useful. I prefer looking back because recent history — actual events — can often predict what lies ahead. For example, Attorney at Work’s Top 20 Articles of 2021 captures the zeitgeist of what’s on the minds of small law firms.

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LawNext podcast

JANUARY 10, 2022

At a time when corporations are demanding greater accountability, transparency and predictability from their legal departments, automation of manual processes is a critical strategic priority, offering the promise of greater efficiency and effectiveness. But what does it really mean for a legal department to digitally transform itself and how should it go about it?

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LawSites

JANUARY 10, 2022

At a time when corporations are demanding greater accountability, transparency and predictability from their legal departments, automation of manual processes is a critical strategic priority, offering the promise of greater efficiency and effectiveness. But what does it really mean for a legal department to digitally transform itself and how should it go about it?

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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.

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NSLT

JANUARY 14, 2022

Smart Tools to Increase Your Law Firm’s Productivity Whether you are a lawyer, working as the position of legal technology operations director, or performing any other role, the ultimate goal of your law firm is to help your clients and your business succeed. When everyone in your law office learns how to manage their time efficiently, it will be easier to manage a high volume of work and improve productivity across your company.

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LLRX

JANUARY 9, 2022

Ken Hughes is a researcher with the Presidential Recordings Program of the University of Virginia's Miller Center. Hughes argues that erosion in American democracy depends on the conspiracy theory, destructive and demonstrably false, that the 2020 election was stolen. As the author of several books on Richard Nixon – who, before Trump, was the biggest conspiracy theorist to inhabit the White House that we know of – Hughes sees conspiracy theories less as failures of rationality and more as trium

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 14, 2022

Companies developing Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) compliance programs, or under investigation by the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, should be aware of significant developments impacting the Commission’s regulatory authority and enforcement priorities. Despite a number of recent judicial defeats that have significantly hampered the FTC’s ability to obtain: (1) injunctive relief when purported violative behavior is not ongoing; and (2) monetary remedies in federal court under

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LawSites

JANUARY 13, 2022

What’s ahead for legal tech and innovation for 2022? On today’s Legaltech Week live roundtable, our esteemed panel of bloggers and journalists will offer their predictions. Last week, we discussed the top stories of 2021. We planned to also share predictions, but ran out of time. That means this week’s show is entirely devoted to a discussion of what we think is to come.

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NSLT

JANUARY 12, 2022

Password Protect Workbooks and Worksheets Your Excel workbook or worksheets contain sensitive strategic data, so you want to require others to enter a password to open them. Or you can share the data freely with anyone without requiring a password, but require a password to make changes. Take this short course to find out more.

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LawSites

JANUARY 13, 2022

On this episode of the video series How It Works : Wolters Kluwer’s VitalLaw , the intuitive legal research platform powered by Wolters Kluwer’s world-class analysis. Introduced in October as an enhanced and rebranded version of the Cheetah research platform, with intuitive tools, new content, and seamless workflow integration, VitalLaw now also includes a free, public-facing legal news component.

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LawSites

JANUARY 11, 2022

A new legal software product unveiled today, MatterAlert , is a web-based, matter-centric docketing, tickler and calendar application designed to help law firms manage all matter-related dates, deadlines and other information in a single platform. The product provides a matter dashboard to view all matter information in one place and matter templates to automate the creation of tasks and calendar events based on the type of matter.

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LawSites

JANUARY 13, 2022

On this episode of the video series How It Works : Wolters Kluwer’s VitalLaw , the intuitive legal research platform powered by Wolters Kluwer’s world-class analysis. Introduced in October as an enhanced and rebranded version of the Cheetah research platform, with intuitive tools, new content, and seamless workflow integration, VitalLaw now also includes a free, public-facing legal news component.

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LawSites

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Arizona Supreme Court has granted an alternative business structure license to law company Elevate , enabling Elevate and its affiliated law firm, ElevateNext, to operate as a single entity in that state, the company says. This makes Elevate the first non-lawyer-owned law company, LPO, or ALSP in the United States to operate with an integrated law firm.

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LawSites

JANUARY 13, 2022

What’s ahead for legal tech and innovation for 2022? On today’s Legaltech Week live roundtable, our esteemed panel of bloggers and journalists will offer their predictions. Last week, we discussed the top stories of 2021. We planned to also share predictions, but ran out of time. That means this week’s show is entirely devoted to a discussion of what we think is to come.

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LawSites

JANUARY 12, 2022

In June 2020, I reported on the launch by LinkSquares of LinkSquares Finalize, a pre-signature contract drafting and review product to complement its original product, LinkSquares Analyze, an AI-based, post-signature contract management and analysis platform, creating an end-to-end offering of products for drafting, reviewing and managing corporate contracts.

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LawSites

JANUARY 11, 2022

A new legal software product unveiled today, MatterAlert , is a web-based, matter-centric docketing, tickler and calendar application designed to help law firms manage all matter-related dates, deadlines and other information in a single platform. The product provides a matter dashboard to view all matter information in one place and matter templates to automate the creation of tasks and calendar events based on the type of matter.

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LawSites

JANUARY 11, 2022

In its largest deal so far in a recent string of acquisitions, Onit , the Houston company that provides enterprise workflow products for corporations and corporate legal departments, has acquired SecureDocs , a Santa Barbara, Calif., software company with products for contract management, virtual deal rooms and electronic signatures. Onit says the acquisition strengthens its position as a leading, modern contract lifecycle management (CLM) provider, expanding its product portfolio from enterpris

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LawSites

JANUARY 11, 2022

The legal technology company Litera has acquired Lynch Marks LLC, a California company that is the developer of PS/Ship , a provider of software for management of shipping and invoicing for law firms and professional services firms. Litera says the acquisition adds another piece to its platform for law firms looking to solve more problems facing their legal teams through a single technology partner integrating with their broader systems.

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LawSites

JANUARY 10, 2022

At a time when corporations are demanding greater accountability, transparency and predictability from their legal departments, automation of manual processes is a critical strategic priority, offering the promise of greater efficiency and effectiveness. But what does it really mean for a legal department to digitally transform itself and how should it go about it?

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