LawSites

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

I was in Manhattan on 9/11, where I worked as editor-in-chief of The National Law Journal. In a post here 15 years ago, I wrote about my memories of that day. In that post, I focused on the end of the day. Throughout the day, the editors and reporters at the NLJ and throughout ALM were consumed with covering the story. As shocked as we all were, we also were journalists, scrambling to find out everything we could about the lawyers and law firms who might be among the victims.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Using legal data for strategic law firm planning is no longer reserved for BigLaw. With the improved access to litigation data from numerous vendors in the exploding legal tech ecosystem, solo practitioners, small law firms, and regional and midsize firms can take advantage of insights from data to position themselves as leaders and market movers in their respective practice areas and jurisdictions.

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LLRX

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

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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Debevoise Data Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Last week, the California Privacy Protection Agency (the “Agency”) invited public comment on its preliminary rulemaking. As previously discussed, the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) established the Agency and tasked it with adopting additional implementing regulations and enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). The CPRA, approved by California voters in 2020, does not take full effect until January 1, 2023, at which time the rules outlined below come into force.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Onit today announced the general availability of InvoiceAI, an artificial intelligence product for first-pass invoice review, and along with it comes a clever promotional video that plays on the threat of AI world domination and legal professionals’ ambivalence around AI. As I reported last May , the Houston company — which provides enterprise workflow products for corporations and corporate legal departments — initially introduced InvoiceAI with limited availability to select customers, p

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Account, commonly called IOLTA, is one of the most valuable tools for expanding legal representation to appear in recent decades. Unlike traditional attorney trust accounts, IOLTA programs , available in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, allow lawyers to hold client retainers, settlements and other money in interest-bearing accounts.

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The Law Product Makers blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Marc Andreessen quipped in 2011: “Software is eating the world”. The idea of software substitutes for lawyers’ work is a radical idea for some lawyers. The legal profession is not immune from this development. Law has a high information component. In a large sense, law is information or as Bill Palin, the young lawyer who won the ABA’s Legal Hackathon at last year’s ABA Annual Meeting , says, “law is code”.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The legal technology company Litera has named Ashley Miller as vice president sales, North America. Miller was formerly at EY, where she was senior manager, legal function consulting. Earlier, she was with Thomson Reuters, where she served as director, legal managed services, and regional manager, strategic accounts. Ashley Miller. A 2013 graduate of Brooklyn Law School, Miller also worked at the technology and management consulting firm Kraft Kennedy from 2011-2014 as a business development con

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Looking back, I definitely remember how much lawyer mentorship was preached to me when I was a law student and a young lawyer. And 18 years later, I don’t disagree that mentorship is important in the practice of law. At the same time, in hindsight, I wish I had more practical advice on how to be a good mentee and how to make the most of my mentoring relationships.

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The Law Product Makers blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Recently, there has been much discussion of the idea of “productized legal services” as the next transformational strategy that will enable lawyers to make money while they sleep, increase the volume of potential clients, and move away from the tyranny of the billable hour. Some law firms have developed a product approach as a method of capturing potential clients and then upselling them to more traditional legal services.

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NSLT

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Relativity–Electronic Discovery Software What is Relativity, and what solutions does the software provide? Learn more as kCura's president and CEO, Andrew Sieja, gives a high-level overview of Relativity's core capabilities.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Aderant , a global provider of business management software for law firms, has named Raphael (Rafi) Shure to the position of executive vice president and chief operating officer. He was previously senior vice president and chief client officer. In turn, Shure has promoted two others to global leadership roles in consulting and customer support: Matt Graywood has been named vice president of global professional services, and Samantha Rouse has been named vice president of global customer support

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Ever wish you could get past the basics in Excel and work a little bit smarter? Here’s a great tip on using TEXTJOIN, from Affinity Consulting Group ’s newly updated guide “ Microsoft Excel for Legal Professionals.” If you’ve ever needed to combine text from multiple cells in Excel, you know how challenging it can be to work with the CONCATENATE function or to use ampersands to get the job done.

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The Law Product Makers blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Start With the Appropriate Entity Before starting your journey towards creating a law product or automated legal service , an initial decision you must make is the kind of entity that owns, develops, and licenses the digital application. The choice of the operating entity is the first decision you must make when deciding the develop a softwasre applicationfor use by your law firm.

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NSLT

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Relativity–Electronic Discovery Software What is Relativity, and what solutions does the software provide? Learn more as kCura's president and CEO, Andrew Sieja, gives a high-level overview of Relativity's core capabilities.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

While some organizations wait until catastrophe strikes before adopting an email management system, success often lies in being proactive, not reactive. The right EMS not only improves your team’s productivity but can also enhance your client’s experience. This week’s free featured resource on the Lawsites Resource Center, The Definitive Guide To Email Management For Mid-Size Firms , discusses email management systems and if one is right for your firm.

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LawNext podcast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Last month, in a marriage of two contract management platforms, Conga acquired Contract Wrangler. For entrepreneur-turned-lawyer-turned-entrepreneur Neil Peretz , it was the conclusion of a journey that began five years earlier, when he founded Contract Wrangler with a vision of a contracts platform that would be more than just a repository, more than able to simply identify key clauses, but that would actually be able to provide answers to what was in those contracts.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Last month, in a marriage of two contract management platforms, Conga acquired Contract Wrangler. For entrepreneur-turned-lawyer-turned-entrepreneur Neil Peretz , it was the conclusion of a journey that began five years earlier, when he founded Contract Wrangler with a vision of a contracts platform that would be more than just a repository, more than able to simply identify key clauses, but that would actually be able to provide answers to what was in those contracts. .

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The New Jersey-based court reporting company Veritext Legal Solutions , which already provides a variety of deposition and litigation support solutions, has acquired Canadian court reporting company Reportex and its family of brands in British Columbia. As part of the acquisition, Veritext also acquired United Reporting in Vancouver and Kamloops Reporting Services in Kamloops.

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NSLT

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The Top 10 Best Free Antivirus Software There used to be many free antivirus programs but in recent years most are now paid. There still a few however which will scan your computer for free. Computer protection has never been as important as it is right now due to cybercrime at its highest level.

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NSLT

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The Top 10 Best Free Antivirus Software There used to be many free antivirus programs but in recent years most are now paid. There still a few however which will scan your computer for free. Computer protection has never been as important as it is right now due to cybercrime at its highest level.

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NSLT

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A Case Timeline is a Litigator's Best Friend So how does a litigator manage all of this data and then use it deposition, mediation, briefs, hearings, and trials? The trick to gaining control over burgeoning case data is locking it into a timeline or chronology, like our case timeline software.

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NSLT

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A Case Timeline is a Litigator's Best Friend So how does a litigator manage all of this data and then use it deposition, mediation, briefs, hearings, and trials? The trick to gaining control over burgeoning case data is locking it into a timeline or chronology, like our case timeline software.

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