Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Email (and, therefore, Outlook) has taken over our days. It’s time to take control back and make space for more meaningful work. These five Outlook tips for legal professionals will help you stay focused and get through your email faster. Outlook Tips for Legal Professionals. 1. Drag and Drop to Create Appointments, Tasks and Contacts. You can easily convert emails to appointments, tasks and contacts with a quick drag and drop.

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LLRX

SEPTEMBER 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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

JusticeText , a three-year-old startup that makes it easier for public defenders in criminal cases to review body cam and other video footage, has raised a seed round of $2.2 million, it said today. Investors in the round include Bloomberg Beta, True Ventures, Tubbs Ventures, Higher Ground Labs, Parameter Ventures, Incite.org, Google Black Founders Fund, and MIT Solve, as well as angel investors such as LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, Grammy-winning musician John Legend, Dorothy Chou, head of p

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Rocket Matter

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Many digital trends surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the use of electronic signatures. E-signatures had a market share of $3 billion in 2021. With the e-signature market expected to skyrocket to $35.03 billion by 2029, your law firm needs to get on board—and sooner rather than later. Along with e-signatures, secure file-sharing is a… Read More » 7 Ways to Implement File-Sharing and E-Signatures at Your Law Firm.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

What are you doing to get more of the referrals you want? You can build a steady stream of referral business — maybe not enough to stop buying ads, but enough to sustain and grow your practice — if you have a good plan. Here’s a guide to building and managing your lawyer referrals network. Table of Contents Building Your Referral Network 1. Who to Ask for Referrals 2.

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CloudNine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

By Julia Romero Peter, Esq. . It would be easy to launch into a discourse on all the conspiracy theories regarding the Alex Jones January 6 th case. Alas, no conspiracies here – just facts about data and how to review modern data such as text messages effectively. . The lawsuit was brought by the parents of a victim in the Sandy Hook shooting against Alex Jones for defamation seeking $150 million in damages from Jones and his media company Free Speech Systems for falsely claiming the 201

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Relativity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

While protective orders shield information exchanged in discovery, this information also appears in motions, hearings, and at trial. Document sealing can help prevent its exposure.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Attorneys spend a lot of valuable time redlining and negotiating contracts. According to a recent poll , 91% of contract negotiators (myself included) use MS Word Track Changes to redline contracts. But how many of us truly know how to use this tool efficiently and effectively? Probably not very many. Because we didn’t receive formal training on how to use Word for redlining contracts.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Lighthouse , the Seattle-based company that provides technology and services for e-discovery, compliance and information governance, said today that former Microsoft vice president and CIO Ron Markezich will become its chief executive officer effective Oct. 1, succeeding Brian McManus , who has been in that role since 2011. McManus will remain with the company in the role of executive vice chair.

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Relativity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Asked why the legal field is slow to embrace emerging tech, Morgan Lewis partners and AI Visionaries Tess Blair and Scott Milner each had a unique perspective on attorneys’ tendency to resist change.

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Rocket Matter

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

If you’re struggling to bring on new clients, it can help to consider whether your client intake process is working for you—or against you. Your client intake process combines marketing strategies, operational workflows and processes, and client experience strategies. It’s your opportunity to showcase how efficient and effective your law firm is at providing legal services.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Farewell To All That. The error that seems increasingly common is “much adieu.” That should be “much ado.”. “Adieu” is a way to say goodbye. The French commonly say “au revoir” to say goodbye, roughly translated as “until we see each other again.” “Adieu”, on the other hand, translates as “to God”, a shorter version of “a dieu vous commant,” I commend you to God.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

HaystackID , a company that provides e-discovery services for law firms and corporate legal departments, said today it has acquired Business Intelligence Associates (BIA), an end-to-end e-discovery service provider, as part of a deal facilitated by majority investor and leading middle-market private equity firm, Quad-C Management, Inc. Hal Brooks , CEO of HaystackID, said the acquisition expands the company’s capabilities in the support and delivery of complex enterprise discovery solution

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Relativity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Jackie Orchard is head of monitoring and surveillance, execution at Westpac, an Australia-based bank, and has a special formula for how to choose the right technology partners for her team.

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LawNext podcast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

On her LinkedIn profile , Natalie Knowlton describes her work as “succession planning for an outdated legal industry.” It is an apt description for someone who has spent her career studying reform of the U.S. legal system — and particularly now, as she launches Access to Justice Ventures , a think tank devoted to reinventing the legal system to provide justice for all by eliminating systemic barriers.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: The post Protected: Practical(ly) Magic: LawLytics Makes Creating Website Practice Area Pages a Snap appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In a post here in April , I wrote about the imminent launch of Virtual Law Clinic , a product designed to make it easier for law firms and legal organizations to manage their pro bono matters, enabling them to assign matters to lawyers, monitor case statuses, document outcomes, and provide training materials and forms. Now that it has launched, its developer, Theory and Principle , the legal technology design and development company, has just rolled out its first major upgrade based on feedback

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Relativity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

After 20 years in the privacy space with companies like GE and Oracle, AI Visionary Peter Lefkowitz, now at Citrix, has witnessed a lot of evolution—and has expert insights on what’s around the corner.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

On her LinkedIn profile , Natalie Knowlton describes her work as “succession planning for an outdated legal industry.” It is an apt description for someone who has spent her career studying reform of the U.S. legal system — and particularly now, as she launches Access to Justice Ventures , a think tank devoted to reinventing the legal system to provide justice for all by eliminating systemic barriers. .

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Relativity

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Read about the class action lawsuit aiming to prevent Torres Strait Islanders from becoming some of the world’s first climate change refugees—a reality that may be less than 30 years away.

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Relativity

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

With RelativityOne, you can use AI to identify more than 100 languages in your data set and, if desired, leverage Translate to see them in your business language.

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Relativity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Getting change-averse legal teams to embrace new tech with enthusiasm is, according to AI Visionary Manfred Gabriel, like asking a fortress to dance.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Oakley Capital, a major European private equity investor, has acquired majority ownership of vLex , the international legal research platform. The investment means that vLex will now have more resources available to drive its growth, including in the United States, and potentially to make acquisitions of other companies that will further that growth, a company spokesperson said. vLex is unique among legal research services for its breadth of international coverage.

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Relativity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

For Ron Harry, AI Visionary and former director of legal operations at Honeywell, thoughtful use of technology to accelerate critical work helps make legal ops teams the powerplant of legal departments.

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