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Now Available: How to Do More in Less Time: The Complete Guide to Increasing Your Productivity and Improving Your Bottom Line, Second Edition

The Legal Tech Blog

Attorney Daniel J. Siegel ‘s latest book, How to Do More in Less Time: The Complete Guide to Increasing Your Productivity and Improving Your Bottom Line, Second Edition, is now available from the American Bar Association. Written for the busy professional, this book explains how to identify the right activities that need to be accomplished and then how to most efficiently perform those activities.… Read the rest The post Now Available: How to Do More in Less Time: The Complete Guide

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The Ethics of Ghost Blogging in the Legal Profession: Transparency is Key, Says ChatGPT

Kevin O'Keefe

Inspired by Carolyn Elefant’s webinar this afternoon on the use of ChatGPT in the marketing of your legal practice through writing an Ebook, I started playing with ChatGPT a little bit more on the legal blogging front. Specifically, I asked ChatGPT about the ethics of lawyers hiring ghostwriters to write blog posts and then holding out the content the public as something the lawyer wrote.

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Can Marketing Make Your Law Firm Vulnerable to Cyberattacks? Absolutely

Attorney at Work

The marketing objective is to get clients. The cybersecurity objective is to keep your data safe. Those two objectives are often at odds with one another. The post Can Marketing Make Your Law Firm Vulnerable to Cyberattacks? Absolutely appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Should Your Law Firm Set Up Shop In The Metaverse?

LawSites

It has been just over a year since Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company was changing its name to Meta , revealing his vision for the future of online interaction. In the wake of that news, it seemed all anyone could talk about was the metaverse, and that extended to the legal industry, and even to law firms forming metaverse offices on virtual reality platforms such as Decentraland.

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Trellis Launches Trellis AI to Streamline Trial Court Litigation

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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New Podcast: Productivity: Practical Time Management and Technology for Law Firms

The Legal Tech Blog

Productivity. Time Management. There is never enough time in the day, it seems. There are solutions. Listen to a few as lawyer/geek/technologist Daniel J. Siegel of Integrated Technology Services, LLC and the Law Offices of Daniel J. Siegel, LLC offers some productivity tips on the Vandenack Weaver Truhlsen podcast with Mary Vandenack, with this episode entitled “Productivity: Practical Time Management and Technology for Law Firms.” … Read the rest The post New Podcast: Produ

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Leveraging AI to Enhance Your Legal Blog: How ChatGPT Can Help Lawyers Develop a Business Development Niche

Kevin O'Keefe

The single biggest impediment to blog success for lawyers is failing to focus on a niche. The tighter the niche the better. Niche blogs become must reads for an audience, enable a lawyer to build a reputation (often where no other lawyer is playing) and enable relationships to flourish, often for work outside the niche. I have been playing with ChatGPT of late, particularly looking at ways AI can be used in writing and in legal blogging.

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ChatGPT Chatbot Weighs in on Law Librarian De-Credentialization

LLRX

Sarah Gotschall , Associate Librarian Reference Librarian & Professor of Practice, University of Arizona Law, puts ChatGPT through the paces with a series of engaging questions and answers she has documented, adding additional dimension to the significant interest in the all the rage chatbot.

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A Bad Week for DoNotPay and Its Robot Lawyer, But It Should Not Reflect on Self-Help Legal Tech

LawSites

So the publicity stunt of the robot lawyer sneaking into court is no more, as Joshua Browder , founder and CEO of the self-help legal site DoNotPay , yesterday pulled the plug on the prank, saying he had received threats from bar officials of prosecution and even imprisonment. That news followed a scathing series of tweets by a woman who tried out several of DoNotPay’s self-help tools, only to conclude that they were effectively smoke and mirrors, in some cases getting the law wrong, in ot

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Microsoft Invests Ten Billion Dollars in OpenAI’s ChatGPT

Kevin O'Keefe

The Wall Street Journal’s Cade Metz and Karen Weise reported Monday morning that Microsoft is making a ten billion dollar investment in OpenAI, substantially increasing the company’s investment it had already made in the AI driven chatbot, ChatGPT. Microsoft is making this investment as it looks to expand the use of artificial intelligence in all of its products.

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Contract Staffing: 3 Ways ALSPs Can Support Your Law Firm in Uncertain Times

Attorney at Work

Tower Legal CEO Leslie Firtell says contract staffing will grow in importance this year. The post Contract Staffing: 3 Ways ALSPs Can Support Your Law Firm in Uncertain Times appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Visibility Into the Strategy & Supporting Documents of Major US Law Firms

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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Frictionless Ediscovery: Reducing Context Switching in Your Workflow

Hanzo Blog

Let’s face it, if litigation is imminent and you’re preparing for the discovery process, friction has already taken place between opposing parties. But that’s not what I mean when I’m talking about “frictionless ediscovery.

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New GPT-Based Chat App from LawDroid Is A Lawyer’s ‘Copilot’ for Research, Drafting, Brainstorming and More

LawSites

A new tool soon to be released by the no-code bot development company LawDroid uses the artificial intelligence of GPT-3.5 to serve as a lawyer’s virtual legal assistant, able to help with researching legal issues, drafting emails and letters, summarizing documents, brainstorming blog ideas, and even just conversational chatting. Called LawDroid Copilot , it is currently available only by request on an early-access basis, but will be generally available later this year.

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Why Legal Bloggers are Ideal Speakers, Book Authors, and Journalists for Legal Stories

Kevin O'Keefe

Why are legal bloggers uniquely equipped to serve as speakers, book authors, and journalists for stories? If you’re a legal blogger, please share with me how blogging has opened doors to speaking, writing magazine articles or even writing a book. I am speaking in New Orleans later this week to the Association for Continuing Legal Education (ACLEA) and I’d like to have some stories in hand.

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How a Legal Services Network Drives Sustained Global Growth

Attorney at Work

A Legal Services Network, or an LSN, can open new paths of revenue while introducing your firm to great lawyers from abroad. The post How a Legal Services Network Drives Sustained Global Growth appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Stay On Top of Newly Filed State & Federal Litigation: Curated Just for You!

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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Is It Equitable to Protect Corporate Leaders From Covid-19 More than Employees and Customers?

LLRX

Augie Ray asks a simple question to encourage you to think more about #COVID19 risks and engage in a discussion about equity in the workplace: If the world's top business leaders recognize and take precautions against COVID during an ongoing pandemic, shouldn't they ensure the same for employees and customers? Shouldn't our companies' commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion suggest equal treatment for everyone?

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On LawNext Podcast: As ALSP Axiom Opens A Law Firm in Arizona, Its Chief Strategy and Legal Officer Catherine Kemnitz Shares Details

LawSites

Axiom , a company that is one of the longest-running alternative legal services providers, this week stepped into the world of regulated legal services as it formally launched Axiom Advice & Counsel , an Arizona law firm. The move was enabled by the Arizona Supreme Court’s decision last May to grant Axiom a license as an alternative business structure.

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Lessons Learned from DOJ’s Takedown of Hive Ransomware

Debevoise Data Blog

On January 26, 2022, the FBI, DOJ, and international law enforcement partners dropped a bombshell of an announcement : they had dismantled the infrastructure of one of the most prolific ransomware groups. Hive Ransomware has long been known as an extremely active group, responsible for many ransomware attacks, including against hospitals. But the full extent of the Hive network was unknown until DOJ unsealed the affidavit seizing the servers used by Hive.

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Want to Be More Profitable? Take a Look at Your Management Style

Attorney at Work

Wendy Merrill | If you haven't recently reviewed and documented expectations of associates, partners or staff, it is time to do so. The post Want to Be More Profitable? Take a Look at Your Management Style appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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2023 Healthcare MiniGuide

LLRX

Marcus P. Zillman's Marcus P. Zillman's guide addresses the challenging landscape of healthcare information that proliferates on the internet. A large measure of the information hosted on self described authoritative health and healthcare sites is grounded in speculative, e-commerce drive subject matter. Search engines drive traffic to these sites with no transparent and accountable data - the objective being SEO, web tracking and other revenue driven applications.

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Time to Vote! Pick the 15 Finalists to Compete At Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2023

LawSites

Help pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the seventh-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2023. Your votes determine the 15 companies selected to face off in a live pitch competition that will be the opening-night event of this year’s TECHSHOW, which is March 1-4 in Chicago. They also get to exhibit in a special Startup Alley portion of the exhibit hall.

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Legal Tech Hub Launches LTH Premium – Enhanced Procurement Expertise

Dewey B Strategic

Legal Tech Hub has taken a big leap forward with the launch of a premium subscriptions service LTH Premium. LTH provides insights for professionals across the legal spectrum (Innovation, KM/Research, Legal Ops, IT) who are tasked with monitoring the legal tech market or identifying the right resource for a specific workflow need. LTH provides “educational resources, objective reports and insights about legal technology, and tools to support the selection, evaluation, procurement, and implementa

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Remembering the Holocaust To Promote Social Justice, Human Rights, And Genocide Awareness

Hanzo Blog

Today is the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the Nazi death camps. On this Holocaust Memorial Day, we remember all of those who were killed in genocides across the world. The most infamous of these genocides is the Holocaust, where six million Jews were killed in death camps, alongside other marginalized groups such as the Roma, disabled people, homosexuals, and political enemies.

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Long COVID stemmed from mild cases of COVID-19 in most people, according to a new multicountry study

LLRX

Even mild COVID-19 cases can have major and long-lasting effects on people’s health. That is one of the key findings from our recent multicountry study on long COVID-19 – or long COVID – per a new research study by Dr. Sarah Wulf Hanson and Prof. Theo Vos , recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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This New Category of Legal Software Lets You ‘Follow the Money’ through Financial Evidence Data

LawSites

In what it is calling a new category of software for attorneys and CPAs involved in financial investigations, Valid8 Financial , a developer of forensic accounting software, today is introducing Verified Financial Intelligence (VFI), an automated solution for extracting and verifying financial evidence. The software extracts transaction evidence from various sources, including client accounting systems, bank statements, brokerage statements, check images, wire details and transaction lists, an

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Web3 Roundup 2022

Ikigai Law

Law, policy and other developments in 2022 relating to the Web3 sector in India. International International call for robust regulation and supervision of crypto assets: The Financial Stability Board (FSB) of which India is a member issued a statement amid the recent volatility in the crypto market, stressing the need for robust regulation and supervision of crypto assets.

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Emotional Data: Tackle Complex and Creative Challenges with Sentiment Analysis in RelativityOne

Relativity

Now available in RelativityOne, sentiment analysis detects positivity, negativity, anger, and desire across communications, providing visibility into the emotions buried deep in data.

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Disquiet in the archives: archivists make tough calls with far-reaching consequences – they deserve our support

LLRX

Stuart Kells , Adjunct Professor, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University explains why for technological, ethical and political reasons, the world’s archivists are suddenly very busy. Advances in digital imaging and communications are feeding an already intense interest in provenance, authorship and material culture. Two recent discoveries – a woman’s name scratched in the margins of an 8th-century manuscript, and John Milton’s annotations in a copy of Shakespeare’s Fi

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Now You Can Have A Conversation with Your Contracts Using Agiloft’s New ConvoAI Chat Feature

LawSites

Admit it: You’ve always wanted to have a conversation with your contracts. Well, now you can, thanks to ConvoAI, a feature introduced today by Agiloft , the contract lifecycle management company, during its Agiloft Summit 23 conference for users and partners in Las Vegas. The feature lets users interact with contracts in a chat-like interface, asking questions in natural language to more easily find details in their contracts.

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The Ins and Outs of Paid Online Advertising for Law Firms

Centerbase

Paid online advertising can be an important part of a law firm’s digital marketing strategy, and it yields results in both the short and long run. If you want to optimize your online reach in 2023, your law firm should be looking at its online presence through both organic and paid search results. Throughout the year as a part of our larger blog series, we’ll be covering digital marketing and how your law firm can build its 2023 digital marketing strategy.

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Wholesale Real Estate Contract: What Is It and How Can It Help You?

AXDRAFT

Got no time to read? Listen to our blog on the go Wholesale real estate encourages owners to sell their property below market value. Not surprisingly, it raises legal and ethical issues. But this business strategy, when done properly, does work in the interest of all the parties—the wholesaler, the seller, and the end buyer. For this investment strategy to work in your favor, you must be adept at writing effective contracts.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 21, 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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Erez Liebermann Discussed New Regulatory Requirements and Guidance at Incident Response Forum Ransomware 2023

Debevoise Data Blog

On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 3:00 PM EST Erez Liebermann spoke on a virtual panel entitled The Changing Tides of Regulation: Navigating New Regulatory Requirements and Guidance Around Cybersecurity and Ransomware. The conference’s faculty included senior government cybersecurity officials from the FBI and OFAC, and nearly two dozen other legal and consulting professionals in the field of ransomware response.

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Kelly Friedman and Stellar Women on the Power of Persistence, Perfectionism, and AI

Relativity

This month’s Stellar Women guest is Kelly Friedman, our first-ever winner of the Innovation Award for Artificial Intelligence. In the podcast, she shared stories about starting out as a young woman in the law and technology.

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Update your Attorney Profile for the New Year

Martindale-Avvo

Wondering how to increase online performance even more in 2023? Not only can it be done, but the Martindale-Avvo team can maximize your marketing efforts to keep your practice competitive through the new year. Tip 1: Know that seasons come and go. Just as seasons change, so might new client intake at your law firm. Sometimes gaining new clients may work well or even better than expected.