LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As awful as was the year 2020 for so many reasons, my year-end report last year found reasons to be optimistic. “The silver lining of 2020,” I wrote, “is that we have been forced to consider changes that were long overdue and then given the opportunity to implement those changes.”. This year, my report is tainted by a degree of pessimism. As I survey the legal profession broadly, and the world of legal tech and innovation specifically, I see uncertainty and inertia.

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Bob Denney was a kind, generous and insightful man who had his finger on the pulse of the legal profession like no one else. For nearly 30 years, Bob published a newsletter under the banner of “What’s Hot and What’s Not” in the legal profession. When the reports went digital, several of them were featured on Attorney at Work. In a few lines, he would use the breadth of his insights to clue us in on recent developments and upcoming trends.

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LLRX

DECEMBER 26, 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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CEE Legal Tech

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Source: Envato Elements Happy New Year! Let 2022 be the greatest year so far!

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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!

LawSites

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Twenty twenty-one has been a year of uncertainty for the legal profession, as we have wrestled with the question of returning or not returning. Whether it has been to the office, the courtroom, or legal conferences, we have been unsure whether to go back or not. Perhaps that explains why my most-read post of the year was one I wrote in August, just a week before ILTACON, explaining why I had decided to reverse course and not attend in person.

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Debevoise Data Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

In June 2020, Debevoise’s Data Strategy and Security practice group launched the Debevoise Data Blog , where we regularly publish our insights on developments and trends in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and privacy. In a recent ranking of legal technology blogs , the Debevoise Data Blog was ranked #9 (out of 45) based on traffic volume, social media followers, domain authority, and content freshness.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Last year, I introduced something new for this blog: The LawSites Resource Center. It is a library of free downloadable content that includes white papers, webinars, product guides, case studies, industry analysis and more, all provided by experts and vendors within the legal industry. So which of those resources were of most interest to readers? Here is a list of top most-downloaded resources of 2021. 1.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In my LawNext podcast , I have the great privilege of engaging in conversations every week with the “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” That “what’s next” spans a range of topics, from rethinking legal education to innovating legal practice, from developing new technology to driving greater diversity.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 30, 2021

With the Legalweek conference scheduled to convene in New York City in just a month, I began to hear rumors from multiple sources this week that it was being postponed due to the surge in coronavirus cases resulting from the Omicron variant. To find out if that was true, I reached out to Mark Fried , CFO and president of events at ALM , the company that produces Legalweek. “This is patently false,” he said in an email this morning. “Obviously we are exploring options but we are

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LawSites

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Last year, I introduced something new for this blog: The LawSites Resource Center. It is a library of free downloadable content that includes white papers, webinars, product guides, case studies, industry analysis and more, all provided by experts and vendors within the legal industry. So which of those resources were of most interest to readers? Here is a list of top most-downloaded resources of 2021. 1.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 30, 2021

With the Legalweek conference scheduled to convene in New York City in just a month, I began to hear rumors from multiple sources this week that it was being postponed due to the surge in coronavirus cases resulting from the Omicron variant. To find out if that was true, I reached out to Mark Fried , CFO and president of events at ALM , the company that produces Legalweek. “This is patently false,” he said in an email this morning. “Obviously we are exploring options but we are

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As awful as was the year 2020 for so many reasons, my year-end report last year found reasons to be optimistic. “The silver lining of 2020,” I wrote, “is that we have been forced to consider changes that were long overdue and then given the opportunity to implement those changes.”. This year, my report is tainted by a degree of pessimism. As I survey the legal profession broadly, and the world of legal tech and innovation specifically, I see uncertainty and inertia.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In my LawNext podcast , I have the great privilege of engaging in conversations every week with the “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” That “what’s next” spans a range of topics, from rethinking legal education to innovating legal practice, from developing new technology to driving greater diversity.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Twenty twenty-one has been a year of uncertainty for the legal profession, as we have wrestled with the question of returning or not returning. Whether it has been to the office, the courtroom, or legal conferences, we have been unsure whether to go back or not. Perhaps that explains why my most-read post of the year was one I wrote in August, just a week before ILTACON, explaining why I had decided to reverse course and not attend in person.

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Advertiser: Trellis

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