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Developing a Growth Strategy for Your Solo Law Practice: Focus on These 8 Things

Attorney at Work

As a solo law firm, you are small but mighty — able to run a lean business operation, offer customized and competitive pricing, and outperform your BigLaw competitors through personalized legal services delivery. Yet year after year, the biggest struggle for solo practitioners and small law firms is finding time to do what matters most: marketing and growing their practice.

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Now You Can Listen to Legal News as Law360 Adds Audio Versions of All Stories

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Law360 , the legal news service owned by LexisNexis, is today introducing audio versions of every story it publishes. For every story published on Law360, readers will now see an icon they can click to listen to an audio version of the article, read by a relatively lifelike male or female “newscaster” voice. Rachel Travers , vice president and general manager of Law360, said this is the first legal news service to offer this feature. “We know that the legal profession has many

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 4, 2021

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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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A Beginner’s Guide to Legal Project Management

Rocket Matter

In an effort to improve productivity and profitability for their law firms, many attorneys have adopted legal project management (LPM) principles and tools. This approach to handling legal matters more cost-effectively and efficiently has proven invaluable within the industry. Of course, improving client experiences and outcomes is integral for a practice’s success, but implementing an… Read More » A Beginner’s Guide to Legal Project Management.

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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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Recruiting and Retention: Seven Strategies to Help Win the War for Talent

Attorney at Work

In my 25 plus years of recruiting in the legal sector, I have never seen an environment like the current one with respect to recruiting legal talent. And that’s at every level —partners, associates, management and staff. Demand is high and so are the demands of the candidates. We’re seeing firms pushing the envelope and doing things like: Offering associates in lower-cost markets “New York” salaries plus the ability to work from home.

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Call for Entries: ABA TECHSHOW 2022 Startup Alley and Pitch Competition, Live in Chicago March 2

LawSites

Attention legal technology startups: Applications are now open for the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW , the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference, to be held March 2-5, 2022, both live in Chicago and virtually. . Today officially kicks off the call for entries for Startup Alley, in which 15 startups will be selected to participate in a live pitch competition that will be the opening event of this year’s TECHSHOW.

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Relativity–Electronic Discovery Software

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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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8 Must-Ask Questions Before You Hire a Freelance Lawyer

Attorney at Work

Hiring is incredibly difficult right now no matter what industry you are in. Thankfully, many industries — including legal — have full-on embraced remote work. And for law firms, remote work opens the door to alternative hiring options, including outsourcing substantive legal work to freelance lawyers. The good news is that it has never been easier to hire freelance attorneys to support and help build your business.

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Study of Corporate Legal Spend in Legal ‘Megamatters’ Finds Little Use of ALSPs

LawSites

A newly published report on spending by corporate legal departments in “megamatters” — any matter having a total spend of at least $1 million — indicates that corporate legal departments are making only minimal use of alternative legal services providers (ALSPs) to reduce costs, even though these megamatters are often the very types of matters where ALSPs could bring efficiencies.

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Call for Entries: ABA TECHSHOW 2022 Startup Alley and Pitch Competition, Live in Chicago March 2

ABA TECHSHOW

Attention legal technology startups: Applications are now open for the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW , the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference, to be held March 2-5, 2022, both live in Chicago and virtually. Today officially kicks off the call for entries for Startup Alley, in which 15 startups will be selected to participate in a live pitch competition that will be the opening event of this year’s TECHSHOW.

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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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Relativity–Electronic Discovery Software

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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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Thought Leadership Marketing: Don’t Hold Back Your Best Ideas

Attorney at Work

Giving away good ideas may seem counterintuitive, but providing free attorney thought leadership is one of the best ways to get new business. The purpose of creating thought leadership content is to provide answers, make sense of complex information, and chart a future course for a reader, viewer, or listener. By consistently generating high-quality content and publishing it to the right audiences, a lawyer will generate awareness, build trust, and develop new business opportunities.

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Ironclad Introduces Features to Provide Corporate Legal with Greater Visibility into In-Flight Contracts

LawSites

For many in corporate legal, the principal tool for managing in-flight contracts — those in the process of negotiation — is Outlook, and the back-and-forth of emails and redlines serves as the primary notification of what needs to be done next. Today, during its State of Digital Contracting event, the contract management company Ironclad unveiled enhancements to its product that are designed to help corporate legal professionals better track, act on and analyze these in-flight contracts.

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Ep 146: CEO Kiwi Camara on DISCO’s Public Offering and the State of Legal Tech

LawNext podcast

In July, the e-discovery company DISCO became one of just a handful of legal technology companies ever to go public, listing on the New York Stock Exchange. That made it the third legal tech company this year to go public, after no U.S. legal tech company had gone public since 2002. On this episode of LawNext, Kiwi Camara , DISCO’s cofounder and CEO, joins host Bob Ambrogi to discuss DISCO’s public offering and its implications for the company and the broader legal tech market.

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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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Legal Data Analytics

NSLT

Legal Data Analytics Can Benefit Any Type of Legal Practice No matter where an attorney works, the practice of law is no longer just about the law. It’s also about competing as a business, whether that’s in a corporate setting or at a law firm. Legal analytics—using historical performance data to make decisions about individual cases or legal operations—are one of the fastest ways to build a business case for legal practice.

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Analog Attorney’s Analog Gift Guide for Attorneys Who Whiskey

Attorney at Work

This year’s annual Analog Gift Guide for Attorneys Who Analog has taken the concept of analog onto a new path to offer you, our discerning readers, a collection of small-batch, hard-to-find, mostly unknown, rather extraordinary and award-winning American whiskies. Wait, Did You Say Whiskey? I know what you’re wondering: Where are the pencils?

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Now You Can Listen to Legal News as Law360 Adds Audio Versions of All Stories

LawSites

Law360 , the legal news service owned by LexisNexis, is today introducing audio versions of every story it publishes. For every story published on Law360, readers will now see an icon they can click to listen to an audio version of the article, read by a relatively lifelike male or female “newscaster” voice. Rachel Travers , vice president and general manager of Law360, said this is the first legal news service to offer this feature. “We know that the legal profession has many

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Ironclad Introduces Features to Provide Corporate Legal with Greater Visibility into In-Flight Contracts

LawSites

For many in corporate legal, the principal tool for managing in-flight contracts — those in the process of negotiation — is Outlook, and the back-and-forth of emails and redlines serves as the primary notification of what needs to be done next. Today, during its State of Digital Contracting event, the contract management company Ironclad unveiled enhancements to its product that are designed to help corporate legal professionals better track, act on and analyze these in-flight contracts.

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Study of Corporate Legal Spend in Legal ‘Megamatters’ Finds Little Use of ALSPs

LawSites

A newly published report on spending by corporate legal departments in “megamatters” — any matter having a total spend of at least $1 million — indicates that corporate legal departments are making only minimal use of alternative legal services providers (ALSPs) to reduce costs, even though these megamatters are often the very types of matters where ALSPs could bring efficiencies.

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Thought Leader Collaborative ‘Lab’ Now Accepting New Members

Attorney at Work

The Thought Leader Collaborative (the “Lab”) is an online training program and membership site that helps lawyers and legal marketers grow legal practices using LinkedIn. As a member of the Lab, you’ll have access to the resources you need to build a practice and grow your personal brand on LinkedIn, including: A core curriculum of on-demand video content.

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Call for Entries: ABA TECHSHOW 2022 Startup Alley and Pitch Competition, Live in Chicago March 2

LawSites

Attention legal technology startups: Applications are now open for the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW , the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference, to be held March 2-5, 2022, both live in Chicago and virtually. . Today officially kicks off the call for entries for Startup Alley, in which 15 startups will be selected to participate in a live pitch competition that will be the opening event of this year’s TECHSHOW.

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Legal Data Analytics

NSLT

Legal Data Analytics Can Benefit Any Type of Legal Practice No matter where an attorney works, the practice of law is no longer just about the law. It’s also about competing as a business, whether that’s in a corporate setting or at a law firm. Legal analytics—using historical performance data to make decisions about individual cases or legal operations—are one of the fastest ways to build a business case for legal practice.

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Outlook Calendar tip - Quickly Navigate to a Specific Date

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Outlook Calendar tip - Quickly Navigate to a Specific Date Outlook Calendar tip - Quickly Navigate to a Specific Date: Did you know that you can type words or phrases in the Start and From time fields in your Calendar view?

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Outlook Calendar tip - Quickly Navigate to a Specific Date

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Outlook Calendar tip - Quickly Navigate to a Specific Date Outlook Calendar tip - Quickly Navigate to a Specific Date: Did you know that you can type words or phrases in the Start and From time fields in your Calendar view?

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On LawNext: DISCO CEO Kiwi Camara on His Company’s Public Offering and the State of Legal Tech

LawSites

In July, the e-discovery company DISCO became one of just a handful of legal technology companies ever to go public, listing on the New York Stock Exchange. That made it the third legal tech company this year to go public, after no U.S. legal tech company had gone public since 2002. On this episode of LawNext, Kiwi Camara , DISCO’s cofounder and CEO, joins host Bob Ambrogi to discuss DISCO’s public offering and its implications for the company and the broader legal tech market.

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On LawNext: DISCO CEO Kiwi Camara on His Company’s Public Offering and the State of Legal Tech

LawSites

In July, the e-discovery company DISCO became one of just a handful of legal technology companies ever to go public, listing on the New York Stock Exchange. That made it the third legal tech company this year to go public, after no U.S. legal tech company had gone public since 2002. On this episode of LawNext, Kiwi Camara , DISCO’s cofounder and CEO, joins host Bob Ambrogi to discuss DISCO’s public offering and its implications for the company and the broader legal tech market.

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Ontario Court Lays Down the Law on Technology Competence and Video Proceedings

LawSites

An Ontario judge has laid down the law on technology competence, ruling in no uncertain terms that every lawyer has a duty to keep pace with changing technology, and that a lawyer’s discomfort with new technologies — in this case, video depositions — is no excuse for reverting to pre-pandemic methods. “With the current pace of change, everyone has to keep learning technology,” wrote Justice Frederick L.

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Ontario Court Lays Down the Law on Technology Competence and Video Proceedings

LawSites

An Ontario judge has laid down the law on technology competence, ruling in no uncertain terms that every lawyer has a duty to keep pace with changing technology, and that a lawyer’s discomfort with new technologies — in this case, video depositions — is no excuse for reverting to pre-pandemic methods. “With the current pace of change, everyone has to keep learning technology,” wrote Justice Frederick L.

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