Attorney at Work
AUGUST 31, 2022
Attorney Noble McIntyre shares best practices for rolling out the welcome mat for new clients. First, tips for law firm telephone etiquette. Once someone contacts your law firm, everything — from the receptionist’s demeanor to the conference room decor — can affect whether that person will sign on as a client. So does your practice project a welcoming image or are you sending a different message to prospective clients?
LLRX
AUGUST 27, 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
AUGUST 31, 2022
For all the advances made in the science of legal search, we are – as Pablo Arredondo , cofounder and chief innovation officer of Casetext likes to say – stuck in the keyword prison. Virtually all search tools – whether for legal research, e-discovery review, document review, or anything else – are confined to indexes. Every word in every case or contract or email or whatever is fed into an index, and the search tool looks for that word or some combination of indexed words.
Debevoise Data Blog
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
On August 31, 2022, the legislative session in California came to a close without any amendments that would further extend —or make permanent—existing limited exemptions under the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”) for personal information collected from California individuals in context of recruitment and employment (“HR”) or business-to-business (“B2B”) arrangements.
Attorney at Work
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Sooner or later, every lawyer in solo or small firm practice asks themselves whether they should create a law firm website — or how long they can put it off. Given all the unknowns — cost, scope, disruption — they may wonder whether launching a law firm website is really necessary, especially if they already have a robust digital presence. Maybe you have started by claiming a free Google business profile for your law firm and using social media to connect with potential clients.
LLRX
AUGUST 28, 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.
LawSites
AUGUST 31, 2022
Back in April, I wrote about the kick-off of the third-annual round of nominations for the American Legal Technology Awards — one notable for the fact that it will be the first time the awards will be presented in-person since its inception. . The purpose of the awards is to honor those making a difference and to highlight examples of excellence in creative innovation and technology in the legal industry for the purposes of (1) expanding our understanding of what is possible, (2) encouraging a
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Attorney at Work
AUGUST 29, 2022
After doing your research on trends in lawyer billing rates, you’ve decided to raise your own rates. It can feel uncomfortable. Some of us are reluctant to charge what we are really worth or feel bad about increasing rates for longtime clients. We may struggle with being in a high-rent market, such as New York or San Francisco, while serving clients in other locales used to paying lower regional rates.
LLRX
AUGUST 28, 2022
Articles and Columns for August 2022 Data Mining Resources 2022 – Data mining and knowledge discovery is a quickly evolving field that is part of the portfolio of CI, BI and KM professionals, law librarians, research analysts, infopros, data scientists, data journalists and students in college and graduate programs. This expansive bibliography by Marcus P.
LawSites
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Today at 3 E.T., join us live for our post-mortem analysis of ILTACON, the just-concluded annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. The panelists will share their impressions and takeaways. Time allowing, we’ll also discuss the week’s other top stories in legal tech and innovation. Joining as a guest panelist today is Cassandre Coyer , who recently joined Legaltech News and Law.com as a legal technology reporter.
Relativity
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
What key skills must you have to be a successful chief information security officer? And actually, what is it even like to be a CISO? Find the answers in these takeaways from the latest episode of Security Sandbox.
Technically Legal
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
We talk to New York Times Senior Economics Correspondent Neil Irwin about his book, How to Win in a Winner-Take-All World: The Definitive Guide to Adapting and Succeeding in High-Performance Careers. To write the book, Neil interviewed successful employees with companies in various industries–from Microsoft to a company running popular New York City eateries.
Above and Beyond KM
AUGUST 31, 2022
Your employer has a secret fantasy: they wish you were a robot. But what if a robot can’t do your job right now? Then expect your employer to use software tools and techniques to prod you to behave more like a robot and less like a human. Your employer has a secret fantasy: they wish you were a robot. Why? Because robots are reliable employees.
LawSites
AUGUST 29, 2022
Relativity , the global e-discovery and compliance technology company, said today that it has acquired Heretik , an AI contract review company whose product was built on the Relativity platform and whose staff is half composed of former Relativity employees. . Moving forward, Heretik’s end-to-end contract review product will be known as Relativity Contracts.
Relativity
AUGUST 31, 2022
In the spirit of community, who better to help determine this year’s winners for the tech categories of the Relativity Innovation Awards than … you? Read up on our submissions—you have an important job to do!
Rocket Matter
AUGUST 30, 2022
When operating a law firm, you want to reduce the ever-present yet unavoidable overhead costs. This includes items and services you need to run your law firm but don’t generate income, such as phones, internet, office supplies, and salaries of employees who aren’t lawyers—and, unsurprisingly, it’s pretty easy to shoot past your budget. However, you have options when it comes to reducing overhead costs.
Debevoise Data Blog
AUGUST 29, 2022
As we noted in previous posts, on August 11, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“ANPR”) seeking public comment on 95 questions focused on harms stemming from “commercial surveillance and lax data security practices” and whether new trade regulation rules under section 18 of the FTC Act are needed to protect people’s privacy and information.
LawSites
AUGUST 31, 2022
It has been a notable year for the practice management company MyCase , one in which it made four notable acquisitions of other practice management products, and then itself was acquired by AffiniPay , the parent company of the electronic payments platform LawPay. Today, we are seeing the fruits of two of those acquisitions, as MyCase rolls out legal accounting as a fully integrated feature of its platform, as well as a robust document automation integration.
Relativity
AUGUST 30, 2022
Meet our finalists for this year’s individual Innovation Awards, and join us in congratulating and thanking all the nominees who continue to innovate and connect within our community.
LawSites
AUGUST 30, 2022
Imagine this scenario: You have just weeks to file an appellate brief. The record in the case is enormous. The trial lasted five weeks, generating more than 40 reporter record volumes of testimony and trial exhibits and another seven clerk record volumes containing pleadings, motions and other filings. Out of that voluminous record, you need to find the evidence that supports your arguments, then draft your brief citing to that evidence, and then double-check and mark your citations against the
Relativity
AUGUST 29, 2022
We’re excited to share that Relativity has acquired Heretik and their technology, which combines machine learning and advanced analysis to help organizations gain immediate insight into contract data.
LawSites
AUGUST 29, 2022
I spent last week at ILTACON, the annual convention of the International Legal Technology Association. With nearly 3,000 attendees, it was the third largest ILTACON ever – a particularly significant stat given that we have yet to fully emerge from three years in the grips of the global pandemic. ILTACON is an opportunity for legal technologists of all ilks – from users to developers to vendors to investors – to come together and learn, share and socialize.
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