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Why I’m Pulling My Chips Out Of Attending ILTACON In Las Vegas

LawSites

It is fitting that Las Vegas is a major mecca of gambling, given that, next week, several hundred people will take a gamble on their safety to attend the physical portion of the first-ever hybrid ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. While I’d planned to be among them, I have decided to hedge my bets and attend virtually.

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Zoom Backgrounds: Looking Good in a Tiny Square!

Attorney at Work

Zoom backgrounds are either your favorite thing about online meetings or your glitchy internet nightmare. Since many have discovered Zoom’s cool trick of adding a virtual background, we’ve all been in meetings with colleagues dialing in from aquariums, the ranch in “Tiger King” or the Vatican. But here’s the thing — not all meetings are low-key and pantsless.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 15, 2021

LLRX

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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Back-to-Office Considerations for Your Law Firm Technology

LexCloud.ca

For many, the novelty of working from home has long worn off and a return to the office is welcomed. For others, months of remote work have drastically shifted priorities, and the expectation is to work from home for at least part of the time.

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Over Seven Years, Scant Progress in Law Firm Diversity, New Survey Shows

LawSites

U.S. law firms have made little progress towards achieving greater diversity, with only minimal gains over the last seven years, according to a new analysis by Law360 Pulse. The Diversity Snapshot 2021 shows that, from 2019 to 2020, diversity numbers barely crept up, with minorities representing just over 18% of attorneys and 10% of partners, virtually the same as the prior year.

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Escaping the Overworked and Overwhelmed Cycle

Attorney at Work

We’ve all been there: Working long hours on numerous matters, we feel we can never catch up, much less get ahead. In the legal industry, this is often the norm. But is the norm actually a “normal” amount of work? In this COVID-19 environment, and amid the “ Great Resignation ,” lawyers and staff who remain in the firm often have more responsibilities and work than before the pandemic.

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Black Widow v. Disney | Victim blaming in politics | DIY in complex cases

Legal Talk Network

Shuttered during the pandemic, movie theaters are only slowly opening capacity and drawing modest audiences. What impact did the shutdown and digital-first releases have on the pocketbooks of superstars headlining the films? On Legal Talk Today , Laurence Colletti takes us behind the scenes with Prof. Jon Garon to discuss Scarlett Johansonn’s breach of contract suit against Disney for its simultaneous release of the movie Black Widow.

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International Working Group Creates Best Practices Guide for Drafting Legal Documents

LawSites

An international working group of academics, vendors, lawyers and other legal professionals is today releasing the legal industry’s first comprehensive guide to best practices and workflows for creating effective legal documents in Microsoft Word. Document Competency: What Every Legal Professional Should Know for Effective & Efficient Drafting in Word , is intended to establish for legal professionals “a baseline understanding for the document-creation work valued in the legal ecosystem, def

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Three Steps to Effective Delegation: What, Who and How

Attorney at Work

Julia is a star senior associate and soon-to-be partner. She knows that to continue succeeding at her firm, she needs to delegate more work to junior associates and staff. But how? She simply doesn’t think she can trust others to do a quality job. After all, her mantra “If you want anything done right, do it yourself!” has served her well. And the few times she has delegated work, she’s had to redo everything herself.

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Smart Tools to Increase Your Law Firm’s Productivity

NSLT

Smart Tools to Increase Your Law Firm’s Productivity Whether you are a lawyer, working as the position of legal technology operations director, or performing any other role, the ultimate goal of your law firm is to help your clients and your business succeed. When everyone in your law office learns how to manage their time efficiently, it will be easier to manage a high volume of work and improve productivity across your company.

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SEC Levies $1 Million Penalty for Allegedly Misleading Cybersecurity Incident Disclosures

Debevoise Data Blog

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week took the rare step of penalizing a company for its allegedly poor disclosure of a cyber incident. The SEC announced a $1 million civil penalty against Pearson plc (“Pearson”), a London-based educational publishing company that is a U.S. securities issuer. The penalty resolves charges that Pearson misled investors related to a 2018 data breach.

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On LawNext: Northwestern Law’s New Dean Hari Osofsky On Leading the School’s Next Chapter of Innovation

LawSites

On Aug.1, Hari M. Osofsky took office as dean of Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law , after four years as dean of Penn State Law School and nearly two decades of teaching law. Having herself established a reputation for driving innovation, and coming into a school that is already recognized as innovative, her mission is to lead the school’s next chapter of innovation.

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Contract Automation & Building a Law Firm ALSP With Eric Baker and Michael Case (Transaction Expeditors / Frost Brown Todd)

Technically Legal

Contract automation and building an alternative legal service provider (ALSP) within a law firm is the topic of Episode 52. Eric Baker and Michael Case, transportation attorneys with Frost Brown Todd , talk about their journey founding Transaction Expeditors , an AI enabled contracts automation platform for the transportation industry. Before joining Frost Brown Todd and before launching Transaction Expeditors, both Eric and Mike were in house attorneys.

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Smart Tools to Increase Your Law Firm’s Productivity

NSLT

Smart Tools to Increase Your Law Firm’s Productivity Whether you are a lawyer, working as the position of legal technology operations director, or performing any other role, the ultimate goal of your law firm is to help your clients and your business succeed. When everyone in your law office learns how to manage their time efficiently, it will be easier to manage a high volume of work and improve productivity across your company.

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Ep 135: Northwestern Law’s New Dean Hari Osofsky On Leading the School’s Next Chapter of Innovation

LawNext podcast

On Aug.1, Hari M. Osofsky took office as dean of Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law, after four years as dean of Penn State Law School and nearly two decades of teaching law. Having herself established a reputation for driving innovation, and coming into a school that is already recognized as innovative, her mission is to lead the school’s next chapter of innovation.

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Featured Resource: A Lawyer’s Guide to Online Marketing

LawSites

This week’s featured resource from LawSites Resources : A Lawyer’s Guide to Online Marketing. Marketing your law firm is a different beast today than it was 20, 10, or even five years ago. Whereas previously firms were jostling for prime Yellow Pages placement (“AAAA Divorce Attorneys,” anyone?), the Internet has revolutionized how clients find and choose legal representation, and with dramatic results.

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Building a-typically extraordinary teams | Cringey responses to web reviews | DOJ’s A2J redux

Legal Talk Network

Building good teams often requires valuing the unique strengths of each member. For legal teams, diversity of thought and perspective can make all the difference when solving problems. If everyone thinks the same way, creative solutions may be elusive. Haley Moss speaks to the issue of neurodiversity in her book, “ Great Minds Think Differently: Neurodiversity for Lawyers and Other Professionals.”.

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How to Import Your Facebook Contacts In to Gmail

NSLT

How to Import Your Facebook Contacts In to Gmail Friends to Gmail (directory app) is a web application that you can use to convert your Facebook friends list into a nice, Gmail-compatible CSV file. Once created, you can import this file right into Gmail and all of your friends’ information, like names, locations, birthdays, bios, work history, and hometowns, will be added to your contacts for you.

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Litera Makes Another Acquisition, of UK Relationship Marketing Company Concep

LawSites

Barely a week after acquiring AI pioneer Kira Systems , and building on its acquisition earlier this year of Foundation Software, the legal technology company Litera is today announcing another acquisition, of U.K. company Concep , a provider of B2B relationship marketing technology for law firms, corporations, and professional and financial services.

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Litera Issues Statement on Withdrawal from Attending ILTACON

LawSites

After I reported earlier today that Litera had withdrawn its employees from attending ILTACON next week, the company issued the following statement. “After assessing the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation in the US, it is with regret that we have decided that our team will not be attending ILTACON 2021 in Las Vegas. We apologize for any disappointment or inconvenience this decision causes.

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Contract Management Company Evisort Named ‘Hot Vendor’ By Aragon Research

LawSites

The market research and advisory firm Aragon Research has named the contract management company Evisort as one of three emerging “hot vendors” in workflow and content automation. In the newly published research report, Hot Vendors in Workflow and Content Automation, 2021 , Aragon’s analysts reviewed key trends in workflow and content automation and identified three providers who are making a difference in the market.

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Another Major Vendor Appears to Have Pulled Its Employees from Attending ILTACON

LawSites

Last Friday, I reported that a major exhibitor, iManage, facing mounting fears around the surge in the Delta variant of the coronavirus, had decided to pull its staff from attending ILTACON, while continuing to support the conference virtually. Now, it appears that another major vendor has pulled its staff. A customer of Litera has confirmed receiving an email from a Litera employee cancelling a meeting scheduled for Las Vegas because Litera had decided to pull out of attending in person.

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How to Import Your Facebook Contacts In to Gmail

NSLT

How to Import Your Facebook Contacts In to Gmail Friends to Gmail (directory app) is a web application that you can use to convert your Facebook friends list into a nice, Gmail-compatible CSV file. Once created, you can import this file right into Gmail and all of your friends’ information, like names, locations, birthdays, bios, work history, and hometowns, will be added to your contacts for you.

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Setting Password for Documents

NSLT

How to set password for documents and ZIP files on Mac OS X without additional app Making a ZIP file on MacBook or iMac is very easy; Just put the multiple files in one folder, right-click on the folder, and click Compress. However, that ZIP file can be opened by anyone. This article explains how to set the password to protect a ZIP file and documents on Mac OS X without any additional app.

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Setting Password for Documents

NSLT

How to set password for documents and ZIP files on Mac OS X without additional app Making a ZIP file on MacBook or iMac is very easy; Just put the multiple files in one folder, right-click on the folder, and click Compress. However, that ZIP file can be opened by anyone. This article explains how to set the password to protect a ZIP file and documents on Mac OS X without any additional app.

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