Sat.Jan 15, 2022 - Fri.Jan 21, 2022

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Ironclad Raises $150M At $3.2B Valuation

LawSites

It was barely more than a year ago that Ironclad raised a $100 million Series D round at a valuation of nearly $1 billion, and now the San Francisco-based company has raised a $150 million Series E at a $3.2 billion valuation. That brings total investment in the company, whose product is a digital contracting platform for corporate legal departments, to $333 million.

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Clients Are Spending More on Legal Tech: Can Smaller Firms Keep Up?

Attorney at Work

Law firms of all sizes are feeling pressure to meet client demand for both tailored services and greater efficiencies in this rapidly changing industry. Legal teams are being pressed to control costs and better respond to changing regulatory and risk management obligations. In response, they are investing more in automation, advanced analytics and other technologies that will help them manage the workload.

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Information Quality Resources 2022

LLRX

Librarians, researchers, journalists, teachers and students are continually confronted with what can be described as a kind of information miasma when using online sites, databases, resources, images and social media. No sector or discipline is immune to misinformation, disinformation, hoaxes, lack of data quality, and biased research. This guide by Marcus Zillman highlights actionable resources to evaluate and identify online malfeasance, as well as sources to verify information and data qualit

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Avoiding Tech First Failures When Improving Legal Workflows & Processes with Casey Flaherty (Lex Fusion)

Technically Legal

Casey Flaherty, Chief Strategy Officer for Lex Fusion, makes his second appearance on Technically Legal. This time around, Casey discusses his thesis that organizations often turn to technology as an avoidance mechanism for addressing issues with process and culture. Casey has deep experience with legal process from all angles, he started his career as a commercial litigator before moving in house at Kia Motors.

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In 14th Acquisition Since 2019, Litera Says It Will Purchase Legal Software Company Prosperoware

LawSites

Marking its 14th acquisition since 2019 and its eighth in just the last 12 months, l egal technology company Litera has entered into an agreement to acquire Prosperoware , a company that develops software for the legal industry for the adoption and governance of collaboration systems. Haley Altman , global head of corporate development at Litera, told me that the company views this deal as a strategic acquisition for Litera and powerful for customers. “With Prosperoware, we can deliver Li

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Top Digital Marketing Trends for Law Firms in 2022

Attorney at Work

Whether you manage your firm’s digital marketing strategy yourself or outsource your marketing, lawyers — especially small law firm owners — need to stay on top of the latest digital marketing advancements to ensure their websites continue to drive potential clients their way. As we round out the month of January, let us take a look at the top digital marketing trends for 2022.

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Putting a Spotlight on Civics Education: How Law Librarians Are Helping to Bridge the Access to Justice Gap

LLRX

Diane M. Rodriguez Assistant Director of the San Francisco Law Library in California, and 2021–22 president of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), where one of her many goals is to advocate for access to legal information that supports access to justice. She expertly articulates the work, and the role of law librarians, that comprise this mission.

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Legal Research Company Casetext Raises $25M In Undisclosed Funding Round

LawSites

The legal research company Casetext has raised $25 million in a Series C funding round, bringing its total amount raised to $64.3 million since its founding in 2013. Although the company has not publicly announced the funding, it filed a notification with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Jan. 7, 2022, documenting the raise of $25 million in equity financing.

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Easy There, Cowboy: Read This Before You Post That Image

Attorney at Work

If you’re planning to use stock photos, illustrations, even video clips to market your law firm, you need to know the ropes. The last thing you need is to get entangled in a dispute about the misappropriation of copyrighted materials. Plus, it looks bad if your firm is accused of copyright infringement and your firm has an IP practice. But First, a Little Background.

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A bit about PURLs

LLRX

Ed Summers , librarian, metadata expert, teacher, and computational expert, delivers an insighful lesson on the Persistent Uniform Resource Locator. PURLs were developed to make URLs more resilient and persistent over time. You could put a PURL into a catalog record and if the URL it pointed to needed to change you changed the redirect on the PURL server, and all the places that pointed to the PURL didn’t need to change.

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Time to Update Cyber Incident Response Plans, Especially for Banks Subject to the New 36-Hour Breach Notification Rule

Debevoise Data Blog

The Value of Cybersecurity Incident Response Plans As cyberattacks continue to plague U.S. companies, cybersecurity remains a core risk, even for businesses that have invested heavily in technical measures to protect their systems. As a result, cybersecurity best practices have evolved to include not only preventative measures, but also robust preparations for responding to cyber incidents, so that companies can improve their resilience, decrease the time it takes to detect and effectively resp

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Friday Roundup: Case Status Raise, FileTrail Acquisition, Brightflag Enhancement

LawSites

Here are some of the other legal tech stories from the week: Case Status raises $3.5 million. Case Status , a mobile client portal and messaging platform for law firms, raised $3.5 million in a Series A venture capital funding round led by Meeting Street Capital, Panoramic Ventures, VentureSouth, CreativeCo, and others. I had previously reported on the startup’s raise of $1.5 million in seed funding in 2020 and its venture capital funding in 2019.

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5 Kinds of Rest: Avoiding Exhaustion Means More Than Getting Enough Sleep

Attorney at Work

Feeling exhausted? There are many kinds of rest we need to feel well-rested. Of course, we all know sleep is important for both physical and mental stamina. In fact, lack of sleep has serious consequences, such as reducing our immune system’s effectiveness and increasing cravings for simple carbohydrates. But did you know there are at least four other kinds of rest we need to be healthy and at our best?

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Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 16, 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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Legal Tech & ESG

CEE Legal Tech

What is ESG? You may already be familiar with the term “ESG”, yet in case not just yet – let’s start with deciphering what stands behind the E, S and G in this acronym. ESG is a term used for an organization’s environmental (E), social (S) and governance (G) performance. A related term is “ESG investing”, where investors invest in companies based on their ESG performance.

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Legal Research Service vLex Partners with Leading Publishers to Launch Global News Product

LawSites

The international legal research service vLex said today it has partnered with some of the world’s leading news publishers to launch a new Global News product on its platform. . “Global News is a significant expansion of vLex’s expert legal commentary and news content, making it a vital tool for any lawyer, law librarian, investigative researcher, or academic wishing to stay up-to-date on breaking news and legal matters from around the world,” the company said. vLex said it de

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Equipping the Rural Lawyer for Success

Attorney at Work

Advances in technology and access to legal staffing is helping rural lawyers improve workflows and operate more efficiently. Compared with their counterparts in urban and suburban regions, rural attorneys often have less reliable access to critical skill sets and tools to support their practice. For example, there may be a scarcity of local IT professionals to help them troubleshoot technology problems.

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7 Best Automation Features for Lawyers

Legodesk

As a lawyer, your role is to give advice, explain your client’s rights, and then represent them in court, ensuring that their cases have the best possible outcome. Doesn’t it seem to be simple and clear? However, as you are aware, it may be so much more. A lawyer’s day is filled with tight deadlines, considerable research, and a never-ending stream of stressed-out clients desperate to see results on their cases.

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What To Do About Social Media Fake Reviews

Social Media for Law Firms

While social media platforms are extraordinarily useful for growing businesses, there are a number of pitfalls almost impossible to avoid. In this age of misinformation — and outright lies — fake ratings and reviews are more common than ever. Many people even accuse big businesses of stymieing the growth of smaller businesses by paying for reviewers to leave bad ratings.

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Legal Research Company Casetext Raises $25M In Undisclosed Funding Round

LawSites

The legal research company Casetext has raised $25 million in a Series C funding round, bringing its total amount raised to $64.3 million since its founding in 2013. Although the company has not publicly announced the funding, it filed a notification with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Jan. 7, 2022, documenting the raise of $25 million in equity financing.

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12 Personal Productivity Tips Part 3

NSLT

12 Personal Productivity Tips Part 3 The end of the year can seem like the “Time of the Overwhelm.” So much to do and so little time. Emergencies pop up. Priorities change. And you can slip farther behind. Learn 12 of the best personal productivity tips.

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What Supreme Court’s block of vaccine mandate for large businesses will mean for public health: 4 questions answered

LLRX

The U.S. Supreme Court on January 13, 2022, blocked the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate, which applied to virtually all private companies with 100 of more employees. But it left in place a narrower mandate that requires health care workers at facilities receiving federal funds to get vaccinated. The ruling comes at a time when the number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalization rates continues to soar throughout the United States as a result of the omicron variant.

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Friday Roundup: Case Status Raise, FileTrail Acquisition, Brightflag Enhancement

LawSites

Here are some of the other legal tech stories from the week: Case Status raises $3.5 million. Case Status , a mobile client portal and messaging platform for law firms, raised $3.5 million in a Series A venture capital funding round led by Meeting Street Capital, Panoramic Ventures, VentureSouth, CreativeCo, and others. I had previously reported on the startup’s raise of $1.5 million in seed funding in 2020 and its venture capital funding in 2019.

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Webinar Tomorrow: Making Smarter Legal Tech Decisions in 2022

LawSites

With thousands of legal tech products on the market competing for the attention and dollars of legal professionals, how can consumers make smarter buying decisions? That is the focus of a webinar I will moderate tomorrow, Making Smarter Legal Tech Decisions in 2022 , that will feature both legal tech vendors and consumers, together with the CEO of one of the world’s largest software review platforms.

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Webinar Tomorrow: Making Smarter Legal Tech Decisions in 2022

LawSites

With thousands of legal tech products on the market competing for the attention and dollars of legal professionals, how can consumers make smarter buying decisions? That is the focus of a webinar I will moderate tomorrow, Making Smarter Legal Tech Decisions in 2022 , that will feature both legal tech vendors and consumers, together with the CEO of one of the world’s largest software review platforms.

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Legal Research Service vLex Partners with Leading Publishers to Launch Global News Product

LawSites

The international legal research service vLex said today it has partnered with some of the world’s leading news publishers to launch a new Global News product on its platform. . “Global News is a significant expansion of vLex’s expert legal commentary and news content, making it a vital tool for any lawyer, law librarian, investigative researcher, or academic wishing to stay up-to-date on breaking news and legal matters from around the world,” the company said. vLex said it de

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In 14th Acquisition Since 2019, Litera Says It Will Purchase Legal Software Company Prosperoware

LawSites

Marking its 14th acquisition since 2019 and its eighth in just the last 12 months, l egal technology company Litera has entered into an agreement to acquire Prosperoware , a company that develops software for the legal industry for the adoption and governance of collaboration systems. Haley Altman , global head of corporate development at Litera, told me that the company views this deal as a strategic acquisition for Litera and powerful for customers. “With Prosperoware, we can deliver Li

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Ironclad Raises $150M At $3.2B Valuation

LawSites

It was barely more than a year ago that Ironclad raised a $100 million Series D round at a valuation of nearly $1 billion, and now the San Francisco-based company has raised a $150 million Series E at a $3.2 billion valuation. That brings total investment in the company, whose product is a digital contracting platform for corporate legal departments, to $333 million.

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12 Personal Productivity Tips Part 3

NSLT

12 Personal Productivity Tips Part 3 The end of the year can seem like the “Time of the Overwhelm.” So much to do and so little time. Emergencies pop up. Priorities change. And you can slip farther behind. Learn 12 of the best personal productivity tips.

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12 Personal Productivity Tips Part 2

NSLT

12 Personal Productivity Tips Part 2 The end of the year can seem like the “Time of the Overwhelm.” So much to do and so little time. Emergencies pop up. Priorities change. And you can slip farther behind. Learn 12 of the best personal productivity tips.

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12 Personal Productivity Tips Part 2

NSLT

12 Personal Productivity Tips Part 2 The end of the year can seem like the “Time of the Overwhelm.” So much to do and so little time. Emergencies pop up. Priorities change. And you can slip farther behind. Learn 12 of the best personal productivity tips.

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12 Personal Productivity Tips Part 1

NSLT

12 Personal Productivity Tips Part 1 The end of the year can seem like the “Time of the Overwhelm.” So much to do and so little time. Emergencies pop up. Priorities change. And you can slip farther behind. Learn 12 of the best personal productivity tips.

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12 Personal Productivity Tips Part 1

NSLT

12 Personal Productivity Tips Part 1 The end of the year can seem like the “Time of the Overwhelm.” So much to do and so little time. Emergencies pop up. Priorities change. And you can slip farther behind. Learn 12 of the best personal productivity tips.

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Time to Vote: You Get to Pick the Startup Alley Finalists for ABA TECHSHOW 2022

LawSites

We need your vote! Here is your chance to help pick the legal technology startups that will be selected for the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2022. Fifteen companies will be selected to face off in a live pitch competition that will be the opening event of this year’s TECHSHOW, as well as to exhibit in a special Startup Alley portion of the exhibit hall.

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Time to Vote: You Get to Pick the Startup Alley Finalists for ABA TECHSHOW 2022

LawSites

We need your vote! Here is your chance to help pick the legal technology startups that will be selected for the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2022. Fifteen companies will be selected to face off in a live pitch competition that will be the opening event of this year’s TECHSHOW, as well as to exhibit in a special Startup Alley portion of the exhibit hall.