Ward Blawg
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Running a successful law firm and being a good lawyer shouldn’t be incongruous, but to achieve these goals you need to identify – and implement – the best tools at your disposal.
Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 7, 2022
What’s the best law office organization system? Easy. It’s the one you will use. If you want to control the chaos in your office, you can’t wait for the perfect system to come along. So let’s start. Organize the CHAOS of Your Office Once and For All. What do I mean by CHAOS — and what’s with the caps? If you have read any of my past articles here at Attorney at Work, you know I have a thing for creating acronyms: D-A-F-T, SAD, Ctrl Journal, BYOB.
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LLRX
OCTOBER 1, 2022
Articles and Columns for September 2022 Fenced-off culture, the privatized Internet, and why book publishers lean on a 30-year-old doctrine – The Internet Archive (IA) “is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 624 billion archived web pages.” The IA offers users unrestricted access to its.
Internet for Lawyers
OCTOBER 3, 2022
By Mark Rosch A defense attorney in Florida is believed to be the first to use artificial intelligence-based facial recognition software to exonerate a client. The New York Times is reporting that Patrick Bailey of Ft. Meyers, FL succesfully requested access.
Advertiser: Trellis
Finance teams find Trellis to be particularly effective in conducting comprehensive due diligence on both individuals and businesses. With our court data solution, financial experts can access critical litigation insights, making it an invaluable resource for informed decision-making in the financial sector.
LawSites
OCTOBER 5, 2022
At a time when law firms are struggling to retain talent and wrestling to balance hybrid workplaces, the Texas-based corporate law firm Vela Wood did something unique: It sent its employees and their families to Portugal for a month. Why did it do it? How did it do it? What did clients think? And are there lessons for other firms? For the answers to those questions and more, our guests this week are the two name partners of the firm: Kevin Vela , who is the firm’s managing partner, and Radney Wo
Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Over the course of a career, almost every lawyer learns that their personal network is their most valuable asset and plays a critical role in generating clients, advancing within a firm, and finding new jobs. Table of contents 1. Meet people with the same hobby 2. Get active in alumni committees and events 3. Immerse yourself in your community 4. Attend industry events 5.
Legal Tech Connection brings together the best content for legal and legal tech professionals from the widest variety of thought leaders.
Relativity
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Social engineering is something hackers rely on for 98 percent of attacks. Here's why it works so effectively, and how to spot it before you become a victim.
LawSites
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Trellis , a company that provides legal analytics and research for state trial court records, has expanded its coverage into another five states, bringing its total coverage to 21 states. Trellis has now added coverage for courts in Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. In each of those states but Michigan, its coverage spans all counties.
Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Consider the elements of your current digital marketing strategy. If you are seeing any degree of success, your law firm is likely using SEO-researched keywords, organizing your content in a way that leads potential clients to your contact information, using social media platforms to connect with leads, optimizing your website, and more. But what about email marketing?
Legal Tech Innovation Wales
OCTOBER 7, 2022
How do we build ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI)? A recent webinar on The Future of AI and Ethics in LawTech, organized by Barclays, delved into this question in the context of ethical problems posed by AI in the legal sector. The panel comprised of speakers from different specialisms. Tanja Podinic, a lawyer and global director of innovation at Dentons; Rafie Faruq, an AI specialist and co-founder of Genie-AI and Rebekah Tweed, ethics, public policy specialist and the program director at Al
Speaker: Allison Mears, Adela Wekselblatt, and George Socha
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal industry, and paralegals are at the forefront of this transformation. As AI becomes more integrated into legal workflows, paralegals can streamline their daily tasks, enhance efficiency, and add greater value to their firms and organizations. But what exactly does AI mean for paralegals today—and how can you leverage it to your advantage?
Relativity
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Social engineering is something hackers rely on for 98 percent of attacks. Here's why it works so effectively, and how to spot it before you become a victim.
LawSites
OCTOBER 4, 2022
The legal editing software WordRake is today releasing a new version 4.0 that expands its functionality, adds new pricing options for less-frequent users, and introduces a new Simplicity editing mode for simplifying complex language. WordRake President Scott Johns calls this a “massive update” in which WordRake has “expanded functionality, dramatically increased editing algorithm quantity and quality, eliminated license keys for renewals, and lowered the barrier to entry for ne
Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Every lawyer can use a hand up, especially when it comes to navigating the unwritten rules of making partner or stepping into a leadership role. Sponsorship by someone with more seniority can make a difference in a career — particularly for a woman. But that begs the question, how exactly do you go about finding a sponsor? Ida Abbott is the author of “Sponsoring Women: What Men Need to Know” and a well-known expert in developing talent in law firms.
Dennis Kennedy
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Lawyers are trained to think in ways that can be the opposite of good innovation practices. We spot issues and potential problems, with an emphasis on problems. We identify and manage risks, with an emphasis on the risks of doing new things. We focus, sometimes agonizingly, on process, procedure, and precedent. Saying that something “has always been done this way” is seen as high praise.
Speaker: Andrew Klein
Are there mysteries lurking in your family tree? 🕵 No, not a long-lost half-brother - I'm talking about a patent family tree! IP paralegals need fast and easy ways to verify and report on essential data about foreign equivalents of US assets. Join us to master the global scope of key assets to support prosecution, portfolio management, litigation, licensing, competitive monitoring and more!
Relativity
OCTOBER 4, 2022
An upcoming documentary looks at the role technology plays in human trafficking. Does it enable traffickers? Can AI help thwart them? What is the duty of corporations, of people, in response? And why is Relativity telling this story?
LawSites
OCTOBER 3, 2022
While recent years have brought a number of products to market for analyzing judges and their rulings, little is available for analyzing private arbitrators, and particularly arbitrators in labor and employment matters. A new tool introduced today takes a major step towards remedying that. Called Labor Arbitrator and Awards Analyzer , it is part of the Labor Arbitration section of the legal research platform VitalLaw from Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S.
Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 6, 2022
As we at “Get to The Point” learned long ago, people are passionate about grammar. Author Ellen Jovin learned this as she and her husband traveled to 47 states to set up a small grammar table and hear passersby’s questions and complaints. For example, she met: A 23-year-old man in Decatur, Alabama, who exclaimed, “I really love grammar.” A man in Memphis who proclaimed, “We’re a grammar family.
Debevoise Data Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2022
On Thursday, September 16, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB” or the “Bureau”) published a report (the “Report”) detailing the regulatory risks of Buy Now, Pay Later (“BNPL”) products in response to last December’s market monitoring orders to five BNPL companies. BNPL generally refers to a credit product offered by a third-party institution that enables consumers to split the payment for a retail transaction into four equal installments: the first payment is a down payment du
Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor
Ready to cut through the AI hype and learn exactly how to use these tools in your legal work? Join this webinar to get practical guidance from attorney and AI legal expert, Joe Stephens, who understands what really matters for legal professionals! What You'll Learn: Evaluate AI Tools Like a Pro 🔍 Learn which tools are worth your time and how to spot potential security and ethics risks before they become problems.
NSLT
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Efficient and effective. If your research isn’t efficient, it won’t be effective. There are many skills you must master as a paralegal and no skill is more important than your ability to accurately research a topic and provide the right answers, and the right solutions at the right moment. The following legal research tips for paralegals will help improve your efficiency and enhance the quality of the information you deliver to your team.
LawSites
OCTOBER 7, 2022
With the Clio Cloud Conference kicking off live Monday for the first time since 2019, and with this year marking the conference’s 10 th anniversary, I caught up earlier today with Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton. Some of what we talked about is under embargo until Monday, when Clio will be announcing new products and releasing its latest Legal Trends Report.
LawNext podcast
OCTOBER 5, 2022
At a time when law firms are struggling to retain talent and wrestling to balance hybrid workplaces, the Texas-based corporate law firm Vela Wood did something unique: It sent its employees and their families to Portugal for a month. Why did it do it? How did it do it? What did clients think? And are there lessons for other firms? For the answers to those questions and more, our guests this week are the two name partners of the firm: Kevin Vela , who is the firm’s managing partner, and Radney Wo
Debevoise Data Blog
OCTOBER 6, 2022
On September 20, 2022, the SEC announced settled charges and the imposition of a $35 million penalty against a dually registered investment adviser and broker-dealer (the “Firm”) for violations of Regulation S-P (“Reg S-P”). The SEC found that the Firm violated Reg S-P’s requirements for registrants to adopt written policies and procedures to safeguard customer records and information (the “Safeguards Rule”) and to take reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access or use of consume
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!
NSLT
OCTOBER 3, 2022
If you are not using the Table of Authorities builder in Microsoft Word, you should be. Manually creating this table (and managing to keep it updated when changes are made to the brief) is an impossible task. Here are some tips.
LawSites
OCTOBER 6, 2022
The legal analytics platform Lex Machina , which is owned by LexisNexis, has again expanded its coverage, this time adding a Chapter 11 bankruptcy module that provides legal analytics for over 115,000 Chapter 11 proceedings. The module includes the entire docket in any bankruptcy proceeding filed after 2009 in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code, which provides a way for companies to reorganize and keep their businesses operating while paying off creditors over time.
LawSites
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Last January, Aderant , a global provider of business management software for law firms, acquired American LegalNet (ALN), the docketing technology and rules-based calendaring company. . When it did, Aderant already had a leading rules-based calendaring product of its own, CompuLaw , which it acquired in 2011, and which originally was introduced to the legal market some 40 years ago.
LawSites
OCTOBER 1, 2022
Hanzo, a company whose products help enterprise legal, governance and compliance teams manage collaboration and web-based data, has introduced a new version of its legal hold product, formerly Hanzo Hold, that comes with a new name, Hanzo Illuminate , and new features for more quickly and easily capturing dynamic and interactive web data and identifying risks within that data.
Advertiser: Trellis
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
LawSites
OCTOBER 5, 2022
As reported here yesterday , the legal editing software WordRake released a new version 4.0 that expands its functionality, adds new pricing options for less-frequent users, and introduces a new Simplicity editing mode for simplifying complex language. With this release, WordRake now has two editing modes: Brevity and Simplicity. You might consider the Brevity mode to be “classic” WordRake, in that it does what WordRake has always done — suggest edits that can make a document more co
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