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10 reports that every Law Firm’s Managing Partner needs

Ward Blawg

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.

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Florida Attorney Uses AI Facial Recognition Software to Exonerate Client

Internet for Lawyers

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.

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10 Quick Tips to Organize Your Law Office and Control the CHAOS

Attorney at Work

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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LawNext Podcast: Why (and How) This Texas Law Firm Sent Its Staff to Portugal For A Month

LawSites

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

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LLRX September 2022 Issue

LLRX

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.

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How do we build ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

Legal Tech Innovation Wales

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

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A Legal Recruiter’s Perspective: The Quality of Your Personal Network Is Paramount

Attorney at Work

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.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cybersecurity issues – October 2, 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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Breaking Through Common Barriers to Law Department Innovation

Dennis Kennedy

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.

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Understanding the Power of Email Marketing 

Attorney at Work

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?

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WordRake Releases Version 4.0 of its Legal Editing Software, Including New ‘Simplicity’ Mode for Simplifying Complex Language and New Pricing

LawSites

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

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Confronting Labor Trafficking: An Upcoming On the Merits Story

Relativity

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?

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CFPB’s Report on Buy Now, Pay Later

Debevoise Data Blog

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

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How Does a Lawyer Find a Sponsor? 

Attorney at Work

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.

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You Can Now Research and Analyze Labor Arbitrators and their Awards with New Tool from Wolters Kluwer

LawSites

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.

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Hacking Human Psychology: Understanding Social Engineering Hacks

Relativity

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.

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Online Legal Research Tips for Paralegals

NSLT

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.

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The Heyday of Grammar: You’re Not Hardcore Unless You Live Hardcore

Attorney at Work

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.

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On Eve of ClioCon, Thoughts On the Legal Tech Industry from CEO Jack Newton

LawSites

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.

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Hacking Human Psychology: Understanding Social Engineering Hacks

Relativity

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.

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Lessons from the SEC’s Most Recent Reg S-P Action

Debevoise Data Blog

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

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Ep 177: Why This Texas Law Firm Sent Its Staff to Portugal For A Month

LawNext podcast

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

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Lex Machina Adds Court Analytics for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Cases

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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.

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Using the Table of Authorities Builder in Microsoft Word

NSLT

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.

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Aderant Unveils Cloud Docketing Product that Combines CompuLaw with American LegalNet

LawSites

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.

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Hanzo Enhances and Renames Its Legal Hold Software with New Capabilities for Hard-to-Capture Data

LawSites

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.

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I Put WordRake’s New Version 4.0 to the Test Against the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment Opinion in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association

LawSites

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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