Attorney at Work
AUGUST 11, 2022
Eloquent speakers understand that in every setting, every minute should be informing, perhaps delighting, your audience. Every lawyer needs to speak with colleagues, clients and prospects. Litigators need to address the court and sometimes jurors. Some lawyers give formal presentations. To develop eloquence for these situations, understand what eloquence is.
LawSites
AUGUST 9, 2022
As states seek to find innovative ways to address the access-to-justice crisis, a key component has been eliminating or loosening the prohibition on non-lawyer ownership of law firms. Two years ago, Arizona became the first state to completely eliminate the prohibition. Just two weeks earlier, Utah had approved sweeping changes in legal services regulation that that allowed non-traditional legal services providers.
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LLRX
AUGUST 6, 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.
SYKE
AUGUST 12, 2022
ALISTAIR MAIDEN It’s a question I get asked frequently. “How do I get started with CLM?” Knowing how to get to a goal is not easy, especially when it’s in an area where you are not an expert, like tech. I know how this feels. When I was starting my very first CLM project,… The post WANT TO IMPLEMENT CONTRACT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT (CLM)? START BY SETTING YOUR NORTH STAR appeared first on SYKE.
Attorney at Work
AUGUST 7, 2022
Some lawyers always seem fearful of increasing legal fees — recession or no recession, crisis or no crisis. If you are wondering whether to raise your hourly rates or fixed fees, my advice — with very limited exceptions — is to go for it. Clients are never as price-sensitive as you think. The Two Biggest Reasons Lawyers Are Afraid to Raise Legal Fees.
LawSites
AUGUST 8, 2022
Should the legal industry have a common set of data standards for classifying the work we do? The SALI Alliance – short for Standards Advancement for the Legal Industry – believes we should, and it recently released version 2.0 of its Legal Matter Standard Specification, which sets out an ontology of some 10,000 tags. . The argument for standards, SALI says, is that they will simplify and improve the delivery of legal services by providing greater transparency and increasing the effectiveness of
Rocket Matter
AUGUST 12, 2022
If your only legal calendar is the giant paper one on your desk that’s full of scratched-out dates and phone call doodles in the margins, it’s time to do yourself a favor and upgrade to a better process. Cloud-based calendar software allows you to update your calendar from anywhere with any device and help your remote employees stay in the loop for every important update.
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Attorney at Work
AUGUST 9, 2022
TikTok is fertile ground for marketing legal services, but it takes more than a talent for lip syncing to attract the right kind of attention. You need an SEO for TikTok strategy to ensure your#lawyertiktok videos aren’t lost among the cats and comedians. Remember when every law firm and lawyer wanted to rank No. 1 on Google for their top most coveted keywords?
LawSites
AUGUST 10, 2022
The legal technology company Litera has acquired BigSquare , a provider of financial and business intelligence and analytics for law firms and corporate legal departments. Litera said that the addition of BigSquare to its portfolio will empower law firms to make better financial decisions with instant access to financial data and insights. Founded in 2009, BigSquare’s cloud-based business intelligence software retrieves, analyzes, and visualizes financial data onto a user-configurable fin
Debevoise Data Blog
AUGUST 7, 2022
On July 29, 2022, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) released Draft Amendments to its Part 500 Cybersecurity Rules. We provided our initial thoughts on the Draft Amendments in a blog post , and then had a webcast on August 5, 2022 , during which we received dozens of questions, some of which we did not have time to answer. In this update, we answer some of the questions we received in connection with our webcast and our initial blog post , which discussed the six categories
Relativity
AUGUST 10, 2022
One of the beautiful things about artificial intelligence is its ability to “think” on multiple channels at once.
Attorney at Work
AUGUST 12, 2022
Of all the marketing tools for lawyers, video is the most engaging — and one of the best at helping you project professionalism and competence. Yet despite evidence that video marketing for lawyers is remarkably effective, law firms have been slow to use video compared with other industries. And, while a growing number of firms are using video in innovative ways, too often lawyers fail to use video effectively.
LawSites
AUGUST 9, 2022
One way to avoid the cost of downloading documents from the federal courts’ PACER database is by getting them instead from the RECAP Archive , a database of millions of PACER documents and dockets maintained by the Free Law Project. But before you can get a document out of RECAP, the document had to have been added there in the first place. To make that happen, RECAP has relied on its free browser extensions by which every PDF a user purchases on PACER is automatically added to the RECAP a
Debevoise Data Blog
AUGUST 12, 2022
On Friday, August 19, 2022, Eric Dinallo had a discussion with Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Andrew Mais on artificial intelligence and discrimination in the insurance industry, including on the risks of proxy discrimination and the recent Connecticut Notice on big data and avoiding bias when using AI. Avi Gesser, the co-chair of the Debevoise Data Strategy and Security group, joined that discussion.
LawNext podcast
AUGUST 8, 2022
Should the legal industry have a common set of data standards for classifying the work we do? The SALI Alliance – short for Standards Advancement for the Legal Industry – believes we should, and it recently released version 2.0 of its Legal Matter Standard Specification, which sets out an ontology of some 10,000 tags. The argument for standards, SALI says, is that they will simplify and improve the delivery of legal services by providing greater transparency and increasing the effectiveness of
Attorney at Work
AUGUST 10, 2022
What does it take to become a successful lawyer in your particular niche? In a series of interviews for the Estrin Report , Chere Estrin profiles top lawyers from all types of practices. Here, we highlight their top tips. This week, we feature personal injury lawyer Greg Colburn, who says success requires both grit and empathy. Greg Colburn. Founder Colburn Law Seattle, WA LinkedIn.
LawSites
AUGUST 8, 2022
When was the last time you made a substantial purchase without first reading reviews? Not in recent memory, I bet. Recent research says that as many as 95% of people read online reviews and that 84 percent trust them as much as a personal recommendation. Among B2B buyers, 92% are more likely to purchase after reading a trusted review. But for buyers of legal tech, user reviews are hard to come by.
LawSites
AUGUST 12, 2022
The rise of artificial intelligence has led some to speculate that robots could someday replace lawyers in performing many legal tasks. But what if chips in lawyers’ brains — or some other form of neurotechnological augmentation — could enable them to combine the benefits of AI systems while retaining desirable human capacities to create a kind of super lawyer?
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