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Everlaw Becomes Legal Tech’s Latest Unicorn, with $202M Raise at $2B Valuation

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E-discovery company Everlaw today became one of the few legal technology companies to join the elite ranks of unicorn status — companies valued at over $1 billion — with the announcement of a $202 million Series D funding at a valuation of over $2 billion. The news follows a year in which the company experienced 80% year-over-year growth. The company says that total cases on its platform have more than doubled since its $62 million Series C round in March 2020, and that its platform is now used

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Technology Doesn’t Replace Your Law Firm’s Admin Assistants

Attorney at Work

Let attorneys be attorneys and leave the admin work to those who get paid to get it done. It’s a battle as old as WordPerfect versus Word: Should lawyers type? Since lawyers have keyboarding skills, how many can be assigned to one admin assistant? Two? Three? Five? Imagine all the cost savings … right? Wrong. Instead, imagine all the headaches. All the extra stuff that you, the lawyer, get to do — or worse, pile up because you are too busy to handle it.

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LLRX October 2021 Issue

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Articles and Columns for October 2021 Is Remote Work a Thing Now? – Heather Grey-Grant is a business strategist, marketing expert and executive coach who works primarily with small to medium sized law firms. In her article she shares lessons learned on how to effectively manage remote working by law firm attorneys and staff along.

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Marketing Manager Wanted!

Legal Talk Network

Remote Work. Job Type: Fulltime. ABOUT LEGAL TALK NETWORK. Legal Talk Network has been a trusted premier resource for legal-related podcasts since 2005. Currently, LTN has over 25 active podcasts covering legal news, access to justice, law school, industry events, legal technology, and the future of law. We are a growing network of experts that hail from the American Bar Association, State Bar Associations, Legal Publications, Corporations, and Law Schools.

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Case Closed: How to Optimize Your Legal Intake Process for Efficiency

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!

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Winners Named for 2021 American Legal Technology Awards

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Winners have been named for the second annual American Legal Technology Awards , a competition launched last year to honor exceptional achievements in legal technology. This year, the competition added the announcement of a runner up and honorable mention in each category. A series of videos showcasing the winners in each category will be posted to the ALTA site between now and Nov. 10.

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What is Servant Leadership? The Benefits for Lawyers

Attorney at Work

The benefits of living your life and building your practice in the service of others. Being of service is at the heart of a business trend known as servant leadership. It’s a phrase we’re hearing a lot about these days, yet the principles are as old as the ages. The term, however, was first coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in a 1970 essay, “ The Servant as Leader.

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Six Takeaways from Debevoise’s SEC Cybersecurity Year in Review 2021

Debevoise Data Blog

On November 2, members of our Data Security & Strategy and White Collar & Regulatory Defense teams hosted a webcast on the SEC’s Cybersecurity Year in Review 2021. The panelists, Julie Riewe, Christopher Ford, and HJ Brehmer discussed regulatory trends regarding enforcement actions, disclosures, and proposed rulemaking, with a particular focus on notable enforcement actions from the past 12 months.

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For Halloween: The True Story of My Relation to A Salem Witch – and to a Witch Accuser

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In the history of the United States, there are many dark chapters. One remembered at this time of year is the witch hysteria that overtook Salem, Mass., in 1692 and 1693, leading to the convictions and hangings of 19 accused witches – 14 women and five men. As it turns out, one of the women who was killed was my 8th great grandmother. Even stranger, one of the principal accusers who helped set off the hysteria was the son of my 9th great-grandfather and brother of my 8th great-grandfather.

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Building Your Network: You’ll Regret Not Starting Sooner

Attorney at Work

Here are a few reasons to make building your network a priority early in your legal career. . I spent the first four years of my legal career at a “just keep your head down and do good work” law firm where billable work rained down on everyone. It’s all I focused on. There seemed to be little incentive to do otherwise. And it may have been fine if all I wanted was to work at one law firm my entire career.

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Employing My Law Librarian Skills on an Uncertain Road

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As we all navigate through the era of Covid, it is critical to learn from the myriad other medical challenges that many Americans, as well as our professional colleagues, are facing separate from the pandemic. Taryn L. Rucinski , Supervisory Librarian, U.S. Court of International Trade, shares her ongoing experience with the diagnosis of acoustic neuroma.

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Trellis Launches Trellis AI to Streamline Trial Court Litigation

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

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Cybersecurity and AI Whistleblowers: Unique Challenges and Strategies for Reducing Risk

Debevoise Data Blog

Several recent developments have caused companies to review their whistleblower policies and procedures, especially in the areas of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (“AI”). First , on October 28, 2021, New York State amended its Labor Law to dramatically increase whistleblower protections. This brings New York in line with a small but growing number of states, including New Jersey, with very broad protections for whistleblowers.

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Hg Doubles Down On Its Investment in Litera to Drive Further Growth

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Hg , a global private equity investor, is leading a further majority investment in legal technology company Litera , which it acquired in 2018 from the investment firm K1 Investment Management. The terms of this new investment are not being disclosed. In the two years since Hg acquired Litera, Litera has been on a trajectory of aggressive growth and expansion, making 12 acquisitions, gaining over 10 times the number of customers it had then, and trebling its workforce.

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Setting Out of Office Replies in Outlook

Attorney at Work

? ? ? ? ? ?. Setting out of office reply in outlook. If your firm’s email is running via Microsoft Exchange Server, you can set up a separate outgoing out of office email to go to internal and external contacts — and even get it to turn itself off automatically when you’re scheduled to return. Using Microsoft Exchange’s Out of Office Feature.

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Is Remote Work a Thing Now?

LLRX

Heather Grey-Grant is a business strategist, marketing expert and executive coach who works primarily with small to medium sized law firms. In her article she shares lessons learned on how to effectively manage remote working by law firm attorneys and staff along with the significant implications respective to marketing, HR, technology, firm strategy and administration.

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Visibility Into the Strategy & Supporting Documents of Major US Law Firms

Law Firm Intelligence by Trellis aggregates state trial court data across the Trellis platform enabling users to: look up a particular metric related to a specific law firm (such as, how many cases a law firm had or has against another law firm), and see the actual dockets and documents supporting the metric. Trellis data is maximized in a revolutionary and unique way to provide users an exclusive look into a law firm litigating in state trial courts.

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European Data Protection Roundup – October

Debevoise Data Blog

European Data Protection Roundup – October 2021 Key takeaways this October include: Liability for excessive security footage : The need to ensure security systems are configured appropriately to minimise the scope of video and audio footage captured, after an English court found a homeowner’s use of popular smart cameras violated the UK General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

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Exclusive: NetDocuments Acquires Afterpattern to Provide Native Document and Workflow Automation within its Content Management Platform

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At its Inspire 2021 customer conference today, the cloud content management platform NetDocuments is announcing that it has acquired Afterpattern , a no-code automation toolkit for legal professionals to product document and workflow automations. The company said that Afterpattern will be natively integrated into the NetDocuments platform, in order to allow customers to further focus on the “create” aspect of the document lifecycle.

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Payment Plan: Abacus Payment Exchange Offers Law Firms New Ways to Get Paid

Attorney at Work

Abacus Payment Exchange (APX) is a proprietary tool that has been built from the ground up and engineered exclusively for law firms. If queried, most law firms would point to March of 2020 as the point in time that everything changed. Not that you need to hear this again, but this was when the coronavirus pandemic began to shut down modern life in a truly disruptive way.

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Productizing Legal Work – A New How-To Manual by Gabriel H. Teninbaum

The Law Product Makers blog

Gabriel Teninbaum has written a new how-to manual on how to productize legal work, which should be required reading by lawyers and others who are thinking about undertaking a productization of legal services project. See Productizing Legal Work: Providing Legal Expertise at Scale. Teninbaum is the Assistant Dean of Innovation, Strategic Initiatives, & Distance Education at Suffolk University Law School, where he also teaches courses on law and technology to law students, Unlike more theoret

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Stay On Top of Newly Filed State & Federal Litigation: Curated Just for You!

With Daily Filings Report by Trellis you will receive an email and csv file daily with all new cases filed in the jurisdictions you're tracking. Each new case will include all case metadata like judge, parties, counsel, practice area, and even direct links to the full docket and complaint. Trellis Daily Filings Reports provide direct access to newly filed state and federal litigation curated just for you.

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Clio Law Practice Management Software

NSLT

Clio Law Practice Management Software Clio is probably the most popular cloud-based practice management software. As good as Clio already is, it keeps getting better. The web and mobile apps are beautiful and a pleasure to use, while Clio’s long list of integrations means you can use it with a lot of the other software you may already be using in your law practice (like Dropbox, QuickBooks Online, Xero, and Google Apps, to name just a few).

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On LawNext: Tech Edge J.D. Director Laura Norris On Giving Law Grads A Competitive Edge in Tech Careers

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This week on LawNext: A look at the innovative Tech Edge J.D. program at Santa Clara University School of Law. As law schools come under fire for failing to teach the practical skills students need to succeed in the real world, this program does the opposite. It aims to change the return on investment in legal education by providing law students with the essential legal, technology and business skills that will prepare them to hit the ground running as tech lawyers in Silicon Valley. .

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Remember the Basics of Job Interviewing

Attorney at Work

Be prepared to make the most of today’s job market; keep these job interview basics in mind. Lawyers have a reputation for being prepared. Yet it never ceases to amaze me how poorly lawyers prepare for job interviews. Although I have no hard proof of this, my experience working with lawyers has shown they’re typically woefully unprepared. Instead of preparing, they wing it, thinking they’re smart enough to impress whoever is on the other side of the table or, nowadays, whoever is on your Z

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Ep 143: Tech Edge J.D. Director Laura Norris On Giving Law Grads A Competitive Edge in Tech Careers

LawNext podcast

This week on LawNext: A look at the innovative Tech Edge J.D. program at Santa Clara University School of Law. As law schools come under fire for failing to teach the practical skills students need to succeed in the real world, this program does the opposite. It aims to change the return on investment in legal education by providing law students with the essential legal, technology and business skills that will prepare them to hit the ground running as tech lawyers in Silicon Valley.

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Clio Law Practice Management Software

NSLT

Clio Law Practice Management Software Clio is probably the most popular cloud-based practice management software. As good as Clio already is, it keeps getting better. The web and mobile apps are beautiful and a pleasure to use, while Clio’s long list of integrations means you can use it with a lot of the other software you may already be using in your law practice (like Dropbox, QuickBooks Online, Xero, and Google Apps, to name just a few).

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Justice Deno Himonas, Who Spearheaded Utah’s Innovation Sandbox, Retires from Supreme Court

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Constandinos (Deno) Himonas, the Utah Supreme Court justice who spearheaded the state’s first-of-its-kind regulatory sandbox to license new forms of legal services and providers, is retiring from the court. Himonas will step down on March 1, 2022, after which he will he will join the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, helping to anchor its office in Salt Lake City. “I am particularly proud of the Utah Supreme Court’s efforts to develop and launch the world’s f

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AI Contract Management Company Lexion Releases New Module for Email-First Contract Workflows

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Last year, I wrote here about Lexion , an AI-powered contract management system for mid-market corporations that emerged out of the Allen Institute for AI , the AI research institute created by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen. At the time, the company had just raised $11 million in a Series A round, and discussed plans to become a full end-to-end contract lifecycle management product by rolling out a new workflow module that would be simple and intuitive to use.

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Paladin Partners with Major Law Firms to Expand Its Pro Bono Platform to the U.K.; Adds New Portals in U.S.

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Paladin , a legal technology company whose platform enables law firms and legal services organizations to streamline and manage their pro bono programs and opportunities, is expanding from the United States to the United Kingdom. The expansion comes by way of a partnership with six major law firms who are already Paladin customers in the U.S.: Akin Gump, Clifford Chance, McDermott Will & Emery, Vedder Price, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and Winston & Strawn.

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On LawNext: Tech Edge J.D. Director Laura Norris On Giving Law Grads A Competitive Edge in Tech Careers

LawSites

This week on LawNext: A look at the innovative Tech Edge J.D. program at Santa Clara University School of Law. As law schools come under fire for failing to teach the practical skills students need to succeed in the real world, this program does the opposite. It aims to change the return on investment in legal education by providing law students with the essential legal, technology and business skills that will prepare them to hit the ground running as tech lawyers in Silicon Valley. .

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AI Contract Management Company Lexion Releases New Module for Email-First Contract Workflows

LawSites

Last year, I wrote here about Lexion , an AI-powered contract management system for mid-market corporations that emerged out of the Allen Institute for AI , the AI research institute created by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen. At the time, the company had just raised $11 million in a Series A round, and discussed plans to become a full end-to-end contract lifecycle management product by rolling out a new workflow module that would be simple and intuitive to use.

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Exclusive: NetDocuments Acquires Afterpattern to Provide Native Document and Workflow Automation within its Content Management Platform

LawSites

At its Inspire 2021 customer conference today, the cloud content management platform NetDocuments is announcing that it has acquired Afterpattern , a no-code automation toolkit for legal professionals to product document and workflow automations. The company said that Afterpattern will be natively integrated into the NetDocuments platform, in order to allow customers to further focus on the “create” aspect of the document lifecycle.

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How It Works: Agiloft’s Just-Released ‘Connected Experiences’ Extends CLM Across the Enterprise

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On the latest installment of How It Works : Breaking news from the contract lifecycle management company Agiloft , which today announced its 2021 winter release, featuring new Connected Experiences for easier enterprise integration, enabling teams to collaborate on contracts within established applications and ecosystems. Joining me today to provide an overview of Connected Experiences and demonstrate how it works is Andy Wishart , chief product officer.

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How It Works: Agiloft’s Just-Released ‘Connected Experiences’ Extends CLM Across the Enterprise

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On the latest installment of How It Works : Breaking news from the contract lifecycle management company Agiloft , which today announced its 2021 winter release, featuring new Connected Experiences for easier enterprise integration, enabling teams to collaborate on contracts within established applications and ecosystems. Joining me today to provide an overview of Connected Experiences and demonstrate how it works is Andy Wishart , chief product officer.

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Paladin Partners with Major Law Firms to Expand Its Pro Bono Platform to the U.K.; Adds New Portals in U.S.

LawSites

Paladin , a legal technology company whose platform enables law firms and legal services organizations to streamline and manage their pro bono programs and opportunities, is expanding from the United States to the United Kingdom. The expansion comes by way of a partnership with six major law firms who are already Paladin customers in the U.S.: Akin Gump, Clifford Chance, McDermott Will & Emery, Vedder Price, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and Winston & Strawn.

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Everlaw Becomes Legal Tech’s Latest Unicorn, with $202M Raise at $2B Valuation

LawSites

E-discovery company Everlaw today became one of the few legal technology companies to join the elite ranks of unicorn status — companies valued at over $1 billion — with the announcement of a $202 million Series D funding at a valuation of over $2 billion. The news follows a year in which the company experienced 80% year-over-year growth. The company says that total cases on its platform have more than doubled since its $62 million Series C round in March 2020, and that its platform is now used