LawSites

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

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 31, 2021

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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Legal Talk Network

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

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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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

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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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

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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LLRX

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Privacy and security 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 security, often without our situational awareness.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 31, 2021

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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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

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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LLRX

OCTOBER 31, 2021

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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Debevoise Data Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

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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LawSites

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

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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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 31, 2021

? ? ? ? ? ?. 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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LLRX

OCTOBER 31, 2021

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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Debevoise Data Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

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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LawSites

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

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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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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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The Law Product Makers blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

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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NSLT

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

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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LawSites

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

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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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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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LawNext podcast

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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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NSLT

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

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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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

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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LawSites

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

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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LawSites

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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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LawSites

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

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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LawSites

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

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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LawSites

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

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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LawSites

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

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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LawSites

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

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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LawSites

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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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LawSites

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

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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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

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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LawSites

OCTOBER 31, 2021

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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LawSites

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

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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