Attorney at Work
JUNE 3, 2022
Retirees returning to work is a rising trend in the workplace. Camille Stell interviews attorney Will Graebe on his unexpected return to work and lessons learned. Millions of Americans left the workforce during the pandemic, 4.2 million people between March 2020 and July 2021. According to U.S. Labor Department data, 2.4 million of those were older workers.
Legal Talk Network
JUNE 1, 2022
For so many law firms, SEO seems like the golden ticket to attract new clients and get your law firm noticed. And while SEO remains one of the most effective ways for law firms to grow their business, how do you play the SEO game successfully? In the early days of search engine optimization (SEO), keywords were everything. Many search engines, including Google, relied heavily on matching keywords and phrases in a user’s search query.
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LLRX
MAY 30, 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.
LawSites
JUNE 1, 2022
Marking its second acquisition this year, the cloud practice management company SurePoint Technologies has acquired Coyote Analytics , a company that provides practice management, financial management and business intelligence software for law firms. In February, SurePoint acquired Cole Valley Software , a popular client relations management (CRM) software for law firms.
Attorney at Work
MAY 31, 2022
Managing an increasing volume of cases and court deadlines– sometimes in multiple jurisdictions – is one of the biggest time management challenges for law firms. . A Tennessee lawyer was suspended and put on probation after failing to file a personal injury case. The firm had filed a voluntary dismissal back in 2014. While the lawyer had every intention of refiling within one year, that date was stored only in his memory.
Relativity
JUNE 2, 2022
At Spotlight: Asia, legal experts from Hong Kong, India, Singapore, and South Korea touched on one theme again and again: the cloud is here to stay.
Legal Tech Connection brings together the best content for legal and legal tech professionals from the widest variety of thought leaders.
Rocket Matter
JUNE 2, 2022
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. When Charles Dickens wrote that line to open his classic A Tale of Two Cities, he was using it to contrast the prosperity of 18th century London with the chaos of Paris during the French Revolution. But he also could have been talking about your accounts receivable and invoicing processes. Okay, okay.
Attorney at Work
JUNE 2, 2022
Your firm is likely the biggest wealth creator you’ll have in your life. Instead of starving your firm by pulling out all the profits, continue funding growth — and accelerating profits — by feeding your firm’s war chest. It’s hard to start a law firm. There are a lot of moving pieces and a steep learning curve — especially on the management side.
Relativity
JUNE 1, 2022
Nicole Kelsey—chief legal officer at Amyris and an inclusion, diversity, and belonging advocate—shares her thoughts on how allyship really should look, taking accountability, and the importance of language.
Debevoise Data Blog
MAY 31, 2022
On May 25, 2022, the Review of Banking & Financial Services published an article on the recently-issued banking agencies’ Final Rule on Computer-Security Incident Notification Requirements for Banking Organizations and Their Bank Service Providers (the “Final Rule”). The Final Rule went into effect on April 1, 2022 and required banking organizations, as well as certain banking service providers, to comply by May 1, 2022.
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?
Above and Beyond KM
MAY 31, 2022
Airbnb is leading the charge to enable digital nomads in their organization and yours. Their work anywhere policy provides one road map. Are you ready to follow their lead? Airbnb recently announced that it wants to embrace remote working as the norm. In fairness, to fail to do so would have been the height of hypocrisy given that so much of its recent financial good fortune is due to remote workers (from other companies) who used Airbnb to find pleasant locations from which to work.
Attorney at Work
JUNE 2, 2022
The Stoic Marcus Aurelius kept a daily journal. He reviewed his day each evening through short, terse, simple paragraphs. He began each day reviewing the previous evening’s notes. Aurelius felt journaling ordered his thoughts, helping him live a more productive life. His “Meditations” collected these private thoughts. They’ve guided business and political leaders since 180 A.D.
LawSites
MAY 31, 2022
Beware: A phishing scam that started today appears to be targeted at customers of a legal technology consulting and development company. The email, which purports to come from a California company, Legal Soft Solutions, tells recipients that their payment failed to process and that they must update their payment method. One obvious red flag in the email is that it refers to an order placed through Amazon.
NSLT
JUNE 3, 2022
How to Get Legal Translation and Interpretation Right Every Time Legal translation and interpretation are specialist services that require exceptional attention to detail, sound legal knowledge and impressive linguistic skills. There is no room for legal translators or legal interpreters to have a ‘bad day’ at the office, as a mistake in their work could have serious ramifications.
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!
Accellis Technology Group
JUNE 1, 2022
Free Guide: 15 Critical Questions to Ask a Managed Services Provider Choosing a Managed Service Provider (MSP) is one of the most important business decisions you will make. The right partner can make a tremendous difference on your efficiency and bottom line. The wrong partner, however, can quickly become a money pit, draining your budget and the time of your staff.
Attorney at Work
JUNE 1, 2022
What can law firms do to solve the associate retention quandary and make their culture “stickier?” Four employee retention strategies to try. A few years ago, when I spoke with law firms about the importance of investing in the professional development and satisfaction of their associates, my comments were often met with eye rolls and jokes about work-life balance.
LawSites
MAY 31, 2022
It may be one of the least heralded yet most critical jobs in many law firms – that of the docketing professional – and it is one that calls for a unique combination of technical, data-management, organizational and communication skills. In litigation and intellectual property matters, it is the responsibility of docketing professionals to ensure that electronic court pleadings and documents are properly and timely filed, to maintain internal databases of docketed documents, and to facilitate ac
NSLT
MAY 30, 2022
Password Protect Workbooks and Worksheets Your Excel workbook or worksheets contain sensitive strategic data, so you want to require others to enter a password to open them. Or you can share the data freely with anyone without requiring a password, but require a password to make changes. Take this short course to find out more.
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.
LLRX
MAY 30, 2022
Thom Hartmann is a podcast personality, author, former psychotherapist, businessman, and progressive political commentator. He untangles the history of the Electoral College and unequal representation in the U.S. Senate to starkly illuminate why our democracy is now in peril.
Attorney at Work
MAY 28, 2022
In French, esprit de corps means “spirit of the group.” It refers to the camaraderie that inspires each individual to work toward the group’s shared success. Esprit de corps is the heart of a healthy law firm — it represents the passion, support and motivation that are vital for building your firm’s culture and increasing long-term profitability.
LawSites
JUNE 2, 2022
The surreptitiously leaked draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade has been subjected to a firestorm of scrutiny and commentary. For good reason, the focus of the firestorm has been on the opinion’s ultimate ruling and its social and political implications. But, legal tech nerd that I am, I wondered how the draft would fare if I subjected it to the scrutiny of the legal editing software BriefCatch , which recently rolled out a new-and-improved version
Attorney at Work
MAY 31, 2022
Trust accounting mistakes strike fear in the hearts of well-intentioned lawyers. There are the bad apples who intentionally raid a trust account, but for most of us who mean to handle client funds correctly, the fear of making a mistake is terrifying. After all, the consequences of an error can be dire — including disbarment. To make sure you stay out of trust accounting trouble, here are five things to get on top of today. 1.
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!
Attorney at Work
JUNE 2, 2022
You can organize costs to start a law firm into these broad categories. Read this free download to get cracking on a new budget, or revise your old one. Do you have $500? Good. You’re the proud owner of a new law firm! (Seriously, congratulations.). Thanks mostly to the spate of technology advances made possible by cloud services, it is cheaper to practice law than ever before, because lawyers can virtualize much of what they do.
Attorney at Work
MAY 30, 2022
How to Introduce Yourself. Following a recent post about networking, a reader asked, “What’s the best way to introduce yourself at a networking event?” What follows is for business contexts. For social etiquette, I’ll defer to Emily Post (or my late mother, who, while my siblings and I were growing up, we considered one and the same). How to introduce yourself is determined by your purpose in attending the event.
Attorney at Work
MAY 30, 2022
Page numbers can bring even the most stoic attorney to tears, but with these tips, you’ll master MS Word page numbering in no time. In this new tips series, the legal technology training experts at Affinity Consulting Group offer straightforward answers to common questions about popular software programs used in law offices. Regularly find yourself wrestling with Microsoft Word’s page-numbering feature?
Attorney at Work
MAY 28, 2022
Nobody sets out to write a boring attorney bio. It’s just so easy to follow the usual attorney bio format and rarely update or change it — unless there’s a big pitch underway or the firm’s website is being redesigned. The bio becomes an end product of your CV — told in prose form. Those rock-solid credentials and impressive accomplishments get lost among ordinary verbs and uninspired adjectives.
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
Attorney at Work
MAY 28, 2022
? ? ?. How to Setup Outlook Reminder email in Microsoft in Outlook. In Outlook 2016, when you hover your mouse over a particular message in any folder, you’ll notice an outline of a flag icon. However, if your email is set up with the IMAP protocol rather than POP3 or Exchange Server , your options for flagging a message for follow-up are limited.
Attorney at Work
MAY 28, 2022
It’s been said (often) that lawyers were genteel, professional, and respectful of their colleagues and opposing counsel in the past. But the last few decades haven’t been good ones for the profession on that front. Intimidation, shabby lawyering, “over-papering” and arrogance seem to run rampant. In some cases, judges have even ordered civility training for lawyers.
Attorney at Work
MAY 30, 2022
Yellow legal pads, containing what at least to a casual observer might seem unintelligible scribbles, abound in most lawyers’ offices. Of course, good legal business practice dictates that we take copious and clear lawyer notes to identify work we have done or still need to do, who we have spoken with, when and about what. But it is also critical to maintaining compliance with ethics rules.
Attorney at Work
JUNE 3, 2022
My Ikigai is storytelling. It took me a while to come to terms with this, but it shouldn’t have. First, I’ve been telling stories since I was in kindergarten. Second, I’ve been writing features and columns in print and online since 1988. So it should have been obvious this is my wheelhouse. It would have been if I’d used Ikigai.
Speaker: Andrew Klein and Jennifer Vandenplas
Patent due diligence processes take too long. The information you need is publicly available but accessing it is often tedious & inefficient, requiring you to wade through dozens of PTO websites or for-free tools to gather what you need. Plus, it frequently occurs late in the game, leaving professionals under pressure, sifting through chaotic 100-page PDFs, and frustrated with poorly formatted information & patent numbers.
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