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Woman-Led Remote Litigation Startup Raises $1 Million Seed Round

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Lightning Law Technologies , a Seattle startup developing software for remote testimony and legal proceedings, has raised a $1 million seed, which the company will use to accelerate development of its platform. Founded by Seattle trial lawyer Alisa Brodkowitz , the startup is developing an end-to-end platform for remote testimony, mediations and legal proceedings.

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Storytelling: Your Most Powerful Connection to New Clients

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Storytelling is powerful. There are few things people love more than a good story. Stories inspire; they can evoke powerful emotions and unleash our imaginations. Great Marketers Understand the Power of Storytelling. Great marketers use storytelling as a tactic to build their businesses. In the legal world, this means developing a narrative around your firm that builds feelings of attachment, emotional investment and a strong connection with your target clients.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 1, 2021

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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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European Data Protection Roundup – July

Debevoise Data Blog

European Data Protection Roundup – July Key takeaways from developments this July include: a blockbuster €746 million fine against Amazon – the largest ever GDPR penalty – showing the Regulation’s teeth; the challenges of GDPR-compliant facial recognition, after a Spanish supermarket chain was fined €2.5 million for ostensible GDPR failings; a reminder of the importance of setting and enforcing appropriate data-deletion periods following a €1.75 million fine in France for failings including reta

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In Defense of the Billable Hour: A LawNext Interview with Apperio CEO Nicholas d’Adhemar

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Does the billable hour get a bum rap? Nicholas d’Adhemar , founder and CEO of the London-based spend management company Apperio , believes so. The real culprit for out-of-control legal costs is something else altogether, he believes. By identifying it, d’Adhemar says, both clients and law firms will be better positioned to manage legal costs. In this episode of LawNext, d’Adhemar joins host Bob Ambrogi to discuss why he believes hourly rates, done right, are often a fairer measure of legal costs

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Building a Successful Hybrid Work Environment for Your Law Firm

Attorney at Work

Lawyers have been working “remotely” for decades — from the courts, in their cars, from suburban outposts, at clients’ offices and, yes, from home. We used to call them mobile lawyers or even e-lawyers. (Now we just call them lawyers.) The difference today is that the remote or hybrid work models being discussed affect the entire law firm ecosphere — beyond the partners to the business professionals and support staff.

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Law & #FreeBritney | WALL-E v Ultron | Very specific SCOTUS kink | Give to get

Legal Talk Network

Being away for a midsummer vacay meant binge listening to LTN’s recent podcasts to catch up. For inspiration, laughs, and sober advice, I recommend the following playlist explaining #FreeBritney and covering the WALL-E of legal tech, surly judges, and SCOTUS poetry. #FreeBritney conservatorship explained. Beyond the headlines and hype, a legal process is being used to control the assets earned by superstar Britney Spears.

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Two Well-Known Legal Tech Writers Launch Podcast on iOS in Law

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Two well-known writers on legal technology have launched a weekly podcast, In the News , discussing the latest news involving the use of iPhones and iPads by legal professionals. Every Friday, Jeff Richardson, New Orleans lawyer and author of the blog iPhone J.D. , and Brett Burney, technology consultant and author of the blog Apps in Law , post an episode in which they look back at the week’s news of note.

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How to Rank Your LinkedIn Page on Google

Attorney at Work

Beyond its effective networking capabilities, LinkedIn is a potent search engine that can drive targeted traffic right to your profile, improve your SEO and help you get ranked on Google. If you have not seen your LinkedIn page rank on Google, perhaps it is time to transform your LinkedIn page into a lead-generating, rank-boosting marketing tool. Why LinkedIn?

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Ep 133: In Defense of the Billable Hour, with Apperio CEO Nicholas d’Adhemar

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Does the billable hour get a bum rap? Nicholas d’Adhemar , founder and CEO of the London-based spend management company Apperio , believes so. The real culprit for out-of-control legal costs is something else altogether, he believes. By identifying it, d’Adhemar says, both clients and law firms will be better positioned to manage legal costs. In this episode of LawNext, d’Adhemar joins host Bob Ambrogi to discuss why he believes hourly rates, done right, are often a fairer measure of legal costs

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DIY eDiscovery: Taking Control & Saving Money

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DIY eDiscovery: Taking Control & Saving Money You can’t do ediscovery if you don’t have some basic tools for reviewing, tagging, collecting, and producing electronic evidence.

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The Heat Is On: HotDocs Gets Even Hotter with Efficiency-Focused Upgrades

Attorney at Work

Just when you thought HotDocs upgrades couldn’t get any hotter, here come some feature updates trained on increasing efficiency and usability, while deepening the connection between HotDocs and the Abacus and Amicus case management suites. AbacusNext — the company that delivers Abacus and Amicus case management — acquired HotDocs in 2017, rebooted it to HotDocs Advance , added a deep Abacus case management integration , and continue to iterate on the product.

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Ditch These Super Trendy Hacks

Attorney at Work

To be taken seriously, temper your use of these three super trendy newcomers in your professional vocabulary. Lawyers are cautioned to stick with plain language, to shun the lawyerspeak replete with jargon and verbiage we learned in law school. But has the pendulum swung too far? Put another way, did you perceive the title of this post as mockery — or see no problem at all?

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Book Review: Designing a Succession Plan for Your Law Practice

Attorney at Work

If you own a law firm, “Designing a Succession Plan for Your Law Practice” is essential reading. Most lawyers don’t want to think about, much less go through, succession planning. But at some point in your career, it will become apparent that out of desire or necessity, the time is approaching for you to leave or retire and you will have to figure out what to do with your practice.

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Lost and Stolen Data and the Recovery Tips

NSLT

Lost and Stolen Data and the Recovery Tips Losing data doesn’t always mean that your data is stolen, it happens due to various reasons. This article contains a visual guide (created by Secure Data Recovery) about the lost and stolen data, and the recovery tips along with some undeniable facts.

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Lost and Stolen Data and the Recovery Tips

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Lost and Stolen Data and the Recovery Tips Losing data doesn’t always mean that your data is stolen, it happens due to various reasons. This article contains a visual guide (created by Secure Data Recovery) about the lost and stolen data, and the recovery tips along with some undeniable facts.

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FreshBooks vs. Wave

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FreshBooks vs. Wave FreshBooks and Wave are two programs that both aim at helping people with no clue on how to do their own books with their daily accounting through a clean, simple interface and other user-friendly features. Both come with a fairly manageable learning curve and are ideal for novice bookkeepers.

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FreshBooks vs. Wave

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FreshBooks vs. Wave FreshBooks and Wave are two programs that both aim at helping people with no clue on how to do their own books with their daily accounting through a clean, simple interface and other user-friendly features. Both come with a fairly manageable learning curve and are ideal for novice bookkeepers.

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