Trial Technology

JUNE 27, 2022

Order "The Online Courtroom" NOTE: This series will cover what happened, how we've adjusted, where we are now, and where we're headed. We will also offer numerous tips, tricks, and best practices for hybrid and remote trials. Looking back at our trial calendar, I added a note on March 9, 2020: COVID-19 BUSINESS STOP. I was at home in Southern California's South Bay (I also have a home office in the East Bay Area in Northern California), and the next important note I see is on March 27, 2020: BEA

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 26, 2022

Here’s how to conduct a thorough LinkedIn profile update — because when your business is running on virtual connections, a stale profile isn’t going to cut it. Dismissing LinkedIn as the “boring” social media network, many professionals are content to slap an outdated photo on their profiles, dash out a nondescriptive tagline, and call it a day (then, promptly forget about the platform for another 16 months).

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Rocket Matter

JUNE 27, 2022

Some lawyers may be tempted to go full Perry Mason and try to save the day on their own, but that doesn’t usually end like the TV show. In fact, your law firm suffers if people refuse to work together. To keep your clients coming back again and again, the members of your firm need… Read More » 5 Tips for Better Law Firm Collaboration.

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CloudNine

JUNE 29, 2022

By: Joshua Tucker. It’s safe to say Microsoft isn’t going out of business anytime soon. Last year alone they grew 18 percent, reaching 168 billion dollars*. They are continuously making updates to their software, improving their products and functionality, and purchasing emerging software. They want to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more*, but the power you obtain from the software is up to you.

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Legal Talk Network

JUNE 28, 2022

Law firm pricing is one of the most important aspects of running a legal practice, and is one of the most important factors to potential clients. So why don’t lawyers address this in their marketing? Pricing not only affects how your clients view the value they receive from your services, but it also affects whether or not clients will hire your firm at all.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 28, 2022

When lawyers start talking about stress and depression, they are usually talking about the effect their law practice has on their sense of well-being, self-value and self-esteem. In a recent ALM Mental Health and Substance Abuse Survey , 31.2% of lawyers surveyed felt they were depressed — that is four times the depression rate of the general population.

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LLRX

JUNE 30, 2022

The pandemic and long COVID health issues have created heightened awareness and a growing need for factual online health information. This guide by Marcus P. Zillman identifies sources providing access to vetted health related research, tools for tracking and monitoring emerging issues and treatments, expert analysis, search engines and bots, and alternative and complementary therapies.

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Relativity

JUNE 28, 2022

Kelly Clay advocates for the use of AI as an important way for lawyers to act on their obligations to find ethical, expedient ways of working in a quickly evolving business world.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 28, 2022

Spotlight: Practical Law enables attorneys to get up to speed quickly and more efficiently translate research into quality work product. “Practical Law enables us to respond to our clients quickly and effectively, delivering increased efficiency and value.” – Scott M. Coffey, Partner, Squire Patton Boggs. Practical Law ® is the source of trusted, readily available standard documents, practice notes, checklists, legal updates, how-to guides, and more.

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LLRX

JUNE 30, 2022

Librarian and tech expert Karen Coyle provides insight into the evolving conflict that caused OCLC to file suit against the company Clarivate which owns Proquest and ExLibris. The suit focuses on a metadata service proposed by Ex Libris called "MetaDoor." MetaDoor isn't a bibliographic database à la WorldCat, it is a peer-to-peer service that allows its users to find quality records in the catalog systems of other libraries.

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LawSites

JUNE 29, 2022

The hardest stories I have to report are the ones about legal tech startups that are forced to shut down. Today brings news that Gavelytics , a seven-year-old litigation analytics company, is closing its doors effective tomorrow. I first wrote about Gavelytics on the day that its product publicly launched , Sept. 26, 2017, and later had the opportunity to visit its Los Angeles headquarters and record an interview for my LawNext podcast with founder and CEO Rick Merrill and Justin Brownstone , th

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Relativity

JULY 1, 2022

What is a CIO? A CSO? A CISO? Why can’t just one title and role do the job of cybersecurity? In this episode of Security Sandbox, a mini-panel of C-something-Os digs deep into these questions.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 29, 2022

Is Wikipedia an authoritative source? Wikipedia is often ridiculed because anyone can post pretty much anything. And yet, many people, including 3 billion Americans in April 2022, head there for information. Professors report finding large sections of text in their students’ submissions plagiarized from Wikipedia. Seems like lots of people would say: Yes, Wikipedia is an authoritative source.

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LLRX

JUNE 30, 2022

Articles and Columns for June 2022 2022 Link Guide to Healthcare Resources – The pandemic and long COVID health issues have created heightened awareness and a growing need for factual online health information. This guide by Marcus P. Zillman identifies sources providing access to vetted health related research, tools for tracking and monitoring emerging issues.

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LawSites

JULY 1, 2022

Every Friday at 3 E.T., the Legaltech Week panel of legal tech journalists and bloggers convenes live to unpack the week’s top stories in tech and innovation. Here are the stories we plan to discuss today (but others can always come up): Litigation analytics company Gavelytics shuts down. (Coverage by LawSites , Dewey B Strategic.). LexisNexis Parent RELX Quietly Launches Legal Research Service for Bar Associations and Small Firms.

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Legal Talk Network

JUNE 30, 2022

If you can spare a minute, you can immediately make more money practicing law. If that sounds too good to be true, allow me a moment to curry favor… Inspired by their annual Legal Trends Report , we’ve partnered up with Clio to produce short podcast segments chock-full of digestible bites designed to turbo-charge your law practice instantly. In a minute or less, we delve into what factors separate profitable practices from those struggling to survive.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 30, 2022

A surprisingly large number of lawyers, judged from my anecdotal experience, are interested in teaching a law school class. I just wrapped up my whirlwind of a first semester as an adjunct law professor teaching Contract Drafting at the University of Richmond School of Law. Here are some key lessons I learned, which I hope will help inform your decision on whether to pursue an adjunct position.

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LLRX

JUNE 26, 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.

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LawSites

JUNE 30, 2022

The AI-driven contract analytics startup Della and the London-based international law firm Mishcon de Reya have entered into a commercial agreement by which Della’s platform will be available to selected legal teams throughout the firm. The deal comes after the two-year-old startup graduated in February from Mishcon’s MDR Lab , a 12-week program designed to give legal startups the opportunity to work within their target market and to pilot and improve their products.

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Legal Talk Network

JUNE 29, 2022

After two years of riding high on a post-pandemic wave of stunning financial growth, some in the legal industry are now bracing for a recession. And while a recession might be a worrying prospect, it also presents some great opportunities for law firms and their business. Making good decisions ahead of time and taking actions now can help ensure that your law firm not only survives during tough economic times, but thrives.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 1, 2022

Two-factor authentication is required for online security, but it’s not enough. You will need multi-layer security to keep your law firm’s valuables safe from cyber-bandits. . Raise your hand and keep it up if you use two-factor authentication to safeguard the confidential client information and work product stored on the computers in your law office.

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Rocket Matter

JUNE 28, 2022

Some lawyers may be tempted to go full Perry Mason and try to save the day on their own, but that doesn’t usually end like the TV show. In fact, your law firm suffers if people refuse to work together. To keep your clients coming back again and again, the members of your firm need to collaborate efficiently. But that can be easier said than done.

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LawSites

JUNE 28, 2022

Sang Lee believes that algorithm-based assessments can help law firms make better, more ethical and less-biased decisions when hiring associates and laterals. The SaaS company she founded in 2019, Thine , leverages custom hiring algorithms and industrial and organizational (IO) psychology to create assessments that it says can reduce inconsistencies in how law firms evaluate candidates, promote equity, and create pathways to greater diversity.

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Legal Talk Network

JUNE 28, 2022

Give Yourself Permission to Be Geeky. “Data seems overwhelming.” Jared Correia, host of Legal Toolkit , acknowledged in the December 22, 2020 episode. It can be really hard for lawyers, who are not trained in numerical analysis, to embrace data. But, like the efficiencies revealed in the book and movie Moneyball , he encourages lawyers to be more analytical.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JUNE 25, 2022

With the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and other complex algorithms across industries, many business decisions that used to be made by humans are now being made (either solely or primarily) by algorithms or models. Examples of automated decision-making (“ADM”) include determining: Who gets an interview, a job, a promotion, or employment discipline; Which ads get displayed for a user on a website or a social media feed; Whether someone’s credit application should be appro

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LawNext podcast

JUNE 27, 2022

Sang Lee believes that algorithm-based assessments can help law firms make better, more ethical and less-biased decisions when hiring associates and laterals. The SaaS company she founded in 2019, Thine , leverages custom hiring algorithms and industrial and organizational (IO) psychology to create assessments that it says can reduce inconsistencies in how law firms evaluate candidates, promote equity, and create pathways to greater diversity.

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LLRX

JUNE 30, 2022

The ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization – handed down on June 24, 2022 – has far-reaching consequences. Nicole Huberfeld and Linda C. McClain , health law and constitutional law experts at Boston University, explain what just happened, and what happens next.

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Legal Talk Network

JUNE 28, 2022

Choosing which legal software systems to use in your law practice is a big decision. New innovations in legal tech have become the great equalizer for many law firms, helping them output that’s competitive with other, larger law firms. To make sure that you’re investing in technology that drives your law firm forward, start by answering a few questions about your practice: What are your firm’s overall strategy and business objectives?

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LawSites

JUNE 28, 2022

A new legal research service has quietly launched, targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms, but what is not obvious from the service’s website is that the company behind it was formed as a subsidiary of RELX, the parent company of LexisNexis. Search through the website of the new service, which is called Decisis , and you will find no mention of either RELX or LexisNexis — only of the company that directly created the service, Legal InQuery Solutions Inc.

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