Trial Technology

JULY 11, 2022

Bad Hair Day, Messy Hotel Room Day 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. When is the last time you joined a Zoom meeting, only to realize the total disaster you were displaying to everyone? Maybe you're having a bad hair day, messy background day, or even a sun-suddenly-broke-through-the-clouds-and-started-blazing-in-through-the-window-dir

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Attorney at Work

JULY 15, 2022

Lawyer happiness doesn’t have to be an unattainable goal, even in our pressure-filled lives. . I practiced law for 17 years while living a personal life and raising a family. So I understand how being a lawyer can lead to a lot of stress and pressure. It is difficult to handle it all. Everyone knows this. Even Lin Manuel-Miranda of “Hamilton” fame knows it.

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LawSites

JULY 15, 2022

I am thrilled to report that tomorrow is the fourth anniversary of the launch of my LawNext podcast. I say thrilled because, at the time I launched it, it felt like a gamble. At that point, I had been cohosting a very successful podcast for 13 years, Lawyer 2 Lawyer , with my long-time friend J. Craig Williams. We were the very first podcast to be produced by the Legal Talk Network and the longest-running podcast in law.

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LLRX

JULY 9, 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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Relativity

JULY 14, 2022

To illustrate how RelativityOne can help transform your next case, explore five key capabilities that enable teams to dig into their data and uncover the facts of each matter.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 14, 2022

When you quote a source in your written work, you use quotation marks to mark the beginning and end of the quotation. If you forget the beginning or end marks, spell-check will flag the omission for you. But speakers often forget to provide the same guideposts in their oral presentations. How Do I Know When the Quotation Ends? Here’s what the lawyer said: In Brown v.

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LawSites

JULY 13, 2022

A majority of e-discovery professionals now use cloud e-discovery software, with cloud software providing clear advantages for easing workflows, lowering costs and reducing common challenges, according to a survey released today by the cloud-based e-discovery company Everlaw in partnership with the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS).

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Relativity

JULY 13, 2022

There’s no doubt about it: exploding data volumes, sources, and complexity are complicating the legal sector and making old ways of working not just unpalatable, but insufficient.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 12, 2022

Roy Ginsburg counts down 13 reasons small law firm owners have a tough time creating a law firm succession plan — and reasons to get it done. Some of my clients are estate planning lawyers. When I recently followed up with one of them, I came across an excellent blog post by this particular lawyer titled “A Baker’s Dozen of Why People Procrastinate About Their Estate Plan.

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LawSites

JULY 14, 2022

Smith.ai , a virtual receptionist service serving law firms and other businesses, now offers recording and transcription of all inbound and outbound calls, giving its customers access to the full conversations that the company handles on their behalves. . Smith.ai says it is the first virtual receptionist service to release call recording and transcription.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

JULY 9, 2022

[Sonali Khanna] 0:12 You’re listening to the Berkeley Technology Law Journal Podcast. I’m Sonali Khanna. The metaverse is the convergence of two ideas that have existed for many years: virtual reality and a digital alternate life. For decades, technologists have dreamed of an era when our virtual lives would play as important a role as our physical realities through increasing interaction with our friends and colleagues in a virtual space.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JULY 11, 2022

On Friday, July 15, 2022, Eric Dinallo, Avi Gesser, Erez Liebermann, and Anna Gressel participated in the latest installment of Debevoise’s Insurance Series webcast to discuss the implications of the recent California Insurance Department Bulletin on Allegations of Racial Bias and Unfair Discrimination in Marketing, Rating, Underwriting, and Claims Practices by the Insurance Industry.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 13, 2022

How are law firm owners paid? Salary? Draws? Pass-through expenses? Here’s how to track your total owner compensation so you’ll know if you are getting paid what you deserve — and what it really costs to run your firm. . We get a lot of questions from law firm owners that go something like this: How much should I be spending on marketing?

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LawSites

JULY 13, 2022

LollyLaw , a cloud-based practice management platform designed for immigration lawyers, is today launching a native electronic payments platform, LollyPayments. The new e-payments capability enables LollyLaw customers to collect and reconcile payments without having to switch between LollyLaw and third-party vendors. It is available to all LollyLaw customers as of today.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

JULY 11, 2022

[Nikki Seichepine] 0:13 You’re listening to the Berkeley Technology Law Journal Podcast. I’m Nikki Seichepine. In today’s episode we will be discussing the use of risk-assessment to inform criminal sentencing and how it’s used in ICE detention centers. Risk-assessments are used to help quantify the likelihood of an individual’s noncompliance with the law.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JULY 12, 2022

On June 21, 2022, the House Energy and Commerce Committee formally introduced a new federal privacy bill: the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (“ADPPA”). Notably, the ADPPA has diverse support from both branches of Congress and both political parties. The ADPPA aims to create a national framework that would preempt many, but not all, state privacy laws.

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LawSites

JULY 12, 2022

If you are looking for a scorecard naming those who are leading the charge on innovation in law, you can do no better than the Fastcase 50 , the annual listing by the legal intelligence company Fastcase that honors 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.”. Today, Fastcase is announcing the 2022 cohort of the Fastcase 50, and it includes a diverse array of legal tech founders, practicing lawyers, law firm professionals, judges, law professors, la

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Debevoise Data Blog

JULY 13, 2022

A growing number of employers are turning to artificial intelligence (“AI”) tools to assist in recruiting and other employment decisions. According to Forbes , almost all Fortune 500 companies use talent-sifting software, and more than half of human resource leaders in the U.S. leverage predictive algorithms to support hiring. Widespread adoption of these tools has led to concerns from regulators and legislators that they may be inadvertently discriminating, for example, by: Penalizing job candi

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