Sat.Feb 19, 2022 - Fri.Feb 25, 2022

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Struggling to Reach Potential Clients? Find the Middleman

Attorney at Work

To reach your target potential clients, focus on building relationships with referral sources who are “gatekeepers.” . Recently, I was talking with a gentleman about his shoulder replacement surgery. He said he knows an anesthesiologist who had recommended the surgeon. The anesthesiologist told him, ā€œIā€™m in the operating room and see all the surgeons at work.

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Should legal practices adopt a hybrid-working model?

Ward Blawg

The legal sector has been moving towards digitisation for decades ā€“ some firms faster than others – but the global pandemic and several national lockdowns have resulted in many accelerating their plans to accommodate a blend of home and office working: the hybrid-working model.

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Is this the Fastest Document Search in Legal?

LawSites

A product launched this week claims to be the fastest search and review platform in legal for matters involving large document collections ā€” discovery, investigations and compliance ā€” and the first to seamlessly combine keyword and algorithmic search. The chief data scientist who helped develop it said it is “an order of magnitude faster than anything on the market.” The product is Merlin Integrated Search (IS), from the company Merlin Search Technologies, which describes it as the f

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Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 19, 2022

LLRX

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives ā€“ home, work, travel, education, health and medical records ā€“ 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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Case Closed: How to Optimize Your Legal Intake Process for Efficiency

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 doesnā€™t have to be!

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Expert Advice on Effective Emails for Lawyers: An Interview With Nancy Harhut

Attorney at Work

Try these tips for crafting effective emails from renowned marketing expert Nancy Harhut. Lawyers are professional communicators, constantly exchanging emails with clients, opposing counsel and other contacts. We battle for attention in othersā€™ overflowing inboxes, hoping that our messages get opened and prompt the desired response. At Content Marketing World 2021, I learned valuable tips for upping my email game from HBT Marketing Chief Creative Officer and renowned marketing expert Nancy Harhu

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Justice Technology: A Trade Association Focused on Legal Tech and Access to Justice

The Law Product Makers blog

The Justice Technology Association is a new non-profit trade association composed of legal tech entrepreneurs, consumers, policymakers, and investors created to advocate for using legal technology to close the justice gap. It is estimated that approximately 75% of the U.S. population cannot afford lawyer fees and do not have adequate access to the legal system.

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Appellate Law PARTĀ 1: Tips to Preserving the Record and Writing an Effective BriefĀ 

Legal Talk Network

[ ESTIMATED READ TIME : 7 MIN ]. Many good appeals have been lost because of counsel’s failure to preserve the record. It is essential to understand how best to preserve issues for appellate review and which issues have a greater chance of reversal. In this weekā€™s episode of ā€œThe Jury is Outā€ host, John Simon, sits down with experienced industry professionals Richard Finneran (partner with the BCLP Law Firm) and Joan M.

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Five Questions to Ask a New Client

Attorney at Work

Good lawyer-client relations are less about you knowing the answers and much more about knowing the right questions to ask. It’s one of the fundamentals they drummed into you in law school: It is your job to know the answers. That’s why clients seek your help, right? How you prove you are smart, and why they pay your bills? Well, yes and no.

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Time Matters Keyboard Shortcuts

NSLT

Time Matters Keyboard Shortcuts Underutilized tools within Time Matters include the use of HotKeys or those keyboard shortcuts that help users move quickly throughout the program. Firms familiar with the program may recognize a few off this master list of key combinations to make your Time Matters office even more efficient.

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Looking to Practice Remotely from Florida? This New Supreme Court Opinion Answers Whether You May

LawSites

In this new normal of working remotely, many lawyers have opted to relocate their home offices to more desirable climes, moving out of state to vacation homes in places where the sun shines and the beach is nearby. One such destination for many lawyers has been Florida, and now a decision from the Florida Supreme Court provides guidance on the ethics of an out-of-state lawyer practicing remotely from within the Sunshine State.

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Trellis Launches Trellis AI to Streamline Trial Court Litigation

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 ā€” Uses similar/successful motions in the Trellis database to generate arguments/citations for your motions seeking dismissal, summary judgment, etc. Case Assessment ā€” Predict the likely outcomes of a case at any stage to help you decide to accept it, guide motion practice, make settlement offers, an

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Notice of Electronic Monitoring to Employees ā€” New Requirements for NY State Employers

Debevoise Data Blog

Effective May 7, 2022, most New York employers must notify their employees of any electronic monitoring by posting a notice in the workplace. Additionally, employers must give express written notice to all new employees of any electronic monitoring the employer performs and obtain written or electronic acknowledgment of such monitoring. The law applies broadly to any employer that is an individual, corporation, partnership, firm or association with a place of business in the state of New York, r

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A Perfect Productivity Planner for Legal Marketing

Attorney at Work

The best productivity planner is simple. It fits a broad range of individual work styles in a specific industry. Good planners focus on vital work that advances their vertical. For instance, a writerā€™s daily planner would focus on word count, research and revision. A bartenderā€™s journal might focus on inventory, drink recipes and event planning. A marketing journal would focus on getting the word out.

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Time Matters Keyboard Shortcuts

NSLT

Time Matters Keyboard Shortcuts Underutilized tools within Time Matters include the use of HotKeys or those keyboard shortcuts that help users move quickly throughout the program. Firms familiar with the program may recognize a few off this master list of key combinations to make your Time Matters office even more efficient.

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On LawNext Podcast: Former Tesla Lawyer Laura Frederick on How to Teach Contracting Skills for the Real World

LawSites

Is there a better way to train lawyers to draft and negotiate contracts? Laura Frederick thinks so. This former Tesla and BigLaw commercial contracts attorney is the founder of How to Contract , a learning platform that trains lawyers and professionals how to draft and negotiate contracts in the real world. She is also managing attorney of her own firm, Laura Frederick Law , in Austin, Texas, where she focuses on drafting and negotiating vendor supply, services, and technology agreements.

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Visibility Into the Strategy & Supporting Documents of Major US Law Firms

Law Firm Intelligence by Trellis aggregates state trial court data across the Trellis platform enabling users to: look up a particular metric related to a specific law firm (such as, how many cases a law firm had or has against another law firm), and see the actual dockets and documents supporting the metric. Trellis data is maximized in a revolutionary and unique way to provide users an exclusive look into a law firm litigating in state trial courts.

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Ep 154: Former Tesla Lawyer Laura Frederick on How to Teach Contracting Skills for the Real World

LawNext podcast

Is there a better way to train lawyers to draft and negotiate contracts? Laura Frederick thinks so. This former Tesla and BigLaw commercial contracts attorney is the founder of How to Contract , a learning platform that trains lawyers and professionals how to draft and negotiate contracts in the real world. She is also managing attorney of her own firm, Laura Frederick Law , in Austin, Texas, where she focuses on drafting and negotiating vendor supply, services, and technology agreements.

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Glenn Hendrix: How to Be a Top Lawyer in Your Field

Attorney at Work

What does it take to become a successful lawyer in your particular niche or practice area? In a series of in-depth interviews for the Estrin Report , Chere Estrin profiles top lawyers from all types of practices. In this column, we zero in on their top tips. This week, we feature Glenn Hendrix, chairman of Arnall Golden Gregory in Atlanta. Glenn Hendrix.

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Five Simple & Effective Business Development Tasks You Need To Do

NSLT

Five Simple & Effective Business Development Tasks You Need To Do Lawyers spent most of 2020 adjusting to remote working and new ways of doing business. In many cases, this includes a shift in the way firms and lawyers do their business development. These five straightforward business development tasks will help you maximize your efforts and support long-term firm growth.

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Weā€™re Hiring: LawSites/LawNext Seeks Editorial Assistant

LawSites

I am looking to hire a versatile editorial assistant on a part-time basis to help with a variety of projects here at LawSites and LawNext. The ideal person would be a self-starter who is comfortable handling various editorial and production tasks. These may include some combination of: Writing and editing for the LawSites blog. Writing and editing for the LawNext Legal Technology Directory.

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Stay On Top of Newly Filed State & Federal Litigation: Curated Just for You!

With Daily Filings Report by Trellis you will receive an email and csv file daily with all new cases filed in the jurisdictions you're tracking. Each new case will include all case metadata like judge, parties, counsel, practice area, and even direct links to the full docket and complaint. Trellis Daily Filings Reports provide direct access to newly filed state and federal litigation curated just for you.

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Forward and Inverse Problems in Decision-Making and Change Management ( Michael Bommarito via Medium)

Computational Legal Studies

Forward and inverse problems in decision-making and change management – motivated by a trip down memory lane with @computational [link] #decisions #change — Michael Bommarito (@mjbommar) February 18, 2022

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Iā€™ll Be Joining Ari Kaplanā€™s Virtual Lunch Today to Demo the New LawNext Legal Technology Directory

LawSites

Last week, I announced the launch of the LawNext Legal Technology Directory , which we hope will become the most trusted source of legal tech products in the market. . If you are curious to learn more about it, I will be joining Ari Kaplan’s Virtual Lunch today, Feb. 23, at noon Eastern time, for an informal demo of the directory. In addition to the demo, we’ll talk about the vision for the directory and plans for further development in the months ahead.

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Starting A Firm? I Suggest You Choose ā€˜Solo By Choiceā€™ ā€“ And Do It Today for Savings

LawSites

It is not my practice to endorse a book without having read it. But I am doing so today because I know the book, I know the author, and you can save money if you buy it today. The book is the just-released third edition of Solo by Choice , by Carolyn Elefant, creator of MyShingle.com. Although I have not yet read this third edition, I did read the first and second editions, and I know this to be one of the best guides available to starting your own firm.

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Five Simple & Effective Business Development Tasks You Need To Do

NSLT

Five Simple & Effective Business Development Tasks You Need To Do Lawyers spent most of 2020 adjusting to remote working and new ways of doing business. In many cases, this includes a shift in the way firms and lawyers do their business development. These five straightforward business development tasks will help you maximize your efforts and support long-term firm growth.

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Clio Law Practice Management Software

NSLT

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 Clioā€™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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Clio Law Practice Management Software

NSLT

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 Clioā€™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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Justice Tech Speculative Fiction? Yes, Thatā€™s Now A Thing

LawSites

Multifaceted is barely word enough to describe Jason Tashea. Lawyer, startup founder, legal affairs writer, law professor, consultant and podcaster, he is now taking on another role: creator of speculative fiction about the criminal justice system. Over the past decade, Tashea says, the topics he has covered in his non-fiction writing about criminal justice ā€” including as former law and technology writer for the ABA Journal ā€” have seemed to him to be increasingly detached from the reality and in

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