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No-Code Legal Automation Startup Josef Raises $2.5M

LawSites

Josef , an Australia-based, no-code software platform that enables legal professionals to automate common tasks, has raised $2.5 million. The funding round was led by Australian venture firm Carthona Capital , with participation from U.S. investors, including The LegalTech Fund. Added to the startup’s $1 million seed round in 2019, this brings its total funding to $3.5 million.

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Resources for Lawyers Working Remotely

Internet for Lawyers

Practice management software vendor Clio has posted a handy overview of some of the ways lawyers can work remotely. For lawyers looking for more detailed information, we are&n.

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Interview: Carole Levitt

LLRX

This is Jerry Lawson's interview of Carole Levitt, one of the country’s premier experts on Internet research, both legal and investigative. Her most recent book, coauthored with Judy Davis, is the second edition of her treatise Internet Legal Research on a Budget.

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Why hackers are thriving | Startling cyber-attack stats | Court-packing or SCOTUS reform?

Legal Talk Network

If you sensed that hacking and ransomware attacks spiked during the pandemic, your suspicions were accurate. A perfect storm of lapses in security, a rise in scripted attacks, and increased professionalized hacking have led to some of the most debilitating and embarrassing cyber attacks to date. The high-profile Colonial Pipeline debacle led to gasoline hoarding, price-gouging and shortages.

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LawNext: How Law Schools Should Teach Tech, With April Dawson

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There is broad agreement that if law schools are to adequately train students for careers in law, then technology is a critical part of the curriculum. Despite this, many law schools get a failing grade when it comes to teaching tech. So how, exactly, should law schools teach tech? And what topics should such teaching cover? April G. Dawson has given a lot of thought to those questions.A former computer programmer and litigator, she is now associate dean of technology and innovation and professo

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You are losing money by not using legal technologies. Here’s why (023).

CEE Legal Tech

Image source: Pixabay Legal professionals are usually more conservative and don’t like changes. There is a reasonable explanation for this – they need something that works 100% of the time and don’t want to take any chances. Legal consulting is highly responsible, and even the smallest mistakes can cause significant damages. But things have changed.

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Employees are feeling burned over broken work-from-home promises and corporate culture ‘BS’ as employers try to bring them back to the office

LLRX

As vaccinations and relaxed health guidelines make returning to the office a reality for more companies, there seems to be a disconnect between managers and their workers over remote work. A good example of this is a recent op-ed written by the CEO of a Washington, D.C., magazine that suggested workers could lose benefits like health care if they insist on continuing to work remotely as the COVID-19 pandemic recedes.

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Eversheds and Fastcase Launch Data Analytics Tool To Assess Spoliation Risk

LawSites

One of the riskiest aspects of litigation practice is spoliation — the destruction or alteration of evidence — which can carry costly sanctions for both lawyers and their clients. Today, the law firm Eversheds Sutherland and the legal research company Fastcase are releasing what they say is a first-of-its-kind tool designed to assess this risk. Spoliation Scientist is a data analytics tool that uses artificial intelligence, text analytics and data visualizations to assess spoliation risk in any

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LexCloud.ca Joins 2021 Citrix Technical Expert Council

LexCloud.ca

LexCloud.ca has been invited to join the exclusive 2021 Citrix Partner Technical Expert Council (PTEC).

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 16, 2021

LLRX

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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Relativity–Electronic Discovery Software

NSLT

Relativity–Electronic Discovery Software What is Relativity, and what solutions does the software provide? Learn more as kCura's president and CEO, Andrew Sieja, gives a high-level overview of Relativity's core capabilities.

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A Conversation with David Colarusso, Director of Suffolk Law’s LIT Lab

LawSites

David Colarusso , director of the Legal Innovation & Technology Lab at Suffolk Law School in Boston, recently joined me for an episode of my Law Insights program on Litera TV. Among the topics we discussed were the work and mission of the LIT Lab and some of its current projects, such as the CDC Eviction Moratorium Assistant; Spot , an AI-driven issue spotter; Court Forms Online , for filing forms during the pandemic; and Learned Hands , a game for training AI to recognize people’s leg

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Using Legal Analytics to Find Your Best Legal Argument, Hire the Right Lawyer & Retain the Best Expert (Serena Wellen Context/LexisNexis)

Technically Legal

"The fundamental tool of lawyers is language" explains Serena Wellen in this episode. Serena is a Senior Director for LexisNexis and works on the Context legal analytics platform. Context leverages machine learning and natural language processing from Ravel, a company LexisNexis acquired in 2017. Using Ravel's analytics engine, Context sits atop many of the LexisNexis databases and analyzes information about judges, lawyers, expert witnesses and companies compiled in "entity authorities.

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The Post-Pandemic Law Practice: What Lawyers Need to Know

LLRX

Nicole L. Black third article in a series discusses the value of an expansive new report from the ABA, Practicing Law in the Pandemic and Moving Forward: Results and Best Practices from a Nationwide Survey of the Legal Profession. The results cover a broad overview of topics ranging from the impact of the pandemic on the legal profession to post-pandemic expectations and recommendations for both legal employers and individual lawyers.

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Relativity–Electronic Discovery Software

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Relativity–Electronic Discovery Software What is Relativity, and what solutions does the software provide? Learn more as kCura's president and CEO, Andrew Sieja, gives a high-level overview of Relativity's core capabilities.

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Add-On To Agiloft’s CRM Platform Manages Sourcing and Suppliers

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The contract lifecycle management company Agiloft today released an add-on module for companies to manage sourcing and supplier information, with the goal of reducing sourcing cycle time, automating supplier onboarding, and monitoring ongoing compliance. Andy Wishart , Agiloft’s chief product officer, told me that this is the first of multiple add-on modules that the company plans to develop for its platform, with another to be released later this year. “We are trying to help our cus

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Ep 123: How Law Schools Should Teach Tech, With April Dawson

LawNext podcast

There is broad agreement that if law schools are to adequately train students for careers in law, then technology is a critical part of the curriculum. Despite this, many law schools get a failing grade when it comes to teaching tech. So how, exactly, should law schools teach tech? And what topics should such teaching cover? April G. Dawson has given a lot of thought to those questions.A former computer programmer and litigator, she is now associate dean of technology and innovation and profess

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Don't Let Your Clients or Witnesses Do This via Zoom

Internet for Lawyers

A Michigan judge chastised a defendant who appeared in court (via Zoom) displaying an anal-sex-related screen name. View the video reording of the judge chastising the defendant in Zoom court.

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Add Attachment to PDF Using Adobe or Nuance

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Add Attachment to PDF Using Adobe or Nuance This fast tip demonstrates how to add another file as an attachment to a PDF file. This feature is available in Adobe Acrobat (even the Reader version) and Nuance Power PDF.

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Wednesday: Tromans, Torpe and Me on the Past, Present and Future of #Legaltech

LawSites

Did the legal tech movement begin in the 1970s? What is causing the current boom in legal tech? And what will happen once the pandemic is over? These and other questions are the subject of a free webinar tomorrow, The Past, Present and Future of Legal Tech , presented by the University of Copenhagen and the legal tech company Contractbook. I will be one of the panelists, together with: Richard Tromans , publisher of Artificial Lawyer.

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Legaltech Week Live: Two Guest Panelists Today, and Here Are Our Topics

LawSites

Live today at 3 E.T. is our weekly Legaltech Week journalists’ roundtable , where our panel of journalists and bloggers discuss the top stories in legal technology and innovation. Two guests are joining our regular line-up of panelists for today’s show: Roy Strom , correspondent for Bloomberg Law and formerly a reporter for The American Lawyer and the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.

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Add Attachment to PDF Using Adobe or Nuance

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Add Attachment to PDF Using Adobe or Nuance This fast tip demonstrates how to add another file as an attachment to a PDF file. This feature is available in Adobe Acrobat (even the Reader version) and Nuance Power PDF.

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Pro Bono Net and Legal Aid Groups Partner To Launch Eviction Resource For N.Y. Tenants

LawSites

At a time when many are predicting a tsunami of eviction cases resulting from the pandemic, the organization Pro Bono Net , in collaboration with several legal aid organizations, has launched TenantHelpNY.org , an online resource designed to help tenants in New York understand their housing rights. The new site provides resources to help tenants understand their legal rights and connect with volunteer attorneys to obtain legal assistance.

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Alt Legal Partners with CompuMark to Expand Its Global Trademark Coverage

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Alt Legal , the cloud-based trademark docketing software company, and Clarivate Plc , a leading global provider of information and insights, particularly in the area of intellectual property, today announced a partnership to integrate Clarivate’s CompuMark international trademark data into the Alt Legal platform, giving Alt Legal customers access to CompuMark and its 186 trademark databases, covering all jurisdictions in the world.