Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Many lawyers dream of pursuing writing as a side hustle. As these three lawyers show, there’s more than one way to make it work. . Gone are the days when a law firm might only have a secondary income from a related business, such as a title company. Now, law firms and lawyers are moonlighting as business development consultants, app developers, coaches of all kinds, continuing education providers, and fiction and nonfiction authors.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Recent headlines in the financial press are replete with stories about the new boom in buy now, pay later financing for retail purchases, with many retailers, including Walmart, the nation’s largest, now offering these point-of-sale loans. Now, the electronic payments company LawPay is bringing buy now, pay later financing to the legal industry.

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LLRX

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Articles and Columns for September 2021 2021 Guide to Internet Privacy Resources and Tools – Technology has significantly changed our concept of privacy as well as our ability to maintain it. The are a wide spectrum of tools, services and strategies available to assist you in the effort to maintain a sliding scale of privacy.

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Debevoise Data Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Almost everyone working in cybersecurity compliance is aware that each U.S. state has its own set of breach notification requirements. What is less known is that many of these states also impose substantive cybersecurity requirements. In this Debevoise Data Blog post, we examine the general cybersecurity obligations under state law, including common themes and recent developments.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 1, 2021

These Zoom tools improve your Zoomiverse by streamlining call scheduling, automating video enhancement, and transcribing meetings. When the pandemic closed offices and forced working from home, we were instantly turned into “Zoomers” without little to no instruction. The technology let us connect and kept businesses afloat — but often while looking and sounding bad in less-than-productive meetings.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

You would be hard-pressed to find two people in legal technology more experienced in user interface and user experience design than Nicole Bradick and Andy Wishart. Bradick is founder and CEO of the legal tech design and development firm Theory and Principle. Wishart is chief product officer at contract lifecycle management company Agiloft and formerly was co-founder and chief technology officer of Contract Express, the contract automation software that Thomson Reuters acquired in 2015. .

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LLRX

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cassandra Emmons , Cassandra Emmons a postdoctoral fellow with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs' t Harvard Univrsity, discusses how COVID-19 has proven that public health emergencies are not equally recognized in either international law or national constitutions; some international treaties permit “limiting” rights in the name of public health rather than requiring derogation, and nationally some governments authorize emergency measures in practice without ever doing so in name.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

For law firms, streamlined, effective legal billing software is incredibly important. Enter modern legal billing software. It ensures that your firm’s legal billing processes are efficient and accurate by reducing the steps needed to invoice clients and accept online payments. Read on to learn about the most common billing problems law firms face, and how to help your law firm overcome them.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It is another big investment in contract lifecycle technology, as London-based ContractPodAi today announced a $115 million Series C investment headed by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 , reportedly at a valuation five times greater than the company’s Series B round in 2019. The investment is “big” in terms of dollars — exceeding last year’s $100 million Series D in digital contracting platform Ironclad — but also “big” in that it is the first investment in a legal tec

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LLRX

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Morgan Bazilian and Dolf Gielen both with the Colorado School of Mines, have identified four strategic priorities that would help provide the foundations for success in both the energy and climate change domains.

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NSLT

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Excel: Work with Macros You want to automate a repetitive task in Excel so that you can do the task again with a single click. The best way to do that? Record a macro. And the macro recorder is the easiest way to create a new macro in Excel.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In initial meetings with lawyers, I like to have them tell me what they’ve done in marketing and business development — what has worked and what hasn’t and what they are trying to accomplish. I’ll never forget my first coaching meeting with one junior partner. When I asked her for her business development goals, her response was simple: “I just want to stop shooting myself in the foot.”.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

MyCase , the cloud-based practice management platform, and Smith.ai , a virtual receptionist service for law firms and other businesses, have created an integration by which MyCase customers will be able to outsource call answering while viewing and tracking call logs directly within MyCase. To take advantage of the integration, MyCase customers will need a separate Smith.ai account.

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LLRX

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Laura (Layla) H. Kwong is an assistant professor of environmental health sciences. She too has wondered about the best masks to wear to protect against COVID, and earlier this year she led a study that examined the research about which materials are best.

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

Excel: Work with Macros You want to automate a repetitive task in Excel so that you can do the task again with a single click. The best way to do that? Record a macro. And the macro recorder is the easiest way to create a new macro in Excel.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Why is it that so many lawyer presentations suffer from “hanging fragmentitis”? Here’s how to stop yourself from constantly editing, restarting and revising out loud. When we speak, why do we so often fail to finish our sentences? Linguists must know the answer to this question, but I am at a loss. All I’m sure of is this: Lawyers find it difficult — often impossible — to finish sentences.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The law practice management company Smokeball has secured a $30 million investment from private investors and employee shareholders in order to double down on growth, it said today. The company said it will use the funds to fast-track the expansion of its team of more than 200 employees and the development of its proprietary technology to help small- and medium-sized law firms manage and grow their business in the U.S. and Australia. “Smokeball has grown rapidly because most small- and med

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LLRX

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Attorney, legal sector analyst and author of the book Law Is A Buyer’s Market: Building a Client-First Law Firm , Jason Furlong's long read offers insight this unique time as North Americans venture briefly out of lockdown. Furlong states it seems like the right time to step back and consider the extraordinary shock-waved landscape of legal regulation change, and what it means for everyone.

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NSLT

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

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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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Black and white. Black and gray. Maybe navy and cream. Women lawyers often have a hard time stepping beyond traditional conservative colors when choosing what to wear. But if you’re tired of the way those colors make you feel and ready to change things up a bit, you’ll appreciate Melanie Lippman’s latest video on how to wear color appropriately. .

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Seven weeks ago, as Litera announced its acquisition of Kira Systems , the pioneering AI contract analysis company, Kira announced the spin off of a new company, Zuva , to continue developing machine learning technology for business documents. Now, Zuva is off to a running start, announcing today that it has secured Series A funding of $20 million and is launching its first product, DocAI, an API-driven platform targeted at the corporate market that will enable developers to implement AI within

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LLRX

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Stephanie Farne , Legal Information Librarian and Lecturer in Law at Boston College Law School, raises increasingly important issues respective to the bias inherent in artificial intelligence powered search algorithms, both on the Internet and in commercial databases.

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NSLT

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

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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LawNext podcast

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

You would be hard-pressed to find two people in legal technology more experienced in user interface and user experience design than Nicole Bradick and Andy Wishart. Bradick is founder and CEO of the legal tech design and development firm Theory and Principle. Wishart is chief product officer at contract lifecycle management company Agiloft and formerly was co-founder and chief technology officer of Contract Express, the contract automation software that Thomson Reuters acquired in 2015.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The legal technology company Litera has unveiled a new podcast series, Legaltech Matters , and I had the honor of hosting the first episode — an interview with CEO Avaneesh Marwaha on what’s driving Litera’s acquisition strategy and where it’s going. The new biweekly podcast series is dedicated to creating conversations about technology, trends, and innovation for law firms and companies – big and small.

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LLRX

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

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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NSLT

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

How To Spot a Malicious Email It is estimated that over 80% of emails sent each day is spam. Of that, a significant portion contains some sort of virus, phishing or malicious intent. Not only does this represent a major security risk, but unwanted and email also affects productivity and clogs your network. In the event that an email slides pass your spam filter, how can you tell whether it’s malicious?

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Technology has significantly changed our concept of privacy as well as our ability to maintain it. The are a wide spectrum of tools, services and strategies available to assist you in the effort to maintain a sliding scale of privacy in an increasingly porous, insecure online environment. Whether you are browsing the internet, using email or SMS, encrypting data on PCs or mobile phones, trying to choose the best VPN, or working to secure your online services from cybercrime, hacking or surveilla

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

Our regular Friday Legaltech Week live journalists’ roundtable will feature a guest today: Jim McGinnis , CEO of practice management company MyCase. McGinnis will take questions from our panel of legal tech journalists, including about news yesterday of an integration between MyCase and the virtual receptionist service Smith.ai, and also about the inaugural MyCase Customer Conference slated for Nov. 9.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

On this episode of How It Works : Woodpecker , AI-enabled legal document automation for solo and small firms. Joining me in the video below to introduce Woodpecker and demonstrate how it works is founder and CEO Alex Melehy. Melehy and his team of engineers and attorneys say they believe that generating accurate legal documents should not be something that consumes the resources of small law firms.

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NSLT

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

How To Spot a Malicious Email It is estimated that over 80% of emails sent each day is spam. Of that, a significant portion contains some sort of virus, phishing or malicious intent. Not only does this represent a major security risk, but unwanted and email also affects productivity and clogs your network. In the event that an email slides pass your spam filter, how can you tell whether it’s malicious?

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Fully virtual again this year, the Clio Cloud Conference is Oct. 26-29, with a full line-up of programs on legal practice and technology, keynote speakers such as Arianna Huffington, founder of Thrive and The Huffington Post, and entertainment from Grammy Award winning musicians. On Friday, I saw down with George Psiharis , chief operating officer of Clio, to discuss the company’s planning for the conversation and to learn more about what attendees should expect.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Today at noon ET, LexisNexis Canada will present?the second program in its masterclass panel discussion series, Tech & Litigation, Shifting Paradigms. Today’s panel focuses on legal operations and how technology can help legal departments manage legal spend and outside counsel. I will be one of the panelists, together with: Dana Zuech?, AVP, Legal Operations, at Sun Life.

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