Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Think Again About the Cybersecurity Risks of Small Law Firms. It is astonishing how often small law firms tell us that they are too small to be at serious risk for cyberattacks. Anecdotally, we can tell them of many successful attacks on small law firms, though our knowledge is derived from successful attacks where we’ve been called in to investigate or remediate the damage, so we cannot identify the law firms.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 14, 2022

It has been a busy week in legal tech, including the 10th annual Clio Cloud Conference and the first-ever American Legal Technology Awards gala. We’ll recap those stories and more with our usual Friday panel of legal tech journalists and bloggers today at 3 p.m. ET. A ttendance is free, but, if you have not already done so, you need to register, which you can do here.

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LLRX

OCTOBER 8, 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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Legal Talk Network

OCTOBER 13, 2022

After a long slumber in the doldrums of virtual gatherings, the Clio Cloud Conference returned to real life in Nashville, Tennessee. Needless to say, this legal tech community was long overdue to catch up and collaborate with dear friends and colleagues. So much had changed since the last in-person conference in San Diego during 2019. Despite the multi-year Covid-pause, new attendance records were reached with 2,000 participants on-location and 1,000 tuning in from the virtual world.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Lawyer flat fee billing can be tricky. Transitioning to flat fees means passing the reasonableness test and following local ethics guide rails. QUESTION: I’m a solo practitioner with a general practice handling everything from real estate transactions to family law. While most of my billing comes from traditional hourly rates for matters, I have always used flat fees for certain client demands such as residential real estate transactions and basic estate planning.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 10, 2022

At its annual Clio Cloud Conference today, the law practice management company Clio released the 2022 edition of its annual Legal Trends Report – its seventh year of the report. It finds that law firms are seeing an average 10% increase in the growth of new business, but that their fees are 3% below where they should be given recent trends in inflation.

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Rocket Matter

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Halloween may be the biggest holiday in October, but something even spookier threatens to scare people this holiday season: hackers. October is cybersecurity month, which means it’s time to take an inventory of the systems your law firm uses to protect its data. Every firm should take cybersecurity seriously. Nearly 60% of ethical hackers say it takes them five hours or less to break into a corporate environment once they identify a weak point.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 10, 2022

If you’re stuck with high law firm AR, a change of strategy could be past due. There’s no question that many law firms struggle to whittle away at their accounts receivable (AR), the outstanding amount that has been invoiced and not paid. While it’s always the goal to ensure invoices are collected in a timely fashion, lawyers still face unique challenges when closing out their books at the end of the month.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 14, 2022

On the heels of raising an $8 million Series A financing round in May, Paladin , a legal technology company whose platform enables law firms and legal services organizations to manage their pro bono programs and opportunities, has named two legal industry veterans to its board to help it usher in a new phase of growth. . Joining Paladin’s board are Haley Altman , strategic advisor to legal technology company Litera and until last August its global head of corporate development, and Mark Ch

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Relativity

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In today’s increasingly digital world, the primary threats that aim to disrupt your business and the businesses of your clients can come from a variety of sources and malicious applications.

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Technically Legal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Richard Mabey, CEO and co-founder of contract automation platform Juro, visits the podcast to talk about building a legal tech start up that helps in-house legal teams deal with contracts from drafting to execution (and reduce the number of software products they use while doing it.) Richard founded Juro in 2016 with a technical co-founder he met in business school.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Attorney business development isn’t easy — especially when you don’t have time to lay the groundwork. This checklist will help you make headway in just a few focused hours. Your business development department or practice leader has been pushing you to work on business development activities. Meanwhile, your clients have you billing more hours than ever.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Question: What do you call the best team in baseball when it’s off its A-game for a night? Answer: The best team in baseball. So what do you call the best conference in legal tech when it is off its A-game for a year? The best conference in legal tech. Monday and Tuesday this week brought the 10 th annual Clio Cloud Conference. It was the first live ClioCon since COVID and the first to be held in Nashville, after previous years in San Diego, New Orleans and Chicago.

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Relativity

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Dr. Timnit Gebru will join us at Relativity Fest in Chicago this month. She’ll offer our closing keynote on bias in AI based on her seminal work in this crucially important yet overlooked arena of AI research.

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NSLT

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Technology plays a huge role in the modern practice of law. Modern technology tools assist with becoming more effective and efficient in the discovery process of litigation. They also assist in firm management and trial presentation.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Are you looking for ways to take your law practice to the next level? Consider using document automation tools to help streamline your workflow and produce more accurate documents faster. Document automation tools can help you create and manage documents more efficiently, which can save your firm time and money. Here’s an overview. What Is Document Automation and How Can It Help Your Law Practice?

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LawSites

OCTOBER 13, 2022

An increasing number of startups are defining themselves not as legal tech, but as justice tech. So what, exactly, is justice tech, who are some of the companies that represent it, and what is the business opportunity they present for potential investors? Our guest this week is Maya Markovich , executive director of the Justice Technology Association , an organization formed earlier this year to support companies in the justice tech sector. .

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Relativity

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Dr. Timnit Gebru will join us at Relativity Fest in Chicago this month. She’ll offer our closing keynote on bias in AI based on her seminal work in this crucially important yet overlooked arena of AI research.

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Debevoise Data Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

There has been significant regulatory attention recently to “dark patterns,” including FTC guidance , state privacy laws , and state and federal enforcement actions. Some of this activity involves new regulations, and some is based on decades-old consumer protection laws that prohibit unfair and deceptive practices. There is no single definition for “dark patterns,” but the term generally refers to user interfaces ( e.g. , websites, apps) that are designed to manipulate a user’s behavior and sub

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NSLT

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This article examines how lawyers benefit from attending a legal tech conference. We’ll outline their benefits, dig into what’s usually on the agenda, and explain why they’re far more than just an excuse to spend the day out of the office.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 10, 2022

As the Clio Cloud Conference kicked off in Nashville this morning – the conference’s 10 th anniversary and its first time live since 2019 – Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton took to the stage to deliver a keynote address, during which he announced several new products and product enhancements. New products he announced were Clio Grow websites to help lawyers easily create a web presence, text messaging to send and receive client text messages from within Clio, advanced integrations that allow law

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Relativity

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In today’s increasingly digital world, the primary threats that aim to disrupt your business and the businesses of your clients can come from a variety of sources and malicious applications.

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LawNext podcast

OCTOBER 10, 2022

An increasing number of startups are defining themselves not as legal tech, but as justice tech. So what, exactly, is justice tech, who are some of the companies that represent it, and what is the business opportunity they present for potential investors? Our guest this week is Maya Markovich , executive director of the Justice Technology Association , an organization formed earlier this year to support companies in the justice tech sector.

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Debevoise Data Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

European Data Protection Roundup – September 2022 Key takeaways this September include: Google Analytics : Continue to assess carefully the use of Google Analytics. The Danish Data Protection Agency became the latest supervisory authority to suggest that the cross border transfers involved in the use of Google Analytics in the European Union, without more, violates the GDPR; Data Transfers : Regulators are continuing to scrutinise the use of non-EU-based service providers.

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