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Five Freaky Friday Workplace Trends

Attorney at Work

Halloween weekend is here, and we’re all about the treats. But first, here are five spooky workplace trends to keep you on your toes. 1. Ghost Jobs (Boo!). Ghosting — the trend of disappearing without a trace, whether deep-sixing a relationship, a job offer or any manner of commitment — has been enjoying a long moment. Of course, the phenomenon isn’t new.

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Experts grade Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube on readiness to handle midterm election misinformation

LLRX

Professors Dam Hee Kim , Anjana Susarla and Scott Shackelford are experts on social media. They were asked to grade how ready Facebook, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube are to handle the task of misinformation and disinformation in the upcoming election cycles. Social media companies have announced plans to deal with misinformation in the 2022 midterm elections, but the companies vary in their approaches and effectiveness and the result promises to be another jarring challenge to democracy in America

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LawNext #ClioCon Bonus Episode: Shubham Datta, Clio’s VP of Corporate Development

LawSites

At the 2022 Clio Cloud Conference held recently in Nashville, I sat down for a series of in-person interviews with Clio executives. In this episode, I speak with Shubham Datta , vice president of corporate development at Clio. Datta has one of the best jobs in legal tech. He oversees the development and execution of Clio’s strategic growth strategy through acquisitions and investments.

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How to Make Your Law Firm More Efficient in 2023  

Rocket Matter

Efficiency isn’t just about hopping onto a buzzword bandwagon. It’s about helping your employees focus on the tasks at hand to make the most of their time. This is a serious issue: on average, employees are interrupted every three minutes and five seconds. Once interrupted, it can take as long as 23 minutes to get back to the task at hand. . When you have a workday full of interruptions, it has an impact on profitability, but that’s not all.

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The Tech-Savvy Paralegals Playbook: How To Leverage AI

Speaker: Allison Mears, Adela Wekselblatt, and George Socha

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal industry, and paralegals are at the forefront of this transformation. As AI becomes more integrated into legal workflows, paralegals can streamline their daily tasks, enhance efficiency, and add greater value to their firms and organizations. But what exactly does AI mean for paralegals today—and how can you leverage it to your advantage?

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How to Prepare Your Law Practice for the Coming Recession

Attorney at Work

Would you like the good news or the bad news about practicing law during a recession? Financial strategist Brooke Lively has advice for weathering the coming storm. A client emailed me this week asking, “I am thinking about opening another office, but with the recession coming, I’m not sure what I should do. Any advice?”. Unless you were admitted before about 2005, you haven’t practiced law going into a recession.

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Why David Rothman wrote Drone Child: Lemba Adula’s Q&A with him

LLRX

I, Lemba Adula, happen to be the hero of Drone Child: A Novel of War, Family, and Survival. So here I am, a Congolese villager turned self-taught hacker turned child soldier turned military drone expert turned sea-going pirate turned university student turned entrepreneur turned major industrialist. Just why did David Rothman write what he says is my fictional war memoir?

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Perfecting Your Pen Testing Program [Security Sandbox Podcast]

Relativity

In today’s episode, Security Sandbox heads across the globe for a conversation on the intricacies of modern-day penetration testing and how you can elevate the everyday skills of your cybersecurity team.

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Five Ways to Make Speaking Engagements Pay Off

Attorney at Work

Let’s say you’ve been invited to speak — in person — at the annual meeting of a group of not-for-profits. Specifically, your audience want to know what, if anything, they should be worrying about relative to your specialty — say trademarks and brands. Easy-peasy. Table of contents Multiply Your Speaking Engagement’s Marketing Impact 1. Write and publish the article. 2.

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DRM On My Mind

LLRX

Christine Park , Christine Park, Adjunct Professsor of Law, Fordham Law Library highlights risks of and legal restrictions related to digital rights managements. LLRX welcomes further discussion of efforts to implement solutions, "before it's too late.".

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Thrilled to Announce the ‘New and Improved’ Version 2.0 of the LawNext Legal Technology Directory

LawSites

Eight months ago, we launched the LawNext Legal Technology Directory , aiming to develop it into the most trusted source available for information and resources on legal technology products. Now, we are taking the next step forward with the launch of version 2.0 of the directory that brings new features and functionality. As I wrote at the time of the launch , our goal is to develop this into a comprehensive directory of products, reviews, learning resources, and more, where buyers can find trus

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Uncovering The Hidden Connections: A Patent Family Survival Guide

Speaker: Andrew Klein

Are there mysteries lurking in your family tree? 🕵 No, not a long-lost half-brother - I'm talking about a patent family tree! IP paralegals need fast and easy ways to verify and report on essential data about foreign equivalents of US assets. Join us to master the global scope of key assets to support prosecution, portfolio management, litigation, licensing, competitive monitoring and more!

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Reports From ClioCon: The Secret to More Satisfied Clients, Happier Employees, and Stronger Revenue Streams

Nextpoint

Brett Burney, Nextpoint’s eLaw Evangelist, shares his thoughts after attending ClioCon 2022 with the Nextpoint team. Law firms that refuse to adopt cloud-based tools may struggle to maintain continuity in the post-pandemic world. That was the strong, overarching message from the impactful Clio Cloud Conference held October 10-11, 2022 in Nashville, TN (affectionately known as […] The post Reports From ClioCon: The Secret to More Satisfied Clients, Happier Employees, and Stronger Reve

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Contract Management Software for a Growing Legal Practice

Attorney at Work

Contract management software and recent technology like artificial intelligence and natural language processing are helping law firms and legal departments confront the many challenges of contracts. Contracts are hard. Both ubiquitous and impenetrable, they are read by many and understood by few. The plain language movement has done little to simplify everyday legal contracts, which often contain center-embedded clauses filled with low-frequency jargon, passive-voice construction , and non-stand

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Will Amazon’s new ePub capability help the anti-DRM movement?

LLRX

David H. Rothman has been writing about the issues inherent in publisher control of e-books and e-readers and the impact of digital rights management for many years. Whether you use personal devices or institutional devices, the issues Rothman raises here will impact you.

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MyCase Now Integrates with LawToolBox for Rules-Based Court Calendaring

LawSites

An integration announced today makes the court-calendaring software LawToolBox available within the MyCase law practice management platform, enabling lawyers who use MyCase to automatically calculate key court dates and deadlines and add them to their MyCase calendars. The integration will enable MyCase users to automatically calculate deadlines and add them to their MyCase calendar.

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AI for Paralegals: Everything You Need to Know (and How to Use It Safely)

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Ready to cut through the AI hype and learn exactly how to use these tools in your legal work? Join this webinar to get practical guidance from attorney and AI legal expert, Joe Stephens, who understands what really matters for legal professionals! What You'll Learn: Evaluate AI Tools Like a Pro 🔍 Learn which tools are worth your time and how to spot potential security and ethics risks before they become problems.

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GDPR Technical and Organisational Measures: Lessons from the UK ICO’s £4.4m Data Breach Penalty

Debevoise Data Blog

On 24 October 2022, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) fined Interserve Group Limited £4.4 million for failing to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to safeguard 113,000 individuals’ personal data in company HR databases. Here we outline what went wrong and lessons for businesses about how to manage the risk of similar incidents and regulatory enforcement action.

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Investing in Home-grown Leaders: Here’s How to Develop Effective Lawyer Leadership Skills

Attorney at Work

Lawyer Leadership skills. We all know they are important. But can they be taught? Table of contents Defining Leadership The Five Pillars of Lawyer Leadership Skills Pillar 1: Leader Identity Pillar 2: Leadership Impact Pillar 3: Strategic Thinking Pillar 4: People Management Pillar 5: Personal Productivity and Peak Performance Pointers for Planning a Lawyer Leadership Skills Program Invest in People.

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Are war novels too scary for kids?

LLRX

David H. Rothman is a former poverty beat reporter, founder of TeleRead.org ebook site, veteran tech writer, a staunch library advocate and an accomplished young adult book author. In this brief article he shares his thoughts on age appropriate reading in the content of a war novel and contemporaneous global events.

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The Journey to New Data Frontiers: What's on the Roadmap for RelativityOne

Relativity

During the opening keynote at Relativity Fest 2022, we covered how the community is helping to activate our mission—to organize data, discover the truth, and act on it—in the real world, and what's on our product roadmap.

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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 doesn’t have to be!

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At Its User Conference, Relativity Unveils New Tools for E-Discovery, Compliance, Data Management and More

LawSites

At its annual RelativityFest user conference in Chicago today, the e-discovery company Relativity announced several new tools and features for e-discovery, privacy and compliance, data management, translation, and more. The product announcements were made during the conference’s opening keynote presented by Mike Gamson, Relativity’s chief executive officer, and Chris Brown, chief product officer.

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Love At First Site: Creating a Website That Engages and Converts

Attorney at Work

Lack of law firm website ROI is a common frustration among attorneys. Most know there’s an issue but can’t quite diagnose the cause. Every month, you make a payment for your firm’s website, but you’re not quite sure what you’re getting out of it. Sound familiar? We routinely speak with attorneys frustrated by a lack of ROI from their websites. Having reviewed thousands of legal websites over the past 15 years, we find the overwhelming majority of ineffective sites suffer from a) poor visibility,

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cybersecurity issues – October 22, 2022

LLRX

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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Now Playing: On the Merits: Labor Trafficking

Relativity

Labor trafficking happens everywhere. Learn how technology can abet traffickers, but also offer a way to prevent abuse—and how you can help change things—in our On the Merits: Labor Trafficking documentary.

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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 — Uses similar/successful motions in the Trellis database to generate arguments/citations for your motions seeking dismissal, summary judgment, etc. Case Assessment — 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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LawNext #ClioCon Bonus Episode: Clio’s Joshua Lenon on the Legal Trends Report

LawSites

At the 2022 Clio Cloud Conference held recently in Nashville, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi sat down for a series of in-person interviews with Clio executives. In this episode, he speaks with Joshua Lenon , lawyer in residence at Clio, about the recently released 2022 Legal Trends Report. An attorney admitted to the New York Bar, Lenon brings legal scholarship to the conversations happening both within Clio and with its customers.

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The 8 Benefits of Contract Lifecycle Management Technology

Bigfork Tech

What is contract lifecycle management? Contract lifecycle management (CLM) automates and streamlines contract processes during key stages. These stages include intake, authoring, process and workflow, negotiation and approval, repositories, execution, ongoing management and compliance, and contract renewal. A great clm will work for you and not the other way around.

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The EU AI Liability Directive Will Change Artificial Intelligence Legal Risks

Debevoise Data Blog

On September 28, 2022, the European Commission released a proposal to change the legal landscape for companies developing and implementing artificial intelligence in EU Member States. This AI Liability Directive would require Member States to implement rules that would significantly lower evidentiary hurdles for victims injured by AI-related products or services to bring civil liability claims.

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Legal Innovators UK 3.0 is Just Around the Corner – And We Got Free Tickets for You!

Legal Tech Blog

After two incredible shows in London, Artificial Lawyer and Cosmonauts will host Legal Innovators UK this year again – bringing you the best in Legal Tech in London! Legal Innovators UK will take place on the 10th and 11th of November 2022 at the stunning etc. venues St. Pauls. Focused on the intersection between technology and law, Legal Innovators is for everyone interested in innovation.

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The New Way of Conducting Patent Research: Proven Strategies For Efficient Due Diligence

Speaker: Andrew Klein

Patent due diligence processes take too long. The information you need is publicly available but accessing it is often tedious & inefficient, requiring you to wade through dozens of PTO websites or for-free tools to gather what you need. Plus, it frequently occurs late in the game, leaving professionals under pressure, sifting through chaotic 100-page PDFs, and frustrated with poorly formatted information & patent numbers.

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LawNext Podcast: A Deep Dive into the First Comprehensive Study of Reg Reforms in Arizona and Utah with Stanford’s David Engstrom and Lucy Ricca

LawSites

Among the most divisive issues facing the legal profession today is that of revising the rules that regulate law practice – and more specifically the questions of whether to liberalize the rules to allow those who are not licensed lawyers to own law practices or to engage in the practice of law. Two states, Arizona and Utah, have implemented regulatory schemes loosening restrictions on law practice, and other states are considering similar revisions to their rules. .

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Perfecting Your Pen Testing Program [Security Sandbox Podcast]

Relativity

In today’s episode, Security Sandbox heads across the globe for a conversation on the intricacies of modern-day penetration testing and how you can elevate the everyday skills of your cybersecurity team.

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LawNext #ClioCon Bonus Episode: Jonathan Watson, Clio’s Chief Technology Officer

LawNext podcast

At the 2022 Clio Cloud Conference held recently in Nashville, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi sat down for a series of in-person interviews with Clio executives. In this episode, he speaks with Jonathan Watson , Clio’s chief technology officer. With over 20 years of leadership experience in large-scale SaaS and live gaming solutions, Watson’s unique approach and passion for intertwining product development, design, user experience, and engineering have accelerated Clio’s product growth while earning C

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Using Case Studies to Build Trust With Clients and Help Your Law Firm Grow

NSLT

Your potential clients are looking for well-qualified legal representation that they can trust. Check out this post to learn how case studies help bridge the gap by providing a concrete illustration of your successes in practice.

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Trial Prep: What Attorneys Really Want (And How to Deliver It)

Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Get ready to uncover what attorneys really need from you when it comes to trial prep in this new webinar! Attorney and law professor, Joe Stephens, J.D., will share proven techniques for anticipating attorney needs, organizing critical documents, and transforming complex information into compelling case presentations. Key Learning Objectives: Organization That Makes Sense 🎯 Learn how to structure and organize case materials in ways that align with how attorneys actually work and think.