Attorney at Work

MARCH 29, 2022

With in-person conferences, tradeshows and other large gatherings happening again, your skills may be rusty. Here are ways to get back into your best face-to-face form. As I write this, I am in Las Vegas with over 830 others at the Legal Marketing Association Annual Meeting, my first association conference since before the pandemic. Leading up to this, my emotions have ranged from excitement (“I can’t wait to see so many people who will be there!

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Rocket Matter

MARCH 28, 2022

Online payment processing options can streamline your firm’s billing, help you collect payments faster (and more consistently), and keep your clients happy—but lots of law firms are still avoiding accepting online payments or payment by card. There used to be good reasons for that. Attorneys were respectable, professional, and polished, and getting your law practice… Read More » Why Online Legal Payment Processing Is an Absolute Necessity.

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MARCH 28, 2022

What use are we in helping to solve difficult global challenges if we’re so depressed and cognitively depleted that we can’t think of the best actions to take? Ukraine doomscrolling can harm your cognition as well as your mood. Professors Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian , Christelle Langley , Chun Shen and Jianfeng Feng describe their research findings on what to do about it.

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APRIL 1, 2022

Catching up on recent legal tech news, there are four notable deals to report. Athennian Raises $33M. First up is Athennian , the Canadian company that offers a cloud-based entity management platform. It announced this week that it has raised $33 million in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Centana Growth Partners with participation from Arthur Ventures, and Touchdown Ventures.

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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!

Attorney at Work

MARCH 28, 2022

Even (especially) if you’re in a small law firm, chances are high that your passwords are exposed on the dark web and waiting for the highest bidder. But as Tom Lambotte explains, you don’t have to wait for the creepy emails and ransom demands to find out. Let’s imagine you found out that burglars had copies of your house key. Would you want to know?

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Technically Legal

MARCH 31, 2022

“You’re marrying a firefighter. That’s all I’ll ever be. I’m never going to finish college.” That’s what Bill Henderson told his soon to be wife many years ago, but thankfully that was not true. Fast forward to today and Bill is now Professor William Henderson, the Stephen F. Burns Chair on the Legal Profession at Indiana University and he has been a law professor for nearly 20 years.

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LawSites

MARCH 31, 2022

As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, many Ukrainians who are currently in the United States have two options for extending their stays: apply for either Temporary Protected Status or asylum. For either, however, the applications they must complete are complicated to fill out and available only in English. To help Ukrainians living in the U.S. extend their stays, the technology company SixFifty today launched a free, automated tool, available in both English and Ukrainian, to help them co

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 1, 2022

Mingling may induce the kind of fear usually reserved for drunk dentists, but now that the world is opening up again, we all have to do it. Conquer your fear with this refresher. . Networking and mingling are rough. Everybody hates it. Trust me, the loudest, most gregarious person you know has a hard time walking into a room full of strangers and starting a conversation.

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lawtomated

MARCH 30, 2022

Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Facebook Pinterest Print Email Guest post by Jessica Hirst Is mobile the future of legal tech? The world is amid change, in this increasingly interconnected world, how do law firms navigate the maze of technologies and utilise these tools to evolve with society’s demands. Law firms are becoming increasingly reliant on automating legal processes and implementing the right tools which are easy to integrate, scale and adapt to future needs.

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LLRX

MARCH 31, 2022

Articles and Columns for March 2022 Libraries and the Contested Terrain of “Neutrality” – Rick Anderson is University Librarian at Brigham Young University. His commentary addresses timely, divisive and critical conversations and actions that involve censorship, book banning, library ethics, and professional responsibility across our professional communities.

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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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LawSites

MARCH 30, 2022

Although the majority of U.S. in-house lawyers prefer not to return full-time to their offices, nearly half have done so, in part because their organizations have failed to effectively adopt new technologies that would facilitate hybrid work arrangements. This is among the findings of a new survey of in-house lawyers commissioned by the contract management company ContractWorks and conducted by the U.K.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 31, 2022

Lots of articles teach interviewees how to manage an interview, what questions the interviewee can expect, and the glib answer that is supposed to show off the interviewee in the best light. One of the problems with the interview process is that, indeed, these questions are the ones prospective employers are asking and interviewees are preparing for.

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Debevoise Data Blog

MARCH 30, 2022

On December 7, 2021, Anna Gressel and Jim Pastore from Debevoise’s Data Strategy and Security and Commercial Litigation Groups participated in the third edition of the “ The Athens Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law ,” the premier international, multi-stakeholder gathering on artificial intelligence, legal systems, and functions, regulatory compliance, and the rule of law.

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LLRX

MARCH 31, 2022

Robert McKay discusses his appreciation of the important function of the House of Butter blog, established and run by Sean Hocking. This publication has been continuously engaged in addressing wide and important issues concerning the environment and law, the defence and protection of rule of law and in support of those in legal practice who stand up for human rights and equality, rather than simply being focused on profit.

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Advertiser: Trellis

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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LawSites

APRIL 1, 2022

In the early days of legal blogging, April 1 was a day to be wary of. For a time, it was an annual tradition for legal bloggers to attempt to out-prank each other and their readers, publishing serious-seeming posts that were thinly veiled April Fools’ jokes. By way of illustration, here is a post I wrote in 2006 for Law.com’s now-defunct Legal Blog Watch summing up some of that year’s blog-foolery.

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Legal Talk Network

MARCH 30, 2022

Miriam Ingber (Dean of Admissions at Yale Law School) and Kristi Jobson (Dean of Admissions at Harvard Law School) discuss the admissions process and tips to getting into law school in its newest episode series “Life of a Lawyer, Start to Finish” on the Lawyer 2 Lawyer podcast. In its newest series “Life of a Lawyer, Start to Finish” , the Lawyer 2 Lawyer podcast explores the experience of becoming and being an attorney.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 30, 2022

Attorney at Work’s new “Women in Law” series honors Women’s History Month with a focus on successful women lawyers who have carved a path for themselves in the legal industry and beyond. This week: the Boston Globe Media Partners’ Heather Stevenson. Heather L. Stevenson. Deputy General Counsel. Boston Globe Media Partners. Massachusetts. Columbia University School of Law.

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LLRX

MARCH 31, 2022

Legal sector analyst Jordan Furlong writes that it’s taken two years of rolling pandemic lockdowns to shake us from our torpid habit of gathering together only to work alone. Over the next decade, a Stanford professor estimates, US workers will spend a quarter of their work time at home — “the number of person-days in the office is never going back to pre-pandemic average, ever.

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LawSites

MARCH 30, 2022

She has been called the patron saint of solo and small law firms. For two decades, Carolyn Elefant has helped solo and small firm lawyers start and build their law practices. You know her as the creator of MyShingle.com , the longest-running blog on solo and small law firm practice, and she just released the third edition of her book that is a bible for lawyers going off on their own, Solo by Choice: How to Start a Law Firm and Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be.

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NSLT

APRIL 1, 2022

How to Import Your Facebook Contacts In to Gmail Friends to Gmail (directory app) is a web application that you can use to convert your Facebook friends list into a nice, Gmail-compatible CSV file. Once created, you can import this file right into Gmail and all of your friends’ information, like names, locations, birthdays, bios, work history, and hometowns, will be added to your contacts for you.

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Social Media for Law Firms

APRIL 1, 2022

Obviously the goal of any interaction with prospective clients on social media is ensuring they turn into billable hours down the road. What is the one thing you hear from these prospective clients more than anything else? More than likely, “I can’t afford a lawyer.” In order to make the most conversions, you need to make sure these individuals understand the entire process.

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LLRX

MARCH 31, 2022

Rick Anderson is University Librarian at Brigham Young University. His commentary addresses timely, divisive and critical conversations and actions that involve censorship, book banning, library ethics, and professional responsibility across our professional communities.

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LawSites

MARCH 29, 2022

AltaClaro , a company that has developed a unique experiential training platform for lawyers, has raised a $2.5 million seed preferred financing round to further develop its product and expand its market share. The financing round was led by Bryce Catalyst , a legal tech fund whose founding partner Cary Burch is the former chief innovation officer of Thomson Reuters.

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NSLT

MARCH 30, 2022

Debunking Legal Tech Myths There are a lot of myths and misinformation out there about legal technology that can cause law firms to stall important decisions regarding vendor partner selection or upgrading their systems. I’d like to debunk some common myths about legal tech—from robots replacing lawyers to addressing legal tech integrations—and provide some practical tips your firm can use today.

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LawNext podcast

MARCH 30, 2022

She has been called the patron saint of solo and small law firms. For two decades, Carolyn Elefant has helped solo and small firm lawyers start and build their law practices. You know her as the creator of MyShingle.com , the longest-running blog on solo and small law firm practice, and she just released the third edition of her book that is a bible for lawyers going off on their own, Solo by Choice: How to Start a Law Firm and Be the Lawyer You Always Wanted to Be.

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LLRX

MARCH 29, 2022

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, we keep hearing that this war is like no other; because Ukrainians have cellphones and access to social media platforms, the traditional control of information and propaganda cannot work and people are able to see through the fog of war. For these communications scholars and historians, Professors Katharina Niemeyer, Dominique Trudel, Heidi J.

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LawSites

MARCH 29, 2022

The venture capital market is enjoying its biggest moment since the dot-com days of the late 1990s. Globally, VC deal-making shattered records in 2021. . But certain pockets of the market are driving the current VC ecosystem, and not every aspect of the global startup scene is increasing at the same pace. . Today at 1 p.m. Eastern time, I will moderate an expert panel analyzing the findings of a new report on the VC market, “Betting on the Post-Covid Future,” produced by legal technology

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Debevoise Data Blog

MARCH 29, 2022

On March 24, 2022, the Hedge Fund Law Report published an article on the recently proposed cybersecurity rules for investment advisers and registered investment funds, which featured an interview with Avi Gesser, Co-Chair of the Debevoise Data Strategy and Security Practice: SEC Proposes Cyber Risk Management Rules for Advisers The article discusses the following aspects of the proposal: Rationale for the Proposal Regulatory Framework Cybersecurity Policies and Procedures Annual Review and Re

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NSLT

MARCH 28, 2022

Password Protect Workbooks and Worksheets Your Excel workbook or worksheets contain sensitive strategic data, so you want to require others to enter a password to open them. Or you can share the data freely with anyone without requiring a password, but require a password to make changes. Take this short course to find out more.

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MARCH 28, 2022

LexCheck , a company whose platform provides AI-powered contract negotiation, has raised an additional $5 million of funding, on top of $3 million in seed funding it raised in May 2020. . The New York-based company said the funding would be used to further drive its growth, following a year in which it opened additional offices in London and Melbourne and tripled its staff headcount.

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