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Something Old, Something New

Trial Technology

Trials. Exhibits. In Person. Remote. Hybrid. We have many options, now that we're slowly climbing our way out of a global pandemic. Pre-COVID, we had only a few common options. During the first part of COVID, we literally had none. Rather quickly, the lights began to turn on again, even if most of those were monitors glowing, as opposed to courtroom lights.

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Litera Acquires UK Goal-Setting Software Company Objective Manager

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The Chicago-based legal technology company Litera has acquired Objective Manager , a UK company that provides a SaaS platform for law firms to use in strategic planning, performance measurement and talent engagement. The purpose of the platform is to enable firms to accelerate their strategic and performance agendas by aligning their people to the firm’s strategic objectives.

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Lawyers, Implicit Bias and Burnout: 5 Steps to Self-Discovery

Attorney at Work

Implicit bias is a psychological term that attempts to describe the unconscious prejudices and stereotypes we form without awareness. It is human nature to have these unknown biases, whether we want to admit it or not. We form biases owing to our education, experience, culture and history. Our minds form biases based on unconscious associations over time, intentionally or unintentionally.

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Law schools ranked by employment | IRL office debate | A Declaration of Independence reading

Legal Talk Network

Rankings of all sorts can be controversial, especially for those being ranked when their numbers never materialize or slip. Yet, they continue to be incredibly important for the marketing of law schools, law firms, etc. As long as consumers and clients care about rankings, they will exist. On Thinking Like a Lawyer , Joe Patrice, Kathryn Rubino, and Chris Williams review Above the Law’s law school rankings.

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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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Artificial Intelligence Resources on the Internet 2021

LLRX

Articles, studies, reports and investigations abound on how AI is impacting all aspects of our lives in areas that include our privacy, our social media usage, healthcare, the economy, the financial system, education, communications, law, the courts and technology. This timely, broad overview of resources, sites and applications by Marcus P. Zillman spans subject matter and disciplines as well as the many permutations of the technologies that drive artificial intelligence.

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Allegory Founder Alma Asay Joins Crowell & Moring In Practice Innovation Role

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Alma Asay , the former litigator who founded the litigation management platform Allegory Law, has joined the law firm Crowell & Moring as senior director of practice innovation and client value. In partnership with the firm’s clients, Asay will focus on driving efficiency, delivering measurable value, and creating customized innovative service solutions, the firm said in announcing Asay’s hire.

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Legaltech Careers: Dave Wilson, Managing Director & Founder of Tiger Eye Consulting

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Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Facebook Pinterest Print Email Dave Wilson, Managing Director and Founder of Tiger Eye Consulting has worked in the professional services IT field for most of his career, with his involvement with Document Management Systems starting early on in his profession. Tiger Eye – leading iManage Partner for Knowledge and Technical Expertise – have been iManage Partners since the company’s inception in 2005, when Dave left a senior role at iManage to start his own customer-

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LLRX June 2021 Issue

LLRX

Articles and Columns for June 2021 Artificial Intelligence Resources on the Internet 2021 – Articles, studies, reports and investigations abound on how AI is impacting all aspects of our lives inclusive of privacy, social media, healthcare, the economy, the financial system, education, communications, law, the courts and technology. This is a timely, broad overview of.

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LawNext: Defining the ‘Future Ready’ Lawyer, with Wolters Kluwer VPs Martin O’Malley and Dean Sonderegger

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As the legal profession continues to transform and evolve, how can a law firm or legal department be “future ready”? What are the characteristics that define future-ready organizations and foretell their continued success? Just out from Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory is its 2021 Future Ready Lawyer Survey Report , documenting the top trends affecting legal professionals and looking at how well prepared law firms and legal departments are to address them.

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Five Ways to Network at a Barbecue and Not Get Burned

Attorney at Work

As invitations begin to roll in for social events this post-pandemic summer, here’s a refresher from “coach” Mike O’Horo on how to handle yourself when you meet someone for the first time — or after a long time. . As summer approaches, social schedules ramp up with graduation parties, barbecues, golf outings, baseball games and the like.

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Visibility Into the Strategy & Supporting Documents of Major US Law Firms

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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Legaltech adoption barriers. How many apply to your organisation? Findings from Legatics’ Innovate UK reports

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Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Facebook Pinterest Print Email We sat down with Anthony Seale , CEO and Founder of Legatics, and Daniel Grant-Smith , Head of Engagement at Legatics to dive into their two fascinating Innovate UK reports. The first report “ Barriers to LegalTech adoption ” focuses on attitudes to legal technology, diagnoses barriers to adoption and makes recommendations to increase usage.

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Non-Library Jobs & Advice on How to Get One: an introduction to INALJ’s series of interviews

LLRX

Naomi House was inspired to do this series because of the drastic changes to the availability of traditional library jobs during this pandemic. She highlights library and information professionals who work outside libraries but use their skills as well as many who have lost their jobs or been furloughed. These interviews are an introduction to transferable skill sets as well as resources for those looking for work in those fields.

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AbacusNext and Zola Suite Combine To Create Broad Portfolio Of Law Practice Software

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Four months after its acquisition by a private equity firm, the law practice management and accounting software company AbacusNext has combined with Zola Suite , a SaaS legal practice management software provider, to create what they are calling “the strongest portfolio of legal software solutions on the market.”. The combined companies now offer a portfolio of products that includes Zola Suite, AbacusLaw, Amicus Attorney, Office Tools, HotDocs and Abacus Payment Exchange (APX).

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Microsoft Secure Score: Lawyers Need to Know (and Improve) Their Score

Attorney at Work

,Release your inner gamer and shoot for the highest possible Microsoft Secure Score for your firm. Security should be top of mind for everyone today, especially given the tremendous increase in cyberattacks and ransomware infections since the pandemic. Lawyers hold a lot of confidential data that can be very valuable to attackers. It’s not just data for one client, but data for multiple clients, which provides a one-stop shop for cybercriminals.

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Stay On Top of Newly Filed State & Federal Litigation: Curated Just for You!

With Daily Filings Report by Trellis you will receive an email and csv file daily with all new cases filed in the jurisdictions you're tracking. Each new case will include all case metadata like judge, parties, counsel, practice area, and even direct links to the full docket and complaint. Trellis Daily Filings Reports provide direct access to newly filed state and federal litigation curated just for you.

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Nuance PowerPDF - Printing Bookmarks

NSLT

ILTA Tip of the Week - Nuance PowerPDF - Printing Bookmarks Here is how to print the Bookmark Pane: Once the list of bookmarks is created; you create a “table of contents”. I guess for lack of another term they used that–it IS a TOC, but created from your list of bookmarks. You can even choose to put the TOC after page 1; or put it at the end of the document, and print that one page, and then delete it after saving that one page as a separate document–or however you want to treat it.

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Knowledge Management, Geometry and Frieda Riley

LLRX

Jerry Lawson shares the preface to his upcoming book about knowledge management for law firms in which he highlights indelible lessons his high school Geometry teacher Miss Frieda Riley taught him to make a point about efficiency and lawyers.

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More Details From Alma Asay On Her Move To Crowell & Moring Leading Practice Innovation

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Earlier this week, I reported that Alma Asay , the former litigator who founded the litigation management platform Allegory Law, has joined the law firm Crowell & Moring as senior director of practice innovation and client value. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to catch up with Asay and learn more about why she made the move and what her role will be.

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Ep 128: Defining the ‘Future Ready’ Lawyer, with Wolters Kluwer VPs Martin O’Malley and Dean Sonderegger

LawNext podcast

As the legal profession continues to transform and evolve, how can a law firm or legal department be “future ready”? What are the characteristics that define future-ready organizations and foretell their continued success? Just out from Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory is its 2021 Future Ready Lawyer Survey Report , documenting the top trends affecting legal professionals and looking at how well prepared law firms and legal departments are to address them.

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Nuance PowerPDF - Printing Bookmarks

NSLT

ILTA Tip of the Week - Nuance PowerPDF - Printing Bookmarks Here is how to print the Bookmark Pane: Once the list of bookmarks is created; you create a “table of contents”. I guess for lack of another term they used that–it IS a TOC, but created from your list of bookmarks. You can even choose to put the TOC after page 1; or put it at the end of the document, and print that one page, and then delete it after saving that one page as a separate document–or however you want to treat it.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 27, 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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Five Apps to Help You Sleep Famously

Attorney at Work

If you’re looking for apps to help you sleep, join the club. We meet at 3 a.m. on Google, searching for “the best app to help you sleep” and “best insomnia apps” and “why does my cat look at me like she knows what I did in Mrs. Whitfield’s fourth-grade math class?” Like you, I used to lie in bed staring into the dark wondering what I’d done with my life.

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Knowledge Management, Efficiency, Geometry and Frieda Riley

LLRX

Jerry Lawson shares the preface to his upcoming book about knowledge management for law firms in which he highlights indelible lessons his high school Geometry teacher Miss Frieda Riley taught him to make a point about efficiency and lawyers.

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Why Lawyers Need Data Security

NSLT

Why Lawyers Need Data Security Obviously, no professional wants unauthorized third-parties to access their data. It doesn’t really matter what sort of business they’re in. Nor, do they want to inexplicably lose important business information. But, for lawyers, this isn’t just good business practice, generally the relevant rules of professional conduct require it.

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Why Lawyers Need Data Security

NSLT

Why Lawyers Need Data Security Obviously, no professional wants unauthorized third-parties to access their data. It doesn’t really matter what sort of business they’re in. Nor, do they want to inexplicably lose important business information. But, for lawyers, this isn’t just good business practice, generally the relevant rules of professional conduct require it.

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How to Import Your Facebook Contacts In to Gmail

NSLT

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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How to Import Your Facebook Contacts In to Gmail

NSLT

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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