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Editor’s Picks: Can vaccines be mandated? | Marketing speak decoded | Pandemic-era holiday shopping from bizarre to trendy

Legal Talk Network

Vaccines for COVID-19 are headed to the market at lightning speed. The quicker the better for those eager to return to some sort of normal. That’s not to say there isn’t anxiety as the vaccine becomes available. And employers are wrestling with whether they should mandate vaccines for workers. On Legal Talk Today , host Laurence Colletti speaks with labor and employment lawyer Christine Bestor Townsend to break down which employers are likely to require vaccines, who can say no, what accommodati

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 5, 2020

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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European Data Protection Roundup – November 2020

Debevoise Data Blog

The big news this November was the European Data Protection Board (the “EDPB”) issuing its highly anticipated post- Schrems II data transfer guidance, followed just a day later by the European Commission’s draft updated Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) (see our blog post here ). In case you missed them while trying to solve the data transfer conundrum, here are ten more enforcement and policy developments you should know about.

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Time and Billing Software Checklist

NSLT

Time and Billing Software Checklist To improve your law firm’s profitability, you could hire more staff to help you take on more clients and increase revenues. You could cut your overhead expenses and work longer hours. Or you could take better advantage of your existing technology and make smarter decisions about your firm’s next steps.

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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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Call for Entries: ABA TECHSHOW Startup Alley 2021 – The First Virtual Edition

ABA TECHSHOW

Attention legal technology startups: Here is your chance to compete to be featured as a presenter and exhibitor in the fifth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW , the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference, to be held virtually on March 8-12, 2021. Today officially kicks off the call for entries for Startup Alley, in which 15 startups will be selected to participate in a virtual pitch competition that will be the opening event of this year’s TECHSHOW.

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Ep 101: BlackBoiler Founder Dan Broderick On Automating Contract Markup

LawNext podcast

Dan Broderick believes businesses waste billions in repetitive work reviewing and negotiating semantically similar contracts. As a former lawyer, he saw the problem first-hand. It led him to found BlackBoiler , whose AI-based technology automates the review and mark-up of inbound contracts right in Word’s Track Changes. This week, BlackBoiler announced two new U.S. patents for its contract review software, bringing its total to seven.

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Time and Billing Software Checklist

NSLT

Time and Billing Software Checklist To improve your law firm’s profitability, you could hire more staff to help you take on more clients and increase revenues. You could cut your overhead expenses and work longer hours. Or you could take better advantage of your existing technology and make smarter decisions about your firm’s next steps.

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Workflow Automation for Legal With Scott Kelly (President of Community.Lawyer)

Technically Legal

Workflow automation for lawyers and legal teams is the topic of Episode 41. Our guest is Scott Kelly, one of the founders of Community.Lawyer , which is “no-code” workflow automation software with an app builder designed with attorneys in mind. Community.Lawyer is a way for law firms, corporate legal departments and legal aid organizations to automate common and repeatable tasks to save time and resources.

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Modern Document Management

NSLT

Modern Document Management: How Law Departments Can Work Smarter Organizations credit digital transformation with reducing costs, increasing agility, and delivering enhanced and new services. A possible unforeseen outcome of digital transformation is a rising volume of digital documents and information generated by business systems.

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Modern Document Management

NSLT

Modern Document Management: How Law Departments Can Work Smarter Organizations credit digital transformation with reducing costs, increasing agility, and delivering enhanced and new services. A possible unforeseen outcome of digital transformation is a rising volume of digital documents and information generated by business systems.

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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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4 Creative Ways to Insert Horizontal Lines in Microsoft Word

NSLT

4 Creative Ways to Insert Horizontal Lines in Microsoft Word One of my tricks with quite the “wow factor” is inserting artistic lines into my documents. To insert a horizontal line (also called a “horizontal rule”), here are four creative ways to do it.

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4 Creative Ways to Insert Horizontal Lines in Microsoft Word

NSLT

4 Creative Ways to Insert Horizontal Lines in Microsoft Word One of my tricks with quite the “wow factor” is inserting artistic lines into my documents. To insert a horizontal line (also called a “horizontal rule”), here are four creative ways to do it.

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Workflow Automation for Legal With Scott Kelly (President of Community.Lawyer)

Technically Legal

Workflow automation for lawyers and legal teams is the topic of Episode 41. Our guest is Scott Kelly, one of the founders of Community.Lawyer , which is “no-code” workflow automation software with an app builder designed with attorneys in mind. Community.Lawyer is a way for law firms, corporate legal departments and legal aid organizations to automate common and repeatable tasks to save time and resources.