Attorney at Work
AUGUST 19, 2022
Reconnecting with yourself is a critical course correction for a frenzied lawyer; the job can get ahead of you. Here’s how to come back. Sometimes we get busy in life — with work, family, building our business, taking care of others, and on and on. When this happens, we can start going through the motions without even realizing it. Until we wake up one day and think: Who am I?
LawSites
AUGUST 15, 2022
First came Lexis+, which LexisNexis launched in the U.S. two years ago as its next-generation premium legal research platform. Then, last May, came Lexis+ UK , the version tailored to the UK market. Now comes Lexis+ Canada , as the company today launches its product there. When I first wrote about the U.S. version of Lexis+ two years ago, I said that LexisNexis had designed it “for users who want an all-in-one, end-to-end platform that incorporates the latest powerhouse technologies, inclu
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LLRX
AUGUST 13, 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.
CloudNine
AUGUST 16, 2022
The well-documented benefits of moving to the Cloud include speed, security, and scale, but none may impact your business more than cost recovery. To help you analyze how you can enhance your bottom line, we’ve compiled this list of the hidden costs of on-premise software. Infrastructure – When an organization wants to run a platform within its own environment, there are infrastructure costs that the organization will incur up front, and some will continue over time.
Attorney at Work
AUGUST 15, 2022
Sam Walton turned a five-and-dime into the Walmart empire using little more than business savvy and a legal pad. His reliance on yellow legal pads is well-documented. His desk at the Walmart Museum has a stack of the ubiquitous pads still covered in Walton’s exhaustive notes. If Walton used those cheap yellow pads to become a billionaire, you might find them useful in running a law firm.
LawSites
AUGUST 15, 2022
Just over a year ago, the e-discovery company CS DISCO became one of just a handful of legal technology companies ever to go public, listing on the New York Stock Exchange. . But on Friday, the company’s stock (LAW) took a tumble, dropping by more than 50% to close at $13.43, after the company announced its second quarter financial results for the year.
LLRX
AUGUST 19, 2022
This article by Jerry Lawson provides ideas and examples showing how investigators can successfully pitch difficult cases—ones that look unattractive on the surface. It emphasizes more advanced techniques than the similarly-themed introductory article The Art of the Referral (Bruce Sackman, Kelly Sisario and Jerry Lawson). Lawson approaches the topic from his perspective as a former federal prosecutor and counsel to federal criminal investigators, but most of the ideas apply just as well to stat
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Attorney at Work
AUGUST 16, 2022
You can prepare a dynamite brief or brilliant estate plan, but if the client journey is difficult, your client still may not be happy. After 15 months in progress, our new custom home was completed recently. As one might expect, between COVID-19, supply chain issues and labor shortages, all did not go smoothly. I’m no house-building novice — this is the eighth home we’ve built — so I understand that things don’t always go as planned and I know it’s not always the contractor’s fault.
LawSites
AUGUST 17, 2022
I have written twice before about Map Engine , an application that makes it easy for law firms to create attractive and interactive maps to visualize multijurisdictional surveys of laws, regulations or other data — first when it launched in 2021 and again earlier this year when it expanded its selection of maps to cover all major regions of the globe.
LLRX
AUGUST 14, 2022
Homa Hosseinmardi and a group of researchers from Stanford University, the University of Pennsylvania and Microsoft Research tracked the TV news consumption habits of tens of thousands of American adults each month from 2016 through 2019. They discovered four aspects of news consumption that, when taken together, paint an unsettling picture of the TV news ecosystem.
Legal Tech Innovation Wales
AUGUST 16, 2022
It’s been a busy few months at the LILW, and the time finally came for our long anticipated event, Legal Hackathon Wales, which was hosted by the LILW and the Welsh Government. We’re always up for a good challenge, and luckily the hackathon which made up the second half of the week provided us with 5 challenges we could sink our teeth into. To get started, all the participants were split into two teams, so we had time to introduce ourselves and our skillsets before discussing which challenge our
Attorney at Work
AUGUST 17, 2022
Attacks on your courtroom arguments? Those you can survive. Attacks on your witnesses’ credibility, ditto. Not so a cyberattack. A successful cyber attack can expose the contents of your computer systems — things like confidential client data, work product, financial records, account passwords, and everything else you have a consequential professional and legal obligation to safeguard.
LawSites
AUGUST 18, 2022
Tangibly , a trade secret management platform, has raised $1.3 million in a pre-seed financing, with participation from WS Investment Company (law firm Wilson Sonsini’s venture arm), Madrona Venture Group, and a number of seed funds, influential founders and angel investors. Others who invested in this round are Brainstorm Ventures, Incisive Ventures, PatentVest (an IP intelligence platform), and Family Angel Management Fund, as well as individual investors Jack Newton, founder and CEO of Clio,
Relativity
AUGUST 16, 2022
What does it take to make the leap into a new industry? First, it takes courage. Once you’ve got that, these skills will pave the way into a successful and fulfilling career in a new field.
Debevoise Data Blog
AUGUST 15, 2022
On Wednesday, August 17, 2022, at 11:00 AM Eastern, Debevoise’s Avi Gesser and Anna Gressel joined Nicolette Nowak from Beamery to discuss New York City’s Automated Employment Decision Tool Law (“AEDT”), other similar laws and regulations, and what AI application providers can do to best assist their customers’ compliance efforts. More information on Beamery’s webcast, “Impending AI Regulatory Changes in HR,” can be found below.
Attorney at Work
AUGUST 18, 2022
For a recent Reinventing Professionals podcast, I spoke with Paul Giedraitis, a Principal at Axiom Consulting Partners, and the founder and President of Orgaimi, a client intelligence platform for law and accounting firms, about the importance of harnessing the power of your firm’s data. Jump to: How do you align your work as a Principal at Axiom Consulting Partners with your leadership of Orgaimi?
LawSites
AUGUST 18, 2022
Last November, the document management company NetDocuments acquired Afterpattern , a no-code toolkit that law firms and legal teams can use to build apps and automate legal documents and workflows, promising at the time that it would be natively integrated into the NetDocuments platform. Today, that promise comes to fruition, as NetDocuments releases PatternBuilder , a document and workflow automation tool that enables law firms, legal teams, and the public sector to automate their expertise an
Relativity
AUGUST 19, 2022
How does a non-technologist working in a technical industry balance her responsibilities with the need to stay ahead of emerging technology?
LawNext podcast
AUGUST 16, 2022
In the world of legal technology, perhaps no company looms larger than Thomson Reuters, whose products such as Westlaw, Practical Law, HighQ, Findlaw, 3E and many others span virtually every aspect of law practice and are used by legal professionals throughout the world. Our guest this week, Kriti Sharma , is chief product officer, legal tech, at Thomson Reuters, a role she stepped into less than a year ago, in October 2021.
LawSites
AUGUST 17, 2022
After attending the 2019 Clio Cloud Conference, I wrote a post describing the experience as like “ a cult of innovation.” I meant that in the most-positive sense possible. “Within the context of a profession known for its resistance to change,” I wrote, “having 2,000 people together at one time who share a great devotion to such ideas made it feel a bit like a cult. … It is a cult in the most positive sense – a devotion to the idea of being better in their pra
LawSites
AUGUST 16, 2022
In the world of legal technology, perhaps no company looms larger than Thomson Reuters, whose products such as Westlaw, Practical Law, HighQ, Findlaw, 3E and many others span virtually every aspect of law practice and are used by legal professionals throughout the world. . Our guest this week, Kriti Sharma , is chief product officer, legal tech, at Thomson Reuters, a role she stepped into less than a year ago, in October 2021.
LawSites
AUGUST 16, 2022
Less than a week after announcing its acquisition of BigSquare , a provider of financial and business intelligence and analytics for law firms, legal technology company Litera today announced another — of Micron Systems Inc. , a developer of talent management software for the legal and accounting professions. If you’re counting, this is Litera’s 16th acquisition in four years. “Bringing Micron Systems into the Litera portfolio is an important step in furthering our ability to
LawSites
AUGUST 15, 2022
Last January, the law firm Redgrave LLP , which specializes in e-discovery and information law, formed the company Redgrave Strategic Data Solutions LLC to provide “i nnovative services and solutions centered at the intersection of the law, technology, and science.” The company launched with a leadership team of veteran e-discovery and data science professionals, helmed by CEO Mollie Nichols , a former Redgrave partner and e-discovery expert who was most recently head of advanced c
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