Global LegalTech Hub

JUNE 1, 2021

Brais Méndez, CEO and Co-Founder of DOCUTEN If one thing has become clear, it is that most business strategies were not prepared to withstand a situation like the one we experienced over the last year. Countless companies have had to face unexpected obstacles and stresses as a result of the coronavirus, including mobility restrictions, being forced to work remotely, and economic uncertainty.

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LawSites

JUNE 1, 2021

Thomson Reuters is getting into the game of AI-powered contract analysis with the launch today of HighQ Contract Analysis , a contract review tool that uses machine learning to find answers to specific legal questions. Integrated with HighQ, the collaboration and workflow platform Thomson Reuters acquired in 2019, HighQ Contract Analysis is designed for attorneys to use in transactional due diligence, compliance review and contract investigations.

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LLRX

MAY 31, 2021

Articles and Columns for May 2021 Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide – Updated May 2021 – This guide on competitive intelligence resources on the web was first published in 2005, and Sabrina I. Pacifici has continued to edit, revise and update it over the course of 16 years. Her objective is to provide.

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ELTA

JUNE 3, 2021

Two new ambassadors were appointed in May 2021: With the nomination of Suzanna Kalendzhian for UAE and Elvīra Krēķe for Latvia, the European Legal Technology was able to further consolidate its Ambassador network. “We are delighted that, with the nominations of Elvira and Suzanna, we have further support in achieving our mission of a diverse and transnational network of legal technology experts.,” says Holger Zscheyge, ELTA’s president.

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CEE Legal Tech

MAY 31, 2021

Alban Krasniqi As part of our exploration of the Central and Eastern European legal tech and innovation scene, we are heading to the Balkans. Today, we have the pleasure of introducing you to Alban Krasniqi from Pristina, Kosovo. Alban is a lawyer specialised in constitutional law and human rights who has worked extensively with the main Kosovan rule of law stakeholders since 2015.

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LawSites

JUNE 3, 2021

A feature launched this week in Westlaw Edge is designed to help legal professionals more easily identify law that is contrary o their opponents’ arguments. Called Quick Check Contrary Authority Identification, the feature helps find cases that may be helpful in arguing against an opponent’s filing and prioritizes them in search results, according to an announcement from Thomson Reuters.

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LLRX

MAY 30, 2021

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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Legal Talk Network

JUNE 4, 2021

Decisions about law school were intensely complicated because of the pandemic. Should students go all in? Defer? Bail altogether? Conversations on Above the Law’s Thinking Like a Lawyer and the ABA’s Law Student Podcast reveal the legal ed landscape is still pretty muddy. On the positive side, jobs are opening up on traditional paths, and in areas law, students may not have considered before.

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LawSites

JUNE 4, 2021

In a post here last month, The Lawyers of Substack , I wrote about lawyers who are publishing newsletters on Substack , a platform that has drawn big-name writers for its model that makes it easy to publish and monetize newsletters. One of the lawyers I wrote about is David Lat, who is well known as the founder of Above the Law , probably the most highly trafficked legal blog in the wrold, and, before that, author of the anonymous blog Underneath Their Robes , and who has now launched Origina

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LawNext podcast

MAY 31, 2021

There is an element of serendipity in the story of Nehal Madhani and his company Alt Legal. Even though he had been an insolvency lawyer who had never practiced trademark law, an early attempt at entrepreneurship — and at registering his own trademarks — showed him the need for better software to automate trademark applications. After creating and launching that product, he heard from his customers that their greater need was software to track the thousands of trademarks they’d already filed.

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NSLT

JUNE 2, 2021

The Top 10 Best Free Antivirus Software There used to be many free antivirus programs but in recent years most are now paid. There still a few however which will scan your computer for free. Computer protection has never been as important as it is right now due to cybercrime at its highest level.

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LawSites

JUNE 4, 2021

As law firms begin to reopen offices, a committee of Massachusetts’ highest court today issued a statement recommending that they permanently adopt flexible working options as their standard, rather than as the exception. Maintaining flexibility in individual working arrangements serves the dual purposes of enhancing lawyer well-being while also advancing diversity, equity and inclusion, the committee says. “Our emergence from the COVID-19 pandemic represents a unique opportunity to

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LawSites

JUNE 3, 2021

The practice management platform PracticePanther today introduced native e-signatures , enabling law firms to send and obtain signatures on documents from directly within the platform, a feature that could both save time for users and streamline tasks such as client intake. The feature is available free to subscribers to PracticePanther’s Business Plan and requires no separate subscription to a third-party e-signature product. “In the past year, the legal industry has undergone a dr

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LawSites

JUNE 2, 2021

A panel tomorrow will feature a line-up of legal tech experts to survey what’s happening in the field now and what to expect in the years to come. Presented by the Massachusetts Bar Association, Legal Tech and Where It’s Going will address what legal technology is available now to help lawyers in their practices and to help consumers directly.

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NSLT

JUNE 4, 2021

Fast Tip Friday – Download Web Pages to a PDF Using Adobe Acrobat This fast tip demonstrates how to save web pages to a PDF file using Adobe Acrobat.

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JUNE 4, 2021

Fast Tip Friday – Download Web Pages to a PDF Using Adobe Acrobat This fast tip demonstrates how to save web pages to a PDF file using Adobe Acrobat.

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LawSites

JUNE 2, 2021

The cloud practice management company SurePoint Technologies today announced a strategic investment from the private investment firm Aquiline Capital Partners by which Aquiline will acquire a majority ownership stake in the company. Existing investor ParkerGale , which acquired a majority stake in the company in 2018, will roll a portion of its stake and maintain minority ownership.

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LawSites

JUNE 3, 2021

?. There is an element of serendipity in the story of Nehal Madhani and his company Alt Legal. Even though he had been an insolvency lawyer who had never practiced trademark law, an early attempt at entrepreneurship — and at registering his own trademarks — showed him the need for better software to automate trademark applications. After creating and launching that product, he heard from his customers that their greater need was software to track the thousands of trademarks they’d already filed.

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