LawSites
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
World Software, whose Worldox document management software is used by law firms worldwide, has named new leadership following the arrest this week of its president. Worldox’s longtime Chief Financial Officer Julie Ann Camporini and Chief Information Officer Rebecca Sattin have taken over as co-executives, according to a source within the company.
Rocket Matter
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Criminal defense is one of the most challenging practice areas to specialize in. Friends, family, and even strangers have misconceptions about the work you do and may assume that you side with criminals. Your clients are often emotional, and you can’t blame them. They’re going through incredibly difficult times, whether or not they’re innocent. Due… Read More » 6 Ways to Automate Your Criminal Defense Practice.
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Attorney at Work
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Project management tools can help lawyers with ongoing, chaotic, unpredictable workflows. Nicole Clark points to nine applications to consider for the task. In 1931, Neil H. McElroy at Procter & Gamble circulated a memo that envisioned an employee who would be responsible for every facet of brand development — everything from tracking sales to advertising, promotion and product development.
LLRX
SEPTEMBER 11, 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.
LawSites
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Just four years after launching Westlaw Edge as its next-generation legal research platform, Thomson Reuters today unveiled the next-next generation. It is called Westlaw Precision and, as the name suggests, its focus is on delivering research results that are more precise than ever before, and delivering them with greater speed than ever before. What does TR mean by more precise?
Debevoise Data Blog
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
On Thursday, September 22, at 10:00 AM ET, Debevoise’s Avi Gesser will teach the FiscalNote Executive Institute’s CLE class, “Ethical Use of AI and the Emerging Legal Landscape.” Avi will be joined by Debevoise’s Anna Gressel, as well as Deepa Kairen, Associate General Counsel of AIG’s Innovation Legal Group. More information on the FiscalNote Executive Institute’s CLE class can be found below.
Attorney at Work
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
I was reading a recent study about free time. The conclusion? We need between two and five hours of free time every day to be our happiest. I shared this finding with two friends of mine, a working couple with three kids. They laughed, saying they were lucky to get two to three minutes of free time every day. I agree. Two free hours every day? Finding time for anything other than obligations can be challenging when there’s work and home and family and friends and household responsibilities and d
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LawSites
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
A new partnership between Free Law Project , a nonprofit devoted to making legal information publicly and freely available, and vLex , the international legal research platform, will enable Free Law Project to complete its goal of collecting every precedential court decision from the federal courts and state appellate courts and making them available to the public as a free resource. vLex will provide Free Law with financial and technical support, as well as editorial and research support.
Relativity
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
The role of AI within the legal world has been a provocative issue for more than a decade. Read about the latest developments in case law and industry trends during the first half of 2022.
Attorney at Work
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Where do you start when you need a law firm logo? Check into these common options used by entrepreneurs. Unless you were a graphic designer before going to law school or you’ve recently developed this skill, it’s best to outsource when your firm needs a logo. But where should you start? How can you get a quality logo that you will like when you can’t necessarily afford to hire a design firm —while assuaging any fears of being ripped off?
Technically Legal
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Crypto lawyer Nelson Rosario discuses the legal, regulatory and political landscape of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. We also get an update from TurnSignl CEO Jazz Hampton about his company’s progress since he was last on the show. Nelson started out as an intellectual property lawyer but caught the crypto bug in law school. His boutique law firm Rosario Tech Law, focuses on servicing crypto and emerging technology companies that are working to change in the way we all interact with
LawSites
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Legal professionals face greater pressure than ever before, driven by the “VUCA” environment of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, but firms that are well-equipped for the future are those that are optimizing their people, processes and technology through a path of continuous improvement. So says the 2022 edition of The Wolters Kluwer Future Ready Lawyer , a survey report that Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S.
Debevoise Data Blog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
On August 24, 2022, the California Attorney General announced updates to its California Consumer Privacy Act’s (“CCPA”) enforcement case examples. A large number of the examples focused on compliance with the CCPA’s requirements for “sales” of personal information, including the obligation that businesses honor consumers’ use of a Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) opt-out signals.
Attorney at Work
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
If you’re looking for ways to increase your leads and improve the website experience you provide, consider the pros and cons of live chat and chatbots for lawyers. While transactional relationships were once the go-to, conversational relationships are becoming more common. Live chat and chatbots are helping law firms have those conversations with potential clients.
Rocket Matter
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Criminal defense is one of the most challenging practice areas to specialize in. Friends, family, and even strangers have misconceptions about the work you do and may assume that you side with criminals. Your clients are often emotional, and you can’t blame them. They’re going through incredibly difficult times, whether or not they’re innocent. Due to the high demands of criminal defense, you need to spend the majority of your time focusing on your clients to provide the best care and arguments
LawSites
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Last month, I reported here that The LegalTech Fund (TLTF), the first venture capital firm devoted exclusively to law and legal technology, had announced plans for its first TLTF Summit in December — a three-day event for investors, startups and legal innovation thought leaders — together with the debut TLTF Startup Challenge , a pitch competition for legal and regulatory technology startups.
Debevoise Data Blog
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
Russia has enacted amendments to its Personal Data Law (the “ Amendments ”) that may have a significant impact on companies operating in Russia. The Amendments became effective on September 1, 2022, save for certain provisions that will become effective on March 1, 2023. This blog post addresses key aspects of the Amendments that impact multinational companies: (i) expanded extraterritorial effect; (ii) enhanced cross-border data transfer restrictions; and (iii) mandatory data breach notificatio
Attorney at Work
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Thomson Reuters has launched Westlaw Precision, its most dramatic update to the Westlaw research platform since Westlaw Edge in 2018. For this new version, Westlaw tackled the underlying issues that slow down legal research — namely lack of precision in search results, which leads to extra hours reviewing cases that aren’t relevant. Westlaw Precision, says the company, will help lawyers conduct research more than twice as fast while also reducing the risk of missing relevant cases.
Relativity
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
So many of us have that go-to person at work—the one who completes our dynamic duo. One such duo is Cristin Traylor and Sara Skeens.
LawSites
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Our weekly Friday Legaltech Week roundtable is on again today at 3 E.T., we we will be joined by a special guest: Stephanie Wilkins , who was named this week as editor-in-chief of ALM’s Legaltech News and the ALM Global Newsroom’s Legal Technology Desk. Stephanie’s name is likely already familiar to many of you, as she has been a long-time contributor to Above the Law on legal technology topics.
LawNext podcast
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
Last week, Oakley Capital, a major European private equity investor, said that it had acquired majority ownership of vLex, the international legal research platform that lays claim to having the largest collection of legal information on a single service. On this episode of LawNext, host Bob Ambrogi is joined from London by Masoud Gerami, managing director, vLex Global Markets, who oversees vLex in the UK, Ireland, Asia Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean and North America.
Attorney at Work
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
The pandemic has presented opportunities to cut law firm overhead while increasing the quality of life for your people and your clients. Ah, the pandemic. It taught us so many lessons. There is a black market for toilet paper. Sourdough starter takes almost as much care as a newborn. You can make hand sanitizer at home. And every business owner learned new acronyms — PPP, EIDL and ERC, just to name a few.
LawSites
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Bridget M. McCormack, who, as chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, has been a leading voice on modernizing the court and justice systems to expand access to justice, is retiring from the court at the end of this year and in February will become president and chief executive officer of the American Arbitration Association-International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA-ICDR).
LawSites
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
As legal technology has grown in popularity and prominence in recent years, great attention is being paid to investment activity. Which is the latest company to raise funds? How much was the raise. Who were the investors behind it? But the true history of investments in legal technology extends back some four decades and encompasses an array of products far more diverse than one might pick up from current coverage.
LawSites
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory is today unveiling an enhanced version of its Legisway product for managing corporate legal departments that is tailored for the U.S. market. While Legisway is already widely used by legal departments in Europe, this version, built on the same platform, is designed to meet the needs of small and mid-sized legal departments in the U.S.
LawSites
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
Last week, Oakley Capital, a major European private equity investor, said that it had acquired majority ownership of vLex , the international legal research platform that lays claim to having the largest collection of legal information on a single service. . On this episode of LawNext, host Bob Ambrogi is joined from London by Masoud Gerami , managing director, vLex Global Markets, who oversees vLex in the UK, Ireland, Asia Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean and North America.
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