LawSites

AUGUST 4, 2022

New York has become the first U.S. state to mandate that attorneys take continuing legal education courses in cybersecurity, privacy and data protection. Under the new requirement, all attorneys must complete one hour of training every two years in either the ethical obligations surrounding cybersecurity, privacy and data protection, or in the technological and practice-related aspects of protecting data and client communications.

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AUGUST 1, 2022

Mark Thorley, Scottish qualified solicitor and Director of leading Edinburgh legal aid law firm Thorley Stephenson, comments on the importance of technology in courts in Scotland and indeed across the world:- As a consequence of the pandemic, and in order for court business to continue, technology requires to be embraced.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 2, 2022

I’m in a relationship with the United States Post Office, and I think you should be too. Besides being the most effective marketing tool on the planet, and besides offering a seemingly lost-art method of connecting with clients, and besides being the only self-supporting Federal agency we have, the USPS is just cool. Well, mailing things is cool.

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LLRX

JULY 31, 2022

Recent evidence showing that Virginia Thomas, wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent at least 29 text messages to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows urging him to help overturn the 2020 election has reignited a long-simmering debate about judicial ethics and the nation’s highest court. Professor Eve Ringsmuth writes, "As a Supreme Court scholar, I think it is important to recognize that there is no formal code of conduct guiding the work of the Supreme Court, which

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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!

LawSites

AUGUST 3, 2022

The LegalTech Fund , which was the first venture capital firm devoted exclusively to law and legal technology, announced today that it will convene its first TLTF Summit in December — a three-day event for investors, startups and legal innovation thought leaders that will feature networking, dealmaking and educational opportunities. Scheduled for Dec. 7-9 in Miami, the event will be capped at 250 attendees, so that it will be intimate and highly curated.

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Technically Legal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Brightflag COO Alex Kelly discusses the AI powered legal operations platform he co-founded that helps legal teams get a handle on legal spend and gain insight into their legal operations as a whole. By collecting information from legal bills and other sources, Brightflag provides analytics about how legal work is being resourced which can then be used to inform procurement decisions, help determine which legal service providers to add to panels and help create legal pricing models.

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LLRX

JULY 31, 2022

Articles and Columns for July 2022 Policing Reimagined – The thesis of Albert Chang’s paper is the metaverse presents a unique opportunity for effective police reforms. Developers, data scientists and legal sector experts working within the metaverse may be able to implement changes more efficiently than Congress as they are not subject to constitutional constraints.

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LawSites

AUGUST 4, 2022

It will be a bittersweet episode of Legaltech Week tomorrow as we toast Zach Warren, who is leaving our panel and his job as editor-in-chief of Legaltech News for an exciting new opportunity. It’s strictly bring your own champagne, but we hope you’ll join us as we bid Zach farewell. Of course, as usual, we’ll also round up the week’s top stories in legal tech and innovation.

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Relativity

AUGUST 3, 2022

How do a physicist with a passion for theater and a Kiwi world traveler with a love for rugby find themselves in e-discovery?

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 4, 2022

SEO best practices are constantly evolving. If you want to keep your website running at optimal performance, you need to regularly evaluate its status through an SEO content audit process. Planning, conducting and evaluating an SEO content audit may sound time-consuming, but it will ultimately pay off when your website continues to perform well — or performs better.

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LLRX

JULY 31, 2022

The thesis of Albert Chang's paper is the metaverse presents a unique opportunity for effective police reforms. Developers, data scientists, and criminal justice experts working within the metaverse may be able to implement changes more efficiently than Congress as they are not subject to constitutional constraints. He advocates a position that the federal government should strongly consider the adoption of the immersive technology to demonstrate that a more effective method of policing is possi

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Debevoise Data Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

On Friday, August 5, 2022, Eric Dinallo, Luke Dembosky, Avi Gesser, Erez Liebermann, and Charu Chandrasekhar participated in a webcast on the proposed draft amendments to the NYDFS cyber rules. The webinar examined the draft amendments and the implications they may have for insurance companies and other NYDFS-regulated entities. The discussion covered: New governance, technology, and notification-related obligations proposed under the Draft Amendments, including more onerous obligations for larg

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Relativity

AUGUST 2, 2022

Is a text message between a lawyer and her client protected by privilege? What about a Facebook message? These kinds of questions might slip off your radar, but ignorance is dangerous.

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LawSites

AUGUST 2, 2022

Ever since we launched the LawNext Legal Technology Directory , which debuted in February , I am consistently fascinated to see the products that get added. As closely as I follow legal tech, I always discover products that are new and interesting. Here are the 10 latest additions (descriptions taken from product listings). . ZenCase. ZenCase is a Next Generation, Cloud-Based Law Practice software that makes everyone’s job in the firm easier, no matter the size.

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LLRX

JULY 30, 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.

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Debevoise Data Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

On July 27, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) separately charged three financial institutions with violations of Rule 201 of Regulation S-ID (“Reg S-ID”), also known as the Identity Theft Red Flags Rule (“Red Flags Rule”). The announcement of multiple Reg S-ID enforcement settlements (all of which were investigated by the SEC’s recently expanded Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit and originated from referrals from the Division of Examinations) highlights the SEC’s agency-wide focus

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Above and Beyond KM

JULY 31, 2022

Given how vitally important growth in experience is, workers who cannot expand their skills in their current employment must seek new employment or risk falling behind. Lately, there has been much handwringing about increased worker mobility. Some call it the Great Resignation, others call it the Great Re-Evaluation or the Great Renegotiation. Whatever you call it, you cannot deny that more people have been rethinking their work situation since lockdown.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 2, 2022

You’re busy and you need to know how to address an envelope, so let’s get right into it. How to Address an Envelope in Three Steps. To address an envelope you will need to know three things: the recipient’s address, your return address, and how to locate a postage stamp. Write or type all of the “to” information squarely in the center of the front side of the envelope, like this: Step 1: The “To” Section.

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LLRX

JULY 31, 2022

The thesis of Albert Chang's paper is the metaverse presents a unique opportunity for effective police reforms because software developers may be able to implement changes more efficiently than Congress as they are not subject to constitutional constraints. He advocates a position that the federal government should strongly consider the adoption of the metaverse as virtual platform to demonstrate that a more effective method of policing is possible.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JULY 31, 2022

On July 29, 2022, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) released Draft Amendments to its Part 500 Cybersecurity Rules , which include a mandatory 24-hour notification for cyber ransom payments, annual independent cybersecurity audits for larger entities, increased expectations for board expertise, and tough new restrictions on privileged accounts.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 2, 2022

You’re busy and you need to know how to address an envelope, so let’s get right into it. How to Address an Envelope in Three Steps. To address an envelope you will need to know three things: the recipient’s address, your return address, and how to locate a postage stamp. Write or type all of the “to” information squarely in the center of the front side of the envelope, like this: Step 1: The “To” Section.

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