Attorney at Work
APRIL 27, 2022
Writing for business is an awful thing. You don’t have time for it. Everything is on fire. Your inbox looks like a subreddit on stonks. You’re in the weeds all day, every day and you can’t catch a break. Then some idiot wants a mission statement. Sure. Why not? Stop everything to write about how your firm strives to guide separated couples through the processes of ending their marriages.
Rocket Matter
APRIL 29, 2022
Remember when you and your childhood friends used complex knocks, passwords, and handshakes to govern entrance into your backyard treehouse club? No matter how much older neighborhood kids teased or younger siblings begged for access, you and your friends protected your secret society with a vigor befitting an amateur spy ring. Even as children, we… Read More » Getting Past the Portal: Five Reasons Your Firm Should Invest in a Secure File Sharing Platform.
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LawSites
APRIL 25, 2022
When the originators of the American Legal Technology Awards first came up with the idea early in 2020, their plan was to cap off the competition with a grand formal gala celebrating legal technology. Unfortunately, COVID came along and put the kibosh on the gala, but the awards went ahead virtually, announcing the first crop of winners in September 2020 , and then repeating the round in 2021, with winners named last November.
LLRX
APRIL 23, 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.
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!
Attorney at Work
APRIL 26, 2022
A legal recruiter explains why cultivating interests outside the office is essential for sustaining a long, satisfying and successful career. It’s not intentional. Few even notice that it’s happening. Slowly but surely, many lawyers give up their outside interests as they become singularly focused on work. That’s not surprising — being a lawyer is a demanding job.
Rocket Matter
APRIL 24, 2022
In 2002, the Oakland A’s had less money for player salaries than almost any other team in Major League Baseball, but in a big market with a successful team competing for fans just over the bridge, General Manager Billy Beane had to figure out a new way to compete. And sabermetrics (known to most Americans… Read More » Five Ways Your Law Firm Should Be Using Business Intelligence Reports.
Legal Tech Connection brings together the best content for legal and legal tech professionals from the widest variety of thought leaders.
LLRX
APRIL 23, 2022
Cybersecurity scholar Scott Shackelford discusses how the FBI has the authority right now to access privately owned computers without their owners’ knowledge or consent, and to delete software. It’s part of a government effort to contain the continuing attacks on corporate networks running Microsoft Exchange software, and it’s an unprecedented intrusion that’s raising legal questions about just how far the government can go.
Attorney at Work
APRIL 25, 2022
Why aren’t you marketing your practice? Or perhaps the question is: Why aren’t you marketing your practice more? You have too much money? You leave marketing to others in the firm? Or maybe you’re just scared. Ralph Waldo Emerson Has the Answer. When you hear the name Ralph Waldo Emerson, maybe you think of this 19th-century man as an abolitionist. He was, but mostly he spent his life as a leader in the transcendental movement which espouses the philosophy that people are at their best when they
Rocket Matter
APRIL 27, 2022
The story behind John Hancock’s huge, flamboyant signature across the bottom of the Declaration of Independence is one of the most well-known tales of the American Revolution. According to legend, Hancock placed his gigantic signature dead center at the bottom of the document while exclaiming that everyone from governmental ministers to King George himself would… Read More » Just Sign Here—Or Anywhere, Really: Why E-Signatures Are a Game Changer for Law Firms.
LawSites
APRIL 27, 2022
Last week, Filevine , the Utah-based case management company, raised $108 million in a Series D funding round. Founded in 2014 with an original focus on litigation and personal injury law, the company has been steadily expanding its platform into other areas of law practice — including larger firms, insurance defense, corporate legal, and government — and it plans to use this funding to further fuel that expansion.
Advertiser: Trellis
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
LLRX
APRIL 28, 2022
Author, blogger, Dave Pollard , addresses the incendiary global war of lies vs. truth, reminiscent of the MAD Magazine cartoon Spy Vs. Spy for those who of us who can recall the scenarios they played which remain eerily prescient. Pollard posits the most effective way to win and retain political power is by seizing the hearts and minds of citizens is through a mix of propaganda, mis- and disinformation, and censorship.
Attorney at Work
APRIL 29, 2022
Microsoft Word uses styles to control your formatting, whether you realize it or not. Many of Word’s frustrating quirks can be remedied by intentionally using styles. Styles make it easier to format your documents and ensure that your documents are formatting consistently from beginning to end. Microsoft word styles allow you to apply a set of formatting characteristics, including font and paragraph settings, with the click of a button.
Debevoise Data Blog
APRIL 29, 2022
On March 24, 2022, Utah enacted a comprehensive consumer privacy law, the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (“UCPA”). The UCPA, effective on December 31, 2023, is largely consistent with other comprehensive state privacy laws, but includes several key differences. The UCPA is set to be reviewed by the attorney general who must submit a report to the legislature by July 1, 2025.
LawSites
APRIL 26, 2022
Last year, in the continuing federal court litigation between now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence and long-established legal research giant Thomson Reuters, ROSS upped the ante when it filed a counterclaim asserting that TR is violating federal antitrust law by maintaining monopolistic and anticompetitive control over the legal research market.
Advertiser: Trellis
Law Firm Intelligence by Trellis aggregates state trial court data across the Trellis platform enabling users to: look up a particular metric related to a specific law firm (such as, how many cases a law firm had or has against another law firm), and see the actual dockets and documents supporting the metric. Trellis data is maximized in a revolutionary and unique way to provide users an exclusive look into a law firm litigating in state trial courts.
LLRX
APRIL 23, 2022
Scott Ruoti, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Tennessee discusses security issues respective to QR codes. He states that these codes are not inherently dangerous. They are simply a way to store data. However, just as it can be hazardous to click links in emails, visiting URLs stored in QR codes can also be risky in several ways.
Attorney at Work
APRIL 28, 2022
Attorney at Work’s “Women in Law” series focuses on successful women lawyers who have carved a path for themselves in the legal industry and beyond. Meet Elena Kohn. Elena Kohn. Associate Regional Chief Legal Officer. AdventHealth. Tampa, Florida. Stetson University College of Law, J.D. (Cum Laude), 2011. LinkedIn. Elena Kohn has devoted her legal career to the intersection of business, health and employment law, moving from BigLaw to work in-house in the healthcare industry.
Rocket Matter
APRIL 29, 2022
Remember when you and your childhood friends used complex knocks, passwords, and handshakes to govern entrance into your backyard treehouse club? No matter how much older neighborhood kids teased or younger siblings begged for access, you and your friends protected your secret society with a vigor befitting an amateur spy ring. Even as children, we… Read More » Getting Past the Portal: Five Reasons Your Firm Should Invest in a Secure File Sharing Platform.
Technically Legal
APRIL 28, 2022
Victor Bornstein tells us how Justpoint, the company he co-founded and now heads, is taking advantage of changes to Rules of Professional Conduct to build artificial intelligence that matches personal injury clients to the best attorney for their case. Specifically, the company is taking advantage of changes to Rule 5.4 in Arizona that now permits people other than lawyers to have an ownership stake in law firms and legal services companies.
Advertiser: Trellis
With Daily Filings Report by Trellis you will receive an email and csv file daily with all new cases filed in the jurisdictions you're tracking. Each new case will include all case metadata like judge, parties, counsel, practice area, and even direct links to the full docket and complaint. Trellis Daily Filings Reports provide direct access to newly filed state and federal litigation curated just for you.
Legal Tech Innovation Wales
APRIL 27, 2022
We’ve put together a guide to some of the most common pitfalls you’ll face when reading about AI online – in whitepapers, product pages, and journalism. Choosing an Artificial Intelligence solution when you’re not comfortable talking technology is like browsing a Parisian bookstore when you failed your GCSE French. You can tell when the cover looks good, and you recognise some of the words (even if you’re not too sure what it means when you put them together), but when you flip a book open, you’
Debevoise Data Blog
APRIL 27, 2022
Today, it is widely accepted that most large organizations benefit from maintaining a written cybersecurity incident response plan (“CIRP”) to guide their responses to cyberattacks. For businesses that have invested heavily in artificial intelligence (“AI”), the risks of AI-related incidents and the value of implementing an AI incident response plan (“AIRP”) to help mitigate the impact of AI incidents are often underestimated.
Rocket Matter
APRIL 27, 2022
The story behind John Hancock’s huge, flamboyant signature across the bottom of the Declaration of Independence is one of the most well-known tales of the American Revolution. According to legend, Hancock placed his gigantic signature dead center at the bottom of the document while exclaiming that everyone from governmental ministers to King George himself would… Read More » Just Sign Here—Or Anywhere, Really: Why E-Signatures Are a Game Changer for Law Firms.
LawSites
APRIL 26, 2022
Earlier this month, in a sign of the increasing legal acceptance of gender-neutral markers, the U.S. Department of State allowed U.S. citizens to select X as their gender marker on their passports. Yet, while it is common for legal document automation software to detect the male or female gender of the subject of the document and adjust the pronouns accordingly, the same is not true for individuals who identify as nonbinary.
LawNext podcast
APRIL 26, 2022
Last week, Filevine , the Utah-based case management company, raised $108 million in a Series D funding round. Founded in 2014 with an original focus on litigation and personal injury law, the company has been steadily expanding its platform into other areas of law practice — including larger firms, insurance defense, corporate legal, and government — and it plans to use this funding to further fuel that expansion.
Debevoise Data Blog
APRIL 28, 2022
On April 21, 2022 , Avi Gesser of Debevoise’s Data Strategy & Security Group spoke at Cybersecurity Docket’s Incident Response Forum Masterclass 2022. The panel was on “Incident Response: State of Play” and included a small group of peers at other law firms as well as Todd Renner, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting. To view an on-demand version of the webcast, please click here.
NSLT
APRIL 25, 2022
Next Generation E-Discovery: Portable AI While it may seem like a safe play to delay adoption until AI and other advanced tools reach wider acceptance or lawyers gain more technical proficiency, the reality is that the next generation of e-discovery is arriving. Ready or not, matters are quickly and consistently becoming more complex. In this new landscape of exponentially growing data volumes and diverse emerging data sources, machine learning and AI will play an important role in prioritizing
LawSites
APRIL 25, 2022
The sharper-eyed among you may have notice that Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. released product news on each of the last two Mondays — on April 11 announcing its partnership with Courtroom Insight to add profiles and reviews to the Almanac of the Federal Judiciary, and on April 18 announcing its r elaunch of Manual IP , a key compliance source within Kluwer IP Law that explains IP procedures and laws in 238 jurisdictions. .
LLRX
APRIL 23, 2022
Ksenya Kiebuzinski , Slavic Resources Coordinator, and Head, Petro Jacyk Resource Centre, University of Toronto Libraries, University of Toronto informs us about the critical work of 1,000 volunteers, in partnership with universities in Canada and the United States, who are participating in the crowd-sourced project called Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) to preserve and secure digitized manuscripts, music, photographs, 3D architectural models and other publications.
Berkley Technology Law Journal
APRIL 23, 2022
By Vasundhara Majithia, LL.M. 2022 On January 18, 2022, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), Congresswomen Anna Eshoo (D-CA), and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) introduced the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act of 2022 (BSAA) to Congress. The bill seeks to prohibit targeted advertising based on users’ personal information, such as their contact details or unique identifiers.
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