Sat.Apr 23, 2022 - Fri.Apr 29, 2022

article thumbnail

Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 23, 2022

LLRX

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.

article thumbnail

F-Bomb Your Way Into Better Business Writing

Attorney at Work

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.

Law firm 109
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Getting Past the Portal: Five Reasons Your Firm Should Invest in a Secure File Sharing Platform

Rocket Matter

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.

98
article thumbnail

Nominations Open for Third Annual American Legal Technology Awards, to be Presented at October Gala

LawSites

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.

article thumbnail

The FBI is breaking into corporate computers to remove malicious code – smart cyber defense or government overreach?

LLRX

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.

Software 102
article thumbnail

This Is Why You Should Never Give Up Outside Interests

Attorney at Work

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.

article thumbnail

Five Ways Your Law Firm Should Be Using Business Intelligence Reports

Rocket Matter

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.

More Trending

article thumbnail

Propaganda, Mis- and Disinformation, and Censorship: The War for Hearts and Minds

LLRX

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.

93
article thumbnail

Marketing Your Practice: The Courage to Make Rain

Attorney at Work

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

Hearing 87
article thumbnail

Just Sign Here—Or Anywhere, Really: Why E-Signatures Are a Game Changer for Law Firms

Rocket Matter

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.

article thumbnail

LawNext Podcast: Filevine CEO Ryan Anderson on His Company’s $108M Raise and the Future of Practice Management

LawSites

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.

article thumbnail

How QR codes work and what makes them dangerous – a computer scientist explains

LLRX

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.

81
article thumbnail

Four Steps to Taking Control of Your Document Formatting With Microsoft Word Styles

Attorney at Work

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.

article thumbnail

Utah Joins the Comprehensive State Privacy Law Club

Debevoise Data Blog

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.

Law 52
article thumbnail

In Westlaw-ROSS Litigation, Judge Allows ROSS’s Antitrust Case to Move Forward, But Tosses ‘Sham Litigation’ Claim

LawSites

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.

article thumbnail

Getting Past the Portal: Five Reasons Your Firm Should Invest in a Secure File Sharing Platform

Rocket Matter

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.

52
article thumbnail

Q&A With Elena Kohn: Balancing the Fundamentals

Attorney at Work

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.

Lawyer 55
article thumbnail

Using AI to Match Clients with the Right Personal Injury Attorney (Victor Bornstein, CEO Justpoint)

Technically Legal

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.

article thumbnail

AI and Snake Oil

Legal Tech Innovation Wales

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’

52
article thumbnail

The Value of AI Incident Response Plans and Tabletop Exercises

Debevoise Data Blog

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.

Lawsuit 52
article thumbnail

Just Sign Here—Or Anywhere, Really: Why E-Signatures Are a Game Changer for Law Firms

Rocket Matter

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.

article thumbnail

In Possible First, Smokeball’s Document Automation Now Adapts for Gender-Neutral Pronouns

LawSites

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.

article thumbnail

Ep 160: Filevine CEO Ryan Anderson on His Company’s $108M Raise and the Future of Practice Management

LawNext podcast

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.

article thumbnail

Webcast – Incident Response Forum Masterclass 2022 – State of Play

Debevoise Data Blog

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.

article thumbnail

Next Generation E-Discovery: Portable AI

NSLT

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

article thumbnail

Wolters Kluwer Enhances IPO Vital Signs with New Interactive Tables and Graphics

LawSites

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. .

article thumbnail

Libraries around the world are helping safeguard Ukrainian books and culture

LLRX

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.

130
130
article thumbnail

The Banning Surveillance Advertising Act: What the Clampdown on Targeted Advertising Means for the Internet Economy

Berkley Technology Law Journal

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.

Lawsuit 40