Attorney at Work
JULY 7, 2021
Considering a podcast for your law firm? Here are some podcasting tips to get started. Although podcasting has been around since 2005, it seems like it has suddenly become “a thing” for lawyers. The big spike in the number of podcasts left some of us wondering what they are, why they are so popular — and whether it’s too late to start a podcast of our own.
LawSites
JULY 6, 2021
The law practice management company MyCase has quietly acquired two legal technology companies in recent months, without announcing the acquisitions to the public. On March 31, MyCase acquired CASEpeer , a case management platform for plaintiffs’ attorneys. Around the same time, MyCase acquired Woodpecker , which provides legal document automation software for solo and small law firms.
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LLRX
JULY 4, 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.
NSLT
JULY 9, 2021
Excel: Work with Macros You want to automate a repetitive task in Excel so that you can do the task again with a single click. The best way to do that? Record a macro. And the macro recorder is the easiest way to create a new macro in Excel.
Attorney at Work
JULY 9, 2021
Even though business is opening up again, certain pandemic workplace changes are here to stay. At least for a while. To one degree or another, every person on Earth has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The same is true for every business, professional services firm and other organization. While many people in the United States have been vaccinated, herd immunity is still months, if not years, away.
LawSites
JULY 8, 2021
News today of further consolidation in the e-discovery market, as Seattle-based Lighthouse , a provider of technology-enabled e-discovery, compliance and information governance services, announced that it will acquire H5 , a company that offers technology assisted review and analytics products that work within the Relativity and RelativityOne e-discovery platforms.
Technically Legal
JULY 7, 2021
Data analytics maturity models (and legal operations maturity models in general) are the topic of discussion with Peter Eilhauer, Managing Director for Legal Spend Solutions at Epiq. Peter knows his stuff about legal spend management–he’s been working in and around it for 16 years. He started as a consultant helping law firms manage costs and then jumped ship to help corporate legal departments manage their legal spend.
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Attorney at Work
JULY 8, 2021
Your solo or small law firm is busier than ever and you desperately need another warm body to complete the work. Resist the knee-jerk reaction to hire another lawyer. Instead, assess whether hiring a paralegal can fill the need. You’ll find that in most practice areas it can. Reasons Why It’s Better to Hire Paralegals Than Lawyers. 1. Less Money.
LawSites
JULY 9, 2021
Editor’s note: The first cohort just graduated from Santa Clara University School of Law’s innovative Tech Edge J.D. program, which combines legal, business, and technology education with hands-on skills development and individualized mentorship, all while leveraging the school’s Silicon Valley location. In this guest post, Laura Lee Norris , director of the program, and Mark Michels , lecturer in law, describe the program and how it prepares students for careers as tech lawyers in Silicon Valle
Debevoise Data Blog
JULY 7, 2021
What’s happened? The European Commission has finalised its new standard contractual clauses (“SCCs”) for the transfer of personal data from EEA member states to the many “third countries” – most notably the U.S. – that have not been granted an “adequacy decision” that would permit such transfers in the ordinary course. Companies will only be able to enter into new agreements containing the old SCCs until 26 September 2021, and all contracts using the old SCCs concluded before then will need the
NSLT
JULY 7, 2021
Clio Law Practice Management Software Clio is probably the most popular cloud-based practice management software. As good as Clio already is, it keeps getting better. The web and mobile apps are beautiful and a pleasure to use, while Clio’s long list of integrations means you can use it with a lot of the other software you may already be using in your law practice (like Dropbox, QuickBooks Online, Xero, and Google Apps, to name just a few).
Attorney at Work
JULY 7, 2021
Lawcus Review: Lawcus has aggressively cross-pollinated lead and client management features across a single platform for law firms. . You know how some things are just better together — like French fries and ketchup (or mayonnaise, if you’re a psychopath) and peas and carrots. Heck, even a turducken will suit when the desire arises. Lawcus Review: “More“ is the American Way.
LawSites
JULY 8, 2021
The past year has laid bare, in shockingly explicit detail, the racial inequities of the justice system. Now, LexisNexis and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Law School Consortium have partnered to launch a fellowship initiative for 12 law students to spend nine months working to end this systemic racism and further the rule of law. .
Debevoise Data Blog
JULY 7, 2021
This is Part 1 of a two-part article on the recent U.S. Supreme Court TransUnion decision. In Part 2, we will discuss the implications of the decision for efforts to defeat class certification. Individuals whose personal information was compromised in a data breach have had mixed success in bringing lawsuits in federal court against the companies that held their data.
NSLT
JULY 7, 2021
Clio Law Practice Management Software Clio is probably the most popular cloud-based practice management software. As good as Clio already is, it keeps getting better. The web and mobile apps are beautiful and a pleasure to use, while Clio’s long list of integrations means you can use it with a lot of the other software you may already be using in your law practice (like Dropbox, QuickBooks Online, Xero, and Google Apps, to name just a few).
Attorney at Work
JULY 6, 2021
Not every lawyer can or should be a thought leader. Career and marketing coaches counsel lawyers to become thought leaders. Thought leaders are experts in their niche. They provide guidance to others through books, articles and speeches, usually sponsored by third parties. They also self-publicize through social media, podcasts, YouTube videos and blogs.
LawSites
JULY 6, 2021
The international investment banking company BNY Mellon has won a global award for innovation in contracting as a result of its work with the AI-powered contract lifecycle management company Evisort. Global Custodian magazine named BNY Mellon recipient of its Innovation Award for Client Contracting for the bank’s work with Evisort to support the contractual process for customers of its securities custody services.
LawNext podcast
JULY 7, 2021
The past year has laid bare, in shockingly explicit detail, the racial inequities of the justice system. Now, LexisNexis and the Historically Black Colleges and University Law School Consortium have partnered to launch a fellowship initiative for 12 law students to spend nine months working to end this systemic racism and further the rule of law. On this episode of LawNext, we discuss this initiative with two of the fellows who are participating in it, as well as with the president of the Lexis
NSLT
JULY 5, 2021
Review of MetaJure Document Management System (2014) MetaJure is an innovative way to share and search for documents. It allows its users to save documents without learning a new structure. How? MetaJure crawls throughout the folder tree, either on a local PC or a network share, looking for documents to index. These results then become public to those who have been granted the permission to view them within the firm’s network.
Debevoise Data Blog
JULY 9, 2021
Colorado has just adopted a brand-new data privacy law and Nevada has just significantly amended its law. These changes add rights for consumers, and compliance obligations for businesses, that take the U.S. further in the direction of European-style privacy law. Colorado and Nevada join California and Virginia in adding to the growing patchwork of disparate state laws — making it that much harder for any business seeking to have a single privacy program that is compliant everywhere.
LawSites
JULY 9, 2021
Earlier this week, I reported on the unannounced acquisitions by MyCase of two legal technology companies, CASEpeer and Woodpecker. Now there is another stealth deal to report, this time involving the acquisition of Tabs3 Software , which is one of the oldest practice management products in the legal market, having been founded in 1979, and which also owns the cloud-based practice management platform CosmoLex , which it acquired in 2018.
NSLT
JULY 5, 2021
Review of MetaJure Document Management System (2014) MetaJure is an innovative way to share and search for documents. It allows its users to save documents without learning a new structure. How? MetaJure crawls throughout the folder tree, either on a local PC or a network share, looking for documents to index. These results then become public to those who have been granted the permission to view them within the firm’s network.
LawSites
JULY 9, 2021
The Friday Legaltech Week live journalists’ roundtable is back today at 3 p.m. E.T., when a panel of journalists and bloggers discuss the top stories in legal technology and innovation. Having been off last week, we’ll have two weeks to catch up on. Attendance is free, but you need to register, which you can do here. Here are some of the stories we’re planning to discuss, with others still to be determined: Another spate of acquisitions in the law practice management market, including by MyCase
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