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Adapting E-Discovery Workflows to a Remote Work Environment

Discovery Advocate

As courts and litigants adapt to the new normal by instituting social distancing measures through remote hearings and depositions, how we preserve, collect and produce documents should not be an afterthought. While the practice of e-discovery may already be well suited to remote work given the advanced evolution of technologies available to address challenges, below are five key areas to address in the current COVID-19 environment. 1.

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Law Practice Management Software

NSLT

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).

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Ep 076: Mark Harris on the Post-Pandemic Tsunami for Corporate Contracts

LawNext podcast

Mark Harris is sounding an alarm – or, as he puts it, staging an intervention – for corporate counsel. Harris and Alec Guettel , the original founders 20 years ago of alternative legal services provider Axiom and, since last year, the CEO and CFO of contract management company Knowable , have taken the unusual step of posting an open letter that they describe as an unsolicited intervention for general counsel.

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COVID-19 and U.S. Statutes of Limitation

Discovery Advocate

At the federal and state levels, there have been calls to suspend statutes of limitations during the COVID-19 outbreak. A number of states have already acted, but state approaches vary and are open to future changes as the challenges of the pandemic play out at the national, state and local levels. This uncertainty affects businesses considering when they must file actions and those assessing whether a risk of anticipated litigation has been extinguished.

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Case Closed: How to Optimize Your Legal Intake Process for Efficiency

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!

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Key COVID-19 Considerations for U.S. Discovery and Information Governance

Discovery Advocate

Many businesses have remote work and bring-your-own-device policies that cover access to company systems and information from personal devices. These policies may also state expectations or requirements for the management and security of company information. But these policies likely do not account for the rapid transition to virtual offices and remote work hastened by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Adapting E-Discovery Workflows to a Remote Work Environment

Discovery Advocate

As courts and litigants adapt to the new normal by instituting social distancing measures through remote hearings and depositions, how we preserve, collect and produce documents should not be an afterthought. While the practice of e-discovery may already be well suited to remote work given the advanced evolution of technologies available to address challenges, below are five key areas to address in the current COVID-19 environment. 1.

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Law Practice Management Software

NSLT

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).

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Microsoft Excel Tips and Tricks

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43 Handy Excel Shortcuts You Can't Live Without Here is a list of 43 keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Excel. Although you can do all of these maneuvers manually, knowing these tricks will help save you time so you can focus on the stuff that really matters. All of these shortcuts can be accessed on PC and Mac, so the list includes both types where applicable.

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Microsoft Excel Tips and Tricks

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43 Handy Excel Shortcuts You Can't Live Without Here is a list of 43 keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Excel. Although you can do all of these maneuvers manually, knowing these tricks will help save you time so you can focus on the stuff that really matters. All of these shortcuts can be accessed on PC and Mac, so the list includes both types where applicable.

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COVID-19 and U.S. Statutes of Limitation

Discovery Advocate

At the federal and state levels, there have been calls to suspend statutes of limitations during the COVID-19 outbreak. A number of states have already acted, but state approaches vary and are open to future changes as the challenges of the pandemic play out at the national, state and local levels. This uncertainty affects businesses considering when they must file actions and those assessing whether a risk of anticipated litigation has been extinguished.

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Trellis Launches Trellis AI to Streamline Trial Court Litigation

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

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Law Practice Management

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Harvest–Tips and Tricks Add Expense Reports to Invoices, Automatically We know you aren’t tracking time for the fun of it. You want critical insight into your projects and the ability to invoice your clients. That’s why Harvest makes it easy to pull the time you track into professional online invoices. But when it comes to invoicing, time is only half the equation.

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Law Practice Management

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Harvest–Tips and Tricks Add Expense Reports to Invoices, Automatically We know you aren’t tracking time for the fun of it. You want critical insight into your projects and the ability to invoice your clients. That’s why Harvest makes it easy to pull the time you track into professional online invoices. But when it comes to invoicing, time is only half the equation.

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Microsoft Outlook Tips and Tricks

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10 Microsoft Outlook Features Lawyers Should Use If you’re one of the many lawyers relying on MS Outlook for email, calendaring, and maybe more – you need to utilize these features.

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Microsoft Outlook Tips and Tricks

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10 Microsoft Outlook Features Lawyers Should Use If you’re one of the many lawyers relying on MS Outlook for email, calendaring, and maybe more – you need to utilize these features.

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Visibility Into the Strategy & Supporting Documents of Major US Law Firms

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.

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PowerPoint Tips and Tricks

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Turn your PPT presentation into a video When you make a recording of a presentation, all its elements (narration, animation, pointer movements, timings, and so on) are saved in the presentation itself. In essence, the presentation becomes a video that your audience can watch in PowerPoint.

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PowerPoint Tips and Tricks

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Turn your PPT presentation into a video When you make a recording of a presentation, all its elements (narration, animation, pointer movements, timings, and so on) are saved in the presentation itself. In essence, the presentation becomes a video that your audience can watch in PowerPoint.

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