Ward Blawg
MAY 25, 2022
New insights on the benefits of consultancy work as a freelance Solicitor from Scott-Moncrieff & Associates, one of the UK’s leading ‘virtual law firms‘ If you are thinking about making a change to your working life, you may have considered going freelance and working as a consultant solicitor.
Attorney at Work
MAY 4, 2022
When you started your law firm, it was probably just you — and maybe a paralegal or assistant. Then more business came in and you were working crazy hours, so you hired. You didn’t really care what you paid in salaries; you just needed the help. When somebody said they needed something, you usually said fine, “Order it!” Because in the beginning, you were making really good money.
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LLRX
MAY 30, 2022
Kathy Biehl is a lawyer licensed in two states, as well as a prolific multidisciplinary author and writer. Roe v. Wade has been settled law during her entire career. In this article Biehl succinctly and expertly identifies how the upcoming Supreme Court decision in Dobbs V. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a draft of which was "leaked" on May 2, 2022, will impact many facets of our society as well as our democracy.
LawSites
MAY 31, 2022
It may be one of the least heralded yet most critical jobs in many law firms – that of the docketing professional – and it is one that calls for a unique combination of technical, data-management, organizational and communication skills. In litigation and intellectual property matters, it is the responsibility of docketing professionals to ensure that electronic court pleadings and documents are properly and timely filed, to maintain internal databases of docketed documents, and to facilitate ac
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Legal Talk Network
MAY 18, 2022
The American Bar Association’s Litigation Section hosts its Section Annual Conference once a year and like so many gatherings, it was on hold during COVID-19. So, it’s not surprising that this year’s meeting in Miami was the first conference many attendees had been to since the pandemic shutdowns. For those not familiar, the Section Annual is a premier gathering for litigators featuring elite professionals discussing trial work, strategies, and the latest innovations.
Rocket Matter
MAY 15, 2022
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. When Charles Dickens wrote that line to open his classic A Tale of Two Cities, he was using it to contrast the prosperity of 18th century London with the chaos of Paris during the French Revolution. But he also could have been talking… Read More » Batch Billing: How to Make More Money in Less Time.
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Attorney at Work
MAY 24, 2022
If you were to believe everything being written about legal services today, you might think lawyer-client relationships have boiled down to one thing: legal pricing. Yet in my conversations with clients, fees rarely are the first thing mentioned or the most important factor used to evaluate relationships with outside counsel. Don’t get me wrong. All clients are cost-conscious, particularly these days.
LLRX
MAY 8, 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.
LawSites
MAY 26, 2022
After two years of virtual conferences, the American Association of Law Libraries is returning to in-person programming for its annual meeting and conference , which takes place July 16-19 in Denver. Often, when I hear people rattle off the names of the leading legal technology conferences in the United States, this one is not even on their radar. That is a huge mistake.
Above and Beyond KM
MAY 31, 2022
Airbnb is leading the charge to enable digital nomads in their organization and yours. Their work anywhere policy provides one road map. Are you ready to follow their lead? Airbnb recently announced that it wants to embrace remote working as the norm. In fairness, to fail to do so would have been the height of hypocrisy given that so much of its recent financial good fortune is due to remote workers (from other companies) who used Airbnb to find pleasant locations from which to work.
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Rocket Matter
MAY 23, 2022
“He is a good man, and I am content at night knowing he watches me sleep.” —Online review of a Danny DeVito cardboard cutout “I don’t know if this is a scam or if mine was broken, but it doesn’t work and I am still getting abducted by UFOs on a regular basis.” —Online review… Read More » Why Forbes Advisor Thinks Rocket Matter Is the Best (and Why You Will Too).
Technically Legal
MAY 26, 2022
Aaron Powers, CEO and co-founder of Hunit, talks SLCs or, Smart Legal Contracts, that are natural language contracts but utilize blockchain technology to record certain aspects of contractual relationships. Hunit enables users to create text based contracts in Microsoft Word, but tie the document to a blockchain creating an immutable record of certain contract components, like successful performance and the fact that a contract even exists between two parties.
Attorney at Work
MAY 18, 2022
Making meetings effective and productive is no easy feat — especially in the age of Zoom. To be effective, meetings need to engage the talents of the people involved, work to achieve the group’s specific goals for the moment — and do so in a way that’s contextually sensitive to the world around it. Many leaders fall back on arbitrary blanket rules that no one really follows — like the leader who declared all meetings in the company could last no more than 20 minutes.
LLRX
MAY 21, 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. – Four highlights from this week : How Often Do Ads Share Your Data Every Day?
LawSites
MAY 25, 2022
Non-lawyers will be allowed to provide legal advice to low-income New Yorkers who face debt collection actions, under a preliminary injunction ordered yesterday by a federal judge in New York. In a case brought by Upsolve , a company that uses technology to help low-income consumers in bankruptcy and debt matters, seeking to block New York’s attorney general from enforcing unauthorized practice of law rules against non-lawyers who help debtors fill out forms, the judge concluded that the F
Debevoise Data Blog
MAY 23, 2022
On Wednesday, May 25, 2022, Avi Gesser and Anna Gressel of Debevoise’s Data Strategy & Security Group joined Luke Tenery and Michael Costa of StoneTurn’s Cybersecurity and Incident Response Group for an engaging discussion on Artificial Intelligence Incident Response hosted by the Cybersecurity Docket. The panel discussed: Current legal, compliance, and risks relating to AI that are likely to lead to AI incidents; Practical steps companies can take to prepare for and mitigate AI incid
Rocket Matter
MAY 23, 2022
“He is a good man, and I am content at night knowing he watches me sleep.”. — Online review of a Danny DeVito cardboard cutout. “I don’t know if this is a scam or if mine was broken, but it doesn’t work and I am still getting abducted by UFOs on a regular basis.”. — Online review of “UFO Detector”. Online reviews can be overwhelmingly positive or extremely negative.
Legal Talk Network
MAY 18, 2022
Did you know that 74% of low income American households had at least one civil legal problem last year? For too many, such legal problems like eviction, domestic violence, access to healthcare, sustenance, shelter, and safety persist without any help. In fact, this happens 92% of the time for our fellow Americans on the lower side of the income scale.
Attorney at Work
MAY 20, 2022
Law specialization has become increasingly common — almost a necessity. . Abraham Lincoln, licensed to practice law in 1837 in Illinois, may be the archetypal general practice attorney. The Lincoln Legal Papers Project identified over 5,600 cases and nearly 100,000 documents related to Lincoln’s law practice. The paper trail revealed scores of cases involving debt collection, business partnerships, estate settlements, divorce and real estate litigation.
LLRX
MAY 25, 2022
“This is a profound insight from this super-powerful TEDx talk by Lesa Bradley on discrimination in the workplace: Your workers don’t actually have a disability until you place them in a context that disables them. This talk speaks about inclusivity of people with a disability in the workplace. Lesa talks about why we are struggling.
LawSites
MAY 26, 2022
Pioneers and Pathfinders · Bob Ambrogi. I always prefer to be the interviewer, not the interviewee. Even so, I was honored to be the guest on this week’s Pioneers and Pathfinders podcast, hosted by Steve Poor , partner and chair emeritus at Seyfarth. From the show description: “In today’s conversation, we talk about Bob’s journey as a journalist, his views on the current state of mainstream media, the potential of regulatory reform to further disrupt the industry, and the
Legal Tech Innovation Wales
MAY 18, 2022
Freya Michaud our Project Coordinator representing the Lab collecting our award. We are so thrilled to have won the award for Outstanding Research and Innovation Collaboration in Humanities and Social Sciences at the Swansea University Research & Innovation Awards 2022! We are honoured to be part of such a dedicated team at Legal Innovation Lab Wales.
Debevoise Data Blog
MAY 17, 2022
On Friday, May 20, 2022, Avi Gesser and Anna Gressel of Debevoise’s Data Strategy & Security Group and Eric Dinallo and Marshal Bozzo of Debevoise’s Insurance Regulatory practice had an engaging discussion on Artificial Intelligence and Discrimination in the Insurance Industry (Part III in this series). Topics included: Regulatory developments since Part II of our discussion on Artificial Intelligence and Discrimination (e.g., the Connecticut Insurance Department’s new certification re
Law, Technology and Access to Justice
MAY 12, 2022
The International Access to Justice Online Forum has been like ‘pinball with flashing lights and ringing bells’ said a reflective Lynne Haultain, executive director of Victoria Law Foundation that organised it jointly with the University of California Civil Justice Research Initiative. The videos of discussion over three days have recently gone online.
Attorney at Work
MAY 24, 2022
Back in the day when I was a young and naive pup, I didn’t pay much attention to how my email was set up. I’d sometimes be surprised by a little pop-up that accompanied an email I’d just opened in Microsoft Outlook, asking me to please confirm receiving and reading that email: aka a “read receipt.” I may have been naive in those days, but I was also (and still am) private and paranoid.
LLRX
MAY 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.
LawSites
MAY 3, 2022
Paladin , a legal technology company whose platform enables law firms and legal services organizations to manage their pro bono programs and opportunities, has raised $8 million in Series A funding, which it plans to use to further develop its product and expand its market internationally. . Bringing Paladin’s total financing to over $12 million, this latest round was led by World Within, with participation from existing investors Mark Cuban, Hyde Park Venture Partners, the American Family
Technically Legal
MAY 12, 2022
Do you want to spend less time dealing with email? Are you interested in automating repetitive work tasks? Cyndi Wheeler and Mark Pike offer some tips on how to do just that in this episode from 2020. Cyndi and Mark are both in-house lawyers at collaboration software company Slack. Cyndi and Mark discuss how they moved almost all of their communications with outside counsel away from email and into Slack channels and how that has increased the productivity and the effectiveness of their lega
Debevoise Data Blog
MAY 13, 2022
On Tuesday, May 24, at 11:00am ET, please join Anna Gressel and Avi Gesser from our Data Strategy and Security Group and William D. Regner , the Deputy Chair of our Corporate Department, for a timely discussion on AI oversight considerations and best practices for corporate boards, following up on our blog post “ AI Oversight Is Becoming a Board Issue “ This webinar will address: The increased board focus on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues, including the ESG risks p
Computational Legal Studies
MAY 7, 2022
It took 2+ years but I finally made it to Singapore for my official visit as the Jones Day Visiting Professor of Law at Singapore Management University! It has been an amazing first full week here. Thanks to everyone at SMU for hosting me and welcoming me — Yihan Goh, Jerrold Soh, How Khang Lim, Wei Zhang, Alvin See, Maartje de Visser, Man Yip, Meng Weng Wong and many others !
Attorney at Work
MAY 6, 2022
The benefits of positivity for your law firm? Positive emotions can lower stress, improve coping skills and even open your mind — and that benefits everyone, from team members to clients. . A few weeks before the pandemic struck the U.S., Erin Levine was sharing a story at the Atlanta Legal Tech conference. Erin had been talking with her office staff about the negative nature of their family law clients and how wearing it was for everyone involved, when a team member said: “Isn’t this negativity
LLRX
MAY 25, 2022
Jim Calloway is the Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Management Assistance Program. He informs us about the range of legal services delivered by what have been designated as “primary-care lawyers.” From Calloway's perspective, there is people law, and there is business/corporate law. Over the years, there has been a greater divergence in these two types of law practice focuses.
LawSites
MAY 18, 2022
Lawyers are largely limited to practicing law in the states in which they are licensed. But now, calling that rule anachronistic, the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers has asked the American Bar Association to amend the model rules that govern law practice to allow lawyers admitted in any U.S. jurisdiction to practice law and provide legal advice to clients anywhere in the country.
Percipient
MAY 6, 2022
We recently hosted a webinar “ Recognize, Reduce, Review: Techniques to defensibly reduce your document review.” During the 30-minute presentation, Percipient’s Head of Forensics Vaish Palavalli and Document Review Project Manager Adam Szulczewski discussed eight techniques they use to reduce data collections to manageable sizes for efficient document reviews.
Legal Tech Innovation Wales
MAY 5, 2022
Natural Language Toolkit, or NLTK, is a leading Python library used for NLP (natural language processing). “Why dedicate an entire blog post to it?”, I hear you ask. Well, it’s a leader for a reason. Think of this as more of a love letter. In a legal setting, technologies using NLP have been thriving in recent years. As we’ve discussed in a previous blog post (click here to read), NLP is used to analyse text data and can therefore be used to help with a number of tasks, including: · Contract ana
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