Attorney at Work

MARCH 1, 2022

We’ve all seen the terrifying Zoom fails of pantslessness, live-feed bathroom trips, and unmuted fetid rants about the host. We’re not those people. We’d never show up naked or allow our untethered howling spawn to step into the frame. We’re professionals here. But even professionals make mistakes. While you are strictly a pants-on Zoomer, holding the audience’s attention during a presentation is a toughly competitive business.

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Ward Blawg

MARCH 15, 2022

In a post-pandemic world, there’s little doubt we will rely more heavily on technology to meet the demands of clients, who are expecting a quicker and more transparent experience.

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LLRX

MARCH 27, 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.

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Rocket Matter

MARCH 28, 2022

Online payment processing options can streamline your firm’s billing, help you collect payments faster (and more consistently), and keep your clients happy—but lots of law firms are still avoiding accepting online payments or payment by card. There used to be good reasons for that. Attorneys were respectable, professional, and polished, and getting your law practice… Read More » Why Online Legal Payment Processing Is an Absolute Necessity.

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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.

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LawSites

MARCH 8, 2022

A company that says it has developed a “revolutionary” SaaS tool to automate the remote collection and analysis of mobile data from smartphones and short-message chat applications has completed its seed funding round of over $1 million. The company, ModeOne , was founded by its CEO, Matthew Rasmussen , a litigation support and technology professional with two decades of experience working at large, global law firms and leading litigation services companies.

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Legal Talk Network

MARCH 8, 2022

After nearly two years apart, ABA TechShow 2022 marked a ‘re-introduction’ into the real world as lawyers, legal professionals and legal tech leaders once again gathered together. For many attendees, this year’s legal tech gathering was their first in-person industry conference since before the COVID pandemic began. And while this year’s TechShow presented some of the best in diverse session topics, notable guest speakers and good exhibitor attendance, perhaps the greatest takeaway for everyone

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Law, Technology and Access to Justice

MARCH 25, 2022

An obvious major issue for those involved in digitalising the courts is whether innovation might be more in the interest of some involved in litigation at the expense of others.

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LLRX

MARCH 28, 2022

What use are we in helping to solve difficult global challenges if we’re so depressed and cognitively depleted that we can’t think of the best actions to take? Ukraine doomscrolling can harm your cognition as well as your mood. Professors Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian , Christelle Langley , Chun Shen and Jianfeng Feng describe their research findings on what to do about it.

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Rocket Matter

MARCH 20, 2022

It’s time to talk about every attorney’s favorite part of the workday: analyzing in-depth financial reports to optimize collection practices! Okay, fine. Maybe the thought of picking through your law firm’s financial reporting and collections data doesn’t make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. But you know what does feel good? Getting paid in… Read More » Use Reporting and Analytics for Better Law Firm Collections.

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LawSites

MARCH 1, 2022

Lawmatics , a company whose product provides client relationship management (CRM), client intake and marketing automation for attorneys, is now adding timekeeping and billing tools, with the goal of offering law firms a comprehensive platform with everything they need to manage their administrative sides. The company also is adding new electronic payment capabilities through a partnership with Gravity Legal , a credit card and bank transfer acceptance platform specifically designed for law firms

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Advertiser: Trellis

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Technically Legal

MARCH 31, 2022

“You’re marrying a firefighter. That’s all I’ll ever be. I’m never going to finish college.” That’s what Bill Henderson told his soon to be wife many years ago, but thankfully that was not true. Fast forward to today and Bill is now Professor William Henderson, the Stephen F. Burns Chair on the Legal Profession at Indiana University and he has been a law professor for nearly 20 years.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 3, 2022

I’ve been thinking about what it means to lead a company through crises and how each crisis affects law firm leaders. A few years ago, I believed I had handled just about every type of crisis conceivable. How wrong I was. In recent years, we have dealt with a global pandemic, a divided political nation and civil unrest. We all learned how to pivot and maneuver through a pandemic.

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lawtomated

MARCH 30, 2022

Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Facebook Pinterest Print Email Guest post by Jessica Hirst Is mobile the future of legal tech? The world is amid change, in this increasingly interconnected world, how do law firms navigate the maze of technologies and utilise these tools to evolve with society’s demands. Law firms are becoming increasingly reliant on automating legal processes and implementing the right tools which are easy to integrate, scale and adapt to future needs.

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LLRX

MARCH 12, 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.

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Rocket Matter

MARCH 9, 2022

Trying to grow your law firm without the right knowledge and insight is like trying to steer a ship across the Atlantic—only you have no map, no rudder, no sail, and no destination in mind. Sure, you could end up in a charming beach town, soaking up the sun and making friendly conversation with the… Read More » How to Expand Your Law Firm by Using Business Intelligence.

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LawSites

MARCH 18, 2022

I had the great honor this week to record a conversation with Yevgen Poltenko , executive director of the Legal Development Network , an association of community-based non-governmental organizations that promotes people-centered justice in Ukraine, for the LexBlog podcast This Week in Legal Blogging. . We discussed his organization’s efforts to assist Ukrainians with legal and humanitarian issues amid the Russian invasion of their country.

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Debevoise Data Blog

MARCH 30, 2022

On December 7, 2021, Anna Gressel and Jim Pastore from Debevoise’s Data Strategy and Security and Commercial Litigation Groups participated in the third edition of the “ The Athens Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law ,” the premier international, multi-stakeholder gathering on artificial intelligence, legal systems, and functions, regulatory compliance, and the rule of law.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 29, 2022

With in-person conferences, tradeshows and other large gatherings happening again, your skills may be rusty. Here are ways to get back into your best face-to-face form. As I write this, I am in Las Vegas with over 830 others at the Legal Marketing Association Annual Meeting, my first association conference since before the pandemic. Leading up to this, my emotions have ranged from excitement (“I can’t wait to see so many people who will be there!

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Computational Legal Studies

MARCH 24, 2022

Here is the video from our keynote at the Computational Legal Studies at Singapore Management University. Underlying Slides (with fewer typos) available here. Link to the Full Agenda from the Conference is here.

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LLRX

MARCH 31, 2022

Articles and Columns for March 2022 Libraries and the Contested Terrain of “Neutrality” – Rick Anderson is University Librarian at Brigham Young University. His commentary addresses timely, divisive and critical conversations and actions that involve censorship, book banning, library ethics, and professional responsibility across our professional communities.

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LexCloud.ca

MARCH 22, 2022

Overview LexCloud is pleased to announce availability of our new LSO Accredited “Cyber Security Training for Law Firms”. This session is focused on fortifying the human element in your cyber defences to avoid compromising vital firm information and to help ensure firms don’t come up short in client audits and when applying for cyber insurance. The session is eligible for 1 hour and 20 minutes of CPD Professional Hours and includes an optional on-line assessment and Certificate of Completion.

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LawSites

MARCH 24, 2022

It has been a year since I have reported on a state adopting the duty of technology competence for lawyers , but now there is another: Hawai?i, bringing the total number of states that have adopted the duty to 40. Effective Jan. 1, 2022, the state’s Rules of Professional Conduct were amended to revise Comment 6 to Rule 1.1 , pertaining to competence, to add the duty of technology competence.

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Legal Talk Network

MARCH 22, 2022

It is no secret that being a lawyer is stressful. Lawyers face multiple stressors every day. From long hours, managing challenging client personalities, overwhelming caseloads, and constant industry pressures, being a lawyer is not easy. “Lawyers also deal with a lot of negative perspectives on their career and profession.” According to wellness coach and instructor, Dawn Kulongowski, DDS , lawyers not only have to deal with the day-to-day pressures of the job, but they must also deal with the n

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 14, 2022

Are you happy in your practice area? Maybe you’ve read posts about fast-growing practice areas that would be more to your liking. Seven Steps to Switch Your Niche. You can switch practice area. You’re smart. You can do this. It just takes some work. Ask a Law Librarian. A visit to a law library is an ideal way to start. As a newbie to the topic, computer legal research can present too large a universe.

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ELTA

MARCH 22, 2022

With the nomination of Zsolt Ződi representing Hungary, the European Legal Technology Association was able to further consolidate its Ambassador network. Zsolt graduated as a lawyer in 1991. He then taught legal theory till 1995, when he left academia, and joined Wolters Kluwer. He worked there for 15 years in different positions, as an editor, publisher and publishing director, and participated in different publishing initiatives including numerous legal technology projects.

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LLRX

MARCH 6, 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.

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Computational Legal Studies

MARCH 22, 2022

Our LexGLUE paper was Accepted in the ACL Main Conference. Happy to continue to push forward with further updates to the project in the months and years to come. As an academic and technical field, we need to continue to marry general NLP techniques to the intrinsic Complexity of Legal Language — obviously we still have great distance to cover but we are moving in the right direction !

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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2022

The Business Intelligence Group, an organization founded to recognize “true talent and superior performance in the business world,” today announced the winners of its Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards , an awards program designed to honor organizations, products and people who bring artificial intelligence to life and apply it to solve real problems.

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Technically Legal

MARCH 17, 2022

SCENE: Afternoon. Early 2000s. Because the first internet bubble is popping, two tech lawyers find themselves with not much to do so they go to a matinee showing of Black Hawk Down. Those two attorneys are James Fisher and Kevin Broyles. That particular afternoon was not the only slow one for them. Work for them had dried up and colleagues at their law firm were getting laid off left and right.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 21, 2022

I’m part of the 57.6% of Arizona attorneys who feel stressed out practicing law and the 70.3% of Arizona attorneys for whom work stress carries over to their personal life. Part of this is related to the fact that there is no separation between my professional and personal lives, but also because I tend to be a workaholic. I hit a metaphorical wall last November.

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Percipient

MARCH 10, 2022

Early case assessment (ECA) provides an opportunity to understand documentary and digital evidence. It also presents opportunities for fact finding and cost savings. According to the Grossman-Cormack Glossary of Technology-Assisted Review , early case assessment, or ECA, is a “term generally used to describe a variety of tools or methods for investigating and quickly learning about a Document Collection for the purposes of estimating the risk(s) and cost(s) of pursuing a particular legal c

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LLRX

MARCH 20, 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.

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ELTA

MARCH 7, 2022

Two new ambassadors were appointed in February 2022: With the nomination of Przemysław Barchan representing Poland and Henrik Wehrs representing Germany, the European Legal Technology Association was able to further consolidate its Ambassador network. „I am delighted to support ELTA’s mission and activities as its new Ambassador in Poland. Market awareness of Legal Tech sector could not be built without ELTA’s team.

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LawSites

MARCH 14, 2022

Zero to sixty. Two weeks, two back-to-back live conferences, after not having been to one for two years. I already wrote about the first of the two, ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago, the timing of which made it a karmic bookend to a long strange trip. For many in attendance there, TECHSHOW 2020 had been their last live conference before the pandemic, and TECHSHOW 2022 their first re-entry to live conferencing.

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Technically Legal

MARCH 3, 2022

Thibault Schrepel joins the podcast to talk blockchain, antitrust and competition law. He is a professor at the Free University in Amsterdam and on the faculty of the Codex Center at Stanford University. At Stanford he is involved in the Computational Antitrust Project which works to foster the automation of antitrust procedures and the improvement of antitrust analysis.

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