May, 2021

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The legal business and its new algorithms

Global LegalTech Hub

Iván Jiménez, Innovation and transformation manager at MUTUALIDAD DE LA ABOGACÍA I propose to take a trip in time, just for a few moments, before dissecting the world of algorithms. Take a moment to think about what the legal sector was like before the disruptive new technologies came along. As one of the oldest professions, dating back to ancient Greek civilization, it has inherently maintained its artisan, intellectual essence.

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No-Code Legal Automation Startup Josef Raises $2.5M

LawSites

Josef , an Australia-based, no-code software platform that enables legal professionals to automate common tasks, has raised $2.5 million. The funding round was led by Australian venture firm Carthona Capital , with participation from U.S. investors, including The LegalTech Fund. Added to the startup’s $1 million seed round in 2019, this brings its total funding to $3.5 million.

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Resources for Lawyers Working Remotely

Internet for Lawyers

Practice management software vendor Clio has posted a handy overview of some of the ways lawyers can work remotely. For lawyers looking for more detailed information, we are&n.

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Interview: Carole Levitt

LLRX

This is Jerry Lawson's interview of Carole Levitt, one of the country’s premier experts on Internet research, both legal and investigative. Her most recent book, coauthored with Judy Davis, is the second edition of her treatise Internet Legal Research on a Budget.

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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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Legal Tech in Kosovo. An Interview with Alban Krasniqi, Founder of Lexdok (024)

CEE Legal Tech

Alban Krasniqi As part of our exploration of the Central and Eastern European legal tech and innovation scene, we are heading to the Balkans. Today, we have the pleasure of introducing you to Alban Krasniqi from Pristina, Kosovo. Alban is a lawyer specialised in constitutional law and human rights who has worked extensively with the main Kosovan rule of law stakeholders since 2015.

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Why hackers are thriving | Startling cyber-attack stats | Court-packing or SCOTUS reform?

Legal Talk Network

If you sensed that hacking and ransomware attacks spiked during the pandemic, your suspicions were accurate. A perfect storm of lapses in security, a rise in scripted attacks, and increased professionalized hacking have led to some of the most debilitating and embarrassing cyber attacks to date. The high-profile Colonial Pipeline debacle led to gasoline hoarding, price-gouging and shortages.

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LawNext: How Law Schools Should Teach Tech, With April Dawson

LawSites

There is broad agreement that if law schools are to adequately train students for careers in law, then technology is a critical part of the curriculum. Despite this, many law schools get a failing grade when it comes to teaching tech. So how, exactly, should law schools teach tech? And what topics should such teaching cover? April G. Dawson has given a lot of thought to those questions.A former computer programmer and litigator, she is now associate dean of technology and innovation and professo

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European Data Protection Roundup – April 2021

Debevoise Data Blog

The key development from April must be the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) approving the draft UK adequacy decisions from the European Commission (the “Commission”). Companies will be relieved that they are one step closer towards maintaining the seamless flow of data between the EU and the UK. Other notable developments this month include the publication of the Commission’s highly anticipated draft AI regulation, and the launch of a class action in the UK against TikTok.

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Employees are feeling burned over broken work-from-home promises and corporate culture ‘BS’ as employers try to bring them back to the office

LLRX

As vaccinations and relaxed health guidelines make returning to the office a reality for more companies, there seems to be a disconnect between managers and their workers over remote work. A good example of this is a recent op-ed written by the CEO of a Washington, D.C., magazine that suggested workers could lose benefits like health care if they insist on continuing to work remotely as the COVID-19 pandemic recedes.

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LexCloud.ca Joins 2021 Citrix Technical Expert Council

LexCloud.ca

LexCloud.ca has been invited to join the exclusive 2021 Citrix Partner Technical Expert Council (PTEC).

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Stay On Top of Newly Filed State & Federal Litigation: Curated Just for You!

With Daily Filings Report by Trellis you will receive an email and csv file daily with all new cases filed in the jurisdictions you're tracking. Each new case will include all case metadata like judge, parties, counsel, practice area, and even direct links to the full docket and complaint. Trellis Daily Filings Reports provide direct access to newly filed state and federal litigation curated just for you.

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5 key metrics to track | Getting to inbox zero | A ’70s-era kidnapping | Crisis lawyering, a niche practice

Legal Talk Network

When exploring different ways to improve a practice, work habits, whatever really, a common piece of advice is to look at the data. But what does that mean? Which data points? What metrics matter? Legal marketing experts Gyi Tsakalakis and Conrad Saam narrow the field for lawyers who are either hands-on marketers or working with teams and vendors. Their latest Lunch Hour Legal Marketing episode covers the top 5 (really 10) metrics that matter most and least.

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DIY eDiscovery: Taking Control & Saving Money

NSLT

DIY eDiscovery: Taking Control & Saving Money You can’t do ediscovery if you don’t have some basic tools for reviewing, tagging, collecting, and producing electronic evidence.

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Pro Bono Net and Legal Aid Groups Partner To Launch Eviction Resource For N.Y. Tenants

LawSites

At a time when many are predicting a tsunami of eviction cases resulting from the pandemic, the organization Pro Bono Net , in collaboration with several legal aid organizations, has launched TenantHelpNY.org , an online resource designed to help tenants in New York understand their housing rights. The new site provides resources to help tenants understand their legal rights and connect with volunteer attorneys to obtain legal assistance.

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The Future of AI Regulation (Part 4): 24 Ways That Companies Can Reduce Their Regulatory and Reputational AI Risks

Debevoise Data Blog

Our three previous articles in this series on the future of AI regulation have discussed the RFI on AI issued by U.S. banking regulators, the draft EU AI regulation , and the FTC’s recent guidance on AI bias and fairness. In this fourth post, we have taken those important developments in AI regulation, along with some other recently issued guidance, and prepared a list of 24 measures that companies can adopt now to prepare for the coming AI regulatory landscape, which is an update to a post we w

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Review: A Short & Happy Guide to Advanced Legal Research

LLRX

Jerry Lawson highly recommends Ann Walsh Long’s new book, A Short & Happy Guide to Advanced Legal Research. Long's book offers good ideas about balancing quality, speed and expense, as well as a wealth of other insights on improving online legal research.

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Ep 125: The Unlikely Story of How An Insolvency Lawyer Built A Global Trademarks Company

LawNext podcast

There is an element of serendipity in the story of Nehal Madhani and his company Alt Legal. Even though he had been an insolvency lawyer who had never practiced trademark law, an early attempt at entrepreneurship — and at registering his own trademarks — showed him the need for better software to automate trademark applications. After creating and launching that product, he heard from his customers that their greater need was software to track the thousands of trademarks they’d already filed.

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Video jury trials here to stay? | Rituals and transitions | RFID chipping employees | Newsletters the new blogs?

Legal Talk Network

Over the past year, there’s been much discussion, debate, and suspicion about holding the most sacrosanct court proceedings via video. A growing consensus is that the pandemic caused the judicial branch to advance technologically for the better. And there’s little debate that many of the emergency and stopgap measures put in place during shutdowns will continue, at least in some form.

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DIY eDiscovery: Taking Control & Saving Money

NSLT

DIY eDiscovery: Taking Control & Saving Money You can’t do ediscovery if you don’t have some basic tools for reviewing, tagging, collecting, and producing electronic evidence.

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Arizona Licenses First Three Alternative Business Structures for Delivering Legal Services

LawSites

The Arizona Supreme Court has approved the first three entities to be licensed as alternative business structures, enabling businesses owned by non-lawyers to deliver legal services under the liberalized licensing rules the court approved last August. On March 17, 2021, the court entered orders approving two ABS entities: Trajan Estate, LLC , a legal service provider focused on estate planning.

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Advopass webinar in collaboration with ELTA

ELTA

You are invited to the first #webinar hosted by AdvoPass! At this webinar three distinguished guests Ebru Metin, LL.M, Ambassador of European Legal Technology Association, Oğuzhan Aygören PhD, Director of Boğaziçi University Entrepreneurship Center and Yüksel Tolun, who is both a lawyer and a Google Developer Expert, will be discussing the disruptive effect of technology on law, and Burak Özdemir, CEO of AdvoPass will be the moderator of this session.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 8, 2021

LLRX

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.

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Ep 124: How One Company Aims to Change the Paradigm for Law Practice Management

LawNext podcast

One of the most dynamic areas of legal tech right now is practice management, which has seen a surge of investments and acquisitions over the past year. And one of the companies that best represents that trend is Paradigm, which was founded two years ago as ASG LegalTech and rebranded this year as Paradigm, to represent its goal of bringing about a paradigm shift for legal technology.

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New narrative podcast amplifies voices of young lawyers

Legal Talk Network

Young Lawyer Rising may be a new podcast, but the hosts sound like radio vets out of the gate. There’s a reason why Sonia Russo and Mathew Kerbis come across as practiced broadcast professionals. YLR host Sonia Russo. For the show, Russo is tapping into her experience as an FM radio reporter and producer. And Kerbis is a litigator experienced with speaking to different audiences.

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Inserting Multiple Photos into PowerPoint

NSLT

Inserting Multiple Photos into PowerPoint If you have several photographs that you want to insert into PowerPoint, using a “Photo Album” is the simplest way to accomplish this.

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Supreme Court Justice Ann Timmer on Arizona’s Sweeping Regulatory Reforms

LawSites

Last August, Arizona became the first state to eliminate the ban on non-lawyer ownership of law firms. In ordering that change, as well as a package of additional reforms, the Arizona Supreme Court acted on the recommendations of a task force that had called for fundamental changes in the regulation of legal services, all with the goal of enhancing access to justice.

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Using Legal Analytics to Find Your Best Legal Argument, Hire the Right Lawyer & Retain the Best Expert (Serena Wellen Context/LexisNexis)

Technically Legal

"The fundamental tool of lawyers is language" explains Serena Wellen in this episode. Serena is a Senior Director for LexisNexis and works on the Context legal analytics platform. Context leverages machine learning and natural language processing from Ravel, a company LexisNexis acquired in 2017. Using Ravel's analytics engine, Context sits atop many of the LexisNexis databases and analyzes information about judges, lawyers, expert witnesses and companies compiled in "entity authorities.

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LLRX May 2021 Issue

LLRX

Articles and Columns for May 2021 Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide – Updated May 2021 – This guide on competitive intelligence resources on the web was first published in 2005, and Sabrina I. Pacifici has continued to edit, revise and update it over the course of 16 years. Her objective is to provide.

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Ep 123: How Law Schools Should Teach Tech, With April Dawson

LawNext podcast

There is broad agreement that if law schools are to adequately train students for careers in law, then technology is a critical part of the curriculum. Despite this, many law schools get a failing grade when it comes to teaching tech. So how, exactly, should law schools teach tech? And what topics should such teaching cover? April G. Dawson has given a lot of thought to those questions.A former computer programmer and litigator, she is now associate dean of technology and innovation and profess

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Don't Let Your Clients or Witnesses Do This via Zoom

Internet for Lawyers

A Michigan judge chastised a defendant who appeared in court (via Zoom) displaying an anal-sex-related screen name. View the video reording of the judge chastising the defendant in Zoom court.

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Inserting Multiple Photos into PowerPoint

NSLT

Inserting Multiple Photos into PowerPoint If you have several photographs that you want to insert into PowerPoint, using a “Photo Album” is the simplest way to accomplish this.

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Survey Reveals The New Face of Law Firm Marketing: Zoom Meetings and Digital Content

LawSites

COVID was not kind to law firm marketing and business development, with two-thirds of firms reporting that business development was more difficult in 2020, and the overwhelming majority of firms pivoting their marketing strategies, turning from live conferences and face-to-face meetings to social media, email alerts and Zoom. These are among the findings of the 2021 InterAction Marketing & Business Development Survey published this week by LexisNexis InterAction. “Even law firms that g

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You are losing money by not using legal technologies. Here’s why (023).

CEE Legal Tech

Image source: Pixabay Legal professionals are usually more conservative and don’t like changes. There is a reasonable explanation for this – they need something that works 100% of the time and don’t want to take any chances. Legal consulting is highly responsible, and even the smallest mistakes can cause significant damages. But things have changed.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 16, 2021

LLRX

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.

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Ep 122: Supreme Court Justice Ann Timmer on Arizona’s Sweeping Regulatory Reforms

LawNext podcast

Last August, Arizona became the first state to eliminate the ban on non-lawyer ownership of law firms. In ordering that change, as well as a package of additional reforms, the Arizona Supreme Court acted on the recommendations of a task force that had called for fundamental changes in the regulation of legal services, all with the goal of enhancing access to justice, On today’s episode of LawNext, we are joined by Arizona Supreme Court Vice Chief Justice Ann A.

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Reigning-in risks | ‘Limitless’ vacation, pro or con? | Authors talk toxins and labor camps

Legal Talk Network

As noted recently by Digital Detectives , ransomware and cyber breaches spiked during the pandemic. There are some understandable reasons for the increase in hacking. One is that data security protocols took a back seat in the scramble to get workers up and running at home. So did routine security patches and updates. More than a year into the pandemic, a hybrid work environment looks to be staying put, at least for now.