July, 2022

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Women and legaltech, a necessary pairing

Global LegalTech Hub

Sara Molina Perez-Tomé, Legal Management Consulting at Deloitte Legal Technology is undoubtedly the result of evolution based on the needs of human beings and arises as a way of improving, perfecting, analysing and favouring progress. For this reason, technology should be nothing more than an instrument, a means to an end, which is the evolution and prosperity of human beings without gender differences.

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The Online Courtroom: Hybrid and Remote Trial Considerations -- PART 3 (Look at Me!)

Trial Technology

Bad Hair Day, Messy Hotel Room Day NOTE: This series will cover what happened, how we've adjusted, where we are now, and where we're headed. We will also offer numerous tips, tricks, and best practices for hybrid and remote trials. When is the last time you joined a Zoom meeting, only to realize the total disaster you were displaying to everyone? Maybe you're having a bad hair day, messy background day, or even a sun-suddenly-broke-through-the-clouds-and-started-blazing-in-through-the-window-dir

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This Is How to Write Your Wikipedia Page

Attorney at Work

Learning how to write a Wikipedia page that tracks your life and career will help you chart the next steps in your amazing life. How will your story measure up against your legal heroes and mentors? . Imagine you’ve just shuffled off this mortal coil and somewhere someone is struggling to write the headline for your obituary. What will they say about you?

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 23, 2022

LLRX

rivacy 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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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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Scientists Conclude that Wikipedia Influences Judges’ Legal Reasoning

LawSites

Cite Wikipedia in an argument to a judge, and you are likely to get a disapproving glare in response. “Give me solid precedent,” the judge is likely to say, “cases and statutes and respected authorities.” But a team of scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Maynooth University , Ireland, has concluded that, in fact, Wikipedia has a measurable impact on judicial decision making.

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Time Tracking Tips for Busy Attorneys

Rocket Matter

Billable hours are at the heart of any successful law firm, but far too many attorneys still treat tracking and billing for those hours as an afterthought or a dreaded task to put off until the last minute. This hesitance when it comes to implementing better time tracking practices is understandable. After all, attorneys practice… Read More » Time Tracking Tips for Busy Attorneys.

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The Online Courtroom: Hybrid and Remote Trial Considerations -- PART 2 (Lights, , Action)

Trial Technology

NOTE: This series will cover what happened, how we've adjusted, where we are now, and where we're headed. We will also offer numerous tips, tricks, and best practices for hybrid and remote trials. Cameras are the only new major component needed to enable hybrid trials, which have quickly become the most common format. With skyrocketing travel costs, it makes economic sense to have a witness appear remotely from another part of the country -- or even from another country.

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Five Things to Look for in Shared Office Space

Attorney at Work

Location, professional atmosphere, private offices, paralegal support, networking opportunities. These are all important considerations when shopping for a legal shared office space. But before you sign up, here are questions to ask about the office center site and the owner — along with five pointers on what to expect. Two Weeks’ Notice. A few days ago, I met with an attorney who was originally introduced to me more than three years ago when he was considering changing offices.

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Light pollution is disrupting the seasonal rhythms of plants and trees, lengthening pollen season in US cities

LLRX

City lights that blaze all night are profoundly disrupting urban plants’ phenology – shifting when their buds open in the spring and when their leaves change colors and drop in the fall. New research Yuyu Zhou coauthored shows how nighttime lights are lengthening the growing season in cities, which can affect everything from allergies to local economies.

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Fastcase Names the 2022 Fastcase 50, Honoring ‘Innovators, Techies, Visionaries and Leaders’ in Law

LawSites

If you are looking for a scorecard naming those who are leading the charge on innovation in law, you can do no better than the Fastcase 50 , the annual listing by the legal intelligence company Fastcase that honors 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.”. Today, Fastcase is announcing the 2022 cohort of the Fastcase 50, and it includes a diverse array of legal tech founders, practicing lawyers, law firm professionals, judges, law professors, la

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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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NYDFS Proposed Significant Changes to Its Cybersecurity Rules

Debevoise Data Blog

On July 29, 2022, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) released Draft Amendments to its Part 500 Cybersecurity Rules , which include a mandatory 24-hour notification for cyber ransom payments, annual independent cybersecurity audits for larger entities, increased expectations for board expertise, and tough new restrictions on privileged accounts.

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Move More

Above and Beyond KM

Given how vitally important growth in experience is, workers who cannot expand their skills in their current employment must seek new employment or risk falling behind. Lately, there has been much handwringing about increased worker mobility. Some call it the Great Resignation, others call it the Great Re-Evaluation or the Great Renegotiation. Whatever you call it, you cannot deny that more people have been rethinking their work situation since lockdown.

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At AstraZeneca, Josh Kreamer Builds Bridges--and Saves Millions--with AI

Relativity

After gathering years of experience in law firm and service provider environments, AI Visionary Josh Kreamer is well versed in the many ways AI can make a legal department a value driver instead of a cost center. He brings this expertise to AstraZeneca and has helped transform the way they do e-discovery.

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How to Enjoy a Busy Life

Attorney at Work

Lawyer happiness doesn’t have to be an unattainable goal, even in our pressure-filled lives. . I practiced law for 17 years while living a personal life and raising a family. So I understand how being a lawyer can lead to a lot of stress and pressure. It is difficult to handle it all. Everyone knows this. Even Lin Manuel-Miranda of “Hamilton” fame knows it.

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Confidence in the Supreme Court is declining – but there is no easy way to oversee justices and their politics

LLRX

Recent evidence showing that Virginia Thomas, wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent at least 29 text messages to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows urging him to help overturn the 2020 election has reignited a long-simmering debate about judicial ethics and the nation’s highest court. Professor Eve Ringsmuth writes, "As a Supreme Court scholar, I think it is important to recognize that there is no formal code of conduct guiding the work of the Supreme Court, which

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California’s Chief Justice Faults Legislature and Lawyer Lobbying for Blocking Movement on Regulatory Reforms

LawSites

The chief justice of the California Supreme Court, Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye , said that the state legislature is to blame for stalling efforts to bring about regulatory reforms to address the state’s gap in access to justice. Cantil-Sakauye was the keynote speaker last week at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries. During a question-and-answer session following her speech, I asked her about the stalled efforts to bring about reform in California and what the Supr

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Networking for Lawyers Made Simple

Rocket Matter

For both introverts and extroverts alike, one word often brings feelings of dread and discomfort: networking. Networking can seem like a monumental task. Spending your whole day working, only to then go to an event and discuss more work with strangers. And if you’ve gone to many networking events that left you with a bad taste in your mouth, it can be hard to muster up the enthusiasm to keep trying.

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CPRA Rulemaking Is Underway – Getting Ahead of Enforcement Risks

Debevoise Data Blog

On July 8, 2022, the California Privacy Protection Agency (the “Agency”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking , kicking off a forty-five day comment period for proposed updates to the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) regulations. These updates streamline the CCPA regulations and revise them to reflect the changes made by the amendments in the Consumer Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (the “CPRA”).

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Stefan John at BASF is Passionately Empowering Teams with AI and Compassionate Leadership

Relativity

Stefan John is an AI Visionary because he encourages his team to embrace AI-enabled solutions across functions to enable better business and legal services. He’s also a compassionate leader.

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Protect Your Electronic Contact List From Prying Eyes

Attorney at Work

In April 2022, a headline caught our attention. It referenced a new legal ethics opinion issued by the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics. Opinion 1240 has this digest statement: “If ‘contacts’ on a lawyer’s smartphone include any client whose identity or other information is confidential under Rule 1.6, then the lawyer may not consent to share contacts with a smartphone app unless the lawyer concludes that no human being will view that confidential information, an

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LLRX July 2022 Issue

LLRX

Articles and Columns for July 2022 Policing Reimagined – The thesis of Albert Chang’s paper is the metaverse presents a unique opportunity for effective police reforms. Developers, data scientists and legal sector experts working within the metaverse may be able to implement changes more efficiently than Congress as they are not subject to constitutional constraints.

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New Judicial Analytics Product Predicts Motion Outcomes with Claimed 86.7% Accuracy

LawSites

I am a big fan of litigation analytics, even once suggesting that it could be malpractice for a litigator not to use the technology. There are a number of litigation analytics products on the market, and what they all have in common is that they extract data from court dockets and apply analytics to provide insights into how judges rule in particular times of matters.

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Technology and access to justice: top ten tips for funders and grantees

Law, Technology and Access to Justice

It began with a lunch. ‘Rog,’ said my companion. ‘You have been around the block on technology and access to justice a few times. You have worked for funders. You have made your fair share of grant applications. You know the field.

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Marketing Basics for Lawyers

Rocket Matter

When you’re building up your firm, it can be tough to get the word out about the services that you have to offer. And with so many evergreen ways to market your law firm, where do you even begin? But don’t worry, you don’t have to become an influencer just to sell your skills. You can use any platform you want in your legal marketing strategy. What matters is knowing where your potential clients look for recommendations and leveraging your law firm marketing to meet them in those spaces.

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AI Visionary Josh Zylbershlag on Adding Value to Your Team with Tech

Relativity

AI Visionary Josh Zylbershlag of Paul, Weiss believes that AI can not only add to legal professionals' skill sets, but increase their trust in each other and the e-discovery process.

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The Horrible and the Miserable: The Challenge to Keep Marketing

Attorney at Work

Supposedly, there are two kinds of people in the world, the horrible and the miserable. Let’s stretch this idea for marketing by two kinds of lawyers. The Fortunate Horribles. Some lawyers are so busy they can’t imagine finding another minute for marketing; call them the “horrible.” Many people wouldn’t even consider this a problem. “You’re busy, aren’t you?

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Surveillance is pervasive: Yes, you are being watched, even if no one is looking for you

LLRX

Peter Krapp , Professor of Film & Media Studies, University of California, Irvine shares facts that we need to acknowledge. The United States has the largest number of surveillance cameras per person in the world. Cameras are omnipresent on city streets and in hotels, restaurants, malls and offices. They’re also used to screen passengers for the Transportation Security Administration.

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A Former Legal Tech Founder Is At the Center of the Musk Affair Allegations

LawSites

It is not the typical stuff I cover on this blog, but it is difficult to overlook the fact that the woman at the center of the latest Elon Musk scandal is the former founder of a legal technology startup and a fellow at CodeX, The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics. On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Musk — founder of Tesla and SpaceX — allegedly had a brief affair with Nicole Shanahan , the wife of Google cofounder Sergey Brin, allegedly prompting Brin to file for divorce and e

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What Version of Microsoft 365 Do We Need for eDiscovery?

Percipient

Not all Microsoft 365 subscriptions provide access to eDiscovery licenses. However, figuring out which subscription level to purchase to take advantage of Microsoft eDiscovery features raises several questions: Do you need Core eDiscovery, or do you need Advanced eDiscovery? Is Content Search included in all plans or is it subscription-based? What is the difference between them (Core eDiscovery vs.

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Daniel Linna on Legal Education and Legal Tech Adoption (Northwestern University)

Technically Legal

Daniel Linna, Senior Lecturer & Director of Law and Technology Initiatives at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law & McCormick School of Engineering visits the podcast to talk legal education, artificial intelligence and intersection of computer science and law. Professor Linna teaches classes at both Northwestern’s law school and engineering school that relate to tech and law including a couple on artificial intelligence.

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Wendy Riggs on Helping Zynga, Twitter, Airbnb Up-Level their In-house Legal Practices with Tech

Relativity

AI Visionary Wendy Riggs, founder of SBO Consulting and formerly of Zynga, Twitter, and Airbnb, is no stranger to how innovative technology can distinguish companies, departments, and careers.

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Why Are You at the Office Until 10 p.m.?

Attorney at Work

Working late again? To be a better lawyer — and prevent lawyer burnout, start your day with a sprint. . The early days of my legal career at a big firm involved lots of late nights at the office. It seemed like I was routinely getting home around 11 p.m. — often later. It was a busy time, so late nights were required. But not always. Looking back, working late all the time could have been avoided.

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Policing Reimagined

LLRX

The thesis of Albert Chang's paper is the metaverse presents a unique opportunity for effective police reforms. Developers, data scientists, and criminal justice experts working within the metaverse may be able to implement changes more efficiently than Congress as they are not subject to constitutional constraints. He advocates a position that the federal government should strongly consider the adoption of the immersive technology to demonstrate that a more effective method of policing is possi

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Gets A Bobblehead

LawSites

Ketanji Brown Jackson has made it to the pinnacle of the legal profession, not only becoming an associate justice of the Supreme Court with her swearing in June 30, but also as the first Black woman to sit on the court. But, let’s face it, no Supreme Court justice has fully made it until they get their own bobblehead. Well, t he National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum today unveiled the first bobblehead of Justice Jackson. .

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What the ADPPA Means for U.S. Data Regulation

Debevoise Data Blog

On June 21, 2022, the House Energy and Commerce Committee formally introduced a new federal privacy bill: the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (“ADPPA”). Notably, the ADPPA has diverse support from both branches of Congress and both political parties. The ADPPA aims to create a national framework that would preempt many, but not all, state privacy laws.