January, 2021

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The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence and Legal Compliance

Global LegalTech Hub

Fortunately, we are facing a strong growth trend in the Legaltech sector in all areas that cover the legal life of organizations. What began timidly as specific solutions to certain problems, progresses –although with ups and downs- towards a harmonious and more consolidated treatment, which tends to cover needs that so far imply risks and high costs for any company.

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Keynote: AI Transformation – Competing in the Age of AI #KMWorld

LLRX

Knowledge sharing, social media and knowledge management expert V. Mary Abraham shares her readout and impressions of this timely and impactful keynote presented by Marco Iansiti, Harvard Business School Professor of Business Administration, and Coauthor of Competing in the Age of AI. Abraham's insights encompass how the pandemic is accelerating enormous changes.

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Legal Tech Talk: Journey to the Cloud | Maturity Level Guide | and the Future of Work

Legal Talk Network

Amid devastating headlines about the devastation and disruption of the pandemic, there are robust conversations about the role technology is playing in keeping legal professionals connected and in business. So it’s no surprise that tech adoption issues can dominate discussions in the news and across Legal Talk Network from its impact on law practice to implications for labor and employment law.

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European Data Protection Roundup: 2020 in Five Trends

Debevoise Data Blog

Over two years since the GDPR came into force, the full extent of its impact is still developing at pace. In this post, we look back at the 2020 European data protection landscape and five trends that help companies understand not only where we are, but where data protection enforcement, litigation, and practice may be headed. 1. Enforcement against a wide range of violations with no one enforcement model winning out Data Protection Authorities (“DPAs”) undoubtedly hit their stride in 2020 with

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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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Greg Lambert on the Importance of the 21st Century Law Librarian

Technically Legal

In the first episode of 2021 we talk to a fellow podcaster and legal blogger Greg Lambert. He is co-host of the Geek in Review Podcast and also writes for Three Geeks and a Law Blog. Both the Three Geeks podcast and blog focus on legal innovation and change in the legal industry. Greg’s day job is Chief Knowledge Services Officer for the Dallas based law firm Jackson Walker.

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4 Microsoft Outlook Tips for Lawyers

NSLT

4 Microsoft Outlook Tips for Lawyers Digital marketing has changed throughout the years. However for lawyers and paralegals, email is still one of the foundational ways they communicate with their clients. When it comes to Microsoft Office, there’s a few tips and tricks that lawyers use to increase productivity and to communicate effectively. Let's go through a few tips to help you get started in Microsoft Outlook. 1) Learn Keyboard Shortcuts Here are a few keyboard shortcuts to help navigate in

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Online Research Browsers and Data Visualization Tools 2021

LLRX

This guide by Marcus P. Zillman focuses on free and feed based research browsers and data visualization tools for research and analysis. This guide focuses on free and feed based research browsers and data visualization tools for research and analysis. These tools can be used to support legal research, legal marketing, business and competitive intelligence research, knowledge management and knowledge discovery, and data mining.

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Editor’s Picks: Make Common Sense Prevail | Redefine the Hub at Firms, Conferences

Legal Talk Network

Thanks to Lawyerist Podcast host Stephanie Everett for tips on simples ways to start the day with a positive outlook. Everett tells co-host Laura Briggs how she thoughtfully picks three things she’s grateful for each day. She doesn’t pick the obvious, at least not without digging deeper into why she is grateful. Choosing gratitude is a way Everett says legal professionals can put stressors into context.

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Court Chips Away at Privilege Protections for Cyber Forensic Reports

Debevoise Data Blog

On January 12, Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted plaintiff Guo Wengui’s motion to compel production of a report (the “Report”)—and related materials—prepared by forensic vendor Duff & Phelps in Guo’s lawsuit against the law firm that formerly represented him, Clark Hill, PLC (the “Firm”). See Wengui v.

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ABA TECHSHOW 2021 Goes Virtual!

ABA TECHSHOW

ABA TECHSHOW co-chairs Allan Mackenzie and Roberta Tepper offer a sneak peek at the content and events coming to this year’s fully online conference. What will an online ABA TECHSHOW look like for attendees? Jim and Sharon welcome this year’s co-chairs, Allan Mackenzie and Roberta Tepper, to hear all about the reinvention of TECHSHOW 2021 in the virtual realm.

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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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4 Microsoft Outlook Tips for Lawyers

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4 Microsoft Outlook Tips for Lawyers Digital marketing has changed throughout the years. However for lawyers and paralegals, email is still one of the foundational ways they communicate with their clients. When it comes to Microsoft Office, there’s a few tips and tricks that lawyers use to increase productivity and to communicate effectively. Let's go through a few tips to help you get started in Microsoft Outlook. 1) Learn Keyboard Shortcuts Here are a few keyboard shortcuts to help navigate in

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5 Tips to Ensure Knowledge Management Project Success in Law Firms

Global LegalTech Hub

By Carlos García-Egocheaga, CEO, ,, Lexsoft Given the current economic uncertainties and increased competition, coupled with a dispersed workforce, the need for knowledge management (KM) in law firms is amplified and so, it is no surprise that the function is making a resurgence. Long considered a luxury that only large law could afford, today thanks to technology, KM is supremely affordable.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 31, 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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History of Lynch Mobs | A Chaotic News Cycle Rundown | LIBOR Under the Radar | Best/Worst in Legal Marketing?

Legal Talk Network

A breadth of topics captured my interests this week at Legal Talk Network. One more for my Goodreads wish list comes from The Modern Law Library. Host Lee Rawles speaks with historian Jane Dailey, the author of “ White Fright ” for an unfortunately timely and relevant discussion of lynch mobs. Rawles and Dailey discuss what a historical look at riotous groups can teach us about the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

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Ep 107: Was the Pandemic A Tipping Point for Law Firms?

LawNext podcast

As we begin to look ahead to a post-pandemic world, what will the legal market look like in 2021 and beyond? Has the pandemic’s impact on law firms resulted in a tipping point that will forever alter law firms and the business of law? A report by the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at the Georgetown University Law Center and Thomson Reuters Institute , 2021 Report on the State of the Legal Market , speculates that the combined effects of the pandemic may have so softened partner resist

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Webcast — Cyber and AI Insurance – A Discussion with Stefan Toi of Aon Cyber Solutions and Marcello Antonucci of Beazley on Navigating Cyber Insurance Coverage and AI Gaps

Debevoise Data Blog

On January 6, 2021, Avi Gesser and Anna Gressel from Debevoise’s Data Strategy and Security Group and Keith Slattery from Debevoise’s Insurance Group has an insightful conversation with Stefan Toi from Aon Cyber Solutions and Marcello Antonucci from Beazley on cyber insurance coverage and the gaps it may leave for the unique risks posed by artificial intelligence.

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LinkedIn for Lawyers: 10 Profile Tips to Build Your Brand

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LinkedIn for Lawyers: 10 Profile Tips to Build Your Brand LinkedIn for lawyers is one of the most powerful social networking tools available, thanks to its unique concentration of professionals prepared for networking. Colleagues and potential clients are turning to LinkedIn as a source of information on lawyers and firms, making LinkedIn a crucial place to curate the most flattering professional profile possible.

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Legal analytics in law firms

Global LegalTech Hub

Data exists everywhere and anything that we do results in more data. Law Firms collect large amounts of data every day. However, few firms have realized the need for analyzing this data in order to improve their business. Data analytics is becoming more important in many industries, and the legal sector is no exception. Simply put, data analytics is the science of examining data in order to make a conclusion about some information.

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As U.S. Capitol investigators use facial recognition, it begs the question: Who owns our faces?

LLRX

In the age of Big Tech, we need to grapple with what expectations we can and should have about who has access to our faces. The recent riot at the U.S. Capitol has put the question into the spotlight as facial recognition becomes a vital tool in identifying rioters: What is the power of facial recognition technology, and are we ready for it? Professor Wendy H.

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Lucy Bassli on The Modern Legal Ecosystem and Unicorn Lawyers (2018)

Technically Legal

The modern legal ecosystem and all its allied professionals is the topic of discussion with Lucy Bassli, founder of InnoLaw Group (formerly InnoLegal Services) and Chief Legal Strategist at Law Geex. Lucy started her career in Big Law (at Davis Wright Tremaine) and ultimately landed a job in Microsoft’s legal department where she served as Assistant General Counsel.

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Ep 106: AltaClaro’s Abdi Shayesteh on Developing ‘Rocket Fuel for Legal Skills Training’

LawNext podcast

Legal technology company AltaClaro describes itself as “rocket fuel for legal skills training. It uses a unique experiential framework based on education science, with mock transactions and live feedback, all done online. Our guest this week on LawNext is AltaClaro’s founder and CEO Abdi Shayesteh, who says he first developed his entrepreneurial bent as an 11-year-old Iranian immigrant helping his father manage a small café in San Diego, and then as a 17-year-old founding a clothing company to s

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Regulatory Risks for Not Disclosing Trading Algorithms – Five Takeaways from the SEC’s $170 Million Settlement with BlueCrest Capital

Debevoise Data Blog

Regulators in the United States and abroad are showing increasing interest in pursuing enforcement actions against companies that deploy artificial intelligence, machine learning, or algorithmic-based applications (“AI”) in a way that the regulators perceive as harmful to the public. These regulators expect transparent and comprehensive disclosures by companies regarding AI that can negatively affect clients or customers.

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LinkedIn for Lawyers: 10 Profile Tips to Build Your Brand

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LinkedIn for Lawyers: 10 Profile Tips to Build Your Brand LinkedIn for lawyers is one of the most powerful social networking tools available, thanks to its unique concentration of professionals prepared for networking. Colleagues and potential clients are turning to LinkedIn as a source of information on lawyers and firms, making LinkedIn a crucial place to curate the most flattering professional profile possible.

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Prevent COVID Burn-Out: Take Mental Breaks

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 23, 2020

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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Editor’s Picks: Creating a Will for Your Practice | SCOTUS Practice Amid Covid-19 | Back to Georgia

Legal Talk Network

Events over the last year and past week have many thinking about the end of days. And during the pandemic, estate planning became an urgent matter for individuals and families. Just like their clients, lawyers need to manage their personal affairs. But they also need to consider what will happen to their practices should they retire or meet an untimely demise.

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Ep 105: Leaders of Fastcase and Casemaker Discuss their Merger

LawNext podcast

Just a few days into 2021 came news that could end up being one of the biggest legal technology stories of the year. On Jan. 5, two leading legal research companies, Casemaker and Fastcase – two companies that have been rivals for as long as they’ve been in business – announced their merger. The combined company, which will operate under the Fastcase name, has a subscriber base estimated to be more than a million lawyers, or more than three quarters of the 1.3 million lawyers in the United Sta

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Banking Agencies Propose 36-Hour Data Breach Reporting Rules for Significant Incidents

Debevoise Data Blog

On January 12, 2021, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) and the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) (together the “Agencies”) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (“Proposed Rule”) that would significantly update the Agencies’ guidance on data breach response. The Proposed Rule would impose prompt reporting requirements on banking organizations and their service providers with respect to certain data breaches and other cyber e

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Top 13 Microsoft Word Tips for Lawyers

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Top 13 Microsoft Word Tips for Lawyers It’s unavoidable: Working with documents is a necessary part of being an attorney—which is why enhancing your skills in Microsoft Word is an important opportunity for lawyers. Here are 13 Microsoft Word features that every lawyer should know.

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Prevent COVID Burn-Out: Embrace Family Time

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The body’s fight against COVID-19 explained using 3D-printed models

LLRX

In this interview, Nathan Ahlgren , assistant professor of biology at Clark University, uses 3D-printed models to explain what proteins do in viruses, how they interact with human cells, how the vaccine delivers mRNA into the cell, and how antibodies protect us.

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Public Domain Day 2021: Honoring a lost generation

LLRX

John Mark Ockerbloom elucidates the significance of promoting and protecting literature, the public domain and open access to publications In the age of COVID-19.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 23, 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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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 3, 2020

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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The Next Social Media Frontier For Lawyers: Clubhouse

LLRX

Clubhouse is an audio chat platform that is available as an iOS app and is invite only for now. It consists of user-created drop-in audio chat rooms. You can form your own chat room or join rooms created by others. These chat rooms can be created spontaneously or scheduled ahead of time. identifies how the app provides lawyers with opportunities to showcase your expertise, connect with professional colleagues who might be potential referral sources, and generate exposure for your law firm.

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