Ward Blawg
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Running a successful law firm and being a good lawyer shouldn’t be incongruous, but to achieve these goals you need to identify – and implement – the best tools at your disposal.
Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Boredom is good for you and might just be the secret key to getting your life back on track. Normally I pepper my articles with data from carefully researched scientific papers and quotes from reputable writers in established magazines, but this one is different. This is from the heart. People outside of law don’t think of it as a creative field. Like a recent meme I shared, maybe a million times too many, they think of attorneys as “attack librarians.” That is not too far off the ma
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Internet for Lawyers
OCTOBER 3, 2022
By Mark Rosch A defense attorney in Florida is believed to be the first to use artificial intelligence-based facial recognition software to exonerate a client. The New York Times is reporting that Patrick Bailey of Ft. Meyers, FL succesfully requested access.
Rocket Matter
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Let’s say you’re in the middle of drafting a brief, and your phone rings. The ringing catches you off guard, and you try to decide what to do. You could simply not pick up your phone, but it might be a potential client who would be the perfect fit for your firm. On the other hand, you’re slammed with work and could use those precious minutes to finally make some progress.
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LLRX
OCTOBER 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
OCTOBER 14, 2022
It has been a busy week in legal tech, including the 10th annual Clio Cloud Conference and the first-ever American Legal Technology Awards gala. We’ll recap those stories and more with our usual Friday panel of legal tech journalists and bloggers today at 3 p.m. ET. A ttendance is free, but, if you have not already done so, you need to register, which you can do here.
Legal Tech Connection brings together the best content for legal and legal tech professionals from the widest variety of thought leaders.
Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Think Again About the Cybersecurity Risks of Small Law Firms. It is astonishing how often small law firms tell us that they are too small to be at serious risk for cyberattacks. Anecdotally, we can tell them of many successful attacks on small law firms, though our knowledge is derived from successful attacks where we’ve been called in to investigate or remediate the damage, so we cannot identify the law firms.
Above and Beyond KM
OCTOBER 31, 2022
In-person ideation is not always better than virtual ideation. There are other factors that matter as much, if not more, than location. When research is published in a premier peer-reviewed journal like Nature , I sit up and pay attention. And, when the research relates to collaboration and innovation, I really pay attention. After all, so much of our work as knowledge management professionals is to enable better collaboration and innovation.
Rocket Matter
OCTOBER 13, 2022
Halloween may be the biggest holiday in October, but something even spookier threatens to scare people this holiday season: hackers. October is cybersecurity month, which means it’s time to take an inventory of the systems your law firm uses to protect its data. Every firm should take cybersecurity seriously. Nearly 60% of ethical hackers say it takes them five hours or less to break into a corporate environment once they identify a weak point.
LLRX
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Robert W. Gehl , Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University, Canada raises an important issue about a recent Pew report on current state of digital media, news and right-wing propaganda. Gehl states the report misses a large number of alternative social media sites that actively and effectively oppose the right-wing propaganda.
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LawSites
OCTOBER 20, 2022
In a unique partnership between a law firm and a legal technology company, the immigration firm Siskind Susser and its technology affiliate Visalaw.Ai have entered into a collaboration agreement with the legal technology and publishing company Fastcase to develop what they say will be a state-of-the-art immigration case management and document automation platform.
Legal Tech Blog
OCTOBER 31, 2022
The European Legal Tech Association (ELTA) Annual Legal Tech Conference will take place in Tel Aviv this year. Join ELTA for the main event on November 29, 2022, for a day of legal tech, networking and fun. Following the day of the conference, there will be an optional start-up nation tour of companies in Tel Aviv. With over 500 members, ELTA encourages a dialogue between legal technology users and developers.
Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 16, 2022
As more states are allowing law firms to use trade names instead of maintaining the outdated requirement that firms be named after current or former partners, you may be considering rebranding your firm. I’m in the process of rebranding my firm (more on that in a future post), and I want to share the 10 steps I went through to change my law firm name in Arizona.
Relativity
OCTOBER 28, 2022
In today’s episode, Security Sandbox heads across the globe for a conversation on the intricacies of modern-day penetration testing and how you can elevate the everyday skills of your cybersecurity team.
Nextpoint
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Brett Burney, Nextpoint’s eLaw Evangelist, shares his thoughts after attending ClioCon 2022 with the Nextpoint team. Law firms that refuse to adopt cloud-based tools may struggle to maintain continuity in the post-pandemic world. That was the strong, overarching message from the impactful Clio Cloud Conference held October 10-11, 2022 in Nashville, TN (affectionately known as […] The post Reports From ClioCon: The Secret to More Satisfied Clients, Happier Employees, and Stronger Reve
LLRX
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Professors Dam Hee Kim , Anjana Susarla and Scott Shackelford are experts on social media. They were asked to grade how ready Facebook, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube are to handle the task of misinformation and disinformation in the upcoming election cycles. Social media companies have announced plans to deal with misinformation in the 2022 midterm elections, but the companies vary in their approaches and effectiveness and the result promises to be another jarring challenge to democracy in America
LawSites
OCTOBER 28, 2022
At the 2022 Clio Cloud Conference held recently in Nashville, I sat down for a series of in-person interviews with Clio executives. In this episode, I speak with Shubham Datta , vice president of corporate development at Clio. Datta has one of the best jobs in legal tech. He oversees the development and execution of Clio’s strategic growth strategy through acquisitions and investments.
Legal Tech Blog
OCTOBER 30, 2022
Manchester-based contract lifecycle management platform provider Summize has secured £5m Series A investment from YFM Equity Partners (YFM) and Maven Capital Partners (Maven), as it looks to build its presence in the US and further develop its intelligent SaaS legal technology. Founded in 2018, Summize has experienced rapid growth by taking a disruptive approach to a traditional sector.
Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 18, 2022
What’s in and what’s out for client gifts this year? Holiday gift-giving to clients and referral sources was already perilous before the pandemic. With so many people working remotely and many offices maintaining COVID-19 restrictions, even a simple gesture like bringing or sending a tray of Christmas cookies is often impossible. Watch Out for Rules When Presenting Client Gifts.
Debevoise Data Blog
OCTOBER 27, 2022
On 24 October 2022, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) fined Interserve Group Limited £4.4 million for failing to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to safeguard 113,000 individuals’ personal data in company HR databases. Here we outline what went wrong and lessons for businesses about how to manage the risk of similar incidents and regulatory enforcement action.
Relativity
OCTOBER 27, 2022
During the opening keynote at Relativity Fest 2022, we covered how the community is helping to activate our mission—to organize data, discover the truth, and act on it—in the real world, and what's on our product roadmap.
LLRX
OCTOBER 30, 2022
In the third in his series on presentations, Jerry Lawson recommends a simple yet powerful tool that presenters can use to improve presentation quality, especially in some special situations: Requiring audience members to submit all questions in writing.
LawSites
OCTOBER 5, 2022
At a time when law firms are struggling to retain talent and wrestling to balance hybrid workplaces, the Texas-based corporate law firm Vela Wood did something unique: It sent its employees and their families to Portugal for a month. Why did it do it? How did it do it? What did clients think? And are there lessons for other firms? For the answers to those questions and more, our guests this week are the two name partners of the firm: Kevin Vela , who is the firm’s managing partner, and Radney Wo
Bigfork Tech
OCTOBER 24, 2022
What is contract lifecycle management? Contract lifecycle management (CLM) automates and streamlines contract processes during key stages. These stages include intake, authoring, process and workflow, negotiation and approval, repositories, execution, ongoing management and compliance, and contract renewal. A great clm will work for you and not the other way around.
Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Halloween weekend is here, and we’re all about the treats. But first, here are five spooky workplace trends to keep you on your toes. 1. Ghost Jobs (Boo!). Ghosting — the trend of disappearing without a trace, whether deep-sixing a relationship, a job offer or any manner of commitment — has been enjoying a long moment. Of course, the phenomenon isn’t new.
Debevoise Data Blog
OCTOBER 26, 2022
On October 4, 2022, the White House released the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights (the “Blueprint”), which provides non-binding “principles” for organizations in both the public and private sectors to use when developing or deploying artificial intelligence (“AI”) or other automated systems. The Blueprint does not include many new ideas for AI compliance.
Relativity
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Labor trafficking happens everywhere. Learn how technology can abet traffickers, but also offer a way to prevent abuse—and how you can help change things—in our On the Merits: Labor Trafficking documentary.
LLRX
OCTOBER 30, 2022
The fundamental concept of privacy has changed dramatically as more individuals have shifted most of their data to online platforms. There are however a wide range of personal, professional, corporate and legal issues that present significant barriers to the goal of maintaining privacy on the internet. Online privacy is not a right or even a choice when you use email, browsers and search engines, social media, ecommerce sites, online subscriptions.the list goes on and on.
LawSites
OCTOBER 31, 2022
In a pilot program announced today, Legal Aid Chicago , the largest legal services organization in the Chicago area, is launching an integration pilot program between LegalServer , a case management system for civil legal aid and public defender organizations, and Paladin , the pro bono management program. F unded by a Legal Services Corporation Technology Initiative Grant (TIG), this is the first integration between LegalServer and Paladin.
Legal Tech Blog
OCTOBER 22, 2022
After two incredible shows in London, Artificial Lawyer and Cosmonauts will host Legal Innovators UK this year again – bringing you the best in Legal Tech in London! Legal Innovators UK will take place on the 10th and 11th of November 2022 at the stunning etc. venues St. Pauls. Focused on the intersection between technology and law, Legal Innovators is for everyone interested in innovation.
Attorney at Work
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Lawyer flat fee billing can be tricky. Transitioning to flat fees means passing the reasonableness test and following local ethics guide rails. QUESTION: I’m a solo practitioner with a general practice handling everything from real estate transactions to family law. While most of my billing comes from traditional hourly rates for matters, I have always used flat fees for certain client demands such as residential real estate transactions and basic estate planning.
Debevoise Data Blog
OCTOBER 24, 2022
On September 28, 2022, the European Commission released a proposal to change the legal landscape for companies developing and implementing artificial intelligence in EU Member States. This AI Liability Directive would require Member States to implement rules that would significantly lower evidentiary hurdles for victims injured by AI-related products or services to bring civil liability claims.
Nextpoint
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Ediscovery challenges and discovery disputes are avoidable if you plan ahead and stick to your ESI protocols. Here are 7 scenarios you might find yourself in during discovery and how you can avoid them through thorough planning. Discovery of electronically stored information can seem daunting and overwhelming for those unfamiliar, and even for the experienced […] The post Creating a Road Map for Ediscovery: 7 Key Issues and How to Avoid Them appeared first on Nextpoint.
LLRX
OCTOBER 26, 2022
I, Lemba Adula, happen to be the hero of Drone Child: A Novel of War, Family, and Survival. So here I am, a Congolese villager turned self-taught hacker turned child soldier turned military drone expert turned sea-going pirate turned university student turned entrepreneur turned major industrialist. Just why did David Rothman write what he says is my fictional war memoir?
LawSites
OCTOBER 10, 2022
At its annual Clio Cloud Conference today, the law practice management company Clio released the 2022 edition of its annual Legal Trends Report – its seventh year of the report. It finds that law firms are seeing an average 10% increase in the growth of new business, but that their fees are 3% below where they should be given recent trends in inflation.
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