Legal Talk Network

JULY 2, 2021

Rankings of all sorts can be controversial, especially for those being ranked when their numbers never materialize or slip. Yet, they continue to be incredibly important for the marketing of law schools, law firms, etc. As long as consumers and clients care about rankings, they will exist. On Thinking Like a Lawyer , Joe Patrice, Kathryn Rubino, and Chris Williams review Above the Law’s law school rankings.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 16, 2021

While much of the world stopped last year, depositions didn’t. Cases forged ahead and lawyers scrambled to establish new ways of taking depositions and handling proceedings that, for decades, had been routine. As we emerge out of the pandemic, many of the pivots intended as bandages for uncertain times will become permanent changes to the way we conduct and prepare for depositions.

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LawSites

JULY 1, 2021

The Chicago-based legal technology company Litera has acquired Objective Manager , a UK company that provides a SaaS platform for law firms to use in strategic planning, performance measurement and talent engagement. The purpose of the platform is to enable firms to accelerate their strategic and performance agendas by aligning their people to the firm’s strategic objectives.

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Trial Technology

JULY 20, 2021

Now that the courts are beginning to get back to business, will we continue to have remote witnesses and juries? That's a great question, and we'd have a completely different answer had it not been for COVID-19. What we've just experienced is one of the fastest implementations of technology by the legal professions ever. Technology, when used properly, can make you more effective and efficient in trial.

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Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Get ready to master the art and science of trial preparation organization that top attorneys rely on in this exclusive webinar! Attorney and law professor, Joe Stephens, J.D., will walk through proven systems for creating comprehensive trial notebooks and binders that transform scattered case materials into a powerful command center. Learning Objectives: Strategic Organization 📊 Learn the essential sections every trial notebook needs and how to structure them for maximum clarity and acce

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LLRX

JULY 18, 2021

Good-faith disagreements are a normal part of society and building strong relationships. Yet it’s difficult to engage in good-faith disagreements on the internet, and people reach less common ground online compared with face-to-face disagreements. There’s no shortage of research about the psychology of arguing online, from text versus voice to how anyone can become a troll and advice about how to argue well.

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lawtomated

JULY 27, 2021

Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Facebook Pinterest Print Email Sharan Kaur has a 360-degree view of the legaltech market. Sharan has worked as a lawyer in both private practice and in-house, as a tech buyer and vendor and as a consultant advising start-ups as well as legal teams regarding legaltech and process optimisation. On the vendor side, Sharan has worked at behemoths like Thomson Reuters Contract Express as well as fast growth start-ups such as Bryter.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 7, 2021

Considering a podcast for your law firm? Here are some podcasting tips to get started. Although podcasting has been around since 2005, it seems like it has suddenly become “a thing” for lawyers. The big spike in the number of podcasts left some of us wondering what they are, why they are so popular — and whether it’s too late to start a podcast of our own.

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LawSites

JULY 12, 2021

Subscribers to Lexis+. the premium legal research platform that LexisNexis launched last year , will now have access to breaking legal news headlines across 76 practice areas with the introduction today of the Legal News Hub. The Legal News Hub provides subscribers with access to headlines and summaries of current news stories from the LexisNexis-owned Law360 and Law360 Pulse news services.

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LexCloud.ca

JULY 27, 2021

The whole legal profession is now online and video conference platforms like Zoom are regularly used for everything from client meetings to virtual trials.

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LLRX

JULY 4, 2021

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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Advertiser: Trellis

Finance teams find Trellis to be particularly effective in conducting comprehensive due diligence on both individuals and businesses. With our court data solution, financial experts can access critical litigation insights, making it an invaluable resource for informed decision-making in the financial sector.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JULY 27, 2021

Earlier this year, we wrote about the SEC’s cybersecurity priorities. Since then, the SEC announced a settlement with First American Title Insurance and Services (“First American”) for violating Rule 13a-15(a) of the Exchange Act, and issued a voluntary request for information to a number of companies in connection with the SolarWinds cyber attack (“Voluntary Request”).

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Technically Legal

JULY 27, 2021

Cyber incident response. Cyber attacks. Unfortunately, we hear these terms daily nowadays. But what really goes on behind the scenes in a cyber incident? To answer that question, we asked Luke Green, a Breach Response Services Manager for cyber insurer Beazley Group and Josh Sudbury, Managing Principal of Forensic Investigations at Lodestone, a leading cyber defense and incident response company, to come on the show.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 23, 2021

Many of us struggled with balancing our work responsibilities and personal lives even before the pandemic destroyed our regular routines and norms. With technology allowing 24/7 work-from-everywhere access, setting boundaries was a challenge. During the pandemic, however, boundaries seemed to disappear as we worked alongside our families or housemates at home, and all professional, educational and personal activities happened in the same timeframe and physical space.

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LawSites

JULY 6, 2021

The law practice management company MyCase has quietly acquired two legal technology companies in recent months, without announcing the acquisitions to the public. On March 31, MyCase acquired CASEpeer , a case management platform for plaintiffs’ attorneys. Around the same time, MyCase acquired Woodpecker , which provides legal document automation software for solo and small law firms.

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Speaker: Allison Mears, Adela Wekselblatt, and George Socha

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal industry, and paralegals are at the forefront of this transformation. As AI becomes more integrated into legal workflows, paralegals can streamline their daily tasks, enhance efficiency, and add greater value to their firms and organizations. But what exactly does AI mean for paralegals today—and how can you leverage it to your advantage?

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lawtomated

JULY 19, 2021

Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Facebook Pinterest Print Email Guest post by Amy Flippant from Della. When I moved to Spain at the age of 21, I thought my GCSE-level knowledge of grammar rules and structures would help me get by. What I later learned was that hearing Spanish, in real-life scenarios, was the best way to expand my vocabulary and develop my linguistic skills.

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LLRX

JULY 25, 2021

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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Debevoise Data Blog

JULY 21, 2021

Companies face increasing risk to their operations resulting from a cyber breach of a critical vendor. We have recently written about creating a sensible cybersecurity and AI risk framework for critical vendors , and regulators have issued both formal and informal guidance addressing vendor cybersecurity risk management: The SEC , the New York’s Department of Financial Services , the FTC , FINRA , the CFTC/NFA and U.S. federal banking agencies have all issued guidance on vendor cybersecurity due

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NSLT

JULY 30, 2021

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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Speaker: Andrew Klein

Are there mysteries lurking in your family tree? 🕵 No, not a long-lost half-brother - I'm talking about a patent family tree! IP paralegals need fast and easy ways to verify and report on essential data about foreign equivalents of US assets. Join us to master the global scope of key assets to support prosecution, portfolio management, litigation, licensing, competitive monitoring and more!

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Attorney at Work

JULY 9, 2021

Even though business is opening up again, certain pandemic workplace changes are here to stay. At least for a while. To one degree or another, every person on Earth has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The same is true for every business, professional services firm and other organization. While many people in the United States have been vaccinated, herd immunity is still months, if not years, away.

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LawSites

JULY 30, 2021

I recently had the great honor to be interviewed by Ivy B. Grey , vice president, strategy & business development, at WordRake , about lessons learned in journalism that can be applied in law. The interview is now posted at WordRake, where we discuss what journalism can teach legal professionals about effective writing, interviewing, working with editors, and meeting deadlines, among other topics.

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LawNext podcast

JULY 20, 2021

With his contract-management company having just raised $40 million in Series B funding, Linksquares cofounder and CEO Vishal Sunak is aiming for some big goals, including “to build legal tech solutions that simply weren’t possible before.” In announcing the raise, which brings the company’s total funding to $61.4 million, Sunak vowed that the company will develop its AI technology to “offer functionality no one has seen before,” and that it will soon introduce “a first-of-its-kind product that

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LLRX

JULY 11, 2021

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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Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Ready to cut through the AI hype and learn exactly how to use these tools in your legal work? Join this webinar to get practical guidance from attorney and AI legal expert, Joe Stephens, who understands what really matters for legal professionals! What You'll Learn: Evaluate AI Tools Like a Pro 🔍 Learn which tools are worth your time and how to spot potential security and ethics risks before they become problems.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JULY 20, 2021

The big news in June were the EU Standard Contractual Clauses for cross-border data transfers to non-EEA countries. There were also significant developments for companies engaging in employee surveillance, ad tech, data scraping and the use of AI. Here are our highlights: European Commission adopts new Standard Contractual Clauses What happened : As reported in our blog post , the European Commission adopted its new Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) for the cross-border transfer of persona

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NSLT

JULY 30, 2021

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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Attorney at Work

JULY 29, 2021

At this stage of your career, you might think reading documents is a baseline skill you’ve mastered just fine, thanks. But, whether you realize it or not, you probably spend more time reading documents in Microsoft Word than actually drafting them — especially if you have gone paperless. Since all that onscreen reading can exhaust your body and your brain, it’s worth checking out a few Office 365 features that make reading easier.

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LawSites

JULY 22, 2021

Lou Andreozzi , the former chairman of Bloomberg Law and CEO of LexisNexis North American Legal Markets, has been appointed to the board of directors of global managed services provider Integreon , the company said today. The news comes a month after Integreon was acquired by the private equity firm EagleTree Capital. Integreon said that Andreozzi will serve on the board in a non-executive capacity, consulting with Integreon CEO Bob Rowe and other senior Integreon managers, as well as with the E

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Speaker: Anne Post, CEO North America, Xakia Technologies

Do you know that 40% of U.S. Legal Departments now have a formal legal intake process? With that in mind, where does your legal department stand today? Many legal teams still struggle with a flood of incoming requests, leaving everyone overwhelmed and frustrated. Implementing a formal legal intake process can seem like an obstacle between the business and the legal department, but it doesn’t have to be!

LawNext podcast

JULY 12, 2021

Mary Shen O’Carroll pioneered the field of legal operations during her 13 years as director of operations, technology and strategy at Google. She was also instrumental in forming the influential organization CLOC – the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium – and was elected its president in 2019. In April, she walked away from both of those roles, leaving Google and stepping down as CLOC president, to join the contract lifecycle management company Ironclad as chief community officer, where she

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Technically Legal

JULY 7, 2021

Data analytics maturity models (and legal operations maturity models in general) are the topic of discussion with Peter Eilhauer, Managing Director for Legal Spend Solutions at Epiq. Peter knows his stuff about legal spend management–he’s been working in and around it for 16 years. He started as a consultant helping law firms manage costs and then jumped ship to help corporate legal departments manage their legal spend.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JULY 26, 2021

On July 19, 2021, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced his first-year enforcement update on the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), and unveiled a tool to help the Attorney General’s office (“CAAG”)—the primary enforcer of the CCPA until the California Privacy Protection Agency takes over —identify CCPA violations.

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NSLT

JULY 28, 2021

Four Reasons You Need Legal Files Software Legal Files Software enables you–the non-technical person with no programming ability–to create your own fields, make your own menus and windows, as well as standardize and speed up data entry using your own drop-down lists. You can even customize for different departments or different locations.

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Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

The difference between a paralegal and an exceptional paralegal isn't just competence—it's the bold initiative to anticipate needs, master hidden firm dynamics, and transform challenges into opportunities that showcase your indispensable value. Join this webinar with attorney Joe Stephens to get an insider's perspective into how you can become a strategic asset to your practice!

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