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How to achieve a return on your legal software investment

Ward Blawg

An unlikely source of inspiration for improving efficiencies and overall performance for your firm can be found in the British Cycling team. With their success routed in continuous optimisation and a focus on improving every aspect of their team by just 1%, the team became champions.

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Harry Nelson: How to Be a Top Lawyer In Your Field

Attorney at Work

What does it take to become a successful lawyer in your particular niche? In a series of in-depth interviews for the Estrin Report , Chere Estrin profiles top lawyers from all types of practices. In this column, we zero in on their top tips. This week, we feature healthcare advocate Harry Nelson, founder of Nelson Hardiman. Harry Nelson. Founder. Nelson Hardiman.

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Three Steps for a More Agile Law Firm (While Also Saving Money and Time!)

Rocket Matter

If you’ve worked in the legal field over the past decade or so, you may have heard the term Agile law tossed around at conferences and networking events. But what exactly does this buzziest of legal buzzwords actually mean—and how do you go about building an agile law firm? Agile law doesn’t mean you need… Read More » Three Steps for a More Agile Law Firm (While Also Saving Money and Time!).

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Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 2, 2022

LLRX

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.

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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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LILW meets GLH 2022 – Fast.Law

Legal Tech Innovation Wales

When stepping into uncharted territories, there are always challenges, however, the experience one gains through the journey makes it worthwhile. That was the case for the participants of the Global Legal Hackathon 2022 - at least the one hosted in Manchester University - where we put our agile development and team-working skills to the test over the weekend of the 25th of March.

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4 Tips to Help Junior Lawyers Effectively Communicate via Email With Clients

Attorney at Work

A lawyer sets clients at ease by effectively communicating, which means client email that is prompt, informed, easy to read and proactive. For most lawyers fresh out of law school, it’s going to be a bit before they’re arguing in a courtroom or negotiating in a boardroom on behalf of a client. But sooner rather than later, you will be communicating with clients.

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Practice Management Company Centerbase Acquires Legal Website and Marketing Platform Legalfit

LawSites

Centerbase , a Dallas-based company providing cloud legal practice management software for mid-sized law firms, has has acquired Legalfit , a Kansas City company that provides web marketing and content management technology tailored specifically for small and mid-sized law firms. Centerbase says the acquisition enables it to expand its practice management product — which already offers a broad set of billing, accounting and practice management tools — to enable mid-sized law firms to manage the

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Zoom and Legal Outreach: the Manchester experience

Law, Technology and Access to Justice

Pretty well all legal service organisations will have made use of video communication over the Covid period. Some have used it for community outreach work as well as internal communication between staff and external with clients.

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Video Marketing Tips for Law Firms

Attorney at Work

Video for law firms has become a popular digital marketing strategy. Video content is more engaging than traditional long-form articles, and the afforded expression of emotion can help law firms convert leads into clients. To produce quality videos for your law firm, you need to understand what types of videos you should be making, how to film the content, where to distribute it and how to evaluate success.

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Why Ethical AI Initiatives Need Help from Corporate Compliance

Debevoise Data Blog

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming part of the core business operations at many companies. This widespread adoption of AI has led to a proliferation of corporate “ethical AI” principles and programs, as companies seek to ensure that they are using AI fairly and responsibly, and in a manner consistent with the growing expectations of customers, employees, investors, regulators, and the public.

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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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Virtual Law Clinic, Soon to Launch, Provides Platform for Law Firms and Legal Organizations to Manage their Pro Bono Matters

LawSites

A soon-to-launch product will make it easier for law firms and legal organizations to manage their pro bono matters, providing an administrative platform for assigning matters to lawyers, monitoring case statuses, documenting outcomes, and providing training materials and forms. Called Virtual Law Clinic, it is the second product to come out of Theory and Principle , the legal technology design and development company that more typically develops products for others.

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Scenes from Yesterday’s FutureLaw Conference 2022 at Stanford CodeX

Computational Legal Studies

Scenes from Yesterday’s #FutureLaw2022 at Stanford CodeX — it was great to get back in person with many folks who I have not seen in years!

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How to Make Clients Happy: 5 Simple Workplace Tips for Young Lawyers

Attorney at Work

Life is complicated, but your relationships with your clients don’t have to be. Following these simple tips will help make clients happy to work with you. If you want to keep a business client happy, don’t waste their time — and try not to make working with you a chore. Here are five tips for communicating with clients, based on decades as a small business owner. 1.

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Password Protect Workbooks & Worksheets

NSLT

Password Protect Workbooks and Worksheets Your Excel workbook or worksheets contain sensitive strategic data, so you want to require others to enter a password to open them. Or you can share the data freely with anyone without requiring a password, but require a password to make changes. Take this short course to find out more.

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LEAP Legal Software Acquires WealthCounsel and ElderCounsel

LawSites

LEAP Legal Software , an international provider of cloud-based practice management software for smaller law firms, has acquired WealthCounsel , a leading provider of software, training and support for estate planning lawyers, and its related company ElderCounsel. Founded in 1997, Utah-based WealthCounsel provides software and templates for drafting estate planning and business documents.

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Ep 158: Jonathan Pyle on Why He Developed Docassemble and Made It Open Source

LawNext podcast

In his day job, Jonathan Pyle is the contract performance officer at Philadelphia Legal Assistance, where he is responsible for compliance, reporting, and implementing new uses of technology to analyze, streamline, and expand service delivery. But in the legal tech world, Pyle is better known as the developer of Docassemble , a free and open source document assembly application that has been widely adapted for a range of applications.

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Leaving Your Firm? Aim for a Joint Notice to Clients

Attorney at Work

A joint letter is part of the best practices for leaving your firm, but there are more issues to consider. Find them here. Question: After four years at my current firm, I’ve accepted an offer to lateral to another firm. I’ll be continuing in the same practice area and locale, so I hope to keep some of my clients, current and past. While I’ve watched my colleagues make similar moves, I’m concerned about meeting my obligations to my clients and leaving the firm on a positive (and ethical) note.

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Session on Computable Contracts in the Insurance Sector (PreMeeting for tomorrow’s FutureLaw Conference)

Computational Legal Studies

Thanks to the members of the CodeX Insurance Initiative for letting me sit in on this session!

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This Week’s Latest Additions to the LawNext Legal Technology Directory

LawSites

The product listings continue to grow in the LawNext Legal Technology Directory , which we launched in February. Periodically here, I am featuring the latest products to have been added to the directory. Here are this week’s 10 most recent additions: Lawcus. “Lawcus is a modern user-friendly all-in-one legal software with practice management, client intake, billing, case management, trust accounting, a built-in CRM and advanced complex automation capabilities designed to manage and grow

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LawNext Podcast: Jonathan Pyle on Why He Developed Docassemble and Made It Open Source

LawSites

In his day job, Jonathan Pyle is the contract performance officer at Philadelphia Legal Assistance, where he is responsible for compliance, reporting, and implementing new uses of technology to analyze, streamline, and expand service delivery. But in the legal tech world, Pyle is better known as the developer of Docassemble , a free and open source document assembly application that has been widely adapted for a range of applications. .

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New Leader Named for Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S.

LawSites

Atul Dubey has been named senior vice president and general manager of Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. , effective April 1, where he will oversee a range of information and expert products for legal and business compliance professionals. Dubey steps into the position previously held by Dean Sonderegger , who moved March 1 to become SVP and general manager of Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting Canada and Research & Learning U.S.

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Huge News from LinkSquares, As the Contract Management Company Raises $100M Series C

LawSites

Major financing news today, as LinkSquares , the Boston-based company that provides an AI-powered contract management and analysis platform, said it has raised $100 million in Series C financing, less than a year after raising a $40 million Series B round, and bringing its total raise to $161.5 million at a current valuation of $800 million. This latest round was led by G Squared, a global venture capital firm focused on growth-stage technology companies, with participation from new investor G2

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DocuSign Introduces ‘CLM Essentials,’ Streamlined Contract Management for Smaller-Sized Businesses

LawSites

At its Momentum customer conference today, DocuSign introduced CLM Essentials , a contract lifecycle management product built specifically for small and medium-sized organizations to centralize and automate the creation, negotiation and storage of their contracts. DocuSign said the product is designed to “democratize CLM” by reducing the complexity of contracting technology and making it more accessible for businesses of any size, particularly in a time of hybrid work, or what DocuSi