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Pandemic Accelerated Tech’s Importance, But Firms Remain Poorly Prepared for Tech Future, Survey Says

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Legal professionals agree that the pandemic accelerated the critical role of technology in the future success of their law firms and legal departments, but only a third believe their organizations are well prepared for addressing technology’s increasing importance. This is a key finding of the 2021 Wolters Kluwer Future Ready Lawyer Survey Report , the third year that Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. has conducted this survey, designed to provide insights into how the legal profession

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 13, 2021

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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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‘F’ for Solos on Cybersecurity | Responses to Ransomware | 20 Time & Tech Tips

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Look to the left, look to the right. If you’re a solo/small firm, it’s a fair bet that one of your firms has been a victim of a cyber attack. According to the 2020 ABA Tech Report , 29% of law firms have been hacked. That’s up from 26% in 2019. Security+ and GlobalMac IT CEO Tom Lambotte explains to Digital Detectives why solo/small firm lawyers fail to protect their sensitive information.

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Quick Takeaways from the California Privacy Protection Agency’s First Public Meeting

Debevoise Data Blog

On Monday, June 14, 2021, the Board of the California Privacy Protection Agency (“Agency”) hosted its first inaugural public meeting. As discussed in a prior posting , the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) established the Agency, which is governed by a five member Board and is tasked with adopting additional implementing regulations and enforcing the CCPA.

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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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Legal Tech Startup Anü Shuts Down; Used AI To Connect Startups To Lawyers

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Just a year after its founding the legal tech startup Anü has shut down, having struggled to find customers and develop the right business model. As I wrote about Anü in a post last November , it set out to solve the problem of startup founders unable to find the right lawyer, particularly founders of color or who are women. It used artificial intelligence to match startups with the lawyer best suited to represent them.

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Smooth Move: LexCloud.ca Simplifies a Law Firm Office Move

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Chantal Desloges Founder & Senior Partner Desloges Law Group Citizenship & Immigration Law 8 Professionals, 14 staff Toronto, Ontario In the fall of 2019 Desloges Law Group, a successful immigration firm, reached out to LexCloud.ca to support their move to a new office in downtown Toronto. “As one might imagine, there were many headaches associated with the logistics” says Senior Partner Chantal Desloges.

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European Data Protection Roundup – May 2021

Debevoise Data Blog

May saw useful reminders for companies, including: (i) the need to appoint an EU – and/or UK – representative if caught by the (UK) GDPR’s extraterritorial effect; (ii) that regulators are increasingly focused on adtech and cookies compliance; and (iii) that the GDPR applies not just in the EU and UK but also Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. We also saw developments in the courts on when companies will be liable to pay individuals damages for GDPR violations and the German anti-trust regulato

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AI CLM Platform Lexion Raises $11M; Targeting Smaller Corporations

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Positioning itself as offering a simpler and more affordable AI-driven contract management system for mid-market corporate enterprises, startup Lexion has raised $11 million in an oversubscribed Series A round. When combined with its seed round of $4.2 million, total funding for the company is now $15.2 million. The Seattle-based company says its product is intuitive and easy to deploy, while backed by cutting-edge natural language processing developed by a team with deep technical expertise in

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Machine Learning applied to the management of court notifications

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Rocío Ramirez, Independent Legal Tech Consultant After 20 years of legal practicing as a lawyer, mainly processing court files , I can clearly state that the management of court notifications is one of the main workloads of a lawyer's day-to-day work. While it is true that the procedure the court notification requires, in many cases, will need the expertise of a legal technician , such as drafting an answer to the claim, or the preparation of an appeal, the management of the notification itself,

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What is Legal Technology?

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What is Legal Technology? We specialize in a Legal Technology Certificate badge that offers paralegals, legal specialists, and lawyers the opportunity to learn legal technology. However, what is legal technology? Legal technology, also known as Legal Tech, refers to the use of technology and software to provide legal services and support the legal industry.

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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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How It Works: LAWCLERK, Where Attorneys Hire Freelance Lawyers

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In today’s episode of How It Works , we learn about LAWCLERK , where attorneys go to hire freelance lawyers and virtual associates. LAWCLERK’s mission is to make general practitioners and law firms more profitable by outsourcing projects to more than 3,600 freelance lawyers with all levels of experience and expertise. To introduce LAWCLERK and demonstrate how it works, I am joined by cofounder Kristin Tyler , who is herself a practicing attorney with the firm Garman Turner Gordon in Law Vegas, N

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Three Priorities for Hybrid Law Firms

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Compliance, Cybersecurity, & Productivity: Three Priorities for Hybrid Law Firms Transitioning to a long-term hybrid work model, insights are critical. For CEOs, CTOs, and cybersecurity personnel looking to support a transition to remote work, here’s how employee monitoring can help law firms demonstrate compliance, protect sensitive information, and measure productivity.

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Three Priorities for Hybrid Law Firms

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Compliance, Cybersecurity, & Productivity: Three Priorities for Hybrid Law Firms Transitioning to a long-term hybrid work model, insights are critical. For CEOs, CTOs, and cybersecurity personnel looking to support a transition to remote work, here’s how employee monitoring can help law firms demonstrate compliance, protect sensitive information, and measure productivity.

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Google Apps & G Suite for Lawyers

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Google Apps & G Suite for Lawyers Completing client work and leading your small law firm remotely requires an easy-to-use, cloud-based platform that enables your team to access their work from anywhere. This is where Google apps and G Suite come in.

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Google Apps & G Suite for Lawyers

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Google Apps & G Suite for Lawyers Completing client work and leading your small law firm remotely requires an easy-to-use, cloud-based platform that enables your team to access their work from anywhere. This is where Google apps and G Suite come in.

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E-Discovery Company Casepoint Enhances Its CaseAssist Active Learning Technology

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E-discovery company Casepoint is today introducing enhancements to CaseAssist, its AI-based active review technology, and to its analytics and classification tools, that it says give users more insight and control over the review process, including enhanced visualization capabilities and configuration templates. One of the first companies to offer a cloud-based, end-to-end e-discovery platform when it launched in 2008, Casepoint was granted three patents last October related to its technology as