Legal Talk Network
APRIL 13, 2022
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” – Luke 6:31. Believe it or not, wrongful convictions can happen to anyone. Innocent people go to prison all the time for crimes they didn’t commit. All anyone has to do is be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Some of the most common reasons for wrongful conviction are eyewitness misidentification, junk science, indirect DNA transfers, and false accusations.
Attorney at Work
APRIL 11, 2022
Were you put in charge of leading your law firm’s new website? Do you have a team, an assistant, or you’re “it”? Law firm web design is scary. Have you even figured out how to start tackling this Herculean undertaking? Relax. Take a deep breath. Everyone who contributed to this post — well, this is not their first rodeo. And we’re here to help you make critical decisions about getting started on your new site.
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Rocket Matter
APRIL 10, 2022
Today, we’re here to shed some light on an organizational tool that can help your law firm: Streamline matter workflows Foster better team collaboration Swiftly respond to bottlenecks and other issues as they occur In short, it can help your firm master matter management, all from within the convenience of your practice management software. It’s… Read More » Four Key Benefits of Kanban Boards for Law Firms.
LLRX
APRIL 9, 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.
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LawSites
APRIL 14, 2022
Filevine , a Utah-based case management company founded in 2014 with an initial focus on litigation and personal injury law, has raised $108 million in a Series D funding round that it says will help fuel its expansion more deeply into big law, insurance defense, corporate, governmental, and nonprofit legal counsel teams. The funding was led by StepStone Group, with additional funding from Golub Capital.
Attorney at Work
APRIL 14, 2022
Attorney at Work’s “Women in Law” series focuses on successful women lawyers who have carved a path for themselves in the legal industry and beyond. Meet Michelle Banks. Michelle Banks. Senior Advisor. BarkerGilmore. San Francisco Bay Area. UCLA Law School (J.D. 1988). LinkedIn. Michelle Banks took a huge leap early in her career when she accepted an assignment in Tokyo as the only woman lawyer in a company’s legal department.
Legal Tech Connection brings together the best content for legal and legal tech professionals from the widest variety of thought leaders.
NSLT
APRIL 15, 2022
Top Technology Trends for Transactional Lawyers Tremendous opportunities exist for transactional practitioners to leverage technology to optimize outcomes. These opportunities center on four trends discussed below. Each trend has its roots in the now well-established field of litigation-support technology.
LawSites
APRIL 14, 2022
A U.S. justice tech company and a Ukrainian legal aid organization have joined forces to launch a first-of-its-kind European pro bono portal to assist with relief efforts for Ukrainians affected by the war. The portal is being launched today by the Legal Development Network , a group of Ukrainian community-based organizations that promotes people-centered justice through legal aid, legal education, strategic advocacy, and other empowerment tools, and Paladin , a U.S.
Attorney at Work
APRIL 13, 2022
Junk phrases take up communication space but add nothing to the message. The speaker’s goal is to persuade. But these condescending phrases are likely to repel the listener, and repeated use within a short time only aggravates the situation. Junk phrases are a demand for attention when the message may not be important or credible. Using one telegraphs the speaker’s view that the listeners are so dumb, they need to be told to concentrate.
Computational Legal Studies
APRIL 14, 2022
Here are Slides from our talk — LegalNLP – Breaking the Legal Language Barrier ? Short Presentation at Stanford CodeX 2022 Future Law Conference Featured Paper — Ilias Chalkidis, Abhik Jana, Dirk Hartung, Michael Bommarito, Ion Androutsopoulos, Daniel Martin Katz & Nikolaos Aletras, LexGLUE: A Benchmark Dataset for Legal Language Understanding in English , In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the ACL – Association for Computational Linguistics (2022 Forthcomin
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NSLT
APRIL 11, 2022
Relativity–Electronic Discovery Software What is Relativity, and what solutions does the software provide? Learn more as kCura's president and CEO, Andrew Sieja, gives a high-level overview of Relativity's core capabilities.
LawSites
APRIL 13, 2022
[The following guest post is written by Inna Ptitsyna , head of communications at Lawrina and ambassador at the Legal Hackers international community.]. Lawrina started in 2020 with a small team in Ukraine and two people working abroad who had a big idea — to change the experience of law. To build a living ecosystem with free and simple access to essential legal information in the U.S.
Attorney at Work
APRIL 15, 2022
Which apps and connectivity tools do you use to stay productive and focused — and are they working? Having entered the second quarter of 2022, more than a few of us are wondering whether to upgrade our productivity toolbox. So we asked our experts: What’s your favorite app or service for staying connected, productive and on target to meet your goals in 2022?
Technically Legal
APRIL 14, 2022
Right out of college with a computer science degree in hand, a buddy helped Andy Wilson (now CEO of SaaS based e-discovery software company Logikcull ) get a job at a printing company because Andy’s friend said there was a technology component to the job. It was the early 2000s and what the printing company was actually doing was printing out email messages so they could be used in a legal matter.
LawSites
APRIL 12, 2022
The last time I wrote about BriefCatch , it was in 2018, when I put it and two other legal editing programs to the test of editing four opinions authored by Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, pronounced by Slate a terrible writer. Looks like I’ll have to go back to the lab for further testing, because BriefCatch today is introducing a new-and-improved version 3 that, among other enhancements, now makes the tool available to Mac users.
LawSites
APRIL 11, 2022
The Almanac of the Federal Judiciary is a publication that provides biographic profiles and financial disclosure information for every federal judge, including those sitting on the Supreme Court, Appellate Courts, Districts Courts, Bankruptcy Courts, and Specialized Courts. Now, the Almanac’s publisher, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. , is partnering with the company Courtroom Insight to provide access to additional information about the judges, including reviews by attorneys wh
LawSites
APRIL 12, 2022
Evisort , a provider of artificial intelligence products for contract management and analysis, has named Michaela Dempsey , who has worked more than 20 years as a marketing executive for SaaS technology companies, as c hief marketing officer. Dempsey joins Evisort from Workday, where she led marketing for its spend management portfolio of technology products.
Attorney at Work
APRIL 12, 2022
Crisis consultant Bruce Hemmes says when pricing legal services, consider adding rush rates for off-hours. I sympathized with Ruth Carter when reading “ Adding Rush Rates for Legal Services.” Our firm specializes in crisis work, so we’re frequently dealing with clients seeking immediate help for a breaking issue, just as Ruth is. But we solved our problem of dealing with “urgent” assignments in a different way than Ruth: We instituted a premium for helping clients outside normal work hours.
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