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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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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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.

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LLRX

OCTOBER 15, 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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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As more states are allowing law firms to use trade names instead of maintaining the outdated requirement that firms be named after current or former partners, you may be considering rebranding your firm.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.

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Legal Tech Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Ghent-based scale-up Contractify is already working with numerous partners to optimize their contract management software. Contractify’s goal is to offer their clients a solution that allows them to manage the entire contract lifecycle in one place. For the first phase in this cycle, contract creation, they have now joined forces with Leuven-based legal software platform ClauseBase.

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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.

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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.

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Debevoise Data Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

On October 7, 2022, U.S. President Biden signed Executive Order 14086 on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities (the “Order”). The administrative Order creates new protections applicable to cross-border data sharing through a phased implementation process and is the latest step toward establishing a new data privacy framework intended to permit the free flow of data from the EU to certain U.S. businesses.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 20, 2022

At the 2022 Clio Cloud Conference held recently in Nashville, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi sat down for a series of brief, in-person interviews with Clio executives. In this episode, he speaks with Curt Sigfstead , chief financial officer. He is responsible for managing Clio’s financial affairs, including finance, accounting, capital, treasury, taxation, and corporate development.

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Relativity

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Artificial intelligence is not inherently biased. But, if AI itself cannot be biased, why is it making biased decisions?

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Tips for taking control of your online presence because it truly does matter what you do (or don’t do) in the places people look for a good lawyer. Think about the last time you had to find a service provider — a dentist, an architect, a consultant, a painter. At some point in your vetting process, an online search was probably involved. For some people, their research is used to develop a short list of professionals to consider; others use their research to confirm credentials or check re

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NSLT

OCTOBER 20, 2022

General counsels typically have a limited budget for document review outside of litigation, but by taking a strategic approach, it needn’t be expensive. Strategically knowing where to look and what to look for significantly reduces the resources and time necessary to craft a story and, subsequently the cost.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Two of the leading global providers of document management systems for the legal industry are coming together, as the cloud-based DMS company NetDocuments has acquired Worldox , one of the oldest DMS systems still operating, in business since 1988, and one that primarily serves small- to medium-sized law firms. In a media briefing yesterday, Josh Baxter , CEO of NetDocuments, said that the acquisition is intended to accelerate NetDocuments’ growth among small- and mid-sized firms. “T

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Relativity

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Artificial intelligence is not inherently biased. But, if AI itself cannot be biased, why is it making biased decisions?

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LawNext podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2022

At the 2022 Clio Cloud Conference held recently in Nashville, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi sat down for a series of in-person interviews with Clio executives. In this episode, he speaks with Curt Sigfstead, chief financial officer. He is responsible for managing Clio’s financial affairs, including finance, accounting, capital, treasury, taxation, and corporate development.

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NSLT

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Many legal professionals face the frustration of working at a firm that will not embrace technology. If you’re feeling stuck at a firm that insists on doing things manually, you’re not alone.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 17, 2022

?. In an episode of LawNext recorded in person at the Clio Cloud Conference in Nashville, Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton discusses the “antifragile” law firm, a concept he introduced in his conference keynote — derived from the book, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder , by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — that certain firms thrive in the face of stressors and adversity, as we saw so clearly during the pandemic. .

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SYKE

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The post LEGAL ANALYTICS – WHERE DO I START? appeared first on SYKE.

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LawNext podcast

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In an episode of LawNext recorded in person at the Clio Cloud Conference in Nashville, Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton discusses the “antifragile” law firm, a concept he introduced in his conference keynote — derived from the book, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder , by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — that certain firms thrive in the face of stressors and adversity, as we saw so clearly during the pandemic.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 21, 2022

There is nothing inherently wrong with wanting more. The problem comes when your happiness depends on having more. I recently posted on LinkedIn that we seem to be always striving for more. More money. More time. More enjoyable work. More. One of my friend’s comments on that post really got me thinking. She said she found this constant striving a “fascinating cultural phenomenon.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The practice management company CosmoLex has added a new client relationship management module to its all-in-one platform with the release of CosmoLex CRM. The new CRM module is designed to enable law firms to manage, track, and communicate with prospective clients; automate intake workflows; and provide reporting to help better analyze marketing campaigns.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Hello Divorce , a startup whose platform facilitates low-cost do-it-yourself and attorney-assisted divorces, has raised $3.25 million in an oversubscribed seed round to enable it to develop a broader range of tools and services to cover the entire divorce lifecycle, including the financial and other issues that arise in the wake of a divorce. The investment was led by The Artemis Fund , which invests in female founders who are modernizing and diversifying wealth.

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