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‘Talk Justice’ seeks to amplify ‘unexpected’ voices in support of civil legal aid

Legal Talk Network

Aiming for a wider reach and audience, the civil legal aid podcast Talk Justice has joined the Legal Talk Network. Produced by the Legal Services Corporation , the podcast features a rotating lineup of hosts covering civil legal aid funding and access to justice. LSC views the podcast as a way to better communicate with legal aid providers and with public officials, the public, and the business community.

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Handling Questions: A Presenter’s Guide

LLRX

OK, you have gotten through the body of your presentation satisfactorily. Time to relax, right? Nope. There is one hurdle left: The question and answer period. This is when some presenters wilt and others shine. With a few tips, some experience and a modicum of intestinal fortitude, you can shine every time. Jerry Lawson's extensive experience as a speaker is put to good use in this article as he provides best practice advice for each stage of your presentation.

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ILTA Reveals Final Attendance Numbers for Its Hybrid ILTACON

LawSites

Much uncertainty surrounded attendance at this years ILTACON , the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, and the first hybrid version of the conference, as the rise in the Delta variant of COVID-19 cause some to reconsider in-person attendance. Last week, two major vendors announced that they were withdrawing their staff from attending in person, while continuing to support and participate in the conference virtually. iManage was first to withdraw, followed by Lite

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Lawyer Networking: Are You a Spoke or a Hub?

Attorney at Work

With my travel picking up, recent experiences have made me think about lawyer networking. I remember the days when the airports in Cincinnati and Memphis were major hubs for Delta Air Lines. Now, they are primarily final destinations. On the other hand, airports like New York’s LaGuardia and Salt Lake City have picked up more and more Delta connections.

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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 & Innovation – from Chan(g)e to Chan(c)e

ELTA

We are pleased to announce that in just under 3 months ELTACon 2021 will take place as a live online event. This year, we will focus on the key topic LEGAL TECH & INNOVATION – FROM CHAN(G)E TO CHAN(C)E and our programme will offer many impulses, exciting experts, networking opportunities and much more. The conference will give our members from 39+ countries as well as non-members the opportunity to exchange experiences and ideas.

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Machines Learning the Rule of Law – EU Proposes the World’s first Artificial Intelligence Act

LLRX

Sümeyye Elif Biber is a PhD Candidate in Law and Technology at the Scuola Sant’Anna in Pisa. In 21 April 2021, the European Commission (EC) proposed the world’s first Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA). The proposal has received a warm welcome across the EU as well as from the US, as it includes substantial legal provisions on ethical standards. After its release, the media’s main focus laid on the proposal’s “Brussels Effect”, which refers to the EU’s global regulatory influence: EU laws exceed

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Legal Staffing Lessons for Today’s Marketplace

Attorney at Work

Contract attorneys have made it possible for legal organizations to level up their teams’ expertise without increasing headcount. . Law firms didn’t let the pandemic get in the way of profitability or performance in 2020. Profits per equity partner rose 11.5% on average in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to Thomson Reuters — and 15% among AmLaw 100 firms.

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ILTACON 2021 Educational Sessions in Word Cloud View

InsideLegal

For the last decade, InsideLegal has created word clouds from legal industry event agendas to give an overview of session content and areas of interest. To view the entire educational content grid, click here. Here's the word cloud from ILTACON 21's educational agenda and you can also view it at [link].

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 21, 2021

LLRX

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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Guest Post: Beating the Alternative – Why The Billable Hour is the Truest Representation of Cost

LawSites

The billable hour has been unfairly painted as the villain of law firm pricing, when in fact opacity is the issue. Guest Post By Nicholas d’Adhemar , Founder and CEO, Apperio. A while back I had a contractor out to my home to quote some remodeling work. The job seemed straightforward, and the contractor gave me a flat fee quote, so, I commissioned him for the project.

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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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Rules-Based Calendaring Software: Help Easing the Deadline Pain

Attorney at Work

Here’s good news: There are now a variety of cutting-edge cloud-based tools available for litigators, ranging from software designed to streamline the pre-trial process to mobile apps created for use in the courtroom. One notable category of legal software that litigators often find particularly useful is rules-based calendaring software. This is because deadlines are an inescapable part of your practice if you’re a litigator.

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Legal Data Analytics

NSLT

Legal Data Analytics Can Benefit Any Type of Legal Practice No matter where an attorney works, the practice of law is no longer just about the law. It’s also about competing as a business, whether that’s in a corporate setting or at a law firm. Legal analytics—using historical performance data to make decisions about individual cases or legal operations—are one of the fastest ways to build a business case for legal practice.

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Robots are coming for the lawyers – which may be bad for tomorrow’s attorneys but great for anyone in need of cheap legal assistance

LLRX

Imagine what a lawyer does on a given day: researching cases, drafting briefs, advising clients. While technology has been nibbling around the edges of the legal profession for some time, it’s hard to imagine those complex tasks being done by a robot. And it is those complicated, personalized tasks that have led technologists to include lawyers in a broader category of jobs that are considered pretty safe from a future of advanced robotics and artificial intelligence.

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Targeting Midsized Firms, Practice Management Platform Centerbase Receives ‘Significant’ Growth-Equity Investment

LawSites

Centerbase , a Dallas-based company providing legal practice management software for mid-sized law firms , has received a growth equity investment from Mainsail Partners , a growth equity firm that invests exclusively in fast-growing, bootstrapped software companies. In an interview with LawSites, John Forbes , founder and CEO, declined to say the amount of the investment, but he described it as “really significant.”.

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Better Video Meetings: The Sound-Canceling Magic of the Krisp App

Attorney at Work

Krisp is a magical app I can’t imagine living without — especially in a world with 300 million daily Zoom sessions. . Let me guess. You’re reading this as you eat lunch (leftovers) at your desk (in the spare bedroom) while attired in business very casual (sweatpants), ears still ringing as you prep for your next meeting (over Zoom). I’m right there with you.

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Legal Data Analytics

NSLT

Legal Data Analytics Can Benefit Any Type of Legal Practice No matter where an attorney works, the practice of law is no longer just about the law. It’s also about competing as a business, whether that’s in a corporate setting or at a law firm. Legal analytics—using historical performance data to make decisions about individual cases or legal operations—are one of the fastest ways to build a business case for legal practice.

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IPCC climate report: Profound changes are underway in Earth’s oceans and ice – a lead author explains what the warnings mean

LLRX

Humans are unequivocally warming the planet, and that’s triggering rapid changes in the atmosphere, oceans and polar regions, and increasing extreme weather around the world, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns in a new report. The IPCC released the first part of its much anticipated Sixth Assessment Report on Aug. 9, 2021. In it, 234 scientists from around the globe summarized the current climate research on how the Earth is changing as temperatures rise and what those changes w

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iManage CEO Neil Araujo: ‘Making Knowledge Work is Why We Exist’

LawSites

It has been quite a journey for the document management company iManage. Cofounded in 1995 by Neil Araujo and Rafiq Mohammadi , it was acquired in 2003 by Interwoven for $171 million. In 2009, Autonomy acquired Interwoven for $775 million, and then in 2011 Hewlett Packard purchased Autonomy for $11.1 billion, getting iManage in the deal. But the Autonomy acquisition turned into a fiasco for HP due to alleged accounting improprieties by Autonomy, resulting in both litigation and a write-down of n

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ILTACON 2021: Legal Tech's Lollapalooza Back in Full Swing

InsideLegal

We are excited to reconnect with our legal tech brethren this week as we head to Vegas for ILTACON 2021. It's hard to believe that my last travel to conference was TECHSHOW in February 2020 when baskets of ABA branded hand sanitizers sat untouched in the exhibit hall. I know the hype, anticipation as well as apprehension surrounding ILTACON this year is high so not having major expectations might be the best M.O.

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Google Apps & G Suite for Lawyers

NSLT

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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Ep 136: Reregulation of Legal Services: A Panel of Five Leading Experts Discuss

LawNext podcast

There may be no more critical issue facing the legal profession than reregulation of legal services. Amid an escalating crisis in access to justice, proponents of regulatory reform argue that the only way to meaningfully address the crisis is to loosen restrictions on non-lawyers investing in and providing legal services. So critical is the issue that GPSolo , the magazine of the American Bar Association’s Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division, has devoted its most recent issue to the

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LawPay Looks to Expand Beyond Payments, While Staying True To Core Mission, New CEO Says In Interview

LawSites

Last month, AffiniPay , parent of the popular legal payments platform LawPay , named Dru Armstrong as its new CEO. With degrees in both law and business from the University of Chicago, Armstrong was previously CEO of Grace Hill , a company that provides software for owners and operators of real estate properties. Prior to joining Grace Hill as chief product officer, Armstrong was a VP of operations at The Gores Group and a project leader at The Boston Consulting Group in the consumer and technol

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Lawyer Tech Tips: Collaboration Tools

Attorney at Work

Even for the smallest firms, effective collaboration is critical. Nowadays there are lots of tools and product features touted for the purpose — whether video, chat, shared workspaces, digital conferencing or the like. But we’re wondering about the particular needs of smaller firms, which often means lower-cost tools. So, we asked the experts to share some favorite tech tools and tips to help lawyers communicate and collaborate more effectively mid-pandemic — and beyond.

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Google Apps & G Suite for Lawyers

NSLT

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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A Case Timeline is a Litigator's Best Friend

NSLT

A Case Timeline is a Litigator's Best Friend So how does a litigator manage all of this data and then use it deposition, mediation, briefs, hearings, and trials? The trick to gaining control over burgeoning case data is locking it into a timeline or chronology, like our case timeline software.

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A Case Timeline is a Litigator's Best Friend

NSLT

A Case Timeline is a Litigator's Best Friend So how does a litigator manage all of this data and then use it deposition, mediation, briefs, hearings, and trials? The trick to gaining control over burgeoning case data is locking it into a timeline or chronology, like our case timeline software.