Attorney at Work

JANUARY 20, 2022

Law firms of all sizes are feeling pressure to meet client demand for both tailored services and greater efficiencies in this rapidly changing industry. Legal teams are being pressed to control costs and better respond to changing regulatory and risk management obligations. In response, they are investing more in automation, advanced analytics and other technologies that will help them manage the workload.

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LawSites

JANUARY 18, 2022

It was barely more than a year ago that Ironclad raised a $100 million Series D round at a valuation of nearly $1 billion, and now the San Francisco-based company has raised a $150 million Series E at a $3.2 billion valuation. That brings total investment in the company, whose product is a digital contracting platform for corporate legal departments, to $333 million.

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JANUARY 17, 2022

Librarians, researchers, journalists, teachers and students are continually confronted with what can be described as a kind of information miasma when using online sites, databases, resources, images and social media. No sector or discipline is immune to misinformation, disinformation, hoaxes, lack of data quality, and biased research. This guide by Marcus Zillman highlights actionable resources to evaluate and identify online malfeasance, as well as sources to verify information and data qualit

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JANUARY 20, 2022

Casey Flaherty, Chief Strategy Officer for Lex Fusion, makes his second appearance on Technically Legal. This time around, Casey discusses his thesis that organizations often turn to technology as an avoidance mechanism for addressing issues with process and culture. Casey has deep experience with legal process from all angles, he started his career as a commercial litigator before moving in house at Kia Motors.

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Advertiser: Trellis

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 17, 2022

Whether you manage your firm’s digital marketing strategy yourself or outsource your marketing, lawyers — especially small law firm owners — need to stay on top of the latest digital marketing advancements to ensure their websites continue to drive potential clients their way. As we round out the month of January, let us take a look at the top digital marketing trends for 2022.

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LawSites

JANUARY 21, 2022

Here are some of the other legal tech stories from the week: Case Status raises $3.5 million. Case Status , a mobile client portal and messaging platform for law firms, raised $3.5 million in a Series A venture capital funding round led by Meeting Street Capital, Panoramic Ventures, VentureSouth, CreativeCo, and others. I had previously reported on the startup’s raise of $1.5 million in seed funding in 2020 and its venture capital funding in 2019.

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CEE Legal Tech

JANUARY 19, 2022

Created with Canva – Sponsored Content – Knowing the law is no longer enough for modern lawyers, especially those starting their own law firm business. The world is changing rapidly, and you can either move with it or be left behind.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 19, 2022

If you’re planning to use stock photos, illustrations, even video clips to market your law firm, you need to know the ropes. The last thing you need is to get entangled in a dispute about the misappropriation of copyrighted materials. Plus, it looks bad if your firm is accused of copyright infringement and your firm has an IP practice. But First, a Little Background.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

The legal research company Casetext has raised $25 million in a Series C funding round, bringing its total amount raised to $64.3 million since its founding in 2013. Although the company has not publicly announced the funding, it filed a notification with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Jan. 7, 2022, documenting the raise of $25 million in equity financing.

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LLRX

JANUARY 20, 2022

Ed Summers , librarian, metadata expert, teacher, and computational expert, delivers an insighful lesson on the Persistent Uniform Resource Locator. PURLs were developed to make URLs more resilient and persistent over time. You could put a PURL into a catalog record and if the URL it pointed to needed to change you changed the redirect on the PURL server, and all the places that pointed to the PURL didn’t need to change.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

The Value of Cybersecurity Incident Response Plans As cyberattacks continue to plague U.S. companies, cybersecurity remains a core risk, even for businesses that have invested heavily in technical measures to protect their systems. As a result, cybersecurity best practices have evolved to include not only preventative measures, but also robust preparations for responding to cyber incidents, so that companies can improve their resilience, decrease the time it takes to detect and effectively resp

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 20, 2022

Feeling exhausted? There are many kinds of rest we need to feel well-rested. Of course, we all know sleep is important for both physical and mental stamina. In fact, lack of sleep has serious consequences, such as reducing our immune system’s effectiveness and increasing cravings for simple carbohydrates. But did you know there are at least four other kinds of rest we need to be healthy and at our best?

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

The legal research company Casetext has raised $25 million in a Series C funding round, bringing its total amount raised to $64.3 million since its founding in 2013. Although the company has not publicly announced the funding, it filed a notification with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Jan. 7, 2022, documenting the raise of $25 million in equity financing.

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LLRX

JANUARY 16, 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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CEE Legal Tech

JANUARY 18, 2022

What is ESG? You may already be familiar with the term “ESG”, yet in case not just yet – let’s start with deciphering what stands behind the E, S and G in this acronym. ESG is a term used for an organization’s environmental (E), social (S) and governance (G) performance. A related term is “ESG investing”, where investors invest in companies based on their ESG performance.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 18, 2022

Advances in technology and access to legal staffing is helping rural lawyers improve workflows and operate more efficiently. Compared with their counterparts in urban and suburban regions, rural attorneys often have less reliable access to critical skill sets and tools to support their practice. For example, there may be a scarcity of local IT professionals to help them troubleshoot technology problems.

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LawSites

JANUARY 21, 2022

Here are some of the other legal tech stories from the week: Case Status raises $3.5 million. Case Status , a mobile client portal and messaging platform for law firms, raised $3.5 million in a Series A venture capital funding round led by Meeting Street Capital, Panoramic Ventures, VentureSouth, CreativeCo, and others. I had previously reported on the startup’s raise of $1.5 million in seed funding in 2020 and its venture capital funding in 2019.

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Legodesk

JANUARY 18, 2022

As a lawyer, your role is to give advice, explain your client’s rights, and then represent them in court, ensuring that their cases have the best possible outcome. Doesn’t it seem to be simple and clear? However, as you are aware, it may be so much more. A lawyer’s day is filled with tight deadlines, considerable research, and a never-ending stream of stressed-out clients desperate to see results on their cases.

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Social Media for Law Firms

JANUARY 17, 2022

While social media platforms are extraordinarily useful for growing businesses, there are a number of pitfalls almost impossible to avoid. In this age of misinformation — and outright lies — fake ratings and reviews are more common than ever. Many people even accuse big businesses of stymieing the growth of smaller businesses by paying for reviewers to leave bad ratings.

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NSLT

JANUARY 21, 2022

12 Personal Productivity Tips Part 3 The end of the year can seem like the “Time of the Overwhelm.” So much to do and so little time. Emergencies pop up. Priorities change. And you can slip farther behind. Learn 12 of the best personal productivity tips.

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JANUARY 19, 2022

With thousands of legal tech products on the market competing for the attention and dollars of legal professionals, how can consumers make smarter buying decisions? That is the focus of a webinar I will moderate tomorrow, Making Smarter Legal Tech Decisions in 2022 , that will feature both legal tech vendors and consumers, together with the CEO of one of the world’s largest software review platforms.

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LLRX

JANUARY 17, 2022

The U.S. Supreme Court on January 13, 2022, blocked the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate, which applied to virtually all private companies with 100 of more employees. But it left in place a narrower mandate that requires health care workers at facilities receiving federal funds to get vaccinated. The ruling comes at a time when the number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalization rates continues to soar throughout the United States as a result of the omicron variant.

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LawSites

JANUARY 19, 2022

With thousands of legal tech products on the market competing for the attention and dollars of legal professionals, how can consumers make smarter buying decisions? That is the focus of a webinar I will moderate tomorrow, Making Smarter Legal Tech Decisions in 2022 , that will feature both legal tech vendors and consumers, together with the CEO of one of the world’s largest software review platforms.

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LawSites

JANUARY 18, 2022

It was barely more than a year ago that Ironclad raised a $100 million Series D round at a valuation of nearly $1 billion, and now the San Francisco-based company has raised a $150 million Series E at a $3.2 billion valuation. That brings total investment in the company, whose product is a digital contracting platform for corporate legal departments, to $333 million.

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JANUARY 21, 2022

12 Personal Productivity Tips Part 3 The end of the year can seem like the “Time of the Overwhelm.” So much to do and so little time. Emergencies pop up. Priorities change. And you can slip farther behind. Learn 12 of the best personal productivity tips.

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JANUARY 19, 2022

12 Personal Productivity Tips Part 2 The end of the year can seem like the “Time of the Overwhelm.” So much to do and so little time. Emergencies pop up. Priorities change. And you can slip farther behind. Learn 12 of the best personal productivity tips.

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NSLT

JANUARY 19, 2022

12 Personal Productivity Tips Part 2 The end of the year can seem like the “Time of the Overwhelm.” So much to do and so little time. Emergencies pop up. Priorities change. And you can slip farther behind. Learn 12 of the best personal productivity tips.

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NSLT

JANUARY 17, 2022

12 Personal Productivity Tips Part 1 The end of the year can seem like the “Time of the Overwhelm.” So much to do and so little time. Emergencies pop up. Priorities change. And you can slip farther behind. Learn 12 of the best personal productivity tips.

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NSLT

JANUARY 17, 2022

12 Personal Productivity Tips Part 1 The end of the year can seem like the “Time of the Overwhelm.” So much to do and so little time. Emergencies pop up. Priorities change. And you can slip farther behind. Learn 12 of the best personal productivity tips.

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LawSites

JANUARY 18, 2022

Marking its 14th acquisition since 2019 and its eighth in just the last 12 months, l egal technology company Litera has entered into an agreement to acquire Prosperoware , a company that develops software for the legal industry for the adoption and governance of collaboration systems. Haley Altman , global head of corporate development at Litera, told me that the company views this deal as a strategic acquisition for Litera and powerful for customers. “With Prosperoware, we can deliver Li

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JANUARY 18, 2022

The international legal research service vLex said today it has partnered with some of the world’s leading news publishers to launch a new Global News product on its platform. . “Global News is a significant expansion of vLex’s expert legal commentary and news content, making it a vital tool for any lawyer, law librarian, investigative researcher, or academic wishing to stay up-to-date on breaking news and legal matters from around the world,” the company said. vLex said it de

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LawSites

JANUARY 18, 2022

Marking its 14th acquisition since 2019 and its eighth in just the last 12 months, l egal technology company Litera has entered into an agreement to acquire Prosperoware , a company that develops software for the legal industry for the adoption and governance of collaboration systems. Haley Altman , global head of corporate development at Litera, told me that the company views this deal as a strategic acquisition for Litera and powerful for customers. “With Prosperoware, we can deliver Li

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LawSites

JANUARY 18, 2022

The international legal research service vLex said today it has partnered with some of the world’s leading news publishers to launch a new Global News product on its platform. . “Global News is a significant expansion of vLex’s expert legal commentary and news content, making it a vital tool for any lawyer, law librarian, investigative researcher, or academic wishing to stay up-to-date on breaking news and legal matters from around the world,” the company said. vLex said it de

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

We need your vote! Here is your chance to help pick the legal technology startups that will be selected for the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2022. Fifteen companies will be selected to face off in a live pitch competition that will be the opening event of this year’s TECHSHOW, as well as to exhibit in a special Startup Alley portion of the exhibit hall.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

We need your vote! Here is your chance to help pick the legal technology startups that will be selected for the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2022. Fifteen companies will be selected to face off in a live pitch competition that will be the opening event of this year’s TECHSHOW, as well as to exhibit in a special Startup Alley portion of the exhibit hall.

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