Clio

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Paralegal burnout can cripple your mental health. Learn how you can find a way out of burnout—including alternative careers for paralegals

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Facing a busier than ever week ahead? Use these steps to figure out how to prioritize when you are overwhelmed. Here’s my week: I have three transactions closing on Friday and I need to work on them all right now. One is not more important than the other. I have two articles due today by the end of business, both of which require my immediate attention.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The pandemic has raised a number of ethical issues for lawyers and resulted in the issuance of several ethics opinions addressing those issues. While we once might have thought these issues were temporary, many legal professionals continue to operate virtually, and even when we are fully free of the pandemic, many of us are likely to continue to practice virtually, at least part of the time.

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LLRX

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

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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Advertiser: Trellis

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Debevoise Data Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

On September 21, 2021, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued an updated advisory (the “Advisory”) on sanctions risks associated with payments to threat actors in connection with cyber ransoms. The Advisory reminds companies that all parties associated with the payment of a cyber ransom—including victims, financial institutions, insurance firms, and other companies facilitating payment—are responsible for ensuring that they do not violate U.S. law,

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Is your firm producing the kind of marketing content clients and prospects want to read? If I had a dollar for every panel discussion where a GC admitted to ignoring an important client alert after reading the first or the second one in their inbox, I’d be a very wealthy woman. They’re Called ‘Client Alerts’ for a Reason. Having worked in-house at several law firms and as a consultant, I know how long it takes to get a client alert or blog post from concept to first draft, form

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NSLT

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Technology for Lawyers: The Basics We know you’re an attorney, not a tech guru. You may already feel overwhelmed at the thought of balancing your current responsibilities, let alone adding technology competency to the mix. Set the overwhelm aside and start with the basics. Here are some tips you can use today to approach technology competency within your firm.

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Debevoise Data Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

As part of our ongoing series on enforcement actions by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) in data- and cybersecurity-related matters ( here , here , and here ), we have been closely tracking regulatory developments and gathering insights on enforcement trends. Last week, the SEC announced that App Annie and its former CEO and Chairman, Bertrand Schmitt, (“App Annie”) had agreed to a $10.3 million payment to settle charges for engaging in fraudulent practices and making material mis

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

By embracing legal tech, firms are stepping into the future and preserving the integrity and success of their practices. As another wave of COVID-19 ravages the U.S., forcing at-home work to extend even further, the legal industry continues to feel the disruption. As in any industry that relies on collaboration, communication and transparency, the pandemic has forced legal professionals to find new strategies to manage their work.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

There was a time when the central focus of law school publishing was the law review. But over the years, as more law school professors, staff and alumni launched blogs, they have become a more essential medium for keeping up with legal news, trends and critical thinking. In a reflection of this development, McGeorge School of Law has launched McGeorge Law Today , a publishing portal that brings together in one place the blogs, podcasts and other writings of McGeorge’s faculty, staff and al

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Advertiser: Trellis

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NSLT

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Technology for Lawyers: The Basics We know you’re an attorney, not a tech guru. You may already feel overwhelmed at the thought of balancing your current responsibilities, let alone adding technology competency to the mix. Set the overwhelm aside and start with the basics. Here are some tips you can use today to approach technology competency within your firm.

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Debevoise Data Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In a new episode of the Compliance & Legal Risk podcast, Avi Gesser from Debevoise’s Data Strategy and Security Group contributed to an insightful conversation with Ronald J. Coleman of Georgetown Law, Mutale Nkonde of AI For the People, and Todd Marlin of Ernst & Young on the emerging legal and regulatory risks associated with artificial intelligence (“AI”).

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Current thinking about marketing holds that a business’s success depends on creating quality marketing content. For example, the Content Marketing Institute preaches that businesses are not selling goods and services; they are selling their content across multiple platforms, which in turn induces people to purchase the actual good or service. Creating Content.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The legal analytics platform Lex Machina , which is owned by LexisNexis, has added a module for litigation involving claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act, as well as claims under related state laws. . The collection consists of more than 90,000 cases involving violations of Titles II, III and V of the ADA, as well as claims under disability rights laws in states that Lex Machina covers.

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NSLT

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Remote Work & Virtual Law Firms Is your team set up to go and stay remote? Do you know what you need to do to make sure that you have the right tools, processes, and people to run a thriving remote law firm? The good news is that you probably already have some of the things you’ll need to transition to a virtual law firm and that you can adapt to this method as many other lawyers already have.

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LawNext podcast

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The ABA Journal dubbed Fred Rooney the father of legal incubators. He developed the first incubator in 2007 at City University of New York Law School, spawning the launch of some 70 incubators in the years since, many with Fred’s guidance or based on his model. While most are in the U.S., Rooney is now helping create incubators worldwide, in countries as diverse as the Dominican Republic, Bulgaria and Pakistan.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

How to maximize productive time and ensure those contacting you get a responsive, personal experience? Virtual receptionists and live chat. A typical attorney captures as little as 2.5 billable hours per day. While some non-billable time is spent on administrative work, marketing, and business development efforts, large chunks are lost to unexpected phone calls and other distractions.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Aderant , a global provider of business management software for law firms, is today unveiling a benchmarking tool for law firm billing that is the first product to emerge from the newly minted Aderant Intelligence group. . The new tool, Aderant Intelligence: Benchmarking , is designed to enable firms to benchmark their billing performance by comparing their own metrics against those of their market and peer groups. .

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NSLT

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Remote Work & Virtual Law Firms Is your team set up to go and stay remote? Do you know what you need to do to make sure that you have the right tools, processes, and people to run a thriving remote law firm? The good news is that you probably already have some of the things you’ll need to transition to a virtual law firm and that you can adapt to this method as many other lawyers already have.

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NSLT

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Evernote vs. OneNote. Web Apps: Evernote vs OneNote In the world of note-taking tools, Evernote and OneNote are two great programs.

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NSLT

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Evernote vs. OneNote. Web Apps: Evernote vs OneNote In the world of note-taking tools, Evernote and OneNote are two great programs.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

?. The ABA Journal dubbed Fred Rooney the father of legal incubators. He developed the first incubator in 2007 at City University of New York Law School, spawning the launch of some 70 incubators in the years since, many with Fred’s guidance or based on his model. While most are in the U.S., Rooney is now helping create incubators worldwide, in countries as diverse as the Dominican Republic, Bulgaria and Pakistan.

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