Attorney at Work

MARCH 1, 2022

We’ve all seen the terrifying Zoom fails of pantslessness, live-feed bathroom trips, and unmuted fetid rants about the host. We’re not those people. We’d never show up naked or allow our untethered howling spawn to step into the frame. We’re professionals here. But even professionals make mistakes. While you are strictly a pants-on Zoomer, holding the audience’s attention during a presentation is a toughly competitive business.

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LLRX

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Articles and Columns for February 2022 Offense v. Defense – The goal of this paper by Andrew Pittman, MSU Law-3L, is a call for a new strategy on cybersecurity. Pittman’s paper begins with real life incidents of cybercrime attacks on critical infrastructures abroad and in the U.S. Second, it defines what is offensive cybersecurity vs defensive.

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LawSites

MARCH 1, 2022

Lawmatics , a company whose product provides client relationship management (CRM), client intake and marketing automation for attorneys, is now adding timekeeping and billing tools, with the goal of offering law firms a comprehensive platform with everything they need to manage their administrative sides. The company also is adding new electronic payment capabilities through a partnership with Gravity Legal , a credit card and bank transfer acceptance platform specifically designed for law firms

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Technically Legal

MARCH 3, 2022

Thibault Schrepel joins the podcast to talk blockchain, antitrust and competition law. He is a professor at the Free University in Amsterdam and on the faculty of the Codex Center at Stanford University. At Stanford he is involved in the Computational Antitrust Project which works to foster the automation of antitrust procedures and the improvement of antitrust analysis.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 3, 2022

I’ve been thinking about what it means to lead a company through crises and how each crisis affects law firm leaders. A few years ago, I believed I had handled just about every type of crisis conceivable. How wrong I was. In recent years, we have dealt with a global pandemic, a divided political nation and civil unrest. We all learned how to pivot and maneuver through a pandemic.

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LLRX

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Hurst Hannum, Professor of International Law, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University acknowledges that International laws are in place to prevent war and help protect civilians and combatants alike. But he further states that these laws are challenging to enforce and are unlikely to stop the unfolding Russia-Ukraine war.

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Debevoise Data Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Since we last wrote about data minimization , there have been several regulatory developments that illustrate the increasing operational and regulatory risks of keeping large volumes of old data. As cyber threats continue to grow, and consumers gain more privacy rights over their personal data, businesses need robust data minimization programs that can significantly reduce the amount of sensitive data they collect and maintain.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 2, 2022

This is how you position yourself for success in any type of legal job market. Hot markets lead to atypical behaviors among buyers and sellers. During the tech boom of the late 1990s, buyers aggressively bid up the stock prices of companies when they added “.com” to their names. Over the last couple of years, home buyers have routinely snapped up houses above the asking price, sometimes without ever seeing the property in person.

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LLRX

FEBRUARY 26, 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

MARCH 1, 2022

ZERØ , a company whose AI-driven products automate time capture and email filing for lawyers and other professional services, has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round aimed at enabling it to accelerate market expansion and enter new verticals. The round was led by Streamlined Ventures with participation from 468 Capital, AltaIR Capital, PBJ Capital, Gutbrain Ventures, s16vc, AiSprouts VC, Paul Grewal, and others.

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NSLT

MARCH 4, 2022

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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Attorney at Work

MARCH 4, 2022

Reaction to the first “Get to the Point” National Grammar Day post in 2014 showed that lawyers could really get worked up about grammar. Since then, we’ve published monthly posts about how to improve your communication skills. The “Get to the Point” Top 10. To celebrate National Grammar Day, here is the countdown of the top 10 “Get to the Point” grammar posts. 10.

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LLRX

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Private investigator Marcy Phelps searches social media and online news for clients on a daily basis and recommends specific sources as useful for asset investigations. Phelps notes that not everything will show up in public records, and news and social media research helps fill in the gaps. Phelps shares a few examples of useful sources and strategies that made a difference for clients.

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LawSites

MARCH 2, 2022

Last year, I wrote here about the launch of Map Engine , an application that makes it easy for law firms to create attractive and interactive maps to visualize multijurisdictional surveys of laws, regulations or other data. Although it launched with just one map template, of U.S. states and territories, and later added Europe, it has now gone global, y esterday releasing a major update that includes all regions of the globe.

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Computational Legal Studies

MARCH 3, 2022

Last night — I presented a joint presentation with Michael Bommarito at the Computational Legal Studies Conference at Singapore Management University. Our Presentation was entitled “ Computational Legal Studies – Our Journey and Our Thoughts Circa 2022 ” It has been an exciting journey from creating a blog called Computational Legal Studies to seeing a high quality conference featuring this name.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Attorney at Work’s new “You at Work Spotlight” series focuses on traditional and emerging career paths for lawyers and business professionals. Below we talk with Allison Murdock about the role of managing partner today. . Less than a year ago, Allison M. Murdock was elected Managing Partner at Stinson LLP , an AmLaw 200 firm with 450 lawyers in 12 offices nationwide.

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LLRX

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The goal of this paper by Andrew Pittman , MSU Law-3L, is a call for a new strategy on cybersecurity. Pittman's paper begins with real life incidents of cybercrime attacks on critical infrastructures abroad and in the U.S. Second, it defines what is offensive cybersecurity vs defensive cybersecurity and the U.S. strategies. Third, it explores the potential reasoning behind the discrepancy and some lasting effects.

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LawSites

MARCH 1, 2022

Aderant , a global provider of business management software for law firms, has named Josiah Chaves to be vice president of cloud products, a position in which he will be responsible for driving the company’s cloud-first strategy. A seven-year veteran at Aderant, Chaves was most recently senior director of Expert Sierra, where he was responsible for bringing the cloud-based SaaS deployment of Aderant’s Expert practice management system to market.

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NSLT

MARCH 2, 2022

Resize Active Screens The key combination I use the most is the Window Logo and the arrow keys. It will automatically resize the active screen. For instance, if I press Logo + right arrow, it will place the screen on the right and be half of the screen. This came in handy for users who happen to have two monitors and want to automatically resize the window without having to use the arrows.

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LawNext podcast

MARCH 1, 2022

As Time By Ping , a company devoted to helping lawyers break free from timekeeping, announces its Series B raise of $36.5 million, cofounder and CEO Ryan Alshak joins LawNext for an exclusive interview about the financing, the company, and its mission to help lawyers break free from timekeeping and get back time in their days. As Alshak shares in the interview, the roots of the company’s mission are very personal to him.

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LLRX

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Jeffrey Veidlinger , a Holocaust historian at theUniversity of Michigan, explains why Ukrainian history needs to be understood in terms of both past violence against Jews as well as the state’s pluralistic vision.

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LawSites

MARCH 1, 2022

Time By Ping , a company whose product is designed to help lawyers break free from timekeeping and get back hours in their day, has raised $36.5 million in a Series B funding round, bringing its total funding to $55 million. Just ahead of today’s announcement, I sat down with Ryan Alshak , cofounder and CEO, for an exclusive LawNext podcast interview about the funding round, the company’s history, and its vision for the future of timekeeping.

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NSLT

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

3 Tips to Streamline Your Drafting Process According to the American Bar Association (ABA), drafting is a “mission-critical function” for all law offices. Your legal documents should capture your practice’s intellectual capital and set it apart from other competitors. While drafting methods have remained relatively unchanged for decades, the increasingly hyper-competitive legal market has forced attorneys to seek out and adopt new legal technologies to streamline their drafting processes.

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Social Media for Law Firms

MARCH 1, 2022

Businesses are commonly the target of defamatory remarks made on social media — and so are law firms. Legal entities are also guilty of making comments that can land them in legal hot water. Here’s everything you need to know about who and how to sue, and how to avoid making defamatory remarks of your own on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

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LLRX

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The implementation and maintenance of reliable applications in all sectors to secure and protect you from cybercrime and security breaches is increasingly important as we move toward a return to an onsite work posture. This comprehensive guide by Marcus P. Zillman identifies a wide swath of privacy resources from which you can choose to apply to secure online and mobile activities in personal, academic, government or corporate environments.

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Lineal Services

MARCH 2, 2022

Dallas, TX – March 2, 2022 – Lineal Services, a leading AI-powered legal technology company has expanded its client solutions team with the addition of Brian Stempel as Senior Vice President, Strategic Client Solutions and Major Baisden as Chief Revenue Officer. In this transformational move, Stempel and Baisden will play pivotal roles as Lineal expands its next-generation AI technology and service offerings globally.

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LLRX

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Alexis Karteron , constitutional law professor ,Rutgers University - Newark, provides insight on what Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court, could mean for how that court works.

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