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Cybersecurity Trends: 25% of Law Firms Have Been Breached

Attorney at Work

What We Learned in 2021. In December 2021, Dave Ries, a frequent co-presenter with the authors, wrote an excellent summary of the cybersecurity portion of the ABA’s 2021 Legal Technology Survey Report. Perhaps the most striking statistic is that 25% of the survey’s respondents reported that their law firm had been breached at some time. Clearly, law firms are an attractive target for cybercriminals — with a plethora of data about so many people and businesses, law firms are a one-stop-shop for h

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Legalweek Moves to March Amid Omicron Surge

LawSites

The Legalweek conference scheduled to convene in New York City later this month has been moved to March due to the surge in coronavirus cases resulting from the Omicron variant. Originally scheduled for Jan. 31-Feb. 3, the conference is now scheduled for March 8-11, still at the New York Hilton Midtown. Mark Fried , CFO and president of events at ALM , the company that produces Legalweek, told me that the conference schedule will remain exactly the same, except that the Monday-Thursday schedu

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How to Stay Focused at Work: 8 Productivity Tips for Lawyers

Rocket Matter

We get it. It is extremely difficult to stay focused at work, especially if you have awesome co-workers you actually like and want to socialize with. You’ve got to catch up on gossip, discuss the latest episode of whatever you’re binge-watching these days, talk about the headlines of the day, and go over a play-by-play of the weekend’s sports… Read More » How to Stay Focused at Work: 8 Productivity Tips for Lawyers.

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Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 2, 2022

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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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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Q&A With Heather Oden: Ball Janik’s COO on the Role Legal Ops Plays Today

Attorney at Work

Attorney at Work’s new “You at Work Spotlight” series focuses on the crucial role business professionals play in law firms of all sizes — including newly emerging career options in the legal industry. In our first interview, we focus on the role of the chief operating officer and the demands the pandemic has placed on legal operations. Heather J. Oden is the Chief Operating Officer at Ball Janik, LLP , based in Portland, Oregon, where she oversees the whole gamut of the firm’s business operation

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LawNext: Trellis Founder Nicole Clark Says Court Data is a Litigator’s Secret Weapon

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As a litigator in Los Angeles, Nicole Clark saw that state court data could be a secret weapon for winning, but she also saw how difficult it was for her and other lawyers to access that data. That inspired Clark to found Trellis in 2018, to collect and provide access to that data so that other litigators would not have to operate blind. . Recently, Trellis raised $14.1 million in a Series A funding round that Clark plans to use to expand the company’s coverage into additional states

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Snap Makes a Spectacle of Itself Over Trademark Dispute

Brett Trout

Brett Trout Snap, Inc., the owners of Snapchat and Bitmoji, are also a the self-styled “camera” company, and have been selling augmented reality (AR) glasses under the name “Spectacles” since 2016. Snap is currently on its fourth-generation AR glasses system, currently only being provided to a select number of AR technology developers to assist them in developing applications for the latest version of the Spectacles.

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Lawyer Tech Tips: Where Should You Put Technology Dollars in 2022?

Attorney at Work

Where will you focus your technology spending in the next months? Our experts have advice. During the past two years, the pace of tech adoption quickened as firms moved to automate their practices for remote work and virtual practice. We wondered what tools or initiatives small firms might open their wallets for this coming year. So we asked our experts: What do you think small law firms should (or should not) be spending their technology dollars on in 2022?

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Aderant Begins the New Year with a New CEO

LawSites

The new year begins with news of a new chief executive at Aderant , a global provider of business management software for law firms. Effective today, Chris Cartrett is succeeding Deane Price as the company’s CEO. The move had been planned since July 2021, when the company announced that Price would be stepping down to pursue other opportunities and promoted Cartrett to president, priming him to take over the CEO position.

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Mike Suchsland (The LegalTech Fund) on Investing in Legal Technology in 2022 and Beyond

Technically Legal

In the first episode of 2022, Mike Suchsland of the LegalTech Fund and Bridge Investments talks about investing in legal technology. Mike has been in legal tech before it was even a thing. He started his career with Wolters Kulwer in the 1990s and ultimately ended up climbing high up the corporate ladder at Thomson Reuters. He started as Thomson’s head of legal strategy, moved to the small law business group, ended up running the corporate legal unit, the legal education division and ultimat

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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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Ep 149: Trellis Founder Nicole Clark Says Court Data is a Litigator’s Secret Weapon

LawNext podcast

As a litigator in Los Angeles, Nicole Clark saw that state court data could be a secret weapon for winning, but she also saw how difficult it was for her and other lawyers to access that data. That inspired Clark to found Trellis in 2018, to collect and provide access to that data so that other litigators would not have to operate blind. Recently, Trellis raised $14.1 million in a Series A funding round that Clark plans to use to expand the company’s coverage into additional states and its cust

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Adding Rush Rates for Legal Services

Attorney at Work

As lawyers, we are in a service industry. However, I suspect most of us did not sign up to be on call to provide legal services 24-7. I’ll admit I’m a bit neurotic and controlling. I have an, at times, overwhelming caseload and I use systems (yes, plural) that help me prioritize and juggle my clients’ numerous projects. Driving into the office each morning, I want to know which client projects I’ll be working on and what I’ll likely accomplish.

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Startups: Just Two Days Left to Apply for Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW

LawSites

Friday is the final deadline for legal technology startups to apply for a spot in the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW , the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference, to be held March 2-5, 2022, both live in Chicago and virtually. . This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to showcase your startup before an audience of legal professionals, legal journalists, bloggers, industry analysts and investors.

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Cybersecurity Policy Handbook [FREE eBOOK]

Accellis Technology Group

A How-To Guide for Professional Organizations Creating Customized Cybersecurity Policies As larger companies are making strides to protect their data repositories from hackers and other data erasing disasters, small and mid-sized firms need to do more to protect against growing cyber threats. This unique guidebook will walk you through, step-by-step, how to develop and implement critical security policies in order to safeguard your firm’s confidential information.

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Should Your Social Media Posts Reflect Customers’ Beliefs — Or The Truth?

Social Media for Law Firms

Being an attorney means providing clients with a vigorous legal defense even when you know they’re guilty. And that means you can’t always choose clients who support your own beliefs. For some, it means catering to the widest audience possible. Should your social media posts reflect your customers’ beliefs — or the truth? It’s a tricky situation to navigate when you know how many clients might have radical beliefs.

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Today On Legaltech Week Live: Our Panelists’ Picks Of the Top Stories of 2021 and Predictions for 2022

LawSites

Today is the first Legaltech Week of the new year — our weekly roundtable of journalists and bloggers — and we’re marking the occasion with a special program in which our panelists will reveal their picks of the top legal tech story of 2021 and their predictions for legal tech in 2022. The program is live via Zoom at 3 p.m. and free to watch, but you need to register, which you can do here.

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Podcast: The ‘Talk Justice’ Access to Justice Year in Review

LawSites

I had the great privilege to be a guest on the year-end edition of Talk Justice , the podcast produced by the Legal Services Corporation and hosted by Jason Tashea, a member of LSC’s Emerging Leaders Council. Also on the episode were Zachariah DeMeola , director of legal education and the legal profession at the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System , and Ronald S.

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Podcast: The ‘Talk Justice’ Access to Justice Year in Review

LawSites

I had the great privilege to be a guest on the year-end edition of Talk Justice , the podcast produced by the Legal Services Corporation and hosted by Jason Tashea, a member of LSC’s Emerging Leaders Council. Also on the episode were Zachariah DeMeola , director of legal education and the legal profession at the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System , and Ronald S.

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Breaking: Aderant Acquires American LegalNet

LawSites

Aderant , a global provider of business management software for law firms, has acquired docketing technology and rules-based calendaring company American LegalNet (ALN). . Aderant began notifying customers by email today of the acquisition, and the ALN website now carries the Aderant logo. ALN offers a cloud-based national docketing and calendaring product, as well as a variety of standalone products for docketing, calendaring, document delivery, dockets alerts, e-filing, and forms creation.

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Clio Names Technology Finance Veteran Curt Sigfstead as Chief Financial Officer

LawSites

The legal technology company Clio has named Curt Sigfstead , a veteran technology, finance and investments professional, as its new chief financial officer. Sigfstead was formerly CFO at Clearco , a Toronto-based fintech company that provides growth capital to e-commerce businesses through a unique model in which the investment is repaid through revenue sharing.

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Today On Legaltech Week Live – Our Panelists’ Picks Of the Top Stories of 2021 and Predictions for 2022

LawSites

Today is the first Legaltech Week of the new year — our weekly roundtable of journalists and bloggers — and we’re marking the occasion with a special program in which our panelists will reveal their picks of the top legal tech story of 2021 and their predictions for legal tech in 2022. The program is live via Zoom at 3 p.m. and free to watch, but you need to register, which you can do here.

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LawNext: Trellis Founder Nicole Clark Says Court Data is a Litigator’s Secret Weapon

LawSites

As a litigator in Los Angeles, Nicole Clark saw that state court data could be a secret weapon for winning, but she also saw how difficult it was for her and other lawyers to access that data. That inspired Clark to found Trellis in 2018, to collect and provide access to that data so that other litigators would not have to operate blind. . Recently, Trellis raised $14.1 million in a Series A funding round that Clark plans to use to expand the company’s coverage into additional states

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Clio Names Technology Finance Veteran Curt Sigfstead as Chief Financial Officer

LawSites

The legal technology company Clio has named Curt Sigfstead , a veteran technology, finance and investments professional, as its new chief financial officer. Sigfstead was formerly CFO at Clearco , a Toronto-based fintech company that provides growth capital to e-commerce businesses through a unique model in which the investment is repaid through revenue sharing.

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Startups: Just Two Days Left to Apply for Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW

LawSites

Friday is the final deadline for legal technology startups to apply for a spot in the sixth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW , the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference, to be held March 2-5, 2022, both live in Chicago and virtually. . This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to showcase your startup before an audience of legal professionals, legal journalists, bloggers, industry analysts and investors.

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Legalweek Moves to March Amid Omicron Surge

LawSites

The Legalweek conference scheduled to convene in New York City later this month has been moved to March due to the surge in coronavirus cases resulting from the Omicron variant. Originally scheduled for Jan. 31-Feb. 3, the conference is now scheduled for March 8-11, still at the New York Hilton Midtown. Mark Fried , CFO and president of events at ALM , the company that produces Legalweek, told me that the conference schedule will remain exactly the same, except that the Monday-Thursday schedu

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Integreon and UpLevel Ops Partner to Offer Corporations ‘Legal Operations Support-as-a-Service’

LawSites

With the goal of providing full end-to-end legal operations support to corporate clients worldwide, Integreon and UpLevel Ops have formed an alliance to offer what they are calling Legal Operations Support-as-a-Service. The alliance combines the managed services offerings of alternative legal services provider (ALSP) Integreon with the outsourced strategic advisory services of corporate legal operations consulting firm UpLevel Ops.

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Breaking: Aderant Acquires American LegalNet

LawSites

Aderant , a global provider of business management software for law firms, has acquired docketing technology and rules-based calendaring company American LegalNet (ALN). . Aderant began notifying customers by email today of the acquisition, and the ALN website now carries the Aderant logo. ALN offers a cloud-based national docketing and calendaring product, as well as a variety of standalone products for docketing, calendaring, document delivery, dockets alerts, e-filing, and forms creation.

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Integreon and UpLevel Ops Partner to Offer Corporations ‘Legal Operations Support-as-a-Service’

LawSites

With the goal of providing full end-to-end legal operations support to corporate clients worldwide, Integreon and UpLevel Ops have formed an alliance to offer what they are calling Legal Operations Support-as-a-Service. The alliance combines the managed services offerings of alternative legal services provider (ALSP) Integreon with the outsourced strategic advisory services of corporate legal operations consulting firm UpLevel Ops.

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Aderant Begins the New Year with a New CEO

LawSites

The new year begins with news of a new chief executive at Aderant , a global provider of business management software for law firms. Effective today, Chris Cartrett is succeeding Deane Price as the company’s CEO. The move had been planned since July 2021, when the company announced that Price would be stepping down to pursue other opportunities and promoted Cartrett to president, priming him to take over the CEO position.

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Practical Guide to Cybersecurity For the Small Law Firm [FREE eBOOK]

Accellis Technology Group

An In-Depth Guide for Attorneys & Law Firms on Developing a Plan to Protect Your Practice Every day we hear about a new hack or breach happening somewhere. Our own privacy and security are under constant assault. If you are reading this, there is a good chance you have already had a security incident. At this point, 25% of firms have already fallen victim to a data breach.