Attorney at Work

AUGUST 23, 2022

A brainstorming session is a valuable and creative tool law firm marketing teams can use to foster their brands, communicate their messages, and deliver real impact in their law firm branding, marketing and public relations. Elements of an Effective Brainstorming Session. Here are 10 brainstorming guidelines for today’s law firm marketing teams that will help make your meeting — and outcomes — more effective. 1.

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LLRX

AUGUST 26, 2022

Data mining and knowledge discovery is a quickly evolving field that is part of the portfolio of CI, BI and KM professionals, law librarians, research analysts, infopros, data scientists, data journalists and students in college and graduate programs. This expansive bibliography by Marcus P. Zillman comprises a wealth of information, resources, tools, techniques and applications, as well as links to many open datasets.

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LawSites

AUGUST 22, 2022

LegalEase Solutions , a company that provides customized legal solutions for corporations, in-house legal departments and law firms, has acquired the contract lifecycle management (CLM) consulting firm CLM Gurus , along with key executives and staff. LegalEase says that the acquisition adds senior talent and experience for its end-to-end CLM implementation offerings , which encompass selection, requirement scoping, migration, abstraction, technology integration and change management.

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Legal Tech Innovation Wales

AUGUST 25, 2022

Accessibility of legislation and access to justice has always been at the forefront of the Lab’s priorities. This year alone, we have organised and/or participated in a number of relevant projects: such as the RPF2 Access to Justice project and Innovation challenge hosted by the Solicitor’s Regulation Authority (SRA) and the University of West of England (UWE), the Global Legal Hackathon in Manchester, with our team focusing on the Access to Justice challenge and now, co-hosted with Welsh Govern

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Advertiser: Trellis

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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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 26, 2022

Whether you work in a traditional office or a home office, distractions are everywhere. While we can’t completely remove ourselves from interruptions, we can minimize distractions a bit with these six tricks. 1. Turn Off Notifications. Apps are all begging for your attention. With each notification, they scream pay attention to me. The more notifications you get, the harder it is to focus on high-level work.

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LLRX

AUGUST 22, 2022

Patrick J. McKenna is a highly respected lecturer, strategist and advisor to law firms. McKenna's experience has taught him that the best performing teams have discovered to operate effectively they need to formalize what they should specifically be able to expect of each other as members. He calls these expectations the group’s ‘Rules of Engagement’, and in this article he articulates that to be effective, these rules of engagement must be clear, consistent, agreed to and followed.

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LawSites

AUGUST 23, 2022

MerusCase , a law practice management software tailored for workers’ compensation, employment and labor, and insurance defense firms, today introduced MerusPay , an e-payments feature built natively in the MerusCase platform. MerusCase says this native online payments capability enables users to now compliantly process payments without the need for additional third-party applications.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 24, 2022

As hybrid work models take hold and employees — especially associates — ask for more flexibility, firm leaders are testing out new ways to keep people happy and engaged. Here’s what one legal technology company has learned about balancing productivity, creativity and well-being. The nature of the legal industry is constant, even during a global pandemic.

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LLRX

AUGUST 20, 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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Rocket Matter

AUGUST 22, 2022

If you run a legal practice, you want it to be profitable. And it’s not just because bringing in an impressive revenue sounds, well, impressive. It’s because profitability allows your practice to thrive. With greater profitability, you’re able to give your attorneys and legal staff the tools they need to deliver standout client service, attract exceptional talent, and scale your practice.

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Advertiser: Trellis

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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LawSites

AUGUST 22, 2022

At ILTACON today, BigHand, a company that provides operational and financial products for law firms, said that it has acquired Digitory Legal, whose platform provides cost analytics designed to help law firms and in-house legal departments better price their services and manage their costs. Digitory says its analytics “unlocks information below the surface of the billing data which identifies what ‘actually’ happened on a matter, delivering actionable cost data to predict and refine future

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 20, 2022

The interviews and video calls are behind you. You’ve accepted the position and joined your new law firm. You’re excited by the opportunity but worry about your initial performance. You promoted your skills, experience and expertise pretty strongly in the interviews. Will you be able to live up to expectations? Here’s how a learning mindset can help you take on your new job responsibilities with confidence.

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Relativity

AUGUST 22, 2022

We are implementing a new subscription plan that eliminates separate user fees for RelativityOne. The new plan makes it easier to unlock innovation in the platform.

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Debevoise Data Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

On August 11, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) announced its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “ANPR”) seeking public comment on 95 questions focused on harms stemming from “commercial surveillance and lax data security practices” and whether new trade regulation rules under section 18 of the FTC Act are needed to protect people’s privacy and information.

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LawSites

AUGUST 22, 2022

Today kicks off the first full day of ILTACON22 , the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. Already, the day has brought a slew of news announcements from legal technology companies. Here is a roundup of news announced this morning. DISCO Joins the LexFusion Go-to-Market Collective As Its E-Discovery Provider. The e-discovery company DISCO (NYSE:LAW), one of only a handful of publicly traded legal tech companies, has joined LexFusion , a go-to-market collective of

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 25, 2022

To succeed as in-house counsel, make sure clients understand the legal department’s value. Just like the clients of private law firms, corporate personnel have choices about to whom to turn when a legal question arises. Here are their three options. 1. “I’ll Figure It Out Myself” Corporate personnel may be disincentivized to consult their legal departments in a number of ways.

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LLRX

AUGUST 25, 2022

With rare bipartisan support, the American Data and Privacy Protection Act moved out of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce by a vote of 53-2 on July 20, 2022. The bill still needs to pass the full House and the Senate, and negotiations are ongoing. Given the Biden administration’s responsible data practices strategy, White House support is likely if a version of the bill passes.

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Debevoise Data Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

On August 11, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“ANPR”) seeking public comment on 95 questions focused on purported harms stemming from “commercial surveillance and lax data security practices.” The ANPR also invites views as to whether new trade regulation rules under Section 18 of the FTC Act, or other regulatory alternatives, are needed to protect consumers’ privacy and information.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

AUGUST 23, 2022

EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: Quantum Computing August 22, 2022 [Seth] 0:14 You’re listening to the Berkeley Technology Law Journal Podcast. I’m Seth Bertolucci. [Isabel] 0:19 And I’m Isabel Jones. On today’s episode, we sit down with a quantum physicist and an attorney specializing in technology law and human design to discuss the science behind quantum computing and this technology’s legal and ethical implications on the law, economics, and society.

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LLRX

AUGUST 25, 2022

With rare bipartisan support, the American Data and Privacy Protection Act moved out of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce by a vote of 53-2 on July 20, 2022. The bill still needs to pass the full House and the Senate, and negotiations are ongoing. Given the Biden administration’s responsible data practices strategy, White House support is likely if a version of the bill passes.

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LLRX

AUGUST 22, 2022

Joseph Ferguson , Co-Director, National Security and Civil Rights Program, Loyola University Chicago and Thomas A. Durkin , Distinguished Practitioner in Residence, Loyola University Chicago are both attorneys who specialize in and teach national security law. While navigating the sound and fury over the Trump search, this article highlights important things to note about the Espionage Act.

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