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The sudden shift from “normal” in-office day-to-day to “until further notice” virtual day-to-day has drastically changed the nation’s workforce. Firms had to quickly adapt  without any forewarning. How well your firm adjusts to this shift may rest in part on the systems you have in place for supporting your remote workers and the ability to work digitally with clients.

As firms face the economic, technical, and practical challenges of this new age threat, there are many tactics your firm can implement to future-proof your practice.

Download this guide of 10 “survival tactics”, including:

• Comprehensive plans and responses to diverse scenarios
• How to maintain client communication and service
• How to ensure your firm’s connectivity and security
• Ways to keep your team collaborating efficiently
• And much more!

An estimated $350 trillion of loans, securities and derivatives are set to be impacted by phasing out LIBOR in 2021. With general uncertainty around how to best transition to alternatives, many business leaders and their legal teams are finding it difficult to formulate structured plans.

At this late stage, manually identifying and analyzing existing client contracts that use LIBOR is a huge, costly task. And for some companies, the process could take months or years, making it impossible to repaper contracts in time.

Download this white paper and discover how automation promises substantial time and cost savings to help your clients transition away from libor. Topics cover:

• 3 steps to start transition plans and mitigate risk
• The importance of identifying and analyzing LIBOR exposure
• The role of AI & machine learning in contract review
• Transition Q&A with LIBOR thought leader

It is no longer possible to be a renaissance man or woman in the legal environment – there’s just too much to know, and too much to do.

Two trends currently present in law – increased specialization and the growing complexity of legal issues – are creating a demand for attorneys with skill sets and technical expertise that revolve around collaboration to solve multifaceted issues. 

Simply put, collaboration increasingly underpins the practice of law.

Download this white paper to learn how collaboration will power the legal profession, and specifically litigation, in 2020 and beyond. You’ll learn:

• Why increased collaboration leads to increased revenue
• The importance of collaboration in litigation
• The advent of the “T-shaped” lawyer and the critical skills that support collaboration
• Principal components of a modern collaboration

Transactional attorneys are facing unprecedented challenges related to productivity and the ability to work quickly and effectively outside of the office. Routine tasks, such as document review, face digital security and operational challenges many firms are not prepared for. 

Technology that brings documents — and the right individuals to interact with those documents — into a virtual data room and automates aspects of transactional law can fill the void and help overcome dealmaking obstacles.

Download this white paper to explore how to simplify and streamline due diligence and your overall M&A process. You’ll learn:

• The benefits of a virtual data room
• The power of automation to enable agility and security
• Why enhanced productivity matters today

2020 has seen an enormous amount of change for law firms – changing how they interact with clients, access core applications and confidential information, and remain productive despite all the conflicting demands on their time.

Some firms have quickly adapted to remote work, while the unprecedented speed of change exposed frailties for others that need to be quickly corrected. Perhaps the single greatest factor influencing adaptability has been the state of a firm’s IT infrastructure. 

If your law firm faces an uncertain future around remote work, download this eBook to discover how moving to the cloud can increase your productivity now and position your firm for long-term sustainability. You’ll learn:

• Why cloud computing is critical to maintaining productivity while working from home.
• The pros and cons of on-premises, private, and public cloud environments.
• The top 10 things you should consider when evaluating cloud options.

As an attorney dealing in trusts and estates, you’re well aware that state laws will determine the type of probate that may be required when someone dies. Reconstructing a family tree for the decedent is helpful during the probate process to satisfy the applicable state laws.

Yet, even with the good intentions of decedents who arrange affairs in advance, you may not know how to identify their next-of-kin and may feel overwhelmed with the time and resources involved with the amount of searching necessary to account for everyone.

Download this white paper and discover 3 steps of due diligence in genealogical research for probate matters, and the benefits a professional can bring to the process. Topics include:

• Obstacles in locating all estate heirs
• Determining which people meet the relevant relationship criteria
• How a professional genealogist saves time and frustration

Start streamlining your genealogical research today and free up your time for more pressing matters. 

The digital universe is growing—expected to reach 44 trillion gigabytes in 2020. In turn, document review has become an increasingly complex and expensive problem for litigators who must mine through mountains of data and growing document types.

Thorough reviews will always take time, but the right technology provides real efficiency benefits that law firms can leverage to overcome challenges while significantly reducing the cost and time burden involved in review.

Download this white paper to learn what an effective review looks like today, indicators that a solution will help you conduct an effective review, and questions to consider if you’re evaluating a new solution. This paper explores:

• How to reduce the time required for a review at various steps
• How to reveal hidden details in data at scale
• How to act on information securely and collaboratively

The pandemic has thrown everyone for a curve, including legal advisors. Yet, when your clients are transacting in capital markets, restructuring, bankruptcy and M&A, they still need your timely guidance — and, they still expect results.

Watch this on-demand webcast that covers market insights on how current events like the pandemic have disrupted standard workflows, the role of technology in addressing shifts in client expectations, and findings from a live polling of audience members on their own practice experiences and productivity hacks. An expert panel of attorneys and legal tech leaders discuss:

• Best practices for overcoming common productivity challenges, including adoption of recent legal tech advances.
• Navigating disrupted workflows during the pandemic to ensure business continuity.
• How new technology advances can help you meet shifting client expectations.

Lawyers must evolve along with technology, including learning how to locate, protect, and extract information from dark data sources. Dark data is likely to be in an unstructured format, unclassified, and likely unmanaged by current information governance solutions.

Accessing and reviewing dark data with a modern ediscovery platform enables lawyers to more effectively serve clients whose companies use modern forms of communication. This white paper reviews several examples of what dark data is and how to automatically translate, transcribe, and convert, to bring information to the surface that often remains hidden during document review.

Download this whitepaper and learn how to harness the power of modern computer science to expose the hidden details of dark data at scale. Including:

• Examples of dark data
• Dark data and the ethical duty of technological competence
• Accessing dark data formats such as: social media and chat; machine transcription;  machine language identification and translation; and advanced file formats. 
• Revealing hidden data at scale 

Overcome your dark data challenges and understand the benefits and risks of emerging technologies that create, or analyze dark data today.

Globalization of the U.S. economy, inconsistent practices among contractors, and an array of threats - these are just a few of the challenges U.S. Government SCRM faces in the modern world. How can you be confident that you’ve addressed any significant risk?

Crafting a tailored plan for supply chain risk management that’s unique to each federal agency is vital. However, success is predicated on having the best available data on supply chains to marry with assessment expertise for truly effective strategies.

Download this white paper that explores strategies and technology tools to help you more effectively identify and mitigate supply chain risk. Topics include:

• How to build a risk assessment baseline
• The importance of comprehensive data sources on vendors/contractors
• How technology helps proactively monitor the right vendor data

Start performing thorough risk assessments today.

As the entire world has discovered these past few months, the way we work can change drastically, and without any warning. Working remotely is the new normal and we must navigate this new way of working.

With document automation software your clients can complete an interview virtually, without any need for in-person interviews or data collection, further streamlining the document creation process. 

Watch this on-demand webcast to learn how to streamline document generation workflow with document automation. There is great value in implementing document automation, including:

• Saving time and money
• Improving document creation
• Enhancing compliance
• Increasing efficiency
• Mitigating risk

Digital transformation within the legal industry has suddenly taken on new urgency and new meaning. Cumbersome, bloated project teams, expensive in-person meetings and traditional ways of managing workflows and documents are no longer practical, let alone possible.

The future-focused law firm can reap immediate benefits from artificial intelligence (AI) and automation technologies — namely, time saved, increased productivity, enhanced attorney satisfaction, and ultimately growth.

Download this white paper that covers in detail:

• Immediate advantages your firm gains from AI and automation technology adoption
• What improvements you will see in operations
• How to go about technology adoption in a thoughtful way
• A checklist to help guide you through the vendor selection process

Is your law firm ready to move beyond the world of billable hours? 

The managed legal services model introduces transparency, efficiency – and the chance to introduce technology on a scale that might not be feasible for single in-house teams. Plus, your firm benefits from the certainty of cash flow.

Here’s how it works: direct insight of your client’s specific needs and pain points can be turned into knowledge, or digitized IP, that can then be turned into an opportunity to create a more valuable, and potentially more profitable offering to the client. Which could then be sold again with a similar implementation to another client while not attracting any new costs to your firm. 

Download this playbook to learn how partnering with legal technology to expand upon managed legal services can help your firm go beyond billable hours by:

• Understanding the gap in the legal service provider model 
• Extracting new value from client knowledge
• Turning knowledge into revenue streams