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Learn how next-generation contract pre-screening is transforming the way in-house teams create and manage agreements. READ MORE ›
Using artificial intelligence (AI) to identify items of concern in legal contracts is nothing new. While AI can save time and resources, it does not remove the need for human expertise. Thus, making it just another effective search tool.
Discover how your in-house team can leverage next-gen AI systems to take a step further and generate a decision similar to a human lawyer’s conclusion of, “I’ve looked at this, and these five issues need careful consideration. Otherwise, we are ok.”
Download this playbook to learn how next-gen contract pre-screening can:
Transform the way you create and manage your agreements
Help you leverage contract inventories as a knowledge resource
The landscape of franchise disputes is often challenging. Learn to predict timing, outcomes, and cost with a data-backed approach that will help you formulate a strong litigation strategy. READ MORE ›
When franchisors become embroiled in contract litigation against their franchisees, they may have cases pending in district courts across the country and facing different franchisees, judges, opposing counsel, and local counsel.
Predicting timing, outcomes, and cost is essential to evaluating and resolving franchise claims.
Learn how to leverage critical data on the court, the judge, opposing counsel, the franchisor’s counsel, timing of key events, and likely resolutions to formulate a strong litigation strategy. Download this guide that will show how to determine:
Top franchise case jurisdictions
Top parties
Top firms
Common case resolutions
Ground-level data to help decide on injunctive relief
Understand the true nature of Artificial Intelligence and how it can benefit your law firm or legal team by helping you improve productivity, reduce mountains of data and breeze through eDiscovery with audio and video evidence. READ MORE ›
Today’s legal professionals are being buried beneath an avalanche of data, are overwhelmed by the constantly changing regulatory and compliance landscape, and are being forced to keep up with ever-evolving technologies that impact eDiscovery and all other aspects of the legal industry.
Implementing technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be daunting, not to mention the fear of replacing human jobs; however, there are many positive impacts it can bring to your legal team and firm. When leveraged correctly legal groups can implement a proactive approach to communications compliance monitoring, constantly and thoroughly reviewing material in real-time with a level of efficiency that would be impossible using traditional manual techniques.
Start preparing your team to beat the competition now. Download this white paper and learn how to:
Increase legal team efficiency and productivity
Accelerate eDiscovery efforts with AI Take the eDiscovery fast lane
Simplify compliance
Leverage machine learning to meet compliance requirements and reduce or eliminate false positive compliance concerns
Focus on business critical initiatives and stay up to date
Discover the immense opportunity to increase law firm ediscovery efficiency, and how doing so can reduce costs for clients and position your firm for growth. READ MORE ›
As your law firm grows, strategies to achieve scale demand more thought and attention. Creating efficiencies and reducing costs are paramount to success.
Discover how a prominent mid-size law firm, that was looking to upgrade its existing ediscovery legacy technology, was able to save time, money, and gain greater transparency around the entire process by leveraging Lighthouse Spectra.
Download this case study to learn how your firm may be able to achieve:
Cost and time savings for yourself and clients
Increased efficiency by leveraging automation
Reduced in-house processing times (from days to just hours)
Seamless integration with best-in-class technology like Relativity and Nuix
Learn the five hard questions you should ask ediscovery software vendors that look beyond feature comparison, and dive deeper into the value provided to help your company find the best fit. READ MORE ›
With the big data boom, a rush of ediscovery software solutions has flooded the market. At the start of 2019 alone, over 100 solutions exist on certain ediscovery peer-to-peer review sites.
The dramatic increase in new vendors—along with a surge in new feature development—makes it difficult to compare the strengths and weaknesses of platforms. Evaluating various solutions is a real challenge.
Asking the right questions in your evaluation can help differentiate between vendors and help you tailor your approach.
Download this white paper to explore:
5 hard questions you should ask ediscovery software vendors
Tips for looking beyond feature comparison and diving into the value provided
Follow-up questions that reveal the vendor's strategy behind product development
This white paper outlines 7 ways document automation can change legal work for your law firm to improve speed, efficiency, and accuracy. READ MORE ›
As the current legal landscape continues to demand cost-cutting and alternative forms of billing, modern law firms are increasingly adopting technology solutions that help them achieve these goals.
Document automation is one key area that impacts a firm’s bottom line in the essential areas of case and practice management.
Download this white paper to learn 7 ways document automation can boost firm business. Including:
Take insurance litigation to the next level by learning how Legal Analytics can help you better predict the potential cost of a case, what strategy your opponent might employ, and what damages might be expected. READ MORE ›
The insurance industry has historically leveraged analytics to predict risk when writing policies. Shouldn’t insurers and their counsel apply those same kinds of analytics to understand and predict their legal exposure when claims become legal matters?
With Legal Analytics, insurance lawyers can discover what types of cases have actually been litigated, who represented the opposing parties, what findings the court or jury made, and what damages were awarded.
Download this white paper to explore how Legal Analytics provides insurance lawyers an edge, equipping them with:
A detailed litigation history of an opposing party
Data-backed insights to help formulate litigation strategies that win cases
Specifics about previous cases, such as cost, length of litigation, and more
Start making smarter, faster, data-driven legal decisions today.
Take insurance litigation to the next level by learning how Legal Analytics can help you better predict the potential cost of a case, what strategy your opponent might employ, and what damages might be expected. READ MORE ›
The insurance industry has historically leveraged analytics to predict risk when writing policies. Shouldn’t insurers and their counsel apply those same kinds of analytics to understand and predict their legal exposure when claims become legal matters?
With Legal Analytics, insurance lawyers can discover what types of cases have actually been litigated, who represented the opposing parties, what findings the court or jury made, and what damages were awarded.
Download this white paper to explore how Legal Analytics provides insurance lawyers an edge, equipping them with:
A detailed litigation history of an opposing party
Data-backed insights to help formulate litigation strategies that win cases
Specifics about previous cases, such as cost, length of litigation, and more
Start making smarter, faster, data-driven legal decisions today.
Learn tips and best practices to manage invoice compliance while maintaining great relationships with highly effective outside counsel. READ MORE ›
For many companies, outside counsel serves as an efficient alternative to a corporate legal department and offers benefits like cost-savings and access to highly specialized skill sets.
Without careful management, these relationships can quickly generate friction. One key area to ensure a mindful approach is legal invoice compliance and billing enforcement.
Download this eBook to explore how you can manage billing communications in a way that maximizes potential gains while minimizing friction, including:
The importance of clear communication in building trust and proficiency
How experts help better manage outside counsel spend
Why transparency is key, and how it helps you operate more efficiently
Understand the true nature of Artificial Intelligence and how it can benefit your law firm by helping you improve productivity, reduce mountains of data and breeze through eDiscovery with audio and video evidence. READ MORE ›
Today’s legal professionals are being buried beneath an avalanche of data, are overwhelmed by the constantly changing regulatory and compliance landscape, and are being forced to keep up with ever-evolving technologies that impact eDiscovery and all other aspects of the legal industry.
Implementing technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be daunting, not to mention the fear of replacing human jobs; however, there are many positive impacts it can bring to your legal team and firm. When leveraged correctly legal groups can implement a proactive approach to communications compliance monitoring, constantly and thoroughly reviewing material in real-time with a level of efficiency that would be impossible using traditional manual techniques.
Start preparing your law firm to beat the competition now. Download this white paper and learn how to:
Increase firm efficiency and productivity
Accelerate eDiscovery efforts with AI Take the eDiscovery fast lane
Simplify compliance
Leverage machine learning to meet compliance requirements Reduce or eliminate false positive compliance concerns
Focus on business critical initiatives and stay up to date
Start optimizing your legal spend with these four tips to control costs. READ MORE ›
When it comes to managing your organization’s legal spend, it’s important to set expectations with outside counsel clearly from the onset to avoid confusion and expensive surprises.
Download this whitepaper to learn how the following ideas will help you get a better handle on your outside legal spend:
Disaster down-time could cost your law firm hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue. This paper outlines key considerations and best practices to use in devising your disaster recovery plan. READ MORE ›
Disasters of any kind, whether natural, man-made, or cyber, continually cost businesses billions of dollars in damages, down time and lost wages. Cybercrime alone is expected to cause economic damages of $6 trillion across the globe by 2021.
A small to mid-size law firms can expect to lose about $54,000 in billable revenue for just one hour of downtime due to any disaster. That number skyrockets to $200,000 for one week lost.
Learn how to develop a disaster recovery plan for your law firm using the tips and considerations outlined in this white paper, including:
What a well-thought-out disaster recovery plan looks like
Initial actions and steps effective plans should follow
Key questions and considerations for your plan
The cloud’s role in successful disaster preparedness and recovery
Be ready for disaster scenarios that are increasingly looking less like an if and more like a when.
Whether you already accept credit card payments from clients or plan to, these two credit card authorization sample forms can be easily added to your intake paperwork to help protect your firm against payment disputes. READ MORE ›
When given a choice, 75% of people prefer to make payments with a credit or debit card. Payment disputes can be costly and time consuming. Take steps now to protect your firm against them, and provide your clients with an easy way to make payments.
To do this, you can add a credit card authorization form to your intake paperwork. Download this kit for two sample authorization forms to help you get started. Including:
Client authorization form, either to pay a current invoice or to authorize future scheduled payments.
A form to cover authorizations for friends and family members who are making payments on behalf of your clients.
Learn five concrete solutions to turn common law firm inefficiencies into productive efficiencies that will boost your firm’s productivity. READ MORE ›
Business management training has never been a staple of the lawyer’s education. The good news is, lawyers can become better business managers, though it won’t happen overnight.
Tackling inefficiencies in law firm processes is an area of business management that will set you well ahead of the curve, and the results will show up on your bottom line. For the most part, law firms just do what they do, as they always have done; but don’t necessarily have an effective plan on how to do it.
Download this white paper to discover solutions that help you address the five common law firm inefficiencies:
Communication
Document management
Staff management
Payment processing
Collections
Start creatingefficiencies now to build effective habits that will save you time and improve your bottom line moving forward.
Learn what effective attorney-client communication looks like today, and practical tips for communicating with clients in ways that build trust, foster relationships, and strengthen your reputation. READ MORE ›
Your words, your tone, the way you present your ideas, how often you share updates—these things, large and small, can determine the success of your client relationships, and by extension, your practice.
Download this Guide to start forming strong client communication skills using habit forming processes. You’ll learn common communication mistakes, how to avoid them, and best practices for ensuring the most successful outcomes for your practice.
This guide covers:
How to make a positive, professional first impression
How to boost your interview skills to uncover insights and build trust
Set realistic expectations
The importance of empathy and emotional intelligence
Thinking of branching out and building your own law firm from the ground up? Use this eBook to guide you through the essentials of successfully launching your new law practice. READ MORE ›
Starting your own business can be simultaneously exciting and nerve-racking. It requires careful planning, commitment, longer hours, and usually a reliance on an unsteady income at first.
Yet, the prospect of being your own boss, setting your own hours, building a business, and carving your own path can be extremely rewarding.
Download this eBook for a step-by-step guide that walks you through all the essentials to launch a successful law firm in the Digital Age, including:
This kit contains five provisions to update your attorney fee agreements, service contracts, or retainer contracts to address today’s technology concerns. READ MORE ›
Modernizing your law firm requires more than just new technology. Updating your agreements to address today’s technology concerns is crucial.
Download this kit containing five optional provisions addressing a lawyer’s potential use of newer technology, billing, or legal requirements to secure private information, or to advise clients of file destruction policies.
Forms included:
Privacy Policy
Digital File Maintenance Clause
Disposition and Destruction of Client Files Clause
Disclaimer of Liability for Use of Cloud Storage or Technology Exposing Client Information to Hacking
Online payments are set to become the norm for the legal industry. Learn how adopting digital payments can save your firm time, increase efficiency, and provide an exceptional client experience. READ MORE ›
The Digital Revolution is reshaping the way the legal industry conducts business as more and more services become digitized, virtualized, and mobile. How clients pay for services is changing too.
Is your firm equipped to meet the digital payment demands of today’s business environment?
Learn how your firm can gain greater operational efficiency and significant time savings by offering modern online payment tools for your clients. Discover the benefits of embracing digital payment tools, and why they’re a key aspect of providing an exceptional, modern client experience.
Download this eBook for an overview of:
What makes a modern client experience
Traditional concerns with accepting credit card payments
How lawyers are optimizing cash flow and workflow with modern tools
Adopting online payments is no longer a question of if, but when, as more of your clients will choose competitors who do offer this option.
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