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What responsibility do lawyers really have to understand the technology they use?  

According to the American Bar Association’s (ABA) revised Model Rule1.1, and specifically Comment 8, most state-specific guidelines have removed an attorney’s ability to claim that he or she lacks requisite technological information or expertise. Technological incompetence is not just a practice-of-law issue; it’s an ethical one.

Law firm’s and attorney’s responsibility is to be aware through self-education or guidance from a technology partner. That responsibility extends beyond basic software into the realm of data protection and safeguarding sensitive information.

Download this white paper and learn how cloud-based software helps you meet ethical duties associated with technology. It covers:

• The implications of Model Rule 1.1, Comment 8 for law firms and attorneys
• How the cloud helps you meet satisfactory security responsibilities
• Key benefits cloud software offers

Does the AI phenomenon still seem confusing or obscure to you? Are you comfortable with the processes and methods on which you’ve relied on for years as a lawyer? Law firms of all sizes must prepare for and adapt to the change—or get left behind.

The application of artificially intelligent-based tech tools is having a real impact on the way law firms practice and run their businesses. And while it may surprise you, such tools are even within reach for small law. Tech companies are building software solutions that firms of all sizes and can use as cost-effective alternatives to the traditional means of practicing law.

Download this white paper to learn the ways AI is driving change in small law, and the opportunities available to your firm to explore cost and time-saving solutions; including:

• 3 drivers that are fueling the transformation of the legal landscape
• How legal work is being fundamentally challenged and changed
• Examples of how AI is already benefiting law firm workflows and bottom lines

U. S. regulators increasingly expect companies to undertake a risk assessment process to ensure compliance programs are appropriate to the size, complexity, location and scope of business activities.

For companies operating in a complex, fast-moving and increasingly interconnected environment, it is essential to have a dynamic, risk-based corporate compliance program that evolves with the environment.

Download this white paper and start building a well-devised risk assessment process to that will help your organization identify vulnerabilities, manage and mitigate both legal and regulatory risks.

This overview includes:

• Scoping the risk assessment and identifying who conducts it
• Steps to perform your risk assessment
• How to build upon your risk assessment results
• How to periodically update your assessment

Since receiving the courts’ seal of approval, technology-assisted review (“TAR”) has proven to be a better way to get through massive amounts of data in a more efficient and cost-effective manner. The main benefits of using TAR are the reduction in effort and costs, while simultaneously improving accuracy in eDiscovery.

However, with all its advantages, TAR, as most use it today, has limitations. It requires high-rate senior attorneys to train the system, training processes that may reduce accuracy in some cases, and the need to re-review certain documents that can result in longer discovery times.

To overcome these limitations, many legal professionals are now turning to continuous active learning, otherwise known as TAR 2.0. Learn how TAR is evolving to become even more efficient and accurate.

Download this white paper that covers:

• How TAR 1.0 works
• How TAR 2.0 differs and improves upon 1.0
• How TAR 2.0 will further benefit your eDiscovery efforts

The legal industry is notoriously slow when it comes to adopting new technology to improve business. As in-house counsel face increasing pressure to cut costs and boost ROI, automating contract reviews can make an immediate impact by increasing efficiency and saving time.

This on-demand webinar demonstrates how legal teams are revolutionizing their daily contract review process. Get a practical look at using contract review automation and how modern legal teams are using this technology today.

Access this webinar that will cover:

• What contract review automation is
• How to dramatically reduce the time and cost of contract review and approval
• A live demonstration of contract review automation

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:

• Choosing a practice area
• Establishing Your business
• Budgeting for success
• Finding an office
• Marketing your firm in the digital age
• Networking and earning clients

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
• Sample Language for Billing and Credit Card Use

Corporate counsel’s task of choosing an eDiscovery provider or software can be time-consuming and riddled with difficulties, as they must accommodate unique company requirements.  But this decision is critical to the success of the company’s legal operations.

And yet technology and services related to eDiscovery evolve frequently, thus making a methodical approach key to making the best possible decision. These 10 steps will guide you through evaluating and choosing eDiscovery software or services to match the needs of your company.

Download this white paper that covers:

• Key factors that your legal team needs to consider during evaluation
• A methodical stepwise plan to help you evaluate based on your unique company requirements
• How to determine a best-fit solution for your legal team

We live in a world in which the internet expands the reach and impact of online defamation, invasions of privacy, bullying and more. This shifting landscape alters the traditional role of lawyers who are increasingly playing a counseling and litigation role in protecting clients’ reputations.

Today, the challenge becomes identifying often anonymous online attackers, convincing internet service providers and websites to provide relief, and orchestrating reputation-preserving counterattacks.

This white paper outlines a modern, proactive approach to protecting your clients’ reputation amidst today’s internet communication free-for-all.

Download this white paper to learn this approach, which also includes:

• Identifying and determining legal liability
• Understanding section 230 of the Communication Decency Act and if it applies
• 10 recommended strategies to address negative communications

Law firms of all sizes are appealing targets for hackers because of confidential information such as trade secrets, insider information, social security numbers, and large trust accounts.

The relatively lax law firm security standards and a culture of collaboration – accessing sensitive files across any device at any time – call for better security strategies. Secure content collaboration platforms fill a key role in building a strong cybersecurity strategy for your firm.

This brief will outline five key requirements content collaboration platforms must have to support law firms in today’s mobile environment. Learn how your firm can secure the most sensitive files while keeping pace with the demands of the attorneys-on-the go.

Download this brief that covers:

• The current threat landscape for law firms
• Why content collaboration matters to law firms
• Five non-negotiable requirements while choosing a content collaboration platform

Mobility is reaching an inflection point. Smart enterprises are moving away from tactical point solutions for mobile device management and towards secure, comprehensive, and unified platforms that maintain visibility and control across endpoint environments.

CIOs are seeking solutions for Unified Endpoint Management (UEM), which encompass management, security, and identity across mobile devices, desktops, laptops, and other endpoints.

This guide will help you update and reimagine your mobility strategy to keep pace with the evolving mobility landscape and future-proof your operations. Learn how the right solution can boost productivity, improve security and privacy, and simplify IT’s management of a growing number of roles, apps, operating systems, and device types.

Download this guide and reimagine your mobility strategy with:

• 10 critical factors to consider when making your UEM platform decision
• 7 top mobility pain points
• The mobility maturity curve and determining where your company is at

Many organizations have significant volumes of legacy data, in both electronic and hard copy form.

Significant portions of this data should be deleted to the extent that it is not subject to legal hold requirements, and does not serve a foreseeable business purpose.

Keeping less data can produce long-term benefits for any organization, including: reduced data storage costs, faster retrieval of information, improved efficiency of business operations, and reduced discovery time, costs and risk.

Download this white paper to learn:

• How to develop a defensible deletion process
• The importance of email usage and retention/disposition
• The legal basis for defensible deletion

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.

Decentralization is the defining characteristic of blockchain, and its ability to create efficiencies in industries that rely on third-party-mediated systems is unquestionable (like bitcoin for example).

Discover how this new technology will shape the legal industry, which acts as the most trusted intermediary there is. Learn how blockchain can streamline operations for your law firm and for your clients, which in-turn saves everyone time and money.

Download this white paper to learn 4 ways that blockchain technology will impact the legal profession, including:

• Smart contracts
• Chain of custody
• Service of process
• Introducing efficiencies

Ethics and Compliance (E&C) training programs are challenged by a lack of dedicated budget and resources, often because of the difficulty in demonstrating the value of the program. As leaders face increasing demands for training despite limited resources, demonstrating value and performance is critical.

This white paper explores survey results from 1,200+ professionals involved in running their organization’s E&C programs. Learn tips, trends, and best practices to enhance your own program and make more informed decisions to better demonstrate value.

Download this white paper for holistic insights and analysis of E&C training questions such as:

• What approaches do organizations take?
• What challenges do organizations face?
• How do organizations measure effectiveness?
• What outcomes or benefits do organizations realize and what influences them?
• What activities are priorities for organizations?

Companies (and their legal departments) in today’s global economy are confronted with growing legal and compliance risks due to the expanded scope, complexity and the global nature of their business activities. Accordingly, companies and legal teams wishing to avoid these risks build out robust risk-based corporate compliance program that are designed to limit the company’s exposure.

Download this white paper for practical steps your company and legal team can take to successfully embed a positive compliance culture by developing and implementing a compliance program that can be used globally, regardless of industry or the size of your company.

Get a detailed understanding of, and step-by-step approach to:

• The compliance risk framework
• Pre-program considerations such as: compliance, governance, and oversight
• How to develop the program
• Suggested implementation approach and phases

Legal Analytics has evolved significantly since the beginning of the decade to incorporate a wide range of practical areas. Yet, its purpose remains the same – to help law firms and businesses practice law more effectively and efficiently.

Lex Machina recently partnered with ALM Legal Intelligence to survey 300+ leaders at Am Law 200 firms regarding the value of Legal Analytics, how they leverage its power to deliver legal services to clients, and how it supports more effective business operations.

Download this white paper to explore the top four benefits legal analytics delivers, and best practices in these areas:

• Winning the case
• Getting the case: attracting new clients
• Pricing projects
• Cost Savings

Drawing from the 2017 Commercial Litigation Report, which examines the key axes of legal data and their interactions (focused exclusively on litigation in the federal U.S. District Courts), this infographic delivers data and trends on:

• Time to judgement
• Top damages by type
• Top plaintiffs, defendants, and law firm representation
• Makeup of the commercial claims field
• And more!

PLUS – Learn how you can leverage Legal Analytics to strengthen your strategy, tactics, and gain the winning edge by utilizing the power of data-driven insights and trends in commercial litigation. The data sheet provides an overview of:

• Questions that Legal Analytics helps you answer
• Unique commercial litigation data available for your firm to access

In the ever-changing electronic world that we live in, monitoring and preserving data becomes more and more challenging for organizations. New and emerging communication trends potentially pose a threat as employees and associates conduct business on new platforms and personal devices outside of the office.

While this can be intimidating, being aware of new trends and addressing what is acceptable with employees can make it an easier task.

Download this white paper and learn how to keep abreast of communication trends and solutions that address new preservation challenges for your company, including:

• 3 best practices to avoid preservation pitfalls
• An overview of how communication is evolving in business
• What kind of data is considered to be in an organization’s control

Accurate law firm and attorney performance assessment is essential to hiring the best outside counsel to handle your company’s cases. Legal Analytics changes the game, allowing in-house counsel to cut through the noise in firm pitches.

Download this case study and discover how Huawei’s U.S. Chief Intellectual Property Litigation Counsel leverages Legal Analytics to:

• Confidently screen proposed litigation counsel when selecting a law firm
• Reduce costs by finding qualified, less expensive, less well-known firms and lawyers
• Quickly assess opposing parties and their counsel for early case assessment
• Develop litigation strategy by utilizing big data analytics from their suit of apps

PLUS – you will also receive the Legal Analytics Apps Data Sheet to discover how the suite of tools can deliver answers for specific use cases (e.g., comparing courts, judges, or law firms), early case assessment, motion strategy, and patent portfolio evaluation.

For most in-house counsel, terms like metadata, terabytes, forensic images, and email archives didn’t exist when you were in law school. All the legal and risk management theory in the world won’t matter when you’re trying to convince a manager why you need 12 more servers for your discovery efforts.  

So how is this guide different from the numerous best practice treatises, articles that outline case law requirements, and tools that can be utilized for setting up a successful ediscovery program?

This guide is different because it addresses the practical application of these great principles to a profit-making entity. Because let’s face it, the corporation exists for one thing - its bottom line. This guide is your key to developing a discovery program inside the company firewall.

Download now for:

• Tips for each lifecycle phase of the eDiscovery reference model
• Key questions to ask when developing each phase
• Best practices for setting up a bottom line focused In-House eDiscovery program