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Contracts are the backbone of business transactions, but when something goes wrong in-house attorneys are often asked to strategize and determine if litigation is worth the time and resources.

Learn how you can leverage contracts analytics, powered by machine learning and attorney review, to accurately find disputes surrounding contracts. Discover how your in-house team can use data around a specific set of cases to strategize faster and plan better.

Download this white paper to learn how contracts analytics can help you answer:

• How long is this case likely to take?
• How does my outside counsel compare to other firms?
• What kind of damages are at stake?
• Has this court made a similar finding?

Across the US, partners are exiting firms in droves and leaving executives and HR teams struggling to close the gaps. Remaining lawyers attempt to absorb massive workloads, plus a new hire still requires training that is often crushingly time-consuming.

Learn how you can start reducing partner turnover with 3 steps that are customizable and adaptable for your firm: Publicize, Promote, and Project Vision.

Download this white paper to explore the multifaceted solution. You’ll learn:

• Why publicizing wins is critical to retaining top talent
• How to promote your own employees as individuals
• How to project your vision in a meaningful, impactful way

Ready to inspire action within your organization?

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:

• Reducing errors and risk
• Boosting opportunities for additional services
• Increasing efficiency and lowering costs
• And more...

Digital transformation is touching everything in the legal profession, from the completion of everyday tasks to the way information is secured and shared.

Is your firm keeping pace with digital transformation and the changes it brings to your business and your clients? The danger is real if your firm falls behind, as clients and competitors are moving forward.

Download this eBook for actionable insights you can implement today to thrive as a digitally ambitious legal practice. You will explore:

• Three challenges facing your firm in a hyper-connected environment.
• The standards by which clients judge your technical sophistication.
• The foundational elements for secure, hyper-connected data and devices to meet the client's requirements.

The warnings are dire. The world is on track for a temperature rise of 1.5 degrees C before the end of this century. Global climate change will affect every sector of the economy; raising new legal disputes and altering how traditional claims are litigated.

Litigators who educate themselves and prepare today, will stay ahead of the curve to help their clients confront new legal risks when they arise.  Additionally, they will be primed to recognize new business opportunities that develop with the changing tides.

Start preparing now. Download this white paper and learn:

• The types of emerging risks on the horizon
• Tips for practitioners to prepare
• New business opportunities that will arise
• How regulations may change

The benefits of using the cloud are indisputable, including scalability, reduced costs, less burden on IT, and rapid deployment. But for law firms, the public cloud creates a complex conundrum.

In an era where data breaches cause PR nightmares, law firms have more reason than ever to secure sensitive client information, worry about security, and boost compliance.

Download this white paper to learn how a private cloud allows your law firm to attain the advantages and performance of the cloud, with the traditional security of on-site servers. This paper covers:

• What a private cloud is, and how it differs from public clouds.
• 5 key benefits for law firms.
• How private clouds help future-proof your law firm.
• How to help maximize firm performance, compliance, and cost efficiency.

Preparing for a personal injury case that hinges on the “Baseball Rule?”

Learn the nuances that influence this maxim which can release stadium owners teams, players, etc. from liabilities associated with risks of attendance.

Access this article covering the nuances of the rule, how the rule has been applied in the past, and the challenges you may face in the current legal landscape. Including:

• Origins of the baseball rule
• Responsibilities of stadiums and teams
• Responsibilities of spectators
• Current legal impacts

Law firms have always dealt in significant amounts of data. From billing and contact profiles to communications and case documents, law firms rely on this information.

The past decade of technological innovation has reshaped how law firms access this data, and it is empowering leaders to derive actionable insights to influence firm success.

Download this guide to learn critical data measures that you can use to benchmark data at your law firm. You will learn:

• Which KPIs inform you what’s working, and what needs improvement.
• Why these KPIs are important to firm operations.
• How to use KPIs to influence long-term planning.
• Advice on how to be a more data-driven law firm.

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

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
• Identify business opportunities
• Evolve how corporate legal playbooks are used

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
• Enhance jobs, not replace them

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
• Ability to scale business faster

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

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:

• Reducing errors and risk
• Boosting opportunities for additional services
• Increasing efficiency and lowering costs
• And 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 creating efficiencies now to build effective habits that will save you time and improve your bottom line moving forward.

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

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

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.