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As legal operations leaders look to become stronger and more strategic partners to the business, AI offers an array of benefits that cannot be ignored, specifically in contract review. Inefficient contract management processes leave corporations exposed to hidden risks and errors. 

Today, savvy legal teams are now viewing contracts as strategic assets offering growth opportunities; such as collecting late fees and renewing or terminating contracts with ample notice.

Download this white paper for an overview of how AI helps to extract information from your contracts and documents with greater efficiency and accuracy. You’ll learn:

• How contract analysis software works
• How it helps ensure regulatory compliance
• How it mitigates risk and identifies growth opportunities
• The advantages of AI that leverages natural language processing developed by expert attorneys

In-house attorneys receive a multitude of HR and employment law-related questions every day and have a limited bandwidth and budget. This leaves in-house counsel constantly balancing the need to provide high-quality advice with the desire to preserve their time for high-value, strategic projects and issues.

In a recent survey, where Littler asked in-house counsel what they find most valuable about a law firm’s ability to provide staffing support, 66% of respondents said they want technology solutions that reduce their own need to hire more staff lawyers.

Download this white paper to learn 5 ways you can leverage technology, innovative staffing and project management solutions as an extension of your legal department. Including, how to:

• Leverage scale to provide efficient and consistent counsel
• Create a knowledge bank of workplace queries and responses
• Access in-depth knowledge quickly
• Analyze data to spot trends and risk
• Report key performance indicators

One of the emerging domains that General Counsel must support is engineering and product development. Not only tasked with bringing efficiency into the legal organization, but many now also embed a “Product Counsel” within Engineering, IT, Product, and Design teams to help make crucial, risk-mitigating decisions that shape the strategic direction of the company’s product.

Download this white paper to explore:

• The definition of the "Product Counsel" role within your corporate counsel.
• How to know if open source compliance is something you need to track.
• What legal should focus on in partnership with internal tech teams.
• The pains and priorities of legal's partners across the tech team.
• Emerging trends in corporate legal service delivery.

Start meeting the increasing legal demands from your engineering and product development teams. 

How humans interact and communicate has fundamentally transformed over the past few decades. From cell phones and email to Slack and short-form messaging apps, the practice of law has had to adapt to leverage available data in litigation. 

Download this white paper and learn how you can survive this new world of app-ocalypse and the rise of atypical data. You’ll learn:

• How to overcome challenges posed by atypical data sources
• Best practices for scoping eDiscovery today
• A fresh approach to data collection
• New communication channels driving the data explosion

Discover how to navigate the tsunami of potentially relevant data to achieve better results today. 

Corporate legal departments have long fought the perception of being a cost center that doesn’t support being a strategic, value-added partner to the business. With rapid technological innovation and a drive to increase efficiency, the tone around those viewpoints has shifted. 

We no longer talk about whether corporate legal departments will harness innovation to help drive efficiencies and add value — but now it’s when and how.

At the center of this conversation sits AI and its array of uses. 

Download this white paper to learn how AI enhances legal operations and lends valuable context to the work lawyers do. This paper covers:

• How corporate legal departments can harness AI
• Examples of AI applications 
• How AI can help you stay compliant with CCPA
• And more!

As custodians of sensitive and high-value information, legal professionals hold troves of confidential, sensitive and privileged information, including strategic plans, IP, employment contracts, customer information, privileged communications, NPI, PII and other sensitive data.

Organizations have ethical, legal and regulatory compliance obligations to protect sensitive information. While most organizations focus on outside security threats, internal threats represent the growing majority of threats and remain overlooked.

Download this white paper to learn how security-savvy legal teams are bolstering security postures, going beyond the device level to secure content at the document level. Key topics include:

• The nature of security threats and insider threats.
• Applicable industry rules and regulations governing data security, including the obligations lawyers have to protect content.
• Recent guidance from the courts.
• Best practices for security measures that allow organizations to promptly detect threats, including insider threats, escalate warnings and eliminate access at the document level when a breach is detected.

What keeps auditors up at night? The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) enacted a new rule in 2017 calling for auditor reports of public companies to include a section outlining CAMs in their reviews. CAMs are issues both material to financial statements and require challenging, subjective judgment on the part of auditors.

Auditors have begun reporting CAMs for audits of large accelerated filers for fiscal years ending on or after June 30, 2019. All other companies to which the requirements apply will face implementation for fiscal years ending on or after December 15, 2020.

Download this survey report for critical insights from 171 compliance specialists at public companies on how they are adapting their own corporate disclosure and processes. You will receive answers to the following questions and more:
 

• What company-drafted language might change in the next annual report?
• Which company representatives engaged with the auditing firm as part of so-called “dry runs,” and how long did the process take?
• Should auditors be talking to investor relations teams?

As custodians of sensitive and high-value information, legal professionals hold troves of confidential, sensitive and privileged information, including strategic plans, IP, employment contracts, customer information, privileged communications, NPI, PII and other sensitive data.

Organizations have ethical, legal and regulatory compliance obligations to protect sensitive information. While most organizations focus on outside security threats, internal threats represent the growing majority of threats and remain overlooked.

Download this white paper to learn how security-savvy law firms are bolstering security postures, going beyond the device level to secure content at the document level. Key topics include:

• The nature of security threats and insider threats.
• Applicable industry rules and regulations governing data security, including the obligations lawyers have to protect content.
• Recent guidance from the courts.
• Best practices for security measures that allow organizations to promptly detect threats, including insider threats, escalate warnings and eliminate access at the document level when a breach is detected.

Manually reviewing every page of a contract is a slow and error-prone process; thus, making it difficult to generate genuinely useful results. With the average company experiencing an increase of 20% in the number of contracts needing to be reviewed in the last five years, something has to give.

The power of machine learning and AI allows firms and organizations to analyze predetermined rules to analyze millions of provisions, clauses and other line items in unstructured data. Correlations can be mapped for thousands of factors with AI, going beyond less sophisticated solutions that rely on keywords to properly classify and extract data. 

The bottom line is, automated review can handle far more than humans can.

Expectations are heightening in how efficient and agile firms and corporate legal departments can be. The future is now and demand is high for AI software to process routine transactions and handle large volumes of contracts and complex review. 

Download this white paper and discover how improved productivity and an enhanced client experience is positioning law firms and legal departments for the future. Plus you’ll learn how AI applies to:

• M&A due diligence
• Contract metadata extraction
• To win new business
• Driving efficiency (4 time saving tips!)
• And more!

What if you could pinpoint arguments a specific judge used in motion practice, have access to grant and denial rates of specific motion types, or even gain insight into which types of analogies certain judges respond to or reject? And what if all this could be gathered within seconds?

Enter the next-frontier concept of language analytics. 

In a nutshell, language analytics are a computer’s ability to understand language-based documents by using natural language processing to offer deep insights, not just lists. Now apply that to case law, and you can uncover valuable insights that can help you win more cases.

Download this white paper today and discover:

• The opportunities language analytics provide attorneys
• The benefits of language analytics in legal practice
• How this data can help you win more cases
• How language analytics can save you time and money

Learn how to harness the power that a team of lawyers offers, but in a fraction of the time and cost and on a larger scale. 

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.

Data-driven insights can save time, show the probability of winning a case, and determine the best wording with specific judges. When looking to get the most out of your analytics, not all solutions are created equal. 

Download this guide for crucial insights into assessing the right analytics solution for you. You’ll also learn the top 5 uses of legal analytics and the right questions to ask regarding:

• Accuracy
• Experience 
• Workflow
• Case law language analytics
• Expert witnesses
• Usability
• Price

Arm yourself with the right knowledge to help you during your selection process.

Predictive coding may feel unfamiliar to some, but many of the services that consumers

use every day incorporate this technology. For example, the recommendations Amazon provides while you’re shopping, and even Google’s predictive search suggestions.  

Predictive coding can empower lawyers to focus their time on information that is relevant to the claims and defenses of their case while also saving time, money, and reducing the chance of human error. The flexibility offered by TAR 2.0 has helped facilitate wider use case application.

Download this whitepaper to understand how to leverage this powerful tool to prioritize important documents in your team’s workflow, and discover:

• Exactly what predictive coding is
• The best tactical uses of predictive coding
• How the machine learning process fits into TAR 1.0 and 2.0
• How it can work for you

Get started today and save time and money in your review processes!

Sustainable packaging. Political spending. Executive compensation clawback amidst the opioid crisis.

These were just a few of the environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters that occupied the attention of publicly traded companies during the 2019 proxy season.

Given new uncertainty over the no-action letter process to exclude proposals, companies must be prepared to take shareholder proposals all the way to a vote. When they do, they can expect a tougher fight than ever.

Download this 2020 playbook on ESG shareholder proposals today, and carry last year's proxy vote results into this season to ensure you know the right plays to call.

Access this engaging webinar, covering everything related to early case assessment, as experts discuss the growing use of audio & video electronically stored information (ESI) in eDiscovery, and all the ways you can use technology to automate the process before eDiscovery review.

You will learn:

• New and emerging data types during early case assessment before eDiscovery review.
• Best practices for conducting eDiscovery with audio & video evidence.
• Everyday audio/video use cases for legal teams.

ECA plays a critical role in reducing your data volumes and saving time and money in ediscovery. Yet, historically, processing and ingesting data into an ediscovery platform has been expensive, as solutions charged for ECA plus moving data into active review.

Many teams have turned to cheaper, third-party alternatives, but they often create a disjointed process with unintended inefficiencies. 

Download this white paper and learn how to take ECA to the next level by unifying the ECA and ediscovery process. You’ll learn:

• How to eliminate costs associated with processing and ingestion.
• How to apply highly sophisticated tools for ECA - like search term reports, data visualization and more.
• 5 steps to help bring efficiency, clarity and insight to your ECA 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

Privacy regulation is no longer a European Union-only initiative with more and more countries and individual states enacting their own legal framework for the collection and processing of personally identifiable information (PII). The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) creates a number of new rights for consumers and considerable compliance concerns for businesses with connections to California and its residents. 

Even for GDPR compliant companies, it is imperative to understand those differences and the requirements of the CCPA in their totality. The time for starting to invest in CCPA compliance is now. As the CCPA requires businesses to account for the PII collected in the 12 months prior to a consumer request, California businesses will have to account already on January 1, 2020 for their use of PII during the year 2019, and not only the data processed after the law’s effective date. 

Download this white paper and learn the key differentiators between GDPR and CCPA so your organization is prepared for when CCPA goes into law. Compare and contrast the two on the following:

• Enforcement and fines
• Protected parties & regulated entities
• Protected data
• Right to notification
• Security requirements
• Information requests
• And more!

Gone are the days when corporate law departments could fly under the radar, operating outside of budgets (or without budgets) because litigation was deemed too unpredictable to manage as effectively as other business units within the company. Today’s corporate law department is expected to run as any other high-performing business department: on budget, with measurable results. 

Download this white paper to get insights on new technology, strategies and tips that legal  teams are taking to accommodate and work within shrinking budgets, and how to control costs without sacrificing outcomes. You will learn  five strategic steps, including: 

• Ways to hold and collect wisely
• How you can manage discovery centrally 
• Methods to develop repeatable processes
• Using machine learning for efficient review
• How to leverage business intelligence for better decision-making

Act now to discover actionable, concrete ways to limit discovery costs while uncovering better insights into data, cases, and processes.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most heavily-hyped business buzzwords today. But with only 10% of lawyers saying their teams use AI-based tools, the legal business landscape is primed for AI to go mainstream in the coming years.

So what do legal teams need to know about the truth behind the AI hype?

Download this white paper to learn 5 myths, and their realities, about AI for legal teams; including:

• Will AI will replace lawyers?
• What AI can actually do for legal teams
• How easy it is to get started with AI
• And more!

Officers and in-house counsel need better visibility into their data to avoid legal complications,  costs and fines. As more regulations are on the way, how can they accomplish this? 

Through education and technological tools, officers and in-house counsel can effectively gather, archive, classify and act upon crucial data. They must identify which regulations apply to their organizations, what those regulations require, and how to comply with one or more regulations that may have similar or vastly different requirements. 

Download this white paper to learn why Information Governance, the right technology and education are essential for your legal team’s cost-effective and timely response to data privacy regulations, subject access requests (SARs), e-discovery and other legal matters. Plus, it will explore: 

• GDPR and privacy regulation enforcement 
• Lack of education regarding data privacy regulations 
• Necessity of Information Governance for regulatory compliance 
• Additional benefits of Information Governance

Today, attorneys spend about 15 hours researching potential expert witnesses. But what is there to show for that legwork, and are they getting the right information? 

What if there was an easier way to get the research information needed on an expert witness in just minutes? And what if the information also provided when the witness was challenged, the grounds and the outcome? This type of information gives attorneys actionable information that they can use to draw conclusions and inform their legal strategy.

Download this info brief to gain a deeper understanding of how technology can provide a competitive edge and create more efficiency for your legal team. Plus you’ll learn:

• Why it’s necessary to properly vet expert witnesses
• Expert research challenges and solutions
• How analytics give you a competitive edge

Law firms face a myriad of challenges when handling high-profile, high-value, multilingual litigation. Translation is a complex and nuanced process requiring in-depth knowledge of a language and culture to translate the correct meaning.

Download this white paper and learn why procuring high-quality translations from the beginning of litigation helps your firm enhance efficiency, provide greater value to clients, and drives successful outcomes.

This paper explores:

• The pitfalls of handling legal translations in-house
• Why legal translations are nuanced and complex
• Why machine translation is not a solution - yet
• The benefits of a legal translation partner

The digital universe is growing—expected to reach 44 trillion gigabytes by 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 in-house teams and 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

Lighthouse’s second-annual Illuminations Summit brought together professionals from a multitude of companies including Accenture, Facebook, Microsoft, and more.

These experts covered various industry hot topics and discussed top challenges and best practices for solving those challenges. 

Download this white paper to explore the highlights and key insights from this summit. Topics include:

• Ensuring legal is perceived as more than a cost center
• Tech trends
• Networking your way to the top
• Cryptocurrency and blockchain
• And much more!

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most heavily-hyped business buzzwords today. But with only 10% of lawyers saying their firms currently use AI-based tools, the legal business landscape is primed for AI to go mainstream in the coming years.

So what do law firms need to know about the truth behind the AI hype?

Download this white paper to learn 5 myths, and their realities, about AI for legal teams; including:

• Will AI will replace lawyers?
• What AI can actually do for a law firm
• How AI helps small and medium firms compete
• And 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
• Identify business opportunities
• Evolve how corporate legal playbooks are used

In 2018, there were 4.4 million sensitive data records exposed because of breaches — and that’s just in the United States. What can you do to keep your firm out of these statistics?

Most breaches can be minimized or avoided entirely by following PCI (Payment Card Industry) Data Security Standards. These standards manage how businesses accept credit cards and store sensitive credit card data. Both things help protect consumers’ private data. 

Download this ebook to review the 6 PCI goals, and the steps you can take to reduce PCI scope with each.

• Build and maintain a secure network
• Protect cardholder data
• Maintain a vulnerability management program
• Implement strong access control measures
• Regularly monitor and test networks
• Maintain an information security policy

Protect your clients’ sensitive data, and reduce your firm’s exposure to the negative consequences of a data breach.

Lexible, developed by experienced lawyers and leading computational linguists, is disrupting the basic concepts of legal contracts that have existed for over 1,000 years. 

This universal contract language framework can be leveraged to ultimately extract critical information from any contract with greater speed and accuracy.

Download this playbook to learn how Lexible is changing the game for legal professionals, and discover how it can:

• Improve efficiency
• Minimize risk and errors
• Standardize processes
• Reduce costs

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