Legal Technology

Filing error

By Mark Goddard | February 11, 2009

The practise of law around the world is at a tipping point, driven by the technology revolution. While US legal teams appear to be more concerned about the reality of growing volumes of electronically stored information (ESI), the UK's primary concern appears to be the lack of training in legal trends.

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Gauging the net worth

By Mark Goddard | January 21, 2009

There is a tendency to talk up the career benefits of online social networking. In this parallel universe, anyone serious about getting on in life has hundreds of career-enhancing Facebook contacts who they regale daily with tales from their carefully-tended blogs. This, supposedly, generates waves of business opportunities, coupled with many wonderful nights out, as boundaries between business and pleasure blur. The tech-savvy associate then completes their triumphant march to partnership with an ease unimaginable in the pre-internet age.This doesn't actually happen, right? While lawyers have been among the most enthusiastic social users of online networking - as illustrated by Allen & Overy's much-mocked ban in 2007 on staff using Facebook - it remains a rarity for the profession to use such tools to further their career.

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Confidence in IT teams takes a hit

By Mark Goddard | January 21, 2009

As belt-tightening across the legal profession notches up another level it is not surprising that IT departments have joined the list of casualties as a result of cutbacks.Legal Week Intelligence's fourth annual Information Technology Survey shows lawyers' confidence in their IT departments dipping for the third successive year, with just 11 of the 42 different categories seeing improved grades this year. At the report's launch earlier this month, delegates lucky enough to have signed off systems upgrades in last year's budgets breathed a sigh of relief as they listened to their counterparts' problems after orders to reign in costs for the foreseeable future. While the general sentiment was that projects that would lead to rapid, demonstrable cost savings would still get signed off, the majority of equipment and software upgrades were likely to be put on hold.

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Online advertising: Getting the balance of privacy right

By Mark Goddard | January 14, 2009

Online advertising comes in many guises: ads on search engine results pages, banner ads and email marketing, including spam, to name a few. For most people advertising is part and parcel of their online experience: sometimes useful, sometimes irritating, but perhaps most often ignored. However, there have been significant developments in online advertising recently which are causing debate among privacy professionals - particularly relating to behavioural or personalised internet advertising. Should those of us who are concerned about privacy really be cautious about embracing these new technologies?

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Legaltech News

Most Innovative Legal Operations Team, Law Department: OpenText

By Stephanie Wilkins | May 14, 2023

"Legal innovation means doing something every day that scares you," say Jessica Vander Ploeg, Vice President Legal Operations, and Steven Rippberger, Senior Manager Legal Operations, at OpenText.

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Legaltech News

Legal Professionals Trust Generative AI—But Maybe Too Much

By Isha Marathe | May 12, 2023

The Outsell Legal Technology Survey 2023 shows that a large number of attorneys and legal professionals have faith in generative AI for legal work, but with the technology still maturing, the onus is on vendors to educate their customers.

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The Legal Intelligencer

Moats and Boats: Ex-Homeland Security Chief on Best Practices for Law Firm Cyber Defense

By Amanda O'Brien | May 12, 2023

Michael Chertoff's consulting firm recently reviewed the Supreme Court's investigation into the "Dobbs" leak. The former DHS secretary and Third Circuit judge spoke in Philadelphia on Thursday.

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Legaltech News

Everlaw Lays Off 10% of Global Workforce to Prepare for Economic Uncertainty

By Stephanie Wilkins | May 12, 2023

This is the latest company to join the ranks of other e-discovery and legal tech companies who have announced layoffs in recent months.

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Legaltech News

Human Security Risks: A Discussion Among Law Firm CISOs and Other Cybersecurity Professionals

By David Carter, Calloquy | May 12, 2023

Human security is an often-overlooked problem, as executive teams remain very concerned about hacking from the outside. However, many don't realize that court reporters represent an equally serious risk.

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Legaltech News

Data Privacy & Cybersecurity, Vendor: TerraTrue

By Stephanie Wilkins | May 11, 2023

"As the world's privacy laws become more complex and more fragmented, and as companies are looking to collect more data ... legal innovation must enable collaboration across teams, and inject a single source of truth, in a manner that doesn't disrupt normal workflow," says Chris Handman, Co-Founder and COO of TerraTrue.

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Legaltech News

CLM Provider Icertis Launches ExploreAI, a Generative AI Contract Intelligence Tool

By Rhys Dipshan | May 11, 2023

Via a chat interface, ExploreAI allows users to extract insights from their contract data, summarize and translate contracts into different languages, and monitor contracts for certain obligations, among other tasks.

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Daily Report Online

Troutman Pepper's New Task Force Sees AI Benefits for Both Clients and Firm

By Thomas Spigolon | May 11, 2023

The task force will study "the risks and benefits for both our own delivery of services as well as advising our clients of the use of the newer iteration of AI," partner Alison Grounds said.

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Legaltech News

Innovations in Diversity and Inclusion, Law Firm: Nixon Peabody

By Stephanie Wilkins | May 11, 2023

When it comes to improving DEI, "The real substance and sincere commitment must come first, so that the technology is in service to a real purpose, rather than 'driving' the effort," says Lisa Kirby, Chief Equity & Inclusion Officer at Diversity Lab.

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Corporate Counsel

Showdown at the Not-OK Privacy Corral: Corporate Risk Reduction in the New Wild West

By Dan Panitz and Jerry McIver | May 11, 2023

Privacy laws and enforcement are causing big changes to global commerce and have now arrived at our doorstep. The million dollar questions are how this will affect our businesses and what, if anything, do we need to do about it?

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