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Small Law Firms Risk Big Exposure Without Better Cybersecurity Practices

Josh Taylor* Small law firms don’t take cybersecurity seriously enough. According to an American Bar Association survey, only 42 percent of firms reported taking action to increase their digital security measures in the previous year. Even more concerning: 27 percent said they did so to better protect client or contract data security. For a group […]

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LegalTech: Slaughter and May announces Collaborate cohort

Slaughter and May today announces the first cohort of legal tech developers for Slaughter and May Collaborate, its new legal tech programme. The six businesses, selected by the Collaborate team alongside the programme’s client and expert panels, were chosen from over 50 applicants from a diverse range of tech products. The first cohort is as follows:

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LegalTech: New Start-Up To Help Lawyers Automate Themselves

Headlining NZ, Law Firm Technology, New Zealand Law News / May 9, 2019

Another new legal ‘bot’ to enter the online world is Melbourne-based startup Josef, which has just closed a $1 million funding round and is set to roll out its bots across major law firms globally. Josef started its online life helping community law centres to better use their online resources and communicate more effectively but

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The Myth of the Law Firm Safety Net: Starting Your Own Practice

Law Firm Technology, Press Releases, Sponsored Post / April 30, 2019

Your law firm job may be comforting, but it’s not always comfortable Beth Lebowitz* You did everything right. You attended your OCIs during law school, hearing again and again that going to work for that big law firm was the best, if not the only, option. You worked those summer internships, and were lured in

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An Old Law Firm Seeks To Disrupt the Legal Market With New Law Toys

Law Firm Technology / March 15, 2019

‘Disruption’ is what new-tech is largely about and it’s the same with law-tech. As AI and other tech developments continue to challenge the old-style legal market, one of the largest ‘players’ in the legal world is actively seeking disrupters in the legal market to help. Slaughter and May are seeking any “exciting new product” that

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Doing Away With Lawyers . . Why ‘The Law’ Is Increasingly Dispensing With Lawyers

Headlining, Law Firm Technology, Law Firms / March 3, 2019

Charles Needham* The Practice of law is increasingly doing away with the notion that ‘lawyers’ in the conventional sense are the ones to provide the advice businesses and people require. The need for lawyers is diminishing, with the onset of technology and ‘new-model legal providers’, who are now handling business and personal issues in a

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NZ Law Tech Innovator With Tech Tips For Law Firms

Law Firm Technology, New Zealand Law News, Power List / February 11, 2019

The ongoing development of legal technology is changing many things in the legal profession and the need to understand what is happening has become more important than ever for the profession. But law firms can innovate without having to spend a great deal too, as was recently demonstrated by legal entrepreneur Tamina Cunningham-Adam, one of

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Financial Times Names Orrick North America’s Most Innovative Law Firm for Unprecedented 3rd Year in a Row

Law Firm Technology, Press Releases / December 26, 2018

FT has named Orrick the Most Innovative Law Firm in North America and chosen Orrick’s Chief Innovation Officer Wendy Curtis – “a driving force behind much of the innovation at the firm” – as the Most Innovative Lawyer of the Year. No other firm has won this award as many times or back-to-back. Wendy joins past winners from

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The Cryptocurrency Law Firms

Briefing, Briefings, Law Firm Technology / December 17, 2018

UsetheBitcoin.com – As cryptocurrencies and their underlying technologies are becoming more and more popular, the need for defining and understanding the legal structures affecting them will also most probably see a rise. A good legal firm is important regardless of the area of expertise of a business, so, why should blockchain/cryptocurrency projects be any different?

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App-roaching the Bench: Providing Legal Services Through Technology

Briefing, Briefings, Law Firm Technology / December 15, 2018

Littler.com – In this day and age, virtually every service provider has adopted some form of technology to assist clients and customers. Why should the delivery of legal services be any different? Scott Rechtschaffen, Chief Knowledge Officer at Littler Mendelson, and Kevin Mulcahy, Vice President of Education and Community Programs at Neota Logic, recently served

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