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 […]
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?
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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Slaughter & May What if all it took to build a nuclear bomb were a piece of glass, a metal object and a battery? What if the discovery of nuclear fission had allowed any person to unleash devastating destruction simply, with commonly available tools? Would civilization still exist? This is one of the thought experiments
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The fast-growing world of legal technology has now lead to another, inevitable listing – the best law school (in the US at least) that can prepare lawyers for the future of law. As law technology expands across all areas of law practice and also helps bridge the justice gap with new applications, so too is
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Law technology developments, including the fast-growing artificial intelligence initiatives are rapidly changing how law services are delivered – and how lawyers operate. LawFuel looked at some of the kiwi law firms who are either actively deploying some of the latest technology, or who have implemented new platforms to deliver legal services, or are actively involved in
Neil Watson* While lawyers are notoriously risk-averse, a number of legal entrepreneurs and non-lawyer entrepreneurs like Mark Cuban are changing the face of the law. Cuban announced this week that he would make an undisclosed investment in an ‘access to justice’ company called Paladin, partnering with legal giant Dentons, the world’s largest law firm by
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Vincent McCartney* Phase 2 of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act (AML/CFT Act) is now live for accountants in practice and lawyers. These professionals are now required to perform ‘customer due diligence’ on their clients to verify their identity and ‘know your customer’ (KYC). The traditional method of identifying a client is
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Hinshaw & Culbertson – Risk Management Question: October is cyber security awareness month. What steps are you taking to avoid common Internet scams? The Issue: Hackers and their exploits are growing more sophisticated by the day. Avoiding their scams is becoming even more difficult. In 2017, 1.4 billion user names and passwords were accessed on the dark
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The endless articles about AI would have you thinking that it is top-of-mind for lawyers and law firm CEOs, but not so. The Number One issue – at least according to a UK survey, is cyber security. The HSBC UK survey was conducted with The Lawyer magazine, showing thast 70 per cent of law firms saw cyber-security
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