Frank Ready

January 27, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

The Association of Corporate Counsel's 2021 Chief Legal Officers Survey found that legal departments may be looking to bulk up their ranks. But that doesn't necessarily mean that departments will find themselves spending any less on outside legal work.

By Frank Ready

4 minute read

January 27, 2021 | Legaltech News

While law firm attorneys may be hungry to exploit the power of data analytics in their day-to-day practices, discrepancies among the various solutions being deployed, the degree of training required and resistance to change continue to be stumbling blocks.

By Frank Ready

5 minute read

January 26, 2021 | Legaltech News

Earlier this month, Mimecast alerted customers that a certificate used to authenticate services like Continuity Monitor and Sync and Recover to Microsoft 365 Exchange Web Services had been compromised.

By Frank Ready

3 minute read

January 26, 2021 | Legaltech News

Many legal tech companies have grown more comfortable with the prospect of hiring top candidates who don't live in proximity to a central office location. But a shift to a larger talent market could increase the level of competition among both job seekers and employers.

By Frank Ready

4 minute read

January 22, 2021 | Legaltech News

New York's proposed Biometric Privacy Act echoes many of the requirements and guidelines laid out in Illinois' own longstanding regulation. But New York's status as a major U.S. economic hub could give its biometric law a much wider footprint that establishes an unofficial national standard.

By Frank Ready

4 minute read

January 21, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

Headline catching hacks could force businesses still lagging behind in their cyber protection to step up or face regulatory action. But for some legal departments, it may only further underscore the impossible task of keeping up with an ever-evolving threat.

By Frank Ready

3 minute read

January 20, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

A new Hogan Lovells report shows that in-house legal teams and privacy professionals are still being kept at arm's length from key decisions around how businesses select and implement technology. The result could be accentuated legal risk toward breaches or even software bias.

By Frank Ready

4 minute read

January 20, 2021 | Legaltech News

Without clear cut incentives or accountability measures in place, law firms may be struggling to successfully drive the adoption of the existing tech solutions in their arsenal. This can make it difficult to know whether the issue is with the way the tool was rolled out inside the firm, or the product itself.

By Frank Ready

5 minute read

January 19, 2021 | Legaltech News

Starting today, Lexis+ users will have access to a new Legal Analytics function that will allow for side-by-side comparisons of different judges, courts, attorneys and law firms. The move represents the latest in an ongoing series of evolutions for the nascent Lexis+ platform.

By Frank Ready

4 minute read

January 14, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

As legal departments continue to grapple with how to boost efforts around diversity and inclusion, a reluctance to walk away from non-compliant partners and other logistical challenges could serve as a stumbling block.

By Frank Ready

1 minute read