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What Law Firms Learned About Digital Marketing in 2020 and What It Means For the Future

Digital marketing methods that took a back seat in the past are now coming naturally to law firms and their business leaders.
6 minute read

Legaltech News

Why Analytics Can Be Risky in the Wrong Hands

Having the most expensive or advanced tool in the toolbox doesn't matter if you don't know how to use it, and if you're not using those tools properly, there are risks everywhere.
7 minute read

Legaltech News

Why Legal Tech M&As Make Legal Department Clients Nervous

Legal tech companies often merge with or acquire one another in order to grow their resources and reach. But for existing corporate legal clients, those transitions are sometimes met with concern around sudden rate changes, unfamiliar leadership and diminished service levels.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

With AI Technology, Legal Is Finding Out the Sky Isn't the Limit

A panel of lawyers and legal tech providers at a recent University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School webinar discussed how various factors are limiting AI's development in the legal industry—and why attorneys aren't entirely to blame.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

40% of UK Top 50 Firms Lack Top UK Cybersecurity Certification

Amid a rise in cybersecurity attacks, a review of the top 50 law firms shows eight have a lesser form of accreditation, while 12 do not use the recommended U.K. accreditation Cyber Essentials Plus at all.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

3 Tips for Avoiding 'Petty' ALSP-Law Firm Collaboration Struggles

From setting roles early to understanding the dynamic captive ALSPs may play in quality concerns, legal ops professionals and a former GC offer their strategies for a smooth collaboration.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Google, Plaintiffs Counsel in Chrome Privacy Case Clash Over Definition of Personal Information

In a hearing on Google's bid to dismiss a proposed privacy class action over data gathered through the Chrome browser, the company's counsel from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan sparred with plaintiffs attorneys over whether IP addresses are considered personally identifiable information under California's most recent privacy provisions.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

In-House Is Tracking Vendor Diversity—But Goals May Still Be Undefined

Legal departments are attempting to hold outside providers accountable for improving the diversity and inclusion on display within their ranks. However, many in-house teams may still be in the early stages of harvesting the data necessary to effectively track those efforts while also attempting to seek out new, minority-owned providers to engage.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

What In-House Counsel Can Learn from Criminal Prosecution of Uber's Former Chief Security Officer

In-house attorneys and other executives are not immune from criminal liability and can be targeted for criminal prosecution for actions taken in connection with corporate matters.
9 minute read

Legaltech News

Peloton Says 'Spin' Is a Generic Term for Cycling Classes. And Its Evidence: Memes

California-based Mad Dogg Athletics registered SPIN and SPINNING with the USPTO 25 years ago. It claims its trademarks are incontestable, no matter what Tom Cruise or Angela Bassett say.
3 minute read

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