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Legal Tech Traditionally Favored Law Firms. That May Be Changing

Ironclad's "State of Digital Contracting, Winter 2020: AI and the Elusive Promise of Smart Contracting" virtual event delved into how changes in service delivery models could help to drive a new wave of legal tech directed toward in-house attorneys and nonlawyers.
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Legaltech News

Trashed in an Online Review? Responding Is OK, But Don't Say Too Much, Notes Ethics Opinion

While lawyers have some latitude in discussing clients' cases publicly in the context of a malpractice suit or disciplinary complaint against the lawyer, the same freedom does not apply to an "informal controversy" over the posting of a negative online review, said a New Jersey ethics committee.
5 minute read

Legaltech News

Persistent Connectivity: The Holy Grail for Agile Fee Earners

Connectivity will be a fundamental component for successful remote working as firms try to meet the demands of an increasingly mobile workforce.
5 minute read

Legaltech News

Legal Spend Management Company Brightflag Raises $28 Million Investment

The investment will be used to build out Brightflag's core AI-enabled spend platform, while also accelerating the company's growth in the U.S.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Chief Legal Officers Recognize Dangers of Lax Physical Security, but Are They Prepared?

Seventy-one percent of chief legal, compliance and security officers admitted in a new study that their companies missed threats in the past year and some of those threats resulted in physical harm to employees, customers and others involved with the business.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

With Technology a Constant, Baker & Hostetler Unit Aims to Make Sense Of Options

The firm's IncuBaker program was envisioned as a "voice of reason" as legal technology floods the market. 
7 minute read

Legaltech News

Despite COVID-19 Surge, Outlook for 2021 E-Discovery Job Market Remains Positive

While many e-discovery companies faced a work slowdown in the early days of COVID-19, some providers are feeling optimistic about 2021, which may arrive on a wave of new pandemic-related litigation and electronic data sources.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

A Supreme Court CFAA Decision Could Give Terms of Service More Legal Bite

The Van Buren v. U.S. government case will solve a long-simmering circuit split regarding the scope of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act's scope. But lawyers note a potentially "dangerously vague" CFAA might also finally spur a congressional overall of the 34-year-old tech law.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

Legal Departments Can Come and Go, But Legal Ops Managers May Be Forever

Earlier this week Benjamin Moore said it planned to outsource all of its in-house legal work to outside providers. But other businesses mulling a similar arrangement may quickly find that cost savings or not, managing those providers will still require an investment of company time and resources.
3 minute read

Legaltech News

7 Steps for In-House Counsel to Go From Service Provider to Digital-Ready Business Partner

By investing time and resources to engage and listen proactively to internal colleagues, to experiment and ideate, and to use new technology and data, you will do more with more, and for less.
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