BONG! archive 2019(Part 1)
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An informal and occasional selection of recent international eDisclosure / eDiscovery / legal IT / data protection / information governance / interesting news / articles collated since 2011 by Jonathan Maas (LinkedIn profile) of The Maas Consulting Group in London. Anyone can email Jonathan@MaasConsultingGroup.com to subscribe / unsubscribe. Simply pick and click from below.
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A new leader joins the Relativity team (Relativity: Andrew Sieja) https://maas-bong.io/2NdWC6z
"I’m excited to announce that I’ve decided to take on a new role at Relativity. Effective July 1, I’m moving into a position as Relativity’s executive chairman."
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Automated hyperlinking in electronic casebooks (Barrister Laura O'Gorman) https://maas-bong.io/2NhqNtt
"I am sometimes asked about my techniques for preparing hyperlinked electronic casebooks. Below is a summary of what I do, but there are many other methods that would also work."
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The seven deadly sins of the 2010s: No, not pride, sloth, etc. The seven "dark patterns" that trick you into buying stuff (The Register: Thomas Claburn) https://maas-bong.io/2NiFFbf
"Dark patterns - user interfaces designed to deviously manipulate people into doing things - have become common enough on websites and in apps that almost two dozen providers have sprung up to supply 'behaviour persuasion' as a service."
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Privileged and confidential: cross-border differences in the protection of confidential information (Corporate Disputes: Mark Lubbock, Desiree Prantl, Brian Stuart, William Ridgway) https://maas-bong.io/2KCU67G
"The increased focus on data privacy poses a significant challenge to the bounds of cross-border transfers in US litigation and in other jurisdictions."
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Legal Geek North America makes its mark in Brooklyn (Legal IT Professionals: Christy Burke) https://maas-bong.io/2Nf7wJj
"Founder Jimmy Vestbirk compared the conference to Woodstock, the legendary American music festival of 1969 - a great analogy because the event’s clear aim was to bring a diverse group of people together for a memorable, singular experience that could never be recreated."
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AI experts call to curb mass surveillance (Politico: Janosch Delcker) https://maas-bong.io/2NgsWWi
"Europe needs rules to make sure artificial intelligence won't be used to build up a China-style high-tech surveillance state, the European Union’s top AI experts warn."
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Congress takes aim at Big Tech with new bills (Compliance Week: Joe Mont) https://maas-bong.io/2NgRZJ6
“The Designing Accounting Safeguards to Help Broaden Oversight and Regulations on Data (DASHBOARD) Act is bipartisan legislation that would require data harvesting companies such as social media platforms to tell consumers and financial regulators exactly what data they are collecting from consumers and how it is being utilised by the platform for profit."
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A party can’t dump documents on their opponent the night before a hearing: Judge refuses permission to rely on evidence served very late (Civil Litigation Brief) https://maas-bong.io/2Neg4Qt
"The fresh evidence was not both filed and served at least three clear days before the summary judgment hearing. Indeed, the bulk of the new material was provided after-hours the night before the hearing and was not exhibited to a statement. It is, in my judgment, important that applicants seeking summary judgment should not be permitted to ambush respondents.” Rats!
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Is TAR 1.0 dead - or is it long live TAR 1.0? (OpenText: Rachel Teisch) https://maas-bong.io/2Ng00xH
"Understand how to match the TAR approach to your review objective."
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Company archive, or black hole? (IndustryWeek: Ryan Lucinski) https://maas-bong.io/2Nejin3
"A well-run records system saves time - and could save your bacon in a lawsuit." Amen! This is something that is going to dawn on organisations (if it hasn’t happened already) as the GDPR and, more specifically, DSARs bite. As I said at a recent Relativity Fest in London: GDPR is the kick up the ar$e information governance needed!
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My my, what big claws you have! Navigating the pitfalls of drafting clawback agreements (JD Supra: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP) https://maas-bong.io/2ZMfCdF
"Clawback agreements allow parties to agree that the inadvertent production of privileged information will not automatically waive the privilege and provide a process for the return or destruction of that privileged material."
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Celebrating 10 years of Relativity Fest: A look forward (Relativity: Sam Bock) https://maas-bong.io/2ZKbFGz
"What’s next - and what’s in it for you? Our Fest veterans are back to share their thoughts on just that with you."
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Danish law firm Bech-Bruun launches subscription service for DIY documents (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2ZL5i5K
"BB SmartDraft features an interactive document guide that helps our clients draft new legal documents in an easy and effective manner."
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What exactly is the Cookie Law? (ITPro: Dale Walker, Clare Hopping [No, I didn't make the names up!]) https://maas-bong.io/2ZM54v7
"These days, data on your search habits, the sorts of ads you like to click on and how long you spend on a site are all collected in the form of cookies - small files that are installed on your browser."
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Data Access Requests or pre-action discovery? (Alvarez & Marsal: Phil Beckett) https://maas-bong.io/2ZOo38i
"The requirements under employment law and data protection law can vary substantially in terms of what employers have to provide, therefore there has been a rise in the number of data requests that coincide with employment disputes, or potential employment disputes."
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A warning to law firms and litigants: Unlawful disclosure of PHI in litigation can lead to trouble (JD Supra: White and Williams LLP) https://maas-bong.io/2ZP9scG
"Unless stated otherwise by statute, the context of litigation does not effect a person’s legal duties when handling sensitive data."
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Global report: In-house teams “falling behind” on innovation (Legal Futures: Dan Bindman) https://maas-bong.io/2ZM5r8Z
"General counsel need to embrace technology and innovate in a ‘seismic' way if they are to endure an increasingly bright spotlight from businesses eager to reduce their costs."
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Deals in artificial intelligence are going through the roof (Consultancy.eu) https://maas-bong.io/2ZIyE4G
"The number of acquisitions in the artificial intelligence space boomed last year, growing by over 40% to more than 150 deals. This deal record however won’t stay in place for long - as 2019 is set to smash the milestone yet again."
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Eversheds launches legal tech training for all UK partners (Law: Simon Lock) https://maas-bong.io/2ZNTFeg
"Co-head of innovation, Andrew McManus, said it was a growing necessity for partners to feel comfortable discussing the key issues and firm’s capabilities with clients."
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Real-world social media investigations: The 4,925 (and counting) tweets of Elon Musk (Hanzo: Justin Kreamer) https://maas-bong.io/2ZHjsVA
"His sometimes rash online statements have caused problems for himself and his company, Tesla, he nonetheless keeps on tweeting on. And while that behaviour might be problematic for his businesses, for the rest of us it makes for a great example of what companies can learn from analysing social media posts."
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Yes! eDiscovery strategy! (eDiscoveryStrategy: Chuck Kellner) https://maas-bong.io/2ZFNedl
"eDiscovery strategy is the plan you execute to produce or receive the information you need to advance your case or complete your investigation."
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Liberté, égalité - penitentiary? (Legal IT Professionals: Sam Roberts [Cooke, Young & Keidan]) https://maas-bong.io/2ZJRqIR
"More about the French ban on judge analytics."
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Ontario courts remain in technology’s dark ages, chief justice says (The Star: Jacques Gallant) https://maas-bong.io/2ZHm4mj
"The struggle in bringing the court fully into the 21st century is primarily due to an 'inadequate' level of activity by successive provincial governments."
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15 plus easy-to-miss things that will definitely change our lives for the better (Amomedia: Vladimir Afonskyi) https://maas-bong.io/2ZK2DsV
"For many years, humans have invented things that make our lives easier in every way. There are many objects that we use on a daily basis but never notice their true purpose."
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Four trends shaping eDiscovery today (Exterro: Tim Rollins) https://maas-bong.io/2ZJ9GSL
“eDiscovery, as an industry, is once again at an inflection point. For an industry that is only about 15 years old, it certainly has had a turbulent ride. While throughout the 1990s, more and more relevant information was being produced and maintained in electronic format, it wasn’t until 2003 that the obligation for organisations to preserve (and produce) relevant ESI was announced [in the US] with a thunderclap in the form of the Zubulakerulings."
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Lawyers need to be using Twitter for when they are recognised (LexBlog: Kevin O'Keefe) https://maas-bong.io/2ZN089d
"My response when ready to tweet something and finding the legal professional doesn’t use Twitter or make their Twitter handle readily available is to conclude the legal professional doesn’t use the Internet for learning and networking - they are far behind the curve or just don’t care."
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eDiscovery unfiltered in 2019: A survey of current trends and candid perspectives (ComplexDiscovery) https://maas-bong.io/2ZMY6WN
"Ari Kaplan Advisors’ annual eDiscovery Unfiltered Survey is an informative report that this year provides actionable intelligence and insight for defensible decisions by legal, business and information technology professionals on data and legal discovery analytics, pricing preferences, document review trends and international eDiscovery."
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Meet the lawyer disrupting her profession (University of Waterloo: Stephanie Longeway) https://maas-bong.io/2ZM5ORa
"Maura R. Grossman has been called the most dangerous lawyer in America for her research and advocacy on technology-assisted review. Her ground-breaking research has some people in the legal community feeling pretty threatened."
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Hackers hit global telcos in espionage campaign (Reuters: Ari Rabinovitch, Tova Cohen) https://maas-bong.io/2ZRiNkB
"Investigators at US-Israeli cybersecurity firm Cybereason said the attackers compromised companies in more than 30 countries and aimed to gather information on individuals in government, law enforcement and politics. The hackers also used tools linked to other attacks attributed to Beijing by the United States and its Western allies."
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Two eDiscovery takeaways from FTC v Qualcomm (Law360: Gareth Evans, Ben Barnes [Redgrave LLP]) https://maas-bong.io/2ZOzA7x
"The tremendous disparity between the number of documents produced in discovery and the number presented at trial in the case is striking. Of course, it is fairly common to have a large discrepancy between the number of documents produced in discovery and the number presented at trial. Yet we doubt the discrepancy often reaches such orders of magnitude."
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eDiscovery mergers, acquisitions and investments in Q2 2019 (ComplexDiscovery) https://maas-bong.io/2ZJr6yQ
"Findings, data points and tracking information that may be useful for understanding M&A+I activity patterns in the eDiscovery ecosystem from April 1, 2019, through June 23, 2019."
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Law firms are investing in innovation through venture capital services (ABA Journal: Ari Kaplan) https://maas-bong.io/2ZK1H8a
"We are finding most often that law firms are one of the key constituencies investing in legal tech. Corporate legal departments and GCs within Fortune 500 corporations are also investing in legal tech. And, to a much lesser extent, institutional venture funds are playing around in the ecosystem as well."
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Accountable AI: Can the law reduce bias and increase transparency? (Legaltech News: Toby Bond, Clara Clark Nevola [Bird & Bird]) https://maas-bong.io/2ZH1v9A
"Governments are increasingly making use of AI tools to help with decision making, but they face a key challenge: ensuring fairness and maintaining public trust."
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Death by algorithm: The age of killer robots is closer than you think (Vox: Kelsey Piper) https://maas-bong.io/2ZGOTiD
"Experts in machine learning and military technology say it would be technologically straightforward to build robots that make decisions about whom to target and kill without a human in the loop - that is, with no person involved at any point between identifying a target and killing them. And as facial recognition and decision-making algorithms become more powerful, it will only get easier."
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UK.gov must sort out its crap data and legacy IT, warns spending watchdog (The Register: Kat Hall) https://maas-bong.io/2ZGAVxl
"Government plans to throw money at automation and AI to develop public services risk ‘magnifying' problems around data quality residing in its own legacy systems, the National Audit Office has warned.”
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On being unreasonable (LinkedIn: Alex Hamilton [Radiant Law]) https://maas-bong.io/2ZFaSGT
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
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Consolidation is inevitable in legal tech, says firm IT Director (Law: Simon Lock) https://maas-bong.io/2ZM6xBU
"'Carnage' will ensue in the race to take market share, according to top industry figures speaking at Legal Week’s Strategic Technology Forum, Europe."
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Departing from costs budgets: Two recent cases (Kerry Underwood) https://maas-bong.io/2ZH1Jxn
Some guidance on when the courts might look favourably on you adjusting your budget.
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Innovation, disruption and frustration: Breaking the vicious cycle (Integreon: Vince Neicho) https://maas-bong.io/2ZM7fiy
"The technological revolution began to make its mark on the legal sector some years ago; as far back as 20 or more years ago in the field of litigation. It is only of late, however, that the message has sunk in for many traditional law firms and their partners."
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Why is law so slow to use data? (Forbes: Mark Cohen) https://maas-bong.io/2ZH3TwZ
"Big business - especially tech giants like Alphabet (Google’s parent), Amazon, Facebook, and Apple among others - are mining data like Standard Oil processed petroleum a century before. Why is the legal industry still running on gut and instinct while the businesses it serves are propelled by data?"
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Examining eDiscovery statistics: Where in the EDRM can you save the most money? (Exterro: Tim Rollins) https://maas-bong.io/2ZEu07P
"There are plenty of reasons why an enterprise should conduct as much of its own eDiscovery as possible. It lets you ensure that your practices are defensible. It gives you visibility into the process, so you understand where you are at any give time. You can define the process and identify areas where you can create further efficiencies. For many (and probably most) organisations, the decision to in-source eDiscovery operations usually comes down to one big factor: saving money."
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Why legal teams should use collaboration tools (Percipient) https://maas-bong.io/2ZIdrrL
"Used correctly, collaboration software is an excellent way to work together, not only internally but also with clients. And … lawyers might even be able to generate a couple of bucks using it!"
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Data, process and culture will unlock innovation for disruptors (LinkedIn: Simon Drane) https://maas-bong.io/2ZAikD5
"There is an increasing focus on digitisation, which has increased over the last year, and firms are thinking more about products and productisation, and the people and skills that are needed to achieve this."
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Proven in practice: Legal workflow automation in the real world (Artificial Lawyer: Steven O'Donnell [Mitratech]) https://maas-bong.io/2ZFuA55
"Does a technology actually deliver as promised? Does it generate the intended positive results, or just create negative disruption? If legal departments and law firms are plagued by traditionalism and inefficient manual processes, is the cure better or worse than the ‘disease’?"
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New White Paper details how law firms are using ALSPs (Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute) https://maas-bong.io/2ZyTsf1
This paper "details how the rapidly evolving market for ALSPs, instead leaving many large law firms scrambling to catch up as first expected, is instead allowing many firms to see the rise of the ALSP field as an opportunity."
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How to share your Wi-Fi password as a QR code on iOS (The Next Web: Ravie Lakshmanan) https://maas-bong.io/2ZLojVV
Share your inner geek...
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Top 50 firms have £5.6 bn of unpaid client invoices (Legal Week: Hannah Roberts) https://maas-bong.io/2ZxiCum
"The figure has been increasing annually despite dwindling cash reserves at law firms. This year’s figure marks a 9% increase on the 2016-17 figure of £5.19 billion."
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Who should teach legal tech? (The Legal Technologist: Caroline Calomme) https://maas-bong.io/2ZxeCKg
"The decision to train or not to train (future) lawyers should perhaps not entirely be up to universities and the private sector. Do we really want a society where professional qualifications to protect and defend legal rights are awarded without guaranteeing sufficient awareness of the available technological solutions? Without this knowledge, it could be difficult to act in the best interest of your clients, a fiduciary obligation in the legal profession."
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US plaintiff's top complaints regarding ESI production (EDT: Tom O'Connor) https://maas-bong.io/2ZxtkRA
"What we see in eDiscovery practice is a heavy focus in the eDiscovery world on defence strategy, both in actual practice and educational conferences. Often left out of the discussion is any concept of a strategy for the plaintiff’s bar."
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eDiscovery Checklist Manifesto (Digital WarRoom: Tom O'Connor, Jeremy Greer) https://maas-bong.io/2ZxB85Q
"Introducing the eDiscovery Checklist Manifesto, your complete reference for everything a legal professional should consider as they conduct litigation and eDiscovery."
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Connecting the dots between eDiscovery, information governance and cybersecurity (Relativity: Mary Rechtoris) https://maas-bong.io/2x5kUVg
"Our eDiscovery expertise, workflows and technologies are incorporated into our cyber, forensics and information governance offerings."
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Machines v the mob: Fighting money laundering & terrorist financing with machine learning (Inventus: Erin Plante, Sarah Brown) https://maas-bong.io/2IUps6r
"Transaction monitoring systems throw off a huge number of 'false positive' results. Studies have shown that 90-95% of the triggers and alerts these systems generate are false positives and the financial institutions are spending a huge amount of money on humans to then go into these transactions and investigate them."
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The BS-industrial complex of phoney AI (Medium: Mike Mallazzo) https://maas-bong.io/2IUaUE7
"How hyping AI enriched investors, fooled the media and confused the hell out of the rest of us."
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What securities professionals need to know about SEC data analytics (Jenner & Block: Charles Riely, Danielle Muniz) https://maas-bong.io/2IrAMba
"As recently as June 4, SEC chair Jay Clayton reiterated the agency’s reliance on these efforts, stating that its data analytics work is 'more important than ever' for the SEC, and that 'data analytics can help [the SEC] use [its] existing resources more efficiently and effectively'."
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City of London to help stop legal tech “mismatch" (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2IUcYfa
“The City of London Corporation - the body that represents the global financial centre - has explained to Artificial Lawyer that they want to help the law firms and legal teams in the Square Mile end what they see as a ‘mismatch’ between what is being produced by tech companies and what lawyers want or are ready to use."
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Litigation that was “totally out of proportion” - The claimant should have cut their case to suit their cloth (something about bundles, too) (Civil Litigation Brief) https://maas-bong.io/2x7D9tu
“‘[The defendant] characterised this litigation as oppressive. I regard the scale of this litigation as completely out of proportion. I do not regard this to be the wisdom of hindsight.'"
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Graphic: The impact of legal analytics on law firms (Lex Machina) https://maas-bong.io/2ZyJxWK
"Legal analytics provides valuable insights to help lawyers gain a winning edge in the highly competitive business and practice of law. It empowers lawyers by providing objective data on which to base smarter business decisions and deliver the highest quality strategic counsel."
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The changing role of … lawyers (PlaceTech: Nicola Byrne) https://maas-bong.io/2x6Wj2s
"Law firms are increasingly under pressure from clients to reduce fees and improve efficiency. As more data becomes available, and technologies muscle in to offer alternatives to various legal processes, how are lawyers adapting to stay relevant and retain clients?"
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Legal operations professionals: Keep a finger on the pulse of the industry (Above the Law: Mike Quartararo) https://maas-bong.io/2x2nZFQ
"M&As in the legal software and services market are forcing the need for legal operations professionals to do their homework. Know who you are getting in bed with before you make a purchasing decision."
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Key takeaways and highlights from CLOC 2019 Vegas (Corporate Legal Operations Consortium: LaTrece Johnson) https://maas-bong.io/2x6YmDG
"In many sessions, every seat was filled and attendees lined the walls. Everyone was ready to learn the latest in legal operations process, trends and technology! The days were long but, the content, collaboration and conversations kept us on point and moving throughout the day."
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Retention of ephemeral messages (Driven: Eric Mandel) https://maas-bong.io/2Zyx8Sy
"An oft-heard argument is that one form of a recorded communication channel (e.g. Instant Messaging) is more akin to an unrecorded telephone call than another (e.g. email), and the former should thus not be subject to any regulatory or legal retention obligation."
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Five traditional industries on the verge of an innovation boom (Forbes: Mark Hall) https://maas-bong.io/2ZCEk0f
"According to the technology and data company Crunchbase, an astounding $825 million in venture capital investment has flowed into legal and legal-tech sectors just since the start of 2018."
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Has the US Supreme Court eviscerated recovery of eDiscovery costs? (Above the Law: Mike Quartararo) https://maas-bong.io/2Zwyn4O
"Back in March when we were all checking our brackets [?], the Supreme Court quietly issued an opinion that, at least on the surface, appears to bring an end to prevailing parties recovering costs related to eDiscovery."
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Colin Levy interviews Nir Golan (Colin S. Levy) https://maas-bong.io/2ZwaSsz
"Nir Golan is General Counsel and Head of Global Legal Operations for Attenti. He is a frequent voice in the legal innovation world and brings a unique perspective focused on bringing humanity back to the practice of law."
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Award-winning academic wants law students to think outside the box (Lawyers Weekly: Grace Ormsby) https://maas-bong.io/2ZrLXGG
"Rachel Kessel, the Academic of the Year at last year’s Lawyers Weekly Women in Law Awards, has pioneered a course called Legal Tech Studio, which aims to enable fulfilment of a student-led demand 'to learn new ways of thinking to become world citizens, equipped with life skills'."
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Appetite for disruption in the legal world: Part 1 - Welcome to the jungle (Smart Legal Market: Dr iur Guenther Dobrauz-Saldapenna [PwC]) https://maas-bong.io/2ZzeeeA
“Compared with other industries the legal industry is known for changing incrementally because the tight weave of its mosaic and culture cannot be easily reconfigured or quickly replaced. As such it is gradually but steadily transforming from a lawyer-centric, parochial, artisanal guild to an inter-disciplinary, global digitised industry."
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(An) answer to the ultimate question of ethics, privacy and everything (LinkedIn: Martin Nikel) https://maas-bong.io/2ZzJMku
"In the status quo, it is the commercially focused decision-makers who get to decide what's in an what's out, driven primarily by financial motivations and shareholder 'value'. Not by what's good for society, but what's possible and not 'illegal', rather than what should be done that's valuable and ethical."
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2019 Knowledge Management Summit survey results (LinkedIn: Ron Friedmann) https://maas-bong.io/2ZE3NGB
"AI remains hot - exactly what we said last year. Hype is down and the real work has begun. Even deploying proven off-the-shelf AI products takes time and effort."
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The case for in-house legal data analytics (Law: Jodie Baker) https://maas-bong.io/2Zwzotx
"The pervasive misconceptions of being too small, too busy or not tech-savvy enough shouldn’t hold a legal department back from exploring the possibilities of a data-driven legal department."
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Ten tips for successful eDiscovery planning (LexBlog: Katherine Gallo) https://maas-bong.io/2ZHlg0X
"May these top 10 tips help you in navigating your discovery, so your focus can be on the merits of the case as opposed to the technical issues."
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What will the eDiscovery team of the future look like? (JD Supra: Tim Rollins [Exterro]) https://maas-bong.io/2Zr3yhQ
"It’s fair to say that eDiscovery is at an inflection point. As an industry, it has seen an influx of cash. 2018 saw an almost doubling of mergers, acquisitions and infusions of capital from investors. Big players like Microsoft are making inroads on the basis of their substantial footprint inside enterprises."
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Elevate secures investment from Kayne Partners to fuel continued growth (Elevate) https://maas-bong.io/2ZsZ8qM
"Law company Elevate has secured a $25 million minority investment from Kayne Partners to scale operations to meet increasing customer demand and to enhance its Cael enterprise legal management software. This investment brings the amount of capital deployed by Elevate to almost $60 million."
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Forensics firm claims it can break into every iPhone (Cult of Mac: Ed Hardy) https://maas-bong.io/2ZuyQ7A
"A company staffed with white-hat hackers apparently made a breakthrough in unlocking iPhones and iPads. Cellebrite says it is offering law enforcement agencies access to every bit of data on any iOS device."
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How NOT to do discovery: “The law is a mess … but it’s still the law” (The Project Counsel Group: Catarina Conti) https://maas-bong.io/2ZAm9s3
"There is a case rocketing around 'eDiscovery World' and we thought we’d do a review based on the summary judgment we read and some analysis in a few legal blogs."
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AIs should be legally liable for their mistakes soon (The Next Web: Binary District Journal) https://maas-bong.io/2ZqR3mk
"Historically, insurers have had to consider only the human aspect of parties involved in any insurable matter. Today, things are a lot more complex. As AI development has increased in scope, we have been left with programmes with the sophistication to be integrated into areas of infrastructure that have effectively given them direct input into life-or-death situations."
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What is metadata? (QDiscovery: Gary Hunt) https://maas-bong.io/2ZzzZuF
"Different types of metadata are available depending on the type of file. For example, a Word document will have different metadata fields than a photo taken with an iPhone. You can expect a Word document to have metadata about the author of the document, when it was last saved, where it was copied from and any comments or tracked changes. By contrast, the metadata in an iPhone photo will typically include the date the photo was taken and GPS coordinates of where it was taken."
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Who says you can’t Bates number native productions? (Ball in your Court: Craig Ball) https://maas-bong.io/2ZzAxAS
"For items produced in discovery, the unitisation that makes most sense is the native unitisation, files. Word-processed documents, presentations, spreadsheets, photos, videos and sound recordings all manifest as files in the ordinary course. We store them as files, collect them as files, process and enumerate them as files and hash them as files for deduplication and authentication. It only stands to reason that we produce and Bates number items as files."
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Considering eDiscovery document review? Task, spend and cost data points (ComplexDiscovery: Rob Robinson) https://maas-bong.io/2ZtUxVl
“Spending on document review-related software and services is estimated to constitute approximately 69% ($7.87B) of worldwide eDiscovery software and services spending in 2019."
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Recent US cases spotlight the challenges of cross-border data protection laws in eDiscovery (Legaltech News: Philip Favro) https://maas-bong.io/2ZEUrKP
"To meet the challenges of foreign data protection laws, organisations will need to be prepared. As two recent cases make clear, this includes more effective information governance programmes and litigation-readiness measures, along with better advocacy on the issues in court."
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"Crazy ideas" welcome: How Orrick is working to build an innovation culture (Legal Week: Dan Packel) https://maas-bong.io/2ZxTTpP
"The firm is one year into a programme that allows associates to put 50 hours of billing credit towards innovation projects."
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Considering eDiscovery data processing? Task, spend and cost data points (ComplexDiscovery) https://maas-bong.io/2Zr9gAk
"While many individual elements contribute to the cost of data processing, results from the semi-annual eDiscovery Pricing Survey may provide insight into six key costs and cost trends related to the eDiscovery task of processing data."
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Document automation is not a good use-case for lawyers learning to code (The Time Blawg) https://maas-bong.io/2ZtGSNW
"Lawyers are extremely busy professional people whose value is in doing the legal work they have been trained to do. They simply don’t have the time to faff about with coding templates (something they know nothing about) before using them. They simply need the templates at their disposal to use when drafting."
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Scoring your innovation (Legal Evolution: Bill Henderson) https://maas-bong.io/2Zp3TBy
"There are compelling reasons to invest in a tool that accelerates innovation adoption. Innovations that get adopted are innovations that can be monetised."
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British business travellers to the US are haunted by old offences (Financial Times: Helen Warrell) https://maas-bong.io/2ZsodlB
"Stricter implementation of border rules by President Trump’s administration has seen an increasing number of visas being refused to those with a history of drink driving or involvement with drugs, including arrests for suspected drug offences as well as actual convictions."
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Average UK law firm partner pay breaks through the £200,000 barrier for the first time (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2Zp4bbC
"The increase in earnings reflects the continued growth of the UK’s legal sector in recent years, which has been less affected by Brexit than originally feared."
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AI: the future of litigation in Germany and the UK (CDR: Laurence Liebermann, Volker Herrmann) https://maas-bong.io/2ZvXVit (£)
"There is a strong momentum among the judiciary and the court system in both the UK and Germany to digitise the world of disputes. This forward momentum is being absorbed by law firms, with clients increasingly demanding that their lawyers adopt a more AI-focused approached."
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Text mining - The how-to screenshots (LinkedIn: Pascal Lieblich) https://maas-bong.io/2ZuBHNH
"This [extremely articulate] article provides some behind-the-scenes snapshots and brief explanations of text mining methodology … The text pre-processing steps shown are used in both text mining and machine learning analyses."
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Slaughter and May’s Collaborate incubator: The cohort’s view (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2ZzZNqB
"In April Magic Circle law firm Slaughter and May announced its first cohort of legal tech companies for its Collaborate incubator. Artificial Lawyer asked three of the cohort what motivated them to join up, what they’ve got out of the experience so far and what it’s been like working with the lawyers at one of the world’s leading firms."
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Inertia is not an option (The Law Society Gazette: Joanna Goodman) https://maas-bong.io/2ZqBVFN
“Decision-makers need to look past vendors, consultants and social media influencers to understand which of the new tools and technologies on the market is the best fit. Doing nothing - or looking back - is not a viable option. To dismiss new technology as ‘hype’ is putting your firm’s future on the line by risking that ‘Kodak moment’. On the other hand, investing in tech simply to impress squanders resources on a white elephant."
BONG!
Lawyers aren’t taking full advantage of AI tools, survey shows (Bloomberg Law: Sam Skolnik) https://maas-bong.io/2ZyuUTt
"Only about one in four people working at law firms and law departments that use legal technology use tools based on artificial intelligence or machine learning, according to a survey of lawyers, technologists and executives."
BONG!
This article will self-destruct: Behind ephemeral messaging's in-house rise (Legaltech News: Rhys Dipshan) https://maas-bong.io/2XJLYoQ
"Ephemeral messaging apps, which automatically delete data after a set timeframe, can present significant roadblocks to in-house compliance and eDiscovery operations. So why is their enterprise use growing?"
BONG!
Facebook worries emails could show Zuckerberg knew of questionable privacy practices (The Wall Street Journal) https://maas-bong.io/2XKMWBn
"Internal exchanges uncovered in response to an FTC probe could cast doubt on the founder’s commitment to user privacy, people familiar with the matter say."
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District of Columbia v Facebook: General Consumer Protection Statute can serve as vehicle for state attorney general seeking redress for data privacy violations (DLA Piper) https://maas-bong.io/2XIJCXb
"The order demonstrates that general state consumer protection statutes can serve as a viable weapon in the arsenal of State Attorneys General who wish to challenge the reasonableness of entities' data privacy practices and disclosures. The order also demonstrates that Internet-based companies are not immune to jurisdiction in a foreign venue even when general personal jurisdiction does not exist."
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How mature is your legal department when it comes to eDiscovery? (Bloomberg: Timothy Rollins [Exterro]) https://maas-bong.io/2XRhZeY
"Although eDiscovery has become an important tool for many in-house counsel, many companies still struggle with new sources like social media and instant messaging, a survey by Duke University and Exterro found. Exterro’s Tim Rollins gives three key takeaways from the survey, including how companies fared in training and by industry and size."
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Announcing the fourth annual Coalition of Technology Resources for Lawyers technology survey (CTRL) https://maas-bong.io/2XKky27
"CTRL is seeking respondents such as privacy professionals, in-house counsel and others knowledgeable about corporate practices regarding collection, storage and processing of personal data to take the survey."
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What is legal technology? (And how LegalTech is changing the legal industry) (Learn G2: Patrick Szakiel) https://maas-bong.io/2XHBrKS
"The legal industry is famously slow to adopt new technology, so its digital transformation has therefore been slow to coalesce."
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The geography of legal innovation - firms, people, tech (LinkedIn: Gordon Vala-Webb) https://maas-bong.io/2XLjpHJ
"There is likely no surprise here for anyone seriously paying attention but there seems to be a mismatch between the Innovation Index - firms TALKING about innovative things on their website - and organisations having people to DO innovation."
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How does legal innovation escape the silo we are in? (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2XKKrPj
"Law talks to itself. It buys and sells to and from itself. It trains itself. It even regulates itself. And it judges its own performance against itself."
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SCL Adjudication Procedure: Update and launch plans (Society for Computers and Law) https://maas-bong.io/2XKsyQJ
"The SCL is very pleased to announce that its work on a new adjudication procedure for the resolution of technology disputes in England & Wales is almost complete."
BONG!
New AI eDiscovery tool “reduces legal review hours by 99 percent” (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2XKsMHz
"Veritone has launched a new eDiscovery tool, Veritone Illuminate, which searches, analyses, culls and explores audio and video as well as text evidence."
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The convergence of eDiscovery and privacy: The next stage of growth for Exterro (LinkedIn: Bobby Balachandran [CEO Exterro]) https://maas-bong.io/2R8kzdP
From the horse’s mouth: "Jordan Lawrence’s expertise and leadership solidifies our position as the leading solution to organisations’ eDiscovery, data privacy and information governance challenges."
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Why the next generation of legal software still needs a human touch (Legal Futures: Deborah Edwards [Insight Legal]) https://maas-bong.io/2RipHMJ
"Given the intricate nature of the legal sector and with the role of lawyers, solicitors and accountants both changing and quickening in pace, it can often be challenging for firms to ensure that their software is not just working effectively for every user, but is driving maximum value for their business and ensuring full compliance with industry legislation."
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Managing New Zealand’s increasing discovery volumes (E-Discovery Consulting) https://maas-bong.io/2R8WnrB
"Globally the data volumes experienced in the discovery process are increasing rapidly and this is no different in New Zealand."
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Collaboration by design: How one global law firm is tapping the power of the crowd to innovate (Forbes: John Winsor) https://maas-bong.io/2R8jLFP
"The law industry is famously risk averse, not known for being cutting edge or embracing new technology. This is why I find the collaboration between the idea management platform Wazoku and the global law firm Allen & Overy fascinating and encouraging."
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AI in investigations: meeting the challenges of big data in the SFO and sharing ACi's practical in-house experiences (LinkedIn: Sam Tate [RPC]) https://maas-bong.io/2R8EZ6x
"Participants, including a number of leading in-house investigators across EMEA, discussed the internal challenges of acquiring and embedding AI, core AI functionality in data review technology and AI-related pitfalls and opportunities."
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Time to embrace technology? The 2019 State of eDiscovery Report (ComplexDiscovery) https://maas-bong.io/2RafJgj
"The Report pulls information from 18 different industry-leading studies, reports and articles covering eDiscovery, information governance, privacy and other issues facing legal teams, providing a comprehensive look at the trends, practices, and challenges facing the eDiscovery industry today."
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Venture beyond legal in tracking in-house data (Corporate Counsel Business Journal: Aaron Pierce [CounselLink]) https://maas-bong.io/2RbDl43
"Work within the law department goes way beyond strictly legal matters...information related to that work can be invaluable in optimising your team’s performance...[here are some] insights on how to broaden data capture and analysis to improve performance."
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Lessons learned from 10-plus years using alternative legal service providers (Law: Tom Orrison [Microsoft]) https://maas-bong.io/2RdgAfZ
"Microsoft’s legal department has a longer history with alternative legal service providers than many, a history that’s left the team with insights on what works and what doesn’t."
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Five everyday things eDiscovery is (and isn't) like (Relativity: Andie Linker) https://maas-bong.io/2Rb9WXz
"As it turns out, eDiscovery is not so far off from the things you encounter each and every day … sort of. Let’s take a deeper look at the eDiscovery process and see where it fits in to the familiar trappings of your life."
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Uncovering hidden knowledge with AI (KM World: Simon Pecovnik [iManage]) https://maas-bong.io/2R8UlYA
"In addition to using explicit knowledge and formal metadata, AI can leverage implicit knowledge to help professionals better uncover knowledge within the firm. For example, AI can look within a firm’s document management system to see what files people access or download most often, or it can look at the time and billing system to see which matters or clients a professional devotes most of their time towards."
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It's all Belgian fries to me: The art of multilingual eDisclosure (Part II) (Inventus: Jérôme Torres-Lozano) https://maas-bong.io/2R4iz6l
“The evolution of multilingual document processing and review by cleverly balancing the use of emerging technologies and human resources."
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Why is America so far behind Europe on digital privacy? (New York Times) https://maas-bong.io/2R7H6HJ
"Legislators should seize the moment to pass meaningful protections for the digital age."
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iOS 13 now shows a map of where apps have been tracking you when requesting permission (9to5Mac: Chance Miller) https://maas-bong.io/2Res17r
"iOS 13 also cracks down on developers using bluetooth and WiFi network details to estimate a user’s location. On stage at WWDC on Monday, Craig Federighi says that iOS 13 is 'shutting the door on that abuse.'"
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Three ways to protect your law firm’s data and reputation (Legal Futures: Mohamed Bakeer [CTS]) https://maas-bong.io/2R4Hp69
“Different firms have different ways of tackling this crucial issue. As legal sector cloud and IT specialists, we deal almost exclusively with law firms. In our experience, their approaches broadly divide into three strands."
BONG!
The state of eDiscovery 2019 (FTI / Exterro) https://maas-bong.io/2R6bbr8
"This year’s State of eDiscovery report pulls from the latest economic, case law, and professional eDiscovery and legal industries to paint a picture of an industry at an inflection point.” Plus, see below for tomorrow’s webinar on this.
BONG!
End of the beginning for smart contracts - Accord forum write-up (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2R6jrao
"Last week smart contract consortium, the Accord Project, held its first ever major conference, marking a key moment in the development of the 200-member global group and a declaration that the technology is coming of age."
BONG!
What makes a strategy “strategic” - Part 6 (LinkedIn: Neil Cameron) https://maas-bong.io/2R57BNN
"We now have a set of potential IT initiatives and, for each of them, we have an analysis of the following factors, which allows us to assess their relative importance and their concomitant cost, benefits, risks and urgency."
BONG!
What blockchain means for digital evidence sharing, security and verification (Cellebrite: Ariel Watson) https://maas-bong.io/2Ret1bH
"The underlying blockchain distributed ledger technology could prove to be the missing solution for managing digital assets, including digital evidence shared and validated between case stakeholders and agencies around the globe."
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When the hamster met the innovation czar… (LBC Wise Counsel: Paul Gilbert) https://maas-bong.io/2R7flPG
“'Look' said the hamster, not wanting to be unkind, 'I really don’t need a new wheel. My old wheel is just fine. It costs me nothing and while it is not as fast as your new wheel and doesn’t come with a light-up dashboard in the cloud, I know exactly where I am. Besides, going faster, frankly doesn’t add a lot to my life.'"
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The Sedona Conference Commentary and Principles on Jurisdictional Conflicts over Transfers of Personal Data Across Borders (TSC) https://maas-bong.io/2R2aa3a
"The goal of this Commentary is to provide: (1) a practical guide to corporations and others who must make day-to-day operational decisions regarding the transfer of data across borders; and (2) to provide a framework for the analysis of questions regarding the laws applicable to cross-border transfers of personal data." Now available for public comment.
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Summer 2019 eDiscovery Pricing Survey results (ComplexDiscovery) https://maas-bong.io/2R0Yu0z
"The eDiscovery Pricing Survey is a non-scientific and non-comprehensive survey designed to provide general insight into eDiscovery pricing as shared by individuals working in the eDiscovery ecosystem."
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The four essential phases of selecting a legal vendor (DISCO: Cat Casey) https://maas-bong.io/2R0OsN2
"The selection process consisted of four phases: determining the current state, establishing a security baseline, conducting a lean RFP process and meeting with the most qualified potential partners."
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Buying legal - ALSPs see increase in BigLaw spend as in-house legal growth halts (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2R2042z
"In what should serve as the latest wake up call to BigLaw firms and the clearest evidence of a change in buying habits among the largest corporates, the money spent by Fortune 100 law firms and their international equivalents on alternative legal service providers over the past year has increased by 24%."
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Why we need to bring humour back to the workplace (LinkedIn: Ian Ash) https://maas-bong.io/2R3lXyd
"Funny can be particularly difficult in the workplace, and it should never be used as a weapon to intimidate or belittle co-workers or staff. The current climate can make ‘funny’ hard to do."
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No Bates, no problem for native files (CloudNine) https://maas-bong.io/2R0CKCd
“We revisit some of the eDiscovery best practice posts we have covered over the years and discuss whether any of those recommended best practices have changed since we originally covered them."
BONG!
Become a service designer in government: step by step (UK Government: Sanjay Poyzer) https://maas-bong.io/2R037YV
“A lot of the time people are really asking ‘Is it possible for me to become a service designer? And, if so, how do I do it?’"
BONG!
When customers want to see the human behind the product (Harvard Business Review: Adam Waytz) https://maas-bong.io/2R0hfl3
“Businesses that try to distance their customers from other humans are missing a critical tactic - refocusing their products on services around the power of human interaction provides an opportunity to create enormous social and economic value."
BONG!
Companies are mis-selling artificial intelligence: Here's what else you should know (Forbes: Abhinav Somani) https://maas-bong.io/2R370MU
"Where vendors tend to go overboard is selling AI as if it is some sort of magic trick that companies can implement with the flip of a switch. This approach is often successful for the vendor but ultimately leaves the customer disappointed."
BONG!
Salesforce to buy Tableau for $15.3 billion in all-stock deal (Bloomberg: Nick Lichtenberg, Yueqi Yang) https://maas-bong.io/2R0ZEcw
"Salesforce agreed to acquire analytics platform Tableau in an all-stock transaction representing an equity value of $15.33 billion based on Salesforce’s closing price on June 7."
BONG!
The more things change the more they stay the same (Above the Law: Nicky Black) https://maas-bong.io/2R2eW0K
"If the majority of firms admittedly aren’t reengineering work processes, implementing formal knowledge management programmes or using technology to increase profitability, then how is it that their numbers are up? What exactly are these firms doing to increase their revenues?"
BONG!
Raid-ready: A case study (Consilio: Daniel Rupprecht) https://maas-bong.io/2QVgWaS
"It is difficult to predict when a regulatory authority might come knocking on the door, particularly if they have been alerted to potential wrong-doing by a whistle-blower."
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Case prediction analytics: Enhancing the litigator’s armoury (Infolaw: Edward Bird) https://maas-bong.io/2R2mSiJ
"Today, the goal of predictive analytics for civil litigation is to combine rigorous data and statistical discipline with the expertise of the litigation practitioner to improve the quality of prediction, advice and outcomes for the litigator and their client. It is not to replace the role of the litigator."
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How law firms are using legal AI-assisted LegalTech solutions (Saïd Business School: Richard Parnham) https://maas-bong.io/2QREXzK
"A conversation with Slaughter and May’s Knowledge and Innovation team."
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US and EU begin negotiations for e-Evidence agreement (Legaltech News: Simon Taylor) https://maas-bong.io/2R2uVMt
"If the negotiations are successful, European authorities would be able to access evidence needed for criminal cases more quickly than they can now and US-based service providers would not have to worry about violating EU data protection rules when providing evidence related to European nationals."
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Swathe of law firms face action after failing transparency test (Legal Futures: Dan Bindman) https://maas-bong.io/2QR5uNJ
"In a review of 447 randomly selected law firm sites, the Solicitors Regulation Authority found that nearly a fifth (17%) were not compliant at all, and 58% were only partially compliant. The SRA checked 500 sites in total, but 53 did not work.” [Emphasis added]
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AI or Excel on steroids? The ethics of AI as a tool, and its future regulation (Legal IT Insider: Amy Carroll) https://maas-bong.io/2QW0iYF
"Bristows IT partner Chris Holder told delegates at the 2019 Legal Leaders #GlenLegal IT Forum: 'I would question whether what many CIOs are currently purchasing is true AI, or whether it is actually just excel on steroids,' he said, in a wide ranging and thoughtful talk on how AI is currently being used, how that will change and what that means in terms of meaningful regulation and ethics."
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Legal design explained: Part 4 - What does legal design look like? (LinkedIn: Charlotte Baker) https://maas-bong.io/2QW3DHp
"In earlier articles, I've described the basics of legal design but it’s always easier to understand something when you have a few examples. So, here are some real-life examples of legal design in practice."
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Video: What you're seeing is an optical illusion (LinkedIn: Tech Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2QSZnZj
Sculptures created by Kokichi Sugihara will mess with your Friday mind!
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US case law alert: What constitutes spoliation of a .pst file? (Exterro: Mike Hamilton) https://maas-bong.io/2QTp8bT
"This case helps establish that the criteria are exactly the same as for any other electronically stored information."
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Disruption starts with unhappy customers, not technology (HBR: Thales Teixeira) https://maas-bong.io/2QSwEDP
"What these companies seem to have missed is that the most common and pervasive pattern of disruption is driven by customers. They are the ones behind the decisions to adopt or reject new technologies or new products." Not relevant to the legal profession? Just think about CLOC, GC100 et al.
BONG!
Protocol considerations for cell phone examinations (Revelation Cellular Forensics) https://maas-bong.io/2QYTPMZ
"Imagine we have a case where we would like to see what information is in the opposition’s phone. The judge has issued an order to examine the phone, but now we need to establish the protocol agreed upon by the opposition, or at least the judge, on how the examination is to be performed."
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Current trends: Discovery of electronically stored information on mobile devices and social media (JD Supra: Jones Day) https://maas-bong.io/2QNc0F0
"This White Paper provides an overview of recommendations for identifying and preserving ESI, and examines how US discovery rules apply to mobile devices and social media. Particular attention is given to preservation requirements and the possible sanctions imposed for data loss."
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Freshfields Lab: The team behind the initiative share their plans for a dedicated “client experience space” (Legal IT Insider: Amy Carroll) https://maas-bong.io/2QNaJOe
"The new initiative, launched out of Berlin (with plans afoot to open a second Lab in London), is focused on developing technology-based solutions for clients as they face increasingly complex challenges around mass claims, global transactions, investigations and cyber risks."
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Podcast: Office 365 eDiscovery analytics discussion (Techno Gumbo: Rachi Messing, Tom O'Connor) https://maas-bong.io/2QObp64
"Once you are done with your searches and add your search results to a review set, O365 extracts files from containers as well as text and metadata. When this process is complete, the system builds a new index."
BONG!
Data is the new oil (Daily Mail: Tim Collins) https://maas-bong.io/2QYW0A9
"Two university academics have questioned what happens to the data collected by smart devices and who then uses it - because data is now a prized commodity, which they say is now as valuable as oil."
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Feel the difference (The Law Society Gazette: Jonathan Rayner) https://maas-bong.io/2QSeqCh
"With an annual market value of £8.3bn alternative legal service providers are now mainstream, but can they sustain their meteoric rise? Report from a Law Society Thomson Reuters roundtable."
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How to search a FOIA document dump - and hold the government accountable at the same time (Logikcull: Casey Sullivan) https://maas-bong.io/2QShDSv
Bit of an advertorial, but interesting nonetheless: "Public records requests, after all, are not too different from discovery projects, requiring the collection, review and production of massive document collections. And, for the receiving party, those productions are often similar to the data dumps that pervade litigation. Except they’re worse."
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What makes an IT strategy “strategic" Part 5 (LinkedIn: Neil Cameron) https://maas-bong.io/2QR2ErY
"This is where it starts getting a bit more complicated. Essentially, there is a period of analysis that takes as input all the information gleaned from the three phases so far and identifies all the potential business opportunities that can be identified as a result."
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Dropped wrappers and dirty cups: The tricks bosses play at interviews (The Guardian: Emine Saner) https://maas-bong.io/2QNdPBQ
"For some employers, doing extensive prep for an interview and arriving on time isn’t enough. They may also subject you to some serious mind-games and some have been giving insights into the tricks they use to supposedly highlight the best candidates."
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Small firms keep ignoring eDiscovery to their peril (Above the Law: Joe Patrice) https://maas-bong.io/2QR6PnE
"Small firms are still lagging behind in eDiscovery investment. A Thomson Reuters survey found that only 19 percent of smaller firms are investing in eDiscovery tech. Only 2 percent responded that they plan to join the tech club in the next year. That’s an abysmal figure."
BONG!
Video: a chat with Craig Ball (Gregory Bufithis) https://maas-bong.io/2QSy3KI
"For the newbies, Craig Ball is a trial lawyer, computer forensic examiner, law professor and noted authority on electronic evidence … and the pen behind the award-winning 'Ball in Your Court' column on electronic discovery. He is one of the most respected brainiacs in the industry."
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ACEDS welcomes Rachi Messing to its Global Advisory Board (PR Newswire) https://maas-bong.io/2QMLCv0
"Messing is a Senior Programme Manager at Microsoft, currently working within the Corporate, External and Legal Affairs group. He focuses his time on the usage of advanced technology solutions to help Microsoft's legal team be efficient and effective in meeting their discovery obligations involving complex technical matters."
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Apple didn’t just take the moral high ground on privacy, it twisted the knife into Google and Facebook (CNBC: Steve Kovach) https://maas-bong.io/2QKRchA
"Sign in with Apple gives the company a moral high ground on privacy, proving you can easily log into apps without worrying about a third party slurping up a lot of personal data."
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Wilson Sonsini expects “millions" from new app at $7,500 a document (Big Law Business: Roy Strom) https://maas-bong.io/2QNL9c2
"The Silicon Valley firm is selling automated California Consumer Privacy Act advice starting at $7,500; its Privacy app made more than $100,000 in sales its first week."
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Paying the price for partial production: eDisclosure sanctions hit lawyers in the US (Inventus: Sarah Sawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2QOQMqA
"You may pay a price if you fail to locate and produce all the electronic data requested during discovery. A now-dissolved law firm in the US state of New Jersey recently learned that the hard way when a bankruptcy judge ordered them to pay almost $60,000 in sanctions as a result of their failure to do so."
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When it comes to explaining AI decisions, context matters (Information Commissioner's Office) https://maas-bong.io/2QMfFmr
"Alex Hubbard, Senior Policy Officer at the ICO, looks at some of the key themes identified in the ICO and The Alan Turing Institute’s interim report about explanations of AI decisions."
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Gauke announces more financial backing for lawtech (Legal Futures: Neil Rose) https://maas-bong.io/2QKU3Hk
"The Lord Chancellor, David Gauke, has announced further financial backing for lawtech with the Ministry of Justice providing 'just over £2m to support lawtech'."
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The end of the document? Not so fast! (CMS Wire: Joe Shepley) https://maas-bong.io/2QLBBhH
“Despite the massive amounts of brainpower expended on the paper document problem we seem no closer now to realising the paper-free dream than we were in the early 1990s."
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Lawyers need to embrace legal tech to be competitive (Bloomberg Law: Melissa Heelan Stanzione) https://maas-bong.io/2QMm4Ov
"Legal tech includes eFiling, eDiscovery, newer technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence. Courts, clients are pushing for greater use of legal tech in daily interactions, say panellists at ABA convention"
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Reveal Data acquires Mindseye Solutions (ComplexDiscovery: Rob Robinson) https://maas-bong.io/2QQfhUi
"Reveal Data Corporation, a Chicago-based provider of cloud-based eDiscovery software solutions and services, announced today that it has acquired Mindseye Solutions, a complementary software solution."
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eDiscovery standard 27050 updated (Techstreet) https://maas-bong.io/2KpAF1n (£)
"The fundamental purpose of the ISO27k digital forensics standards is to promote good practice methods and processes for forensic capture and investigation of digital evidence,” "On behalf of the editorial team for the International eDiscovery Standard, I [Kelly Friedman: BLG] am proud to say that three of the four parts are now published and available for purchase."
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Here’s how big firms pitch new tech to partners (Law Times: Anita Balakrishnan) https://maas-bong.io/2KrMHY2
"It’s a mistake to focus only on junior lawyers when pushing out a new technology product, said experts at a May 28 legal innovation panel, even if firms may be tempted to just embed technology into the training for new lawyers coming into a firm."
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Podcast: Tom Bruce on 27 years of disrupting legal information (Law Sites) https://maas-bong.io/2KqapDT
"Disruption is a word that gets thrown around easily these days. But the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School truly was a disruptor. Founded in 1992 with the mission of making legal information available to everyone without cost, it was literally the first legal site on the Internet. It continues strong today, with readership last year of 32 million individuals in 246 countries and territories."
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What litigators and in-house counsel should know about foreign language document review (Part I) (LLM Law Review: Remu Ogaki) https://maas-bong.io/2KpC2Nz
“Companies promise that for merely a few cents per page, at the push of a button, documents will be ‘translated' into English at an ‘acceptable' accuracy to make a determination as to their importance. However, when considering the use of machine translation (and there are many varieties utilised in the eDiscovery industry) it is important that attorneys understand the risks and benefits to this technology - as well as its limitations."
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Quest breach potentially affecting 11.9 million patients shines spotlight on risks posed by business associates (Information Management: Joseph Goedert) https://maas-bong.io/2KpFaJf
“What is not commonly understood is that medical records command a high value on the Dark Web, as these records can be listed up to 10 times more than the average credit card breach because there is more personal information in health records than any other electronic database.”
BONG!
France bans judge analytics with five years in prison for rule breakers (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2KqibO9
"In a startling intervention that seeks to limit the emerging litigation analytics and prediction sector, the French government has banned the publication of statistical information about judges’ decisions - with a five year prison sentence set as the maximum punishment for anyone who breaks the new law."
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Five factors driving the Chinese lawtech boom (World Economic Forum: Sebastian Ko) https://maas-bong.io/2Ks9bIC
"The second largest economy globally has legal innovations the world should hear about. In enhancing access to justice, China is developing a vibrant emerging market for legaltech. The Chinese market is growing fervently to meet the enormously rising needs of its people for affordable and accessible legal services and address the challenges of a relatively young legal system."
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Cracking single slide from a 2016 webinar entitled "A Practical Guide to Cross-border eDiscovery" (LinkedIn: Pavan Kotha) https://maas-bong.io/2KluwmS
A very useful map showing country-by-country eDiscovery laws and rules at a glance. Note, though, that it's from 2016.
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Five questions you can use to cut through the AI hype (MIT Technology Review: Karen Hao) https://maas-bong.io/2KrTalN
"I’d like to briefly outline the five questions I typically use to assess the quality and validity of a company’s technology."
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Aligning AI technology with your eDiscovery process (Exterro: Tim Rollins) https://maas-bong.io/2KnYzKJ
"It seems like the artificial intelligence freight train of the past couple years is finally slowing down, at least in the eDiscovery space. For as long as I've been blogging in this space (about 18 months now), there has been a pretty steady drumbeat of articles taking one of two diametrically opposed perspectives on AI."
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EDRM’s spring 2019 workshop/forum examines challenging issues of eDiscovery and technology (Bolch Judicial Institute) https://maas-bong.io/2WbJL3Q
“The workshop’s objective is to generate practical guidelines and advice to help legal professionals and judges navigate complex challenges related to technology and the law."
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Collaboration finds a way, but can eDiscovery keep up? (Legaltech News: James Murphy, Hanzo) https://maas-bong.io/2W6Ra4E
"New collaboration apps are too easy not to engage with. Here are five critical problems that eDiscovery professionals encounter with collaboration apps - and five best practices to counteract them."
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Military artificial intelligence (military robots) advantages, disadvantages and applications (Science Online: Heba Soffar) https://maas-bong.io/2W7E3Ad
Because sometimes it's just nice to know...
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Smith: Lawtech not “silver bullet” for access to justice (Legal Futures: Dan Bindman) https://maas-bong.io/2WdbhxW
"Technology can make a positive difference but it must be carefully evaluated before adoption and be seen as supplementary to, not a replacement for, human-led legal services."
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Law firms are developing their own tools and software to better serve clients (ABA Journal: Anna Persky) https://maas-bong.io/2Wceazc
"BigLaw and boutique practices have increasingly shown an eagerness to enter into the technology products and services market. To further these goals, law firms are creating subsidiaries and joint ventures specifically focused on creating and selling a variety of technology-based legal products and services."
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Knowledge management - A growing AI battleground (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2W7FyhP
"We are used to hearing about how transactional and deal-focused AI and automation tools can help make a difference to law firms, but this narrative is instead all around the idea that better access to lawyers’ collective knowledge and insights is a key differentiator."
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Bringing eDiscovery in-house: Can we 'geekify' law firms? (The Legal Intelligencer: Leonard Deutchman) https://maas-bong.io/2Wb9WHZ
"Whether and how to make lawyers more geeky and what chance there is for those ways to become established and successful."
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Technology as a cognitive extension to legal skills (LinkedIn: Jerome Raguin [Yerra]) https://maas-bong.io/2Wcco15
“Technology can make us better lawyers, help us learn and ‘recall' faster as opposed to replacing us. The fact that 'rote memory' is one of the major requirements to successfully study (and to some extent practice) law is in itself a failure of the legal world."
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Digital forensic market 2025: PerkinElmer, Guidance Software, AccessData Group, Cellmark, FireEye (Market Research Updates: Daniel Norris) https://maas-bong.io/2WahoTK (£)
"The report covers all information on the global and regional markets including old and future trends for market demand, size, trading, supply, competitors and prices as well as global predominant vendors’ information."
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Conveyancing firm first in legal history to launch Alexa integrated system (Today's Conveyancer: Toni Ryder-McMullin) https://maas-bong.io/2W7swAZ
“Customers of Simply Conveyancing will now be able to ask their digital assistant Alexa questions and queries about their conveyancing transaction." Where next?
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Biggest eDiscovery challenges facing plaintiff’s attorneys, Part Five (CloudNine: Tom O'Connor) https://maas-bong.io/2W4GZxg
Tom's conclusions after a five part series looking at eD from a plaintiff's perspective, with input from various well known US eD specialists. Contains links to the preceding four parts.
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What makes an IT strategy “strategic" - Part 4 (LinkedIn: Neil Cameron) https://maas-bong.io/2VZZcfC
"The next stage of the process ... is the ‘Review of Existing IT’.” Something much over-looked in this legal tech world of AI hype.
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Businesses warned of soaring cost of employee subject access requests (IT Pro: Keumars Afifi-Sabet) https://maas-bong.io/2W7eaAh
"Report shows quarter of requests involve workers trying to find out what their company holds on them.” Wellness, anyone?
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Partnering with clients to drive practical innovation (LinkedIn: Ron Friedman) https://maas-bong.io/2W5AnyS
"For this engagement, technology was a minor piece. The big piece was changing the process."
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A new tool for data and legal discovery? AWS announces general availability of Amazon Textract (ComplexDiscovery: Rob Robinson) https://maas-bong.io/2W4yYZh
“Existing OCR technologies are unable to recognise common layouts like forms and tables, and only generate a lengthy and often inaccurate text dump. What organisations want instead is the ability to accurately identify and extract text and data from forms and tables in documents of any format and from a variety of file types and templates. Amazon Textract analyses virtually any type of document, automatically generating highly accurate text, form, and table data."
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Utilising AI to adapt and improve current legal practices (AI Business: Paul Sachs) https://maas-bong.io/2W1q6Ud
"By optimising current workflows, AI technologies provide practical support that saves time, removes drudgery and increases the reliability of the legal system."
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Artificial intelligence is changing the way lawyers practice (Smart Business: Jayne Gest) https://maas-bong.io/2W0vJ5j
“AI can increase speed, increase efficiency and lower costs for clients - if the law firm has the right tools, but more importantly knows how to use those tools.” [Emphasis added]
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Legal design explained: Part 3 - How do we do legal design? (LinkedIn: Charlotte Baker) https://maas-bong.io/2VZpG0I
"In this third article of my four-part series, we'll look at the various tools, methods and principles involved in legal design - the thought processes and building blocks used in a legal design project."
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Have we lost the war on eDiscovery? (Ball in your court: Craig Ball) https://maas-bong.io/2W36Bef
"Conferences spend about four times as much time talking about review than preservation or collection. I challenge anyone to show me topics at major conferences that teach lawyers practical ESI search skills."
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This edition of The Legal 500 includes the guide's first-ever ranking of American firms’ electronic discovery capabilities (Legal 500) https://maas-bong.io/2W7RSid
"This year, we have added eDiscovery to the US guide. A relative new-comer to the field of law, it has steadily developed from the early 2000s into a sophisticated area of practice, crossing the boundary between technology and advocacy."
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The new disclosure rules (Consilio: Dr Tristan Jenkinson) https://maas-bong.io/2VZwlrR
"How the new disclosure rules impact approaches to preservation and collection."
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US military to trawl through 350 billion social media messages (Information Age: Pete Norman) https://maas-bong.io/2VXHFEL
"A tender for the project, based at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, calls for screening messages from at least 200 million users from more than 100 countries in more than 60 languages to better understand 'collective expression.'"
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The truth behind the dumbest GDPR myths, one year later (Wired: Matt Burgess) https://maas-bong.io/2VVm93C
"Now that the GDPR has come of age it's worth looking back on some of the predictions that failed to come to pass and where there may have actually been some change."
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Lawyers and transformational tech: Overcoming the knowledge gap (Above the Law: Dean Sonderegger) https://maas-bong.io/2W1kk4V
"There has been no shortage of coverage on legal tech, so why do legal professionals say they don’t understand these technologies?"
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What exactly is machine learning? (LinkedIn: Todd Rebner) https://maas-bong.io/2W1alg0
"Machine learning is a very exciting field with unlimited applications, and we have just scratched the surface of what it can help us accomplish."
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Using AI to help litigation finance pick the winning cases (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2W1qnGF
"Does the use of NLP and ML techniques to crunch case law and find predictable patterns that point to an outcome indicate a coming revolution in litigation finance? Because if AI tools can give you a better chance of backing the best cases, in a sector of the legal world that is all about picking winners, then this tech could make a real difference."
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Podcast: Office 365 eDiscovery search Part 2 (Rachi Messing, Tom O'Connor) https://maas-bong.io/2VTVbct
"This session covers some of the deeper filtering functionality that can be performed in a review set along with advanced search techniques and basic EDA functionality."
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Considering eDiscovery providers? Competencies, attributes and distribution frameworks (ComplexDiscovery: Rob Robinson) https://maas-bong.io/2W1pYE9
"Understanding that a provider’s organisational character is made up of more than capabilities, it seems reasonable that a common set of descriptive elements for competency, attributes and distribution frameworks might be beneficial for the provider-comparison process."
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Honesty in the profession: “Lawyer" should not be synonymous with “liar" (Above the Law: Christine Rodriguez) https://maas-bong.io/2VVaCkN
"Just because we know how to use the law does not mean that we get to abuse and break it."
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Practical guidance for businesses on how to process mixed datasets (European Commission) https://maas-bong.io/2W1r8Q1
"Data has become the core of new digital technologies and most business processes. A huge amount of data is created, stored and processed every day. It is not always easy to know which rules apply when processing personal and non-personal data in a ‘mixed dataset’. This occurs very often when businesses store and process various types of data in databases and IT systems."
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If you want to save money on eDiscovery, you can (Exterro: Tim Rollins) https://maas-bong.io/2VUZcNJ
“We believe that, for many organisations, in-sourcing eDiscovery operations and implementing an eDiscovery platform make good sense. The benefits are clear-cut and real."
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Innovation and change are up to us (LinkedIn: Matt Fawcett [NetApp]) https://maas-bong.io/2VWmWBl
"Most GCs are products of BigLaw, so we are most comfortable working in this model. We complain about cost overruns and mismanaged billing surprises, but we go along with it because it is what we have always known. We know how to navigate inside that model. So we bear a big share of the responsibility for perpetuating it."
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Six lessons (Colin Levy) https://maas-bong.io/2VUKmHk
"Lawyers are not magicians. Lawyers do not perform magic. The time has come to open up the curtain. To share what we know. To share how we do what we do. To teach others and to learn from others. To innovate."
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Winners: Innovation Awards 2019 (Legal Week) https://maas-bong.io/2VRiX9b
"The Awards, now in their fifth year, ... celebrate outstanding achievement within the profession. By recognising exceptional achievement and best practice, they underline the crucial role played by lawyers working in tandem with colleagues in other disciplines such as marketing, business development, finance, IT, project management, operations, PR and recruitment in the promotion of innovation."
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Civil procedure back to basics 46: How to instruct counsel: Hints and tips from the internet (Civil Litigation Brief: Gordon Exall QC) https://maas-bong.io/2VSdGy8
"There is an ongoing debate on Twitter about 'how to instruct counsel’. More particularly, the problems caused by ‘instructions' being sent in a chain of emails (or other electronic communication) with major difficulties in finding the documents. Alternatively, instructions are sent in a file which is, inevitably, broken. There is some useful guidance available online."
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Government algorithm use growing, regulation needed: Study (Nine to Noon) https://maas-bong.io/2VSr8BT
"The increasing use of artificial intelligence by [New Zealand's] government agencies has researchers calling for more oversight."
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Ramadan in Mideast is for fasting and Facebook, data shows (AP News: Aya Batrawy) https://maas-bong.io/2VWrmrV
"The Muslim holy month of Ramadan, with its long days of fasting and prayer meant to draw worshippers closer to God and away from worldly distractions, is being reshaped by technology."
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Something's stirring up business development in the legal industry (Microsoft) https://maas-bong.io/2VUKyWT
"There's a new way of winning business in professional services: It's more scalable, more systematic, and entirely measurable. And it's helping the most innovative law firms run circles around their competitors."
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Let’s get down to the “business" of law and the role of non-lawyers [Yuck!] (The Legal Intelligencer: Jessica Mazzeo) https://maas-bong.io/2VYq933
"Today, being effective at ‘lawyering' does not always equate with being a successful lawyer as there is now much more involved in what is now known as the business of law."
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It's all Belgian fries to me: The art of multilingual eDisclosure (Part I) (Inventus: Jérôme Torres-Lozano) https://maas-bong.io/2VUASfd
"The rise in global commerce has seen an increase in cross-border litigation, arbitration and compliance investigations, which has, in turn, meant that the industry has had to develop or tweak existing technical and human solutions to deal with the processing, keyword searching, the review and potential translation of documents for these types of legal matters."
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Video: Disclosure Pilot Scheme (RPC) https://maas-bong.io/2VMxIK7
Lawyers Dan Wyatt and Matthew Evans discuss how the UK's Disclosure Pilot, started at the beginning of 2019, encourages the use of technology.
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How to master slack eDiscovery and information governance in three easy steps (JD Supra: Hanzo) https://maas-bong.io/2VIX5Nb
"Unlike the data within familiar eDiscovery formats such as email, the data in Slack is unstructured. This makes it hard to figure out who data custodians are, difficult to set limits on scope and basically impossible to handle with traditional eDiscovery tools."
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Weaponising security? The emerging role of the CISO in eDiscovery (ComplexDiscovery) https://maas-bong.io/2VSnMPC
"The role of the Chief Information Security Officer is becoming the norm in eDiscovery companies as these companies grow their client base and venture into compliance and data breach prevention services."
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This is what happens in an internet minute in 2019 (LinkedIn: HT Cat Casey) https://maas-bong.io/2VPkWL0
Wow!
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LawFest 2019 presentations are now available to view (LegalTechHub) https://maas-bong.io/2VNmJAb
From New Zealand's premiere annual legal IT conference.
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Video: Five takeaways from BDO's eDiscovery & Beyond Survey (LinkedIn: George Socha) https://maas-bong.io/2VN8ECP
"In our fifth annual eDiscovery & Beyond Survey, we asked 100 senior in-house counsel about changes in their approaches to eDiscovery, information governance, compliance, data privacy and cybersecurity."
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A lawyer's path to increased competitiveness (ZyLab) https://maas-bong.io/2VSxAco
"Adopting eDiscovery technology for in-house use empowers attorneys to understand their clients’ businesses and needs more thoroughly. It gives them direct access to the knowledge and insight they need to formulate strategy more effectively."
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It’s time to follow a next-generation eDiscovery playbook (Law: Robert Cruz, Smarsh) https://maas-bong.io/2VMdhNJ
"A next-gen eDiscovery playbook calls for the use of modern review technologies that are focused on understanding the data - not just how to improve the review rates of documents."
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GDPR for litigators (JD Supra: Allen & Overy) https://maas-bong.io/2VQ3oOM
"Virtually all evidence, whether in litigation or arbitration or relating to investigations carried out by regulators or enforcement authorities, will contain some personal data."
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The oldest acronym In eDiscovery continues its tradition of excellence (Above the Law: Mike Quartararo) https://maas-bong.io/2VQ8aM9
"The annual meeting of the EDRM is not a conference and it is not like other events in the industry, and there are tons of new and exciting projects ahead."
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Turn your mind to discovery early (e-discovery consulting) https://maas-bong.io/2VEyyIR
"Far too often parties turn their minds to the practical requirements of discovery far too late in the process. If we are to reduce the time and cost of the discovery process, then it is essential that how to tackle discovery is considered at an early stage." A constant refrain, here echoed in New Zealand.
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Six cases to know from the past year in US electronic records case law (Law: Zach Warren) https://maas-bong.io/2VGgA8U
"At the 2019 MER conference in Chicago Ken Withers and Ron Hedges ran through some of the most important electronic records management cases of the past year and what should be learnt from them."
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Microsoft calls for US privacy law as GDPR turns one (Legaltech News: Caroline Spiezio) https://maas-bong.io/2VGhimA
"Julie Brill, Microsoft's deputy general counsel and top privacy lawyer, reflected on GDPR as its one-year anniversary approaches. She recently offered suggestions for a US federal privacy law."
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Emojis & eDiscovery: What lawyers need to know (Inventus: Rebecca Cronin) https://maas-bong.io/2VGpxPM
Another interesting piece on what are, and what does a lawyer do with, emojis: "Lawyers must understand the nuances of collecting, processing and reviewing data that includes emojis - just like they must now understand plain-text emails and other more established electronic forms of communication."
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Blockchain is just hype? Allen & Overy doesn’t think so (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2VGAvo7
"If blockchain tech and its ability to provide an independent database of activity is of real use when it comes to movable assets and wide, complex logistics networks, then this is one of those use cases."
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Deloitte's 2019 Global Blockchain Survey (Forbes: Louis Columbus) https://maas-bong.io/2VCpQLi
"Blockchain is gaining trust in the enterprise by succeeding at pragmatic, well-defined pilots that show the potential to scale into production. Deloitte found financial services leads blockchain adoption today with adoption accelerating in technology, life sciences, media, telecommunications and government."
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Are the robots coming for my job? (LegalTechHub) https://maas-bong.io/2VEAIbr
"The speed at which AI can deliver information to lawyers that previously required human input looking through research, reading documents, is delivered so much quicker. It eliminates some of the mundane administrative tasks and allows lawyers to use what they went to law school to learn as opposed to doing admin-type work."
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Pivotal Acquisition Corp to merge with KLDiscovery in a transaction that results in a public company valued at $800 million (Business Wire) https://maas-bong.io/2VJKOYA
The title says it all, really.
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Law's looming skills crisis (Forbes: Mark Cohen) https://maas-bong.io/2VCSSup
"Law’s skills crisis derives from the profession’s insular, self-regulated, anachronistic conceptions of what it means to be a lawyer, think like a lawyer, and competently represent clients in the digital age."
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GDPR: Brave new world or business as usual for eDiscovery? (Legaltech News: Haynes & Boone) https://maas-bong.io/2VCLS0s
"In reality, the GDPR is focused on protecting individuals and safeguarding data from data processing giants like Facebook and Google, not on restricting the flow of information or legitimate uses of data."
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Web's most asked questions: What is a custodian (in eDiscovery)? (LinkedIn: Martin Nikel) https://maas-bong.io/2LYwdci
"In eDiscovery, we refer to custodian as the individual who is in 'possession, custody or control' of evidence." Is it really that simple nowadays, asks Martin?
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Be the first to know 13 technologies that will change your life (LinkedIn: Stew Redding) https://maas-bong.io/2LTInDh
"From smart dust to digital twins. This tech is going to change your life more than the smart phone did."
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Investigate, don't just review documents (The National Law Journal: Thomas Gricks) https://maas-bong.io/2LRXkFL
"The approach to managing electronic information in … regulatory compliance investigations differs significantly from the approach to document review in the litigation context."
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Snapshots from 2019 CLOC Institute in Vegas (Legal IT Professionals: Christy Burke) https://maas-bong.io/2MadPNV
"CLOC continues to create its own lexicon and make its own rules as the beating heart of corporate 'legal ops'."
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Federal IT investments and the cloud in FY 2020 (ComplexDiscovery: Rob Robinson) https://maas-bong.io/2LVZ0hP
"Federal agencies plan to move 272 information technology programmes to the cloud in fiscal 2020, and are considering migrating more than 1,000 more, according to new data published to the government’s IT portfolio dashboard. This information can help contractors and federal technology leaders anticipate cloud-related opportunities and risks over the next 18 months and plan accordingly."
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the cloud (DISCO: Cat Casey) https://maas-bong.io/2LW5HQE
"I am convinced that not only is now the time to adopt cloud-optimised technology, but that those that lag in adoption will find themselves at a major disadvantage compared to those that act decisively."
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Why eDiscovery savings is about department value for corporate legal (Law: Frank Ready) https://maas-bong.io/2LUXZ9v
"CLOC's 'A Tale of Two eDiscovery Operating Models' panel examined some of the opportunities that come from streamlining eDiscovery and information governance inside corporate legal departments."
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How Legal can benefit from data integration (LinkedIn: Maurits Annegarn [Wolters Kluwer]) https://maas-bong.io/2LSmeFk
"Data integration combines data from various sources into a single, unified view, enabling decision-makers to more easily glean insight from vast storehouses of data. Data integration is not a walk in the park and, if done inefficiently, can create issues for your legal department. Therefore, you need to understand what it is, how it works and how it can impact your legal department."
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The innovators: Titus Rahiri, Director at KorumLegal (New Zealand Law Society: Andrew King) https://maas-bong.io/2MajHqr
"Titus talks about how the lack of innovation is the reason he started KorumLegal and how to develop an innovative mindset to bring about change in the legal field."
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Most valuable companies in the world 1997 - 2019 (LinkedIn: Anastasia Morozova) https://maas-bong.io/2LS53nd
I just love animated graphs like this, powerfully yet simply conveying data-rich messages.
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Q&A with emoji law expert Eric Goldman from Santa Clara Law (Driven: Philip Favro) https://maas-bong.io/2LP2jar
"While some might scoff at the notion that a grinning, yellow-faced icon 😀 or a 'thumbs up' 👍 might constitute admissible evidence, lawyers are increasingly confronting the reality that they need to know how to preserve, analyse and present emojis as evidence in court."
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AI in business: Looking beyond the hype (Raconteur: Oliver Pickup) https://maas-bong.io/2LRT895
"Endless buzzwords and misconceptions confuse leaders and dilute the true purpose of artificial intelligence as a means to achieve business objectives rather than the end objective itself."
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Firms halted innovation efforts in 2018 at their own risk, report finds (The American Lawyer: Dylan Jackson) https://maas-bong.io/2M0qm66
"A study by consulting firm Altman Weil found that while law firms had a stellar 2018, the good times brought complacency as long-term market forces continue to change the legal landscape."
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Larger GDPR fines are on the way, privacy experts say (Law: Dan Clark) https://maas-bong.io/2LRp9y5
"As companies have to grapple with different regulations concerning data privacy, they also need to expect that European regulators will dole out higher fines on companies that violate the GDPR."
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Are there any positives from the first year of GDPR? (Computer Weekly: Elle Todd [Reed Smith]) https://maas-bong.io/2LM0bA1
"A year has passed since the new EU data protection law came into force. What have we learned in that time that can help organisations deliver benefits from the regulation?"
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Booming legal tech market draws attorneys looking for new path (Big Law Business: Elizabeth Olson) https://maas-bong.io/2LQgjkl
"More lawyers are opting for legal tech entrepreneurship as these companies become a force upending the conventional law firm world."
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AI develops human-like number sense - taking us a step closer to building machines with general intelligence (Keele University: Dr Adam Stanton) https://maas-bong.io/2LOTi12
"All the successful computational approaches to detecting objects in images work by building up a kind of statistical picture of an object from many individual examples - a type of learning. This allows the computer to recognise new versions of objects with some degree of confidence." However, a deep neural network has spontaneously developed a more human-like ability than mere number crunching. "Spontaneously"???
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Podcast: Xact Data Discovery CEO Bob Polus on industry evolution (XDD) https://maas-bong.io/2LOWXfi
"In less than two decades, the eDiscovery industry has gone from birth to a market in excess of $10 billion. In our inaugural episode of the First Chair Podcast, Bob Polus, the original founder and current President and CEO of Xact Data Discovery, joins us to offer a wide-angle view of the discovery services industry’s evolution, from birth to today."
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Cleary Gottlieb makes London paralegals redundant (Legal Cheek) https://maas-bong.io/2LRopcr
"US outfit Cleary Gottlieb has made all its paralegals in London redundant, with the firm citing a drop in demand for their services as the reason for the decision.” Trainees pick up the slack.
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Tompkins Wake launches AdviSME tech legal service (New Zealand Law Society) https://maas-bong.io/2LQMT5A
“Cost-certainty is a huge driving force for any SME. AdviSME is meeting the market by offering a range of pricing options to suit clients’ needs, including fixed fee and other flexible pricing arrangements including monthly subscriptions.” That’s the way to do it!
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Computer forensics: What lawyers need to know (Law Technology Today: Winston & Strawn, FTI) https://maas-bong.io/2LNqZQE
"The key that unlocks many legal matters is electronic data - it can help you determine whether private customer data was compromised, prove that a former employee stole valuable trade secrets or assess a potential spoliation claim … Below are 10 simple tips that every lawyer who collects or utilises electronic evidence should understand.” If this is news to you, PRINT IT OUT AND STICK IT ON THE WALL BY YOUR DESK!
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General counsel share their legal ops stories, implementation tips at CLOC 2019 (Corporate Counsel: Caroline Spiezio) https://maas-bong.io/2LNkoWo
Gap Inc: "We sort of came to … a realisation that we needed to bring all these [non-legal tasks] together and start thinking about this stuff more strategically, to let the lawyers think more strategically about the legal aspect of the work.”
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Reinventing eDiscovery: Process innovation takeaways from the ACEDS Chicago chapter meeting (ACEDS: Helen Geib) https://maas-bong.io/2LKgPQJ
"The problems are well known: ever-increasing data volumes; emerging data sources; under-utilised eDiscovery technology tools; and insufficient documentation. Process innovation is a key part of the solution. Workflows, technology and people are integral to reinventing and improving your eDiscovery processes."
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DLA Piper announces launch of Artificial Intelligence practice (DLA Piper) https://maas-bong.io/2M0WiYr
“The practice will focus on assisting companies as they navigate the legal landscape of emerging and disruptive technologies, helping them understand the legal and compliance risks arising from the creation and deployment of AI systems."
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eDiscovery market trends, segment forecast (Data Bridge Market Research) https://maas-bong.io/2LIRmqF (£)
“The global eDiscovery market is highly fragmented and the major players have used various strategies, such as new product launches, expansions, agreements, joint ventures, partnerships, acquisitions and others, to increase their footprints in this market. The report includes market shares of eDiscovery market for global, Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific and South America.”
Note: I haven't yet read this year's report, but it all sounds very positive.
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What makes an IT strategy “strategic” - Part 2 (LinkedIn: Neil Cameron) https://maas-bong.io/2LPyOVU
"The starting point must be the firm’s recently documented business strategy. This often contain somewhat generic ‘motherhood’ statements and may not be sufficiently granular, quantifiable or prioritised for our purposes. In order to get to these outputs, the first stage is to extract the higher-level business objectives from the business strategy."
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The profoundly human law firm of 2030 (Performance Leader: Joel Barolsky, Ray D'Cruz) https://maas-bong.io/2LOmR2J
"Technology will be ubiquitous, but the most successful premium firms will be those that harness human creativity, empathy and insight, and develop deep and trusting personal relationships."
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iManage RAVN launches AI University as a knowledge management focus evolves (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2LN5kbg
"A demo is not enough, so we decided to do this. It’s an effective way to show what the product can do and cannot do. We do things like looking at curating data, explore the need for good quality data coming in. We talk about how to do review tasks and also what to do with the output and how to feed that into other systems."
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Infographic: Personal data and the organisation - stewardship and strategy (Future of Privacy Forum) https://maas-bong.io/30qJxcs
"Traditionally, privacy was considered a legal and compliance matter, but now it is a fundamental concern because of emerging issues such as advertising practices, content standards, global data flows, concerns about civil rights, law enforcement cooperation, ethics, community engagement, research standards and more."
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Digital transformation lawyers: In-house counsel driving corporate disruption (LinkedIn: Thomas Daemen (Microsoft)) https://maas-bong.io/2LOqkyh
“No matter what the consultants and conference speakers say, there is no magical answer, no one-size-fits-all model to succeeding in this disruption. An approach that works perfectly in one organisation may fail in another, even though both groups appear identical to the outsider."
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In-house targets external spend in push for eDiscovery efficiency (Legaltech News: Rhys Dipshan) https://maas-bong.io/2W2bgRI
"The 3rd annual [Blickstein and Exterro] Study of Effective Legal Spend Management found that legal departments are looking to bring more eDiscovery processes in-house and are eyeing document review and data collection as prime areas from which to elicit savings."
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Executives likely to be targeted for cybercrime (Corporate Counsel: Dan Clark) https://maas-bong.io/2W8zlpK
"Cybercriminals are finding it more lucrative to scam executives and get money through business email compromise scams, cybersecurity attorneys say."
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Beyond eDiscovery: Using AI to enhance client service in the legal profession (CIO Applications: William Gaus, Jason Lichter) https://maas-bong.io/2LMvLxI
"while technology-assisted review (a.k.a. predictive coding) may be the most well-publicised application of AI in the legal community, machine learning and related branches of AI can be harnessed in a variety of other contexts to the benefit of our clients."
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New Zealand legal services and lawyers - what might happen? (LegalTechHub) https://maas-bong.io/2LFPH5b
"LawTalk asked five innovative New Zealanders working in the legal services industry about the changes needed today and what they think could happen over the next few years. They were each asked the same questions and asked to limit their answers to around 300 words per question."
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Seeing through the data fog: Investigative tech comes of age (LinkedIn: Umang Paw, Claire Halstead) https://maas-bong.io/2LKw2kS
The data challenge: "Alongside emails, board minutes and phone records, there are now texts, instant messages, social media communications and publicly sourced intelligence. On the transactional side, you could now be trawling through millions of rows and columns of accounting, trading and market data."
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In forensic investigations, follow the data first (Corporate Counsel Business Journal: Alix Partners) https://maas-bong.io/2W7PxHV
"It’s often said that the most effective way to conduct an investigation is to follow the money. When it comes to forensic investigations, we’d argue that the right approach in today’s world is to follow the data."
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CLOC is opening up to (some) private practice lawyers (Corporate Counsel: Caroline Spiezio) https://maas-bong.io/2W4qGVk
"The Corporate Legal Operations Consortium will begin beta testing membership for outside counsel in 'a couple months', president Mary O'Carroll said at the group's institute."
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Vetting legal technology and software: Three tips from the experts (MyCase: Nicole Black) https://maas-bong.io/2W3k5L2
“Law firms are adopting 21st century legal technologies at a rapid clip. This is because law firm leaders understand the importance of taking advantage of modern legal technology tools and software."
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What competencies will lawyers need to stay relevant in the future? (Rainmaking Oasis: Susan Duncan) https://maas-bong.io/2W2PRaV
"As Mark Cohen noted in his article, How Will Legal Education and Training Keep Pace with Change, 'knowledge of law' is no longer enough, and the practice of law is shifting to the 'business delivery of legal services'."
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Sanctions issued against US government in case where litigation hold notices were issued three months after filing (LinkedIn: Sean O'Shea) https://maas-bong.io/2W5iEM3
"The decision recognised that a court can impose sanctions either on the basis of its inherent authority or pursuant to Rule 37 of the Rules of the United States Court of Federal Claims. Rule 37(e) requires that an intent be found to deprive another party of the use of electronically stored information in order for the most severe sanctions to be imposed."
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What’s in a key word? Early case assessment or early data assessment? (Lineal) https://maas-bong.io/2LHAQHL
This is a constant bugbear of mine and well worth repeating: ECA or EDA? In the world of eD, EDA all the way, baby.
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WhatsApp voice calls used to inject Israeli spyware on phones (FT) https://maas-bong.io/2LHzblv
"WhatsApp, which is used by 1.5bn people worldwide, discovered in early May that attackers were able to install surveillance software on to both iPhones and Android phones by ringing up targets using the app’s phone call function."
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The importance of technology in a growing law firm (New York Journal: Kevin Cross) https://maas-bong.io/2LGfBWH
"In an increasingly technological world, how can law firms use technology to facilitate human interaction?"
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What makes an IT strategy strategic? (LinkedIn: Neil Cameron) https://maas-bong.io/2LGQUJu
"There is a view that a strategy is just a 'plan with a college education’ - to paraphrase Mark Twain. Nothing could be further from the truth: a plan does not a strategy make (no matter how complex), neither does a budget, nor a shopping list - or even a combination of all the above."
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Using law firm rankings to measure client value (Legal Evolution: Evan Parker) https://maas-bong.io/2LJpRNK
"By measuring different dimensions of practice value, we obtain metrics that identify which firms are competing in which markets and for which services."
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A 2019 Legal Technology Salary Mashup (ComplexDiscovery: Rob Robinson) https://maas-bong.io/2LGgj6j
"The 2019 Legal Technology Salary Mashup shares an aggregation of general salary data points from publicly available research, reports and industry observations that may be beneficial for use by legal technology leaders as they source and staff talent to support their data discovery and legal discovery business objectives."
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Brexit: Confusion surrounding UK lawyers’ Ireland registration following Law Society letter (Legal Cheek: Thomas Connelly) https://maas-bong.io/2LIfr15
"Over 2,700 solicitors from across England and Wales have paid the €300 administration fee and registered with the Law Society of Ireland in the wake of the Leave vote. This, lawyers hope, will help them circumvent possible practice restrictions they may encounter when (or if) the UK becomes a non-EU country. But could the re-registration move be futile?"
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India orders anti-trust probe of Google for alleged Android abuse (Reuters: Aditya Kalra) https://maas-bong.io/2LG22GQ
"The Indian regulator has powers to impose a penalty of up to 10% of the relevant turnover of a company in the last three financial years if it is found to have abused its dominant position.” Will this one hurt?
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Legal design explained: Part 4 - What does legal design look like? (Society for Computers & Law: Charlotte Baker) https://maas-bong.io/2LHMFxl
"I’ve described the basics of legal design but it’s always easier to understand something when you have a few examples. Here are some real-life examples of legal design in practice: comic contracts, privacy policies and lease data service."
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Here comes the world’s First AI-generated whisky (Popular Mechanics: Andrew “Jack” Daniels) https://maas-bong.io/2LEs9Oh
AI hype getting you down? Try some artifishal intelligenche. Heartyvisual intelliwence. Partyfissual jellyfish. Whisky.
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Automating eDiscovery: A strategic framework (ComplexDiscovery: Rob Robinson) https://maas-bong.io/2VQcOdG
Updated: "The Concise Framework for Discovery Automation takes the overall process of discovery, breaks it down into a data discovery component and a legal discovery component, aligns these components with insight and intelligence and then highlights four key processes and eight key tasks that appear to be important in the discovery process across the lifecycle of information and litigation."
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Eversheds Sutherlands merges litigation technology and projects team and creates “Propel" (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2Vm866O
"Our solution was to bring our technology and project management teams together to ensure clients have ready access to our best people and ensure their end-to-end experience is as streamlined as possible."
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LegalTechHub is New Zealand's platform where the legal profession and technology come together (LegalTechHub) https://maas-bong.io/2VnvYH2
"The LegalTechHub is the most comprehensive platform to find technology and innovative businesses specialising in the legal market in New Zealand...The LegalTechHub is powered by LegalInnovate. An organisation dedicated to the advancement of the practice of law through the use of innovation and technology."
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When should you rely on robots for document management? (Legaltech News: Victoria Hudgins) https://maas-bong.io/2Vki60g
"Understanding when it's best to use AI is pivotal in demonstrating the value it has for certain workflows. But for the technology to really make a difference, certain variables have to align just right."
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“Legal design” or should we call it something else? (The Time Blawg: Brian Inkster) https://maas-bong.io/2VmAfum
"An interesting debate took place on Twitter over the past few days on the term ‘legal design’. I thought it would be worthwhile documenting it on here as it will soon be lost on Twitter as we move on there to the next hot topic. I think this is a debate worth preserving and perhaps expanding upon."
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A new normal (The Law Society Gazette: Joanna Goodman) https://maas-bong.io/2VkgK5y
"Does it still make sense to describe legal services companies as ‘alternative’ when they are in the vanguard of the sector - and well placed to dominate it?"
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South African courts to go digital with CaseLines (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/30irgOv
"It’s expected that the new online system will help to alleviate some of the current logistical problems presented by judges being called to review documents across different courts, particularly given the distances involved and the challenging infrastructure."
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Iain Mitchell, QC: The use of AI gives rise to huge potential legal issues (The Scotsman) https://maas-bong.io/2VmNJ9E
"The all-pervasive use of AI in general, the particular opacity of neural networks and the risk of flaws and biases in the datasets used to train such networks give rise to huge potential legal issues. What happens if an AI system goes wrong? What do we mean by ‘wrong' anyway?"
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What WIRED's former editor discovered on a global quest for non-BS innovation (LinkedIn: David Rowan) https://maas-bong.io/2VkjMXJ
[My] "book was born from my frustration that so many corporate innovation teams, incubators, accelerators and 'chief disruptive growth operators' I met when founding editor-in-chief of WIRED UK were building no real value. It was mostly pointless innovation theatre - a box-ticking, jargon-led, shareholder-pleasing alternative to delivering genuine transformation. So I went in search of the real thing. And boy, I found it. Here are a few things I learned."
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Guidance from the High Court on dealing with SARs (Alvarez & Marsal: Phil Beckett) https://maas-bong.io/2VhPJju
"In Rudd v Bridle and J&S Bridle Limited, the High Court recently ruled in respect of the adequacy of information provided by organisations subject to a subject access request. SARs are being used more and more frequently - especially with the advent of GDPR - and although this ruling is on a SAR that predates GDPR, it does provide useful guidance that is equally valid in today's GDPR environment.”
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TAR v Keyword Search Challenge, Round 6 (Instant Feedback) (ComplexDiscovery: Rob Robinson) https://maas-bong.io/2Vh77ES
Rob comments on an article by Bill Dimm (linked): "Even with a large pool of participants, ample time and the ability to hone search queries based on instant feedback, nobody was able to generate a better production than technology-assisted review when the same amount of review effort was expended."
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India slaps Big Four with legal services ban (The Law Society Gazette: Max Walters) https://maas-bong.io/2VdHcOz
"An interim order was handed down last week by the Bar Council of Delhi. Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC are not to engage in any practice of law until further orders. The firms have also been told to provide lists of all their lawyers ahead of another hearing on 12 July."
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Big Law or Big Four? For firms, it's not size of tech but how you use it (Legaltech News: Frank Ready) https://maas-bong.io/2Vi9mbf
"As the Big 4 continue to amass a serious challenge to Big Law, the competition may rely less on who has the bigger wallet and become more about who can find the most creative solutions to the complicated problems clients are facing."
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Big Law firms aren’t doomed, but they are challenged (The Lawyer: Denisa Luchian) https://maas-bong.io/2V9zxk8
"UnitedLex’s CEO Dan Reed talks to The Lawyer about the impact of New Law arrivals on Big Law firms."
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eDiscovery technology is not just for the bigger firms (ZyLab: Jeffrey Wolff) https://maas-bong.io/2Vi2Xgd
"Smaller firm lawyers consider the costs of eDiscovery technology to be higher than they can afford or their clients want to pay. But the concept that eDiscovery is a luxury accessible only to big law firms that have the resources to invest in considerable infrastructure is obsolete."
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London International Disputes Week: Disclosure and Evidence in Commercial Litigation keynote speech by Sir Rupert Jackson “Slaying the Hydra" (4 New Square) https://maas-bong.io/2JuKZVn
"As Hercules discovered, the Hydra has a nasty habit of sprouting new heads and biting anyone who attacks it. Hercules eventually killed the Hydra by cutting off all its heads and burning the necks. In the field of civil justice reform, two new heads which always spring up are ‘front loading’ and ‘increased complexity’."
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Google head addresses reluctance to change (LegalTechHub) https://maas-bong.io/2VaLV3r
"Google’s head of legal operations, technology and strategy has spoken out about the legal profession’s 'stubbornly resistant' nature towards disruption, offering an insight into why such reluctance occurs and its effects in-house."
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Further clarity provided on the application of the Disclosure Pilot (Enyo Law: Jessica Howard, Olivia Gare) https://maas-bong.io/2V9MmuJ
"In this second blog article concerning the application of the Disclosure Pilot, we consider two recent High Court decisions which have provided further guidance as to its interpretation."
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Engagement and encouragement: How in-house directors drive tech adoption (Legaltech News: Victoria Hudgins) https://maas-bong.io/2VedXuP
"Having high-level advocates, adopting a cultural approach about technology and listening to user concerns can help keep tech usage high when the excitement wears off."
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Teenagers trying to make a phone call on "ancient apparatus" (YouTube) https://maas-bong.io/2VenUIJ
This is as excruciating as it is hilarious ...
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Exterro and Duke/EDRM Judges Survey 2019 Series: Part 3, the judge’s role in the e-discovery process (ACEDS: George Socha) https://maas-bong.io/2VeSq5c
"This is the third in a series of posts evaluating the results of Exterro and Duke/EDRM’s 2019 survey of Federal district court and magistrate judges. With information from over 250 judges, the survey data offers a rich trove to mine ... This article examines what role the judges think they should play in the eDiscovery process."
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Translation: The importance of document-level evaluation (ComplexDiscovery: Rob Robinson) https://maas-bong.io/2VbQPwQ
"Research suggests that when it comes to evaluating entire documents, human translations are rated as more adequate and more fluent than machine translations.” Humans 1, robots 0.
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To innovate in law, we need analysis, not hype (Evolve the Law: Ivy Grey) https://maas-bong.io/2VfmtKh
"The truth is that no one change or decision will be the right fit for every law firm or law department. Instead, what we need is a framework to determine the best direction for our individual circumstances. Workflow analysis can help."
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Understanding search and extraction in contract AI (Artificial Lawyer: David Gingell) https://maas-bong.io/2V8Osew
Although sponsored and written by legal AI company Seal Software, this article provides useful insight into “understanding that contract AI, which is often seen by lawyers as daunting, is an instructional step in setting aside fear of failure and embracing the benefits of AI contract analytics in the legal sector."
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Building the foundations for keeping legal data safe (the barrister: Christiane Muller-Haye) https://maas-bong.io/2V9zGUB
"Modern information management is about much more than minimising risk. Effective records management practices can help your chambers to be more innovative, customer-focused and agile. But, as the rate of information creation continues to grow and the need to be compliant increases with it, new techniques are required."
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Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time (The Washington Post: Geoffrey Fowler) https://maas-bong.io/2VfAreN
"I listened to four years of my Alexa archive and found thousands of fragments of my life: spaghetti-timer requests, joking houseguests and random snippets of 'Downton Abbey’. There were even sensitive conversations that somehow triggered Alexa’s 'wake word' to start recording, including my family discussing medication and a friend conducting a business deal."
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How to build a business around eDiscovery: The Troutman Sanders story (Relativity: Keely McKee) https://maas-bong.io/2V9T9Vb
"To provide the level of service clients expect, many firms are working toward breaking even for costs related to technology. Other firms see the glass as half full, taking this challenge as an opportunity to build a business around and generate revenue from eDiscovery. This model isn’t just about a price tag on litigation support costs - it’s about the value-added services firms are able to provide to their clients."
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Beyond blockchain - distributed ledger technology integration is here (Legal Futures: Andrew Lloyd) https://maas-bong.io/2V9Ku57
At ILTA INSIGHT recently I moderated a panel on blockchain and I encouraged the panel to approach the subject from an angle that would resonate with "ordinary" people rather than throw jargon around. We focussed on conveyancing and probate. This article describes a recent trial of blockchain in the commonplace property transaction process.
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Company execs could face individual fines for privacy mishaps, FTC Commissioner tells congress (Corporate Counsel: Caroline Spiezio) https://maas-bong.io/2Vbu3pd
Well, this should make the C Suite sit up: "Federal Trade Commission officials told Congress members that executives could face individual fines for their companies' privacy violations to address concerns that massive fines are a drop in the bucket for larger corporations."
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From big law to legal tech, DISCO's new CINO sees eDiscovery renaissance (Legaltech News: Victoria Hudgins) https://maas-bong.io/2V7caYp
"DISCO's first chief innovation officer says eager investors in legal tech, ballooning data created by lawyers’ clients and a greater need for advanced analytics are fuelling eDiscovery's renaissance."
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Inside eDiscovery & Beyond: Navigating legal digital disruption (BDO) https://maas-bong.io/2V8JPB3
"In this evolving digital risk landscape, the fifth annual Inside eDiscovery & Beyond survey by BDO examines the opinions and insights of 100 senior in-house counsel about changes in their approaches to eDiscovery, information governance, compliance, data privacy and cybersecurity."
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Getting real about LegalTech (Prism: Ron Friedmann) https://maas-bong.io/2V8OMKi
"If we are lucky, we will see legal tech hype diminish. In its place, let’s hope we all focus more on (1) well-defined problems to solve and (2) making sure our data is complete, clean and easily accessible. Data-informed decisions will drive efficiencies and effectiveness. Fancy legal tech on its own will not."
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Florida appeals court upholds ruling that non-party had no duty to preserve evidence (CloudNine: Doug Austin) https://maas-bong.io/2V9mTS3
A self-explanatory affirmation of common sense.
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How corporate counsel can benefit from growth and consolidation of managed legal services (Corporate Counsel: Bob Rowe) https://maas-bong.io/2V4V7q0
"If there was any doubt before that legal managed services was the fastest-rising giant in the legal market, that uncertainty was recently erased by EY’s early April announcement of its plan to purchase Pangea3, an alternative legal service provider."
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29 cases of shocking and strange spoliation (Logikcull: Eleanor Brock) https://maas-bong.io/2V8KbHV
"In the world of eDiscovery, spoliation is serious business. For destroying evidence intentionally (or in some cases, negligently) litigants and attorneys can face stiff sanctions, ranging from monetary fees to default judgment to jail time. But, like a ridiculous lawsuit, alleged spoliation can also be incredibly fun to read about - and produce some pretty outrageous (and strangely insightful) opinions."
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have announced the full name of their son: Harrison Louis Edward Donald Windsor (Kensington Palace) https://maas-bong.io/2VaSqDk
"Harrison" because he is; "Louis" after the late Earl Mountbatten and Lewes, the county town of East Sussex; "Edward" after Edward VIII and Ed Sheeran); "Donald" because US President Trump made a bigly personal contribution to the charity Help for Heroes, and in fond memory of the Special Relationship that once existed between the US and the UK.
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Your Legal-Tech priorities! (TGO Consulting: Jaap Bosman) https://maas-bong.io/2VenkuI
"While it is impossible to list and describe every single one of these 2000 [legal tech] products, we have made the graph below that divides the market into 10 main categories that can again be divided into 24 sub-sections. I expect the graph to further speak for itself."
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How out of touch are English judges? (Litigation Futures: Paul Marshall) https://maas-bong.io/2VbRfn4
"The frequently observed mismatch [between intelligence and common sense] no doubt goes some way to explaining a widespread public perception that lawyers, and judges in particular, are out of touch with the lot of ordinary people and fail to understand how they think."
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Electronic storage in a nutshell (Ball in your court: Craig Ball) https://maas-bong.io/2VagYMP
"I’ve just finished the eDiscovery Workbook for the 2019 Georgetown eDiscovery Training Academy. The readings and exercises in the Workbook plot the path that evidence follows from the familiar information items called ‘documents' that lawyers use in court back to the featureless stream of binary electrical impulses common to all information stored electronically."
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What’s the future of blockchain in the legal industry? Eight experts share their insights (Disruptor Daily: Sam Mire) https://maas-bong.io/2V93Bwc
"There’s no time-frame on innovation. Some believe that blockchain technology will be everywhere in the legal industry within five years. Some think we’ll wait a decade or more to see its impact."
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eDiscovery in South Africa - Herbert Smith Freehills follow the sun (LinkedIn: Terry Harrison) https://maas-bong.io/2ZYBNOM
All of HSF's 11 technology support hubs around the world "use the same technology; have the same training in processes and solutions; and recruit with the same ideals, so that they can and do truly work 24 hours a day matter by matter."
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Getting beyond the tech in legal tech (Forbes: Mark Cohen) https://maas-bong.io/300Tv4d
"The tech craze has spawned a widespread legal industry misconception that it’s just a matter of time until the silver bullet tech tool ‘disrupts' legal delivery. Spoiler alert: technology alone will not disrupt legal services."
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Hg acquires Litera Microsystems (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/301ng4Z
"Hg has acquired Litera Microsystems from K1 Investment Management after a three-year period in which Litera is said to have tripled its revenue."
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Legal form design (Damian Curran) https://maas-bong.io/301bHKW
"Form designers stepping into the legal sphere should be aware of some of the law’s idiosyncrasies. In this post I set out three such peculiarities of legal forms: (1) form content is dictated by rules; (2) there are more than two parties involved in most forms; and (3) the law is serious business."
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The art, science and unicorns of data analytics (Medium: Rob Saccone) https://maas-bong.io/30bfVzY
"Business intelligence is not analytics. I often hear these terms used interchangeably along with “dashboards”, “Tableau”, “infographics” and “that report with the chart”. This is beyond semantics: data analytics is different to business intelligence, competitive intelligence or artificial intelligence."
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Blockchain Consortia: A legal roadmap to a dynamically changing regulatory landscape in the US and the EU (Corporate Counsel) https://maas-bong.io/3045pdx
Boring, perhaps, but we need to know about this stuff: "Many have predicted that blockchain technology will disrupt traditional commerce across the globe. From global financial and supply chain systems to national healthcare and insurance industries and on to selling renewable energy from one’s roof to their neighbours, this new technology creates a digital, reliable source of truth."
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Legal innovation needs to learn some new tricks (Medium: Wilson Fletcher) https://maas-bong.io/301jGYq
"The legal sector talks a good game when it comes to innovation, but it’s struggling to move beyond incremental improvements and the innovations being delivered aren’t perceived that way with clients. Is it a case of too much law, not enough perspective?"
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Stop trying so hard to be different (LinkedIn: Joel Barolsky) https://maas-bong.io/3021zlq
"Conventional strategic thinking suggests there are two sources of sustainable competitive advantage: (1) having the lowest cost; or (2) differentiating from competitors on things that matter most to customers. The former strategy allows firms to win by having greater price-setting discretion. The latter allows firms to extract a price-premium for added benefits. When it comes to the legal market, this theory starts to get a bit wobbly."
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It is time to extend the duty of tech competence to judges (Above the Law: Bob Ambrogi) https://maas-bong.io/302rIQT
"The rationale for requiring tech competence of lawyers is that technology permeates every aspect of law practice. A lawyer cannot effectively practice law these days without using technology, and a lawyer cannot effectively represent clients without understanding the technologies the clients use. The same holds true for judges. Just as technology permeates law practice, it permeates the work of judges."
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We've never added jobs so fast, or been more fearful about AI. Why? (LinkedIn: George Anders) https://maas-bong.io/2ZYR5Da
"If a galactic battle between humans and AI-powered machines is taking shape, we're doing just fine so far. As I've written before, even routine jobs require a lot of human finesse."
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eDiscovery tech training in 12 modules (Legaltech News: Jared Coseglia) https://maas-bong.io/2UX1iwn
"Jared Coseglia breaks down a broad eDiscovery technology professional certificate that has hit the market from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law."
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Sedley J's Laws of Documents (Twitter) https://maas-bong.io/2UXAa06
I think this will resonate deeply with all of us. Every single one of us. There can be no exceptions. None. Whatsoever.
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Defensibility of AI in litigation (Alvarez & Marsal: Phil Beckett) https://maas-bong.io/2UTDIk0
"I think this will be a key battleground of future regulatory action and disputes: understanding how and why decisions were made, being able to unpick them and ensure that they are compliant with the law and regulations."
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The demystification of blockchain is the most important thing right now (The Irish Times: Mimi Murray) https://maas-bong.io/2UVgKJ7
"Blockchain technology can be used across multiple fields and sectors but it is only in demystifying the technology that organisations and users will begin to discover its true potential."
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BYOD challenges (JD Supra: Epiq) https://maas-bong.io/2UUFOjG
"If you are like most, you probably have 4-5 different chat applications on your phone to talk to friends and family members. Dad only likes to text via SMS, brother Peter only uses Facebook Messenger, Aunty Bridgette can only seem to navigate WhatsApp and your college roommates have a group chat on WeChat."
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The 25 most absurd job titles in tech (CB Insights) https://maas-bong.io/2V09vjc
"In the early 2000s, start-ups began trying to differentiate themselves and attract recruits by revamping their job titles.” Enjoy.
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How mass surveillance works in Xinjiang, China (Human Rights Watch) https://maas-bong.io/2UXiOQX
"Chinese authorities are using a mobile app to carry out illegal mass surveillance and arbitrary detention of Muslims in China’s western Xinjiang region."
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Legal tech moves the bottom line (Evolve the Law: Dean Sonderegger) https://maas-bong.io/2UXbd4V
"The use of accessible and impactful technologies to achieve better outcomes and offer higher value is not only increasing, but also delivering measurable impact and profitability."
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Data Protection Commissioner opens investigations into 17 tech multinationals (The Irish Times: Suzanne Lynch) https://maas-bong.io/2UWJKAu
Eight involve Facebook, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon has said. The other investigations concern WhatsApp, Google, LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter.
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Found: A 99-million-year-old millipede, perfectly preserved in amber (Atlas Obscura: Sabrina Imbler) https://maas-bong.io/2USCIws
"When scientists recently unearthed its fossilised body, they realised the arthropod was a newly described species of millipede with such a strange morphology that it revises what scientists previously understood about when and how millipedes evolved.” Juraassic Park, anyone?
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The 2018 Litigation and Practice Support Technology Survey results (ILTA) https://maas-bong.io/2UVIaPh
"It's clear that the role of the eDiscovery professional is changing, as evidenced by the articles in this white paper which shed light on the additional knowledge and skills required to remain current."
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90 percent of law firms managed social media evidence collections in 2018 (X1 Discovery) https://maas-bong.io/2UQTWuc
ILTA's "very informative and comprehensive law firm eDiscovery practice survey [see above] received responses from 181 different law firms - small, medium and large - on a variety of subjects, including eDiscovery practice trends and software tool usage. It reveals three key takeaways regarding social media and website discovery."
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Will Google’s "Document Understanding AI" move the market? (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2UR576d
"Some stories hit the headlines like a tornado, others seep into public consciousness over several weeks. The news about Google now offering extraction and analysis of unstructured data from contracts is of the latter variety. But will it make an impact, will it shake up the legal AI market?"
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Active learning workflows 101 (Relativity) https://maas-bong.io/2UUemT3
"The most fundamental purpose of TAR is to categorise documents as relevant or not relevant. There are many different flavours of TAR, but overall the technology has two main categories: sample-based learning and active learning ... This article will walk through the active learning workflow and how it can be leveraged for your next case."
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AI tools “too biased” for sentencing decisions (Legal Futures) https://maas-bong.io/2UWmhPE
"Many contributors to a report by the independent US-based Partnership on AI (PAI) - which has over 80 members, including AI, machine learning research and ethics specialists - accepted that only individualised judicial hearings should inform decisions on detention to achieve just outcomes."
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Not all legal analytics tools are created equal (LawSites: Josh Becker) https://maas-bong.io/2UXUw9H
"Machine learning and natural language processing are powerful technologies, but they still need assistance from human beings with practice-specific experience and a deep understanding of the nuances of specialised legal language in order to make sense of the data and be practical for demanding legal use cases."
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I’m going down to Lucky Town (Above the Law: Brad Blickstein) https://maas-bong.io/2UWjXZ8
"The CLOC [Corporate Legal Operations Consortium] 2019 Vegas Institute is coming up in a few weeks, so I thought I would take a few minutes to share my 'CLOC Wishlist' for this year’s event."
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Video: The Matrix on a budget (Studio 188) https://maas-bong.io/2UTTw6q
Imagine the bottom half represents your client's expectations and the top half reflects what you can deliver within that same client's budget (with thanks to Tash Whitaker).
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Clare Chalkley joins Integreon from Clifford Chance (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2UQYUHm
"Clifford Chance's long-term litigation support manager Clare Chalkley has joined Integreon as a Senior Director - Legal Services focusing on litigation support services and document review for law firms and corporate legal department clients."
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UnitedLex Luthor (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2UTPYkC
"Meet the alternative legal service provider [UnitedLex] bent on taking over the world."
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The 2019 Buyer’s Guide to UK eDisclosure Systems is available now (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2UNwA8F
"The latest edition features 101 suppliers and 76 products, including 10 new suppliers - although this is balanced out by the 10 vendors who have left/been acquired, as well as three name changes." Of course, it includes this BONG as a valuable resource (my adjective).
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Tech competence that solo and small firm lawyers really need: Resources here (LexBlog) https://maas-bong.io/2UVVgvD
"Many lawyers interpret the duty of tech competence as requiring lawyers to learn how to use Word correctly or to understand the risks associated with sending sensitive documents by unencrypted email .... Here are four emerging topics that are infiltrating nearly ever practice area and that all lawyers ignore at their peril."
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Would you let the police search your phone? (The New York Times) https://maas-bong.io/2UV2sIs
"We are much more likely to give consent than we think."
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Morae Global Corporation acquires Phoenix Business Solutions (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2UStb8v
"The combined entity brings together Phoenix’s document management expertise and Morae’s strength in advisory, managed services and discovery capabilities."
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Internet evidence is the next big thing in eDiscovery (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2UV6917
"While not all online information is relevant to litigation, much of it could be if lawyers can find it, understand its meaning through context and capture it. Forward-thinking attorneys have already started looking to the internet for evidence."
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Will "free samples" get more firms on board with automation? (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2UNzABX
"With the legal sector notoriously hesitant about investing in new tech, providers are betting that lowering the bar to entry could be the key to wider adoption."
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Ephemeral messaging, FCPA and the DoJ: Three things lawyers and compliance officers need to know (Inventus) https://maas-bong.io/2UOiHqV
"Companies are no longer expected to prohibit employees from using ephemeral messaging but, instead, are required by the DoJ to implement appropriate guidance and controls over these types of platforms and communications."
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Lightyear Capital announces investment in Lighthouse (Lighthouse) https://maas-bong.io/2UQ5Nsh
"Founded in 1995, Lighthouse provides end-to-end software and services to help compliance and legal teams manage enterprise data and the eDiscovery process."
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Automating trust with new technologies (strategy+business) https://maas-bong.io/2UTgIRY
"Emerging and established technologies can now be combined to provide companies with ways to automate trust in physical, digital and human assets. It’s a premise centred on blockchain, which is then integrated with one or more other essential technologies, such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence."
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Exterro expands global presence with European team (GlobeNewswire) https://maas-bong.io/2UTSE1o
"Exterro Inc. has announced the formation of a new UK-based European team and the appointment of James Thompson, Regional Director, leading the team in London."
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Finding the evidence hidden in slack data (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2UMth1G
"Logikcull’s new case study on Slack discovery details how litigators are able to turn Slack data into an opportunity and uncover evidence essential to their cases."
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Legal cyber spend continues to grow. So where's the money heading? (Law) https://maas-bong.io/2UT6cdr
"A new survey found that 76 percent of legal enterprises plan to increase cybersecurity spending over the next year. Where that money will be going could vary from place to place."
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From Uber to Lawber. How digital transformation may change the legal industry (Oz Benamram - White & Case) https://maas-bong.io/2UQBHoL
"As the legal ecosystem grows more complex with alternative providers, law companies, sophisticated tech and growing legal departments within client organisations, now is a good time to consider potential scenarios of how the industry might look in years to come."
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The General Counsel’s guide to digital transformation (Lawyers Weekly) https://maas-bong.io/2USf0AF
"The top 10 traps that consistently cause General Counsel to fail when adopting Legal Technology."
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Legal Tech Trends Report: Digital transformation of the legal sector (ayfie) https://maas-bong.io/2UP071P
"Two weeks ago, we published ayfie's first Legal Tech Trends Report. The report was based on a survey of legal tech experts worldwide, that included CIOs, CEOs, lawyers, legal tech professionals and journalists. This blog post series will take a deeper dive into the different topics discussed in the report."
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How can CIOs drive business innovation? (CIO) https://maas-bong.io/2UR2wZY
"Innovation is typically situational, so CIOs need to be authentic, reciprocal partners across the business to take advantage of opportunities."
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Looking back on the O’Reilly artificial intelligence conference (O'Reilly) https://maas-bong.io/2ULSoSh
"'Machine learning and deep learning are being put to work now.' They're no longer experimental; they're being put to use in key business applications. The only real question is: what we're going to get out of it? Will we be able to put it to use effectively? Will we find appropriate uses for it?"
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US court grants motion to compel production of telephone records from individual plaintiff (CloudNine) https://maas-bong.io/2UPqAfu
“They are not subject to a privilege claim just because plaintiff’s counsel’s telephone number may appear in the records, and privacy issues are minimal to non-existent (since the at-issue records do not contain the substance of communications)."
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Former Reed Smith manager on creating platforms lawyers will actually use (Law) https://maas-bong.io/2URVpjQ
"I think putting the technologies first is the mistake people make. I think successful legal tech is trying to understand workflow and the problems that those lawyers are dealing with and really trying to work on how technology fits within that people process."
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eDiscovery evolution (Canadian Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2USmbsB
"Tools to analyse digital data have become more sophisticated and cheaper, allowing even small firms to reap the benefits."
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How eDiscovery requirements are changing: Five questions with Relativity CTO Keith Carlson (KMWorld) https://maas-bong.io/2UJB7sV
"Earlier this year Relativity, a Chicago-based provider of legal software, announced plans to hire 300 people. As part of the expansion, the company named Keith Carlson as its new CTO. Carlson recently shared his views on the value of unstructured data, changing requirements for data privacy and how the eDiscovery space is evolving."
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Enhanced email etiquette - This indispensable tool can be pleasant and efficient (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2UOtukX
"Adhering to this guidance will make for better email behaviour, where only those who ought to be receiving an email do so and the gist of the emails they receive is clear on its face."
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Ransomware: The key lesson Maersk learned from battling the NotPetya attack (ZDNet) https://maas-bong.io/2UMJfc
"Protection is important - but it's equally as important to ensure your recovery process is strong, says head of cybersecurity compliance at the shipping giant."
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What are the eDiscovery issues related to the Internet of Things? (Lineal) https://maas-bong.io/2UPfI1o
"An Englishman’s home may still be his castle, but thanks to Fitbits, Nest thermostats, Amazon’s Alexa and Apple's Siri, modern living involves letting Big Tech across the drawbridge."
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A bitter turf war is raging on the Brexit Wikipedia page (Wired) https://maas-bong.io/2UIVhTP
"Wikipedia editors are battling to tell the story of Brexit as it happens. And on such a hotly-debated page, every edit is controversial and suspicions run wild"
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Chips with everything (The Law Society Gazette) https://maas-bong.io/2UPaxhQ
O’Melveny: "We offer a womb-to-tomb practice, advising on every step of the development process from company formation to IPOs. The startup ecosystem is the core of our practice. To represent the big companies of tomorrow, we need to be working with today’s startups."
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Think you’re discreet online? Think again (The New York Times) https://maas-bong.io/2UNtJMX
"Thanks to 'data inference' technology, companies know more about you than you disclose."
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Text messages must be preserved (JD Supra) https://maas-bong.io/2USjAPm
“When it is time to issue a litigation hold notice, you must include an instruction to preserve text messages as well as the devices from which they are sent/received."
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Confronting the risks of artificial intelligence (McKinsey) https://maas-bong.io/2UR6Qbn
"With great power comes great responsibility. Organisations can mitigate the risks of applying artificial intelligence and advanced analytics by embracing three principles."
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FTI Consulting and the increasing cross-over between information governance, privacy and security (Chris Dale) https://maas-bong.io/2UQtIry
"In the beginning was eDiscovery and, alongside it, the barely-regarded business of records management. eDiscovery brought obvious risk - of losing a case or, in the US, of being sanctioned for non-compliance with a court rule. Records management appeared to bring neither risk nor profit and its problems, so it was thought, could be solved by buying another server."
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Mueller? Mueller? More eDiscovery lessons from Bill and Bob (Craig Ball) https://maas-bong.io/2IYxsVA
Want more expert thought on this debacle? Craig brings his considerable authority (and guns) to bear on the technical fiasco that is the Mueller Report and its "dumbed-down data”. (And no, I don’t know who Bill and Bob are either.)
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Will the BigTech empire capture LegalTech? The Exari example (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2ITJ5x6
Exari, a document automation platform and contract lifecycle management system, has been acquired by business spend management company, Coupa Software. Importantly, Coupa works across all sectors. The key thing for Coupa was not the legal bit, instead it was the connectivity between its data analysis strategy and Exari’s focus on contracts. And that, says Richard Tromans, has some interesting implications for the potential future consolidation of the LegalTech market.
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UTB v Sheffield United - interpreting PD51U in a way that makes it work (Chris Dale) https://maas-bong.io/2IUEuuS
"It came as a surprise to many that the disclosure pilot in the new PD51U took effect on 1 January 2019 in relation to all relevant applications thereafter, whatever the date of issue."
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Investments in eDiscovery & data management ramp up (BDO) https://maas-bong.io/2IOKe9n
Corporate counsel survey: "Because good eDiscovery and information governance can create a virtuous cycle - with insights from eDiscovery helping improve the efficacy of information governance policies and practices, and information governance helping make eDiscovery more effective, efficient and inexpensive - many legal departments are investing in both areas.” Makes great sense: I have long said that IG is the umbrella over all.
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Intelligently reinventing AI: Using human intelligence to leverage the artificial kind (Vince Neicho) https://maas-bong.io/2W24Mit
Vince provides a whisper of sense in the cacophony of hype: "Actual intelligence provides you with the ability to determine which new technologies will materially contribute to your firm’s innovation versus which will not, despite the hype and urge to jump on the proverbial bandwagon."
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Innovation and legal technology - better together? (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2IYMfQ6
"While there is a great deal of focus on how technology can be used to fundamentally reconfigure processes and drive internal efficiency, live client work goes on, and differentiation at an innovation and legal technology level is proving increasingly important to winning tenders."
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CIOs remain dangerously cautious on AI experiments and investments (CIO) https://maas-bong.io/2ISv6Yw
"Recent surveys suggest CIOs are slow to invest in artificial intelligence, but lagging in too many cultural, data and technology prerequisites may put many of their businesses at risk."
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Is business booming? eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey results (ComplexDiscovery) https://maas-bong.io/2IUgF6n
The tireless Rob Robinson strikes again: "The eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey is a non-scientific quarterly survey designed to provide insight into the business confidence level of individuals working in the eDiscovery ecosystem."
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The benefits of reviewing emails using an eDiscovery platform vs Outlook (Litigation Edge) https://maas-bong.io/2IUoJnE
"The volume of evidence to be reviewed in litigation has grown exponentially, and the bulk of this increase comes from email. Getting through this volume of emails will require a few people working very long hours to identify the relevant evidence. The alternative would be reviewing emails using an eDiscovery platform."
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Cloud computing for solicitors: Does it really save you money? (LawWare) https://maas-bong.io/2IRO8yg
"Cloud computing for solicitors’ practices is a much talked about subject at the moment...So, is legal cloud computing a win-win? Can it save you money and improve client service? Let’s take a look at both sides of the coin."
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What you can tell without even reading the Mueller Report: 13 ideas for investigating documents (Martin Nikel) https://maas-bong.io/2Pjdsyp
Following the recent Manafort redaction fiasco it looks like Martin decided to see what he could tell about this latest report from a technical perspective. We both agree that this is simple eDiscovery 101 but Martin gives us a beautiful example of how eDiscovery tools and skills have a place way beyond eDiscovery (something I have been saying for ages). It turns out the Mueller Report is an absolute Frankenstein of a document. And check out tomorrow's webinar from CloudNine (below) about discovery not being just for litigation.
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Get the searchable version of the Mueller Report here (Logikcull) https://maas-bong.io/2ILx9h0
Still curious? The nice people at Logikcull have made the unsearchable, 153Mb of 448 heavily-redacted pages completely searchable online. Knock yourself out hunting down over a hundred Trump tweets...
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California Federal Court rejects GDPR as a means to block discovery (Morgan Lewis) https://maas-bong.io/2IMWI10
"US courts have long held that foreign data protection regulations cannot be used as a shield against discovery in US litigation. This instalment of The eData Guide to GDPR examines a recent case from the Northern District of California that makes no exception for the GDPR, ruling that the regulation does not outweigh the United States’ interests in the requested production, and that the GDPR does not provide a total ban on data transfers but instead requires that such transfers be protected.”
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Evaluating web archiving technology providers: Four questions compliance teams need to consider (Hanzo) https://maas-bong.io/2IP8k3O
Hanzo “do" web archiving but, in their words, with this helpful article "we’ll show you, and tell you, what you should look out for. Whether or not you choose to work with us is ultimately your decision, but our goal is to give you the information you need to evaluate the archiving technology vendor landscape so you can make the right choice for your organisation."
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Objectifying the subjective: Evaluating eDiscovery vendor viability (ComplexDiscovery) https://maas-bong.io/2IRAYRV
In a similar vein, the indefatigable Rob Robinson has updated his article that describes one approach to "evaluating the selection of eDiscovery vendors that may help decision-makers by providing an objective framework useful for the competitive comparison and contrasting of subjective evaluation elements."
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Analysis: Legal futurists wanted - the new, alt-legal jobs (Bloomberg) https://maas-bong.io/2IOYDCl
"For generations of lawyers, the standard, desired career trajectory was: attend the best law school you can, and then work for the best law firm you can before either becoming a partner or going in-house. Like many other paradigms of the legal profession, consider this model disrupted."
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ABA Formal Opinion 483: What are a lawyer’s obligations after a data breach or cyberattack? (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2IPZCSQ
"Your firm’s computer network has been hacked and client data either exposed or likely exposed. What’s a law firm to do? The legal and regulatory reporting obligations are numerous, complex and are ignored at the firm’s peril, but ABA Formal Ethics Opinion No. 483 reminds lawyers that there are also independent ethical obligations triggered when a cyber-attack compromises confidential client information or incapacitates a law firm’s computers or network."
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The 2019 LawWithoutWalls winners in full (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2IR4RBJ
"LawWithoutWalls was launched in 2010 by University of Miami professor of law Michele DeStefano. Participating individuals are put into mixed teams which, over a period of 16 weeks, come up with a well-researched business plan to solve specific legal issues."
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Reducing ESI preservation obligations with proportionality and metrics (Philip Favro) https://maas-bong.io/2ISkjh8
"If a preserving party wishes to invoke proportionality to decrease its ESI preservation obligations, it must develop actionable information (i.e. metrics) to help quantify the preservation burden at issue. Detailed metrics should reflect the resources a party will invest to preserve the requested information."
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Cloud security and eDiscovery: Separating myth, fact, and marketing fluff (Inventus) https://maas-bong.io/2IMtM9D
"Cloud computing - or data storage in the cloud - is often touted as a cure-all for the woes of mounting ESI costs. Whether considering cloud computing for the home with storage backup services like Google Photos or iCloud, or considering cloud computing for a business process like eDiscovery, the same considerations apply: How do you know your data is really secure?"
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Why does production have to be such a big production? (JD Supra) https://maas-bong.io/2PgbX3Q
Tom O'Connor on discovery challenges and what to do with them, in this case on redaction (yes, Manafort does get a mention).
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Sedona Conference cautions against siloed approach to information governance (Law) https://maas-bong.io/2PjJXML
"In an update to its 2014 information governance guide, the Sedona Conference advises organisations to be unified in how to govern information to better protect themselves against risks and runaway costs."
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Man, 29, in relationship with robot reveals they plan on getting married (Mirror) https://maas-bong.io/2PfLtQ1
The rise of artificial intelligence: Meet Joey (and no, it's not 01 April).
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Fish in a barrel - evidence on social media sends claimant to prison (Chris Dale) https://maas-bong.io/2PgE2rF
"Last week saw yet another case where evidence on social media contradicted a claim made by a party to litigation. You have to wonder when people will catch on to the public nature of such posts and their implications when they conflict with other evidence."
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Facebook scraped email contacts of 1.5 million users (BBC) https://maas-bong.io/2PgxSYI
"Facebook asked new users to supply the password for their email account, and took a copy of their contacts."
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[Video] How Facebook broke democracy (TED Talks) https://maas-bong.io/2PdHHGI
"Journalist Carole Cadwalladr digs into one of the most perplexing events in recent times: the UK's super-close 2016 vote to leave the European Union. Tracking the result to a barrage of misleading Facebook ads targeted at vulnerable Brexit swing voters - and linking the same players and tactics to the 2016 US presidential election."
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Big Four told to keep lawyers and accountants apart (Legal Cheek) https://maas-bong.io/2PfnmB7
The "Competition and Market Authority stops short of banning accountancy giants from legal sector altogether".
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What is design thinking? The secret to digital success (CIO) https://maas-bong.io/2PhO4sw
"Design thinking is becoming a key pillar in digital transformations, with more enterprises tapping the design philosophy to deliver user-friendly products and services."
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"Productisation" will drive growth opportunities for innovative professional services firms (Simon Drane) https://maas-bong.io/2PgugGd
"I believe the next decade will see a shift within professional services firms, where they will transition from a model which is predominantly geared around their processes to one that is geared around customer outcomes. They will complete their evolution from a bill-by-the-hour-service-based model to something closer to a product subscription model."
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Ready or not, here I come: The impact of automation and legaltech on lawyers and law firms (Medium) https://maas-bong.io/2PeGPlp
"A large proportion of legal tasks won’t need to be performed by experts in law. Instead, they will need professionals who will need to be fluent in technology and data management, able to define and integrate automated systems to perform legal tasks."
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Disclosure pilot applies even if order made before January 2019 (Litigation Futures) https://maas-bong.io/2VOuc2K
"The disclosure pilot applies to all Business and Property Courts proceedings, including cases where a disclosure order was made before 1 January 2019, the Chancellor of the High Court has ruled. Sir Geoffrey Vos said the newly published White Book was wrong on this point."
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Despite lower costs, eDiscovery reluctance remains among small law (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2VOZWov
"Cloud-based solutions are making it easier for small firms to fold eDiscovery into their practices, but some old fears could be holding them back from exploring those possibilities."
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Footprints in the data (US Army) https://maas-bong.io/2VPuSVQ
"Step inside the least understood of the warfighting domains, cyber, where digital detectives analyse data to solve crime, and similar tools and techniques are used to defend against cyberattacks."
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Consilio survey: Increasing corporate investment in detecting bad behaviour (Chris Dale) https://maas-bong.io/2VMyRm3
"Discovery remains important, of course, but it has become increasingly important also to identify behaviour which is likely to lead to litigation or regulatory intervention, is likely to generate poor publicity or is in some way contrary to the policies and ethos of an organisation."
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Papua New Guinea has better court tech than us, says Lord Chief Justice (Legal Cheek) https://maas-bong.io/2VJu3xK
"Speaking at an event to celebrate the launch of electronic working and filing in the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court, Lord Burnett of Maldon was quick to put the UK’s IT advancements into sharp perspective."
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Technology-assisted review at a glance (Farrell Fritz) https://maas-bong.io/2VP0hHN
"Rule 1 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure calls upon courts and litigants to 'secure the just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action and proceeding’. And so, it comes as no surprise that technology-assisted review (“TAR”) is being widely embraced by the legal profession."
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What’s in the bag? Advice on what to take to court: Handkerchiefs, pens and … Tunnock's (Civil Litigation Brief) https://maas-bong.io/2VJuDeU
"As part of the series where contributions are invited from Twitter [barrister Gordon Exall] asked what advice on what advocates should take to court with them. What essentials should be in the bag? Not all the contributions should be taken too seriously, but there are plenty of words of wisdom here."
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ILTA announces the next era of ILTACON: Evolves INSIGHT as ILTACON Europe (ILTA) https://maas-bong.io/2VLY8wF
"The International Legal Technology Association will expand the ILTACON legal technology conference to feature two global destinations annually. In 2019 the 43rd annual ILTACON conference will be held in Orlando, Florida US Aug 18-22 and the ILTACON Europe conference will grow into a two-day event Nov 13-14, 2019, in London."
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We care about machines, but will they care about us? (LexBlog) https://maas-bong.io/2VVQD64
"The rapid pace of change has caused leading scholars to argue that some, if not a large majority, of humans face a fate worse than redundancy: complete irrelevance."
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Like winter, AI and analytics are here … Are you ready? (Lighthouse) https://maas-bong.io/2VMecOZ
"As the much-anticipated final season of Game of Thrones approaches with the telltale sign of fans eagerly tweeting #WinterIsHere, AI and analytics also continue to encroach on our lives with the relentlessness of an army of meme photoWhite Walkers."
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Sedona Conference Commentary on Information Governance (Litigation Support Tip of the Night) https://maas-bong.io/2KD3Yiy
"This month the Sedona Conference published its commentary on Information Governance. This is an update of the first edition published in 2014. Here's a quick outline of the contents."
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Law firms may want to hire legal ops-trained law grads (The American Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2KEeNBe
"Law schools are looking for ways to bring legal operations training into the classroom, potentially creating a new path for lawyers in Big Law and an opportunity for firms to provide what clients really want."
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In-house counsel plan on switching firms over technology use (Corporate Counsel) https://maas-bong.io/2KGsGyP
"A report by professional services firm BDO USA indicated that in-house counsel are making it a priority to leverage technology and are considering changing outside counsel in the coming months."
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Beyond the echo chamber (The Law Society Gazette) https://maas-bong.io/2KG76dN
“Legal tech too often focuses on answers before questions … products and pitches that sound cool and could make a lot of money, but that solve unarticulated problems or else unprioritised ones."
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Who are the “unprofessional" players in today’s market? (Corporate Counsel) https://maas-bong.io/2KGEn8s
"No one in the legal profession should ignore or decline to consider better practices, operational models and solutions as demonstrated by the Big Four and the growing community of terrific law company service providers: We should be openly embracing conversations and practices that allow us to learn from them, adopt their best practices, partner with them and use their services to improve the results we can deliver to clients."
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The 2019 EDRM TAR Guidelines: Recognising the evolving role of the subject matter expert (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2KO9y1A
"While the Guidelines maintain the role of the SME in ensuring reviewer accuracy and assisting in training the model, they also acknowledge the emergence of new technologies which can reduce the burden on the SME."
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Terminal outrage: Results of the 2018-19 Dewey B Strategic “Hits and Misses Survey” (LexBlog) https://maas-bong.io/2KEwVea
"The major takeaway from the survey is that consumers of legal information regard 2018 as a miss. The problem wasn’t so much the products - although products play an important role in triggering the discontent. The major problem is the behaviour of legal publishers."
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[Podcast]: What do GCs really want? Here’s what they say (The American Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2KDdt1l
"Former in-house leaders at some of the most prominent companies in the world speak candidly about the communication, legal acumen and business savvy that law firms need to provide to their clients."
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Lessons for success from a former BigLaw associate (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2KFOp9X
"Internalise these lessons early in your career and you'll be set for life.” It would appear I have been unwittingly following most of these during my own career.
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Can artificial intelligence solve BigLaw's $60B question? (LegalTech News) https://maas-bong.io/2KB6qGh
"Lawyers-turned-techies Joe Tiano, Alison Grounds and Ed Walters share how law firms and their clients are responding to fast-developing AI applications - raising the question of lawyers' ethical duty to use them."
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eDiscovery and beyond: Facing change in the age of AI (Law) https://maas-bong.io/2IkZk6d
"The volume of electronic information that has been creating risks in eDiscovery for more than a decade is ripe for renewed attention in the era of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics. Experts share their experience and insight on the evolving acceptance and use of AI and advanced analytics tools for eDiscovery - and beyond."
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Introducing TensorFlow Privacy: Learning with differential privacy for training data (Medium) https://maas-bong.io/2Inb5sF
The move to “differential privacy” - machine-learning where the your data is analysed on your device ... and nobody actually gets your data. Is this a GDPR/data privacy solution, day-dream or nightmare?
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Why EY’s purchase of Pangea3 should be a wake-up call for law firms (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2InWbme
Bob Ambrogi in the US enthusiastically warns that “the legal services landscape is changing. Fast. Maybe faster than you think. And it does not bode well for law firms.” Dum dum dummm...
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Has EY Law bitten off more than it can chew in Pangea3? Quite possibly (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2Il7WK8
A slightly more measured take on EY's latest shopping spree, from Caroline Hill in the UK.
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Sink or swim: Law firms need to leverage, understand tech to survive (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2InPCjt
"Lawyers aren’t known to be the most tech-savvy, but they should improve their understanding and use of technology to differentiate and improve their practice, unless they want a race to the bottom in pricing to compete. A Wolters Kluwer legal & regulatory-conducted survey, 'The Future Ready Lawyer', found out of 700 US and EU in-house and private practice lawyers, only 34% said their organisation is very prepared to keep pace with changes in the legal market."
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Cloud computing demystified: How it works and why it matters (Litigation Edge) https://maas-bong.io/2Itwell
Some useful clarification about something fundamental that's perhaps more talked about, more quietly, than artificial intelligence.
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AI technology: When to build, when to buy (CIO) https://maas-bong.io/2InFw1S
"Deciding whether to buy off-the-shelf AI or build your own AI-based business solutions is a complex equation based on available talent, business needs, desired outcomes, lock-in comfort and a rapidly evolving market."
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Ethics before algorithms (Canadian Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2Ind6oO
Kate Simpson of Bennett Jones LLP believes that "today’s AI and innovation development efforts are still in their teenage years, and trying to simplify the more complex human interactions and behaviours down into a bunch of mathematical equations with this early-generation technology is going to be messy and flawed."
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An American appeals court reverses jury decision based on failure of court to issue spoliation sanction (CloudNine) https://maas-bong.io/2Il99B7
Doug Austin reports on a ruling that the trial court abused its discretion in refusing the charge of an adverse inference sanction against the defendant for failing to preserve several hours of video, vacated the judgment issued by the jury within the trial court for the defendant and remanded the case for a new trial.
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Legal operations (The Centre for Legal Leadership) https://maas-bong.io/2Imyzyg
"We shine our spotlight on legal operations as a growing function within an in-house legal department. We examine what it’s for, why it exists and how it can contribute to a successful legal function."
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Taking advantage of advanced analytics: Beyond first level document review (JD Supra) https://maas-bong.io/2ImvWwy
"Your team has completed the first level and quality control reviews. Your documents have been produced, your privilege log is out the door and you have just received the incoming document production from the opposing party. Now you have a universe of documents with the potential to be used as deposition exhibits, in expert reports and as trial exhibits. How do you find the most important documents that either support or damage your position?"
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What’s a lawyer’s duty when a data breach occurs within the law firm? (CloudNine) https://maas-bong.io/2IkuhHA
Doug Austin looks at the requirements of ABA Formal Opinion 483 on the topic, which was issued in October 2018. Good stuff to know, huh?
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Scaling up LPM: The current state of legal project management (Clocktimizer) https://maas-bong.io/2IjZzyr
"Keeping track of all ... the wins, the losses, whether something is over or under budget is impossible without good project management. However, LPM’s are often held back by an inability to scale what they do." Part One of a four-part series exploring how this can be tackled.
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The EY law strategy: What now and where next? (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2Ih24Bu
"Following last week’s news that EY had acquired the 1,000-strong legal managed services (LMS) arm of Thomson Reuters, there remains one big question: what is EY’s strategy? Richard Tromans spoke to EY’s Global Law Leader, Cornelius Grossmann, to find out."
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25 facts about AI and law you always wanted to know (but were afraid to ask) (Medium) https://maas-bong.io/2IgawRA
"In law, AI is still all the talk. Most of it is slightly or utterly incorrect. Discoveries in recent years have little impact on the automation of legal work and the legal industry. Legal reasoning is different from other fields - technology should reflect this."
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Challenges in implementing AI include staffing and knowing what to use it for (Corporate Counsel) https://maas-bong.io/2IjffSt
"Over the last year legal departments have rushed to implement artificial intelligence and machine learning technology, but that implementation has become challenging as the amount of data, how will it be used and who will operate it comes in to question."
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A deceptively simple way to find more happiness at work (The New York Times) https://maas-bong.io/2IiSBK1
"You don’t need to change everything about your job to see major benefits. A few changes here and there can be all you need."
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Law firms versus corporations: What counts as work (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2IhnSNg
"Maybe firms should value certain things for which the firm is not paid. But firms don't. And corporations do."
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Seek and destroy (file shares) (Active Navigation) https://maas-bong.io/2IevsbC
John Cofrancesco doesn't like file shares: "'Seek and destroy' is a military term (or a Metallica song, depending on your preference) which has a direct correlation to how I feel about file shares. In my experience, Federal Agencies are data-rich and information-poor. Agencies, such as the NSA, store vast quantities of data without determining what data holds value and what is outdated or stale. Distinguishing data types is easier said than done."
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The technologies and trends with the most hype 2000 - 2018 (Twitter) https://maas-bong.io/2IduRqB
With thanks to Nir Golan of Attenti for this visual trot back through tech time.
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Conversely, Briefing Magazine's current LegalTech ALT-Hype-Cycle unicorn (Twitter) https://maas-bong.io/2IdeDOh
I especially like the far left column… (Thank you Rupert Collins-White)
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How Africa’s courtrooms are embracing legal technology (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2Ibl3NO
"Digital justice systems are not only aiding improvements in the rule of law, but also assisting countries in meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 16, which is to provide access to justice for all and ‘build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels’."
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US court denies plaintiff’s motion to compel production of ESI (CloudNine) https://maas-bong.io/2Idovrj
This motion related to "34 search terms proposed by the plaintiff during meet-and-confer with the defendant, based on the extrapolation from a single search term that the plaintiff’s production request would require 170 hours of attorney and paralegal time and would produce little, if any, relevant information."
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Blockchain trial “has potential to transform property market” (Legal Futures) https://maas-bong.io/2Il6CHh
At last, a practical application of the tech everyone's talking about but few understand! I recently moderated a panel on blockchain where I encouraged my patient colleagues to explain the potential use of blockchain in conveyancing and probate, two commonplace areas where trust and speed are crucial.
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Taking new steps into the smart home (EY) https://maas-bong.io/2IfnLlC
"EY’s annual survey of 2,500 UK households explores consumer attitudes towards connectivity and content within the home. In this second deep-dive report we explore the strengthening customer demand for the smart home."
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What American judges want: Guidance from the University of Florida eDiscovery conference (Relativity) https://maas-bong.io/2Ify34V
David Horrigan: "In addition to ... cooperation, proportionality and sanctions the judges stressed the importance of everyday issues such as privilege logs - and they weren’t sure those 2015 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure had made things more cooperative in eDiscovery."
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Lawyers and cloud computing: It’s not so complicated anymore (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2IfpCqk
Niki Black: "If you’ve been thinking about using cloud computing software in your law firm - or are already doing so - rest assured, you’re not alone. In 2019, the benefits of cloud-based software far outweigh any perceived risks, so if you haven’t already taken advantage of cloud computing tools (and you probably already have even if you don’t know it), what are you waiting for? No better time than the present!"
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The truth about AI and due diligence (The FCPA Blog) https://maas-bong.io/2IeziS4
"There has been a lot of discussion lately about the possible uses of artificial intelligence in anti-bribery compliance. Most commentators recognise that AI (and its more unassuming cousin, machine learning) won’t do away with current practices altogether. But while the significance of these technologies is recognised, their practical implementation often receives only cursory attention."
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And it’s official: EY to buy Legal Managed Services from Thomson Reuters (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2WJMVfV
As many of us know, disruption to the legal profession was never just about technology, as this move by EY demonstrates: "This new enhanced offering will make EY one of the leading professional services organisations for global legal advisory services and legal operations services, including legal function advisory, managed services and technology."
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The next top model: Law firm edition (Law21) https://maas-bong.io/2WIWtrJ
"The characteristics of law firms are well-known: Lawyer-owned and -operated, expensive, elite, inefficient, lawyer-centric, risk-averse, kind of pretentious and a little out of touch. Defining your new legal business by distancing yourself from these attributes is a pretty good way to get clients’ attention in a shifting market." Bang.
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Great British TV map (Tim Ritz) https://maas-bong.io/2WKVhUy
For fans of TV from the UK and Ireland who want to know where their favourite scripted series take place, and where they are actually filmed.
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Epiq expands Canadian eDiscovery solutions with acquisition of H&A eDiscovery (Epiq) https://maas-bong.io/2WFTPCQ
“H&A brings additional eDiscovery expertise to our Canadian business and, together, we have an unmatched bench of resources that are experts in eDiscovery.”
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HighQ and BPP Law School partner to deliver legal tech experience to students (HighQ) https://maas-bong.io/2WICzgn
"The partnership with HighQ allows students to explore new ways to use technology to serve clients and deliver legal services with value and efficiency in mind. With experience using leading technology, BPP students will have the skills to embrace innovation for the entire span of their legal careers."
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[Video] How innovative are law firms behind the scenes? (Legal Cheek) https://maas-bong.io/2WM8g8q
"Tech-savvy law firms, keen to stay ahead of the competition, are racing to provide 'ground-breaking, innovative and efficient solutions to client service delivery' - or so their marketing teams tell us…"
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New Civil Procedural Rules: Open hearings & copying in opponent on communications with court (Breaking Law) https://maas-bong.io/2WOf85v
"Accessible legal tips, know-how and news for anyone with a complaint or legal issue from Stephen Gold, ex-judge and author of Breaking Law, the book."
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New video hearings pilot will test “more robust software” (Legal Futures) https://maas-bong.io/2WMo1fU
The second pilot of fully-video hearings will take place in the tax tribunal beginning “in early spring” and end in the autumn, after a small pilot took place in the first half of last year. I have a feeling about how successful this will be...
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Nine firms shortlisted for top honours at this year's Legal Week Innovation Awards (Legal Week) https://maas-bong.io/2WNbEAi
"The awards are a celebration of the evolving and increasingly important legal technology market, commending contributions made by both lawyers and non-fee-earning staff to the development of their businesses through innovation."
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The rules they are a-changing: New rules on bundles from 6 April 2019 (Civil Litigation Brief) https://maas-bong.io/2WJR3wm
No-one likes to file documents incorrectly so note, in particular, the presumption that, unless the court directs, pages in bundles should now be double-sided. I presume one document shouldn't run into the next, otherwise how would we deal with inserts???
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Raising the bar: Innovation in legal (D/sruption) https://maas-bong.io/2WHBqWq
The legal sector may be somewhat slow to adapt, but law firms cannot afford to fall behind. Digital technology has created new markets which businesses need lawyers to help negotiate. Clients are demanding faster and more technology-focussed solutions, and new generations of legal employees themselves have vastly different expectations to those who came before. Alex Smith and co from Reed Smith share good stuff.
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Global law firm BCLP launches Innovation Champions project (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2OGKZlM
The firm has celebrated its first anniversary since its transatlantic merger by launching an Innovation Champions programme that will encourage lawyers and support staff to help drive change at the firm.
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Welcome to your future, slaves (Twitter) https://maas-bong.io/2WLfhXj
Yup, it's here. Slightly earlier than I expected...
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AI: The snake oil of the 21st century (Information Age) https://maas-bong.io/2WLWI5p
"Howard Williams, from UK-based software house Parker Software, explores the state of AI snake oil in businesses. How much of artificial intelligence as we know it is pure quackery?"
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Latham & Watkins releases "The Book of Jargon - Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Technology" (Latham & Watkins) https://maas-bong.io/2WO1rnb
“A comprehensive digital glossary of nearly 300 terms developed for the business, academic and legal communities. The easy-to-use reference tool demystifies the often complex legal and regulatory terminology, acronyms and slang of the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry."
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US case law: Private data stored in mobile devices may lead to production concerns (Exterro) https://maas-bong.io/2WHJS80
In this case "the court reminded attorneys that appropriately accounting for the proportionality concerns of Rule 26(b)(1) includes scoping production requests in a way that reduces the potential for the production of irrelevant private data."
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As uncertainty looms over Brexit, UK law firms consider their options (ABA Journal) https://maas-bong.io/2WKYyUa
I know, it's Brexit but this is an interesting and calm report from the ABA's legal affairs writer on what law firms in the UK are thinking and doing.
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Tips for paralegals and litigation support professionals (ACEDS) https://maas-bong.io/2WK72uE
For the hardcore eD techies: Litigation support professional Sean O'Shea lists a series of Top Tips to make life a bit simpler at the dataface.
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Tech-savvy firms more profitable now, more prepared for the future, finds survey of US and EU legal professionals (LawSites) https://maas-bong.io/2WKbgSK
“The legal technology boom has been underway for a few years but, for the first time, we are seeing a clear competitive advantage for firms that are adopting innovative solutions earlier than others.”
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Exterro/EDRM judges survey 2019 series: Part 1, failure to comply with federal rules (ACEDS) https://maas-bong.io/2I8cgfp
The first in a series of posts in which George Socha of BDO (and EDRM fame) evaluates "the results of Exterro and EDRM’s 2019 survey of Federal district court and magistrate judges. With information from over 250 judges, the survey data offers a rich trove to mine."
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Artificial intelligence is here (Freshfields) https://maas-bong.io/2I7rMrW
Freshfields' mini-site is an absolute goldmine of useful information: "AI is revolutionising everything from industrial production to cancer diagnosis. But as well as tremendous upsides it also carries risks. The articles below tackle different aspects of the AI debate, from explaining what ‘AI technology’ really does to examining how it is testing legal frameworks around product liability, intellectual property and even human rights. Our AI hub aims to demystify this rapidly developing technology and explore how it intersects with regulation and the law."
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The lawyer's ethical duties after a data breach (Ride the Lightning) https://maas-bong.io/2I5rDW1
Exploring "a lawyer's duties following a data breach, explaining the requirements of ABA Formal Opinion 483, issued in October 2018 and going beyond it to explore practical responses to a breach."
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Scalable learning v. scalable efficiency in the automation age (CIO) https://maas-bong.io/2I62muY
The right way to treat employees in the automation age is not by deploying scalable efficiency, but by offering scalable learning. The first requirement: enlightened leaders.
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A data commons for law (Medium) https://maas-bong.io/2I2wYxs
"How might we harness available data from legal aid organisations, courts, legal technology companies and others to enable research and development that promotes access to justice?" The timing of this is good as I have recently been in discussions about creating a modern and representative data set for eD product demos and tests: Enron is so boring and too old hat.
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The case for joining up legal and accounting services (Financial Director) https://maas-bong.io/2I6Rltk
"The Big Four accounting firms have now all been granted ABS status, meaning that they can offer reserved legal activities. This year, each of the Big Four has been coming out with bold statements about their intention to grab a big share of the legal market, eyeing up the very lucrative opportunities that this market offers. It will be interesting to see how this develops."
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Meet QIARK - an AI system that triages ideas and delivers insight (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2I9e6wH
A system which "could have some interesting use cases in the law, especially around delivering better insights into innovation and KM. And, it could even be of use to management teams seeking to decide the strategic direction of a legal business - or any business for that matter. It could also perhaps help with making actual legal decisions."
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Blockchain: Top 4 challenges CIOs face (TechRepublic) https://maas-bong.io/2I7ABly
"By 2023, blockchain technologies are poised to support the global movement of $2 trillion worth of goods and services annually, according to Gartner research. But many companies are still struggling to figure out how they can successfully use the distributed ledger technology."
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Data protection laws take centre stage for global GCs (Corporate Counsel) https://maas-bong.io/2I3ojL6
"In the wake of the GDPR, data protection laws around the world have begun to shift. Companies that don't comply with non-European Union data laws could face fines and a loss of trust in other nations."
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How Walmart is pioneering a fundamentally new approach to discovery (Logikcull) https://maas-bong.io/2I9kzaX
Although obviously a case study of a Logikcull success story, Casey Sullivan's tale of Walmart's journey is nevertheless of interest.
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Has Spring sprung? Take the Spring 2019 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey (ComplexDiscovery) https://maas-bong.io/2OCdvow
Initiated by Rob Robinson in January 2016, the eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey is a non-scientific quarterly survey designed to provide insight into the business confidence level of individuals working in the eDiscovery ecosystem.
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BigLaw’s model “stifles" its ability to innovate (Corporate Counsel) https://maas-bong.io/2OAImC1
L'Oréal general counsel Anna Lozynski explains why - from the perspective of those in-house, the buyer's side - innovation must be prioritised by the big end of town.
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Law firms' future isn't about rainmaking, it's about change-making (The American Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2OFWU35
Change-makers are lawyers with a relentless focus on growth who also recognise that long-term success requires more than revenue generation alone. With the head of a rainmaker and the heart of an innovator, change-makers are quickly becoming a driving force in helping partners buy into new ways of thinking.
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World Backup Day: Practical advice regarding backup data in relation to eDiscovery (Consilio) https://maas-bong.io/2OBVaYJ
Every year on 31 March, in order to avoid looking like an April fool and losing your data on the following day, the world is encouraged to back up its data on “World Backup Day”. I wonder if we’ll ever see World Restore Day...
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New tech to “halve" transcript costs (The Law Society Gazette) https://maas-bong.io/2OFqqpz
A social enterprise set up by a legal aid barrister is aiming to slash the cost of court transcripts by harnessing voice recognition software. Sophie Walker, of One Pump Court, says that technology can help make the workings of the justice system understandable to a far wider audience.
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In Code we trust? Trustlessness and smart contracts (Society for Computers and Law) https://maas-bong.io/2OE1SgE
This article looks at “trustlessness" which may have given rise to a common misperception of smart contracts reducing or even eliminating the need for trust.
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IEEE Launches Ethically Aligned Design, delivering a vision for prioritising human well-being with autonomous and intelligent systems (IEEE) https://maas-bong.io/2OC9Bfn
Intended to provide guidance for standards, regulation or legislation for the design, manufacture and use of autonomous and intelligent systems, as well as serve as a key reference for the work of policymakers, technologists and educators.
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Can we stop AI outsmarting humanity? (The Guardian) https://maas-bong.io/2OEgexN
The spectre of super-intelligent machines doing us harm is not just science fiction, technologists say - so how can we ensure AI remains friendly to its makers?
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Translation, participation and education are the keys to successful eDiscovery collaboration (ACEDS) https://maas-bong.io/2OBPyO4
Collaboration in eDiscovery has its own special challenges. First, communication between lawyers and technologists often requires translation. Second, participation is a prerequisite - but not a given. Third, continuing education and professional development improves collaboration.
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The rising tech tide: Australia's legal tech scene is making waves (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2OCM8dX
Australia's legal technology ecosystem is in some places still being developed. But in its focus on data and fostering innovation, it's already proving to be a force on the global stage.
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De-duplication: What is it and why should I use it? (JD Supra) https://maas-bong.io/2U6BwtO
A useful explanation of one of the common eD processes applied to reduce the volume of documents in play before expensive legal review begins.
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The man trying to make sense of Brexit is tired and would like to stop now (The New York Times) https://maas-bong.io/2U2WkTa
By day Jon Worth works as a communications consultant for European politicians. By rest-of-his-day he makes Brexit flowcharts - 27 versions since January, to be exact.
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Sorry, we tried to deliver your Brexit (Twitter) https://maas-bong.io/2U4rf1h
This made my Friday afternoon (something had to).
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Litigation trends and opportunities in 2019 (Bloomberg BNA) https://maas-bong.io/2U5IiQo
Register to download your copy to learn how law firms and in-house counsel are leveraging AI to free up staff time for higher-level tasks, ethical questions around the boom in litigation finance, implications of data protection laws and how the keen use of technology is propelling increased interactions between litigators and the Big Four.
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Do court bans on electronic devices impede access to justice? (ABA Journal) https://maas-bong.io/2U3p9i9
Across the US, courts of all types have banned cellphones in courtrooms. Some inform litigants of the ban before they show up, others don’t. Some offer lockers for storage, others don’t. Courts have cited different reasons for the bans, ranging from preventing disruption in the courtroom to protecting witnesses who could be photographed and potentially threatened for appearing.
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Courtroom technologies (infolaw) https://maas-bong.io/2U3pMs1
Although HM Courts & Tribunal Service has big plans for online justice beyond the physical courtroom, it is worth first considering the various technologies currently being used by the courts.
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Legal design explained: Part 1 - what is legal design? (Society for Computers and Law) https://maas-bong.io/2UarTuo
Legal Design Engineer, Charlotte Baker, explains what we mean by the increasingly popular term "legal design", the principles and tools involved, and explores various real-life examples of legal design in practice. In this first part of a four-part series of short articles, she defines what this new term means.
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Lawyers’ skills will be needed whatever the future (Legal Futures) https://maas-bong.io/2U4yXbJ
"Lawyers in the future will likely be more public-spirited and less focused on personal enrichment, but demand for legal skills will persist whatever the political context, according to one of the world’s premier futurologists (Jordan Furlong)."
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Yee Haw! Texas lawyers required to be competent in technology under revised Rule 1.01 (Catalyst) https://maas-bong.io/2U7nU1B
"All of this comes as lawyers grapple with thorny ethical issues concerning the use of cloud technology, storing privileged documents with outside vendors and relying on key document review tasks on smart but non-human computer algorithms.”
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A New Zealand LawFest retrospective (Jay Pierce) https://maas-bong.io/2FzxAYq
As with Terry Harrison in South Africa, Andrew King is stretching every sinew in his body to bring eD to the Antipodes. His annual LawFest conference is briefly reported on here.
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The Business and Property Court has just published a helpful note to clarify whether the UK's Disclosure Pilot Scheme applies to Part 8 Claims (Ed Crosse) https://maas-bong.io/2HVtw7L
It's great to see that the pilot disclosure rules are living and breathing and not just lying stagnant for the next two years. It would be even better to hear of strong judicial project management.
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UK Government to implement Jackson’s fixed recoverable costs blueprint (Litigation Futures) https://maas-bong.io/2FF2IpI
Another piece of relevance to litigators in this jurisdiction, as is obvious from the title.
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Paul Hastings launches AI practice as clients face uncertain risks (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2FDtzT3
The practice was formed in response to popular demand from clients, many of whom are just beginning to dip a toe into the artificial intelligence waters and want to make sure there are no sharks lurking nearby.
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Legal AI market to grow 36% per year, says market research report (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2FA1Rqd
Data from New York-based Zion Market Research said that: "The rising funding for AI and its growing adoption in legal firms are major factors driving the global market growth in the upcoming years."
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The AI roles some companies forget to fill (Harvard Business Review) https://maas-bong.io/2FwBIsg
"AI talent goes far beyond machine learning Ph.D’s. Equally important and less understood are the set of talent issues emerging around AI product development and engineering. Most firms have not filled these roles, and their AI projects are suffering as a result."
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How Slaughter and May is making use of AI across the firm (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2Fy7hlB
Product development? Tick. Consistency? Tick. Analysis? Tick.
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Executive presence - how to connect with and become part of the C-Suite (Corporate Counsel) https://maas-bong.io/2FyU8Zp
"Your title as general counsel gets you in the room. To be truly impactful, however, you need the other C-level executives to see you not as a narrow subject matter expert to be consulted only on legal matters, but rather as a peer and adviser who also brings specialised knowledge."
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10 practical tips from federal judges for eDiscovery lawyers (Exterro) https://maas-bong.io/2Ft3HJa
More from Tim Rollins on the findings of Exterro's 2019 federal judges survey...
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How eDiscovery has, hasn't and probably should change (Relativity) https://maas-bong.io/2Ft4XMo
Interesting, but disappointingly the only suggestion for what should change is increasing legal competence in eD.
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Mission update 2019: Security in RelativityOne (Relativity) https://maas-bong.io/2OueKpD
"We know that our mission is your mission, too, as you work to keep your data - and your clients’ data - safe. To ensure we continue in our transparency we have come to be known for in this joint effort, here’s a quick look at a few of our current priorities and what we have planned for 2019."
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Oh, crap! Even MORE stuff to worry about: Malevolent machine learning can derail AI (thank you, Enron data set!) (Gregory Bufithis) https://maas-bong.io/2OAP8aZ
There's been a lot of good talk about the use of eD tools and people outside the eD bubble, and of the anachronism and inappropriateness of the Enron Data Set (my capitals). Here we see that very data set being used in what is "known as 'adversarial machine learning', some methods that involve experimentally feeding input into an algorithm to reveal the information it has been trained on, while others involve distorting the input in a way that causes the system to 'misbehave'."
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The European Parliament has voted in favour of Article 13 as part of sweeping changes to regulation around online copyright (Wired) https://maas-bong.io/2OvrCvY
Critics argued that Articles 13, and related legislation passed today by MEPs, risked infringing on freedom of speech. They are worried we will see a lot more cases of legitimate creative content being blocked once websites like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are forced to stop copyrighted content from being uploaded to their platforms.
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Bad for business? Firms diverge over entering legal tech market (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2Ov8Btp
For some, law firm-backed technology can face resistance in the market and stunt a firm’s openness to new tools. For others, knowing the inner workings of a firm is the key to legal innovation. So what’s the deal?
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Text analytics company ayfie adds lawyer to management as it expands legal market push (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2Ova9DJ
Sensible players in the legal tech market add empathy to their teams. Well done ayfie. How can you help a market if you have no knowledge of how it functions?
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Perusing the news: Lawyers share their favourite apps (Attorney at Work) https://maas-bong.io/2OsNRCr
Lawyers and other professionals who work in information-intensive environments know that knowledge is power. But how to keep up with the constant deluge of legal news without drowning in information?
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Machine learning and AI are not the same: Here's the difference (Forbes) https://maas-bong.io/2OqvVIE
Some clarity to help the crawl of understanding from Nicole Martin, host of the Talk Digital to Me podcast.
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Negotiating lessons: Moses' screwing up of the exodus deal (Trade Explained) https://maas-bong.io/2OufR8N
A quite brilliant piece in which Dmitry Grozoubinski, a former Australian trade negotiator to the World Trade Organisation in Geneva, exquisitely likens UK politicians' Brexit negotiations to the "Moses Model" of leading your people to “freedom"!
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The best tools for legal teams (Juro) https://maas-bong.io/2OwQLq8
Need to jump-start the legal department at your company? Juro has curated the top legal tech tools they think you need to scale legal fast.
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Data Subject Access Requests: Using eDiscovery tools to ensure compliance and save costs (Lineal) https://maas-bong.io/2WoMlEa
You have to register to download this (which I have not done), but this paper appears to echo a drum I like to beat loudly: using eD tools and people for non-eD purposes, outside of the eD bubble.
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Magnetic north continues its march to the east (Ordnance Survey) https://maas-bong.io/2Wihyci
Not for everyone, this story, but I spent a great deal of time backpacking as a youth and I find it fascinating that something so dependable for so long is now changing. Why? Is it ultimately for good, or for bad? We are not told.
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eDisclosure data processing: Providing cost clarity (CYFOR) https://maas-bong.io/2WmxdqV
The context and the importance of this piece by David Cavanagh are both obvious from the title.
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If robots do everything, then what will we do? Will people marry robots in future? (Channel NewsAsia) https://maas-bong.io/2WqSzDD
Fascinating: "When China's top artificial intelligence guru Lee Kai-Fu talks about how AI is reshaping the world, people listen. And he predicts big changes in a short time ... Humans will get to do things that we’re passionate about, things we’re good at, and have more time to do the things we love, spend time with the people we love and even time to think about what makes us human."
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A new age of warfare: How internet mercenaries do battle for authoritarian governments (The New York Times) https://maas-bong.io/2WoW3q6
Sophisticated surveillance, once the domain of world powers, is increasingly available on the private market. Smaller countries are seizing on the tools - sometimes for darker purposes.
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Why venture capitalists and private equity see increasing possibilities in legal tech (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2Wojm3u
Investors are seeing opportunities in legal tech as lawyers have little choice but to address ongoing pain points that can only be solved through the application of tech solutions.
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The technology and characteristics of the US army's RFID system (AsiaRFID) https://maas-bong.io/2WmjpwB
A fascinating insight into the military use of radio frequency identification systems. I recall in the 1990s Xerox briefly explored the possibility of adding RFID technology to documents / books to track their location and conduct appropriate actions (such as automatically checking in / out at libraries). The application of this tech in eD/privacy is still not too far a stretch.
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Artificial inflation? Mike Lynch accused of deliberate fraud in high court (ComplexDiscovery) https://maas-bong.io/2WrKDC9
British technology entrepreneur Mike Lynch committed a “deliberate fraud over a sustained period of time” to inflate the value of his company, Autonomy, by billions of dollars ahead of its sale, the High Court of Justice in England has heard. This saga has been running for nearly as long as the (fairy) tale of technology in the courts...
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Machine learning-enabled judgment: Baker McKenzie on the law firm of the future (Legal Executive Institute) https://maas-bong.io/2WmAsP7
Beyond all the market hype and disruption (both real and feared), there are big, fundamental questions needing answers. And these questions are not just around what technologies like machine learning are doing or will do to the practice of law, but what the legal industry and law firms of the future should look like.
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eDiscovery mergers, acquisitions, and investments in Q1 2019 (ComplexDiscovery) https://maas-bong.io/2WoFWZL
Rob Robinson strikes again! Here he notes that this quarter has been the most active since he started recording M/A&I movement in this area in late 2001
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An interview with Jae Um (Colin S. Levy) https://maas-bong.io/2WlYkCr
For those who don't know her (I have never had the privilege of meeting her), Jae "is a strategy executive, insights analyst & business designer for fast-changing legal markets, with 10+ years of industry experience. She leverages a highly diverse skillset to generate powerful actionable insights. Jae recently joined Baker McKenzie as Director of Pricing Strategy"
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You can call me AI: Artificial intelligence as a witness (Martin Nikel) https://maas-bong.io/2WgGG30
With his always-interesting take on life, Martin has settled on five areas of ethical concern that are raised by artificial intelligence (and, on his way, he swipes the hype)
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Map of fundamental technologies in legal services (Remaking Law Firms) https://maas-bong.io/2Wpcvqx
This map, by Michelle Mahoney, Executive Director of Innovation at King & Wood Mallesons, provides a helicopter view of the "big four" technologies - AI, blockchain, enterprise systems (i.e. databases) and pre-programmed code - and their many applications in legal services, e.g. document automation, expertise automation, legal research, matter management, all aspects of practice and client management, due diligence and eDiscovery
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The partner’s continuing lament (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2WhJc96
In Biglaw you'll do good work, be in demand, and stay busy - until you age. By the time you’re older than the average person bringing in business, you’re no longer in demand. Doing good work is no longer enough. Unless you generate business, you’ll no longer be able to stay busy. Cheerful stuff!
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Relativity debuts RelativityOne mobile app for review on the go (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2Wgm6zU
I should have seen it coming: The app, currently only for Apple mobile devices, allows RelativityOne users to access their workspaces and case documents, tag relevant documents, and sync their work with their larger review team from mobile devices. I guess the next development will be an Android version...
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We invited professional hackers to attack us: Here's what happened (CNET) https://maas-bong.io/2Wtz9hF
Even when you anticipate a cyberattack, email phishing remains one of the most effective methods used by hackers to access private accounts
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Innovation Part 1: What it is and what it isn’t (RainMaking Oasis) https://maas-bong.io/2WoK101
With so much buzz about the need for innovation in the legal profession, it can be overwhelming and also very misleading. Many misconstrue that innovation in law firms is all about technology. It isn’t. Some of the most fundamental innovation that is occurring has to do with how work is done, why, by whom and for whom
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How to write a CV to appeal to robot recruiters (Forbes) https://maas-bong.io/2WgoYwG
Did you know that recruiters spend only 6 seconds reviewing each CV they receive (if they read it at all)? And those are just the CVs that actually make it to a human for review. First, CVs must pass the filtering algorithms of an applicant tracking system
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Don't ask for everything in eDiscovery... (Exterro) https://maas-bong.io/2WklJUR
In this US case, litigants are reminded that an appropriately tailored production request doesn’t ask for “all” of anything. When making such requests, be sure to ask for specific data. If you do ask for “all” of something, make sure you have case precedents or a clearly defined reason for doing so. Compare and contrast to https://maas-bong.io/2GYU2MY, where a judge recently allowed an application made under more appropriate circumstances
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The mindful data transfer - bringing balance to cross-border discovery and EU data protection obligations (ACEDS) https://maas-bong.io/2Fk3zMi
This thought-provoking article from Ryan Costello looks at the friction between legal holds and the right to be forgotten and anxiety about the scope of collections amid data minimisation requirements. The considerable financial and operational penalties for failure to comply with the GDPR have created an environment of trepidation about how, and where, to best process, host and review EU data in connection with US-based eDiscovery
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GDPR v CCPA: Privacy counsel weigh in on compliance challenges (Corporate Counsel) https://maas-bong.io/2FfTr6Y
Californian and European privacy laws are bringing change - and stress - to in-house compliance teams. Yesterday privacy counsel discussed the differences between GDPR and CCPA, and how lawyers can approach each
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Law's emerging elite: Enterprise Legal Service providers, Part 1 (Forbes) https://maas-bong.io/2FrClTM
There were once many "elite" law firms. The herd has been thinned dramatically - the “why" helps to explain the emergence of Enterprise Legal Service (ELS) providers. A handful of them are reshaping law's traditional models and capabilities with big impact
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[Video] LegalTech 2019: a chat with Nick Robinson of Microsoft about “in place” eDiscovery analytics (Gregory Bufithis) https://maas-bong.io/2FwP5J9
What makes Microsoft particularly well served is this major trend in eDiscovery: in-place analytics. It is the new shift to keeping your information and content in the systems where it is utilised, and performing your analytics there rather than exporting it
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eDiscovery training lagging in most legal departments (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2FjzIDC
Even large organisations in highly regulated and litigation-heavy industries say they didn’t have formal eDiscovery training, according to a survey by Exterro and Duke Law's EDRM (and I'm just a phone call away: contact details below)
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Deloitte Legal holds AI challenge to understand legislation (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2FkKN7y
Deloitte Legal and The Next Web have co-hosted a workshop in London this week to answer the question: "How can we make computers understand written laws?"
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How in-house counsel can utilise eDiscovery platforms for regulatory requests (Zylab) https://maas-bong.io/2FoCDe5
Jeffrey Wolff observes that a key challenge to managing regulatory requests is finding, retrieving and sorting through the mountains of data now created by even modest businesses in order to extract and present information demanded by regulators. I am noting the welcome trend of lawyers and eD professionals discovering that eD tools and people have many uses outside the eD bubble
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The week in tech: Our future robots will need super-smart safety checks (The New York Times) https://maas-bong.io/2FfWyvG
If software was at fault in the deadly crashes of the two Boeing 737s, it raises questions about how technology that’s critical to safety is regulated. The Boeing software was designed to perform a simple task: nudge the airplane’s nose down based on sensor readings if a stall was anticipated. As harder tasks are handed to software, the stakes rise
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Noah Waisberg interview: What next for Kira Systems? (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2Fq1IFt
Richard Tromans recently caught up with the co-founder and CEO of leading legal AI company Kira Systems to find out where the company is now and where it’s heading
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Artificial intelligence and the delivery of unbundled legal services (ROSS Intelligence) https://maas-bong.io/2FmMRff
AI will speed the development and adoption of unbundled services for both corporate and under-represented clients. At the corporate level, artificial intelligence will be brought to bear on project- and success-based billing. The shift from hourly billing will allow in-house counsel to segment legal assignments according to the price and expertise of outside counsel
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eDiscovery's new challenge: Not ignoring Internet of Things data (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2Fpc4Wa
This is the new Wild West of my world: eDiscovery practitioners are challenged by the quantity and variety of Internet of Things device data. But that doesn't mean they can ignore it (I intend to write an article on this subject next month)
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10 graveside traditions at famous tombs (Mental Floss) https://maas-bong.io/2FmevZz
Things you didn't know you needed to know #87
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GlenLegal19 speaker presentations (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2FisJLi
Many leading lights from the world of legaltech shared insights, hopes and fears at this recent excellent two day conference at Gleneagles
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How AI will rewire us (The Atlantic) https://maas-bong.io/2FuvI3p
For better and for worse, robots will alter humans’ capacity for altruism, love, and friendship. As AI insinuates itself more fully into our lives, we may yet require a new social contract - one with machines rather than with other humans
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Lady Hale says judges don’t use social media for fear of trolls (Legal Cheek) https://maas-bong.io/2FhSifj
Now we know... However, "Judges in other jurisdictions do use social media to promote public understanding of their work"
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Number of law firms using Live Chat has risen 38% in six months (Legal Futures) https://maas-bong.io/2FdCZEg
In the light of which, it's interesting to see that UK law firms are increasingly embracing chat as a way to communicate with clients outside standard office hours
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EU hits Google with antitrust fine of $1.69 Billion over ad practices (Corporate Counsel) https://maas-bong.io/2FhqKqj
The European Commission's antitrust regulators issued a third fine against Google on Wednesday, this time over its ad practices. Google now faces more than $9 million in EU antitrust fines. Surely that must hurt, Just a little bit? No?
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Why Generation Z will revolutionise the law firm of the future (Legal Cheek) https://maas-bong.io/2FpkexM
Lawyers and innovation experts give BPP University students a glimpse into the challenges and opportunities that await
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TAR 2.0: Using contextual diversity to find out what you don’t know (and a bit about Zipf’s Law) (Catalyst) https://maas-bong.io/2Fmqt5r
In 2014, Grossman and Cormack issued their landmark study comparing different TAR protocols. It showed that random selection was the least efficient way to find relevant documents, including those you didn’t know about originally. Catalyst’s research, and that of several others, consistently told the same tale
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The end of sanctions? New report details dramatic decline in US spoliation penalties (Logikcull) https://maas-bong.io/2Flmu9l
This would indicate to me that most instances of spoliation were due to incompetence/ignorance rather than deliberate acts
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What is EDRM? (JD Supra) https://maas-bong.io/2W4TvgJ
Every now and then it's good to remember that not everyone is steeped in your world's buzzwords and acronyms
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Too much information? (The Law Society Gazette) https://maas-bong.io/2Wb4khv
Much is written about the data-driven law firm, but what does that actually mean in practice? Joanna Goodman explores how law firms are really using data to support and grow their business
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The Ministry of Justice has been accused of sitting on evidence that undermines its drive to close courts (BuzzFeed) https://maas-bong.io/2W7LuHP
The MoJ left data out of a published report that showed people had a more positive experience of the justice system if they had physically been in court, a finding which senior lawyers and campaigners say undermines its push to take more cases online and out of courtrooms
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Interview: Maz Jamnejad, head of innovation, Linklaters Italy (Juro) https://maas-bong.io/2W9rAfx
Because it's not all about the UK and the US...
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Explaining Elevate’s recent acquisitions (Legal Evolution) https://maas-bong.io/2W749Uc
Elevate’s slew of recent acquisitions belie a long-game strategy. Elevate founder, Liam Brown, explains in detail
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Call for legal AI to have “ethical black box” to explain decisions (Legal Futures) https://maas-bong.io/2W9b7Ip
Artificial intelligence (AI) should be developed in conjunction with a wide range of non-technical specialists, while an ‘ethical black box’ showing how a system made particular decisions may also be needed, according to an academic
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The business case for expanding document management from in-house legal to other departments (Legal IT Professionals) https://maas-bong.io/2W7WNQA
Many corporate legal departments today deploy document and email management systems (DMS). Documents are the lifeblood of lawyers and they produce a plentiful supply of them. It is critical that they have a very effective document management system to assist their department to be more efficient, increase productivity and mitigate risk
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10 factors to consider before procuring legal AI (The Law Society) https://maas-bong.io/2W1eIs2
Rafie Faruq of Genie AI pours a little cold water on the AI Hype Wagon: what extra benefit does machine learning provide, that wouldn't be possible either with humans, or with traditional artificial intelligence (a rules-based approach)? Faruq argues that staying true to this question will enable law firms to sift through the hype
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Something's stirring up business development in the legal industry (Microsoft) https://maas-bong.io/2W9I7A7
Microsoft says (and we all listen) there's a new way of winning business in professional services: it's more scalable, more systematic, and entirely measurable. And it's helping the most innovative law firms run circles around their competitors
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Wisconsin Appellate Court: Judge's undisclosed Facebook friendship with litigant is objectively biased (Ride the Lightning) https://maas-bong.io/2W7ldtm
I think this headline speaks for itself
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Drunks, DNA and data transfer risk in eDiscovery (ComplexDiscovery) https://maas-bong.io/2u7kMDh
A beguiling title for the irrepressible Rob Robinson's piece on the disparate tech in play in discovery and the risks inherent in transferring data between them
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LawTech - Is it worth the risk? (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2u54xqm
EY argues that legal tech is in its "infancy, relatively speaking, so, like everything in life, LawTech doesn’t come without risk. In fact, it carries serious business risks"
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The Enron data set is no longer a representative test data set (CloudNine) https://maas-bong.io/2VZviZa
I've been saying this for years! In terms of interesting (not representative) data for demos I favour Wikipedia; last century it was the Tobacco Archives
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Facebook under criminal investigation over data sharing with tech firms (The Guardian) https://maas-bong.io/2VTjiIO
Federal prosecutors are examining Facebook's data-sharing deals with other major technology companies, a New York grand jury having subpoenaed records from “at least two prominent makers of smartphones and other devices”
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10 common photography mistakes every beginner should avoid (Digital Photography School) https://maas-bong.io/2VZVyms
Anyone who has photography as a hobby would benefit from skimming this useful article
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2019 US legal salary guide for attorneys and legal professionals (Special Counsel) https://maas-bong.io/2VWVALD
Because we all like to know: Check out legal salaries and data insights for lawyers, counsel, paralegals and a full spectrum of firm and in-house legal positions in both your local market and the whole of America
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AI and voice-enabled applications will change how we work in 2019 (451 Research) https://maas-bong.io/2VTVUe6
A practical take on how these interfaces are changing the way we work: "The vendors and use cases covered in this report are good examples of the impact that voice-enabled applications can have in the workplace"
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If you can tie your shoes, you can "do" in-house eDiscovery (Logikcull) https://maas-bong.io/2VY6fWr
Casey Sullivan observes that, while discovery challenges still exist, the risks that dominated eDiscovery a decade ago have been significantly reduced
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11 of the most interesting things I've heard as a lawyer on #BLTF2019 (Bram Vandromme) https://maas-bong.io/2W1h7Tv
A Belgian lawyer and futurist's perspective of Tuesday's British Legal Technology Forum in London
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How the stock market really works (Twitter) https://maas-bong.io/2VU0ZTI
Too true...
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Threading, duplicates & near-duplicates, ECA fundamentals series Part 4 (XDD) https://maas-bong.io/2VVUcJg
A multi-part series on the fundamentals eDiscovery practitioners need to know about effective early case assessment in the context of electronic discovery
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Do you have FOMO? You should - if you’re not finding and collecting dynamic web evidence (Hanzo) https://maas-bong.io/2VVQgIv
Fear of missing out? This article explains why collecting evidence from the web should include dynamic and contextual data
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[Video] Two billion dollars and counting - a SOLID West talk (ComplexDiscovery) https://maas-bong.io/2VYTM4V
Knox Capital Operating Partner Mike Bryant presents a short, eight-minute TED-style talk on investments and investing in the legal tech market during the Summit on Legal Innovation and Disruption
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BLTF: The post-hype AI hype, plus iManage RAVN is legal's Spotify (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2VQSMzE
Fast typing Richard Tromans reports on yesterday's British Legal Technology Forum, one of the largest legal tech events in Europe
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How US courts treat technology assisted review in discovery (New York Law Journal) https://maas-bong.io/2VZXpHT
This article provides an overview of case law and trends that may inform practitioners how Commercial Division courts will apply Rule 11-e(f), which took effect on Oct. 1, and codifies the Commercial Division’s support of the use of technology assisted review (TAR) during discovery
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Scientists "reverse time" with quantum computer in breakthrough study (Independent) https://maas-bong.io/2VVaSAH
Scientists have reversed the direction of time with a quantum computer. The breakthrough study seems to contradict basic laws of physics and could alter our understanding of the processes governing the universe
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What do your devices know about you? (Cybint Solutions) https://maas-bong.io/2VZ8WqR
An infographic showing that, no matter how careful you think you are, your on- (and off-) line footprint is BIG
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IT teams, regulatory requests and eDiscovery - a perfect ménage à trois (Zylab) https://maas-bong.io/2VZgmKS
Few situations can cause as much stress to IT departments as a regulatory request for information. With little warning, teams are required to trawl through copious amounts of data, in an attempt to extract relevant material. The solution? eDiscovery tools and people
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Five advantages of having an ESI protocol for your matter (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2VY2lwC
Kelly Twigger argues (rightly) that the exercise of thinking through everything that will be needed for your case in discovery is invaluable
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"Legal Tech Store" opens in France - an application marketplace (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2W0owTd
Today sees the launch of a new French legal tech marketplace called the Legal Tech Store, which provides ‘customers’ with a range of applications, from contract management to data analysis to privacy tools
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The MoD on the disclosure naughty step again: Indemnity costs where disclosure conduct falls outside the norm (Chris Dale) https://maas-bong.io/2u6jbNW
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Smart Time infographic: A 50 year history of tech in legal (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2u486NA
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Compelled-password decision is "death knell" for Fifth Amendment, US state justice argues (ABA Journal) https://maas-bong.io/2uc5H3D
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Why Legal Operations matters and how to optimise its impact (Mixner Consulting) https://maas-bong.io/2u3quGo
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The middle way - an integrated approach to legal technology (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2u3jOrH
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Small firms, small bars and tech training (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2u2NFR2
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To maintain regulatory compliance you need to capture context (JD Supra) https://maas-bong.io/2u0YXFs
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What happens in an Internet minute (Twitter) https://maas-bong.io/2u3w37S
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Metrics? What metrics? KPIs that legal ops professionals need to track (Part II) (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2u11ob4
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Purple rain of sanctions falls on the record company in the “Prince Case” for their intentional destruction of text messages (e-Discovery Team) https://maas-bong.io/2u2slv5
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Automating eDiscovery: A strategic framework (ComplexDiscovery) https://maas-bong.io/2VQcOdG
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KPMG: Top five innovation hubs: SV, NY, Beijing, London and Tokyo (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2VQtXnn
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VIDEO: from LegalTech 2019 - a chat with Paul Mankoo, CEO Inventus (Gregory Bufithis) https://maas-bong.io/2VQxPVr
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Legal spend: Have law departments got it right? (Commitment Matters) https://maas-bong.io/2VKvA66
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Seven challenges of contract management - contract management 101 (Precisely) https://maas-bong.io/2VS3o15
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According to Consilio, strong majority of companies are increasing investment in detecting “bad behaviours” (CloudNine) https://maas-bong.io/2VKbFnY
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eDiscovery sanctions issued in Jimi Hendrix weed case (Exterro) https://maas-bong.io/2VRCLJE
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An email marketing company left 809 million records exposed online (Ars Technica) https://maas-bong.io/2VQdYpy
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When litigation support manager Dave Hasman was asked what a typical day at Bricker & Eckler was like, he laughed (Relativity) https://maas-bong.io/2VTS6tv
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What Google knows about you (Axios) https://maas-bong.io/2VKyPdM
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"The Robots Are Coming" or "Litigation Hold Script for O365" (Jonathan McKee) https://maas-bong.io/2VJVQgX
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The three surprising secrets that drive innovation in the digital era (CIO) https://maas-bong.io/2VKfZU3
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The reality of collaboration (Law21) https://maas-bong.io/2VMeDrQ
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The price of collaboration (Law21) https://maas-bong.io/2VEYdSi
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LexisNexis General Counsel talks legal tech, sticking to a budget and the rise of in-house counsel (Corporate Counsel) https://maas-bong.io/2VKTYEC
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Blockchain and AI: What happens when the technologies merge? (Appinventiv) https://maas-bong.io/2VJOU3p
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Norton Rose launches consultancy for "AI, blockchain and crypto" (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2VMorlE
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"Legal services" are whatever buyers need to solve business challenges (Legal Business World) https://maas-bong.io/2VLmMgd
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In an era of rapid technological change in the legal market, do relationships still matter? (Legal Executive Institute) https://maas-bong.io/2VLnWZ7
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Disclosure - What information about search methodology must be shared? (Taylor Wessing) https://maas-bong.io/2HkV8Tm
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Why legaltech makes sense for private equity (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2Hi1jYp
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Lord Chief Justice sets up advisory group on artificial intelligence (UK Judiciary) https://maas-bong.io/2HkoAZD
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Actively learning? Predictive coding technologies and protocols survey - Spring 2019 results (ComplexDiscovery) https://maas-bong.io/2HjSJsb
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50 centuries of civilisations, empires, dynasties and world population by continent (Twitter) https://maas-bong.io/2HjZQAT
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Ministry of Defence hit with indemnity costs for disclosure failure (Litigation Futures) https://maas-bong.io/2HkH6B6
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Take the risk out of redaction (Zylab) https://maas-bong.io/2HpBN3k
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How much privilege review is required under a clawback agreement? (Percipient) https://maas-bong.io/2HiPl0M
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Does AI ethics have a bad name? (Forbes) https://maas-bong.io/2Hk1SRx
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“Own the eDiscovery process”: Microsoft unveils compliance center (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2HjVslh
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Disclosure difficulties in UK criminal cases - especially mobile phone evidence (Chris Dale) https://maas-bong.io/2H9Ioiv
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Integration challenges lead to digital deceleration, thanks to more projects on smaller budgets (Computer Weekly) https://maas-bong.io/2H9Nc7C
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Still topical: Technology competence - what the ethical duty means for you and your firm (Intelligent Editing) https://maas-bong.io/2HftZl1
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Using landmine detectors, meteorite hunt turns up 36 space rocks in Antarctica (Smithsonian) https://maas-bong.io/2H8PRyf
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Relativity bags CTO from Amazon Web Services, will add 300 staff (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2Hab36R
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How courts can increase access to justice by adopting better technology (American Bar Association) https://maas-bong.io/2H8yX2M
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Why Facebook still seems to spy on you (Wall Street Journal) https://maas-bong.io/2H6lPuS
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Are law firms ready for Generation Z? They'd better be (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2HancZQ
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Data doesn’t make decisions (3 Geeks and a Law Blog) https://maas-bong.io/2HbxKrh
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Resist urge to skip design thinking stages (CustomerThink) https://maas-bong.io/2H8KT4A
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Well hello, Project X! Thomson Reuters announce their comprehensive "Panoramic" legal workflow solution (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2H6aWct
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AdvanceLaw, a collective of 250 general counsel, to transform the legal profession by providing access to client decision-makers (AdvanceLaw) https://maas-bong.io/2Eg82Pt
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Legal tech in law firms - a conversation with legal technologist Dera Nevin (Baker McKenzie) https://maas-bong.io/2H3UzND
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Some law schools offer tech programs to help students find jobs, but does it work? (ABA Journal) https://maas-bong.io/2H5EIhN
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Machine learning in contracts - Behind the hype: what's real and what's possible? (Juro) https://maas-bong.io/2H6i60G
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The surprisingly complex journey a text message takes every time we hit “send" (Motherboard) https://maas-bong.io/2H5HqUr
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Slaughter and May launches its own legal tech programme (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2H6iFYm
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R v E and the great [criminal] disclosure debate (Counsel) https://maas-bong.io/2H5Zcqs
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How legal departments are using and benefitting from legal tech (LexisNexis) https://maas-bong.io/2H62Hx2
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Nothing artificial about it: How law firms (really) use AI in practice (Medium) https://maas-bong.io/2H5MW9F
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The web as a data source: What we can learn from In Re Ex Parte Application of Levi Strauss & Co (Hanzo) https://maas-bong.io/2H3rJwS
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Shining a light on what the "dark web" really means for firms (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2GZnT89
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The next recession could cost 10,000 lawyers their jobs (The American Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2H3YaLC
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Is blockchain as secure as people think? Maybe not (CloudNine) https://maas-bong.io/2H37oI7
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Baker McKenzie’s Jae Um and Casey Flaherty on BigLaw innovation (LawSites) https://maas-bong.io/2H1ZJtD
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Is digital transformation really happening in law firms? (Neota Logic) https://maas-bong.io/2H4mRYC
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Why innovation dies in law firms (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2H3GcZR
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Parallels between the informed patient and the informed client (Chris Dale) https://maas-bong.io/2H43xe0
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Nine biggest hurdles to AI adoption (CIO) https://maas-bong.io/2H9rWyT
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Five steps you can take to earn an eDiscovery sanction (Exterro) https://maas-bong.io/2H3XtlJ
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Planning for later in eDiscovery (Mike McBride) https://maas-bong.io/2H0kwh3
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Five key takeaways from the Alternative In House Legal Summit 2019 (Neota Logic) https://maas-bong.io/2H2q5vI
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Digitisation of the courts - bad news for advocates? (LexisNexis) https://maas-bong.io/2GYNGNC
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A detailed map of medieval trade routes in Europe, Asia, and Africa (Kottke) https://maas-bong.io/2H6wwNY
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What's next for ILTA? Full time CEO Joy Heath Rush dishes on future plans (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2H0E4Ca
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This is how lawyers of the future should be thinking about tech (Legal Cheek) https://maas-bong.io/2H6yBJM
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District of South Carolina: Forensic protocol granted where mobile devices returned in three hours (Litigation Support Tip of the Night) https://maas-bong.io/2GYU2MY
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Are lawyers ready to be managed by metrics? (The American Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2H0U8Uo
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What does the Big 4's legal tech push mean for law firms? (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2GY71i2
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Clients need legal services but not necessarily lawyers (Legal Mosaic) https://maas-bong.io/2H2jdOA
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Judge rejects bid to exit shorter trial scheme and compares scheme to new disclosure pilot (Litigation Futures) https://maas-bong.io/2GUJ3nK
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Selling innovation & experimentation to a CFO (Strategyzer) https://maas-bong.io/2GTl1JX
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The NHS’s 10 principles for AI and data, a new benchmark for lawyers? (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2GXBVqP
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Top 15 best global brands ranking for the last 19 years (Twitter) https://maas-bong.io/2GVqGz3
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Lawyers’ eDiscovery competence improving, US judges in survey say (LawSites) https://maas-bong.io/2GUG4eW
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Britain's top 10 "crap towns" revealed - does your area make the list? (The Mirror) https://maas-bong.io/2GUC2Dq
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Are robots coming for lawyers? Not until they can translate legalese (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2GZfhy3
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Eight things a good lawyer does that a computer algorithm can’t (Legal Executive Institute) https://maas-bong.io/2GY14BN
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The RollOnFriday Firm of the Year 2019 results are in (RollOnFriday) https://maas-bong.io/2GWtVq6
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One law school advancing discovery technology education, one student at a time (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2GXLB4r
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Five key takeaways from The Sedona Conference’s Social Media eDiscovery Primer (X1) https://maas-bong.io/2SgbXAL
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Revealed: The best law firms for work/life balance - 2019 edition (Legal Cheek) https://maas-bong.io/2Sh8ySb
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EDRM: The eDiscovery energy wheelhouse (Relativity) https://maas-bong.io/2Xhcmqa
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Data in, insights out: Why AI needs superior data to be successful (Corporate Compliance Insights) https://maas-bong.io/2SgcMtl
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Law firms still a "great target" as US firm falls victim to alleged Chinese hack (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2Sjq88e
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Organisations shift from transformation to digital optimisation (Tech Wire Asia) https://maas-bong.io/2SgJWZJ
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How do you teach AI the value of trust? (EY) https://maas-bong.io/2SgSDn1
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The curious case of lawyers - by International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA) president Xavier Costa (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2SimKdE
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Chinese schoolgirl shamed for using robot to write homework. Now everybody wants one (South China Morning Post) https://maas-bong.io/2Sd9Rle
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Three ways in-house lawyers are using eDiscovery software to reduce legal spend (Logikcull) https://maas-bong.io/2SeyXA1
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Take the Predictive Coding Technologies and Protocols Spring 2019 Survey (ComplexDiscovery) https://maas-bong.io/2XdTNUa
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Why hype technology is killing innovation (Medium) https://maas-bong.io/2X8rC97
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No bad faith means no sanctions for failing to preserve video of altercation (CloudNine) https://maas-bong.io/2X9M9tH
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“Seismic shift”: Emily Foges on Luminance’s new partnership with EY Law (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2XdWTYi
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Global eDiscovery market 2019: Research in-depth analysis, manufacturers, and forecast to 2024 (Honest Version) https://maas-bong.io/2XcX06n
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ILTA names Joy Heath Rush as CEO [Yay!] (LawSites) https://maas-bong.io/2X8FD6y
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At Inspire Legal, collaboration and education stand out as pressing problems of the legal profession (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2XdeCyM
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The "no nonsense" guide to artificial intelligence (CENTURY Tech) https://maas-bong.io/2XcoiK1
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VIDEO: On the road to the Mobile World Congress 2019: 5G … plugged in? Or unplugged? Nokia provides perspective (Gregory Bufithis) https://maas-bong.io/2Xa8K9A
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Top 18 legal technology developments of 2018 (State Bar of Wisconsin) https://maas-bong.io/2X6DAzQ
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The only way is ethics when it comes to eDiscovery (Lineal) https://maas-bong.io/2Xc6xuf
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The cold, hard, truth behind “the cold hard truth behind eDiscovery deadlines” (Martin Nikel) https://maas-bong.io/2X6PObT
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Ten years in, and still passionate about eDiscovery (Hanzo) https://maas-bong.io/2XdV6lJ
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Lawtech Adoption research report (The Law Society) https://maas-bong.io/2XbLnMI
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Emoji are showing up in court cases exponentially, and courts aren’t prepared (The Verge) https://maas-bong.io/2X4YdfM
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For ALT (Association of Legal Technologists), its second conference was a reckoning (LawSites) https://maas-bong.io/2Xc60sf
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Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked (Technology Review) https://maas-bong.io/2X9vCpG
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Growing concern for endangered lawyers (Global Legal Post) https://maas-bong.io/2XbJtMo
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eDiscovery in South Africa - using eDiscovery technology is too expensive for SA?? (Terry Harrison) https://maas-bong.io/2XcMX19
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Robot mediator settles first ever court case (Legal Futures) https://maas-bong.io/2X9wHxK
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Interview: Retired US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck of DLA Piper on cross-border discovery and technology-assisted review (Chris Dale) https://maas-bong.io/2S88BzC
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NY Appeals Court extends discoverability of social media photos to “tagged” photos (CloudNine) https://maas-bong.io/2S9ju4w
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Artificial intelligence to tackle insurance fraud and assess flood damage (UK Government) https://maas-bong.io/2S1UBaI
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Innovation – over-used conference topic or something valid to strive for? (Jason Plant) https://maas-bong.io/2S6dARF
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Updated: Linklaters Nakhoda launches deal platform ISDA Create - and what that really means (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2X4izpD
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EDRM publishes TAR guidelines (ACEDS) https://maas-bong.io/2Xa52gf
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The full list: Which law firms + tech companies won Innovate UK funding? (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2XbqwZZ
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Appeal judges “penalising law firms for being efficient” (Litigation Futures) https://maas-bong.io/2X9PY27
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Legal technology through a different lens (The Law Society Gazette) https://maas-bong.io/2Xcg5pl
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Federal judges feel they’re still too involved in your discovery process (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2X9xSxi
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The Discovery Iceberg (Jonathan Maas) https://maas-bong.io/2S4RleS
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Profile: Paula Fearon, head of project services at McCann FitzGerald, has seen her role evolve with the technology (The Irish Times) https://maas-bong.io/2S8rgeY
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When litigation becomes a “verbal brawl”: disclosure must be proportionate (Civil Litigation Brief) https://maas-bong.io/2UWjW7S
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A lawyer’s obligation to be technologically competent – Part 4 (Farrell Fritz) https://maas-bong.io/2V2OJQD
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Q&A: Getting ready for the emoji law revolution (Yahoo! Finance) https://maas-bong.io/2UR4Al4
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Becoming the killer whale: Changing mindsets key to law firm innovation (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2UVlHSP
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Big data: Law firms play “Moneyball" (Financial Times) https://maas-bong.io/2S0GMtf
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The British-Irish dialect quiz (The New York Times) https://maas-bong.io/2S8sI0U
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UK LawTech initiatives WTF (Legal Geek) https://maas-bong.io/2S8tpr2
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Will lawyers ever embrace technology in eDiscovery? (Mixner Consulting) https://maas-bong.io/2S1yCAF
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Litigators must tread carefully on shifting sands (The Law Society Gazette) https://maas-bong.io/2UTRHXp
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AI-based object detection and tracking takes a next step (Radio+Television Business Report) https://maas-bong.io/2UUn4kw
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Too much money to care about efficiency? A New York conversation (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2UYkdqZ
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Legaltech19 product innovation competition winners (Legal Technology Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2UUo08w
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Turn and face the strange (Martin Nikel) https://maas-bong.io/2UULE4P
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Project Johnny 5: A case study on evaluating AI abstraction tools (Quislex) https://maas-bong.io/2DuTU4k
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Four top trends warmed up this year’s Legaltech 2019 (Lighthouse) https://maas-bong.io/2UUtf8n
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Some corporates show widening use of legal AI review technology (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2UPMcJc
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Evisort announces $4.5 million in seed funding (Legal Technology Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2UXkiLy
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To text, or not to text, clients: An ethical question for a technological time (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2UWsStU
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US judges' eDiscovery sanctions due to bad faith, poor communication: Report (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2GERL9u
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Law in the time of Twitter: Do chatty lawyers help or hinder their careers? (Law) https://maas-bong.io/2GFdsWU
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UK company sets a record for world’s largest 3D-printed rocket engine (Digital Trends) https://maas-bong.io/2GISo25
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2018 Chief Legal Officer survey: Corporate counsel focus on improving in-house efficiency (Epiq) https://maas-bong.io/2GEDY2F
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Five things that eDiscovery professionals have to consider in a mobile and global world (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2GCn8Sd
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On Inspire and echo chambers (D Casey Flaherty) https://maas-bong.io/2GCmTXj
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Privacy panels, video venues and more at my 13th Legaltech (Chris Dale) https://maas-bong.io/2GzSTLL
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Let’s not confuse Project Management with project management - The likelihood of confusion in legal services delivery tools (Medium) https://maas-bong.io/2GBvl9a
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Not using active learning? You're falling behind (Relativity) https://maas-bong.io/2GG7Dsf
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Bracing for the Big One: The impact of the California Consumer Privacy Act on eDiscovery (New York Law Journal) https://maas-bong.io/2GzVYeN
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Zero to sixty in eDiscovery: The value of on- and off-the-job training (Hanzo) https://maas-bong.io/2UUEDRI
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Meet Evisort, the new ai platform set to rock the $60 billion doc review market (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2UMe8xA
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Google warns EU link tax will magnify media monetary misery (The Register) https://maas-bong.io/2URcCKI
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UK National Paralegal Awards - finalists announced (Legal Futures) https://maas-bong.io/2URkITC
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Are the "legal elite" in an echo chamber? (Relativity) https://maas-bong.io/2UYzacH
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GlenLegal19 - the agenda and speakers (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2UMI6Se
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Ethical AI: Europe leads the way (Penningtons Manches) https://maas-bong.io/2UUKXIW
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Slaughter and May and others invest $10 million in legal tech provider Luminance (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2UPFEKB
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We asked Waterloo & City line passengers to rate their fellow commuters (Londonist) https://maas-bong.io/2UUEVbf
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Will AI put lawyers out of business? (Forbes) https://maas-bong.io/2UMgY5I
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Discovery for a modern age: eDiscovery, metadata, and cost savings (JD Supra) https://maas-bong.io/2UHPOgi
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Which jurisdiction? Choosing where to litigate - A jurisdictional overview of the world’s court systems (and discovery requirements, if any) (White & Case) https://maas-bong.io/2UPyI09
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Striking a critical balance: Document-related processes for both productivity and data protection (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2UMFgfR
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US law and the Big Four: Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? (TechLaw Crossroads) https://maas-bong.io/2UHDrRo
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AI, cloud and security - top priorities for enterprise legal departments (Information Age) https://maas-bong.io/2UNDRpC
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Seven US-focussed websites to boost your legal technology competence (Record Retrieval Solutions) https://maas-bong.io/2UPpMYI
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AI and a new way of looking at contract pre-screening (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2UPKK9P
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AI legal transcription provider Verbit raises $23 million (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2UNDkUE
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Behind Elevate Service’s buying binge: Liam Brown’s meticulous strategy (The American Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2USjlnP
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New York appellate court allows “data mining” of social media accounts for relevant information (X1) https://maas-bong.io/2UUpikb
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Did eDiscovery undermine the Mueller investigation? (Logikcull) https://maas-bong.io/2ULopu8
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Since GDPR enactment: 59,000 data breaches reported, 91 fines imposed (Gregory Bufithis) https://maas-bong.io/2UKFO67
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Google’s GDPR fine reinforces need for intentional data governance (Information Management) https://maas-bong.io/2UFK0nw
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GDPR-compliant companies experience shorter sales delays (Corporate Counsel) https://maas-bong.io/2UMD7Rk
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KPMG's legal services division revenue rose by 30%+ in 2018 in record-setting performance, stoking concerns among traditional law firms (Bloomberg Law) https://maas-bong.io/2UKKHvW
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Microsoft helps develop an AI-powered bridge to legal aid (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2UMep3E
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Luminance completes funding round at $100m valuation (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2UOdX58
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This is how AI bias really happens - and why it’s so hard to fix (MIT Technology Review) https://maas-bong.io/2UMD0VU
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Special report: How technology is disrupting the legal sector - to its benefit (Irish Times) https://maas-bong.io/2UH2zrm
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This zoo will name a cockroach after your ex, then feed it to a meerkat on Valentine's Day (CBS News) https://maas-bong.io/2UJeFQX
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NEW: UK eDisclosure Exchange Protocol (ILTA) https://maas-bong.io/2HXH1p1
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The reason why legal tech remains the domain of the legal elite: It’s all about the money (MyShingle) https://maas-bong.io/2HTO6qQ
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Citizens’ rights for Brits in the EU if there’s no Brexit deal (Politico) https://maas-bong.io/2HSX9Io
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Lessons from Legalweek: It’s not about legal tech (Thomson Reuters) https://maas-bong.io/2HWvndZ
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How Silicon Valley puts the “con" in consent (The New York Times) https://maas-bong.io/2UJkzBK
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Data minimisation is the “New Black” (Dean Gonsowski) https://maas-bong.io/2UISFFJ
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A primer on facial recognition technology (Gregory Bufithis) https://maas-bong.io/2UHouid
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AI goes to court: A conversation with Lex Machina and Dorsey & Whitney - Part 2 (JD Supra) https://maas-bong.io/2ULPVYl
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Mobile devices become important resource as texts and chats replace emails (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2UMcqMW
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Deloitte, Relativity partnership produces a Freedom of Information Act workflow tool (Mixner Consulting) https://maas-bong.io/2UGuIPq
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eDiscovery document review: “COVER" your ethical duties (The Legal Intelligencer) https://maas-bong.io/2HQ8qcs
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California-based legal services business Wilson Sonsini creates legal tech subsidiary, SixFifty (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2HSONAG
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The pay / hours trade-off at London law firms and related existential issues (Legal Evolution) https://maas-bong.io/2HQ8ede
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Legal tech for the legal elite: Observations of two conferences (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2HSLNnU
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Understanding electronic discovery: Not just for Biglaw (Attorney at Work) https://maas-bong.io/2HUHgBn
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The bigger big data gets, the bigger the risk it poses (The Hill) https://maas-bong.io/2HQkXN7
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ALSP use by corporations and law firms: A $10 billion market (ComplexDiscovery) https://maas-bong.io/2I1jxzA
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The eDiscovery landscape in 2019 (Lineal) https://maas-bong.io/2HS7J2n
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The legal world meets the scientific method at Inspire.Legal, NYC (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2I2WRi2
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The state of legal technology (Canadian Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2I2Xyb8
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Enabling remote eDiscovery? A snapshot of DaaS (ComplexDiscovery) https://maas-bong.io/2HRDxUX
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Big Four giant PwC announces blockchain auditing service (CCN) https://maas-bong.io/2HRDsk7
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Should we stop chasing blockchain? (Jason Plant) https://maas-bong.io/2HP6kte
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eDiscovery is dead! Long live eDiscovery! (Martin Nikel) https://maas-bong.io/2HQwOeb
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The use of technology to reduce the cost and scope of eDiscovery (The Legal Intelligencer) https://maas-bong.io/2HQPL0g
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LegalTech 2019 – a New Zealand perspective (E-Discovery Consulting) https://maas-bong.io/2HP3Mva
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How has document review changed since Michelle Obama's day? (The American Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2HNOQxz
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Illinois court says biometric fingerprint is violation of privacy, even without injury (CloudNine) https://maas-bong.io/2HQKUMw
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GCs are offering work on a silver platter—and law firms aren't taking it (Corporate Counsel) https://maas-bong.io/2HQjO8m
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Are people the weak link in technology-assisted review? (The Legal Intelligencer) https://maas-bong.io/2HYUwVI
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OpenText buys Catalyst Repository Systems, Inc. (OpenText) https://maas-bong.io/2HLTSL3
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Pulling off the impossible: New Yorker-style cartoons about lawyers that are actually funny (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2HLihAm
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“Change" is a mantra for law firms, but will they tune in? (The American Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2HHUGjW
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Risk-aversion and cost top these in-house lawyers’ requirements for eDiscovery (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2HJcriN
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92% of large businesses gearing up for big data and AI (TechHQ) https://maas-bong.io/2HJvZU9
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ayfie to provide groundbreaking artificial intelligence workflows for the Relativity ecosystem (AiThority) https://maas-bong.io/2HNg3jU
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Machine learning disrupting the law industry [“legal profession”?] (Algorithm-X Lab) https://maas-bong.io/2HKHquY
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Managed review, eDiscovery, and artificial intelligence (ComplexDiscovery) https://maas-bong.io/2HMBilT
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Collaboration is crucial to cross-border investigations in a GDPR world (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2HL22TW
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Lessons learned for 2019: Spotlighting the top eDiscovery cases from 2018 (Driven) https://maas-bong.io/2HH5Cy7
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Live video from Legalweek 2019: Judge Andrew Peck and Craig Ball blow the roof off the joint (Gregory Bufithis) https://maas-bong.io/2GcwLqv
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Hard-hitting campaign says justice in England in escalating crisis (Global Legal Post) https://maas-bong.io/2GbbkpP
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Satisfied attorneys are the overlooked key to revenue growth (The American Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2Gaxs3s
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Legal tech companies at Legalweek have yet to master marketing as a conversation (LexBlog) https://maas-bong.io/2G9yAVf
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Listen > Learn > Lead: A guide to improving court services through user-centric design (University of Denver) https://maas-bong.io/2GeKCNa
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Google+ will start shutting down on 04 February (TechRadar) https://maas-bong.io/2Gd3096
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US courts issue conflicting work product doctrine opinions: Part II (JD Supra) https://maas-bong.io/2GdjuOh
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The 21 biggest takeaways from BTI’s Annual Market Outlook and Client Service Review (BTI Consulting Group) https://maas-bong.io/2Gb3jkE
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Disclosure rules “could encourage” partnership litigation (Litigation Futures) https://maas-bong.io/2Gb48de
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Five ways leading CIOs are deploying AI in 2019 (CIO) https://maas-bong.io/2GdlRk9
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Streamlining the eDiscovery process (In-House Tech) https://maas-bong.io/2Gcx0C4
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Three ways government attorneys wished you handled investigations (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2Gc47pE
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Why legal tech will not replace lawyers (Medium) https://maas-bong.io/2G8DHVD
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LexisNexis launches global foundation to advance the rule of law (High Performance Counsel) https://maas-bong.io/2G8E0zL
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How to innovate without technology (Legal Geek) https://maas-bong.io/2GbSdM8
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Large law firms “increasingly losing out to Big 4” (Legal Futures) https://maas-bong.io/2GabJc3
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50 old British dialect words we should bring back (Mental Floss) https://maas-bong.io/2G7pLeB
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Should clients do more to force law firms to innovate? (The American Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2G8HFgU
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12 resolutions for the legal industry, from legal experts (Logikcull) https://maas-bong.io/2G7BFVP
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FTI Consulting expands eDiscovery managed services offering to the Relativity platform (Legal IT Professionals) https://maas-bong.io/2GbeLwz
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Some final steps and key takeaways: processing fundamentals series Part 5 (Xact) https://maas-bong.io/2G8wKUz
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Ipro announces product name changes (Ipro) https://maas-bong.io/2G7wK77
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CloudNine announces technology enhancements and rebranding on four discovery software products (Business Wire) https://maas-bong.io/2G5Knns
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Law's odd couple: Will new law hires transform traditional law firms? (Forbes) https://maas-bong.io/2G6kEeA
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112 additions to the Catalogue of Law Firm Innovations, v.1.02 - legal services innovation index (Legaltech Lever) https://maas-bong.io/2G7pJDp
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13 questions you need to ask to close the information governance gap (Information Management) https://maas-bong.io/2G5vth0
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Australia launches ALTACon legal tech conference (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2G8Bs4C
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OpenText’s Adam Kuhn talks about the growing relationships between law, IT and AI (In-House Tech) https://maas-bong.io/2G6bUVK
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Alternative Legal Service Providers Report 2019: ALSP market experiencing rapid growth & expanded use (Thomson Reuters) https://maas-bong.io/2G8ZjRR
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Inside Legalweek 2019: State of the legal industry (InsideLegal) https://maas-bong.io/2G5OW0S
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Summary and analysis: Microsoft Office 365 eDiscovery challenge survey (LawSites) https://maas-bong.io/2G5tWY8
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A+ team being assembled at Baker McKenzie (Legal Evolution) https://maas-bong.io/2G783aX
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Legal AI – its definition and its value to the legal world (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2G5va5S
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How artificial intelligence can change legal departments: A Q&A with IBM Watson's Brian Kuhn (Corporate Counsel) https://maas-bong.io/2G5C1My
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713% growth: Legal tech set an investment record in 2018 (Forbes) https://maas-bong.io/2G4t2Lv
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Legalweek preview: How technology is transforming legal practice (LawSites) https://maas-bong.io/2G5KJu7
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Lawtech is a puzzle to junior lawyers, JLD survey shows (The Law Society Gazette) https://maas-bong.io/2G3AZRk
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Law school has failed the profession (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2G2kbdr
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The state of artificial intelligence in China (Nanalyze) https://maas-bong.io/2G9xrNv
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Relativity brings reduced data fees, unlimited analytics, and a more flexible licensing model to RelativityOne customers (Legal IT Professionals) https://maas-bong.io/2G6QPKI
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Legal technology company DISCO raises $83 million, bringing total investment to $135 million (DISCO) https://maas-bong.io/2FZv0Na
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Inside Legalweek 2019: Legaltech agenda word cloud - nine years and counting (InsideLegal) https://maas-bong.io/2FXgLZs
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What's in store for technology and the law in 2019 for Africa? (LexTrado) https://maas-bong.io/2FZqYEw
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Canadian tech solutions looking to shake up the legal world in 2019 (BetaKit) https://maas-bong.io/2G01J5d
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The Information Commissioner's Office myth-busting blog about what a "no deal" Brexit will mean for UK companies transferring personal data to and from the EEA (ICO) https://maas-bong.io/2FZvgf3
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The Remainer’s guide to getting behind Brexit (The Daily Mash) https://maas-bong.io/2FZduIW
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Liberating in-house legal services through automation (The In-House Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2Dz6W2k
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The £1 billion IT project that has caused chaos in the criminal courts (The Spectator) https://maas-bong.io/2FWc0iN
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Compliance partners with X1 and Brainspace for real-time, pre-collection analysis of unstructured data across thousands of custodians (Compliance) https://maas-bong.io/2G1iCfF
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How will legal providers be affected by the next recession? (Legal Business World) https://maas-bong.io/2FXtgEm
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Ask the marketer: Preparing for Legalweek New York (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2RftU24
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Innovation labs don’t work (Slingshot) https://maas-bong.io/2RcgOTc
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The state of law firm innovation 2018 (Law) https://maas-bong.io/2RbAGpi
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Reed Smith’s tech subsidiary GravityStack hits maturity milestone (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2RaKgsD
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How, why, and when AI and machine learning will transform organisations (451 Research) https://maas-bong.io/2N8WRj1
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alt.legal: We keep waiting on the world to change (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2Rbsllz
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Could the GDPR "Right to Access" make personal data more vulnerable? (Law) https://maas-bong.io/2Rbls3u
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This simple bit of maths about the size of pizza has amazed people (Indy100) https://maas-bong.io/2RfoqEw
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Change happens in two ways - gradually and then suddenly (Legal Futures) https://maas-bong.io/2RbVIEb
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Revealed: The law firms with the best social life - 2019 edition (Legal Cheek) https://maas-bong.io/2RaQ8Cb
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“The ones to watch”: a video chat with Chris Dale (Gregory Bufithis) https://maas-bong.io/2R9eDPY
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Casey Flaherty joins Baker McKenzie as director of legal project management (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2R87kZ1
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The battle for (non-legal) talent in the legal market (Prism Legal) https://maas-bong.io/2R9dS9A
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The Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) London - getting to grips with data and better contracting (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2R8NNaM
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Intransigent expert’s approach leads to “significant part of claimant’s case being struck out”: a case for every expert and litigator to read - now (Civil Litigation Brief) https://maas-bong.io
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Scientists say our magnetic field is weakening: What will happen to us if the magnetic poles flip? (IFL Science) https://maas-bong.io/2R6Cv6Y
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Law courts in chaos as IT meltdown disrupts thousands of cases (The Guardian) https://maas-bong.io/2R8IYOB
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Research to probe ethical issues raised by legal technology (Legal Futures) https://maas-bong.io/2R8JZWV
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Electronic bundles, witnesses and the trial process - a warning from the courts: sort this out or the court will go back to paper bundles (Civil Litigation Brief) https://maas-bong.io/2R5W2nX
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Is data culling inversely proportional to eDiscovery costs? (Deloitte) https://maas-bong.io/2R4l3QB
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22 eDiscovery predictions for 2019 (Relativity) https://maas-bong.io/2R7El7u
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On the road to Legalweek New York 2019: A clever use of virtual reality to test race bias in the law (Gregory Bufithis) https://maas-bong.io/2R2OrGJ
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Google is fined $57 million under Europe’s data privacy law (The New York Times) https://maas-bong.io/2R2PqXr
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Legal’s 2019 tech challenge: Getting everyone on the same page (Corporate Counsel) https://maas-bong.io/2R1gmqJ
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The Legal Geek startup map (Legal Geek) https://maas-bong.io/2R8sGWa
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Transforming law firm culture to ensure information security (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2R7Lfts
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Robots are people too…maybe (The Regulatory Review) https://maas-bong.io/2R1qFLr
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Wholesale failures bode ill for online revolution (The Law Society Gazette) https://maas-bong.io/2R4kVR1
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A day in the life of an eDiscovery professional: Linda Luperchio, CEDS (Exterro) https://maas-bong.io/2R6jW2N
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Here’s a story where picking the right font was never more important (CloudNine) https://maas-bong.io/2R5BHiL
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Event: New EU Rules on e-Evidence - The proposed European Production and Preservation Orders (Academy of European Law) https://maas-bong.io/2R5THtk (£)
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Blind justice no more: Law firms embrace AI and other emerging tech (Crain's Cleveland Business) https://maas-bong.io/2R2Wx2f
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After 25 years studying innovation, here is what I have learned (Clayton Christensen) https://maas-bong.io/2R4dnxQ
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Bricklayers and architects: How do we become lawyers who can see, understand and solve the biggest picture issues? (Legal Evolution) https://maas-bong.io/2R5krKm
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Elevate acquires Yerra Solutions (ComplexDiscovery) https://maas-bong.io/2R3vrYI
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Russia opens civil cases against Facebook and Twitter (Reuters) https://maas-bong.io/2QYKXoR
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Web’s most asked questions: eDiscovery (@GlobalDiscovery) https://maas-bong.io/2R5rEKq
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A country’s ambitious plan to teach anyone the basics of AI (Technology Review) https://maas-bong.io/2R5shng
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Herbert Smith Freehills boosts "follow-the-sun" eDiscovery capabilities (Lawyers Weekly) https://maas-bong.io/2R7xlry
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Sprinting to respond to Data Subject Access Requests (The Legal Revolutionary) https://maas-bong.io/2R3vHqz
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Is the future of eDiscovery really in the cloud? (Relativity) https://maas-bong.io/2QURhO1
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Artificial intelligence thinks your face is full of data. Could it actually unmask you? (Popular Science) https://maas-bong.io/2QXxjCg
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New breed of law firm execs drive innovation to the next level (Big Law Business) https://maas-bong.io/2QWbgMj
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Linklaters begins moving associates into permanent tech roles (The American Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2QYdhYm
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Structural violation of “Right to Access” and GDPR complaints against Netflix, Amazon, Spotify, YouTube and Apple filed (noyb) https://maas-bong.io/2W0INIS
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How artificial intelligence can help us make judges less biased (The Verge) https://maas-bong.io/2QYpgFt
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A leaked report says moving justice online could lead to innocent people pleading guilty (BuzzFeed) https://maas-bong.io/2QX1eL5
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Legal Technology Definition Quadrant chart 1.0 (Dennis Kennedy) https://maas-bong.io/2QUCV0h
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Largest collection ever of breached data found (The Guardian) https://maas-bong.io/2QUQHzP
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Junior lawyers are going extinct and nobody knows what to do about it (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2R027T0
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HaystackID acquires eDiscovery managed services provider eTera (HaystackID) https://maas-bong.io/2QS4Yxb
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Sapere Aude: Aim for excellence, not innovation (Legal Executive Institute) https://maas-bong.io/2QUNwIt
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How legal teams can make the most out of AI solutions (Legal IT Professionals) https://maas-bong.io/2QXhpb8
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Mobile to the mainstream, all in one place (CloudNine) https://maas-bong.io/2QZ8juE
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Why machine learning needs semantics not just statistics (Forbes) https://maas-bong.io/2QZ9gTK
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What top law firms in the UK are doing to prepare for Brexit (The American Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2QRPKbC
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Inside Legalweek 2019: Q&A with Mark Fried, ALM events president (Inside Legal) https://maas-bong.io/2QVBwq6
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Junior lawyers "endangered species" due to automation, law professor John Flood claims (Legal Cheek) https://maas-bong.io/2QSOQvq
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IBM to kill off Watson Workspace from end of February (The Register) https://maas-bong.io/2QW1wSn
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Killer is convicted in part due to an IoT device, this time a Garmin GPS watch (BBC) https://maas-bong.io/2QQmWQN
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Update: Driven acquires eDiscovery provider Omnivere, eyeing ongoing growth (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2QUJnEq
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“Hey Siri, when will voice assistants improve?” (IoT For All) https://maas-bong.io/2QTcMyH
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World's first robot hotel massacres half of its robot staff (The Register) https://maas-bong.io/2QTp4av
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Curiosity is the foundation for innovation (Evolve the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2QUGH9Q
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LawTech initiatives WTF (Legal Geek) https://maas-bong.io/2QUXY2R
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The benefits of the LexisNexis LegalTech accelerator (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2QSaVKw
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ONE Discovery unveils contract-free eDiscovery software solution (Business Wire) https://maas-bong.io/2QWyGkU
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New technologies are throwing out the book on law procedures, and Aussie legaltech startups are helping them do it (Smart Company) https://maas-bong.io/2QRHfxl
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#MeToo and IP issues among top litigation trends in 2019: Crowell report (Corporate Counsel) https://maas-bong.io/2QSGHXH
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What does it say when a legal Blockchain eBook is promoted by FAKE views? (The Time Blawg) https://maas-bong.io/2QVbun7
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Are eDiscovery and cybersecurity two sides of the same coin? (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2QQi9P6
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How to unlock a firm’s data potential (Law Technology Today) https://maas-bong.io/2QQhNs2
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Greasing the gears of legal commerce - automatic, systematic, hydromatic innovation (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2QQErAv
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Driven, Inc. acquires Omnivere (PR Newswire) https://maas-bong.io/2QPJot2
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Key activities and common tools: Processing fundamentals series Part 2 (Xact) https://maas-bong.io/2QMUfUQ
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Legal analytics, the next frontier: How the data-driven lawyer is becoming reality (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2QQJgJS
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By public demand: More on the botched Manafort redaction (ride the lightning) https://maas-bong.io/2QOrvuY
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US judge rules police can’t force you to unlock your iPhone with biometrics (Mixner Consulting) https://maas-bong.io/2QMY4cE
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Lessons from Michael Cohen v United States: Criminal defendants should not be at the mercy of technology for privilege review (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2QN9HQM
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Video interview: A chat with Ron Friedmann (Project Counsel) https://maas-bong.io/2QPXZox
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When faced with high-stakes government investigations, lawyers have a road map (think GIRM, not EDRM) (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2QPl5f0
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Two tribes go to war: Legal tech proponents are dividing into opposing camps. One says the industry should stay within its comfort zone, the other can’t wait to jump on the innovation bandwagon (The Law Society Gazette) https://maas-bong.io/2QMMez8
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US state officially starts using blockchain for marriage certificates (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2QQMOfu
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What does it say when a legal blockchain eBook has 1.7m views? (Forbes) https://maas-bong.io/2QQVdj2
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Law firm duped out of €97,000 in cyber scam (Irish Independent) https://maas-bong.io/2QNT9rI
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Legally creative: Why being a lawyer requires abstract thought (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2QPAEDD
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Is 2019 the year the legal AI predictions come true? (Exterro) https://maas-bong.io/2QLQjnh
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Here are all of the solar and lunar eclipses you can see in 2019 (Time) https://maas-bong.io/2QN77dp
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Atrium: "Using tech to amplify the talent of lawyers, to help the clients" (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2QN6Mrg
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How to fight push-back when accessing big data (Lawyers Weekly) https://maas-bong.io/2QIjRlL
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A Chill in the Air: eDiscovery business confidence survey results - Winter 2019 (ComplexDiscovery) https://maas-bong.io/2Cb2vIM
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The best UK law firms for quality of work - 2019 edition (Legal Cheek) https://maas-bong.io/2ChLgWe
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Singapore to launch automated litigation work platform for prosecutors, set to embrace AI (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2CeO1b1
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No need to go to Greenwich to see the Meridian Line in London (Londonist) https://maas-bong.io/2CdUkeP
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The coming of the age of AI in the law: Man must still be master of the machine (Legal Cheek) https://maas-bong.io/2Cg3ebH
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Does artificial intelligence need a general counsel? The unintended consequences of AI (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2ChqW7x
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AI litigation analytics: A fad or the future? (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2CicVqj
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Are your cases won and lost on eDiscovery cooperation? (Relativity) https://maas-bong.io/2CfX2Rf
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eDiscovery market : The booming market showing strong position in future, key insights and forecast to 2025 (World News Today) https://maas-bong.io/2ChKhpn
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Friday quiz: Do you know which inventions ended up killing their inventors? (Mental Floss) https://maas-bong.io/2Cjpn9o
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Paul Manafort’s lawyers learn that obvious thing you learned as a summer associate, but why does this keep happening? (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2Cdzjkp
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"Right to be forgotten" by Google should apply only in EU, says court opinion (The Guardian) https://maas-bong.io/2CfDMTV
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Legal AI litigation company LegalMation partners with Ogletree Deakins, plus interview with Patrick DiDomenico, CKO (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2CnvGsz
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2018 US eDiscovery case law year in review, Part 4 (CloudNine) https://maas-bong.io/2CgCTu3
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Legal tech provider Onit secures $200M private equity investment (Legal Technology Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2CbTAqE
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Epiq has a new CEO with eyes set on overseas growth (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2Cdu5p3
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A "non-lawyer"" writes: PR: fee-earner or fee-drainer? (Legal Futures) https://maas-bong.io/2CcuQ1x
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Moore's Law is dead says Nvidia's CEO (CNET) https://maas-bong.io/2Ce82yw
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International Online Courts Forum: what we learned (Transparency Project) https://maas-bong.io/2Cf5rEn
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Corporate legal eagles start to embrace artificial intelligence (Corporate Counsel) https://maas-bong.io/2Cfwy1Y
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Legal holds: You gotta know when to hold ‘em... (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2RgmbW9
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Study pours cold water on AI driving algorithms (Datanami) https://maas-bong.io/2RhjiUZ
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Machine learning leads mathematicians to unsolvable problem (Nature) https://maas-bong.io/2RezaI1
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Rule of robots vs rule of law: Is legal technology endangering our ability to implement the rule of law? (LexisNexis Australia) https://maas-bong.io/2Rgo45b
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Sorry, your data can still be identified even if it’s anonymised (Fast Company) https://maas-bong.io/2RiKAKP
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Disclosure and documents demystified (CDR News) https://maas-bong.io/2Rn4apq
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Short-term approach to AI tech buying will give way to strategic and rational adoption in 2019 (Legal Support Network) https://maas-bong.io/2RjUmMw
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Young lawyers “fearful of innovation resistance” (Legal Futures) https://maas-bong.io/2RjPhUu
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2018 eDiscovery case law year in review, Part 3 (CloudNine) https://maas-bong.io/2ReJPlQ
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Judge penalises lawyers for not using artificial intelligence (Above the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2RiFcXV
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The year ahead: 2019 eDiscovery predictions (QDiscovery) https://maas-bong.io/2Cax5SO
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The Legal Business view of the legal profession for you to cut out and keep (Legal Business) https://maas-bong.io/2C6C8nC
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A not-so-rosy take on US BigLaw 2018 performance (Remaking Law Firms) https://maas-bong.io/2C8L77K
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AI proves its value in improving customer experiences (CIO) https://maas-bong.io/2CiBaor
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RoboLawyers make legal services cheap and cheerful (Nesta) https://maas-bong.io/2Cc38SK
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In the AI-enabled practice of the future, where does technical legal expertise fit? (Centre for Legal Innovation) https://maas-bong.io/2C4IvHU
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Law doesn’t keep up with technology (The Cloud Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2C6A5jk
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What are smart contracts? Answering the big questions (Artificial Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2CaNBCo
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The 20 most important legal technology developments of 2018 (LawSites) https://maas-bong.io/2C6l4Oz
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eDiscovery requests are up among US law firms (Legaltech News) https://maas-bong.io/2CiGtEn
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2018 eDiscovery US case law year in review, Part 1 (CloudNine) https://maas-bong.io/2C6alnf
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Chief lawyer for telecom surveillance company talks data collection, privacy concerns (Corporate Counsel) https://maas-bong.io/2C3pSnH
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Millennials in Big Law: resistance is futile (The American Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2C3zBum
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FCPA lawyer predicts GCs, CCOs have targets on their backs in 2019 (Corporate Counsel) https://maas-bong.io/2C8cOgG
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The RFP process is broken. here's how it might get fixed (The American Lawyer) https://maas-bong.io/2C3AlQa
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The Legal Geek Conference: Wednesday 16th October 2019 (Legal Geek) https://maas-bong.io/2C4lIMq
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Stop “doing more with less” in 2019 (NetApp) https://maas-bong.io/2C9Lj6r
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On legal teams and eDiscovery processing (JD Supra) https://maas-bong.io/2C7GFGb
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Legal tech has gone from something that no one cared about to one of the industry's most important sectors - and the conversation continues to mature (Evolve the Law) https://maas-bong.io/2C3CBqC
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Something for the new you this New Year: 17 inspirational quotes for people who really don’t want to be inspired (22 Words) https://maas-bong.io/2C2hh4G
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