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Survey: Legal Departments’ Failure to Adopt Technology Forcing In-House Lawyers to Return to Office, Despite Clear Preference for Hybrid

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Read about ContractWorks on the LawNext Legal Tech Directory. found that two thirds (64%) of them prefer policies that would permit them to work from home, even as many companies are now insisting they return to the office full-time. What is holding legal departments back from adopting technology?

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Women of Legal Tech: Kelli Raker

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The Legal Technology Resource Center ’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. Every Monday and Wednesday, we will be featuring a woman from our class of 2021. What do you see as the most important emerging tech, legal or not, right now?

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Duty of Technological Competence Begins Earlier Than You Think

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Lawyers Duty of Competence) professional competence requires that attorneys keep “abreast of changes in the law and its practice, including the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology.” . 2015-193, makes it clear that “in today’s technological world, almost every litigation matter potentially” involves e-discovery.

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What’s Up with WhatsApp? Out of Control Business Communications

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As many worked from home, accelerated by the pandemic and technology, it has been particularly difficult to avoid a growing threat posed by employees who have utilized private E-message platforms to conduct company business. And a corporate edict from on high banning use of these E-message platforms ….

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Top 5 Tips: Taking Depositions in a Post-Pandemic World

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Taking depositions remotely may have been standard as a stopgap measure when the world was forced to work from home, but now it is commonplace in the practice of law and likely will continue to be so. Working paperless has become far more common as people are working from home.

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Goat Entrails and Tea Leaves: Predicting the Future of Law Practice

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There are two large and outspoken groups, those who believe that we need to get back to the office if we haven’t already and those who believe that some combination of going to the office and working from home is the way to go. . Legal analytics continues to boom. Are there potential hazards for firms using the cloud?

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Expectations For the Legal Industry Moving Forward

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Jonah Paransky, executive vice president and general manager of Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions, reflects on the effects COVID-19 will have on the legal industry moving forward, as it relates to diversity, alternative legal service providers, and what he’s both concerned and excited for looking ahead.

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