Download or read book The Extraordinary Lawyer Collaboration tools and technology innovative ways for lawyers to work together and expand their knowledge base written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conference will include Mark Britton of AVVO and Kristen Nimsger of Thomson Reuters. Topics will be your choice of Technology or Practice Management such as, collaboration tools and technology - innovative ways for lawyers to work together and expand their knowledge base, procrastivity - using productive, creative ways to avoid snap decisions and achieve better results for a more productive practice and more satisfied clients, let your fingers do the walking to the courthouse - an introduction to e-filing and e-discovery, little big firm- using technology wisely to create big firm results, What did I ever do without it? Tips to using iPhones and iPads in your practice, everything in its place - organization is the key to your success, the ethics of social media - getting the most from your social presence without getting into trouble, lightning round - as many tech tips and practical insights as you can get in 50 minutes, the perfect interview - how to attract and hire the right people, Websites are so 2000 - establishing a web presence that gets you noticed today, don't be a yes chick - what your support system team need to know to help you succeed, Microsoft office 2010 - smarter word, saner outlook, incredible power point, go paperless now! How to save money and time (your two most valuable commodities), Would you like a firewall with your latte? The ethics of practicing out of a coffee shope and other remote locations, Nice attorneys finish first - acquiring the seven virtues of good lawyering and curing the seven deadly sins of unethical behavior. - Florida Bar website

Download or read book The Extraordinary Lawyer written by Florida Bar. Continuing Legal Education and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conference will include Mark Britton of AVVO and Kristen Nimsger of Thomson Reuters. Topics will be your choice of Technology or Practice Management such as, collaboration tools and technology - innovative ways for lawyers to work together and expand their knowledge base, procrastivity - using productive, creative ways to avoid snap decisions and achieve better results for a more productive practice and more satisfied clients, let your fingers do the walking to the courthouse - an introduction to e-filing and e-discovery, little big firm- using technology wisely to create big firm results, What did I ever do without it? Tips to using iPhones and iPads in your practice, everything in its place - organization is the key to your success, the ethics of social media - getting the most from your social presence without getting into trouble, lightning round - as many tech tips and practical insights as you can get in 50 minutes, the perfect interview - how to attract and hire the right people, Websites are so 2000 - establishing a web presence that gets you noticed today, don't be a yes chick - what your support system team need to know to help you succeed, Microsoft office 2010 - smarter word, saner outlook, incredible power point, go paperless now! How to save money and time (your two most valuable commodities), Would you like a firewall with your latte? The ethics of practicing out of a coffee shope and other remote locations, Nice attorneys finish first - acquiring the seven virtues of good lawyering and curing the seven deadly sins of unethical behavior. - Florida Bar website

Download or read book Successful Innovation Outcomes in Law A Practical Guide for Law Firms Law Departments and Other Legal Organizations written by Dennis Kennedy and published by Bowker Identifier Services. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes, innovators need some help from a trusted guide to keep their efforts on track and moving toward successful outcomes. In this comprehensive, practicable, and highly-readable legal innovation guide, innovators, innovators-to-be and leaders and decision-makers in law firms, law departments and legal organizations will be led through the key pieces of successful innovation processes to enhance the probability of success and decrease the probability of embarrassing and costly failures. Drawing on his many years of experience in law firms and law departments, his well-known expertise in innovation and legal technology and his familiarity with and involvement in the legal innovation movement, Dennis Kennedy covers the entire waterfront of innovation issues, shares his best tips and techniques, answers hard questions, and gives many helpful examples. This book will be an excellent desktop companion for your innovation journey. and an essential resource for forward-looking legal organizations of all kinds and for their customer as well.

Download or read book The Legal Technology Guidebook written by Kimberly Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the transformational impact of new technological developments on legal practice. More specifically, it addresses knowledge management, communication, and e-discovery related technologies, and helps readers develop the project management and data analysis skills needed to effectively navigate the current, and future, landscapes. It studies the impact of current trends on business practices, as well as the ethical, procedural, and evidentiary concerns involved. Introducing novel interactive technologies as well as traditional content, the book reflects expertise from across the legal industry, including practitioners, the bench, academia, and legal technology consultants. All of the contributing authors currently teach aspiring lawyers and/or paralegals and have identified a gap in the available instructional material. Rapid technology advances have radically changed the way we all live and work, and the legal profession is by no means exempt from the impact of these changes. In order to better assist their clients, and to better compete on the legal market, it is imperative for lawyers to understand the ethical, functional, and business consequences of new technologies on their respective practices. This book provides the necessary content by including legal technology texts, information about novel pedagogical technologies, helpful tools for managing legal technologies and IT staff, statistical methods, tips and checklists.

Download or read book The Human Cloud written by Matthew Mottola and published by HarperCollins Leadership. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empower yourself with the knowledge to keep up with the rapidly changing technical world of work, as two workforce productivity and technology experts lay out a clear picture of the?coming?revolution?in how work is done and how jobs are shaped. If you listen to the news, robots are coming for your job. Full-time employment will soon be a thing of the past as organizations opt more to hire employees on a contract basis.?With technological advances across email, video, project management, and instant messaging platforms, being tied to a desk working full time for one company is becoming obsolete. So, where does that leave you? The Human Cloud may be the most important book you read to prepare for how work is done in the future. In these pages, human cloud technologist Matthew Mottola and AI expert Matthew Coatney help you not only clearly understand the transition you see happening around you, but they will also help you take advantage of it. In The Human Cloud, Mottola and Coatney inform you about topics including: How employees and employers will be able to take advantage of the new automated and freelance-based workplace. How they will be able to take advantage of the new technology disruptions the machine cloud will create. Why the changes employees and employers are seeing aren’t the projection of doom that many are predicting. How to navigate the coming job marketplace. By replacing fear with knowledge, you will better understand how this shift in employment is a good thing, be equipped to embrace the positive?advantages new technology brings, and further secure how your own job is shaped so you are never left behind.

Download or read book Design Thinking for the Legal Profession written by Alex Davies and published by Ark Company. This book was released on 2019 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has never been a more exciting time to practice law. While artificial intelligence promises to minimize mundane tasks, clients' legal issues are becoming more complex. But, to successfully navigate these changes, legal professionals must better develop and exercise their creative problem- solving skills.

Download or read book Make LinkedIn Work for You A Practical Guide for Lawyers and Other Legal Professionals written by Allison Shields and published by Bowker Identifier Services. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make LinkedIn Work for You isn't just a "how to" on using LinkedIn; it delves deeper into creating a strategic approach to your use of LinkedIn based on who you are, where you are in your career, and what you want to accomplish on LinkedIn, and prompts you to ask questions like: -What are you "hiring" LinkedIn to do for you?-How do you make yourself "discoverable" within your network?-How do you bring the real world into LinkedIn and LinkedIn into the real world?-How do you want to communicate with your network?The book focuses on the three parts of your LinkedIn presence that you must understand well: Profiles, Connections, and Participation. We have long called these the essential building blocks of LinkedIn. In many ways, the three blocks notion is our fundamental insight in this book. If you understand and get these blocks right, you will "get" LinkedIn and should find it a valuable use of your time.Table of ContentsPART I: Getting Started1. Setting Up A New Account Or Reviving Your Existing Account.2. Using Linkedin On Your Mobile Devices3. Optimizing Your Settings4. Developing Your Linkedin Strategy5. The Three Building Blocks Of Linkedin: Profile, Connections And ParticipationPART II: Profile6. Your Basic Profile7. Going Further With Your Profile8. Advanced And Power User Tips: Profile9. Profile Frequently Asked QuestionsPART III: Connections10. Getting Started With Connections11. Making Even More Connections12. Using Linkedin Search Tools13. Advanced And Power User Tips: Connections14. Frequently Asked Questions: ConnectionsPART IV: PARTICIPATION15. Participating On Linkedin: Posts And Groups16. Social Proof: Endorsements And Recommendations17. Monitoring And Engaging With Your Network18. Developing A Linkedin Content Strategy19. Advanced And Power User Tips: Participation20. Frequently Asked Questions: ParticipationPART V: Conclusion: Planning Your Linkedin Activity21. A Basic Linkedin Action Plan For EveryonePART VI: Making Linkedin Work For You22. Building Your Personal Brand On Linkedin23. Linkedin For Job Search24. Linkedin For Law Students25. Moving To New Practice Area Or Location26. Using Linkedin As A Business27. Linkedin For Millennials And Others New To The Platform28. Linkedin And Legal Ethics29. Resources

Download or read book The Modern Lawyer written by Megan Zavieh and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With guidelines on topics from ethics to office management, changes in payment technologies, managing client expectations, and gaining competence in new practice areas, this book will prepare you for lawyering in today's world and in tomorrow's"--

Download or read book New Suits written by Michele DeStefano and published by Stämpfli Verlag. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Time to Leave Law-Law Land ... and Head Back Into the Jungle" Fuelled by advancing technology, new business models, and altered client expectations, the legal industry faces unprecedented change across its entire value chain. Unfortunately, many legal professionals fear the technology train and the convergence of other fields with law. They see legaltech, AI, and bots like "lions and tigers and bears oh my." We (the curators and authors of this book) see opportunity. Although the future may require us to put on "new suits"—it represents an enormous opportunity for lawyers to reinvent ourselves for our own and our clients' benefit. Filled with chapters written by experts in the intersection of law, innovation, and technology, this book provides a global perspective on the diverse legal service delivery ecosystem that will be our future. It provides chapter upon chapter (reason upon reason) explaining why lawyers can and should increase their appetite for disruption in the legal world. So welcome to the jungle and enjoy the ride as we attempt to systematically map the uncharted waters of the future legal realm and simultaneously inspire you to build a new future in law. Endorsements "The 'Artist Formerly Known as the Legal Profession' isn't what it used to be. You think that you know law firms and the challenges that confront lawyers, but you don't. Legal services providers have spent years resisting change, and now seem determined to pack fifty- or sixty-years of evolution into five. The entire legal services market has been transformed by LegalTech, globalization, and new delivery models – and until now there has been no guide to the way that consumers can benefit and providers can profit from the changes. Guenther and Michele have gathered a Who's Who of thinkers to provide a marvellous range of visions of the way that law is changing. They provide a roadmap for the future of law – if only you'll follow it." Professor Dan Hunter PhD FAAL, Foundation Dean, Swinburne Law School "'Nomen est omen' if you read the book title of 'New Suits'. It encourages, allows and requests lawyers at all levels to rethink their former and existing ways of doing business in many areas of law. In the same, it outlines great opportunities to a new breed of experts in our profession. Thanks to the various authors, one gets a good understanding of how massive the impact of technology has become – and is going to be - to the legal services market. And the authors provide a distinct view of how a rather traditional profession will have to transform their business models to comply with the fast changes in the marketplace." Jürg Birri, Partner / Global Head of KPMG's Legal "For a while now, we have been hearing about digitization, disruption and new delivery models in the world of Big Law. "New Suits" both reassures and gives a wake-up call to all of us in the business of providing legal services. Setting out both the opportunities and the threats engendered by the dynamic change in our industry, the book is an invaluable guide to all lawyers and legal business professionals wanting some insight on the challenges facing them in a globalized and accelerating world." Dr Mattias Lichtblau, CMS "This book comes at a time where we see just the beginning of a transformational change on the legal market. While such transformation is seen as a great opportunity for those participants who endorse change and innovations, others seem to be more frightened by potential disruption of their well-established business models. The structure and comprehensive contributor listing for this book encapsulates many disparate challenges faced by almost all players on the market. The lecture of the book should give good guidance to anyone who is interested in how the legal profession is (finally) modernizing, capitalizing on technology trends and becoming more client-centric.

Download or read book Smart Collaboration for Lateral Hiring written by Heidi K. Gardner and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the biggest challenges in today's law firms is recruiting partners, experienced associates, and senior business professionals into the firm--and then finding ways to integrate them, retain them, and help make them sustainably productive. Yet, many firms are misallocating their efforts and resources. This Special Report offers a new, research-based approach for law firms to improve their lateral hiring process and results by engaging new hires in smart collaboration. Laterals who collaborate with their new colleagues are significantly more likely to stay with the firm longer, to hit or exceed their targets, and to thrive professionally. Firms need a well-constructed plan, a relentless focus on execution, and clear accountability processes if they expect to help laterals achieve two-way collaboration quickly and efficiently. This Special Report offers the tools, processes, and best practices for successful implementation. Aimed at readers who aspire to take a more strategic approach to improve lateral hiring, this report will be useful for law firm leaders, hiring partners, professional executives such as chief operating officers and chief talent officers. Lawyers or business executives considering a career move across firms, or business professionals seeking to move into the legal sector, will find practical ways to boost their likelihood of success.

Download or read book New Suits written by Michele DeStefano and published by Stämpfli Verlag. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Time to get out of Law Law Land and back into the Jungle" Fuelled by advancing technology, new business models, and altered client expectations, the legal industry faces unprecedented change across its entire value chain. Unfortunately, many legal professionals fear the technology train and the convergence of other fields with law. They see legaltech, AI, and bots like "lions and tigers and bears oh my." We (the editors and authors of this book) see opportunity. Although the future may require us to put on "new suits"—it represents an enormous opportunity for lawyers to reinvent ourselves for our own and our clients' benefit. Filled with chapters written by experts in the intersection of law, innovation, and technology, this book provides a global perspective on the diverse legal service delivery ecosystem that will be our future. It provides chapter upon chapter (reason upon reason) explaining why lawyers can and should increase their appetite for disruption in the legal world. So welcome to the jungle and enjoy the ride as we attempt to systematically map the uncharted waters of the future legal realm and simultaneously inspire you to build a new future in law.

Download or read book The Pillars of Digital Security written by Phillip Doyle Gray and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many lawyers lack the time to learn about technology in legal practice. But those same lawyers must make professional decisions about technology right now. Those decisions must be sensible, reasonable, and defensible.The idea for the book started several years ago when a crop of new lawyers (and some not so new) began asking me: Is it ethical to use email? smartphones? iPads? Dropbox? Evernote? iCloud? Facebook?Over many sandwiches and lots of coffee, I asked my colleagues to imagine explaining why their use of technology caused their client harm. Then I asked them to imagine an angry client testifying against them at a disciplinary tribunal or court. What are you going to say? What evidence are you going to tender? Sensible, reasonable, and defensible decisions must withstand a trial.Patterns appeared from those discussions, other conversations with several dozen colleagues around the world interested in technology, and talks with computer scientists who worked with judges and lawyers every day. I started writing all this down, taught it, tested it, published it, listened to feedback, refined it--and, several years later, we now have a book.Written by a busy lawyer for other busy lawyers, I hope I have made a practical guide to using--and overseeing others using--technology in legal practice.The book's step-by-step guides have been used successfully by hundreds of lawyers and dozens of judges in Australia and the United States who know little or nothing about technology.The book makes life easier in several ways:1. You can read the quick-start guide--in just a single hour of your time--to address the most common and easiest-to-fix ethical pitfalls2. You can read the entire book from cover to cover in only a few hours3. I have used language understood by both lawyers and the computer scientists who give them IT support, making it easy to explain what you want to be done by handing over a little book while saying "Read this," and4. My focus on 7 discrete topics--the pillars of digital security--creates a method for lawyers and computer scientists to work together effectively.Every lawyer has a unique way of working, refined and polished over years. It is essential that be left undisturbed. The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be: the slaves, instead of the masters.The book is available in 2 formats, traditional paperback and new eBook, whose contents are slightly different. Sometimes it's better and quicker to show pictures than explaining in words. And sometimes it's better and quicker to show moving pictures than static diagrams. The eBook version makes it easy to see with your own eyes what I am talking about because the eBook version has embedded hyperlinks which allow you to press your finger on an underlined word or phrase and immediately see motion pictures. The paperback lets you see all this too, but instead of pressing a finger on the page you need to type the reference into an Internet browser.The author has over 20 years of litigation experience investigating, prosecuting, and defending other lawyers charged with ethical violations, malpractice, and professional negligence. He has held senior positions in bar associations while exercising responsibility for enforcement of professional regulations and continuing legal education. In addition to his private practice, he has extensively taught lawyers and judges about technology in legal practice. This book distils the author's unique experience of the classroom, the boardroom room, and the courtroom.

Download or read book The Smarter Legal Model written by Trevor Faure and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Smarter Legal Model is a practical toolbox of complementary methodologies which have been applied on a multi-million dollar scale and proven to: *Reduce legal costs. *Increase the legal work covered without increasing cost or headcount, by maximising individual potential. *Improve both compliance and client satisfaction at the same time. *Replace the traditional law firm-client tension with a mutually profitable partnership. The Smarter Legal Model applies world-class business and behavioral principles, such as Six Sigma, return on invested capital, zero-sum game theory and neuro-linguistic programming to the practice of law for the first time with tangible results. Recently reported benefits of the Model include a 27% reduction in legal fees, a 60% reduction in litigation volume and demonstrable improvements in client satisfaction. The Smarter Legal Model will be of use to in-house lawyers, private practitioners and even professionals from non-legal disciplines. The Smarter Legal Model has been adopted by major concerns and has been the subject of extensive analysis across the world. The Author has lectured on the Model at Harvard Law School, Oxford University, Georgetown Law School; in Washington, New York, London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Stockholm and Sydney.

Download or read book Life After Law written by Liz Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Harvard-trained ex-law firm partner Liz Brown, Life After Law: Finding Work You Love with the J.D. You Have provides specific, realistic, and honest advice on alternative careers for lawyers. Unlike generic career guides, Life After Law shows lawyers how to reframe their legal experience to their competitive advantage, no matter how long they have been in or out of practice, to find work they truly love. Brown herself moved from a high-powered partnership into an alternative career and draws from this experience, as well as that of dozens of former practicing attorneys, in the book. She acknowledges that changing careers is hard much harder than it was for most lawyers to get their first legal job after law school but it can ultimately be more fulfilling for many than a life in law. Life After Law offers an alternative framework and valuable analytic tools for potential careers to help launch lawyers into new fields and make them attractive hires for non-legal employers.

Download or read book Wikinomics written by Don Tapscott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed bestseller that's teaching the world about the power of mass collaboration. Translated into more than twenty languages and named one of the best business books of the year by reviewers around the world, Wikinomics has become essential reading for business people everywhere. It explains how mass collaboration is happening not just at Web sites like Wikipedia and YouTube, but at traditional companies that have embraced technology to breathe new life into their enterprises. This national bestseller reveals the nuances that drive wikinomics, and share fascinating stories of how masses of people (both paid and volunteer) are now creating TV news stories, sequencing the human gnome, remixing their favorite music, designing software, finding cures for diseases, editing school texts, inventing new cosmetics, and even building motorcycles.

Download or read book Legal Data and Information in Practice written by Sarah A. Sutherland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal Data and Information in Practice provides readers with an understanding of how to facilitate the acquisition, management, and use of legal data in organizations such as libraries, courts, governments, universities, and start-ups. Presenting a synthesis of information about legal data that will furnish readers with a thorough understanding of the topic, the book also explains why it is becoming crucial that data analysis be integrated into decision-making in the legal space. Legal organizations are looking at how to develop data-driven insights for a variety of purposes and it is, as Sutherland shows, vital that they have the necessary skills to facilitate this work. This book will assist in this endeavour by providing an international perspective on the issues affecting access to legal data and clearly describing methods of obtaining and evaluating it. Sutherland also incorporates advice about how to critically approach data analysis. Legal Data and Information in Practice will be essential reading for those in the law library community who are based in English-speaking countries with a common law tradition. The book will also be useful to those with a general interest in legal data, including students, academics engaged in the study of information science and law.

Download or read book Global Trends 2040 written by National Intelligence Council and published by Cosimo Reports. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.