From : Blog Entry >> Marcos's Blog Entry As a lawyer, managing your time and billing can be an unnerving task. Without proper management, you could easily lose track of your billable hours, miss important deadlines, and ultimately… lose clients. Thankfully, legal time and billing software exist to streamline these processes and make your life easier. In this article, we will explore how legal time and billing software can benefit your law firm. Importance of Legal Time and Billing Software in Law Practice: Legal time and billing More
From : Blog Entry >> ILTA's Blog Entry (Chicago, IL) May 4, 2022 – The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA), announces the Board of Directors for 2023-2025. The incoming Board will be seated at the conclusion of the Annual Meeting of the Corporation on Thursday, August 24, 2023. For the first time in ILTA history, the Board President, Tony McKenna of Howard Kennedy, is from outside of North America. The recent election was held via a form of vetted open election, ratified by the members in October of 2022. More
From : Blog Entry >> Beth Anne's Blog Entry ILTA is posting this Member Blog on behalf of Kenneth Jones who is attending LegalSEC Summit 2023 and currently onsite in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. LegalSEC Wednesday Morning Workshop Session ILTA Blog Post Improving Communications Skills Within the Cybersecurity Field To kick off the 2023 LegalSEC Summit , o pening remarks were provided by Joy Heath Rush (C hief Executive Officer, International Legal Technology Association More
From : Blog Entry >> ILTA's Blog Entry (Chicago, IL) May 1, 2023 – The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA), announces newly appointed members of the Partner Advisory Council (PAC). The ILTA Partner Advisory Council , serves as the voice of the ILTA Partner Community. An election was held in April 2023, and the 2023-2025 representatives are as follows: PAC Election Results ILTAMAX Representative Suzanne Koch, Fulcrum GT Platinum Representative Patty Robertson nQ Zebraworks Gold More
From : Blog Entry >> Brian's Blog Entry Please enjoy this blog posted on behalf of the three co-authors, Kristin Rhodes, Senior Practice Manager, Paul Hastings LLP, Nikki Shaver, CEO, Co-Founder, Legaltech Hub and Harriet Joubert-Vaklyes, Senior Project Manager - Legal Operations, CBRE Group. In the first part of this blog series , we posited that a shift towards value-based billing for law firms would give rise to many benefits in the legal industry. We focused on external client demands and offered an alternative model from More
From : Blog Entry >> ILTA's Blog Entry (Chicago, IL) April 27, 2023 – The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Announces the opening of applications for the 2023 ILTACON Startup Hub. An integral part of the ILTACON Exhibit Hall, the Startup Hub will showcase legal IT and tech startups. Limited to 20 curated participant booths, the selected Startups will gain access to the most powerful group of legal IT and tech decision makers that can propel your company’s business. The goal of the Startup Hub is to create a compelling More
From : Blog Entry >> Brian's Blog Entry Please enjoy this blog posted on behalf of the author, Ravi Sharma, Consultant, Sky Discovery. The eDiscovery industry is a fast-paced, dynamic area of legal technology. As a result, there are often a lot of concepts to navigate in a short space of time, particularly if you are from a non-legal background. Although understanding the lifecycle for an eDiscovery lifecycle ( the EDRM ) is a good starting point, I have listed 4 key concepts to be aware of for those with a technical More
From : Blog Entry >> Brian's Blog Entry Please enjoy this blog posted on behalf of the author, Jonathan Kiang, Senior Electronic Discovery Consultant, Epiq. At the end of a long and tedious document review, the last thing any attorney wants to be told is that more documents need to be reviewed. Maybe the recent relevancy rates for documents selected based on the TAR model had reached near zero. And perhaps the number of documents marked relevant is close to the estimated total number of relevant documents. So why, after More
From : Blog Entry >> Denise's Blog Entry If your law firm is undergoing a digital transformation, you’ll have learned that not everything can be digitized and put into electronic storage. All firms have a repository of original documents that need to be retained. The vast majority of these will be “wet ink signature” – typically relating to real estate, wills, trust funds, patents, copyright and trademark. How are they best managed? The challenge is that these documents must be preserved – maybe in safes or ideally in fire suppression More
From : Blog Entry >> Brian's Blog Entry Please enjoy this ILTA Q&A Session posted on behalf of Ken Falcon, Managing Partner of Falcon Rappaport & Berkman LLP and Mike Ertel, Practice Innovation & Knowledge Attorney, Paul Hastings LLP. Mike Ertel What is the Metaverse? Ken Falcon Broadly speaking, the Metaverse is an immersive online environment where users can interact with that environment and with one another. While people frequently speak colloquially about “the Metaverse,” it is more accurate to refer More
From : Blog Entry >> Brian's Blog Entry Please enjoy this blog post composed by Andrew Corridore, Information Governance Compliance Manager at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and Elizabeth Adkins, the Director of Information Governance at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP . Microsoft Teams has become a buzzword in legal industry as professionals speculate on its potential to transform the future of law. At an ILTACON session in 2022, a Knowledge Management Subject Matter Expert predicted that Teams could be the email killer of the 2020s, More
From : Blog Entry >> Brian's Blog Entry Please enjoy this blog posted on behalf of the author, Doug Austin, Editor of eDiscovery Today. Providing legal services in an era involving the cloud, social media, remote work and collaboration and artificial intelligence is more challenging than ever. Most of the evidence we work with today is generated electronically using technology, so having a basic understanding of electronic discovery is a “must” for any legal professional today. This article is designed for “newbies” of “eDiscovery” More
From : Blog Entry >> ILTA's Blog Entry (Chicago, IL) April 24, 2022 – The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA), announces opening of applications for scholarships for ILTACON 2023. ILTACON 2023 , taking place 20-24 August 2023, in Orlando, Florida, at the WDW Swan & Dolphin Hotels and Disney's Yacht & Beach Club Resorts, is a 4.5 day conference that draws industry experts and the legal community together to collaborate and learn. For 2023, ILTA has created five unique opportunities to learn, connect, More
From : Blog Entry >> Ragav's Blog Entry Experience the power to collaborate with real-time sharing of iManage content within Team conversations! imDocShare Teams app Access any iManage Work Server/iManage Cloud Content in Microsoft Teams as a personal app, Team Channel Post Tab, 1–1 Private Chat, and Teams Meeting. Users can pin the imDocShare Teams app as a personal app or a Channel Tab for quick access anytime on Teams. Document view imDocShare Document Viewer supports a series of content views. Tree view lets More