Technology

July 28, 2021

So, if you are a firm with Morgan Stanley as a client, maybe the easy thing is to just say “hey, our huge client wants us back in the office and wants to have in-person meetings, so you’ve got to come back”. But it’s never really that simple, is it? What do you do if your staff and lawyers really don’t want to be in the office full-time? What if some of the same people…

Indian Legal Tech Blog

Bringing deep tech and AI to the Supreme Court of India: In conversation with Manthan Trivedi

By Indian Legal Tech Blog Staff

July 28, 2021

In this interview with Manthan Trivedi, CEO of ManCorp Innovation Labs, we talk about the problems that the law industry in India is facing and how ManCorp Innovation Labs have helped High Courts in India like the Jharkhand High Court, Patna High Court, and Supreme High Court solve large-scale problems with innovative and AI-based systems. Interview highlights Large-scale problems in justice administration in India: systemic challenges, infrastructural and digitization issues. The importance of digitization to…

Nano and Other Emerging Chemical Technologies Blog

EC Publishes Report on Use of Nanomaterials in Cosmetics and Review of Cosmetics Regulation Regarding Nanomaterials

By Lynn L. Bergeson & Carla N. Hutton

July 28, 2021

Pursuant to Article 16 (10) and (11) of Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 (Cosmetics Regulation), the European Commission (EC) is required to submit to the European Parliament and the Council an annual status report on the use of nanomaterials in cosmetic products and to review the Regulation’s provisions concerning nanomaterials. The July 22, 2021, report includes the following main findings: On average, ten new cosmetic products containing nanomaterials are placed on the European Union (EU) market…

LawSites

Avoiding Cost Overruns, Surprise Invoices and Stale Data: Four Ways Corporate Counsel Can Learn From Their Private Equity Peers

By Nicholas d’Adhemar, CEO, Apperio [Sponsored]

July 28, 2021

Earlier in 2021, Apperio released a report on the findings from our survey of 160 in-house lawyers in private equity: Responsibility without control? Legal spend challenges facing private equity leaders in 2021. Following the positive press reaction to this report, I was consistently asked whether the findings were also relevant to in-house legal teams outside of PE. Indeed, I believe there are multiple parallels as both sides share the same problems. Corporate counsel might…

Future Lawyer

A Tale Of Two Tablets. I Want Both.

By rickgeorges

July 28, 2021

Well, I have spent several weeks now with my new Boox Note Air, and, while the software is sluggish, and it has its quirks when used as a layered EInk note taking device, it has replaced the Remarkable, and I use it for my daily calendar and note taking. No paper still. However, while it runs Android, and can download and use many PlayStore Android apps, I prefer my venerable Samsung Tab S5e for video…

Your IT Consultant

Twitter Users: Stupid is as Stupid Does

By John Simek

July 28, 2021

I nearly fell off the bar stool (actually, it was a desk chair) when I saw the Bitdefender post about the percentage of Twitter users that have enabled two-factor authentication (2FA). It is just amazing that more users don’t configure 2FA (or MFA) to protect their accounts. Especially given that 2FA typically doesn’t cost any money and is shown to stop over 99% of credential-based account attacks. Apparently, Twitter users have taken the non-compliance percentage…

Future Lawyer

Being A Nerdy Nerd Isn’t For The Faint Of Heart.

By rickgeorges

July 28, 2021

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Future Lawyer

#WhyIAmASolo – I Don’t Have To Pretend My Co-Workers Are Sane.

By rickgeorges

July 28, 2021

Law practice is stressful enough. What a drag it must be to have so many co-workers, some of whom will clearly be on the low end of the sanity spectrum. It is certainly enough that we meet clients, and Judges and other lawyers who challenge our faith in humanity on a regular basis. Solo practice gives us a respite from the chaos and insanity that exists outside. There is also the distinct possibility that, in…

Future Lawyer

Don’t Be A Dinosaur. Get With The Program.

By rickgeorges

July 28, 2021

In the early days, before most of you were born, we lawyers were a paper intensive bunch. We spent more on file rooms, and file storage than we did on electricity. We had law libraries filled with books on paper, lined up on wooden shelves in large rooms in which we sat a long wooden tables, surrounded by open books. I still have a conference room surrounded by law books that go back to the…

LawSites

With Expansion, Lawyer Marketplace Priori Is Now Also A Legal Tech Marketplace

By Bob Ambrogi

July 28, 2021

HCC — Founders Mirra Levitt and Basha Rubin

Priori Legal, a marketplace for in-house legal teams to find and hire outside counsel, is expanding to also serve as a marketplace for legal technology and alternative legal services providers. The expansion means that inhouse legal teams will be able to use Priori not only to hire lawyers to help with projects, but also to find and access “new law” and legal technology options suitable to the project. While Priori plans to gradually expand…