Law Technology News Editor-in-Chief Monica Bay returned on the last day of the Legal Tech New York show to offer further insight on a current hot topic, e-discovery.
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Law Technology News Editor-in-Chief Monica Bay recaps Day 2 of the 2012 Legal Tech New York Conference.
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Hear legal blogger Bob Ambrogi talk about the major trends at Legal Tech New York 2012, which include cloud computing and e-discovery.
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Cary Burch, chief operating officer at Elite, talks about how international law firms, specifically in China, are growing at a rapid rate and presenting big growth opportunities for the services that Elite provides, such as assistance with automating processes and international compliance.
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Elisabet Hardy, vice president of product management for Elite, talks about how risk management was a “new hot topic” at this year’s Legal Tech New York conference. The specific risk management issues buzzing at the show included risks to a law firm’s brand, as well as the financial aspects of risk management.
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Happy Friday! End your workweek with your legal news headlines from Thomson Reuters News & Insight:
Republicans, attorney general fight over gun sting
Eric Holder faced angry questions over “Fast and Furious”, an operation aimed at tracking smuggled weapons that backfired and led to the death of a Border Patrol officer in 2010.
Roommate site does not violate housing laws
An appeals court ruled that federal laws prohibiting discrimination were intended for landlords and do not apply to relationships inside the home.
2nd Circuit sanctions lawyers who claimed Bush officials caused 9/11
The court upheld an earlier ruling that called the lawsuit against Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld frivolous and a product of “cynical delusion.”
JPMorgan slashes $710 million Lehman bankruptcy claim
The deal frees up more money to be distributed to Lehman’s creditors once it emerges from Chapter 11.
Gay marriage trial videos should stay under wraps, says appeals court
The 9th Circuit ruled that the emotionally charged recordings should not be disclosed because the trial judge had said they would remain private.
N.Y. bar considers allowing non-lawyers to invest in law firms
The association’s president, Vincent Doyle, made the announcement at an ABA conference, which is itself weighing whether to support nonlawyer ownership under certain circumstances.
Schwab to reimburse clients arbitration fees
The move comes one day after FINRA accused the brokerage of requiring customers to waive their rights to pursue class actions cases, a violation of industry rules.
For more legal news, check out Thomson Reuters News & Insight.
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Mobile technologies are definitely a hot topic at LegalTech NY, and there’s a lot of excitement in the Thomson Reuters booth with demonstrations of the Thomson Reuters ProView app for the iPad.
ProView launches shortly in Australia, following its successful introduction in the US, UK and Canada. ProView has features including full-text Boolean search, and updating of content as new editions while maintaining customer-created notes and annotations.
In addition, the upcoming update of ProView will add more exciting features.
Dan Bennett, vice president, New Product Development, discusses what’s new with Thomson Reuters ProView
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For transactional attorneys, drafting contracts, agreements and other legal forms can be a time-consuming process.
Westlaw Drafting Assistant – Transactional is the first comprehensive set of automated tools and content to help attorneys prepare transactional documents with greater efficiency and accuracy.
Users can quickly and easily find a document or template to use as a starting point – whether an existing internal document or using the included database of sample documents, organized by practice area and jurisdiction. Powerful proofreading tools ensure accuracy across all content, including defined terms, numeration, punctuation, and referenced documents. Issues such as non-conforming phrases are flagged for easy review. An automatically generated document outline eases document navigation. Plus, direct integration with Westlaw enables users to find applicable forms and laws without leaving their word processor.
Westlaw Drafting Assistant – Transactional is the latest addition to the comprehensive products and content Thomson Reuters Westlaw provides for transactional attorneys, including Westlaw Form Builder, Form Finder on WestlawNext, and Westlaw Model Documents. Stop by our booth at LegalTech NY and take a look.
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MatterSphere, an industry-leading matter management platform, is now available to law firms in the U.S. market as part of Elite’s suite of integrated management solutions.
MatterSphere integrates with Elite 3E, Elite Enterprise and many other financial management and document management platforms, and is embedded in the Microsoft Office environment to unite operations and promote collaboration across the enterprise and with a firm’s clients. It is also accessible from iPad or smartphone.
Patrick Hurley, senior director of Operations, Elite, talks about how MatterSphere benefits attorneys and firms.
Mark Craddock, Director of Sales for Elite, comments on today’s U.S. launch of MatterSphere.
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Not surprisingly, some of the hottest topics being discussed here at LegalTech NY are mobile applications for lawyers-on-the-go.
With the iPad nearly becoming standard equipment for lawyers these days, WestlawNext is rolling out new collaboration tools for its iPad app. Enhanced folder sharing lets users share research results with people both within and outside their organization, as well as tap into the research and collective knowledge of others.
Dinyar Mehta, director, WestlawNext iPad and mobile development, talks about how this helps lawyers be more efficient.
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What’s in a word? The Black’s Law Dictionary, 9th edition from Thomson Reuters can provide both definition and pronunciation through a new Android App. When the word of the day isn’t a word you know, Black’s mobile applications is ready to find that content on your Android.
Black’s is available as an Android App and also [...]
Pangea3 CEO David Perla was a member on the panel for Legal Process Outsourcing 2.0 at the ACC Annual Conference in Denver recently.
With the rapid growth surrounding LPOs in the legal industry, the panel addressed numerous topics and issues ranging from: how each company addresses the relationship with the LPO differently to the best way [...]
We’ve got a great podcast this month to kick-off the New Year featuring an interview segment with attorney Yar Chaikovsky about monetizing patents and the forthcoming impacts of patent reform.
Then in our “On the Blawgs” segment we learn about one blogger’s top five social media tips for businesses.
In our “Chaos in the Courts” segment, we [...]
