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SXSW Privacy Discussion: The Rising Risks Lawyers Can’t Ignore

Above The Law

Whittaker argued that the world today is more surveilled than ever before, with a handful of corporations and governments wielding unprecedented access to our personal data. Her comments highlighted the risks that everyone but especially lawyers, given our duty of confidentiality need to take seriously.

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15 Top Tools for Lawyers To Help Grow Their Law Firms

MyCase

While your time in law school gave you a strong legal foundation, chances are you didnt learn much about the numerous lawyer tools that can simplify your job. But in the crowded legal market, you see the utilityespecially for small firm lawyers whose livelihoods depend on client generation. Technology for lawyers has several benefits.

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Local Flavor: MyCase Expands Its Integration Options with CalendarRules and Smith.ai

Attorney at Work

If there’s one thing lawyers worry about more than revenue, it’s malpractice claims; and, one consistent bogeyman invading those nightmares is missed court deadlines. CalendarRules makes it easier to manage court deadlines, including updates to rules, while largely removing human error from the equation.

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All-Star Game: How to Better Leverage Technology in Your Law Firm

NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

Lawyers are generally not super tech-savvy. Lawyers are just busy with substantive work. You could choose one of those folks to oversee the data management plan for your firm. That person may be a lawyer or a non-lawyer. And, that’s not meant as a slight to attorneys.

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Top Technology Trends for Transactional Lawyers

LawTechnologyToday

Lessons learned from the evolution of the above tools in the litigation setting are directly relevant to opportunities available to transactional lawyers to efficiently execute work on transactional matters. The post Top Technology Trends for Transactional Lawyers appeared first on Law Technology Today. Document Review Tools.

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Insights into ERA Seminar on Privacy and Data Protection with a Specific Focus on “Balance between Data Retention for Law Enforcement Purposes and Right to Privacy” (Conference Report)

Conflict of Laws

594/12 , Digital Rights Ireland ; the Court addressed the interferences to the rights guaranteed under Articles 7 and 8 caused by the Data Retention Directive. Day 2: “Retention of personal data for law enforcement purposes.” “Retention of personal data for combating crime.”

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Local Flavor: MyCase Expands Its Integration Options with CalendarRules and Smith.ai

Attorney at Work

If there’s one thing lawyers worry about more than revenue, it’s malpractice claims; and, one consistent bogeyman invading those nightmares is missed court deadlines. CalendarRules makes it easier to manage court deadlines, including updates to rules, while largely removing human error from the equation.