Call tracking software is an amazing, affordable tool at your law firm's disposal to help your firm have solid
data about your law firm marketing efforts.
General counsel from 25 major companies are sharing
data about their law firms, including billing rates, practice areas, and other business information.
I based the SWAG on ABA
data about law firm turnover costs.
Not exact matches
If the mechanism as described on Friday becomes
law, it would let Europeans complain to
data protection authorities in their own countries
about how the likes of Google and Facebook treat their
data, rather than having to approach regulators in the country where those
firms have their European headquarters.
Graber may know a lot more
about data breaches than the average lawyer — he is a key lawyer for plaintiffs in the massive
data breach at Anthem Inc. that «compromised the personal identification and health information of more than 80 million customers of the health care company,» according to the
law firm.
In one case, it appears that the Chinese government may have targeted several Canadian
law firms in an apparent effort to derail a $ 40 billion acquisition.11 In another, a
firm's managing clerk is alleged to have accessed inside information
about the
firm's clients as part of an insider - trading scheme.12 Also, it recently was revealed that hackers working for the Chinese military targeted one company for information useful in ongoing litigation.13 Failure to secure such
data from malicious employees, cyber-attacks, or carelessness can cause drastic reputational damage as well as liability.
They can see much further into the future than most lawyers; they endure sleepless nights worrying
about the storage and security of big
data; and they are typically fascinated by the potential of artificial intelligence to disrupt the traditional
law firm business model.
If the lawyer acts for clients who are prevented from storing
data outside of Canada, this will be a very important consideration when thinking
about the
law firm's use of cloud resources.
Although mostly detailing Elections Ontario
data about donations made by
law firms to political parties, the... [more]
Note that both Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis similarly aggregate
law firm billing
data through their products Peer Monitor and LexisNexis Counsel Benchmarking, as I wrote
about in this 2014 ABA Journal article.
Most CRM vendors can't understand why
law firms haven't implemented CRM as effectively as other businesses — particularly given that most
firms already assiduously track
data about clients and their matters for conflicts checking and billing.
At FindLaw, we have more
data about legal consumer behavior than anyone, and your
law firm benefits from that as part of your partnership.
But while training and discussions are taking place
about the cloud - based software, other technology and legal industry experts are leading discussions on the role of technology at
law firms, how consumers are seeking legal services (now and in the future), and why every
law firm is really becoming a
data and software
firm.
It does so by providing factual
data from millions of litigation records
about the behavior and performance of
law firms and individual lawyers — including
data points like win rates, cases with resolutions, time to injunction, etc., in specific areas of
law.
Relativity's e-discovery Counsel David Horrigan talks with Tech Republic
about how the GDPR will impact legal proceedings and the transfer of
data between
law firms.
As Bill wryly put it at one of the early sessions, «
Law firms just don't care
about data.»
Law firms are a weak spot because few lawyers know anything
about data security and fewer do anything
about it.
After a discussion among academics
about the perils of crossing the U.S. border with your laptop full of research
data, I began to wonder how diligent
law firms are in ensuring that nothing leaves the office on a laptop that is unsecured.
Aram... the
law seeks to protect China's networks and private user
data, but foreign
firms are concerned
about its potential impact on their ability to do business in the world's second largest economy....
Joshua Lenon: I think what
law firms need to think
about is centralizing and standardizing their
data so in the past we had those giant middle off folders that have been overflowing with our case files and while those were great for storing things in bank or boxes and filing cabinets it didn't really make it something you could search against.
McArthur
Law Firm does use aggregate information
about those who access its site for the purpose of collecting marketing
data and other business research.
Sam Glover: You are here to talk
about data and
law firms and I think maybe we better tee that up by explaining whether or not most common
law firms who may not be thinking of themselves as generating
data, whether they have it.
Or is this only important in the arena he's talking
about, dealing with information and
data management where so many systems are vulnerable because they operate outside a lawyer or
law firm's direct control.
So if you centralize your
data into some type of online practice management system or a local practice management system that allows you to search across all those different types of
data and extract that
data so that you can do reports
about it, that's really the first step a
law firm should be taking to make themselves
data driven.
Naturally it removes paranoia
about sensitive
data being sent to a third party cloud system, and, as he says: «This means that you don't have to change the tech infrastructure of the
law firm.»
Law firm tech security teams worry
about mobile devices and they also worry
about lots of sensitive
data being processed in the cloud.
In order to provide factual
data about these functions we established the
Law Firm Recruiting and Development Survey.
Law firms are not required to provide
data about partners.
Although mostly detailing Elections Ontario
data about donations made by
law firms to political parties, the article also reported:
If you use the eLawyering Task Force definition of what is a «virtual
law firm,» which requires a secure client portal as part of a
law firm's web site, then the ABA reported
data about 14 % of
law firms having a «virtual practice» is much too high.
Most
law firms will by now be aware of the latest
data privacy changes, brought
about by GDPR — under European
law, email marketing will be subject to more and stricter regulations.
But the danger to a
law firm is not just
about your
data «stuff,» it's also
about keeping your
law firm running and your... Read More»
Interestingly, the
Law Society of British Columbia, which issued a fraud alert about the CryptoWall attack, did not require these law firms to advise clients of the attacks despite the duty of confidentiality if the encrypted data was not «necessarily breached» and client files had not been access
Law Society of British Columbia, which issued a fraud alert
about the CryptoWall attack, did not require these
law firms to advise clients of the attacks despite the duty of confidentiality if the encrypted data was not «necessarily breached» and client files had not been access
law firms to advise clients of the attacks despite the duty of confidentiality if the encrypted
data was not «necessarily breached» and client files had not been accessed.
Now, Courtroom Insight is making that pivot official, going from a public rating site to a platform for
law firms to privately share knowledge and mine
data about experts.
Throughout the week, Elevate will be in booth # 324 to chat and share information
about our flagship technology product, Cael LPM, as well as recent additions to the Cael ™ apps suite, including Cael Vision (
data analytics) for
Law Firms and Cael BillPrep (streamlined pre-bill editing).
Last week, we introduced a new series of posts tied to the importance of
data security audits at
law firms and some of the key things that
firms need to understand
about their responsibilities.
I mean, basically this was sort of like a business and enterprise look at Cloud that she did, but there were a couple of things I thought were interesting there and one is, there is a kind of shift as there is the acceptance of use of the Cloud too, away from their focus on
data security and cost that we used to do, and I think a lot of the
law firms do to more of a concerned
about am I locked into a vendor, if I go to Cloud, how do I get my
data out?
In this report from On The Road, hosts Adriana Linares and Kimberly Sanchez speak with Clio Senior Vice President of Global Sales Steven Silberbach and Clio Vice President of Business Development George Psiharis
about the
law firm index report and what this
data reveals
about the legal marketplace.
Ravel
Law's
Firm Analytics enables counsel to study similar
data about one's opponent, focused by practice area, court, judge, time or proceeding — or all of the above.
Second, and perhaps more importantly, new advances in technology have integrated financial
data with case management
data to provide one place for
law firm attorneys and staff to find all the information they need
about a client or case.
It also stores daily historic snapshots of PACER
data, providing information
about which attorneys and
law firms worked for which clients at any given time.
It's not the substantive
law; it's really
data about the players,
about the judges,
about the
law firms,
about the attorneys.
Many
law firms and corporate legal departments alike are wrestling with the decision
about whether to partner with an outside service provider to host their litigation
data and litigation software applications or to stick with internal resources for this important litigation support.
But the danger to a
law firm is not just
about your
data «stuff,» it's also
about keeping your
law firm running and your lawyers and staff working, and of course — it's
about your reputation.»
, spoke
about the benefits of implementing
data - driven decision - making processes at
law firms.
Joshua Lennon: I think what
law firms need to think
about is centralizing and standardizing their
data so in the past we had those giant middle off folders that have been overflowing with our case files and while those were great for storing things in bank or boxes and filing cabinets it didn't really make it something you could search against.
You know, LexMockup's a good example of just the ability to take pacer
data that's been available for years and suddenly show you information
about judges,
about competing
law firms,
about cases that you can't just see by going into Pacer.
More corporate clients such as banks, insurance companies are asking
law firms about their internal procedures, protocols and equipment in place to ensure that the client's communications and
data are protected.
He relayed a story
about a panel of IT staff explaining how they had converted all of the
law firm's
data into a cloud service — and it was apparent to him the lawyers were «completely unaware of what that meant.»
Law firms don't like to share
data about all their activities, although they have been handing out details of their financials for many years now, right down to their profit margins and property costs.