Maybe all of the above – and more. So writes Zena Applebaum, national director of market insights & engagement for legal, tax & accounting at Thomson Reuters, in a guest post at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, in which she recounts her recent turn on the Clubhouse stage.
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The light at the end of the pandemic tunnel may just be a freight train barreling right for the legal profession, according to a massive survey of global general counsel.
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Alex Chatzistamatis, senior principal enterprise architect with Nuix, discusses the ways that technological advancements like machine learning and artificial intelligence are shaping the future of e-discovery and other areas of the legal profession.
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DWF, a global legal business headquartered in Manchester and the UK’s largest listed law firm, has hired KPMG’s Jordan Owen to lead its Global Entity Management service.
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Early case assessment (ECA) is crucial to developing a winning strategy. Wendy Cole, product marketing director, legal tech with OpenText, explains how Axcelerate Investigation is helping organizations regain control of their ECA process and quickly assess the merits of their case.
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Change and challenge were the watchwords of 2020, but one area that has not received the attention it merits, according to Joel Schwarz, director for MBL Technologies and a cybersecurity, privacy and data protection expert, is the growth of third-party risk.
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Julian Ackert, managing director at iDiscovery Solutions, discusses the differences between structured and unstructured data and how database discovery can allow a legal team to conserve resources and get the best outcome for their client.
Thomson Reuters, drawing from its recently released 2021 State of Corporate Law Departments Report, says forward-thinking in-house leaders are poised to accelerate value optimization by continuing to invest in the “technology, processes and smart resourcing” the pandemic’s disruption forced upon them. “Through unprecedented disruption, crisis management and immediate shifts to new ways of working, critical gaps and shortcomings within departments were revealed and many corrected through the implementation of new processes and technologies,” says Lisa Hart Shepherd, VP of Research & Advisory Services for Thomson Reuters. “Law department leaders who quickly realized traditional methods of work could evolve and still meet department goals were able to pivot faster and more successfully during this year of unexpected challenges.” Download the complete free report here.
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Ask these questions to cut through the marketing noise and ensure quality and longevity.
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The newly released survey report, “Legal Pricing & Project Management,” was 13 years in the making, according to David Cambria, former corporate ops leader at Archer Daniels Midland, who now hangs his hat on the other side of the fence at megafirm Baker McKenzie. From that vantage, Cambria says he increasingly saw law firms deploying the same disciplines and capabilities as legal ops professionals.
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