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How Should Lawyers Be Using AI Today? A Legalweek Informal Survey
The question this year: How should (or could) law firms be using AI as the technology stands today?
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Marketing Can Help Navigate During Times of Uncertainty
The legal industry is having a moment in the media spotlight. For lawyers and firms, and their marketing professionals, now is the time to up their go-to-market efforts.
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Why Hire a Fractional CMO for Your Law Firm?
Many law firms, especially small and midsize practices, struggle with their marketing and business development efforts. Often, they turn to traditional solutions, such as hiring a marketing coordinator, hoping this role can create meaningful impact. However, without a robust game plan, the outcome often becomes reactive, administrative marketing work, sidelining efforts to establish the firm’s unique positioning and visibility. A fractional CMO offers an alternative.
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The Importance of Change Management In Law Firms: Winning Lawyers' Support for Behavioral Change
Law firms, based on precedent, steeped in tradition, and historically resistant to disruption, often struggle with change management. Yet, in today’s rapidly evolving legal landscape, adapting to new technologies, processes and client expectations is no longer optional — it’s essential for survival.
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Best Practices for Preserving and Collecting Hyperlinked Files In E-Discovery
Hyperlinked files, unlike traditional email attachments, are dynamic versions of themselves, so it is as if they evolve in motion. Often stored externally from the collaboration platform, they represent a fundamental shift in how organizations manage and secure evidence for legal cases.
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How Should Lawyers Be Using AI Today? A Legalweek Unscientific Survey
Results of our annual informal poll of tech experts at Legalweek: How law firms should (or could) be using AI as the technology stands today.
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Safeguarding Your Law Firm: Why AI Policies Are Essential for Legal Practices
Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic idea for law firms; it is a rapidly evolving reality reshaping the way practices operate, offering law firms opportunities for greater efficiency, enhanced research capabilities and improved client service. However, as AI’s role in legal work expands, firms must adopt well-defined AI policies to protect client confidentiality, mitigate risks and ensure ethical compliance. Without a structured AI framework, law firms expose themselves to security breaches, malpractice risks and reputational damage.
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Crypto Enforcement Still Has a Pulse
The contrast between the Trump Administration’s ostentatious embrace of cryptocurrency and the prior administration’s chilly skepticism has led some to suggest that the multi-billion-dollar industry is at the dawn of an enforcement-devoid free for all. A more recent, lower key announcement, however, indicates that enforcement still has a pulse, and can be expected to play a part in that new approach.
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A Primer on the New Jersey Data Privacy Act
The New Jersey Data Privacy Act (NJDPA), went into effect this past Jan. 15. The NJDPA represents New Jersey’s entry into the burgeoning field of data privacy laws, as it joins 18 other states that have passed such laws.
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Back to the Future: How Data Privacy Laws Can Teach Us What to Expect With AI Regulation
While the amount of AI legislation introduced in various states is relatively limited, the scope of issues being legislated is quite broad. Despite the many uncertainties that remain to be clarified, there are actually many parallels between how data privacy laws took shape five years ago, and how AI legislation is developing today.
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