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Amid the seismic shift of law firms joining the digital revolution, five key trends are emerging that will help shape how clients interact with firms and determine who their representation will be in the coming year.

The FTX bankruptcy caps a very difficult 2022 for the entire blockchain industry, spanning exchanges to decentralized finance to non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Blockchain and crypto skeptics are shouting "I told you so," while investors watch billions of investment dollars evaporate under the harsh light of the bankruptcies of Celsius, Compute North and now FTX.

Threats of cyberattacks have not only made legal professionals more wary — especially as legal teams in firms and in-house are increasingly the target of cyber hackers — but it has also changed their relationship with vendors.

This article provides an overview of the different types of privilege logs, lays out best practices for negotiating ESI or privilege-log protocols, and discusses other issues that can occur with privilege logs in e-discovery.

In March 2020 and the months immediately following, many firms found themselves scrambling to implement tools that would meet the needs of new remote work realities. Understandably, many of these decisions were done quickly without the normal level of due diligence. Now, the same firms are realizing that those hasty, though necessary, decisions should be revisited or undone.

Join Board of Editors member Kyle-Beth Hilfer, Editor-in-Chief Howard Shire, Aaron Krowne and Wenew GC Christine Lawton for Counseling the NFT Client: A Practical Guide to Legal and Business Issues.

Like a good diet and regular exercise for the body, data minimization and routine, defensible purging of outmoded documents are essential to maintaining healthy organizational information hygiene.

Turning to familiar, trusted partners to help navigate the unruly waters of change management, adoption and an ocean of new legal technology options.