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Guest post: Getting your data right – unlocking the value

Guest post: Getting your data right – unlocking the value

In this post on data & legal engineering, Wavelength Law’s Chief Scientific Officer, Dr Ben Gardner, continues on the theme of utilising new data structures to deliver legal engineering solutions
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Guest post: Ransomware exposes a flawed desktop computing model – and why iOS is better

Guest post: Ransomware exposes a flawed desktop computing model – and why iOS is better

Over the last two months, the concept of ransomware has blasted into the public conscious with massive and disruptive cyberattacks. Both ransomware attacks were accompanied by a heavy dose of
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Guest post: Get your data right

Guest post: Get your data right

In this post on data & legal engineering, Wavelength Law’s chief scientific officer, Dr Ben Gardner, discusses how utilising new data structures provides the foundations for legal engineering and transformational
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Guest post: Is the era of ERP for law firms finally here?

Guest post: Is the era of ERP for law firms finally here?

Is the era of ERP for law firms finally here? Absolutely, says Martin Telfer, EMEA chief of Fulcrum Global Technologies, and here are the trends in the legal industry and wider corporate
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Guest post: The future of document comparison – the age of embedding begins

Guest post: The future of document comparison – the age of embedding begins

The legal desktop is the most crowded its ever been with innovation hindered by the time needed to manage that congestion. In this guest post from Workshare’s chief revenue officer
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Guest post: Why we acquired Ravel Law

Guest post: Why we acquired Ravel Law

To be successful in today’s competitive legal environment, lawyers need to make faster, more informed decisions, based on data that is incorporated into their natural workflow. But the existence of
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Guest post: Buying Legal – getting to grips with data

Guest post: Buying Legal – getting to grips with data

The 3rd annual Europe Conference of the Buying Legal Council took place on 9th May 2017 in London, hosted this year by Eversheds Sutherland. A formidable array of experts was
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Guest post: Law Firm Resource Management

Guest post: Law Firm Resource Management

Having applied technology and modern working practices to most areas of legal practice over the last 30 years, there are two remaining areas of law firm activity that have received
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Guest post: Practical Steps to Cyber Security for Law Firms

Guest post: Practical Steps to Cyber Security for Law Firms

On average, 4,000 ransomware attacks occurred per day in 2016, according to a report from the FBI. Diving deeper, ransomware attacks on businesses have become more frequent as well. Between
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Guest post: The GDPR and business mobility

Guest post: The GDPR and business mobility

When the EU’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) come into force on May 25, 2018, they may not make too much difference to law firms. This is because the profession’s
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Guest post: Who is Responsible for eDiscovery?

Guest post: Who is Responsible for eDiscovery?

Yerra’s director of eDiscovery consulting Will Wilkinson looks at the rise of eDiscovery to become the vast industry we now recognise today in which corporate legal teams are increasingly taking control. He asks and
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Guest post: Millennials Really DO Need Technology Training

Guest post: Millennials Really DO Need Technology Training

Last year, Casey Flaherty and Darth Vaugh wrote an article for the ABA Journal about the myth that Millennials are innately adept with any and all technology. Spoiler alert: they’re
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Guest post: Law firms must make their staff an effective part of their cyber defence

Guest post: Law firms must make their staff an effective part of their cyber defence

Law firms are seen by hackers as a valuable yet soft target. 73% of the UK’s top 100 law firms were the target of cyber-attacks last year. How would a
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Guest post: Ignorance of Open Source Law is No Defence

Guest post: Ignorance of Open Source Law is No Defence

There is an old adage in the legal profession: Ignorance of the law is no defence.  So, General Counsel (GC) – be they from software/Internet of Things (IoT) corporations, or
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Guest Comment: Legal Services and Technology Innovation – are we there yet?

Guest Comment: Legal Services and Technology Innovation – are we there yet?

by Pete Nussey, Director of Innovation, The Law Society of England and Wales The late comedian Bill Hicks accused marketing of being ‘the ruiner of all things good’. In fact, he
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Guest post: Technological innovation at law firms – more hype than fact

Guest post: Technological innovation at law firms – more hype than fact

I was recently given a new report on the state of innovation in Canadian law firms. Aptly named, The Illusion of Innovation at Canadian Law Firms, (found at: https://jnper.com/lawfirms/) the
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Guest post: The AI revolution – on pricing, performance and partners

Guest post: The AI revolution – on pricing, performance and partners

Artificial intelligence (AI) is working its way into the legal services market at an increasing pace.  As robots decide what paragraphs to include in legal contracts and traditional lawyers struggle
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