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Monthly Board of Directors Meeting
Are you looking for ways to draft legal documents faster, handle your matters more efficiently, all while finding time to keep up with the changing legal landscape?
Practical Law’s award-winning content helps lawyers quickly get up to speed and save time.
With Practical Law, you have access to expert-written how-guides, model forms and templates, checklists, flowcharts and more, all kept up-to-date to reflect current law and practice. Please join us for a complimentary CLE program where we will provide you with the tools to save you time, boost productivity and practice more efficiently in the face of ongoing changes to the law.
This 60-min CLE will discuss the following:
The fundamentals of Practical Law to get the best research and practice resources from your efforts
Use generative AI to accelerate the way you get answers to your legal questions
Quickly compare laws across jurisdictions, provisions, and current market trends
Being a lawyer is stressful - add life to the mix, and it is easy to become overwhelmed with clients, commitments, and deadlines. Although you might be stressed and on the verge of burnout, there is hope! In this program, Molly Anderson, Director of Content Strategy at Documate, will discuss several strategies and tools to reduce overwhelm in your legal practice, with a focus on the most impactful legal tech tools. Additionally, you will learn organizational structures to help you create systems within your practice that will ensure you are always on the path to organization.
Learning Objectives:
Identify which of your legal tasks are causing you the most stress
Analyze how to create organizational systems/procedures for the repetitive tasks in your legal practice
Prepare a strategy for dealing with your most stressful recurring task
Discuss additional tools that can assist you with common stress points in the legal field
Electronic data has permeated every aspect of our lives, which means that ediscovery has become an essential component of almost every litigation matter. It used to be seen as a process reserved only for the big law firms – but not anymore. Today, everyone practices ediscovery.
eDiscovery for the Rest of Us is a strategic and tactical resource for legal teams navigating the modern ediscovery landscape, with a particular focus on ediscovery with restricted budgets. Still, the comprehensive workflows and discussions featured in the book are universal for teams and cases of all sizes.
In this panel, the authors of eDiscovery for the Rest of Us will discuss highlights from the book and share more insights on contemporary ediscovery questions and challenges. Here are a few topics they’ll cover, in addition to an open Q&A:
The evolving role of AI in litigation
The eDiscovery Checklist Manifesto, a tangible framework for the ediscovery process
ESI protocols, the Meet and Confer, and how to use them to your advantage
Modern data challenges and solutions
Who are the panelists?
Tom O’Connor, nationally known consultant, speaker and writer in the area of computerized litigation support systems, and co-founder of Gulf Coast Legal Technology Center
Rakesh Madhava, CEO and founder of Nextpoint software
Brett Burney, Vice President of eDiscovery Consulting at Nextpoint Law Group
Elizabeth Guthrie, eDiscovery Content Manager at Nextpoint
Save your seat today for the webcast on March 14th, 2024 | 1 PM ET
Explore Zoom‘s extensive features, the different types of data it stores, how to use Zoom‘s API for collecting and archiving data, and the key considerations for creating a flexible eDiscovery strategy for your business.
The course, presented by Andrew R. Jones, Rachel Aghassi, and Spencer A. Richards, Esq.of Furman Kornfeld & Brennan LLP, will present suggestions to reduce the probability of legal malpractice claims, attorney liability defenses, and will also cover third-party cyber liability claims against attorneys. The program will review the Rules of Professional Conduct governing matter intake, conflict checks, exiting the file, managing client expectations, and billing practices, including suits for fees. We will also be discussing a lawyer‘s ethical obligations, including a lawyer‘s duty to protect the confidentiality and the client‘s electronic data. Ultimately, this presentation will discuss tips and best practices for lawyers to understand their ethical obligations in order to avoid legal malpractice and cyber liability claims, and will provide practical guidance to reduce the likelihood of those claims.
Learning Objectives:
Review the Rules of Professional Conduct governing matter intake, conflict checks, exiting the file, managing client expectations, and billing practices
Gain practical tips to reduce the probability of legal malpractice claims and third-party cyber liability claims against attorneys
Examine common attorney liability defenses
Join your fellow IPA members who work or live in the South Suburbs for dinner at Girl in the Park.
Nextpoint software has always supported legal teams throughout the full litigation lifecycle, from discovery to presentation. In 2023, we launched Data Mining software for early case assessment and revamped our case prep platform with new chronology and timeline building tools. This quarter, we enhanced our transcript platform and added automations that streamline review and simplify the way you manage your evidence.
Our new transcript tools allow for greater complexity and customization as you organize, analyze and draw reports on the testimony. Auto redactions make it quick and easy to redact sensitive information while ensuring quality and accuracy. Similarity scoring can lessen the load of review and provide important context around your documents throughout discovery and case prep.
These new features build on our foundation of comprehensive litigation software, advancing our mission to ensure our users have everything they need to build a winning case at each step of the legal process.
We’re also excited to highlight a release that extends beyond our software – eDiscovery for the Rest of Us, a comprehensive resource published in partnership with ediscovery expert Tom O’Connor. The book offers practical solutions to modern ediscovery challenges, with tactical checklists, thoughtful discussions, and step-by-step workflows featuring Nextpoint software.
This month‘s Featured Board Member/Chairperson is Melissa Jurik.