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* Generative Artificial Intelligence search engines combine AI with traditional search to provide more nuanced, cited responses to queries. * Tools like Consensus, Andi, You, Phind, Exa and Perplexity offer diverse features and approaches. * GAI search will impact law firm SEO, requiring adaptation of online presence strategies., Nov 01, 2024 Imagine a search engine that doesn't just find information but understands it. One where you ask complex questions and receive answers backed by credible sources. This is [...]

Summary * Research and test different options to find the best fit for individual note-taking needs. * Lawyers accumulate a variety of notes, but paper-based methods pose limitations such as [...]

MICROSOFT rolled out Office 365 in 2011, a subscription plan instead of the traditional installed Office suite of products. In 2020 the name of the subscription became Microsoft 365. There [...]

ALL FIRM-OWNED portal computing and storage devices used for firm business should be secured with encryption. Malpractice and cyberliability insurance applications are increasingly asking for information about how firms are [...]

Summary * The Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Pyramid illustrates the progression from data to wisdom and highlights the role of knowledge in various aspects of legal practice, such as people, policy, precedent and [...]

Summary * Shopping for accounting software can be challenging, but it's a necessity for many firms. * Many law firms have been told that the product they are using for [...]

Automation is a big buzzword in the legal technology world. There are many tools a law firm can use to streamline processes, reduce administrative hassles and improve efficiency. With so [...]

THE SECURITY LANDSCAPE has become overwhelming for many lawyers. The last 10 years have witnessed an increasing awareness that a lack of compliance with security best practices may put lawyers [...]

When lawyers hear the term "succession planning," many automatically think of planning for retirement or closing a practice due to death or disability. But succession planning encompasses far more than [...]

WHAT IS NOTION? Notion wants to bring the "duct tape" tools that include email, document editors, databases, task management and more into one product. Notion lets you collaborate, annotate, store, [...]

MICROSOFT 365 has so many features and functions it is overwhelming. Yet, there are hundreds of add-ins and integrations to expand MS Office and the MS 365 suite of programs. [...]

DO YOU FEEL AS IF YOUR CALENDAR is under constant bombardment with meetings, client consultations, events and to-do's? Do you know how to use calendars such as Google Calendar or [...]

PROJECT MANAGEMENT is a discipline used in industries including information technology, government and manufacturing. Recently, law firms have identified project management to manage risk, predict pricing and keep complex matters [...]

DURING THE GREAT RECESSION OF 2008, many articles were published about "the new normal." They focused on law firms' need to make changes to be more flexible and client focused. [...]

Lawyers must continually hone their skills in the practice of law, learning and adapting in an ever-changing landscape of statutes, regulations and opinions. That need to continuously improve is not [...]

Potential clients, whether business or consumer, are spending increasing amounts of their digital life on mobile devices. Because of the increasing "bring your own device" policies at companies, the CEO [...]

Lawyers have used Microsoft (MS) Office, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook, for many years. While there are plenty of choices for productivity suites, Microsoft's new Office 365 adds some [...]

Everywhere you look people are using technology outside the confines of the workplace. Smartphones, laptops, eReaders and iPads abound on the train, in the park, on planes, at the coffee [...]

The current economic climate makes pinching pennies more important than ever--a fact that applies to the often costly area of legal research. Fortunately, today the Web puts amazing research resources [...]

The lawyer-client relationship, like so many things in life, all comes down to communication. Lawyers have an ethical duty to keep clients informed about the status of their matters, as [...]

AQUESTION RAISED BY MANY LAWYERS who are considering using social media for outreach and client development is, "Which social media platforms should I use?" That question is usually followed by, [...]

Windows 7 has been on the market since October 2009, and a lot of those who were running Microsoft Vista likely upgraded as soon as they heard that the new [...]