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Legal professionals everywhere rely on Excel for lawyers. 

We spend significant time gazing at seemingly endless rows and columns. Specifically, studies reveal we spend more than 10% of our working lives in spreadsheets.

There’s no doubt Excel has become a staple across many businesses and industries, but how exactly do law firms use it? In this guide, we unpack some of the top ways legal professionals use Excel for lawyers while sharing essential information that every legal professional should know to get the most value from it. 

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Though a more basic searching technique, keyword searches allow professionals to identify one or two specific words from multiple documents. Nowadays, keyword searches are considered inferior to the successor, predictive coding (TAR). In comparison to TAR, the “outdated” search method is more expensive and time-consuming. Keyword searches are also less predictable; when filtering through the same data set, keyword searches yield fewer results. Based on these flaws, some would argue that keyword searches are a dying technique.

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Previous advances in A.I. inspired predictions that the law was the lucrative profession most likely to suffer job losses. It didn’t happen. Is this time different?

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Trial presentations are an essential element of going to court; the balance between visuals and oral argument helps jurors to better understand the case. What is the objective of a trial presentation? For many, it is to tell a story compelling and convincing enough to win a case. When we think about empowering and improving a trial presentation, we need to consider the narrative of that presentation and how to maximize its impact.

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Have you ever worked with client portal software? Even if you haven’t, it’s possible you soon will — especially now with more attorneys working remotely and many clients wanting to avoid going into the firm’s office for meetings. 

For many firms, client portals are now the go-to solution for working and communicating with clients. It allows everyone to review things on their own time, wherever they may be.  

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Tools like generative AI already have real-world implications in the legal profession. In our previous post, we covered discussions at the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) Global Institute around the disruptive potential of generative AI, and how it will affect the way legal teams scale their services.

Here, we review sessions at the conference around active use cases and immediate steps professionals can take to learn more about the technology.

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The legal industry is in the midst of transformation. Legal professionals increasingly cite the cloud as the norm for the present and the future of ediscovery, and other legal functions such as document management and case tracking.

As law firms recognize the benefits of the cloud – its speed, scalability, security, collaborative nature, ability to handle modern data types, among others – and as they march towards the future, some firms are grappling with questions around adopting new technology and replacing old processes.

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Popular media — special shout out to Ally McBeal — would have us believe that trials, particularly trial by jury, are the way most cases are resolved. But legal professionals will tell you that that is simply no longer the case. When the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure went into effect in 1938, 20% of federal civil cases were resolved with a trial. In 2017, it was less than 1%. All this despite the increase in overall civil litigation over the last 85 years.

Why is this important? If cases aren’t going to trial, then the discovery process represents most of the time and expenses incurred in a given case. But, as any lawyer will tell you, this process can quickly go off the rails resulting in expensive, risky, and overly complex discovery efforts. An electronically stored information (ESI) agreement can help parties limit the scope of discovery, mitigate the risk of disputes, help reduce unnecessary spend, and ensure that the parties obtain the information necessary to reach an earlier resolution.

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Abraham Lincoln once said, "The best way to predict your future is to create it." In today's increasingly connected, complex, and competitive legal landscape, this quote resonates more than ever. Lawyers at all career stages, whether they work in-house or in private practice, have a generation-defining opportunity to shape the future of legal practice by embracing technologies powered by artificial intelligence (AI). These technologies offer immense potential to transform the way lawyers and legal professionals approach their work, not least in terms of automation, but in removing the barriers created by an adherence to the status quo.

In this blog, we'll explore how AI and generative AI are impacting the legal profession today, look at some of the AI research, highlight the competitive advantages firms can gain from adopting this technology today, and provide real-world examples of AI's transformative potential.

Many service providers will tell you that leveraging AI in eDiscovery is the equivalent of using an easy button. Too many repetitive tasks? AI will automate them. Improve on previous cases? Predictive analytics to the rescue. Hunting for small amounts of data among millions of documents? A simple task with AI.

While we might not have an easy button, AI isn’t as difficult to deploy as most people think. You just have to be aware that use cases for AI aren’t identical. There are different wrinkles, and subtle nuances that distinguish each one in every matter.

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