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Last month, TransPerfect held its annual internal conference which made a pleasant change of pace from my attic confines of the last two years. The event was as intense, thought-provoking and instructive an experience as I’ve had in a professional workplace. The key themes outlined below are of value not just to the TransPerfect team but also to our clients – legal professionals working in competitive markets trying to grow their businesses.

Earlier this month, the ACC hosted an illuminating panel presentation on Life Sciences Litigation: A Look at Milestone Disputes & Recent Trends. Panelists included Lauri Mims and Jennifer Huber, both Partners at Keker Van Nest & Peters, and Ann Byers, Director, Shareholder Advisory at SRS Acquiom.

TransPerfect Legal Solutions (TLS) Regional Director Eric Elting attended the panel discussion and came away with some valuable insights.

For the past two years, approximately 95% of depositions have taken place online via Zoom, Teams, WebEx, and a host of other online video-conferencing platforms. Technical support became a primary job function for our entire team. Documents were initially printed and shipped across the country, but firms have now generally accepted the use of electronic marking and exhibit sharing.

Data is growing. In 2020, every person generated 1.7 MB of data a second – that’s 146.88 GB per day and just over 53 TB of data per person, per year. This presents a huge challenge for lawyers who are tasked with reviewing that data – culling it to keep ongoing hosting and lawyer fees down, while managing the risk of removing potentially relevant data.

Our executive team recently sat down with TLS Vice President, Consulting & Information Governance, Al-Karim Makhani to discuss the latest technology trends he and our clients are seeing across the legal industry.

Spend some time at any Intellectual Property (IP) industry event and it won’t be long before you hear “AI” being talked about in one context or another. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has augmented many areas of patent attorneys’ lives, including patent search, analysis, and drafting. That said, the most meaningful and consistent cost-reduction AI brings to the patent world is in the translation vertical.
 

Short, often informal messages have become an increasingly prevalent form of business communication. Whether by sending a simple text message or using a communication application like WhatsApp, Slack, or MS Teams, employees conduct more business in less formal ways than ever before. This article will discuss the rise of ephemeral messaging platform use, a case where the technology was misused that resulted in sanctions, and ways in which practitioners can avoid sanctions themselves.

2022 – a world changed by the pandemic. The rise of machines. And inevitably, the year lawyers will finally get it. Or maybe not. 

Al-Karim Makhani, VP of Consulting at TLS, picked the brains of five experts on what they saw as the key legal tech trends for 2022. From data-centric class actions to new cities being built in Saudi Arabia, one thing that’s not going away is the importance of the human touch. 

While subscription payment options are becoming more common, legal staffing providers and their clients say it may not become the de facto choice for all clients.

Without the help of expert translators and linguists, e-discovery translation can miss the mark by setting searches off in the wrong direction, causing material issues.

Meet Rajuan Pasha, a TLS Director who came from a career in economics after the 2008 crash to project management for e-discovery.

E-discovery is the process of identifying, collecting, and producing electronically stored information (ESI) to develop evidence. It is often initiated in pursuit of legal action or to protect against it, though the need for e-discovery is not limited to these circumstances.