What Are You Getting Yourself Or Your Team In The New Year? [Sponsored]

New Year is only a few days away, but you don’t need to panic if you are still trying to think of the perfect gift ideas for your team. This holiday season, in addition to bonuses and other gift ideas, consider the gift of legal technology for your firm. It is the gift that will keep giving all year long. Legal technology can simplify and automate much of the monotonous work in your firm resulting in happier staff. firm. Here are two legal technology gifts to consider this year.  

Artificial Intelligence Technology

Artificial intelligence tools are continuing to advance the legal profession.  These artificial intelligence technologies are developed by data scientists and technology engineers who build complicated algorithms to quickly compute calculations that are too time consuming to complete manually.  Bringing artificial intelligence tools into your firm will benefit attorneys by helping them find answers faster and work more efficiently so they have time to complete more value-add work.

Westlaw Edge, powered by state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and built upon more than 100 years of attorney-edited annotations will provide your firm a clear strategic advantage by making it easier to deliver the fastest answers and gain the most valuable insights to fuel your case strategy.  Here are a few ways those doing legal research in your firm will appreciate the gift of Westlaw Edge:

• WestSearch Plus functionality helps you quickly address legal questions for thousands of legal topics with instant access to law summaries without needing to drill into a results list to uncover the answer.  The search feature also provides predictive research suggestions, so you can find your answers faster.
• Statutes and Regulations Compare allows you to see how a statute or federal regulation has changed over time with a click of a button. You no longer have to read through multiple session laws or Federal Register sections to see changes. The comparison also allows you to better understand the intent of the changes to the law to understand whether the language has become more or less restrictive.  
• Westlaw Edge is the only legal research service with a legal citator that cautions you when a point of law in your case has been implicitly undermined based on its reliance on an overruled or otherwise invalid decision.  KeyCite Overruling Risk speeds up legal research time and helps you get to the most accurate results because you no longer need to manually review each case to determine if it cites to an overruled point of law.  
• Litigation Analytics on Westlaw Edge allows attorneys to uncover and understand the tendencies of judges, courts, attorneys and law firms to better develop case strategy and better manage client expectations.  This functionality provides valuable insight on a judge’s familiarity with a subject matter based on past cases, their record on appeal, approach to expert witnesses and the authority they tend to cite.  You can also easily evaluate opposing counsel’s experience with your assigned judge as well as their tendencies to settle.

Attorney Created Practice Guides

One of the challenges of working in a smaller firm is being able to handle a large volume of matters that span a variety of practice areas.  This makes it difficult to have deep knowledge in specific areas and get answers back to clients in a timely manner.

Thomson Reuters Practical Law will give your team a better starting point with attorney created standard documents, checklists, legal updates, how-to-guides, and more.  These resources are created and continuously maintained by over 230 expert attorney-editors, so you can have confidence in the work you are delivering.  Here are a few ways your team will appreciate the gift of Practical Law this holiday season:

• When you are in a time crunch or need to get information in an unfamiliar practice area you can access straightforward how-to-guides and clear explanations of current law and practice, ranging from basic overviews to detailed analysis.
• You can get a better starting point on contracts, agreements and clauses and trust their real-world applicability with the insight of expert attorney experts.
• Practical Law compiles these resources in one, easy-to-use place so you can cut down on the time you spend searching for additional relevant documents and get back to clients with speed and confidence.

Let the Gift Giving Begin

Share appreciation for your team by thanking them for their contributions this year.  Recognize the time and effort they have put into driving results for your firm and your clients.  Acknowledge that the work is difficult and often requires long hours and stressful deadlines.

Share that the gift of legal technology is an investment in their professional development and will help them achieve greater work-life balance in the new year – something that is much deserved.  These tools will help them be on the cutting-edge in their profession and give them more time to focus on what matters in the firm instead of spending hours hunting down information that is needed to complete their jobs.  

Create the excitement today with free trials of Westlaw Edge and Practical Law or Contact Us and schedule an in firm demonstration.

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Amy Larson is a Director in Small Law Firm Customer Marketing at Thomson Reuters. She has over 17 years of experience in technology marketing with extensive focus on learning how technology can meet the needs of attorneys. Amy has been involved in numerous product launches throughout her tenure, public relations efforts, interviewing customers and telling their stories, and often writes and distributes information on how legal technology can help small law firms with their practice of law and law firm management responsibilities.

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