Elevate Newsletter Issue 15

January 2021: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

Liam Brown

With January underway, I would like to report on our company’s performance in 2020 and what lies ahead.

The year started with the successful completion of integrating the acquisitions we made over the previous eighteen months. During Q1 2020, we simplified our org structure, e.g., combining our Business Services for law firms business unit (BU) with our Business Solutions for law depts BU...

Video: Manage Outside Counsel with Elevate’s Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) Software

Elevate's ELM is an easy-to-use, cloud-based legal operations platform that streamlines the way law departments, law firms, and law companies manage legal work and collaborate.

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Event: 2021: The Year of the ELM

February 4 | Virtual Event

Elevate is pleased to sponsor Legalweek(year)'s 2021 virtual series. Join us on February 4, 1:15 pm EST, as Elevate hosts our session, "2021: The Year of the ELM." In the session, we will clarify what constitutes an Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) platform, and examine its unique and compelling capabilities. We'll also discuss its strategic and tactical advantages, particularly those stemming from data-driven insights and machine-driven decision making.

Webinar: University of South Carolina LegalTech Seminar: "The Three Forms of Legal Prediction"

February 10 | Virtual Event

As part of the University of South Carolina's LegalTech Seminar Series, Elevate's Dr. Daniel Katz, Vice President, Data Science and Innovation, discusses "The Three Forms of Legal Prediction – Experts, Crowds, and Algorithms." In this webinar, Dr. Daniel Katz highlights applying these approaches to predict judicial decisions from the Supreme Court of the United States.

Looking Back: 2020 In Review

Tom (Hersh) Hershenson

We all know that 2020 proved to be an exceptionally challenging and tumultuous year. COVID-19 wrought tremendous disruption and change across all realms of our lives.

It is perhaps fitting, then, that at Elevate, we saw the most interest in our blog posts, webinars, podcasts, and videos that involved the theme of transformation. The topic arose in a range of contexts – digital transformation, the transition from onsite to remote work, the impact of innovation on law organisations, legal operations and legal staffing, and more.

The posts, videos, podcasts, and webinars showcased below are among the most popular material we produced in 2020. We hope you find them informative and helpful – this year and beyond.