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Not Again! Two More Cases, Just this Week, of Hallucinated Citations in Court Filings Leading to Sanctions

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Yet it happened again this week — and it happened not once, but in two separate cases, one in Missouri and the other in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts case did involve a lawyer, as well as the lawyer’s associate and two recent law school graduates not yet admitted to practice. In the Massachusetts case, Smith v.

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Pandemic-Related Legal Ethics Opinions: A Compendium

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Synopsis: Working from home has become the new normal, forcing law offices to transform themselves into a remote workforce overnight. As a result, attorneys must be particularly cognizant of how they and their staff work remotely, how they access data, and how they prevent computer viruses and other cybersecurity risks.

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TechReport 2022: Practice Management

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The onset of COVID in March of 2020 forced many attorneys to both adopt and become adept with these technologies. Conversely, respondents from firms of 100 or more attorneys report that their primary computers for work are laptops (88%), followed by solo attorneys (58%), firms of 10-49 attorneys (43%) and firms of 2-9 attorneys (38%).

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Working for a Plaintiff Firm vs. a Defense Firm

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Plaintiff attorneys are paid on contingency, and the amount is limited by the laws of the state. Some are unhappy no matter what you do and sometimes even when their attorney gets them a fair settlement on their case. The Defense firm I worked for not only kept the office open but discouraged staff from going home.

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TechReport 2021: Life & Practice

LawTechnologyToday

Since that time, the COVID-19 pandemic has entered our lives, and the 2021 Legal Technology Survey Report “Life and Practice” survey results indicate that there are still a fair number of attorneys who are struggling to achieve an appropriate “work-life” balance. 31% at firms of 2-9 attorneys. 20 at firms of 10-49 attorneys.

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Lunch Hour Legal Marketing Reboots with New Hosts Gyi Tsakalakis and Kelly Street

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Lunch Hour Legal Marketing originally launched in February 2015 as a webinar series for the Massachusetts Law Office Management Assistance Program (Mass LOMAP) to provide lawyers with a range of legal marketing topics, showcased in podcast format on Legal Talk Network.

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Path To Well-Being In Law Podcast: Episode 7 – Heidi Alexander

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This week on the Path to Well-Being in Law podcast, Bree and Chris continue their mission to highlight people doing important work in the space of lawyer well-being by welcoming Heidi Alexander. Heidi is Massachusetts’ first director of Supreme Judicial Court, standing committee on Lawyer Well-Being. Alexan…: Yeah.

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