The Legal Ease

JANUARY 5, 2022

Every year, the ABA and the Legal Technology Resource Center conduct a legal technology survey seeking information from law firms of all sizes about how they use technology for everything from cybersecurity to cloud computing services to marketing and more. Technology Basics and Security.

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CARET Legal

APRIL 12, 2024

How can we ensure that your attorneys can focus on their primary roles without being overwhelmed? Amidst all these responsibilities, it’s important to remember that your attorneys are there to do what they do best – provide exceptional legal advice, represent clients, and win cases.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

For all the money being poured into legal technology development these days, woefully little gets spent on technology designed to enhance access to justice for low-income Americans. Based on these assessments, staff and volunteers will receive customized technology trainings that address any deficiencies in their knowledge.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 19, 2021

As an ethics attorney, I am frequently asked about the ethics of subscription legal services. Here is my story of how the practice hatched from an idea to a full-fledged service line. To be perfectly honest, the idea for offering a subscription service was hatched long before I could put the word “subscription” to it.

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LawTechnologyToday

JANUARY 31, 2023

We hear a lot about legal technology changing the way law firms operate, but technology doesn’t drive change: it empowers law firms to make the changes they want to make, or that they need to make to stay competitive and grow their businesses. 89% in private practice said they had the option of working remotely.

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Cenza

OCTOBER 29, 2020

All businesses – from manufacturing and information technology to food and legal – have been adversely impacted. The entire legal ecosystem will likely undergo a seismic shift in the way it operates. What’s in store for legal service providers?

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Cenza

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By introducing the ability to research case law online as an alternative to spending hours flipping through books, attorneys could save a significant amount of time, which they utilized for building client relationships. This invention set the stage for a technology revolution in the legal space. Legal AI in the early years.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Those predictions have fallen flat across the legal sector. Instead, in the past decade, the popularity of legal project management has grown exponentially. Offering a legal service is, of course, quite different from developing a new disinfectant, or building a software application or a material object.

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

How can an attorney increase their overall collection rate, decrease outstanding accounts receivable and substantially reduce time spent on billing? ClientCredit is the first BNPL solution for legal clients on the market and is exclusively available through LawPay. The Latest from the Legal Payments Leaders.

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LawSites

MARCH 12, 2024

Proxiio Global Solutions , an India-based provider of litigation and corporate legal services for law firms and in-house legal departments, is today officially launching in the United States. Leading U.S. The company is ISO-certified for information security and quality assurance.

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LegalTalkNetwork

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Technology is no longer about practicing law in an optional way or more quickly than you used to, but about figuring out what solutions your firm needs for the future. Find Someone to Help You Find the Right Tech Solutions Many attorneys recoil at the thought of picking out new tech, but what if you didn’t have to do it alone?

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InHouseOps

JULY 25, 2022

From corporate counsel to law firms to contract attorneys, this term of art can carry several meanings. In a nutshell, modern law refers to the idea of taking a business-centered approach to legal practice by embracing emerging technologies and new partnerships to increase efficiency and make smarter operational decisions.

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Cenza

MARCH 9, 2022

However, a recent trend indicates that many firms have downsized the support staff at a higher rate than attorneys, bringing the ratio of attorneys to support staff to 4:1 or even 5:1. However, this puts strain on the attorneys as they deal with a mounting volume of work despite the resource crunch. Create charts.

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LawTechnologyToday

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Lawyers Duty of Competence) professional competence requires that attorneys keep “abreast of changes in the law and its practice, including the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology.” . 2015-193, makes it clear that “in today’s technological world, almost every litigation matter potentially” involves e-discovery.

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MyCase

AUGUST 3, 2022

There will be a column for the retainer deposits, a column for client expenses, and a column for legal services on those separate pages. Using a spreadsheet to track the accounting is not popular, but I have seen attorneys attempt this. But if an attorney charges $250, $350, $450 an hour, is it less costly than buying software?

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LawTechnologyToday

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In recent years, new technology, specialization, client demand, and the pandemic forced the legal industry to adopt more efficient practices, including embracing the use of virtual legal services. Enter Alternative Legal Service Providers (ALSPs). Enter Alternative Legal Service Providers (ALSPs).

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 13, 2023

Hudson for the Eastern District of Virginia granted summary judgment in favor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, finding that the public does not have a protected First Amendment right to remotely access civil court records online, even though attorneys are granted access to those same records electronically.

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LawTechnologyToday

JANUARY 7, 2021

Legal operations has existed for longer than one might think. Before the role was defined, some functions were performed by an office manager within the in-house legal department. Technology wasn’t prevalent, so the job was primarily focused on making sure the day-to-day operations of the legal organization ran efficiently.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

At a time when some 92% of the civil legal problems of low-income Americans receive no or inadequate legal help, innovative measures are needed to close the justice gap. Host Bob Ambrogi interviewed them live last week at the Legal Services Corporation’s Innovations in Technology Conference in Charlotte, N.C.

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The Cloud Court Blog

JULY 14, 2023

Linkedin ) Kunoor, a California attorney, is Co-founder and VP of Legal Services at Elevate. She has spearheaded the transformation of the legal industry by creating expert led, software powered solutions that provide effective and efficient options to obtain, manage, and perform legal services.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

With the improved access to litigation data from numerous vendors in the exploding legal tech ecosystem, solo practitioners, small law firms, and regional and midsize firms can take advantage of insights from data to position themselves as leaders and market movers in their respective practice areas and jurisdictions.

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LawTechnologyToday

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Paul, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, took the unusual and creative step of asking a Section to assume responsibility for an initiative to examine ways that lawyers could use the internet and other electronic resources to deliver legal services to people of moderate means, more efficiently and effectively.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

MARCH 24, 2022

Now, over the course of time, cracks have been made in that armor, as organizations like LegalZoom have addressed services for legal consumers in an entirely different way – by focusing on products (document delivery), at more cost-effective prices than most law firms are willing to offer. So, yes: Walmart can open law firms.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In this article, we’ll share a few examples of sample billing language for attorneys that can help reduce late and non-payments to make sure you get paid for your hard work. . Updating Your Attorney Fee Agreement. You can download a free sample attorney fee contract here. . Promise to Pay Provision.

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Everchron

MARCH 7, 2024

[{"content":{"text":" In the rapidly evolving landscape of legal technology, generative artificial intelligence has emerged as a pivotal tool reshaping how legal professionals approach their practice. This guidance underscores the importance of adhering to ethical standards while harnessing the power of this technology.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The ABA TechReport combines data from the annual ABA Legal Technology Survey Report with expert analysis, observations, and predictions from leaders in the legal technology field. The 2022 ABA Legal Technology Survey Reports provide insights into these questions so that firms can best position themselves for the future.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 20, 2022

In response, they are investing more in automation, advanced analytics and other technologies that will help them manage the workload. This trend toward the increasing technology in law is echoed by industry analysts. Must law firms keep pace with their clients’ technology efforts? According to Gartner Inc., Rising cyberthreats.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

For other attorneys, it’s a reason to gripe about services like LegalZoom and RocketLawyer , that provide documents to legal consumers, as well as links to lawyer ly advice. Very few attorneys take the middle way, and decide to sell products and alternat iv e services to DIY clients. then, sell them documents.

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LawSites

MARCH 29, 2024

In the belief that technology could help them more effectively meet the needs of self-represented individuals in conservatorship matters, Bet Tzedek partnered with the legal technology design and development firm Theory and Principle to create an online alternative to its in-person clinics.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 20, 2022

Abraham Lincoln, licensed to practice law in 1837 in Illinois, may be the archetypal general practice attorney. The Lincoln Legal Papers Project identified over 5,600 cases and nearly 100,000 documents related to Lincoln’s law practice. In legal services, specialization has been spurred by rapid change.

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The Estrin Report

MAY 23, 2021

Law firms leaders quickly learned that a willingness to adopt new technologies into their firms was a requirement for survival during the pandemic. Often, the impact was largely dependent on firm size, geographic location(s), practice area(s), and, of course, technology readiness. Technology Saves The Day. in 2020, up from 3.3%

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The Estrin Report

MAY 23, 2021

Law firms leaders quickly learned that a willingness to adopt new technologies into their firms was a requirement for survival during the pandemic. Often, the impact was largely dependent on firm size, geographic location(s), practice area(s), and, of course, technology readiness. Technology Saves The Day. in 2020, up from 3.3%

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LawSites

MARCH 22, 2024

A bit late with this, as it was announced earlier this week, but the International Legal Technology Association, in celebration of Women’s History Month, has named five women as its 2024 Influential Women in Legal Tech. ” Alma began her career as a successful attorney at an Am Law 10 firm. She holds a J.D.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

“His experience, along with the Rocket Lawyer natively digital legal services platform will rapidly scale the availability, responsiveness and affordability of qualified legal practitioners everywhere,” the company said in announcing the hire. . We are excited to have him join our team.”

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LawSites

JULY 28, 2021

Priori Legal , a marketplace for in-house legal teams to find and hire outside counsel, is expanding to also serve as a marketplace for legal technology and alternative legal services providers. Factor , the alternative legal services provider that describes itself as delivering complex legal work at scale.

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LegalTalkNetwork

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Here are four podcast episodes to help you understand the basics of customer relationship management (CRM) and explore ways other attorneys have created client experiences that align with the goals of their practice. Gyi and Conrad explain the many ways of customizing CRM software to meet your needs.

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LawTechnologyToday

MAY 28, 2021

Leading a law firm throughout the pandemic has been no easy task, but the lessons learned have helped many attorneys position their firms for a more tech-focused, efficient approach to business. The post Managing Your Law Firm Through Change appeared first on Law Technology Today.

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