MyCase

AUGUST 8, 2022

SaaS for Lawyers. SaaS is modernizing the legal industry in two ways: by making law firms more efficient and creating career opportunities for lawyers worldwide. In this article, we’ll be discussing all things SaaS for lawyers. In this article, we’ll be discussing all things SaaS for lawyers. What is SaaS? .

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Attorney at Work

MAY 31, 2022

Trust accounting mistakes strike fear in the hearts of well-intentioned lawyers. The simplest protection is sometimes overlooked by delegation-heavy lawyers: Be the only person authorized to sign checks on your trust account. For lawyers who work remotely but have an office with staff, the temptation is extra great.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Following these six principles will help you be a more persuasive lawyer. The Art of Being a More Persuasive Lawyer. Unfortunately, this art is not on the curriculum of many law schools. As lawyers, we are not in the business of making people take responsibility for their lives — we are trying to persuade them.

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 18, 2023

In today’s legal profession, lawyers must be technologically competent. Law schools have a duty to maintain a rigorous program of legal education and enable students to develop their professional identity. Examinees will be required to perform the activities typically required of a newly licensed lawyer.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

For all the discussion of how generative AI will impact the legal profession, maybe one answer is that it will weed out the lazy and incompetent lawyers. By now, in the wake of several cases in which lawyers have found themselves in hot water by citing hallucinated cases generated by ChatGPT, most notoriously Mata v. XYZ Corporation.

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Patently O

DECEMBER 19, 2022

By David Hricik, Mercer Law School. Instead, a bill must say something like “in 28 USC 1332, strike ‘$75,000’ and replace it with “$100,000” That can get complicated, with all the federal laws that cross-reference each other, different enactment dates, and so on. The patent application is here.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 9, 2022

They are responsible for: Drafting documents/agreements Corresponding with clients Meeting with clients for the signing of documents Legal Research Using eDiscovery software Representing individuals in small matters Administrative duties. This included handling administrative tasks for lawyers, as well as the company’s corporate department.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The courses in legal research and writing equipped me with the ability to efficiently locate and analyze relevant statutes, regulations, and case law. Understanding Legal Procedures I was exposed to multiple areas of law such as Civil Litigation, Criminal Law, Business law, etc.,

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

MAY 28, 2019

Most lawyers just draft a job description (or have someone else do it), and that’s that. But, even if you aren’t, or it’s not, posting job descriptions through local colleges, universities and law schools is a great way to get vetted candidates. or the next time: - Build a candidate profile. Choose wisely.

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LawTechnologyToday

AUGUST 3, 2022

Dyane O’Leary is the Associate Professor of Legal Writing; Director Legal Innovation & Technology Concentration at Suffolk University Law School. They are just as fundamental for the modern law student as drafting a case brief or preparing an office memorandum. How did you become involved in legal tech?

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LawSites

APRIL 12, 2022

In addition to 11,000 legal-specific writing and editing suggestions, BriefCatch also provides thousands of unique explanations and examples drawn from the exemplary writing of lawyers and judges. BriefCatch spots mistakes before clients and judges do, empowering users to write first-rate, confident first drafts,” Guberman said.

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LawSites

JULY 9, 2021

In this guest post, Laura Lee Norris , director of the program, and Mark Michels , lecturer in law, describe the program and how it prepares students for careers as tech lawyers in Silicon Valley. Santa Clara University School of Law graduated its first Tech Edge JD cohort in May 2021.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 3, 2023

RT: I’ve used it to help me write an upcoming Future Proofing column in Law Practice magazine. For general information I’ve found it very helpful to create a first draft that helps organize my thoughts. The site has been slammed. SN: I was pleased and surprised by the quality of what it produced.

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MyCase

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Lawyers must learn how to write as effectively as they prosecute and defend. While you may have graduated from law school to perform duties in court, day-to-day tasks will also include drafting, reviewing, and editing legal documents. Writing for lawyers will look different than writing for clients. .

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LawSites

MARCH 17, 2022

.” Rowan Patents , “designed specifically to draft and prosecute patents.” ” BriefCatch , “the preferred legal-editing tool for Supreme Court Justices; top law firms, law schools, and courts of every type; and countless lawyers around the world.”

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Patently O

JANUARY 4, 2024

Winston Strawn Plagiarism Complaint Winston Strawn Plagiarism Attachments I recall being asked to draft my first patent infringement complaint back in early 2003 – a few months after graduating from law school. A key case on point is Iowa S. Cannon , 789 N.W.2d 2d 756, 757 (Iowa 2010).

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 30, 2022

A surprisingly large number of lawyers, judged from my anecdotal experience, are interested in teaching a law school class. I just wrapped up my whirlwind of a first semester as an adjunct law professor teaching Contract Drafting at the University of Richmond School of Law.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 27, 2023

A related story on the most popular list was about the sanctions imposed on lawyers in New York who cited “bogus” cases in their brief. Circuit Court Considers Rule Requiring Lawyers to Certify they Did Not Rely on AI to Create Filings (Nov. There’s A New Top-Level Domain for Lawyers: ‘ esq’ (May 9, 2023).

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Law students have also gone into the streets in university cities like Mandalay, joining young lawyers in shows of strength that recall crowds of youths from the 1988 Revolution more than a generation ago. The interviewer is JURIST staffer Khushali Mahajan, a law student at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law in neighboring India.

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LawTechnologyToday

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Flo Nicolas is a technology thought leader with a decade of experience in technology operations and a lawyer that is passionate about promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). Boyd School. This highly anticipated event brings legal professionals worldwide to contract drafting and negotiating training.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You only learn how to be a professional and a very basic understanding of legal research and some drafting. It will not enable you to be a paralegal without proper training and experience. Here are some Paralegal Resume Drafting Tips. In all honesty, lawyers LOVE talking about themselves. Let them talk.

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The Estrin Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Lawyers are often smart, ambitious, and highly educated. That being said, what does it take to stand out and become a “Top Lawyer” in your specific field of law? What better way to use those skills in a professional environment than as a lawyer? Do you think where you went to school has any bearing on your success?

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Some of the stress and long hours will depend on the lawyer you work with, the organization you work for, and the practice area you work in. Here are some paralegal job search advice we’ve published in other articles: Resume Drafting Tips. Job Interview Questions. LinkedIn Tips. Personal Injury Paralegal.

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LawTechnologyToday

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Emory Law TI:GER Program was unique with its multidisciplinary approach to integrating technology commercialization and legal education. I was excited to lead this effort at the law school and continue to see great outcomes for our graduates. First, I am working on a data literacy framework for law students.

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LawSites

MAY 22, 2023

For Sartor, the seeds for developing this app were sown when she was in law school, where she volunteered as a guardian ad litem for foster youth. By then, she was working at Bay Area Legal Services as a lawyer in is L. Kids lose things, and foster youth, who may move frequently, are even more prone to lose things.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 30, 2022

Attorney at Work’s new “Women in Law” series honors Women’s History Month with a focus on successful women lawyers who have carved a path for themselves in the legal industry and beyond. Columbia University School of Law. The law was complex and the facts messy. Plus, I was starting to miss thinking like a lawyer.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Josh Gerstein of Politico, with his colleague Alexander Ward, broke the story of the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Groups from New York Law School (not to be confused with New York University Law School, I am reminded whenever I interview a professor from the former) and the New York City Law Department are sworn in.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Finally, the draft is completed and ready to share with a colleague for edits before the final version can be sent. This is deceptive, however, and following an initial setup (likely by technologists, not individual lawyers) creating format-voided content should be as simple as using a digital typewriter. What about Word?

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InHouseOps

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I earned my BA in film, television, and theatre from the University of Notre Dame, then went to Quinnipiac University School of Law thinking I would love litigation; something about being in a courtroom seemed to dovetail nicely with a theatre background. An obvious role of the law department, as I just mentioned, is to minimize risk.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Write the First Draft of a 300-Word Blog Post, Article or Alert (60 Minutes) Take a common issue and write about it. Provide a description of what kind of attorney you are and the area of law you practice. Check in with an old law school classmate. You will have a draft ready in no time. Law school counts.

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JURIST

APRIL 15, 2024

Gijs de Bra is a JURIST Assistant Editor and SCOTUS special correspondent, and a 2L at Cornell Law School. It is truly—as a former government lawyer—baffling how someone say that [the definition of corruptly] was not contested, that this [gratuity] was wrongful. No citation [to the record]. Of course it was contested.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The award will support a postgraduate student or graduate of an Australian law school to undertake an internship with The Hague Conference on Private International Law in the Netherlands by providing funds to cover the cost of travel to the Netherlands and a contribution towards living expenses. How to apply.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 22, 2021

I started Clearbrief to help lawyers find the evidence that supports their arguments and wins the case. JS: The platform is designed for lawyers at firms of all sizes, as well as judges and clerks. How do you see this technology changing the way legal writing is taught in law schools? How does Clearbrief work?

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LawSites

AUGUST 30, 2022

Out of that voluminous record, you need to find the evidence that supports your arguments, then draft your brief citing to that evidence, and then double-check and mark your citations against the record and build a table of authorities. For the lawyers, it is an enormous amount of work on a tight deadline. Falcon is no newbie to tech.

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SimplyLawJobs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

My job consists of assisting fee earners with drafting legal documents, researching various areas of law, carrying out general administrative work and assisting clients with their queries. To be completely honest, my mum recommended I do law and become a lawyer. 10 Tips on preparing for law school.

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LawTechnologyToday

AUGUST 29, 2022

Being a lawyer is inherently stressful, and the first few years of practicing law are arguably the most anxiety-inducing periods of your life (aside from 1L finals and the bar exam). As you enter the real world, you’ll learn very quickly that law school did not teach you how to actually practice law. But rest easy!

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LawTechnologyToday

JANUARY 14, 2021

As a new generation of lawyers is about to enter the workforce, they bring new ideas, perspectives and ways of working that are bound to influence how law will be practiced in the future. These are capabilities that are likely to be highly valued by next-generation lawyers. Education and training: Help me get better.

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