Civil Litigators Cannot Usually Relate To Criminal Lawyers
Above The Law
JUNE 7, 2024
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Above The Law
JUNE 7, 2024
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ABA Journal
JUNE 6, 2024
Dueling lawsuits between the law firm Napoli Shkolnik and a fired partner accused of "quiet quitting" have been dropped following private mediation. Details of the…
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Paralegal Bootcamp
JANUARY 25, 2024
These were the top 7 actionable strategies and tips for litigation paralegals to accelerate their paralegal career in 2024. How to Get Up to Speed Fast on Your Cases I think one of the tips for litigation paralegals that could help here is what I had recommended in our three-step roadmap for new litigation paralegals.
The Estrin Report
MAY 13, 2024
Estrin Legal Apartheid: The Poisonous Impact of the ‘Non-Lawyer’ Label on Professional Equality There is a petition going around to strike the term “non-lawyer” from use by the ABA. They bring a wealth of knowledge and skill to their roles , often serving as indispensable members of legal teams.
CARET Legal
APRIL 8, 2024
The relentless pursuit of billable hours in the legal profession often leads to overwork and burnout, undermining lawyers’ well-being and job satisfaction. On one hand, it’s a measure of a lawyer’s productivity and a key revenue driver for law firms.
CARET Legal
JUNE 7, 2024
Balancing workloads effectively is crucial not only for the success of your firm but also for the well-being of your team. As the owner of a law firm, you are no stranger to the intense workloads that your litigation and corporate teams face on a daily basis. Work can then be reallocated accordingly.
LawTechnologyToday
AUGUST 16, 2021
Technology continues to flourish in the legal community as online marketplaces provide impressive transparent legal support services to law firms. Online platforms bring transparency to law firms, providing a means to compare and make the best selection of services that are easily outsourced. Why the hesitancy?
NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
DECEMBER 21, 2021
The hardest thing about sticking to a law firm marketing strategy is. It’s all about consistency; and, most law firms will fail in that regard – instead producing content in fits and starts, without ever getting into a groove. Want to better structure your law firm marketing plan? well, sticking to it.
JURIST
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
Law360 Sunday released a study showing only a moderate increase in the number of female lawyers working in law firms, despite the efforts to improve diversity, equity and inclusion. percent of law firm attorneys are women, and only 27 percent of female attorneys are partners. Currently, only 38.9
Above The Law
JUNE 1, 2023
The post ‘Legal Tech Lists’: 5 Lawyer Tropes Upended By Legal Tech (Remote Litigation Edition) appeared first on Above the Law. We thought this area deserved its own list.
JURIST
JANUARY 25, 2023
(MSG Entertainment) regarding its reported use of facial recognition software to identify and deny entry to MSG venues for all lawyers affiliated with law firms that represent clients in pending litigation related to MSG Entertainment. The policy may affect up to 90 law firms and thousands of lawyers.
Paralegal Bootcamp
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Whether you’re a new litigation paralegal or have been on your litigation career path for years, Kim’s story is the perfect inspiration for welcoming mobility into your paralegal career and seeing the possibilities of where it can take you. ARE YOU NEW TO LITIGATION? Prefer Audio Instead of Reading?
ABA Journal
JANUARY 3, 2024
4 lawsuit contending that he retaliated against a litigant who revealed the judge’s relationship with a lawyer whose law firm had cases before the court. Former U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David R. Jones of Houston has said he is immune from an Oct.
Patently O
DECEMBER 14, 2023
The motion levels a number of accusations against the funder of the litigation campaign (AiPi) and its cofounder Eric Morehouse. According to Ramey, Eric Morehouse originally induced AiPi as both a “patent litigation funder and law firm” and looked for Ramey to support the litigation alongside AiPi.
Paralegal Bootcamp
MARCH 17, 2023
Technology is an integral part of any business, including law firms and legal departments. Even if you don’t work at a firm specializing in technology, you will still use computers and software daily. However, litigation technology can be tricky to understand. Learn 10 Paralegal Tips to Fast-Track Your Career.
LawTechnologyToday
AUGUST 1, 2023
In an evolving legal environment with market competition at an all-time high, the technical competence of law firms and legal departments of large organizations have to be top notch. Outsource non-core processes: Outsourcing of non-core processes by law firms have a proven track record of resulting in cost reduction.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
MAY 8, 2024
Lawyers, bar associations, and law societies have an important but not fully recognized role to play in achieving the net zero goal in the Paris Agreement. Climate Change as an Increasingly Common Feature of Law Practice Climate change is no longer an issue of concern only to environmental and energy lawyers.
Attorney at Work
APRIL 4, 2024
The post Judicial Preferences, AI, and Leveraging Technology in Complex Litigation appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers. Ari Kaplan interviews Geoffrey Vance, chair of Perkins Coie's E-Discovery Services and Strategy Group, and Ross Guberman of BriefCatch.
Above The Law
JUNE 23, 2021
Perhaps most obviously, lawyers make daunting litigants because they know the law better than other litigants.
LawSites
JANUARY 10, 2024
In a marriage of pro bono platforms, Paladin , a company whose platform connects lawyers with opportunities to provide free legal help, has acquired Pro Bono Manager , a product developed by Pro Bono Net to enable large law firms to manage and measure their pro bono programs. LawHelp.org, a network of statewide legal portals.
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.
Law 360
APRIL 29, 2024
Detroit-area-based Kemp Klein Law Firm has announced it hired a new bankruptcy-focused corporate lawyer to bolster its corporate, litigation and bankruptcy practices.
Attorney at Work
JANUARY 13, 2022
That doesn’t mean, however, that law firms and litigation support teams have been quick to embrace them. In the ABA 2020 Legal Tech Survey , 23% of law firms reported not being interested in AI, while 34% said they didn’t know enough about AI to speak to their firms’ interest. AI Hesitation.
Paralegal Bootcamp
AUGUST 19, 2022
For those litigation paralegals who embrace it and learn everything they can about it, eDiscovery matters and has been a game-changer for their careers. In fact, I’m also hosting a free masterclass next week on it because of how important eDiscovery is to litigation paralegal careers. Or, we don’t do eDiscovery at my firm.
MyCase
APRIL 13, 2021
With markedly increased remote interaction during the pandemic, legal services consumers will expect similar connection to and engagement with law firms in 2021 and beyond. Two methods for communicating internally with intention are: Work Chat: Internal comms shouldn’t just be about the law firm spitting information one way.
CARET Legal
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Leave missed deadlines and forgotten tasks behind with CARET Legal Workflows Routine Tasks Perfect for Automation Every attorney at every law firm has a set of repetitive activities they execute on a daily/weekly basis. Family Law Firms: Divorce In family law firms , handling a client’s divorce is a common attorney task.
NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
JANUARY 14, 2019
Lawyers have always billed clients the same way: by the hour. While that option is good for law firms (hello: uncapped billings), clients often chafe at the model, because $— x however many hours the lawyer decides to work is a little bit more of an investment than, say, a Netflix subscription. What does that mean?
MyCase
AUGUST 22, 2022
When imagining a successful lawyer, most of us picture the often glamorized biglaw lawyer. But there are several ways to practice law. A boutique law firm’s case management process provides a different experience for lawyers and clients. . How boutique law firms differ from biglaw firms.
LawSites
JANUARY 9, 2024
The Thomson Reuters Institute, in its 2024 Report on the State of the US Legal Market , released today in partnership with the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at Georgetown Law ( whose URL returns a page not found), uses Pan Am’s story to drive home a simple point for U.S. law firms: Innovate or die.
LawSites
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
In what it described as a case pitting “real lawyers against a robot lawyer,” a federal court in Illinois has dismissed a law firm’s suit against the self-help legal service DoNotPay. “MK has not alleged any lost revenue or added expenditures as a result of DNP’s conduct,” wrote U.S. .
LegalReader
MAY 3, 2021
Different lawyers have different fields of expertise. Make sure that you pick a lawyer that has represented cases similar to yours in the past.
LawSites
MARCH 22, 2023
Way back in 2018, as an increasing number of legal technology companies were launching litigation analytics products, I wrote about the trend in a post on Above the Law , where I posited that it could someday be malpractice for a lawyer not to use analytics.
LawSites
JUNE 29, 2022
Today brings news that Gavelytics , a seven-year-old litigation analytics company, is closing its doors effective tomorrow. We earned the loyalty of many of the world’s largest law firms and insurance companies. We patented multiple elements of our technology. The reason, he said, is “a long story.” in funding.
Above The Law
JULY 30, 2021
Let the lawyer beware: pro se litigants are likely to research all of the legal issues and procedures involved in a case and harp on deficiencies in the positions of adversaries.
LegalTalkNetwork
JUNE 4, 2024
Lawyers, in particular, have played a critical role in solidifying and protecting rights, like in the landmark Bostock v. Gavin Alexander Gavin Alexander is a founding member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s standing committee on lawyer well-being and serves as the director of wellness at Jackson Lewis P.C.,
LawSites
MARCH 6, 2024
Hotshot , a learning platform for legal professionals, today released the first five courses in a planned series designed to teach lawyers and other legal professionals about artificial intelligence and its impact on law practice. Introduction to LLMs for Lawyers. Using AI: Litigators. Using AI: Transactional Lawyers.
ABA Journal
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Updated: A fired income partner at Thompson Hine has filed a gender bias lawsuit against the law firm alleging that a former vice chair of litigation ruled the firm’s New York office “like a toxic boys club locker room.”
NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
MARCH 22, 2024
Most attorneys should probably be ruled by their calendars, with law practices running on deadlines. That’s especially true for litigation firms, which take direction from court rules and judges about when and how things get done. If you want to streamline your processes around calendar management, we can help!
Attorney at Work
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
| Avoid costly litigation with better drafting. Million Comma appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms & Lawyers. Get to the Point! | Put the modifier first! The post The $4.85
Attorney at Work
JUNE 6, 2022
How have law firms supported their clients during the COVID-19 pandemic? A dozen business development professionals talk about the innovative ways their firms have strengthened relationships and created deeper ties. And law firms that resist the impetus for change will risk failure. Anticipating Changing Needs.
Paralegal Bootcamp
MAY 18, 2023
Do you want to know what a path from paralegal to lawyer can look like? Now I’m not the right person to answer that question because the only time that I contemplated going to law school was when I was in a job that I didn’t like. After graduating from law school, Sarah worked as an attorney at Georgia Pacific.
MyCase
JUNE 7, 2024
” The evolution of AI for lawyers is setting the stage for a new era in legal work, one in which efficiency and precision are greatly enhanced. Problems Lawyers Face With Legal Documents Legal professionals encounter numerous document assembly and management challenges that AI legal assistants and tools can alleviate.
LawTechnologyToday
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
Even for geniuses, it is unrealistic for lawyers to maintain a complete catalog of everything they will ever need to know in their heads at all times. For example, a London law firm used data on the outcomes of 600 cases over 12 months to create a model for the viability of personal injury cases. That is where AI comes in.
Above The Law
JULY 21, 2021
If lawyers at smaller firms take certain steps they can be on an equal, if not far superior, playing field against bigger law firms.
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