First law firm owned entirely by nonlawyers opens in Utah
ABA Journal
MARCH 17, 2021
Law on Call—touted as the first entirely nonlawyer owned law firm in the United States—is open for business in Utah. Law on Call is operating…
“Retiring Utah top court justice to open law, consulting firms”
HowAppealing
JUNE 13, 2022
“Retiring Utah top court justice to open law, consulting firms”: Sara Merken of Reuters has a report that begins, “Utah Supreme Court Associate Chief Justice Thomas Lee said Monday he will create a law firm and a separate linguistic consulting firm as he retires from the bench June 30.”
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Law Firm Deregulation Programs Pick Up Speed in Both Arizona and Utah!
Paralegal Coffee Talk
MAY 28, 2021
Law Firm Deregulation Programs Pick Up Speed in both Arizona and Utah? The post Law Firm Deregulation Programs Pick Up Speed in Both Arizona and Utah! Click here to read article! appeared first on.
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“Utah Supreme Court Justice Deno Himonas retires, plans return to private sector; Justice Deno Himonas plans to transition to a major law firm after almost two decades in public service”
HowAppealing
OCTOBER 30, 2021
“Utah Supreme Court Justice Deno Himonas retires, plans return to private sector; Justice Deno Himonas plans to transition to a major law firm after almost two decades in public service”: Jordan Miller of The Salt Lake Tribune has this report.
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Eye of the Storm: How Will Alternative Business Structures Affect Traditional Law Firms
NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
Arizona has recently stricken the rule barring non-lawyer ownership in law firms from its professional ethics code. Utah is creating a sandbox environment to explore the same option. So, if you think it’s hard to compete with the law firm across town, try working against Walmart. This is the eye of the storm.
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What’s New in Law Firm Ownership?
Attorney at Work
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Depending on your point of view, there’s either lots new or “not so much” new with law firm ownership. In a nutshell, it says that lawyers must own law firms. New Developments in Law Firm Ownership. Australia and the United Kingdom already permit outside ownership of law firms.
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Legal Reforms In Utah & Arizona Made Law Better So Obviously No One Is Following Their Lead
Above The Law
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
The post Legal Reforms In Utah & Arizona Made Law Better So Obviously No One Is Following Their Lead appeared first on Above the Law. We know access to justice gaps exist, what are we doing about it?
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Law Firm Marketing Regulation: What’s Hot and What’s Not — a Tribute
Attorney at Work
DECEMBER 28, 2021
I lack both the breadth and depth of his knowledge and tend to more narrowly focus here on law firm marketing and its regulation. Red Hot Law Firm Marketing Trends. The first wave of law firm marketers were often high-performing administrative staff. Deregulation of law firm trade names.
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117 United States: ABA Formal Opinion Approves Lawyers' Passive Investment In Law Firms With Nonlawyer Owners - Holland & Knight
Mondaq
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Arizona and Utah recently began allowing nonlawyers to establish or become part owners of law firms, raising the question of whether lawyers admitted in jurisdictions.
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Comprehensive Study of Regulatory Reform Finds It Is Driving ‘Substantial Innovation’ In Legal Services Delivery with No Harm to Consumers
LawSites
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
A Stanford Law School study published today of regulatory reforms in Utah and Arizona finds that they are “spurring substantial innovation,” that they are critical to serving lower-income populations, and that they do not pose any substantial risk of consumer harm.
Justice Deno Himonas, Who Spearheaded Utah’s Innovation Sandbox, Retires from Supreme Court
LawSites
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Constandinos (Deno) Himonas, the Utah Supreme Court justice who spearheaded the state’s first-of-its-kind regulatory sandbox to license new forms of legal services and providers, is retiring from the court. 29 letter to Utah Gov. 29 letter to Utah Gov. Lund, past-president of the Utah State Bar, for my LawNext podcast.
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On LawNext: Rasa Legal Founder Noella Sudbury On Simplifying Criminal Records Expungement
LawSites
JUNE 6, 2023
Also last year, the Utah State Bar honored Sudbury with its 2022 Distinguished Service Award and, in 2019, Utah Business Magazine named her its 2019 Woman of the Year. In 2019, she led the successful effort that resulted in the unanimous passage of Utah’s Clean Slate law, which made Utah only the second U.S.
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Morning Docket: 02.14.22
Above The Law
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
Prescriptive law is just what the doctor ordered: Utah has lower rate of crashes after setting a more restrictive blood alcohol limit. [ A new Frontier: word of a big airline merger dropped and law firms are jumping at their cut. Had us worried there for a bit. [ USA Today].
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Morning Docket: 05.28.21
Above The Law
MAY 28, 2021
* A paralegal who was fired from her law firm job for feeding zoo animals in a viral video has found a new job. CBS News ] * A court has reportedly dismissed a lawsuit filed by spectators who were allegedly banned from Utah Jazz games after a verbal altercation with a professional basketball player.
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Justice Gap Demands Look At New Legal Service Models
Law 360
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Current restrictions on how lawyers structure their businesses stand in the way of meaningful access to justice for many Americans, so states should follow the lead of Utah and Florida and test out innovative law firm business models through regulatory sandboxes, says Zachariah DeMeola at the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System. (..)
Justice Deno Himonas, Who Spearheaded Utah’s Innovation Sandbox, Retires from Supreme Court
LawSites
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Constandinos (Deno) Himonas, the Utah Supreme Court justice who spearheaded the state’s first-of-its-kind regulatory sandbox to license new forms of legal services and providers, is retiring from the court. 29 letter to Utah Gov. 29 letter to Utah Gov. Lund, past-president of the Utah State Bar, for my LawNext podcast.
How to Follow Construction Laws When Building in Utah
LegalReader
JULY 29, 2022
Every day there are more and more home buyers looking for a great place to live, and contractors are the people who make it happen.
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LawNext Podcast: Filevine CEO Ryan Anderson on His Company’s $108M Raise and the Future of Practice Management
LawSites
APRIL 27, 2022
Last week, Filevine , the Utah-based case management company, raised $108 million in a Series D funding round. Before starting Filevine, Anderson was a founding partner at a western-states law firm focused on personal injury, mass torts and employment class-actions.
ABA Issues Ethics Guidance On Lawyers Investing In Alternative Business Structures
LawSites
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
With both Arizona and Utah now allowing nonlawyers to deliver legal services through alternative business structures, the American Bar Association today issued a formal ethics opinion that addresses the question of whether lawyers outside those states may passively invest in an ABS. may the lawyer passively invest in an ABS? .
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Milestones, Startup that Automates Client Updates, Raises $2.1M Seed Round, Rebrands As Hona
LawSites
JULY 10, 2023
In what is clearly a major milestone for Milestones , a legal tech company whose product provides law firm clients with automatic updates on their cases, it has closed a $2.1 Leading the seed round in the Lehi, Utah, company are three investors: Y Combinator , Ludlow Ventures and Soma Capital.
Winners Named for 2021 American Legal Technology Awards
LawSites
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Michele Pistone , professor of law, Villanova University. Justice Deno Himonas , Utah Supreme Court. Law Department (Friday, Nov. Law Firm (Monday, Nov. Lauren Sturdivant , founder, Rising Tide Law. Ben Carter , senior litigation and advocacy counsel, Kentucky Equal Justice Center. Court (Tuesday, Nov.
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Path To Well-Being In Law Podcast: Episode 8 – Martha Knudson
ALPS
DECEMBER 30, 2020
MAPP is the Executive Director of the Utah State Bar’s Well-Being Committee for the Legal Profession working with Utah’s judges, lawyers, and law students to enhance engagement, performance, resilience, and overall well-being. Prior to working in the well-being field, Martha practiced law for almost 18 years.
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Mixed Messages from the ABA, As It ‘Reaffirms’ Rule Against Nonlawyer Ownership while also Encouraging Innovation
LawSites
AUGUST 9, 2022
As states seek to find innovative ways to address the access-to-justice crisis, a key component has been eliminating or loosening the prohibition on non-lawyer ownership of law firms. Just two weeks earlier, Utah had approved sweeping changes in legal services regulation that that allowed non-traditional legal services providers.
Why Regulatory Reform Is Desperately Needed in the U.S.
Attorney at Work
MARCH 25, 2022
Regulatory reform is needed to make sure there is coverage for “legal deserts” where citizens have access to few or no law firms. A lawyer in rural North Carolina shared that his law firm was one of two in a 40-mile radius. The growth rate of law firms is flat. There are 1.3 who can do the work).
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Why I’m Pulling My Chips Out Of Attending ILTACON In Las Vegas
LawSites
AUGUST 18, 2021
I know of one major law firm, that asked not to be identified, that pulled its full contingent of 14 people from attending. In the second week of March 2020, I was scheduled to attend an advisory board meeting in Utah. The same might be happening with regard to networking. I know of others that have also scaled back.
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Path To Well-Being In Law: Episode 19 – Matt Thiese
ALPS
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Matt is an associate professor in the Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Utah. And just to follow up, so it was the Utah state bar that actually commissioned for you to do the research, is that right? BREE: Yeah. Matt, you started to intersect with the legal community. BREE: Yeah.
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Legaltech Week Live: Today’s Topics – And A Special Guest Panelist
LawSites
MAY 14, 2021
We have a guest panelist sitting in with us today; Jeffrey Brandt , editor of the PinHawk Law Technology Daily Digest and chief information officer at the law firm Jackson Kelly. Utah Sandbox OKs Two Programs Enabling Non-Lawyers To Give Legal Advice On Medical Debt. Cybersecurity fails: Jones Day and Colonial Pipeline.
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Winners Named for 2021 American Legal Technology Awards
LawSites
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Michele Pistone , professor of law, Villanova University. Justice Deno Himonas , Utah Supreme Court. Law Department (Friday, Nov. Law Firm (Monday, Nov. Lauren Sturdivant , founder, Rising Tide Law. Ben Carter , senior litigation and advocacy counsel, Kentucky Equal Justice Center. Court (Tuesday, Nov.
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On Eve of ClioCon, Thoughts On the Legal Tech Industry from CEO Jack Newton
LawSites
OCTOBER 7, 2022
As we continue to emerge from the pandemic, I asked Newton how he sizes up the legal profession today and what he sees as the impact of the pandemic on the practice of law. Many law firms emerged from the pandemic better and stronger than before, he said. Legal Trends Report. Remaining Client Centered.
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On LawNext Podcast: DoNotPay, Legal Regulatory Reform, and the Op-Ed the ABA Wouldn’t Publish, with Maya Markovich and Tom Gordon
LawSites
AUGUST 7, 2023
Nota , the online business banking platform designed specifically for solo and small law firms. They submitted their op-ed to the American Bar Association’s Center for Innovation , which agreed to publish it in the Center’s biannual innovation trends report, slated to be released Aug.
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Is Walmart Targeting Your Law Firm? What Alternative Business Structures Will Mean for Small Firms
NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
MARCH 24, 2022
Small law firms generally have it pretty good, in that they’ve mostly had to compete only against other small law firms, that aren’t particularly innovative either , and that also don’t spend money aggressively to build their businesses. So, yes: Walmart can open law firms. That’s a whole new ball game.
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ALSP Axiom Opens Law Firm in Arizona Under Alternative Business Structure License
LawSites
JANUARY 23, 2023
Axiom , one of the longest-running alternative legal services providers, today joins the ranks of licensed legal services providers as it opens Axiom Advice & Counsel LLC (AA&C), a law firm in Arizona, where it plans to provide corporate legal services to businesses. to operate with an integrated law firm.
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This Was Not Your Grandparents’ ABA TECHSHOW
LawSites
MARCH 6, 2023
Moderated by the aforementioned Jayne Reardon, the idea was to stage a fictional committee meeting to debate changes similar to those adopted in Utah and Arizona. The second day keynote session was a mock public hearing on proposals to amend Professional Conduct Rules 5.4
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Police Invest in Drug Dogs, Then Exploit Them for Profit
The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
Our public interest law firm, the Institute for Justice, represented these men in separate cases, and they eventually got their cash back. And a Utah Department of Corrections officer was placed on leave after his K9 partner died in a hot vehicle in July. The property owners’ innocence did not matter.
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Legalweek 2020
LegalTalkNetwork
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
From our audio coverage alone, we learned about modern trends for law firm growth and the declining equity partner track. We also discovered alternative legal careers that don’t necessarily involve the practice of law. Tune in to hear how big law is innovating around practice whereas smaller firms are innovating around process.
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Q&A With Allison Murdock: Stepping Up as Stinson LLP’s Managing Partner
Attorney at Work
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
If you could provide advice to law firm leaders right now, what would it be??. AMM : Every law firm leader faces opportunities and challenges unique to their firm, and they must rely on their own trusted advisors for how best to navigate those opportunities and challenges. Learning to Lead.
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LEAP Legal Software Acquires WealthCounsel and ElderCounsel
LawSites
APRIL 6, 2022
LEAP Legal Software , an international provider of cloud-based practice management software for smaller law firms, has acquired WealthCounsel , a leading provider of software, training and support for estate planning lawyers, and its related company ElderCounsel. It currently has users in 38 U.S.
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At A Legal Tech Conference Like No Other, Attendees Pondered the Present and Future of the Industry
LawSites
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Attendees included early-stage startups, veteran CEOs, major investors, law firm chairs, corporate general counsel, and others. Law firm leaders could attend without fear of being hounded by vendors. It brought together individuals from across the spectrum of those who are helping to drive innovation in legal.
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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021
LawSites
DECEMBER 29, 2021
If a law firm is unable even to decide whether its staff should return to the office, or when that return should happen, or how to structure that return, then how can that firm implement lasting and innovative changes in its technology infrastructure and systems? This is not to say that 2021 was without innovation.
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Making Youth Detention ‘Obsolete’
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 13, 2021
Johns, and we would come here for family things,” says Latham, who was raised in the Mormon Church and studied law at Brigham Young University in Utah. He had been working at a law firm in Phoenix but wanted to spend more time in the courtroom. “My wife’s mom is from St. So after they moved to St.
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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021
LawSites
DECEMBER 29, 2021
If a law firm is unable even to decide whether its staff should return to the office, or when that return should happen, or how to structure that return, then how can that firm implement lasting and innovative changes in its technology infrastructure and systems? This is not to say that 2021 was without innovation.
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NetDocuments CEO Josh Baxter Discusses Warburg Pincus Investment
LawSites
MAY 26, 2021
Yesterday, NetDocuments , the leading cloud-based document management systems used by law firms and corporate legal departments, announced that global private equity firm Warburg Pincus had acquired the stake in the company previously owned by PE firm Clearlake Capital Group. How many employees do you have?
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DIY Platform ‘Hello Divorce’ Raises $2M To Fuel National Expansion
LawSites
JULY 29, 2021
started Hello Divorce in 2017 as part of her law firm and spun it off in 2018 as a platform for do-it-yourself divorces. To date, Hello Divorce has expanded into three states, Colorado, Texas and Utah. If the law firm then checks and finds a conflict, the consumer’s fee is refunded. divorces filed each year.
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New SixFifty Product Automates Compliance with All State Data Privacy Laws
LawSites
JULY 20, 2022
SixFifty , the technology subsidiary of the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati , is today launching a tool to help companies comply with the patchwork of data privacy laws in the United States by automating the creation of customized compliance documents.
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