LawSites

JULY 12, 2022

If you are looking for a scorecard naming those who are leading the charge on innovation in law, you can do no better than the Fastcase 50 , the annual listing by the legal intelligence company Fastcase that honors 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.”.

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Patently O

APRIL 20, 2021

By David Hricik, Mercer Law School. The abstract of the opinion states: The ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct permit virtual practice, which is technologically enabled law practice beyond the traditional brick-and-mortar law firm.1 If you follow their guidance, you, in a sense, start off in safe harbor.

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Paralegals – Depending on the role, and their jurisdiction (as I mentioned before) a paralegal can represent someone in court, draft complex legal documents (under the supervision of a lawyer) perform research, and many other substantial tasks. One website in France calls a Law Clerk a, “Second-in-Command Lawyer.”

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 2, 2021

When the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School explored law firm work allocation in 2017 , longtime partners confirmed that traditional work allocation has an implicit bias toward associates who can easily develop relationships with partners. Underrepresented Groups Can be Overlooked.

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The Estrin Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Have people to bounce ideas off of: those people can be other lawyers, but also make sure you are talking to people who are NOT lawyers as well. 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?

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Rocket Matter

APRIL 25, 2023

If you’re like most lawyers at small or mid-sized firms, you spend a significant portion of your days feeling torn between the billable tasks that pay your salary and the administrative work that makes your billable hours possible. Get free guide How to Master Your Law Firm’s Time and Billing Lawyers have a heavy workload.

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Rocket Matter

MARCH 28, 2023

Download free guide Related Resources How to Increase Your Profits with Rocket Matter Lawyers in firms of all sizes struggle to finish the work for the day in a reasonable amount of time. Get free guide How to Master Your Law Firm’s Time and Billing Lawyers have a heavy workload.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 3, 2023

I asked ChatGPT if lawyers were required to be competent with their technology and it replied (initially) that lawyers had no duty of technical competence under U.S. They cannot replace the expertise and judgment of a human lawyer, and there are many legal issues that require a human touch and cannot be fully addressed by AI alone.

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Rocket Matter

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Many lawyers find themselves dealing with issues they didn’t cover in law school, like client billing and invoicing. On your quest for the right payment processor, look for features that streamline and support the way law firms operate. Some processes, such as billing and payments, are more troublesome than others.

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Rocket Matter

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Let's face it: you didn't go to law school to become a web developer. So, what's a busy law firm to do? On your quest for the right payment processor, look for features that streamline and support the way law firms operate. Get free guide How to Master Your Law Firm’s Time and Billing Lawyers have a heavy workload.

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ALPS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Heidi experienced her first migraine and drank a lot while in law school. 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. Sound familiar? Transcript: . BREE: Absolutely.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Do lawyers return to the office or not? Others were blocked out of courts by archaic rules that prevented individuals without lawyers from filing documents electronically. If lawyers overcame their ignorance of tech, I would have thought, so too would they have overcome their bias towards it.

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LexBlog

JULY 26, 2019

I think a shorter list is what one is not, but in summary, paralegals provide day to day support by assisting attorneys, law offices, or other various agencies conducting research, drafting legal documents, and handling cases. What is the difference between a lawyer and a paralegal?

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Do lawyers return to the office or not? Others were blocked out of courts by archaic rules that prevented individuals without lawyers from filing documents electronically. If lawyers overcame their ignorance of tech, I would have thought, so too would they have overcome their bias towards it.

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Rocket Matter

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Artificial Intelligence that works for you If you had a nickel for every time someone talked about AI… well, you wouldn’t have to work ever again. ChatGPT was released to the public at the end of 2022, but it took the business world by storm in 2023. Understandably, many lawyers are cautious about ChatGPT and other AI tools.

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LegalTalkNetwork

MARCH 8, 2019

It’s not the advent of new gadgets and software that will accelerate and modernize the practice of law; It will ultimately be about the base paradigm of practitioners. If lawyering culture, as a whole, stops seeing itself as the refuge for the tech-phobic, the industry will evolve to new heights. But so what? We’ve seen this for years.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 7, 2022

Jamie Benjamin and Gary Edinger of the Law Offices of Benjamin, Aaronson, Edinger & Patanzo , in Ft. Ron Kleiner of the Law Office of Ron M. Law schools are expensive, and public defenders are paid so little. Lauren Book over her “tough-on-crime” policies related to the state’s sex offense registry.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Too many law offices have emotional cultures of fear, anger, passive aggression or intense competitiveness. From day one in law school we are conditioned to believe competition and fear are inevitable, but those states trigger basic survival strategies that can actually lead to inferior performance. Understand biology.

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LegalTalkNetwork

JULY 11, 2017

In this episode of The Florida Bar Podcast, hosts Christine Bilbrey and Jonathon Israel are joined by guests Suzanne Clark and Parke McManis to talk about e-discovery, digital evidence, and why it’s important for lawyers to understand these concepts. 2017 Annual Florida Bar Convention: Apps for Practicing Law in the 21st Century.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The most recent incident highlighted is the controversy caused by UK Home Secretary Priti Patel’s criticism of immigration lawyers for representing migrants and their condemnation of the government’s plans to remove asylum seekers.

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