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US law schools help communities during eviction crisis

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The White House and the Justice Department announced Friday that 99 law schools across 35 states and Puerto Rico answered the attorney general’s call for action to help communities during the housing and eviction crisis. In August 2021, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a letter to the legal community calling for help.

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The 6 Best Things about being a Legal Assistant

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Legal Assistants play an essential role in law firms and legal departments. From legal transcription to managing legal office procedures, their challenging work is vital to the successful operation of any law office or legal department.

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Women of Legal Tech: Camila Lopez

LawTechnologyToday

I went to law school to advocate for consumers. I am extremely passionate about making the law more accessible to all. Is there a legal tech resource of any kind that really helped you when you were starting out in the field? Y Combinator’s Startup School. Today we have Camila Lopez! Just start.

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LTRC Roundtable Discussion: ChatGPT

LawTechnologyToday

On the positive side, the ChatGPT power may permit lawyers to produce documents and perhaps even legal research more efficiently, making legal services for the underserved less expensive. And we have already seen efforts to have bots advise “clients” on run-of-the-mill legal representation issues in court. AP: Not really.

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How to Quickly Remove Administrative Tasks Off Your Attorneys’ Plates

CARET Legal

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. They didn’t go to law school to become swamped with administrative tasks. The answer lies in law firm management software.

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What exactly will change with AI & Legal coming together?

Cenza

The possibility of innumerable people availing of this service is the highlight as it is practically impossible for one lawyer to answer multiple clients at a time. Chatbots help in scaling up the legal services, making them available to thousands of customers worldwide irrespective of time and location.

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What Does Lawyer Development Mean in the Age of Generative AI? New Innovation Lab Will Seek Answers

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Gillespie was formerly an executive with global legal services provider UnitedLex and, before that, global co-head of innovation at law firm Eversheds Sutherland. She was also a senior manager at Harvard Law School Executive Education, where she helped design and launch the Women’s Leadership Initiative.

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