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Comprehensive Study of Regulatory Reform Finds It Is Driving ‘Substantial Innovation’ In Legal Services Delivery with No Harm to Consumers

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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. Who will be served by those innovations?

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Diversity Spotlight Series: Alex Shahrestani, Managing Partner at Promise Legal

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One of the American Bar Association’s core values is a commitment to diversity, which the Law Practice Division aims to reinforce in the legal tech sector. From tech founders and CEOs to small business owners, diverse legal professionals are making a big impact on law and technology in every field.

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Marina Shepelsky: How to Be a Top Lawyer in Your Niche

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Marina Shepelsky Founder, CEO Shepelsky Law Brooklyn, NY Fordham Law School, 2002. Intellectual property law sparked her interest until she found it to be boring. “In In law school, I really thought I’d have to do something with science, like medical malpractice. But it was too dry for me,” she says.

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Your Law Firm’s Employees Cost Too Much to Lose

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There was always a new paralegal that could be hired or another lawyer graduating from law school. Table of contents The Power Has Shifted to Employees Why You Should Care About the Cost of Employee Turnover What Does It Cost to Replace a Young Attorney in Your Law Firm? She was top of her class and law review.

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Roger Royse: 5 Things You Need To Become A Top Lawyer In Your Field

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This can happen organically because word of good legal work will get around and will beget more legal work. The legal field is known to be extremely competitive. What is the “backstory” that brought you to this particular career path in Law? I graduated from the University of North Dakota Law School.

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Are You Riding the Horse in the Direction It Is Going?

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Instead of the legal field’s usual methodology of always being last on the band wagon when it comes to change, we just sped everything up. I have witnessed legal professionals who refuse to change with the world, who turn a blind eye and deaf ear to today’s workplace and consequently, have suffered setbacks. And I mean drama.

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Access to Justice Requires Access to Law. So Why Aren’t the Advocates of Each More Closely Aligned?

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legal system. The Legal Services Corporation estimates that 92% of the civil legal problems of the roughly 50 million low-income Americans receive no or insufficient legal help. The other is the continuing lack of public access to the law. Two travesties persist in tainting access by all to the U.S.

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