The Estrin Report

AUGUST 26, 2021

Let’s start with the fascinating discovery of Virtual Assistant jobs that are available through employers. This up and coming brand new avenue to positions is rapidly becoming a new career path for legal assistants. Virtual Typist Legal Transcriptionist. Paid Legal Intern. Virtual Law Enforcement Transcriber.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Still less than a year since it launched, CoCounsel, the generative AI legal assistant originally developed by Casetext, has had quite a year. It was March 1, 2023, that Casetext launched CoCounsel , a product developed in partnership with OpenAI that uses the GPT-4 large language model to assist lawyers with a variety of tasks.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 18, 2023

Do you want to know what a path from paralegal to lawyer can look like? I started the process, then went to work for a law firm and a team of lawyers that had me sitting second chair at trials, and they paid me very well. Again, that was learned from having a lawyer come to me and say, “Hey, great job marking up this contract.

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JURIST

MARCH 5, 2021

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – International concern grew Friday for Myanmar lawyers and law students arbitrarily detained in the wake of the February 1 military coup that deposed the civilian government and prompted mass pro-democracy street demonstrations that continue despite the killing of over 50 protestors by security forces in the last two weeks.

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LawSites

MARCH 1, 2023

After all, this is the company that had already launched the powerful neural net search technology AllSearch and that had pioneered products such as Compose , to help lawyers draft litigation briefs, and, in 2016 , CARA, the first product to use AI to analyze briefs.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 23, 2023

In order to meet the problems of escalating workflow and productivity demands on a constrained budget, law firms are eager to invest in legal technology services. According to the Future Ready Lawyer 2021 report , 84% of legal departments have increased their technology budgets in the last year.

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LawSites

JUNE 8, 2023

EvenUp , a company that uses AI to turn medical documents and case files into demand packages for personal injury lawyers, has raised $50.5 EvenUp , a company that uses AI to turn medical documents and case files into demand packages for personal injury lawyers, has raised $50.5

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Account, commonly called IOLTA, is one of the most valuable tools for expanding legal representation to appear in recent decades. The interest collected statewide funds legal assistance programs for low-income people and traditionally underserved populations. IOLTA Management Best Practices.

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LLRX

AUGUST 21, 2021

Imagine what a lawyer does on a given day: researching cases, drafting briefs, advising clients. While technology has been nibbling around the edges of the legal profession for some time, it’s hard to imagine those complex tasks being done by a robot. As Professors Elizabeth C. All you need to do is automate part of it.

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MyCase

AUGUST 17, 2021

Not surprisingly, the legal profession has not been immune, and lawyers and their firms have been impacted in many different ways. What follows are some of the more notable data points from this year’s Report relating to lawyer wage and demographic information. The median age for lawyers in 2020 was 47.1

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A People's Choice

OCTOBER 24, 2020

If you are researching how to get divorced without hiring a lawyer, you are probably encountering a lot of legal terms for the first time. Sometimes one concept goes by more than one name, and sometimes very different concepts have confusingly similar names.

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InHouseBlog

JANUARY 17, 2022

Work-life balance for lawyers has been called a fraud and some have approached it with a contrarian view , but with a two year (and counting) pandemic, many lawyers have learned valuable life lessons that will guide them forward in their lives and careers. “I am at the pinnacle of my profession.

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DigitalParalegalServices

JULY 28, 2015

3 Common Reasons Solo Attorneys Call a Virtual Legal Assistant. Smart lawyers often learn from their peers by engaging in mentor relationships. Some take it a step further and retain professional services of a lawyer coach. These lawyers need help, but they are not sure how much.

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SimplyLawJobs

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

I am a legal assistant working at a multi-claimant legal US firm specialising in commercial, employment and consumer class action litigation. Day in the life of a legal assistant. Day in the life of a legal assistant. Introducing, Alia Choudhury . Browse jobs. As with any. « Older Entries.

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JURIST

JULY 12, 2023

” The statement is the culmination of years of international calls, starting in 2020, in which UN experts stated, “[T]he profession of human rights lawyer has been effectively criminalised in China.” .” First, the group calls upon China to end its crackdown on lawyers and human rights defenders.

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MyCase

AUGUST 16, 2022

Whether your retirement is around the corner or further down the road, retirement for lawyers requires extensive preparation. There are certain lawyer retirement rules and regulation requirements you’ll need to follow—and they vary from state to state. . When Do Lawyers Retire? Is There a Mandatory Retirement Age for Lawyers?

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MyCase

AUGUST 5, 2022

When law firms provide payment plan options, it can make legal assistance more affordable, expand the firm’s client base, and even help lawyers get paid. According to the MyCase 2021 Industry Report , which surveyed over 2,000 legal professionals, 73% of respondents stated that getting paid was a challenge for their firms. .

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LawSites

MAY 12, 2021

Two non-profit pilot programs won approval this week under Utah’s regulatory sandbox to provide non-lawyer legal assistance to individuals with medical debt. But traditional legal services are not equipped to assist with this. i4J will provide the MDLA training as an online, modular, bilingual curriculum.

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The Robertson Reader

JANUARY 24, 2018

Whether you’d like to become a Legal Assistant, you’re currently in a program, or you’re a new Graduate looking for an edge over the competition, there are many good reasons to do some additional research on the subject above and beyond what you are shown in class.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 25, 2022

As society shifts and the need for lawyers to work faster and smarter grows, it becomes increasingly important that lawyers are able to nurture partnerships with freelance paralegals and legal assistants. For one, legal assistants focus solely on administrative work, clearing up time for lawyers to focus on other tasks.

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LawSites

JUNE 6, 2023

A legal innovation lab launching today seeks to answer the question of how to approach the training and development of new lawyers in an age of generative AI. The Legal Innovation Lab is being launched by SkillBurst Interactive , a 10-year-old company that provides on-demand training to larger law firms and their corporate clients.

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LawSites

APRIL 13, 2023

Is Coming for Lawyers.” ” With GPT-4 having passed the bar exam and legal tech companies launching AI-based legal assistants , it sometimes seems that the potential for AI in law is limitless. A few days ago, The New York Times declared, “ A.I.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Every lawyer I’ve ever met wants to do everything on their own. In other words, every lawyer secretly desires to be a solo attorney. Of course, there comes a time when your business grow s to the point that you need some real help; and, since you can’t clone yourself, it’s necessary to hire.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Once upon a time, in a magical city called San Francisco, three former lawyers came together to develop an innovative legal research platform, as an alternative to traditional legal research services such as Thomson Reuters Westlaw and LexisNexis. They called their new company Casetext.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

JULY 22, 2023

Some lawyer s get burned hiring staff, whether it’s legal assistant s , paralegals or other attorneys. But, just because you miss out once, in trying to hire somebody, doesn’t mean you should give up forever.

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LexBlog

JULY 17, 2019

Why should you listen to legal podcasts? Wouldn’t any lawyer welcome some free motivational advice on law practice management to discover new ways to run their law firm more efficiently? Wouldn’t you want to hear advice directly from the go-getters and the legal industry’s renowned leading expertise?

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LexBlog

JULY 17, 2019

Why should you listen to legal podcasts? Wouldn’t any lawyer welcome some free motivational advice on law practice management to discover new ways to run their law firm more efficiently? Wouldn’t you want to hear advice directly from the go-getters and the legal industry’s renowned leading expertise?

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 9, 2022

With this being the case, we focus on a variety of paralegal, legal assistant, and administrative assistant legal positions in our home country. Assistant Juridique (Legal Assistant): Legal assistants in France perform similar duties to that of legal assistants in the USA, but they don’t necessarily work for law firms.

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MyCase

APRIL 30, 2024

ChatGPT and related AI tools can write, edit, and research—three tasks that weigh heavily on the daily agendas for paralegals and legal assistants. Let’s explore the merits of AI in the legal field and how they could affect the work paralegals and legal assistants do today. or drafting portions of them.

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Paralegal-Edu.Org

APRIL 26, 2024

In the following detailed discussion, the central functions of paralegals are brought to the limelight which relate to their roles, responsibilities, and the profound input they make in the legal field. Paralegal and legal assistants deserve to be acknowledged for their incredibly hard work and immense contributions.

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JURIST

MARCH 4, 2024

Gnyot’s lawyers insist that this is a case of political persecution and here’s the reason: he is a television commercial and music video director, journalist, political activist, and one of the founders of the Free Athletes Association SOS BY.

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

It’s a battle as old as WordPerfect versus Word: Should lawyers type? Since lawyers have keyboarding skills, how many can be assigned to one admin assistant? All the extra stuff that you, the lawyer, get to do — or worse, pile up because you are too busy to handle it. The Shrinking Admin Assistant: How Did We Get Here?

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JURIST

APRIL 3, 2023

Lojka was also denied access to legal assistance during her detention, as both of her lawyers were disbarred in November 2022. The statement recounted one instance where she was forced to stay in a courtyard without outerwear for eight hours in conditions below ten degrees celsius.

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LawSites

AUGUST 22, 2023

A new international survey of lawyers, law students and consumers finds that nearly half believe generative AI will have a significant or transformative impact on the practice of law. Lawyers in the survey see the highest potential for generative AI to be in assisting them in research (65%). Broken down by countries, 67% of U.S.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 20, 2022

I’ve mentioned in previous articles that 43 years ago, the profession of “paralegals” and “legal assistants” didn’t really exist. Legal secretaries absorbed some of what is now considered paralegal responsibilities. From that point forward I instruct staff to always move the call off to the lawyer. Manage your cases.

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How To Become A Paralegal

MAY 29, 2018

I work with a lot of lawyers. Megan’s practice focuses on helping lawyers who are facing an ethical investigation by their state bar. I need my paralegal to review certain blogs written by lawyers in my space and to review news sources every couple of days and keep me informed of news items I really need to read. Be Proactive.

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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. Several days later, it seemed to have learned about legal ethics and I got a different (and correct) answer citing legal ethics rules.

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