Cenza

JANUARY 27, 2023

It took years to shape into a formal industry and to be christened Alternative Legal Service Providers. This fact was further reiterated by Thomson Reuters’ Alternative Legal Service Providers 2021 Report, which unveiled that nearly 79% of law firms and over 71% of corporate law departments are leveraging the services of ALSPs.

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LawSites

AUGUST 23, 2021

There may be no more critical issue facing the legal profession than reregulation of legal services. Amid an escalating crisis in access to justice, proponents of regulatory reform argue that the only way to meaningfully address the crisis is to loosen restrictions on non-lawyers investing in and providing legal services. .

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 3, 2022

As lawyers, we are in a service industry. However, I suspect most of us did not sign up to be on call to provide legal services 24-7. The post Adding Rush Rates for Legal Services appeared first on Attorney at Work. I’ll admit I’m a bit neurotic and controlling. Getting the Fee You Deserve.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

That makes the Technology Initiative Grants awarded annually by the Legal Services Corporation all the more significant, as they are among the few funding sources specifically targeting such technology. Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut will use a $150,593 grant to create a cloud-based pro bono portal.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 25, 2023

A subsidiary of legal services provider Axiom Global will open as an Arizona law firm, thanks to its approval of as an alternative business structure…

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ABA Journal

JUNE 30, 2022

House of Representatives' Committee on Appropriations has approved $675 million in funding for the Legal Services Corp. in fiscal year 2023, an increase…

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

APRIL 24, 2022

The job, as they see it, is to get the fee out there, and to define the scope of legal services, as quickly as possible – so that the client will sign off, and so that the lawyer can go back to what they really want to do, which is to practice substantive law.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 14, 2022

Elevate, a nonlawyer-owned alternative legal services provider, has been approved to operate in Arizona in tandem with an integrated law firm, the company announced…

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The legal services industry added 4,800 jobs in January following a loss of 1,500 jobs in December. Despite the improved outlook in January, the industry still…

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Edgar Cahn, a lawyer who helped establish the program that would become known as the Legal Services Corp., has died at age 86. Cahn died…

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The post The Bar Exam Is A Barrier To Access For Legal Services And Access To Justice For Many appeared first on Above the Law. The largest barrier by far to innovation in this area is the resistance from lawyers.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

“The evidence gathered in this report shows that rule reforms can spur significant innovation, both in the ownership structure of legal services providers and in the delivery models used to serve clients,” the report concludes. Not surprisingly, technology is a critical element in innovation of legal services delivery.

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Cenza

AUGUST 25, 2021

Therefore, legal service providers have been contending to streamline their processes and systems with the aid of technology. An effort to maximize the value delivered by technology and enable business growth has resulted in the genesis of Alternative Legal Service Providers (ALSPs). Tracing the ALSPs’ growth path.

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InHouseOps

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

I counted at least six sessions on this topic: Redefining Delivery of Legal Services; The Changing Nature of Legal Procurement: “NewLaw and Aggregators of Legal Products and Services; Legal Business Design Challenge; Ewww, David! It’s about building scale in legal business and legal services.”

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Alternative legal service providers continue to make significant inroads in the legal industry, growing their global market share to $13.9 billion by the end of…

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Attorney at Work

JULY 19, 2021

As an ethics attorney, I am frequently asked about the ethics of subscription legal services. Here is my story of how the practice hatched from an idea to a full-fledged service line. The post Launching a Subscription-Based Legal Services Program for My Law Firm appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Legal consumers are not like you : They don’t know as many Latin phrases as you do. Attorneys hate to think of themselves as ‘salespeople’ – but, if you’re a law firm owner/manager, you’re selling things the same way everyone else who owns a business is selling things. Though, you might not be selling what you think you are.

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Cenza

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The Supreme Court in the US has canceled all oral arguments for April due to health threats, whereas certain courts and legal services organizations have gone digital and are working remotely. What’s in store for legal service providers?

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LawSites

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Factor , the managed services company that spun off in 2019 from alternative legal services provider Axiom, describes itself as providing “complex legal work at scale” for the corporate legal market it serves.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Last week, Documate , the no-code document automation platform, rebranded as Gavel , a move designed to better reflect the company’s mission to become the platform of choice for legal professionals and legal organizations wanting to “productize” the delivery of legal services by packaging services as online legal products.

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

House of Representatives on Tuesday would give $40 million in disaster aid to the Legal Services Corp. A continuing resolution passed by the U.S. to…

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

ClientCredit is the first BNPL solution for legal clients on the market and is exclusively available through LawPay. With ClientCredit, your clients have the ability to pay for legal services in installments while your firm still receives 100% of the invoiced amount upfront. See Terms and Conditions for more information. .

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

JULY 8, 2020

Legal consumer habits are shifting under the feet of attorneys ; and , law firms, rooted in tradition, are feeling the pressure to reduce prices and overhead, while increasing service. Law firms responding to these pressure points are doing so in a number of ways.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 30, 2021

“Professor Aimed to Break Lawyers’ Monopoly on Legal Services; Deborah Rhode, who has died at age 68, worked to help the poor obtain better representation in court”: This obituary , written by James R. Hagerty, appears in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

That makes the Technology Initiative Grants awarded annually by the Legal Services Corporation all the more significant, as they are among the few funding sources specifically targeting such technology. Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut will use a $150,593 grant to create a cloud-based pro bono portal.

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 26, 2021

When cloud-based company Clio surveyed American consumers in 2018, 23% expressed an openness to working with a lawyer remotely. Fast-forward three years, and 79% of…

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LawSites

JUNE 24, 2022

The firm will provide all legal services to clients and receive all client fees. Clients who sign with Mighty receive legal services through the partner law firm, Mighty Law. The firm will pay Mighty a flat fee for all this. A code of conduct for lawyers. Ghosts of Atrium/Clearspire?

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Law 360

JULY 20, 2021

A California federal judge has refused to dismiss a proposed class action against legal services company Epiq Systems Inc. over a 2020 data breach, finding that an individual whose personal information was illegally accessed should be allowed to proceed with his allegations.

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Mondaq

APRIL 14, 2022

The USPTO refused to register the mark MLG MACOMB LAW GROUP & Design for "legal services; providing customized legal information, counseling, and advice.

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The Innovation for Justice lab launched at the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law in 2018 with the goal of designing,…

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

population, and for an enterprising lawyer, serving the legal needs of Spanish-speaking clients seems… Hispanics are becoming an increasingly large segment of the U.S.

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The Estrin Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

It is important to note that clients are generally not in a good position to evaluate a lawyer’s legal skills, but they can judge good service. But using innovative legal service applications is not just about better marketing.

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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. (..)

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ABA Journal

MAY 25, 2023

Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Marc Zamsky and Marla Crawford, the CEO and general counsel, respectively, for Cimplifi, an integrated legal services provider that aligns…

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JURIST

MAY 2, 2023

The announcement of this funding follows the government’s National Plan to reduce violence against women and children in October 2022, which included funding of $20 million for “more specialised, trauma-informed legal services and training for sexual violence response.”

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LawSites

MAY 22, 2023

A new first-of-its-kind app and companion website, called FosterPower , provide foster youth with comprehensive but easy-to-understand information about their rights to mental health care, education and legal protections. Developed by Bay Area Legal Services , a nonprofit law firm in Tampa, Fla.,

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Law 360

MAY 26, 2023

Generative artificial intelligence technologies will put pressure on the business of law as it is structured currently, but clients may end up with more price certainty for legal services, and lawyers may spend more time being lawyers, says Jonathan Cole at Melody Capital.

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